Yes, people will make mistakes. If they also immediately admit their mistakes and try to ensure they don't happen again, people will still trust them. That is a sign of integrity.
Covering up mistakes and abusing your authority to put the blame on your victim is a sign that you have no integrity.
You cannot be trusted and cannot function as a public servant without integrity.
The customer has an "always on internet connection." He's upheld his end of the bargain. It's the company that's not providing anything for it to connect to.
Vandenberg was proposed as an alternate launch site for polar orbiting flights, as it allowed overwater launches to the south. No such launches ever occurred, however. I don't believe Vandenberg was ever considered as a landing site.
Even braking into lunar orbit then departing lunar orbit, along with that required to lift the filled fuel container to lunar orbit, causes required delta V to exceed what it would take to simply fly to Mars.
Luna is NOT a useful stepping stone for any current or near-future (viable within 30 years) propulsion technology.
The point of most patents is that they do something with the law of nature. The patents in question are for essentially discovering the law of nature and not letting anyone else do anything with it.
Oh, sorry, I was unaware that you had developed a fusion rocket that would be able to use He3 as fuel and it would be ready to start making flights in the next couple of years.
It does look that way upon casual inspection, but space flight is not always intuitive. I don't have my charts in front of me, or I'd give you the numbers.
To clarify, before somebody asks, it actually requires less delta V to go from Earth to Mars than it does from Earth to our moon, due to the Martian atmosphere allowing aerobraking (whether for orbital insertion or direct landings) and parachute-assisted landings.
Actually, it doesn't make sense to stop to refuel on the moon even if we could manufacture fuel there. It requires considerably more delta V to take off from Earth, land on the moon, take off again and fly to Mars than it does to just take off from Earth and fly to Mars. Even if the fuel was free (delivered by aliens or God) and just sitting in tanks on the moon ready to use, it would make no sense to land there to pick it up.
It's sort of how the network 'works', at a fundamental level, and it works really well if everybody basically trusts their peers and knows what they're doing.
No, there weren't. There were exactly three more Apollo flights planned. Those are the three Saturn V lawn ornaments scattered around NASA centers. Those weren't models or mock-ups; they were fully operational, man-rated moon-rockets that could have been used with little additional expenditure. Nearly all of the funds that could have potentially been "saved" were already spent; the hardware was already bought and built.
The program was killed not to "free up money" for Vietnam, but to kill a program that nobody in power really wanted but couldn't eliminate until it succeeded without appearing to spit on JFK's grave.
No, the Chinese government does not desire to simply cut off all access to the outside world. If they wanted to do that, they could do it themselves, today.
They want access, and more, they need access, as it is essential to them growing their economy.
What they actually want is total control over that access. And now they are releasing yet another poison out into the rest of the world. Shutting them down would be a very good thing. Payback is a bitch.
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You must not have walked around a store lately. I see big boxes all the time. Must not have ordered anything through Amazon, either.
My recent PC game purchases (few, though they may be) all came with the DVD-style case packaged in a big cardboard box.
Yes, people will make mistakes. If they also immediately admit their mistakes and try to ensure they don't happen again, people will still trust them. That is a sign of integrity.
Covering up mistakes and abusing your authority to put the blame on your victim is a sign that you have no integrity.
You cannot be trusted and cannot function as a public servant without integrity.
If they're trying to save the trees, are they also getting rid of the huge, gigantic boxes that will now contain nothing but a disc?
ISPs still provide email?
The customer has an "always on internet connection." He's upheld his end of the bargain. It's the company that's not providing anything for it to connect to.
I suggest you revise your definition of "moron."
Vandenberg was proposed as an alternate launch site for polar orbiting flights, as it allowed overwater launches to the south. No such launches ever occurred, however. I don't believe Vandenberg was ever considered as a landing site.
Even braking into lunar orbit then departing lunar orbit, along with that required to lift the filled fuel container to lunar orbit, causes required delta V to exceed what it would take to simply fly to Mars.
Luna is NOT a useful stepping stone for any current or near-future (viable within 30 years) propulsion technology.
The point of most patents is that they do something with the law of nature. The patents in question are for essentially discovering the law of nature and not letting anyone else do anything with it.
Oh, sorry, I was unaware that you had developed a fusion rocket that would be able to use He3 as fuel and it would be ready to start making flights in the next couple of years.
It does look that way upon casual inspection, but space flight is not always intuitive. I don't have my charts in front of me, or I'd give you the numbers.
To clarify, before somebody asks, it actually requires less delta V to go from Earth to Mars than it does from Earth to our moon, due to the Martian atmosphere allowing aerobraking (whether for orbital insertion or direct landings) and parachute-assisted landings.
Actually, it doesn't make sense to stop to refuel on the moon even if we could manufacture fuel there. It requires considerably more delta V to take off from Earth, land on the moon, take off again and fly to Mars than it does to just take off from Earth and fly to Mars. Even if the fuel was free (delivered by aliens or God) and just sitting in tanks on the moon ready to use, it would make no sense to land there to pick it up.
What do you suggest? CP/M?
It's sort of how the network 'works', at a fundamental level, and it works really well if everybody basically trusts their peers and knows what they're doing.
You left out "...and are not malicious."
No, there weren't. There were exactly three more Apollo flights planned. Those are the three Saturn V lawn ornaments scattered around NASA centers. Those weren't models or mock-ups; they were fully operational, man-rated moon-rockets that could have been used with little additional expenditure. Nearly all of the funds that could have potentially been "saved" were already spent; the hardware was already bought and built.
The program was killed not to "free up money" for Vietnam, but to kill a program that nobody in power really wanted but couldn't eliminate until it succeeded without appearing to spit on JFK's grave.
You obviously were neither alive during the 1960s nor are a student of history.
May? Astronaut careers may stall without any manned spacecraft for them to fly? How insightful.
In other news, the careers of professional football players may stall due to the NFL's decision to stop buying footballs.
If the legal copyright holder is seeding the file, then it is in fact a legal distribution and not an infringement at all.
I just checked it and it says something really impolite about Evan's mom.
What does it say now?
How about now?
You're citing a Wikipedia reference? Hang on a second... OK, what does it say now?
Ask Neville Chamberlain how a policy of doing nothing works out.
No, the Chinese government does not desire to simply cut off all access to the outside world. If they wanted to do that, they could do it themselves, today.
They want access, and more, they need access, as it is essential to them growing their economy.
What they actually want is total control over that access. And now they are releasing yet another poison out into the rest of the world. Shutting them down would be a very good thing. Payback is a bitch.
Are you drunk?