Asteroids, specifically ones with metals, water, or volatiles are a prime target for mining. Any serious exploration of the solar system, or attempts at constructing habitation in space will require manufacturing capability in space, which will require loads of raw materials. Near Earth asteroids, such as the ones in the Apollo, Amor, and Aten belts may be easier to reach than the moon.
Also, I usually make a separate/boot partition of about 20 MB, but when I tried to format it using ReiserFS, I got an error. I gave up and just made separate/,/usr,/var, and/home partitions of appropriate sizes and everthing worked fine. I made all these partitions ReiserFS.
From the ReiserFS FAQ:
Can reiserfs be used as a root partition? Yes, but you must mount/boot with the -notail option.
I havent used reiserfs yet, so im not sure exactly how to help, but this may be what youre looking for.
I believe the technical reason for this was that the MPL had sensors in its landing gear to stop the rockets when they hit something, such as ground. Unfortunately, they managed to trigger from contact with the atmosphere. Both systems were tested out (reentry and landing) independently, but due to time and budget constraints - they were not able to run end-to-end testing.
Too bad we cant hold the government to laws similar to what theyre passing in virginia.
Imagine: "Speaking as a representative of your constituency, your vote towards this unfavorable bill has resulted in your immediate impeachment, and a team of arsonists have been dispatched to burn down your office."
somewhat OT, but here goes: i recently built wine, vintage 2000/01/30, and it works great. However, i dont exactly like the way wine works with my windowmanager. a wine window will be always on-top essentially, although if i open a drawer in gnome, all wine windows get dumped to the bottom of the focus layer. Also, some wine programs will minimize - and their icon wont show up on the desktop. (never to be seen again). So, i can run programs through wine, but i have to click on my gnome panel to regain the focus for the rest of my X apps. Weird, annoying, and id like it fixed. Could wine apps eventually be made to run inside a regular window?
using WindowMaker (latest) and gnome 1.1.2
cheers to the wine team;)
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I always wondered where they got the venture capital..:}
if it were compact enough that it could become part of a wearable computer. it could be a great addition to the arsenel of equipment for the blind. It would probably sound like a MUD though.. hehe.
There are a lot of resources to be had in our Sol system. The moon for example, is covered with patches of a mineral known as illmenite. This is a compound of titanium, iron, and oxygen. There is a lot of it. As well as aluminum, silicon, and other useful elements. The asteroid belt is another source of riches. According to "Mining the Sky" by John S Lewis, if all the minerals in the asteroid belt were mined and sold at todays prices, it would equate to about.. 500 billion for every person on earth. As well, it is theorized that two of Jupiter's Lagrange points may contain more material than the entire asteroid belt. Essentially, we could give everybody their own mountain of platinum to sit on.. that is a rather strong reason for exploration and mining of our solar system.
I got started with slack 3.0 about a year ago.. learned to use linux through manpages, irc, and 'learning experiences' (read - breaking things)
Since then, ive used a 1.something of openlinux, slack 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, enoch.6, redhat 5.2, and mandrake 5.3 through 6.0 I originally decided to go with mandrake, since i was planning to get kde for RH anyways. ive found that mandrake typically is much less buggy than redhat, and theyve done better jobs with setting up the desktop and several other small conveniences. I personally dont think that mandrake is simply copying off of redhat, because most of the stuff in the development version of mandrake is compiled from sources, usually on the same day the updates are released. Theyre keeping up a remarkable pace of development on their distro, and i applaud that. Also, they are working on a few projects of their own, such as panoramix - a graphical installation tool, and diskdrake - a free clone of partition magic (something like that anyways.. its still in the eat-harddrives stage)
At present, im running mandrake on two of my desktop boxes (router is running slack). The development version of mandrake, aka cooker, has new and upgraded packages practically every day, which lets you stay relatively bleeding-edge with a minimum hassle. i like mandrake-gnu-linux.
As well, I would recommend you reading 'Mining the Sky' by John Lewis. Mars really isnt that worthwhile of a place, yet. We should start by building mining, farming, and manufacturing operations on the moon and near-earth asteroids. A Mars mission would require a rather heavy spacecraft, which would be much easier to produce out of lunar ore.
We should concentrate on setting up an industrial and agricultrual infrastructure around the earth and moon before we head after the other planets. Once we get the ball rolling, it wont be long before everybody and their uncle has their own cheap spacecraft:)
I am familliar with the artemis society, yes. There are others too, like www.permanent.com and half a dozen others i dont know off the top of my head. The OSM is similar to those, but it will operate in a different way. For starters, anybody can contribute to the OSM in terms of ideas/resources, and anybody can ride in it as well. One thing ill bring up now, the purpose of the osm is to allow people to get into space so long as they have an adventurous spirit, good health, and they pay 90-100% of their total wealth to the osm. (rockets do cost money) That may sound a little extreme, but anybody can pay it, and were looking for pioneers here. Not space tourists.
