Yes, those were ejection seats. And of ourse that would limit number of crew members to 4 perhaps (yes, some of them currently seat on lower deck - oh, and AFAI remember there's only one:p)
And also...it could take long time to talk about the subject. But here are few things that pop into mind immadiately: - respect, that matters; I'm not talking about opressions, but simply respect; not sure out of what that came from (dissapeared almost completelly after reform, about which I'll talk later); example: I had 5 years ago, in highschool great Polish teacher from the old times; at first sight almost scary and such...but it ended that we were often joking out of each other, smoking cigarettes in his apartment (or borrowing lighter at times) and drinking wine from the bottle at nearby park (not to mention intelectual activities). Come to think of it, the whole respect to each other and unity thing was perhaps due to "common enemy" which everyone has then: communism (adding to that the fact the aforementioned teacher was involved in quite famous student "revolt" in 68). High schools and Universities somehow united people (in HS: teachers, former students, which passed their charisma and entusiasm) of similar thoughts about the whole political mess. -just mentioned: enthusiasm; apart from the reasons above, it was also because techer position was quite...lucrative; So it was good to be...good when teaching. -Education was one of the simplest ways of quick social avanse. (free studies; like today btw, but it doesn't mean as much as it used to...)
OK, sleepy right now se perhaps I'll finish, but one thing about school reform we had: Previously we (I also) had 8 years of primary school education, starting from 7 years (and also something negligible before...), and then from 15 it was rather individual thing what you choose. But now...a real mess IMHO. 6 years of primary school, and then comes gym, 3 years. How do you think, what happens when 13 year olds are taken from their old surrounding, old authorities and put all together into totally mixed bag? You think they'll find new ones? And it stays that way...
Or perhpas I'm just rumbling. After all, I'm the child of war...(war state, to be precize); our school education started when communism was collapsing adn new order didn't crystalized yet. So we were raised with old ideas in mind...but times changed...consumptionist culture took over few years later...but we are hung between two worlds, out of which one doesn't exist and second isn't for us... Perhaps the new education system is perfect for the new order?...:/
About your PS:
Shuttle, And specifically, Challenger, did exactly that during catastrophe! SImply put: if you look at the innards of the shuttle, it looks like a capsule (cabin) to which someone attached 100 tonnes of trash such as cargo bay, landing gear, wings, engines, etc. And this capsule survived Challenger explosion! (video footage shows it, flying out of the fireball) Moreover, emergency oxygen tanks depletion suggests that at least some members of the crew were alive long after the explosion. Only problem: no way to land safely - hitting with several Gs into the water isn't healthy...
Shuttle wouldn't be large addition to ISS, it would be more "laughable addition". It's big only outside (=much larger drag for the whole ISS, whiich then needs much more fuel to saty on orbit), but inside its living space, even compared to current, unfinished ISS is just, well...laughable...
OK, Soyuz had fatal failures. TWO. AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF PROGRAM. Remind me, please, when Space Shuttle failures took place? Could it be when it was almost "certified" safe for "routine flights"?
Make it more USSR/Warsaw Pact style. OK, not really serious here (although some idead from the model were good...), but...I'm from ex-Warsaw pact country. For some time education is brought "up to Western standards". Read: it worsened a lot. One has to wonder...
Youre right, but I also would like to point out to the very special case of "bias": when the game world results from authors lack of knowledge/ignorance. The simplest (trivial, actually - it was so easy to do it right) example is Gunship! - presumably taking place in borders of Poland...however I could not recognize that from screenshots at all...and OTOH many places were fairly characteristic for some areas of US I've seen...
Maybe because the things that scare us most are the ones almost normal...but not quite? So if models were uber realistic our minds would take them for real for some time and then...BANG! Who knows...somebody would have to check that hipothesis...
And as for crush on Alex - highly unlikely that was the reason. I've seen research (well...mostly playing with topic, not true research) which revealed that when playing Silent Hill (yes, 1, on PSOne) males developed very strong emotional connection to Cybil (the policewomen). And even though the grpahics weren't that great. Most probably because affect and emotions work on in large part (initially at least) on pretty "primitive" level in the brain; sentient seeing hasn't that much to do with them.
And it should also be noted that majority of those "broadband" (pfff) subscribers in Poland are using the option with 128kbps download speed (and 5GB limit). It's called broadband only because technically it is ADSL...but IMHO it doesn't deserve to be called like that (many years ago ISDN in PL was at the same speed & without limits (the only problem: price; you were paying per minute)
Unfortunatelly that won't work for me, since PayPal isn't available in Poland, even though eBay is (although their polish service is laughable compared to other eBays & to the polish potentate in the field)
I would gladly buy such camcorder, even if quite crappy. Simply because I'm a student that can't afford anything better...but they won't be offered here:( (Poland)
and loose it (considering that you travel somewhere, I don't know...here:p )
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The thing that all of this is unavailable here (PL) almost makes me cry...:/ cheapest crappy digital camera (no films), much worse actually, costs the same as mentioned in the story camcorder...which is the ammount of money which I have till the end of the month. oh well...
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By "rusky supply vehicle" he means Progress, not Soyuz. The former can take quite a lot trash in it once the supplies are aboard the station...
Yes, those were ejection seats. And of ourse that would limit number of crew members to 4 perhaps (yes, some of them currently seat on lower deck - oh, and AFAI remember there's only one :p)
Well, SHuttle had ejection systems during early flights. But soon NASA started to consider it "as safe and routine flight as in a airplane"...
Just clarification about the techers (I talked about just one), I must be really tired; the point is they were true individuals...
RAMMS+EIN said some interesting bits above...
