Also, cosmology has nothing to with contemporary space travel in any case. Cosmologists are not concerned with such puny items as solar systems, not to mention out Solar System's planets.
Yep, an airplane landing in Melbourne from Tokyo will have it way harder than the airplane landing from Canberra. The local weather conditions always change when Mother Nature detects a long-distance flight./s
The video claims the LLTV had no computers. In fact, it had a fly-by-wire computer system.
Also, it's not a space-bound launch vehicle re-entering from hypersonic velocity at Mach 8, which is the novel aspect here. I don't think that anyone ever claimed that it was the first time someone shortly hovered for a while.
Successes at powered landings on other bodies of the Solar System predate successes at powered landings on Earth from space, so you'd expect the landings on other bodies of the Solar System to be more successful today. But in fact, even though the landings elsewhere got better over time, they're still not perfect. Meanwhile powered landings on Earth have gotten better withing years instead of decades. It might have something to do with the frequency of attempts, though.
Or alternatively, this is the first step down the road to having a process which enables decisions to be made about what new features to be bought into python, following the departure of the original language developer from that role.
Because languages designed by committees and "steering councils" are so popular compared to the works of focused individuals. Oh, wait, they aren't...
True, but that's why usually you don't build a single lane, presumably. Likewise I strongly doubt that there will be only a single tunnel available for a connection between any two points, especially when the point is supposed to be low cost per km.
Lastly, Elon talked about how average subway speeds aren't that fast but I feel like he is massively underestimating the throughput capacity of subway systems, For example NYC's Times Square subway station sees an average of 179,000 passengers per day. Assuming TBC deploys their 16 person pods they've proposed and everyone of those pods is filled to capacity, that represents more than 11,000 pod stops in a location per day, or a pod using the station every 7 seconds, 24 hours a day, that's assuming you have the exact same demand at 11:30PM as you do at 5:00PM on the way home from work
I presume that the point isn't to replace the Times Square subway station with one tiny entry point into just one tunnel? That would seem to completely defeat the logic of making a larger number of smaller tunnels.
Yes, the average distance to the nearest satellite can change from network to network, so it helps to know what constellation project one is talking about.
If RAM held its value, there would be no need to have a distinction between RAM and "Disk". Computers would boot far faster. Databases would be right on the memory bus, with no need to "sync" to reliable storage. Many, many applications and services could be faster, simpler and more reliable.
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Also, cosmology has nothing to with contemporary space travel in any case. Cosmologists are not concerned with such puny items as solar systems, not to mention out Solar System's planets.
Yep, an airplane landing in Melbourne from Tokyo will have it way harder than the airplane landing from Canberra. The local weather conditions always change when Mother Nature detects a long-distance flight. /s
No, I realized instead that distance is not a factor for landing success.
The video claims the LLTV had no computers. In fact, it had a fly-by-wire computer system.
Also, it's not a space-bound launch vehicle re-entering from hypersonic velocity at Mach 8, which is the novel aspect here. I don't think that anyone ever claimed that it was the first time someone shortly hovered for a while.
Successes at powered landings on other bodies of the Solar System predate successes at powered landings on Earth from space, so you'd expect the landings on other bodies of the Solar System to be more successful today. But in fact, even though the landings elsewhere got better over time, they're still not perfect. Meanwhile powered landings on Earth have gotten better withing years instead of decades. It might have something to do with the frequency of attempts, though.
What does this have to do with SpaceX landings? (They're still more successful than Martian probes, BTW.)
Teach people analysis and algebra and stats, not Javascript and PHP?
....a standard committee that rides the coattails of Messrs K&R?
I said "popular", not "pervasive"
Several ISP's are MITM'ing your data
How is that even legal with HTTPS traffic, for example?
If it doesn't distinguish that, why is this "encrypted child porn problem" instead of "child porn problem"?
Or alternatively, this is the first step down the road to having a process which enables decisions to be made about what new features to be bought into python, following the departure of the original language developer from that role.
Because languages designed by committees and "steering councils" are so popular compared to the works of focused individuals. Oh, wait, they aren't...
And them bill the culprits for damages and losses... :-D
True, but that's why usually you don't build a single lane, presumably. Likewise I strongly doubt that there will be only a single tunnel available for a connection between any two points, especially when the point is supposed to be low cost per km.
Has the rail engineer seen highway traffic?
Lastly, Elon talked about how average subway speeds aren't that fast but I feel like he is massively underestimating the throughput capacity of subway systems, For example NYC's Times Square subway station sees an average of 179,000 passengers per day. Assuming TBC deploys their 16 person pods they've proposed and everyone of those pods is filled to capacity, that represents more than 11,000 pod stops in a location per day, or a pod using the station every 7 seconds, 24 hours a day, that's assuming you have the exact same demand at 11:30PM as you do at 5:00PM on the way home from work
I presume that the point isn't to replace the Times Square subway station with one tiny entry point into just one tunnel? That would seem to completely defeat the logic of making a larger number of smaller tunnels.
Costs != prices. Why underprice your competitors at the expense of your own profit margin?
Yes, the average distance to the nearest satellite can change from network to network, so it helps to know what constellation project one is talking about.
Technically, there *should* be one, in line with the Sun moving along the main sequence. It's fairly slow, though.
I don't see how it *needs* to "affect the distance to space or the cost to put bent pipes up there". Those things can evolve perfectly independently.
We could do much worse betting on a vanguard
You certainly could!
Obvious trollbait is obvious.
High broadband prices in Africa to boot.
Is any of those things related to communication electronics?
If RAM held its value, there would be no need to have a distinction between RAM and "Disk". Computers would boot far faster. Databases would be right on the memory bus, with no need to "sync" to reliable storage. Many, many applications and services could be faster, simpler and more reliable.
The Machine
IBM i
I'm pretty sure there's a lot more examples of prototypes and concepts, too.