10:28:46 PM: At this point, MSL has decelerated to less than 500 m/s. It fires off six 25kg tungsten weights that it was using to offset its center of gravity straight out the side of the aeroshell to rebalance itself, reducing its angle of attack to close to zero.
Can one of the rocket scientists on here explain why, when every gram to orbit is accounted for, 150kg of dead weight was the only way to do this? Couldn't they have at least put some kind of small stationary experiments, retroreflectors for earth-based lasers (like on the moon), or radio repeaters in the things that would be no big loss if they didnt survive re-entry?
I don't see that with the Google Apps for Business account I read through TBird at home and webmail when I'm not. There's one extra [GMail] folder in the inbox tree, but once you click it open, it stays open forever.
My GMail tags are interpreted as folders by Thunderbird, and my Thunderbird folders show up as tags in GMail.
I have seen nightmare scenarios with Mega-multi-subfoldered Outlook inbox trees becoming a wall of impenetrable garbage when imported to GMail with the poorly-supported (and non-free!) Google Apps Sync for Outlook plugin. Is that what you're thinking of?
Not sure if you're trolling or not, but the atmosphere is currently more or less saturated with H2O. In fact, it frequently condenses and precipitates out of the atmosphere to fall on land in great quantities.
Creation of new clouds at altitude has been shown to play a bit of havoc with earth's albedo, IIRC, but it really isn't possible to put more water vapor into the atmosphere than is already there.
You're getting hung up on the word "hate." Hate crime laws are about Domestic Terrorism, groups within society using violence to keep other groups in check.
I've had the service long enough that any of those promotional rates have expired, so TV alone is about $40 for basic with 2 STBs (1 regular SD, one super bare-bones SD) for $8/month IIRC. HD or DVRs are way more.
Interesting - Verizon FiOS is about $46/mo less if you drop cable from a phone/tv/internet bundle (note to pedants: I'm including the set top box "rental" fees).
Every big-city building (residential AND commercial) I've ever spent a lot of time in has had elevator techs onsite at least monthly. In one building I lived in, the elevator company had their own office space off the lobby.
It's not wrongthought, it's an actual threat to the welfare of me and mine. Herd immunity protects the 10% or so in whom the vaccines don't take, and blindness, death, and the other lovely consequences of *ENTRIELY PREVENTABLE* childhood illnesses are at stake.
What does your token anti-vax friend say while they pick up their teeth with broken fingers? If you haven't fucking punched them right in the face, you aren't doing your civic duty.
Trouble is, the newer MP3 jukeboxes pull down tracks from a VAST media library somewhere offsite. It takes some doing to find a major-label track that isn't available in my experience.
A ninite.com auto-installer will continue to grab and install the latest version of whatever it's set for - just keep the icon around instead of trashing it at the end of your system build.
It'd be like finding a compromise for those who resisted colour film and colour TV by simply switching on or off colour depending on whether the scene in question really made optimal use of it. It'd be totally jarring and terrible.
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Can one of the rocket scientists on here explain why, when every gram to orbit is accounted for, 150kg of dead weight was the only way to do this? Couldn't they have at least put some kind of small stationary experiments, retroreflectors for earth-based lasers (like on the moon), or radio repeaters in the things that would be no big loss if they didnt survive re-entry?
Do you have a link to a writeup or resources that you used to help make "almost impossible" possible?
I don't see that with the Google Apps for Business account I read through TBird at home and webmail when I'm not. There's one extra [GMail] folder in the inbox tree, but once you click it open, it stays open forever.
My GMail tags are interpreted as folders by Thunderbird, and my Thunderbird folders show up as tags in GMail.
I have seen nightmare scenarios with Mega-multi-subfoldered Outlook inbox trees becoming a wall of impenetrable garbage when imported to GMail with the poorly-supported (and non-free!) Google Apps Sync for Outlook plugin. Is that what you're thinking of?
Using Thunderbird to pull down GMail through IMAP, you get the best of both worlds.
Well, that and you almost always know when someone gets your order wrong at a restaurant.
Say what now?
Only problem is, that's a collection of mind-bendingly out-of-context quotes and outright fabrications, penned by the KKK.
Oh, come on, it wasn't that many people.
Not sure if you're trolling or not, but the atmosphere is currently more or less saturated with H2O. In fact, it frequently condenses and precipitates out of the atmosphere to fall on land in great quantities.
Creation of new clouds at altitude has been shown to play a bit of havoc with earth's albedo, IIRC, but it really isn't possible to put more water vapor into the atmosphere than is already there.
Hey, Clue wasn't bad.
And I could see Hungry Hungry Hippos being an awesome SyFy movie-of-the-week.
You're getting hung up on the word "hate." Hate crime laws are about Domestic Terrorism, groups within society using violence to keep other groups in check.
Amazon on-demand video also has a season (SD or HD) for $30.
I've had the service long enough that any of those promotional rates have expired, so TV alone is about $40 for basic with 2 STBs (1 regular SD, one super bare-bones SD) for $8/month IIRC. HD or DVRs are way more.
Interesting - Verizon FiOS is about $46/mo less if you drop cable from a phone/tv/internet bundle (note to pedants: I'm including the set top box "rental" fees).
Every big-city building (residential AND commercial) I've ever spent a lot of time in has had elevator techs onsite at least monthly. In one building I lived in, the elevator company had their own office space off the lobby.
It's not wrongthought, it's an actual threat to the welfare of me and mine. Herd immunity protects the 10% or so in whom the vaccines don't take, and blindness, death, and the other lovely consequences of *ENTRIELY PREVENTABLE* childhood illnesses are at stake.
In a centrally-managed environment, I would hope the admins are pushing down Java patches to the machines already.
What does your token anti-vax friend say while they pick up their teeth with broken fingers? If you haven't fucking punched them right in the face, you aren't doing your civic duty.
Trouble is, the newer MP3 jukeboxes pull down tracks from a VAST media library somewhere offsite. It takes some doing to find a major-label track that isn't available in my experience.
A ninite.com auto-installer will continue to grab and install the latest version of whatever it's set for - just keep the icon around instead of trashing it at the end of your system build.
How about a human driving a backhoe?
You have to ask?
Like The Wizard of Oz?
Hells yeah. The difference is House/NCIS/Burn Notice/Law & Order: Prognosis Negative vs. Days of Our Lives/TV News.
Well, that and the lighting.
If it's not a VFX-heavy show, the film prints might be mastered from 2K footage.