Remember that pagan is mostly a constructed name, by adherents of one mythology, which means "not us". I wouldn't view them in any stark contrast, really...especially since, heck, when one honestly compares the Christianity at my place (self-professed defensive bulwark of it over the ages, but also quite in favours of Vatican for some time now) with a) official Christianity from 1000 years ago; b) local beliefs 1000 years ago (when baptism took place; though of course "national baptism" in a myth, old belifes were quite strong untill XVI-XVII century); then it's really not very obvious to say whether the current state took more from a) or from b)... And I don't think it's very distinctive.
Certainly not Nemesis; the concept of latter assumes that the "rogue companion" is gravitationally bound to the Solar System...indeed is part of the Solar System.
hmm.../me checking in Quick Preferences...yup, "Enable Java" unticked.
Wait, I don't even hava Java installed on this machine. Seriously, apart from very few webpages and applications (taking into account what is typically used), Java is hardly needed nowadays.
Light sail, etc. propulsion powered by beamed energy can have even greater speed than Orion (light sail doesn't have to carry it's own fuel) and be significantly cheaper. Plus the most expensive and massive part of infrastructure stays in the Solar System and can be used for more than one probe.
If we would really want to we can get rid of the slow down by simply performing a flyby. Who knows how acceptable the former would be of course, considering the limited science and that such mission wouldn't get funding very often...
Ig only current cards (and their cooling systems) were designed with constant heavy operation in mind when you're working on something and they should be rather quiet...
I'm sorry, but you just don't know what other browsers offer.
Since you mentioned Opera with which I'm familiar and few extensions "specifically": http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ + built in GUI element blocker + js black & whitelisting are all there for a long time
Similarly with...no, not all by a long shot, but...many lists of functionalities people list as "must have" and obviously available only in FF...
Planets were in the past, for example, emissaries of the gods. The Moon was considered a quite distinct body. Epicycles and heavenly sphere have also went away.
How does that follow from using the same (because it's simply most optimal) cpu architecture? Heck, an architecure used in virtually all mobile phones, whatever they are, period.
(not that I'm saying targeting it directly would be a good agreed, like one paretn poster suggested; ARM does change things from time to time AFAIK)
So nice to omit certain key points of that history you're conversant with. For example the surpise from the realisation that a blunt shape is actually much more more workable than streamlined one certainly didn't happen.
Yes, NASA continued pouring funds into what was a fantasy that siphoned them from other areas of space program. Mind you, we may still have a workable space plane at some point, when material science and propulsion tech will be up to the task. It's not now, certainly wasn't the case 50 years ago, and you might not live to see it.
(remind me, what were the projected costs of the Shuttle, frequency of launches and safety; you should know that bit of history...)
That's not the whole argument though. (hm, it was tempting to go all out into culinary analogy...;)...but I managed to go the direct way; luckily you haven't used cars)
NASA and other space agencies not only are very directly responsible for many quite recent breakthroughs, knowledge which isn't taken for granted at all, but are also major contribution to why those ventures keep themselves afloat. It's not an example of typically straigtforward client-provider relationship.
Note I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, just noting that it is...yeah, more murky. Also stemming from different circumstances. And BTW SpaceX did raise, afai remember, some objections as to the possible protectionism of ULA. Or, more distant subject, note recent mess with a contract for new USAF tankers (in which ULA can be said involved, in a way, by proxy of Boeing, and Arianespace of course through some connection with Airbus that can undoubtedly be found if one tries, even if in both cases only by "what benefits X benefits Y indirectly").
But I'd say that for practical purposes Arianespace can be, rather safely and without much of a stretch, considered as a company working on commercial market. Especially since the way ESA is structured is, IMHO, less of a mess currently than with NASA. In the case of the former they seem to follow rather honestly "how much funds each memberstate contributes determines who gets the contracts", while the latter seems to have fallen victim to pork barrel politics now that it's not a matter of space race & national pride. Arguably, the ESA approach is actually less commercial of course...unless it follows "who can get the job done", which generally seems to be the case. And ESA does buy rockets from Arianespace (not only of course)
And c'mon, know-how was built largely by gov actions in the past. Heck, look how many Orbital Sciences launchers are almost a refurbished tech.
Ehh, who says it's trivial? It's, after all...rocket science. But it can, and has been done occasionally, when needed. In contrast to rebuilding the Shuttles in such a way (instead all payloads were simply conceived as fitting what's already at hand), which would be significantly harder (and not just aslightly as you seems to suggest) - more complex structure, much more complex aerodynamics...and you'd have to push the modification through man-rating.
