They could replace spy satellites, as such satellites are by no means discreet. Every launch is a known quantity, orbits are a matter of physics, and the internet has been satellite tracking information easy to share. A base GPS system would be necessary in orbit, but such a system could give enhanced accuracy in localized regions when needed. Some scientific missions could use this system, and radar and optics, similar to the spy satellites could use this as well.
A few years ago, I was military, and in Space Command, but nowhere where I could make policy. But we discussed things like this since I was in space launch. I predicted that, if satellite makers were smart, that balloons/dirigibles/flying wings would replace many, but not all, satellites. And this includes military satellites as well, if the USAF gets smarter.
Specifically, one of the things Air Force likes to talk about is operationalizing space, i.e., launching a satellite like it was a sortie of a fighter or bomber aircraft. That's not going to happen anytime soon, at least with the rocket types. But a squadron of high flyers with interchangeable electronics packages could easily be 'operational'.
However, for communications satellite, especially regional broadband communications (think army operations in Iraq), such a 'satellite', deployed when necessary, could be highly useful. Operations over, comm needed in Korea, send it there. It breaks, bring it down, repair and send it back up. Out of fuel/power send up the spare or just send up two. How many satellites can that be done for? When they are done (Hubble) the expense is enormous
Comm is not the only thing it could use a low-sat. Optics and Radar are prime candidates. Science, both looking up and looking down are possible. Even consider the GPS satellites. You do need your base system in space. However, if you needed increased accuracy in an area, put a high flying balloon/dirigible, flying wing, with the GPS innards and fly it in the general area. If done correctly, it could give receivers an additional satellite, improve the solution.
Well Angel's only got a few more shows itself. And its on the WB, so who knows when the next episode will be shown or if it will be shown two weeks in a row.
Well the rural planet calls in sick with headaches. Unless the satellites are effective, all the city dwellers can't see the satellites due to all the light pollution from land-based advertising.
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If only I had not already used up my mod points... Will the Brits please create some more Red Dwarf episodes/movies--and no using American actors/directors/producers. As an American I see enough of that humor, I want my Red Dwarf done correctly thank you.
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By no means is the thrust considerable. However, if oriented properly, the thrust is consistent, which makes it highly useful as a solar sail.
You haven't met some of these folks yet. Obvious is not sufficient. For some of them, I am slightly surprised they get infected with viruses because they would have to realize they had to click on the attachment to activate it. Typically though, they learned to click on the attachment because somewhat sent them some pornography and told them how to view it.
Much like your argument, I don't have a real problem with product placement, when it's appropriate. But if games start pausing in the middle for actual ads, some marketer's rectum is going to find a game cartridge inside it.
I agree with what you are saying. My brother teaches high school math and computer science. Teaching math is why he no longer wants to be a teacher, besides the poor pay. Few of the students want to learn. None of them have ever done integral calculus for fun in their lives. What is happening with kids these days?
I am 1000 miles from Mom's place so my brothers get to handle tech support. When I visit once a year, that's when I get to fix whatever it is they've screwed up. The big problems have actually been hardware instead of software related. On the other hand, I have yet to successfully teach her not to forward crap emails.
Unfortunately its everything you just said, plus the lawyers, plus the HMOs. Plus doctors trying to pay off their tuition loans and still live a very good life. Plus the uninsured, because anyone who does not have insurance knows they could never afford doctors/hospital.
I have two kids. Bills were 5 digits. Insurance paid the doctors/hospitals 50-75%. My costs: $0 for the first, $15 for the second.
That sounds like my computer at work. Two - three hours every day, computer slows to a crawl while the virus scanner runs. Some of the folks have started timing their lunch breaks during it.
I've had a root canal, without anesthesia. I've also had the finger check only one time, it was over quickly, and he never did buy me dinner. Root canal was nicer.
Reminds of the time I got a coin to land on its edge. Admittedly its something of a cheat, I tossed a bunch of coins together and one of them ended on its edge. Still somewhat surprising, because I had been trying to count the number of heads (or tails), and rather than flip multiple times, I tried a shortcut by tossing them all at once.
