The extra citric acid gave it more citrus flavor. It used to be cheap to extract from the leftover pulp from the orange juice processing plants, but IIRC most of the juice today is imported from Brazil and the domestic crop is mostly sold as fresh product. They've probably found an additive that was cheaper then citric acid.
You might like Bill Engvall's skit Here's Your Sign. The idea is that stupid people should be made to carry a sign so that you wouldn't accidentally trust them to do something beyond their capabilities, such as park your car.
There used to be several in the late '90s, spread by booting off an infected floppy disk. I believe they were all manufacturer dependent, although there was at least one that could damage two different BIOSs (Award and AMI, I think). If you had a different BIOS it wouldn't do anything.
The same goes for most dog behavior problems. Beagles and other hounds have a bad reputation for howling, digging and general destructiveness. Two walks a day will take care of that in most cases. Letting a scent hound out in the yard to sniff around the same place he's sniffed the last ten days in a row frustrates him terribly.
You've never lived on a farm. Farm cats are bigger, tougher, more aggressive and disease resistant than the inbred apartment cat you probably know. Feral city cats tend to be smaller (since they're not competing with racoons), but are generally just plain nasty if they weren't handled extensively by humans in the first weeks of their lives. Modern breeds of cats, just like dogs, have nothing to do with evolution and everything to do with inbreeding and the Victorian fantasies of 'racial purity' that gave us barbarisms like the AKC and its feline equivalents.
Told my cat he could hunt all the rodents he wanted (including some enormous rats), but if he ever brought home a bird that I'd beat him with it until the feathers fell off. Came home from work one day and found a dead robin on the kitchen floor. Called Tux in, closed the cat door behind him, and the chase was on. There were feathers from one end of the house to the other. He never brought home another bird, and I never even saw him stalking any after that.
I eventually moved to Peru and gave him to a nice couple who lived out in the woods. Came back to the US a couple of years later and gave them a call to see how Tux was getting along. The lady said, "Oh, he's fine. We let him out in the evenings and he hunts mice all night and leaves them on the porch. When we let the dogs out in the morning they eat them."
No, haven't worn a dry suit. The reason that I asked about breathing is because your lungs would be at a higher pressure than the vacuum surrounding you. This isn't a pressure while diving, since the pressure supplied by the breathing equipment equalizes with the water pressure. In a typical pressure suit the pressure in the lungs equals that inside the suit. The AC above mentioned solutions in development.
My 1980s Biology textbook had a note that the previous year spending on cancer research in the US alone had exceeded $500,000,000, but worldwide research on malaria (the world's largest killer at the time) was $8,000,000. If Bill and Melinda Gates are not remembered for anything else they will be remembered for dumping enough money into research on tropical diseases to finally interest Big Pharma.
Two questions then; 1) How do you avoid choking your wearer if the seal is tight enough to keep air out of the suit? 2) Is the suit going to assist the astronaut to deflate their lungs after each breath? If not, how are you preventing fatigue?
If you're supplying breathing air for the astronaut the suit is going to inflate, unless you want to put an airtight seal around their neck (don't think that would be too popular) you're not going to keep the air from the rest of the suit. An inflated suit also allows easier breathing by its wearer, they don't have to fight to deflate the lungs.
A lot of that "cross agency support" is NASA picking up the tab for military projects. Yeah, the bottomless money pit of the Pentagon also sucks money out of National Institute of Health, National Science Institute, NOAA, National Weather Service, even the National Park Service.
For all of the dozens of redundant posts below complaining about image quality, these are the system management cameras. Science cameras are supposed to be deployed today.
When two teams of engineers are presented with an identical problem to solve it's quite likely that their solutions are going to be very similar. If China wanted to build a new jet aircraft their airfoil would "look like a US design" for the simple reason that it's the best way to build a wing.
Trade sanctions? Are you unaware that the US isn't the only market for Chinese goods? Big freaking deal. They can sell the electricity from a solar power satellite to anyone they want, or lease space in their extreme-vacuum lab, or whatever. The US market isn't the be-all and end-all of international commerce.
Actually, after about ten seconds of thought, any US corporation that wanted access to the products of the Chinese space program would simply create an offshore subsidiary to do business, the same as they do for trade with Iran.
An advantage the Chinese space program has over the US one is that they don't have lawyers and generals thinking that they can design a spacecraft better than a rocket scientist could (which is why the Space Shuttle was the abortion it ended up being). I'm hopeful that if they can open their space operations up to international joint efforts (like the cooperation with the ESA) they can do great things.
Well, we've been losing in Afghanistan for a decade and have had to retreat entirely from Iraq, after having only managed to destroy their infrastructure and put the Islamic fundies in control. Not even the Kurds like us there. So yeah, if we can't nuke 'em and the populace hates us we'll lose.