Of course there's some standarization, but fairings significantly larger that cross-section of the rocket itself aren't unheard of. Besides, in Shuttle the cargo proper isn't directly just attached to the orbiter either (but for 30 years there was no way around certain size limits)
Actually, capsules were a radical, new and quite unexpected solution; a solution that proved much better, considering rest of our tech, than fantasy spaceplanes.
But you should know that, right, oh great-conversant-with-space-history one?:) (or maybe picking-single-pages-from-astronautix-showing-his-fantasy one?)
Well, yes, Arianespace is controlled by companies which are in turn quite often controlled by various European govs...but it's still a case of commercial operation. Plus why would you mention ULA then which is simply a front to Lockeed and Boeing (and somewhat to Air Force even...), both heavily dependant on hence effectivelly subsidised & controlled by major gov spending.
Generally, if you'd look from where large part of capital and know-how comes, it's not very clear with any "commercial" space industry company...
It does keep the quality of images at more acceptable level, though... (and with Opera caching images quite "agressivelly" (simply properly), it achieves a nice compromise, IMHO; certainly web browsing is rather nice also on those poor mobile connections that I mentioned)
You know, however Constellation would turn out, it doesn't change the fact that this demand is due to end of Space Shuttle program. Which is an old decision.
By seeing how snappy with rendering & UI the old Opera 9.27 is, a version which I left on one ancient dualcore p2 machine I have here (also with miniscule amount of ram, win2k, and so on)...I don't think that throwing more power at the problem is the only viable solution.
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Remember that pagan is mostly a constructed name, by adherents of one mythology, which means "not us". I wouldn't view them in any stark contrast, really ...especially since, heck, when one honestly compares the Christianity at my place (self-professed defensive bulwark of it over the ages, but also quite in favours of Vatican for some time now) with
a) official Christianity from 1000 years ago;
b) local beliefs 1000 years ago (when baptism took place; though of course "national baptism" in a myth, old belifes were quite strong untill XVI-XVII century);
then it's really not very obvious to say whether the current state took more from a) or from b)...
And I don't think it's very distinctive.
Certainly not Nemesis; the concept of latter assumes that the "rogue companion" is gravitationally bound to the Solar System...indeed is part of the Solar System.
This new brown dwarf...we're just passing it.
hmm.../me checking in Quick Preferences...yup, "Enable Java" unticked.
Wait, I don't even hava Java installed on this machine. Seriously, apart from very few webpages and applications (taking into account what is typically used), Java is hardly needed nowadays.
Light sail, etc. propulsion powered by beamed energy can have even greater speed than Orion (light sail doesn't have to carry it's own fuel) and be significantly cheaper. Plus the most expensive and massive part of infrastructure stays in the Solar System and can be used for more than one probe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail
I can see us doing such mission perhaps in lifetimes of some of us...
Patience would work, too...Gliese 710 will be probably less than 1 light year away very soon.
At least, "very soon" in cosmological terms (a little over 1 million years iirc)
If we would really want to we can get rid of the slow down by simply performing a flyby. Who knows how acceptable the former would be of course, considering the limited science and that such mission wouldn't get funding very often...
Ig only current cards (and their cooling systems) were designed with constant heavy operation in mind when you're working on something and they should be rather quiet...
I'm sorry, but you just don't know what other browsers offer.
Since you mentioned Opera with which I'm familiar and few extensions "specifically":
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ + built in GUI element blocker + js black & whitelisting are all there for a long time
Similarly with...no, not all by a long shot, but...many lists of functionalities people list as "must have" and obviously available only in FF...
(yes, it's partially refurbished / rebuilt, but to generally the same specs...)
Again, as you write it's not straightforward - but haven't stopped us from doing it few times (when will you notice that part...)
Planets were in the past, for example, emissaries of the gods. The Moon was considered a quite distinct body. Epicycles and heavenly sphere have also went away.
How does that follow from using the same (because it's simply most optimal) cpu architecture? Heck, an architecure used in virtually all mobile phones, whatever they are, period.
(not that I'm saying targeting it directly would be a good agreed, like one paretn poster suggested; ARM does change things from time to time AFAIK)
People have been trying to block the spread of ideas since before the invention of the printing press.
They've always failed.
Always?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of_scholars
Plus generally, you wouldn't have heard about really succesfull such actions by definition.
