Surprisingly not, In our typical American attitude, we're very concerned about the here and now, and history has very little impact on the majority of the population. You would think events like Antietam and Gettysburg would still be remembered; the loss of life was staggering, and the fact that the country was able to survive the Civil War is amazing. But even events that happened 35 years ago, both at home and in Vietnam, are being forgotten.
What really concerns me is that in 50 years or so (and probably sooner), there will be people that will not care one bit about what happened on September 11th; it will just be another data that they have to memorize from their history books.
Worse than that, though, will be the movie producer in 2075 who decided that 9/11 could make a great story of love and loss starring the late 21st century equivalents of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
It's not necessarily cold weather, though certainly that was the was the primary cause of the failure of the O-rings on the Challenger's boosters
IIRC, I don't believe it was overly cold in Florida when the Columbia launched in Jan 2003. However, the fuel in the external tank is kept at an extremely cold temperature. At any rate, if you watch any of the footage of the old Apollo launches, one of the most prominent features is the amount of ice that broke of the rocket at liftoff.
Shedding ice is not an uncommon event during launch, so it stands to reason that shedding ice-soaked insulation would happen as well. In retrospect, it's surprising this didn't happen earlier.
What about the health nuts like me that don't take in any caffeine/carbonated drinks?
I found myself thinking the same thing; I don't drink too many soft drinks. As tempted as I am to buy a few bottles of Pepsi for $1.09 or whatever it is, it's only a one-in-three shot that I win a song, right? Maybe I'll just go buy three songs instead.
Now what would really rock my world is if iTMS would have some sort of promotion with Guinness. My hard drive would be overflowing with.M4P files within a week. Take that, liver!!!
The programmer says: "No, no, no! First, we have to push the car up to the top of the hill and see if the brakes fail again!"
I thought it was:
The programmer says: "No, no, no! First, we have to push the car up to the top of the hill, close all the windows, and see if the brakes fail again!"
IIRC, the Hubble is on a completely different orbital plane than the ISS, and NASA is now taking the approach that once the shuttle launches, it will always be in a close enough orbit to the ISS that they could dock there in an emergency.
It's not possible to carry the amount of fuel it would take to reach both the ISS and Hubble on the current shuttle.
Off Topic: I just finished watching HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" miniseries that they produced a few years back. It was enlightening, inspiring, and amazing to see how much NASA did in such short time, in addition to how much risk was involved. Will someone please tell exactly when NASA lost their balls?
I'm trying to figure out how typing in the URL will make it things magically "more secure" for the non-geek, non-/. reader. I'm just picturing my parents trying to type in a full URL to some auction on ebay. I can already hear the screams of "Ahhh...screw it!!!! I don't care if I get spyware" coming from my father
I'll admit, I never thought much of these "it costs a compnay $x million a year because of spam," until I was tasked with monitoring a company's spam filter.
Seeing just how much got caught, and how much still got through, made me a believer. The company I was at probably paid people an average of $10-12/hour...not too much. But some of these people, who were far from computer savvy, were easily getting 300-400 spam messages a day in their inbox. They never called to complain, they just deleted them.
Using a simple average of say $20/hr in total emplyoment costs for employees, and assuming that it takes the average user 5 seconds a message to determine that its spam and delete it, that averaged about $10 worth of cost for each employee, per day, to delete spam. Multiply that by 2000 employees, and you start looking at $20,000 PER DAY.
It definitely starts to add up quickly...
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I think you mean three accidents. Columbia, Challenger, Apollo 1.
And Apollo 13 was known as a "successful failure." But everyone did survive...
Surprisingly not, In our typical American attitude, we're very concerned about the here and now, and history has very little impact on the majority of the population. You would think events like Antietam and Gettysburg would still be remembered; the loss of life was staggering, and the fact that the country was able to survive the Civil War is amazing. But even events that happened 35 years ago, both at home and in Vietnam, are being forgotten.
What really concerns me is that in 50 years or so (and probably sooner), there will be people that will not care one bit about what happened on September 11th; it will just be another data that they have to memorize from their history books.
Worse than that, though, will be the movie producer in 2075 who decided that 9/11 could make a great story of love and loss starring the late 21st century equivalents of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
Other than cold weather what's the commonality?
It's not necessarily cold weather, though certainly that was the was the primary cause of the failure of the O-rings on the Challenger's boosters
IIRC, I don't believe it was overly cold in Florida when the Columbia launched in Jan 2003. However, the fuel in the external tank is kept at an extremely cold temperature. At any rate, if you watch any of the footage of the old Apollo launches, one of the most prominent features is the amount of ice that broke of the rocket at liftoff.
Shedding ice is not an uncommon event during launch, so it stands to reason that shedding ice-soaked insulation would happen as well. In retrospect, it's surprising this didn't happen earlier.
What about the health nuts like me that don't take in any caffeine/carbonated drinks?
.M4P files within a week. Take that, liver!!!
I found myself thinking the same thing; I don't drink too many soft drinks. As tempted as I am to buy a few bottles of Pepsi for $1.09 or whatever it is, it's only a one-in-three shot that I win a song, right? Maybe I'll just go buy three songs instead.
Now what would really rock my world is if iTMS would have some sort of promotion with Guinness. My hard drive would be overflowing with
The programmer says: "No, no, no! First, we have to push the car up to the top of the hill and see if the brakes fail again!"
I thought it was:
The programmer says: "No, no, no! First, we have to push the car up to the top of the hill, close all the windows, and see if the brakes fail again!"
IIRC, the Hubble is on a completely different orbital plane than the ISS, and NASA is now taking the approach that once the shuttle launches, it will always be in a close enough orbit to the ISS that they could dock there in an emergency.
It's not possible to carry the amount of fuel it would take to reach both the ISS and Hubble on the current shuttle.
Off Topic: I just finished watching HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" miniseries that they produced a few years back. It was enlightening, inspiring, and amazing to see how much NASA did in such short time, in addition to how much risk was involved. Will someone please tell exactly when NASA lost their balls?
I'm trying to figure out how typing in the URL will make it things magically "more secure" for the non-geek, non-/. reader. I'm just picturing my parents trying to type in a full URL to some auction on ebay. I can already hear the screams of "Ahhh...screw it!!!! I don't care if I get spyware" coming from my father
Of course, Dad's not too bright...
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Tired of unsightly deficits? Vote Howard Dean [deanforamerica.com]!
Seriously, how am I supposed to trust a guy to run a country when his campaign is almost out of money after Iowa and New Hampshire???
Hey, I live in my parent's basement, and I don't run Windows or Linux. I run Windows and Linux...
+1 Funny. Someone in Pullman, WA capable of reading and writing...
I'll admit, I never thought much of these "it costs a compnay $x million a year because of spam," until I was tasked with monitoring a company's spam filter. Seeing just how much got caught, and how much still got through, made me a believer. The company I was at probably paid people an average of $10-12/hour...not too much. But some of these people, who were far from computer savvy, were easily getting 300-400 spam messages a day in their inbox. They never called to complain, they just deleted them. Using a simple average of say $20/hr in total emplyoment costs for employees, and assuming that it takes the average user 5 seconds a message to determine that its spam and delete it, that averaged about $10 worth of cost for each employee, per day, to delete spam. Multiply that by 2000 employees, and you start looking at $20,000 PER DAY. It definitely starts to add up quickly...