So what? If the Chinese want to build an aircraft should the reinvent the airfoil as well, so that it doesn't "consist of US technology"? Really? Technology progresses by building on what went before, if it works you use it and you add to it. It's just bizarre that I keep hearing this same stupid non sequitur every time the topic of the Chinese space program comes up. "They're using Soviet/US/EU technology!" Big fucking deal.
Compared to what went before the Chinese Communist revolution and even the nastiness of the Cultural Revolution were examples of peace and tranquility. I used to hang out with a fellow who was born in China in the 1920s to some Methodist missionaries from the US. The Irish Potato Famine was a cake walk in comparison to the famines in western China when he was young, famines caused not by bad harvests but because merchants could make more money exporting the harvest to Shanghai or Tokyo. Do you realize that this is the first period in Chinese history when people aren't dying of starvation en mass somewhere in the the country?
If Luna were in orbit around Mars, Venus or Mercury it's large enough we would consider them a double-planet system. It really isn't much smaller than Mercury, no other planet has a moon that is such a large percentage of its mass.
Although really, a tweet? Even GW Bush can tweet, it's not like it's hard. There are frelling security cameras here on Earth that do more complex things than that several hundred times a day. When it can decide, "That rock looks interesting enough to deviate from my pre-programmed path to investigate it," then I'll be impressed.
There shouldn't be much speculation, since Korolev made sure that they told Jodrell Bank any time they had a successful mission. This was actually part of their planning, since they didn't have a world-spanning network of dishes like the Americans did They did it since the first Sputnik.
When private industry gets its hands on the raw, hopefully cheaper materials from space mining, the things they will do will be limitless.
Not the way that private industry is run today. Corporations need to get beyond the "maximum short-term ROI" mindset that has ruled it for the past two centuries, and I see no sign of that happening nor any logical path that might lead it to happen. If private industry were interested in the long-term we'd have solar power satellites by now.
Did you know that they seal garbage dumps? That's an enormous area. There are entire Superfund sites that are multiple times that size, completely sealed. Then there are the neutrino detectors, which are not only huge and sealed, but sealed to the point where no impurities at all can contaminate the detector. So yeah, it's a good sized pool, but we know how to do that really well.
They're probably going to do a Microsoft, just wait until someone develops the technology to a point where it's worth building, and then buy their way in. Safer and cheaper than doing their own research and development, and they get to play the stock market game in the process.
Any addition of mass to a pulsar will change it's spin rate, whether it be a large asteroid or an atom of water. I think the fact that we can detect the change created by something as small as an asteroid is incredibly cool. Besides, it's not the spin rate of the pulsar that would be used for navigation, it would be the object's location. The spin rate is just a convenient marker to identify the star. As long as the spin rate is within a certain margin of error they can assume they are looking at the right star.
Right, there is no conduction because there there is no air/water/dirt to conduct the heat away. Instead they have to radiate the heat away into space, a process which is much less efficient. The cooling system panels glow in the infrared like crazy.
Why does almost every Libertarian solution require thundering herds of lawyers to implement? If Tyson isn't maintaining the sanitary standards on a chicken processing line I'd prefer a bureaucrat tell them "Shut it down, and pay this fine. Can't start it back up until the problems are fixed." The financial impetus of getting back to business will ensure that things get fixed a lot faster then the thought that a few weeks/months down the line some people will die and their survivors will sue, and after a year or two in court their insurance costs will rise.
You do realize that the 'ozone hole' issue has nothing to do with global warming, don't you? Because we stopped most use of CFCs the annual ozone hole is reducing in size each year as the chemical finally degrades. This is a good thing, especially for people who live at high altitudes. Most CFCs also happen to be greenhouse gasses, but that wasn't the reason their production and use was curtailed.
Yes, "space stuff", like find and fix the common issues that will eventually crop up in a long-term flight or colonization project. Both Mir and the Shuttle ran into similar issues, so obviously one of the things they need to do before attempting to actually live further out than NEO is create a better cooling system. Not as flashy as building a new booster, but every bit as important.
