Titan IV almost reached the shuttle's capacity of 60,000 lbs to LEO (which has never been used afaik). Delta IV heavy exceeds the space shuttle's capacity. and those are just American rockets.
It is irrelevant that the space shuttle is capable of lifting its own massive weight in addition to a useful payload since the whole point of the exercise is to lift the useful payload. (of which the people are counted as being part of) The fact that it must lift so much more to accomplish this is not a positive.
Apollo/skylab and mir made much more sense for a manned space station approach. Send the pieces up on unmanned rockets and if assembly is necessary, use the station itself to complete that assembly. No need for complicated heat shield tiles to require inspection and repair between each and every mission if you just throwaway a "cheap" ablative shield every go. (of course that requires a smaller shield which is less exposed to danger during the violent launch)
I'll even go so far as to suggest that an RLV might be appropriate for unmanned launches if it is cost effective, but where safety is a concern, the principle of KISS rules supreme. Make it small, make it simple and make it fresh every time. We shouldn't have to deal with age related problems like fatigue life and corrosion in a manned vehicle if we can avoid it.
Isn't england just part of the UK? If we're going to compare sub-regions, how about we see how boswash or new england is doing compared to france and "the england"
You said it yourself, humans haven't just eliminated the predators, we've supplanted them. The human population is not the problem. The human unwillingness to fulful the role of the missing predators is. We should be eating the animals that aren't being eaten by packs of wolves anymore. Your anecdote about the diseased deer just proves the point: we need more predators like you to keep the deer population in check.
Ok he's saying perl can use C libraries but C can't use perl objects. So it's not so much a problem that the other languages aren't cross compatable, it's just that perl is and they aren't.
The closest analogy I can come up with is the english language. There are things you can say in english that you can't say in other languages, but english is a mutt language so there's a pretty good chance that foreign idioms have already been assimilated and many of the foreign words as well. So technically anything you can express in french, german, spanish etc, you can express equally well in english, but you can't go the other way. Is that a deficiency of the other languages (who I might add are more "strongly typed" than english)? or of english?
It would seem to me that it is actually neither, it is a deficiency of the speaker not to have access to the constructs of several. It just so happens that as english speakers learn other languages, english is also improved.
Your post suggests a possibility that may be too grisly to consider:
If all you need is a tongue swap to get the needed cells, why not extrapolate "you are what you eat" to the ultimate conclusion that the best food is to "eat what you are" You plug your own hair into the carnematic and pop out a you-steak in a kind of reverse soylent green.
OTOH, a popping a skin graft out of the carnematic when you burn yourself trying to properly cook "fillet du moi" for your girlfriend would be handy...
At the very least a housecat is a combination space-heater and emergency protein ration. Also, consider the process: Money -> food -[cat]-> poop. Simplifying, the cat is a machine to convert your worthless money into valuable poop.
Mexico city is completely surrounded by mountains. It could at one time be reasonably described as a bowl of smog soup. What's the geography like surrounding San Francisco? Isn't it pretty hilly?
Although it seems to me they got most of their "awards" off the snopes page, can you really call it a darwin award event if it kills everyone (including the award committee?) It doesn't seem to me that destroying the gene pool would meet the requirement that the sacrifice improve the gene pool.
I can see that A company might hold of on doing such research, but the problem with that argument is that there are many companies and the one that does develop a cure will put all the others out of business in that disease. In this case, "the prisoner's dilemma" works for the public at large.
is that the meat is safer now that it ever has been, what with the saner approach to antibiotics and the more sterile environments the animals are exposed to and slaughtered in as well as irradiated meat being available.
They should mark the irradiated meat with a big colorful logo, I would only buy the stuff because it's virtually guaranteed to be sterile with no loss of nutritional value: you could eat it "warm" with no more worries than the pinhead who had it cooked "well done"* (which anyone who likes steak will tell you is not synonomous with "done well")
*and one fewer: burnt meat is a known carcinogen. I'll take my chances with a case of food poisoning now over cancer later any day of the week.
How often do you get to watch the greatest sport man ever invented, Olympic Curling. It combines the best parts of Hockey and err. shuffleboard and street cleaning.
Did you read the rest of the paper where they said how long it was operating at that thrust level? afaik, there are no vaccuum chambers currently able to test MW electric thrusters and they don't work in an atmosphere... something about breakdown voltages. Supplying electricity is hard enough for a transient event of a few microseconds, but steady state will require much thicker cables and an enormous power generation capability. Further, the cathode has a tendency to ablate and do so unevenly, creating charge concentrations that further ablate the material and worse, cause the current sheet to concetrate into sparks. Even further: 90 N is not enough to lift a 20kg engine off the ground, let alone any payload of any kind. Or the massive power supply.. which would have to be nuclear to have any chance of working in a gravity well.