China has always been a totalitarian society, for at least the last 5,000 years. The current moment is quite possibly the most liberal period their culture has seen since the beginning of recorded history. While lacking by our standards, by the standard of much of the older generation of Chinese citizens the current social situation is absolutely libertine. I've heard older immigrants from Taiwan and China complaining to each other about how disrespectful and aggressive their grandchildren are. You don't turn an aircraft carrier on a dime, Mao's generation had to die off before foreign factories could be brought into the country, the next generation had to be forced into retirement to allow a certain amount of domestic capitalism. Change will happen, but it will be on China's timetable, not ours. As it should be, IMO.
As for the pollution, you might be too young to remember the Cuyahoga River catching fire, the certainty of the extinction of the bald eagle, and lakes with massive rafts of foam and barge-sized globs of algae in the 1960s and '70s. Again, change will come, hopefully sooner rather than later.
It's actually quite an interesting article. I'm still wondering about your earlier statement. How would you map the underground structure of the moon without actually going there? To my knowledge ground-penetrating radar only works in close proximity to the ground being examined.
India is currently carrying out a mission to **MARS** that cost less then what a steel magnate spent on his daughter's wedding. The Chang'e-1 and Chang'e-2 missions cost 1.4B Yuan ($230M USD) and 900M Yuan ($148.2M USD), so even if Chang'e-3 cost twice what the previous two missions combined did they still aren't spending a billion dollars on this one. Much less "untold billions". It's not as hard to reach the moon any more, since much of the expensive and time consuming work, the baseline R&D, has already been done. Robotics, computation, and appropriate materials are now orders of magnitude less expensive than they were four decades ago.
Do you seriously think that NASA spends over five percent of its entire budget on janitorial services? Not even Halliburton would gouge them that badly. When you pull numbers out of your ass I wish you would at least have the courtesy to wash them off before you use them.
There is no 'environment' on the moon to mess up. About the best place possible for heavy industry.
What China is doing has very little resemblance to Apollo's list of objectives. You should look at the equipment it's carrying.
All gains could have been gotten other ways for much cheaper.
So how do you propose to do a spectrographic analysis of subsurface soils without going there? For the life of me I can't figure out how you plan on examining the underground structure from here.
The Soviets also had excellent electro-mechanical engineers. The Soviets didn't trust electrical systems, they had better experience with mechanical timers and relay logic.
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The extra citric acid gave it more citrus flavor. It used to be cheap to extract from the leftover pulp from the orange juice processing plants, but IIRC most of the juice today is imported from Brazil and the domestic crop is mostly sold as fresh product. They've probably found an additive that was cheaper then citric acid.
You might like Bill Engvall's skit Here's Your Sign. The idea is that stupid people should be made to carry a sign so that you wouldn't accidentally trust them to do something beyond their capabilities, such as park your car.
There used to be several in the late '90s, spread by booting off an infected floppy disk. I believe they were all manufacturer dependent, although there was at least one that could damage two different BIOSs (Award and AMI, I think). If you had a different BIOS it wouldn't do anything.
The same goes for most dog behavior problems. Beagles and other hounds have a bad reputation for howling, digging and general destructiveness. Two walks a day will take care of that in most cases. Letting a scent hound out in the yard to sniff around the same place he's sniffed the last ten days in a row frustrates him terribly.
You've never lived on a farm. Farm cats are bigger, tougher, more aggressive and disease resistant than the inbred apartment cat you probably know. Feral city cats tend to be smaller (since they're not competing with racoons), but are generally just plain nasty if they weren't handled extensively by humans in the first weeks of their lives. Modern breeds of cats, just like dogs, have nothing to do with evolution and everything to do with inbreeding and the Victorian fantasies of 'racial purity' that gave us barbarisms like the AKC and its feline equivalents.
Told my cat he could hunt all the rodents he wanted (including some enormous rats), but if he ever brought home a bird that I'd beat him with it until the feathers fell off. Came home from work one day and found a dead robin on the kitchen floor. Called Tux in, closed the cat door behind him, and the chase was on. There were feathers from one end of the house to the other. He never brought home another bird, and I never even saw him stalking any after that.
I eventually moved to Peru and gave him to a nice couple who lived out in the woods. Came back to the US a couple of years later and gave them a call to see how Tux was getting along. The lady said, "Oh, he's fine. We let him out in the evenings and he hunts mice all night and leaves them on the porch. When we let the dogs out in the morning they eat them."
No, haven't worn a dry suit. The reason that I asked about breathing is because your lungs would be at a higher pressure than the vacuum surrounding you. This isn't a pressure while diving, since the pressure supplied by the breathing equipment equalizes with the water pressure. In a typical pressure suit the pressure in the lungs equals that inside the suit. The AC above mentioned solutions in development.
My 1980s Biology textbook had a note that the previous year spending on cancer research in the US alone had exceeded $500,000,000, but worldwide research on malaria (the world's largest killer at the time) was $8,000,000. If Bill and Melinda Gates are not remembered for anything else they will be remembered for dumping enough money into research on tropical diseases to finally interest Big Pharma.
Because of the taxes we have the one of the highest standards of living in the world.