Made plane reservations for my grandparents one time to come visit us, reserving the tickets with my credit card. They instead bought train tickets, so I cancelled the reservation. The airline credited me the value of the tickets, as though I had paid for them instead of just making a reservation. I thought it was like in the Monopoly game, where "Bank error in your favor" means free money. No such luck.
Best to take out the easy targets first. Once we're not wasting energy and money funding the Vatican and the Hour of Power we can go after the harder targets.
modern, predominantly Judeo-Christian nations are, by definition, tolerant
By definition? Judeo-Christian? Horsepuckey. "Modern" nations, yes. Unless you want to define Japan as a Judeo-Christian nation, which would be absurd.
Dawkins is the oppressor? That's your "inescapable conclusion"??? I'd like to see how that particular train of logic derailed, I'm honestly curious. So far as I can tell he has never managed to prevent you from praying to any deity you want, attending any religious ceremony you want, or giving all the money you have to any religious organization you want.
I first encountered Doom while training to do Win95 tech support. One day the trainer didn't show up so they just let us into the training room and told us to practice in the OS. Someone got wandering around the Microsoft network, found a network install of the game, and 25 of the 29 other people in class spent the next couple of hours playing Doom.
Then we found out why Doom was called "the unofficial network stress tester". They crashed the Microsoft network backbone. We got put on the support phones the next day.
They didn't commit atrocities **because** they were atheists, it's because they were Stalinists who oppressed every other organized group that they could encounter. Even model rocket clubs, hiking clubs and amateur sports teams were targeted. The religious groups are just the loudest whiners.
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Shut down the useless money pit of the Pentagon and there will be all the funds and resources you want for all your pet projects, and mine to.
consists of Russian technology
So what? If the Chinese want to build an aircraft should the reinvent the airfoil as well, so that it doesn't "consist of US technology"? Really? Technology progresses by building on what went before, if it works you use it and you add to it. It's just bizarre that I keep hearing this same stupid non sequitur every time the topic of the Chinese space program comes up. "They're using Soviet/US/EU technology!" Big fucking deal.
Compared to what went before the Chinese Communist revolution and even the nastiness of the Cultural Revolution were examples of peace and tranquility. I used to hang out with a fellow who was born in China in the 1920s to some Methodist missionaries from the US. The Irish Potato Famine was a cake walk in comparison to the famines in western China when he was young, famines caused not by bad harvests but because merchants could make more money exporting the harvest to Shanghai or Tokyo. Do you realize that this is the first period in Chinese history when people aren't dying of starvation en mass somewhere in the the country?
If Luna were in orbit around Mars, Venus or Mercury it's large enough we would consider them a double-planet system. It really isn't much smaller than Mercury, no other planet has a moon that is such a large percentage of its mass.
Although really, a tweet? Even GW Bush can tweet, it's not like it's hard. There are frelling security cameras here on Earth that do more complex things than that several hundred times a day. When it can decide, "That rock looks interesting enough to deviate from my pre-programmed path to investigate it," then I'll be impressed.
There shouldn't be much speculation, since Korolev made sure that they told Jodrell Bank any time they had a successful mission. This was actually part of their planning, since they didn't have a world-spanning network of dishes like the Americans did They did it since the first Sputnik.
When private industry gets its hands on the raw, hopefully cheaper materials from space mining, the things they will do will be limitless.
Not the way that private industry is run today. Corporations need to get beyond the "maximum short-term ROI" mindset that has ruled it for the past two centuries, and I see no sign of that happening nor any logical path that might lead it to happen. If private industry were interested in the long-term we'd have solar power satellites by now.
Slashdotted even before the story hits SlashDot?
Did you know that they seal garbage dumps? That's an enormous area. There are entire Superfund sites that are multiple times that size, completely sealed. Then there are the neutrino detectors, which are not only huge and sealed, but sealed to the point where no impurities at all can contaminate the detector. So yeah, it's a good sized pool, but we know how to do that really well.