True, but as long as you have enough credit to get to another country, establish a new identity and basically start over, then you are golden.
US government can always just make (literally) more money. And yes I understand this causes all sorts of other problems. I didn't say it was a smart move. But then again, check out current (and previous) administrations activities. Neither really shines as acting intelligently.
I was at Vandenberg AFB and had the opportunity to talk with a couple visiting Australian officers. Someone of course asked about Foster's. Their comment was something along the lines of Australia usually only exports the crap they don't want, which includes Foster's (it also included any of the Australia TV shows that have been popular in England--doesn't apply to America because we make more than enough crappy TV shows to have to import any.) They also made the comment that if you're in Australia and really want to act like a tourist, order a Foster's.
"Privacy issues", HA!
Some slashdotters are overly paranoid. Sales-tracking is not about what YOU buy. It's about their product and how it sales.
Take the tin-foil off your head and relax.
Exactly. I think the businesses should get concerned when those Bud drinkers (especially college students) starting tracking where, when, and how much they paid for their alcohol. If they did that, then they might realize how much of their money was going to the beer companies and decide to save it instead. Then all the beer companies might go out of business.
People just need to relax, most businesses are not out to get you, just your money. And they might actually give something in return.
In fact, we use Fortran code in our daily operations. Actually, I think some of the code may be pre-Fortran 77. It's definitely been around since the 70s, if not before.
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When preparing a demo, remember never to say the following: "Have a look a this. I (1) finally got all the bugs out or (2) got it to work now." Either comment is a surefire way for it to fail immediately.
You should end up winning. But a few mismanaged ones lost out. But they probably either overspent on the "flashy" things or had too many hands skimming. See Aladdin hotel-casino.
Something similar happened in my wife's car. She got a phone call on her cell just before we arrived at our destination. She continued to talk while I got out. Since she sat there yakking while I waited, I use the remote to lock the doors again. She finally stopped gabbing, and unlocked and opened the door. Alarm went off and I turn off the noisy thing with the remote, when I finally got it out of my pocket.
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They could replace spy satellites, as such satellites are by no means discreet. Every launch is a known quantity, orbits are a matter of physics, and the internet has been satellite tracking information easy to share. A base GPS system would be necessary in orbit, but such a system could give enhanced accuracy in localized regions when needed. Some scientific missions could use this system, and radar and optics, similar to the spy satellites could use this as well.
A few years ago, I was military, and in Space Command, but nowhere where I could make policy. But we discussed things like this since I was in space launch. I predicted that, if satellite makers were smart, that balloons/dirigibles/flying wings would replace many, but not all, satellites. And this includes military satellites as well, if the USAF gets smarter.
Specifically, one of the things Air Force likes to talk about is operationalizing space, i.e., launching a satellite like it was a sortie of a fighter or bomber aircraft. That's not going to happen anytime soon, at least with the rocket types. But a squadron of high flyers with interchangeable electronics packages could easily be 'operational'.
However, for communications satellite, especially regional broadband communications (think army operations in Iraq), such a 'satellite', deployed when necessary, could be highly useful. Operations over, comm needed in Korea, send it there. It breaks, bring it down, repair and send it back up. Out of fuel/power send up the spare or just send up two. How many satellites can that be done for? When they are done (Hubble) the expense is enormous
Comm is not the only thing it could use a low-sat. Optics and Radar are prime candidates. Science, both looking up and looking down are possible. Even consider the GPS satellites. You do need your base system in space. However, if you needed increased accuracy in an area, put a high flying balloon/dirigible, flying wing, with the GPS innards and fly it in the general area. If done correctly, it could give receivers an additional satellite, improve the solution.
Well Angel's only got a few more shows itself. And its on the WB, so who knows when the next episode will be shown or if it will be shown two weeks in a row.
From what I remember, at least on my UPN station, that nudity was NOT cut. It's not much nudity in the first place.
Well the rural planet calls in sick with headaches. Unless the satellites are effective, all the city dwellers can't see the satellites due to all the light pollution from land-based advertising.
If only I had not already used up my mod points... Will the Brits please create some more Red Dwarf episodes/movies--and no using American actors/directors/producers. As an American I see enough of that humor, I want my Red Dwarf done correctly thank you.