FTFY
Two questions then; 1) How do you avoid choking your wearer if the seal is tight enough to keep air out of the suit? 2) Is the suit going to assist the astronaut to deflate their lungs after each breath? If not, how are you preventing fatigue?
If you're supplying breathing air for the astronaut the suit is going to inflate, unless you want to put an airtight seal around their neck (don't think that would be too popular) you're not going to keep the air from the rest of the suit. An inflated suit also allows easier breathing by its wearer, they don't have to fight to deflate the lungs.
A lot of that "cross agency support" is NASA picking up the tab for military projects. Yeah, the bottomless money pit of the Pentagon also sucks money out of National Institute of Health, National Science Institute, NOAA, National Weather Service, even the National Park Service.
Good. I hate 'The Simpsons', and any "obligatory" reference to any of its episodes (or even worse, Seinfeld) is an utter waste of electrons. /rant
For all of the dozens of redundant posts below complaining about image quality, these are the system management cameras. Science cameras are supposed to be deployed today.
Planetary Society's coverage of Chang'e.
When two teams of engineers are presented with an identical problem to solve it's quite likely that their solutions are going to be very similar. If China wanted to build a new jet aircraft their airfoil would "look like a US design" for the simple reason that it's the best way to build a wing.
Trade sanctions? Are you unaware that the US isn't the only market for Chinese goods? Big freaking deal. They can sell the electricity from a solar power satellite to anyone they want, or lease space in their extreme-vacuum lab, or whatever. The US market isn't the be-all and end-all of international commerce.
Actually, after about ten seconds of thought, any US corporation that wanted access to the products of the Chinese space program would simply create an offshore subsidiary to do business, the same as they do for trade with Iran.
An advantage the Chinese space program has over the US one is that they don't have lawyers and generals thinking that they can design a spacecraft better than a rocket scientist could (which is why the Space Shuttle was the abortion it ended up being). I'm hopeful that if they can open their space operations up to international joint efforts (like the cooperation with the ESA) they can do great things.
Ooh, a car analogy. I like it. May have to steal that one.
Well, we've been losing in Afghanistan for a decade and have had to retreat entirely from Iraq, after having only managed to destroy their infrastructure and put the Islamic fundies in control. Not even the Kurds like us there. So yeah, if we can't nuke 'em and the populace hates us we'll lose.
Ah, apples and grapefruits. Understood.
China has always been a totalitarian society, for at least the last 5,000 years. The current moment is quite possibly the most liberal period their culture has seen since the beginning of recorded history. While lacking by our standards, by the standard of much of the older generation of Chinese citizens the current social situation is absolutely libertine. I've heard older immigrants from Taiwan and China complaining to each other about how disrespectful and aggressive their grandchildren are. You don't turn an aircraft carrier on a dime, Mao's generation had to die off before foreign factories could be brought into the country, the next generation had to be forced into retirement to allow a certain amount of domestic capitalism. Change will happen, but it will be on China's timetable, not ours. As it should be, IMO.
As for the pollution, you might be too young to remember the Cuyahoga River catching fire, the certainty of the extinction of the bald eagle, and lakes with massive rafts of foam and barge-sized globs of algae in the 1960s and '70s. Again, change will come, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Chang'e 1 was estimated cost CN¥1.4B ($230M USD); Chang'e 2 cost CN¥900M ($148.2M USD). The cost of the Chang'e mission has not yet been revealed
It's actually quite an interesting article. I'm still wondering about your earlier statement. How would you map the underground structure of the moon without actually going there? To my knowledge ground-penetrating radar only works in close proximity to the ground being examined.
Mangled that sentence in the first paragraph. Meant to say, "so even if Chang'e-3 has cost more than the previous two missions combined they..."
India is currently carrying out a mission to **MARS** that cost less then what a steel magnate spent on his daughter's wedding. The Chang'e-1 and Chang'e-2 missions cost 1.4B Yuan ($230M USD) and 900M Yuan ($148.2M USD), so even if Chang'e-3 cost twice what the previous two missions combined did they still aren't spending a billion dollars on this one. Much less "untold billions". It's not as hard to reach the moon any more, since much of the expensive and time consuming work, the baseline R&D, has already been done. Robotics, computation, and appropriate materials are now orders of magnitude less expensive than they were four decades ago.
Do you seriously think that NASA spends over five percent of its entire budget on janitorial services? Not even Halliburton would gouge them that badly. When you pull numbers out of your ass I wish you would at least have the courtesy to wash them off before you use them.
There is no 'environment' on the moon to mess up. About the best place possible for heavy industry.
What China is doing has very little resemblance to Apollo's list of objectives. You should look at the equipment it's carrying.
All gains could have been gotten other ways for much cheaper.
So how do you propose to do a spectrographic analysis of subsurface soils without going there? For the life of me I can't figure out how you plan on examining the underground structure from here.
And "untold Billions"? What are you smoking?
The Soviets also had excellent electro-mechanical engineers. The Soviets didn't trust electrical systems, they had better experience with mechanical timers and relay logic.