They're probably going to do a Microsoft, just wait until someone develops the technology to a point where it's worth building, and then buy their way in. Safer and cheaper than doing their own research and development, and they get to play the stock market game in the process.
Any addition of mass to a pulsar will change it's spin rate, whether it be a large asteroid or an atom of water. I think the fact that we can detect the change created by something as small as an asteroid is incredibly cool. Besides, it's not the spin rate of the pulsar that would be used for navigation, it would be the object's location. The spin rate is just a convenient marker to identify the star. As long as the spin rate is within a certain margin of error they can assume they are looking at the right star.
I don't think they could have evolved a worse one.
Right, there is no conduction because there there is no air/water/dirt to conduct the heat away. Instead they have to radiate the heat away into space, a process which is much less efficient. The cooling system panels glow in the infrared like crazy.
Why does almost every Libertarian solution require thundering herds of lawyers to implement? If Tyson isn't maintaining the sanitary standards on a chicken processing line I'd prefer a bureaucrat tell them "Shut it down, and pay this fine. Can't start it back up until the problems are fixed." The financial impetus of getting back to business will ensure that things get fixed a lot faster then the thought that a few weeks/months down the line some people will die and their survivors will sue, and after a year or two in court their insurance costs will rise.
Replace the pulley on the alternator with one that has two grooves instead of one. That's what a lot of tractors used to have.
So . . . your point is that you want him to commit suicide by going to Saudi Arabia?
The gas isn't newly discovered, its greenhouse properties are. Apparently no one ever bothered to measure them before.
You do realize that the 'ozone hole' issue has nothing to do with global warming, don't you? Because we stopped most use of CFCs the annual ozone hole is reducing in size each year as the chemical finally degrades. This is a good thing, especially for people who live at high altitudes. Most CFCs also happen to be greenhouse gasses, but that wasn't the reason their production and use was curtailed.
Yes, "space stuff", like find and fix the common issues that will eventually crop up in a long-term flight or colonization project. Both Mir and the Shuttle ran into similar issues, so obviously one of the things they need to do before attempting to actually live further out than NEO is create a better cooling system. Not as flashy as building a new booster, but every bit as important.
The research and development of which Fisher had done on their own initiative and their own dime.
Made plane reservations for my grandparents one time to come visit us, reserving the tickets with my credit card. They instead bought train tickets, so I cancelled the reservation. The airline credited me the value of the tickets, as though I had paid for them instead of just making a reservation. I thought it was like in the Monopoly game, where "Bank error in your favor" means free money. No such luck.
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Best to take out the easy targets first. Once we're not wasting energy and money funding the Vatican and the Hour of Power we can go after the harder targets.
modern, predominantly Judeo-Christian nations are, by definition, tolerant
By definition? Judeo-Christian? Horsepuckey. "Modern" nations, yes. Unless you want to define Japan as a Judeo-Christian nation, which would be absurd.
Dawkins is the oppressor? That's your "inescapable conclusion"??? I'd like to see how that particular train of logic derailed, I'm honestly curious. So far as I can tell he has never managed to prevent you from praying to any deity you want, attending any religious ceremony you want, or giving all the money you have to any religious organization you want.
I first encountered Doom while training to do Win95 tech support. One day the trainer didn't show up so they just let us into the training room and told us to practice in the OS. Someone got wandering around the Microsoft network, found a network install of the game, and 25 of the 29 other people in class spent the next couple of hours playing Doom.
Then we found out why Doom was called "the unofficial network stress tester". They crashed the Microsoft network backbone. We got put on the support phones the next day.
They didn't commit atrocities **because** they were atheists, it's because they were Stalinists who oppressed every other organized group that they could encounter. Even model rocket clubs, hiking clubs and amateur sports teams were targeted. The religious groups are just the loudest whiners.