The OSM is more of a conduit for space access. someone could start a business repairing satellites, and go through the osm to get up there. Similarly, any person who wants to take part in building the new frontier can go. And even organizations like artemis could hitch a ride with the OSM. Thats how I see it.
The 'open source' aspect of this will be applied to the engineering. The OSM web site will allow people to submit designs and work with existing ones in a bazaar fashion. The good ideas will get picked up on, and eventually one idea will be decided upon as the vehicle of choice to carry us up into orbit. (I already have a fairly solid idea if anybody wants to hear it - pmarsh@alaska.net)
expect to see the OSM site up and running soon. I would have finished it sooner, but im crap with web design.:\
I say this with feelings of despair and impotence: It seems that the entire future of space colonization is in such a 'dream' state. Sure, its nice sending out probes to give us information a decade down the road, but do we really have to wait that long before we go?
To put it succinctly, I want to be a space pioneer. Im sure a lot of other people want to as well.. I often see people talking about how they long for a trip to space, and wish that they could do something about it. I think that the time is ripe for a revolution..
I propose this: an organization that imitates the model of any open source software project, with the goal of designing and ordering the construction of the hardware necessary to get people into space, and plan out missions to which this organizaiton will devote its resources. Essentially, we design it, we have it built, we pay for it, and we fly in it. Sound plausible?
This is the project that I am undertaking, which I call the 'Open Space Movement'. Currently, its in an experimental stage; I dont know how many people would go for this. I am constructing the website to this, which would serve as a forum and drawing board for those interested. (i do need help with perl/sql/html through.. if anybody is interested in helping)
If anybody wants more info on this, contact me at pmarsh@alaska.net
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Asteroids, specifically ones with metals, water, or volatiles are a prime target for mining. Any serious exploration of the solar system, or attempts at constructing habitation in space will require manufacturing capability in space, which will require loads of raw materials. Near Earth asteroids, such as the ones in the Apollo, Amor, and Aten belts may be easier to reach than the moon.
Also, I usually make a separate /boot partition of about 20 MB, but when I tried to format it using ReiserFS, I got an error. I gave up and just made separate /, /usr, /var, and /home partitions of appropriate sizes and everthing worked fine. I made all these partitions ReiserFS.
/boot with the -notail option.
From the ReiserFS FAQ:
Can reiserfs be used as a root partition?
Yes, but you must mount
I havent used reiserfs yet, so im not sure exactly how to help, but this may be what youre looking for.
I believe the technical reason for this was that the MPL had sensors in its landing gear to stop the rockets when they hit something, such as ground. Unfortunately, they managed to trigger from contact with the atmosphere. Both systems were tested out (reentry and landing) independently, but due to time and budget constraints - they were not able to run end-to-end testing.
SNAFU
One hermetically sealed clean room.. $750,000
One pen laser $20
One roll of Scotch Tape $3
One more way to piss of the MPAA Priceless
Moron Confused by Sun Equipment
Too bad we cant hold the government to laws similar to what theyre passing in virginia.
Imagine: "Speaking as a representative of your constituency, your vote towards this unfavorable bill has resulted in your immediate impeachment, and a team of arsonists have been dispatched to burn down your office."
Wonder how they would feel about that.
my gawd.. that game is an epileptic's nightmare.
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hehe
check out PAN - the PimpAss News reader ;)
(works on linux - uses gtk)
get it at superpimp.org
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somewhat OT, but here goes:
;)
i recently built wine, vintage 2000/01/30, and it works great. However, i dont exactly like the way wine works with my windowmanager. a wine window will be always on-top essentially, although if i open a drawer in gnome, all wine windows get dumped to the bottom of the focus layer. Also, some wine programs will minimize - and their icon wont show up on the desktop. (never to be seen again). So, i can run programs through wine, but i have to click on my gnome panel to regain the focus for the rest of my X apps. Weird, annoying, and id like it fixed. Could wine apps eventually be made to run inside a regular window?
using WindowMaker (latest) and gnome 1.1.2
cheers to the wine team
I always wondered where they got the venture capital.. :}
if it were compact enough that it could become part of a wearable computer. it could be a great addition to the arsenel of equipment for the blind. It would probably sound like a MUD though.. hehe.
I feel that i should bring this up..