By no means is the thrust considerable. However, if oriented properly, the thrust is consistent, which makes it highly useful as a solar sail.
You haven't met some of these folks yet. Obvious is not sufficient. For some of them, I am slightly surprised they get infected with viruses because they would have to realize they had to click on the attachment to activate it. Typically though, they learned to click on the attachment because somewhat sent them some pornography and told them how to view it.
Much like your argument, I don't have a real problem with product placement, when it's appropriate. But if games start pausing in the middle for actual ads, some marketer's rectum is going to find a game cartridge inside it.
I agree with what you are saying. My brother teaches high school math and computer science. Teaching math is why he no longer wants to be a teacher, besides the poor pay. Few of the students want to learn. None of them have ever done integral calculus for fun in their lives. What is happening with kids these days?
I am 1000 miles from Mom's place so my brothers get to handle tech support. When I visit once a year, that's when I get to fix whatever it is they've screwed up. The big problems have actually been hardware instead of software related. On the other hand, I have yet to successfully teach her not to forward crap emails.
The military built that GPS system that lets you figure out how far your golf ball is from the hole.
That would be reasonable. But I would insist on the doctor's limb as well.
Unfortunately its everything you just said, plus the lawyers, plus the HMOs. Plus doctors trying to pay off their tuition loans and still live a very good life. Plus the uninsured, because anyone who does not have insurance knows they could never afford doctors/hospital.
I have two kids. Bills were 5 digits. Insurance paid the doctors/hospitals 50-75%. My costs: $0 for the first, $15 for the second.
That sounds like my computer at work. Two - three hours every day, computer slows to a crawl while the virus scanner runs. Some of the folks have started timing their lunch breaks during it.
I've had a root canal, without anesthesia. I've also had the finger check only one time, it was over quickly, and he never did buy me dinner. Root canal was nicer.
Reminds of the time I got a coin to land on its edge. Admittedly its something of a cheat, I tossed a bunch of coins together and one of them ended on its edge. Still somewhat surprising, because I had been trying to count the number of heads (or tails), and rather than flip multiple times, I tried a shortcut by tossing them all at once.
True, but as long as you have enough credit to get to another country, establish a new identity and basically start over, then you are golden.
US government can always just make (literally) more money. And yes I understand this causes all sorts of other problems. I didn't say it was a smart move. But then again, check out current (and previous) administrations activities. Neither really shines as acting intelligently.
Is that why New Yorkers use their middle finger to ring doorbells?
I was at Vandenberg AFB and had the opportunity to talk with a couple visiting Australian officers. Someone of course asked about Foster's. Their comment was something along the lines of Australia usually only exports the crap they don't want, which includes Foster's (it also included any of the Australia TV shows that have been popular in England--doesn't apply to America because we make more than enough crappy TV shows to have to import any.) They also made the comment that if you're in Australia and really want to act like a tourist, order a Foster's.
Exactly. I think the businesses should get concerned when those Bud drinkers (especially college students) starting tracking where, when, and how much they paid for their alcohol. If they did that, then they might realize how much of their money was going to the beer companies and decide to save it instead. Then all the beer companies might go out of business.
People just need to relax, most businesses are not out to get you, just your money. And they might actually give something in return.
In fact, we use Fortran code in our daily operations. Actually, I think some of the code may be pre-Fortran 77. It's definitely been around since the 70s, if not before.
When preparing a demo, remember never to say the following: "Have a look a this. I (1) finally got all the bugs out or (2) got it to work now." Either comment is a surefire way for it to fail immediately.
You should end up winning. But a few mismanaged ones lost out. But they probably either overspent on the "flashy" things or had too many hands skimming. See Aladdin hotel-casino.
Something similar happened in my wife's car. She got a phone call on her cell just before we arrived at our destination. She continued to talk while I got out. Since she sat there yakking while I waited, I use the remote to lock the doors again. She finally stopped gabbing, and unlocked and opened the door. Alarm went off and I turn off the noisy thing with the remote, when I finally got it out of my pocket.