So nice to omit certain key points of that history you're conversant with. For example the surpise from the realisation that a blunt shape is actually much more more workable than streamlined one certainly didn't happen.
Yes, NASA continued pouring funds into what was a fantasy that siphoned them from other areas of space program. Mind you, we may still have a workable space plane at some point, when material science and propulsion tech will be up to the task. It's not now, certainly wasn't the case 50 years ago, and you might not live to see it.
(remind me, what were the projected costs of the Shuttle, frequency of launches and safety; you should know that bit of history...)
That's not the whole argument though. (hm, it was tempting to go all out into culinary analogy... ;) ...but I managed to go the direct way; luckily you haven't used cars)
NASA and other space agencies not only are very directly responsible for many quite recent breakthroughs, knowledge which isn't taken for granted at all, but are also major contribution to why those ventures keep themselves afloat. It's not an example of typically straigtforward client-provider relationship.
Note I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, just noting that it is...yeah, more murky. Also stemming from different circumstances. And BTW SpaceX did raise, afai remember, some objections as to the possible protectionism of ULA. Or, more distant subject, note recent mess with a contract for new USAF tankers (in which ULA can be said involved, in a way, by proxy of Boeing, and Arianespace of course through some connection with Airbus that can undoubtedly be found if one tries, even if in both cases only by "what benefits X benefits Y indirectly").
But I'd say that for practical purposes Arianespace can be, rather safely and without much of a stretch, considered as a company working on commercial market. Especially since the way ESA is structured is, IMHO, less of a mess currently than with NASA. In the case of the former they seem to follow rather honestly "how much funds each memberstate contributes determines who gets the contracts", while the latter seems to have fallen victim to pork barrel politics now that it's not a matter of space race & national pride. Arguably, the ESA approach is actually less commercial of course...unless it follows "who can get the job done", which generally seems to be the case. And ESA does buy rockets from Arianespace (not only of course)
And c'mon, know-how was built largely by gov actions in the past. Heck, look how many Orbital Sciences launchers are almost a refurbished tech.
Ehh, who says it's trivial? It's, after all...rocket science. But it can, and has been done occasionally, when needed. In contrast to rebuilding the Shuttles in such a way (instead all payloads were simply conceived as fitting what's already at hand), which would be significantly harder (and not just aslightly as you seems to suggest) - more complex structure, much more complex aerodynamics...and you'd have to push the modification through man-rating.
Of course there's some standarization, but fairings significantly larger that cross-section of the rocket itself aren't unheard of. Besides, in Shuttle the cargo proper isn't directly just attached to the orbiter either (but for 30 years there was no way around certain size limits)
"Windows is not some panacea try running an old copy of FF7 for the PC on a modern system."
It's especially telling when it's usually much more straightforward and faster to just run the console version under emulator than the native PC one.
Actually, capsules were a radical, new and quite unexpected solution; a solution that proved much better, considering rest of our tech, than fantasy spaceplanes.
But you should know that, right, oh great-conversant-with-space-history one? :) (or maybe picking-single-pages-from-astronautix-showing-his-fantasy one?)
Well, yes, Arianespace is controlled by companies which are in turn quite often controlled by various European govs...but it's still a case of commercial operation. Plus why would you mention ULA then which is simply a front to Lockeed and Boeing (and somewhat to Air Force even...), both heavily dependant on hence effectivelly subsidised & controlled by major gov spending.
Generally, if you'd look from where large part of capital and know-how comes, it's not very clear with any "commercial" space industry company...
It does keep the quality of images at more acceptable level, though... (and with Opera caching images quite "agressivelly" (simply properly), it achieves a nice compromise, IMHO; certainly web browsing is rather nice also on those poor mobile connections that I mentioned)
It's about freedom. Freedom to choose, not freedom to be restricted to RMS' view of how the Interweb should be.
So how come all the solutions which I'm forced to use (taxes, etc.) are, somehow, only built on Microsoft technologies...
You know, however Constellation would turn out, it doesn't change the fact that this demand is due to end of Space Shuttle program. Which is an old decision.
What are you talking about? You didn't have enough examples of improving the efficiency of javascript engines lately?
By seeing how snappy with rendering & UI the old Opera 9.27 is, a version which I left on one ancient dualcore p2 machine I have here (also with miniscule amount of ram, win2k, and so on)...I don't think that throwing more power at the problem is the only viable solution.