:/
And also...it could take long time to talk about the subject. But here are few things that pop into mind immadiately:
- respect, that matters; I'm not talking about opressions, but simply respect; not sure out of what that came from (dissapeared almost completelly after reform, about which I'll talk later); example: I had 5 years ago, in highschool great Polish teacher from the old times; at first sight almost scary and such...but it ended that we were often joking out of each other, smoking cigarettes in his apartment (or borrowing lighter at times) and drinking wine from the bottle at nearby park (not to mention intelectual activities). Come to think of it, the whole respect to each other and unity thing was perhaps due to "common enemy" which everyone has then: communism (adding to that the fact the aforementioned teacher was involved in quite famous student "revolt" in 68). High schools and Universities somehow united people (in HS: teachers, former students, which passed their charisma and entusiasm) of similar thoughts about the whole political mess.
-just mentioned: enthusiasm; apart from the reasons above, it was also because techer position was quite...lucrative; So it was good to be...good when teaching.
-Education was one of the simplest ways of quick social avanse. (free studies; like today btw, but it doesn't mean as much as it used to...)
OK, sleepy right now se perhaps I'll finish, but one thing about school reform we had:
Previously we (I also) had 8 years of primary school education, starting from 7 years (and also something negligible before...), and then from 15 it was rather individual thing what you choose. But now...a real mess IMHO. 6 years of primary school, and then comes gym, 3 years. How do you think, what happens when 13 year olds are taken from their old surrounding, old authorities and put all together into totally mixed bag? You think they'll find new ones? And it stays that way...
Or perhpas I'm just rumbling. After all, I'm the child of war...(war state, to be precize); our school education started when communism was collapsing adn new order didn't crystalized yet. So we were raised with old ideas in mind...but times changed...consumptionist culture took over few years later...but we are hung between two worlds, out of which one doesn't exist and second isn't for us...
Perhaps the new education system is perfect for the new order?...
About your PS: Shuttle, And specifically, Challenger, did exactly that during catastrophe! SImply put: if you look at the innards of the shuttle, it looks like a capsule (cabin) to which someone attached 100 tonnes of trash such as cargo bay, landing gear, wings, engines, etc. And this capsule survived Challenger explosion! (video footage shows it, flying out of the fireball) Moreover, emergency oxygen tanks depletion suggests that at least some members of the crew were alive long after the explosion. Only problem: no way to land safely - hitting with several Gs into the water isn't healthy...
Shuttle wouldn't be large addition to ISS, it would be more "laughable addition". It's big only outside (=much larger drag for the whole ISS, whiich then needs much more fuel to saty on orbit), but inside its living space, even compared to current, unfinished ISS is just, well...laughable...
OK, Soyuz had fatal failures. TWO. AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF PROGRAM. Remind me, please, when Space Shuttle failures took place? Could it be when it was almost "certified" safe for "routine flights"?
Easier/more reliable version: put the capsule inside the shuttle cargo bay.
Make it more USSR/Warsaw Pact style. OK, not really serious here (although some idead from the model were good...), but...I'm from ex-Warsaw pact country. For some time education is brought "up to Western standards". Read: it worsened a lot. One has to wonder...
Youre right, but I also would like to point out to the very special case of "bias": when the game world results from authors lack of knowledge/ignorance. The simplest (trivial, actually - it was so easy to do it right) example is Gunship! - presumably taking place in borders of Poland...however I could not recognize that from screenshots at all...and OTOH many places were fairly characteristic for some areas of US I've seen...
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Do you have any other examples?
Maybe because the things that scare us most are the ones almost normal...but not quite? So if models were uber realistic our minds would take them for real for some time and then...BANG! Who knows...somebody would have to check that hipothesis...
And as for crush on Alex - highly unlikely that was the reason. I've seen research (well...mostly playing with topic, not true research) which revealed that when playing Silent Hill (yes, 1, on PSOne) males developed very strong emotional connection to Cybil (the policewomen). And even though the grpahics weren't that great. Most probably because affect and emotions work on in large part (initially at least) on pretty "primitive" level in the brain; sentient seeing hasn't that much to do with them.
And it can be irritating for someone who has vision of ~180 degrees...(fully effective smaller of course, but still)
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Or NegCon - best driving games controller IMHO...
ok, I think I haven't heard this particular polish joke...what's the polish handgun about? :>
And it should also be noted that majority of those "broadband" (pfff) subscribers in Poland are using the option with 128kbps download speed (and 5GB limit). It's called broadband only because technically it is ADSL...but IMHO it doesn't deserve to be called like that (many years ago ISDN in PL was at the same speed & without limits (the only problem: price; you were paying per minute)
Too bad we (Poland) have pictures with such lack of details...oh well, perhaps it'ss change with time
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7 &spn=0.167885,0.243416&t=k&hl=en
2 &spn=0.167885,0.243416&t=k&hl=en :(
But for now:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.398949,16.89971
Poznan, city in which I live
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.618233,16.86641
place from which I came
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.936836,15.50720
place where my dreams live without me...
Unfortunatelly that won't work for me, since PayPal isn't available in Poland, even though eBay is (although their polish service is laughable compared to other eBays & to the polish potentate in the field)
It's often escape/illusion of normal life. :(
I would gladly buy such camcorder, even if quite crappy. Simply because I'm a student that can't afford anything better...but they won't be offered here :( (Poland)
Sony did something like that: Net Yaroze.
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:p )
and loose it (considering that you travel somewhere, I don't know...here
The thing that all of this is unavailable here (PL) almost makes me cry... :/
cheapest crappy digital camera (no films), much worse actually, costs the same as mentioned in the story camcorder...which is the ammount of money which I have till the end of the month.
oh well...
You won't get it until you live here (and btw, for your information, the USSR doesn't exist for almost 15 years)