Electric propulsion is not for escaping the gravity well, but it works very nicely for transfer orbits.
On the reentry problem: Why would you return the engine to the earth? Assuming it's not spent, just boost it into a so-called nuclear parking orbit and come back with just a lander. Eventually you might have enough up there to bolt them together, supply some fuel and send them off to somewhere very interesting should you plan for that.
And let's not forget about NERVA, which unlike orion, actually tested a full sized engine. We need to figure out how to get rid of the fallout though because the biggest obstacle to space travel isn't Isp needed to get from earth orbit to somewhere, the biggest obstacle is the Isp+thrust combo needed to get to earth orbit to begin with. (the former is only a problem because of the mass savings it can provide to the latter)
6 high and a million wide is still planar in my book. It's akin to stacking sheets of paper: enough and you've got a book, but two or three is still just a paper.
The die will be genuinly volumetric when a cutting plane in any direction through roughly the center intersects roughly the same order of magnitude worth of chip elements as any other cutting plane trhough the center.
Seems to me that would be counter to how the iPods work these days.. as far as I can tell, they are shipped sans filesystem, and formatted when you install the thing. If you plug it into a mac, I assume it uses whatever filesystem those things use. If it's shipping without a filesystem and using windows calls to format the thing under windows, why would apple have any reason to pay for a FAT license?
Yet you post it to slashdot for all to see for free. Possibly you've even paid for the privilege./. makes money from all the suckers who paid to read your post as well as the ads on the page whose impressions are generated by.. people reading your post.
It has occured to me: shouldn't it be the other way around? The nature of the internet as I understand it is thus:
peers negotiate for links between each other big guys charge little guys for links little guys pay big guys for the privilage of access.
Surely google by now is a pretty big player and further, what ISP could afford not to have a connection to <cue creepy voice>The Search Engine </cue>? They should be charging for people to hook up networks to their servers.
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Titan IV almost reached the shuttle's capacity of 60,000 lbs to LEO (which has never been used afaik). Delta IV heavy exceeds the space shuttle's capacity. and those are just American rockets.
It is irrelevant that the space shuttle is capable of lifting its own massive weight in addition to a useful payload since the whole point of the exercise is to lift the useful payload. (of which the people are counted as being part of) The fact that it must lift so much more to accomplish this is not a positive.
Apollo/skylab and mir made much more sense for a manned space station approach. Send the pieces up on unmanned rockets and if assembly is necessary, use the station itself to complete that assembly. No need for complicated heat shield tiles to require inspection and repair between each and every mission if you just throwaway a "cheap" ablative shield every go. (of course that requires a smaller shield which is less exposed to danger during the violent launch)
I'll even go so far as to suggest that an RLV might be appropriate for unmanned launches if it is cost effective, but where safety is a concern, the principle of KISS rules supreme. Make it small, make it simple and make it fresh every time. We shouldn't have to deal with age related problems like fatigue life and corrosion in a manned vehicle if we can avoid it.
Isn't england just part of the UK? If we're going to compare sub-regions, how about we see how boswash or new england is doing compared to france and "the england"
You said it yourself, humans haven't just eliminated the predators, we've supplanted them. The human population is not the problem. The human unwillingness to fulful the role of the missing predators is. We should be eating the animals that aren't being eaten by packs of wolves anymore. Your anecdote about the diseased deer just proves the point: we need more predators like you to keep the deer population in check.
It's a bloody hand you sicko.
Ok he's saying perl can use C libraries but C can't use perl objects. So it's not so much a problem that the other languages aren't cross compatable, it's just that perl is and they aren't.
The closest analogy I can come up with is the english language. There are things you can say in english that you can't say in other languages, but english is a mutt language so there's a pretty good chance that foreign idioms have already been assimilated and many of the foreign words as well. So technically anything you can express in french, german, spanish etc, you can express equally well in english, but you can't go the other way. Is that a deficiency of the other languages (who I might add are more "strongly typed" than english)? or of english?
It would seem to me that it is actually neither, it is a deficiency of the speaker not to have access to the constructs of several. It just so happens that as english speakers learn other languages, english is also improved.
Your post suggests a possibility that may be too grisly to consider:
If all you need is a tongue swap to get the needed cells, why not extrapolate "you are what you eat" to the ultimate conclusion that the best food is to "eat what you are" You plug your own hair into the carnematic and pop out a you-steak in a kind of reverse soylent green.
OTOH, a popping a skin graft out of the carnematic when you burn yourself trying to properly cook "fillet du moi" for your girlfriend would be handy...
At the very least a housecat is a combination space-heater and emergency protein ration. Also, consider the process: Money -> food -[cat]-> poop. Simplifying, the cat is a machine to convert your worthless money into valuable poop.