There are a lot of resources to be had in our Sol system. The moon for example, is covered with patches of a mineral known as illmenite. This is a compound of titanium, iron, and oxygen. There is a lot of it. As well as aluminum, silicon, and other useful elements. The asteroid belt is another source of riches. According to "Mining the Sky" by John S Lewis, if all the minerals in the asteroid belt were mined and sold at todays prices, it would equate to about.. 500 billion for every person on earth. As well, it is theorized that two of Jupiter's Lagrange points may contain more material than the entire asteroid belt.
Essentially, we could give everybody their own mountain of platinum to sit on.. that is a rather strong reason for exploration and mining of our solar system.
you got 6.1b - the prerelease
I got started with slack 3.0 about a year ago.. learned to use linux through manpages, irc, and 'learning experiences' (read - breaking things)
.6, redhat 5.2, and mandrake 5.3 through 6.0 I originally decided to go with mandrake, since i was planning to get kde for RH anyways. ive found that mandrake typically is much less buggy than redhat, and theyve done better jobs with setting up the desktop and several other small conveniences. I personally dont think that mandrake is simply copying off of redhat, because most of the stuff in the development version of mandrake is compiled from sources, usually on the same day the updates are released. Theyre keeping up a remarkable pace of development on their distro, and i applaud that. Also, they are working on a few projects of their own, such as panoramix - a graphical installation tool, and diskdrake - a free clone of partition magic (something like that anyways.. its still in the eat-harddrives stage)
Since then, ive used a 1.something of openlinux, slack 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, enoch
At present, im running mandrake on two of my desktop boxes (router is running slack). The development version of mandrake, aka cooker, has new and upgraded packages practically every day, which lets you stay relatively bleeding-edge with a minimum hassle. i like mandrake-gnu-linux.
As well, I would recommend you reading 'Mining the Sky' by John Lewis. Mars really isnt that worthwhile of a place, yet. We should start by building mining, farming, and manufacturing operations on the moon and near-earth asteroids. A Mars mission would require a rather heavy spacecraft, which would be much easier to produce out of lunar ore.
:)
We should concentrate on setting up an industrial and agricultrual infrastructure around the earth and moon before we head after the other planets. Once we get the ball rolling, it wont be long before everybody and their uncle has their own cheap spacecraft
I am familliar with the artemis society, yes. There are others too, like www.permanent.com and half a dozen others i dont know off the top of my head. The OSM is similar to those, but it will operate in a different way. For starters, anybody can contribute to the OSM in terms of ideas/resources, and anybody can ride in it as well. One thing ill bring up now, the purpose of the osm is to allow people to get into space so long as they have an adventurous spirit, good health, and they pay 90-100% of their total wealth to the osm. (rockets do cost money) That may sound a little extreme, but anybody can pay it, and were looking for pioneers here. Not space tourists.
:\
The OSM is more of a conduit for space access. someone could start a business repairing satellites, and go through the osm to get up there. Similarly, any person who wants to take part in building the new frontier can go. And even organizations like artemis could hitch a ride with the OSM. Thats how I see it.
The 'open source' aspect of this will be applied to the engineering. The OSM web site will allow people to submit designs and work with existing ones in a bazaar fashion. The good ideas will get picked up on, and eventually one idea will be decided upon as the vehicle of choice to carry us up into orbit. (I already have a fairly solid idea if anybody wants to hear it - pmarsh@alaska.net)
expect to see the OSM site up and running soon. I would have finished it sooner, but im crap with web design.
This is off topic, but may be interesting..
I say this with feelings of despair and impotence: It seems that the entire future of space colonization is in such a 'dream' state. Sure, its nice sending out probes to give us information a decade down the road, but do we really have to wait that long before we go?
To put it succinctly, I want to be a space pioneer. Im sure a lot of other people want to as well.. I often see people talking about how they long for a trip to space, and wish that they could do something about it. I think that the time is ripe for a revolution..
I propose this: an organization that imitates the model of any open source software project, with the goal of designing and ordering the construction of the hardware necessary to get people into space, and plan out missions to which this organizaiton will devote its resources. Essentially, we design it, we have it built, we pay for it, and we fly in it. Sound plausible?
This is the project that I am undertaking, which I call the 'Open Space Movement'. Currently, its in an experimental stage; I dont know how many people would go for this. I am constructing the website to this, which would serve as a forum and drawing board for those interested. (i do need help with perl/sql/html through.. if anybody is interested in helping)
If anybody wants more info on this, contact me at pmarsh@alaska.net
Did you know that black holes have no hair?
A quote worthy of John Archibald Wheeler, If im not mistaken.