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When things are broken, they're...well....broken. The safety systems may or may not be affected. I think the issue in this case is that broken at 65 miles per hour is one thing, and broken at 205 miles per hour is something else entirely.
I think if a car that was moving that fast being propelled by four independent motors suddenly found itself being propelled by thrust that was no longer balanced and centered -- I wouldn't want to be down range for quite some distance.
If your going to have a failure at 205 mph, I don't think it matters if your being propelled by unbalanced thrust or a traditional Internal Combustion engine. It's going to be bad.
Well, the way I see it the Ares I is all about a heavy lifting body. That's somthing the shuttle really wasn't ever really capeable of. So to that end I'm very happy.
Going back to the moon isn't simply to say we could. We no longer have all the experianced people from the 60's and early 70's who ran the first Apollo missions. If we can't make it back to the moon then there is no reason to try for mars. To do a mars mission properly, we have to make sure we still can make it to the moon.
Between ARES for Lifting and VASMIR for going. We could be looking at very intresting time for exploration.
Between the stupidity in general of hurtling someone out to Mars to do things machines to do very well without him...
Let me think about this for a second. You insist on sending automated machines, that have to be preprogrammed by men for any and all possible problems that can occur on a remote mission to another planet millions of miles away, and you expect it to outperform a being who by design is able to react to unpredictable environments and abstract situations?
You Obviously haven't had much experience with automated machinery have you?
Hmmm... Software Companies Pulling the Plug...
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Is it just me or is letting the software companies have a 'Back Door' Just scream 'Security Problem'. (Doesn't that mean that they have to have a way to access thier code through your fire wall?)
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Slashdot has been a wonderful place to get news and information on IT, Technology and Geekdom in general. We will miss you. I believe I've been reading /. posts since sometime around 1997!
When things are broken, they're ...well....broken. The safety systems may or may not be affected. I think the issue in this case is that broken at 65 miles per hour is one thing, and broken at 205 miles per hour is something else entirely.
I think if a car that was moving that fast being propelled by four independent motors suddenly found itself being propelled by thrust that was no longer balanced and centered -- I wouldn't want to be down range for quite some distance.
If your going to have a failure at 205 mph, I don't think it matters if your being propelled by unbalanced thrust or a traditional Internal Combustion engine. It's going to be bad.
You are correct, and I stand corrected.
Well, the way I see it the Ares I is all about a heavy lifting body. That's somthing the shuttle really wasn't ever really capeable of. So to that end I'm very happy.
Going back to the moon isn't simply to say we could. We no longer have all the experianced people from the 60's and early 70's who ran the first Apollo missions. If we can't make it back to the moon then there is no reason to try for mars. To do a mars mission properly, we have to make sure we still can make it to the moon.
Between ARES for Lifting and VASMIR for going. We could be looking at very intresting time for exploration.
If only 'bad' software went to CA to die. On occasion they kill perfectly good software.
Hey, maybe this would be a good opportunity to get a Full Throttle movie!
"When I'm on the road, I'm invincible..."
Unfortunantly, that isn't all that bad a bet.
Let me think about this for a second. You insist on sending automated machines, that have to be preprogrammed by men for any and all possible problems that can occur on a remote mission to another planet millions of miles away, and you expect it to outperform a being who by design is able to react to unpredictable environments and abstract situations?
You Obviously haven't had much experience with automated machinery have you?
Is it just me or is letting the software companies have a 'Back Door' Just scream 'Security Problem'. (Doesn't that mean that they have to have a way to access thier code through your fire wall?)