Mexico city is completely surrounded by mountains. It could at one time be reasonably described as a bowl of smog soup. What's the geography like surrounding San Francisco? Isn't it pretty hilly?
Although it seems to me they got most of their "awards" off the snopes page, can you really call it a darwin award event if it kills everyone (including the award committee?) It doesn't seem to me that destroying the gene pool would meet the requirement that the sacrifice improve the gene pool.
gray all day? where do you live? london..under a smokestack?
I can see that A company might hold of on doing such research, but the problem with that argument is that there are many companies and the one that does develop a cure will put all the others out of business in that disease. In this case, "the prisoner's dilemma" works for the public at large.
Wait what's fibromyalgia then or Vertebral subluxation or are there so many words for I don't know that we'll never catch these wily psuedodocs?
is that the meat is safer now that it ever has been, what with the saner approach to antibiotics and the more sterile environments the animals are exposed to and slaughtered in as well as irradiated meat being available.
They should mark the irradiated meat with a big colorful logo, I would only buy the stuff because it's virtually guaranteed to be sterile with no loss of nutritional value: you could eat it "warm" with no more worries than the pinhead who had it cooked "well done"* (which anyone who likes steak will tell you is not synonomous with "done well")
*and one fewer: burnt meat is a known carcinogen. I'll take my chances with a case of food poisoning now over cancer later any day of the week.
Are you saying that you won't be able to refer to the greek city-state that spawned the event?
What about the Titanic's sister ship which accoding to the wikipedia was the only civilian vessel to sink a U-boat?
How often do you get to watch the greatest sport man ever invented, Olympic Curling. It combines the best parts of Hockey and err. shuffleboard and street cleaning.
I'd never known! -- missing verb
I thought they just were an etnic group. --"ethnic" is spelled incorrectly.
(Harald Schmidt is the german Letterman, for you non-germans) --unnecessary comma.
Did you read the rest of the paper where they said how long it was operating at that thrust level? afaik, there are no vaccuum chambers currently able to test MW electric thrusters and they don't work in an atmosphere... something about breakdown voltages. Supplying electricity is hard enough for a transient event of a few microseconds, but steady state will require much thicker cables and an enormous power generation capability. Further, the cathode has a tendency to ablate and do so unevenly, creating charge concentrations that further ablate the material and worse, cause the current sheet to concetrate into sparks. Even further: 90 N is not enough to lift a 20kg engine off the ground, let alone any payload of any kind. Or the massive power supply.. which would have to be nuclear to have any chance of working in a gravity well.
Electric propulsion is not for escaping the gravity well, but it works very nicely for transfer orbits.
On the reentry problem: Why would you return the engine to the earth? Assuming it's not spent, just boost it into a so-called nuclear parking orbit and come back with just a lander. Eventually you might have enough up there to bolt them together, supply some fuel and send them off to somewhere very interesting should you plan for that.
apple?
What a crazy world we're living where microsoft is moving toward integrated OS+hardware and apple is moving away from it.
I'm still more worried about cellphone washing as as long as it's lost but hasn't been washed yet, I can always convince a friend to call it.
And let's not forget about NERVA, which unlike orion, actually tested a full sized engine. We need to figure out how to get rid of the fallout though because the biggest obstacle to space travel isn't Isp needed to get from earth orbit to somewhere, the biggest obstacle is the Isp+thrust combo needed to get to earth orbit to begin with. (the former is only a problem because of the mass savings it can provide to the latter)
6 high and a million wide is still planar in my book. It's akin to stacking sheets of paper: enough and you've got a book, but two or three is still just a paper.
The die will be genuinly volumetric when a cutting plane in any direction through roughly the center intersects roughly the same order of magnitude worth of chip elements as any other cutting plane trhough the center.
Seems to me that would be counter to how the iPods work these days.. as far as I can tell, they are shipped sans filesystem, and formatted when you install the thing. If you plug it into a mac, I assume it uses whatever filesystem those things use. If it's shipping without a filesystem and using windows calls to format the thing under windows, why would apple have any reason to pay for a FAT license?
That's a worst case scenario. It's far more likely to scale like the area since as yet we have no truely volumetric ICs.
So cellphone-losing (or my favorite, accidental washing & tumble dry) should increase by only a factor of 10k.
"I want the monetary value of my opinion."
/. makes money from all the suckers who paid to read your post as well as the ads on the page whose impressions are generated by.. people reading your post.
Yet you post it to slashdot for all to see for free. Possibly you've even paid for the privilege.
It has occured to me: shouldn't it be the other way around? The nature of the internet as I understand it is thus:
peers negotiate for links between each other
big guys charge little guys for links
little guys pay big guys for the privilage of access.
Surely google by now is a pretty big player and further, what ISP could afford not to have a connection to <cue creepy voice>The Search Engine </cue>? They should be charging for people to hook up networks to their servers.