"The thing that gets me as someone who lives in Britain and recognises the behaviors of the British Empire in the past is that Americans don't recognise that they live in an empire in all but name."
"1. Shuttle servicing will cost about $300M to fly the mission plus ~$1.5B-2B to keep the shuttle program and staff going for an extra 4-6 months. Total cost then is conservatively $2.3B."
Wrong, it costs them about $120million to add another shuttle flight to the launch manifest(this was pre columbia though:/)
Also, about 1/4 of the shuttle programs costs are from Astronaut training.
Actually launching the shuttle isn't THAT Expensive. Would it surprise you to know that if NASA wanted to add another Shuttle flight for FY 06, it only costs an extra $120million to add to the flight manifest?
There is atmosphere on mars, it's about 100times less then that of the earth at "sea level", but it is still significant. And there is H2O in Mar's Atmosphere, where do you think those melting ice caps go in the martian summer =)
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Mars/atmosphere.h tm l
Until they get the next Mars Rover there that's going to be powered by a RTG (http://www.nuclearspace.com/a_2009_Rover.htm)!! If it ends up working anywhere near as well as the current rovers, it might still be operational when astronauts land on Mars in 2020(Im trying as hard as possible to be involved in this project once I get out of college)
Yeah umm, the Indians went against F-15's not F-22s. Not to mention, the F15s are primarily BVR fighters and during hte engagement, the AMRAAMs were not allowed to be modeled. Of course the SU-30s could not use R-73s either, but SU-30s are better dogfighters then the F-15, so when it comes to close range fighting the Sukhois rule the day.
way to spread FUD, the Russians had a supersonic transport out well before Concord did.
The Russian Aerospace industry is very very amazing and almost as advanced as the US Aeorspace industry is right now. They are definetly ahead of the EU aerospace industry though.
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wow, you're just a douche, did you know that?
omg it's captain obvious to slashdot's rescue!!
"The thing that gets me as someone who lives in Britain and recognises the behaviors of the British Empire in the past is that Americans don't recognise that they live in an empire in all but name."
Wow! you're an old fart!
nope, it's definetly random.
It's called the heisenberg uncertainty principle.
dx * dp = h/2pi
dx = uncertainty in position
dp = uncertainty in momentum
h = plancks constant.
I can't wait, if they actually build one of these, Space is going to be completely different from SciFi!
Well it WAS a titan rocket that launched Zeffren Cochran into space for his first warp drive test =)
Yeah the US has a lot of work to do to catch up to JAXA, you know with there rockets that don't work and all.
"1. Shuttle servicing will cost about $300M to fly the mission plus ~$1.5B-2B to keep the shuttle program and staff going for an extra 4-6 months. Total cost then is conservatively $2.3B."
:/)
Wrong, it costs them about $120million to add another shuttle flight to the launch manifest(this was pre columbia though
Also, about 1/4 of the shuttle programs costs are from Astronaut training.
Actually launching the shuttle isn't THAT Expensive. Would it surprise you to know that if NASA wanted to add another Shuttle flight for FY 06, it only costs an extra $120million to add to the flight manifest?
http://www.space.com/entertainment/050429_hitchike r_review.html
Space.com says it was pretty good =) Althought I wouldnt trust their movie reviews too much.
Did someone say SUV?
y /mars_science_lab_040211.html
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technolog
A sensible post among all the garbage! Kudos!
damnit, I spell "you're" correctly, but I type and, instead of an... damnit, I will never win.
you're and idiot.
He's talking about dual processor G5s, not Dual Core G5s...
Consider the fact that the law only applies to pre-releases, and then you can realize that this is actually quite sensible =)
What about Blimps on venus =)
Since the pressure is so great on venus, you could probablly get them to float pretty high up in the atmosphere on Venus and build cities on them.
that movie brings tears to my eyes =(
There is atmosphere on mars, it's about 100times less then that of the earth at "sea level", but it is still significant. And there is H2O in Mar's Atmosphere, where do you think those melting ice caps go in the martian summer =)
h tm l
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Mars/atmosphere.
Until they get the next Mars Rover there that's going to be powered by a RTG (http://www.nuclearspace.com/a_2009_Rover.htm)!!
If it ends up working anywhere near as well as the current rovers, it might still be operational when astronauts land on Mars in 2020(Im trying as hard as possible to be involved in this project once I get out of college)
Yeah umm, the Indians went against F-15's not F-22s. Not to mention, the F15s are primarily BVR fighters and during hte engagement, the AMRAAMs were not allowed to be modeled. Of course the SU-30s could not use R-73s either, but SU-30s are better dogfighters then the F-15, so when it comes to close range fighting the Sukhois rule the day.
They still can't touch the F-22 though.
for the most part yes. I do go to europe sometimes to visit family and go back to my original home, but for the most part I travel within the US.
The thing is though, its much more common for me, and most people too, to travel short distances within the US, then it is to go overseas.
But they aren't building the Avionics software for the airplanes, RTFA!
Russia is NOT ahead of the US in fighter plane technology... The F-22 spanks anything the Russians currently have and will have for almost 10 years.
way to spread FUD, the Russians had a supersonic transport out well before Concord did.
The Russian Aerospace industry is very very amazing and almost as advanced as the US Aeorspace industry is right now. They are definetly ahead of the EU aerospace industry though.