Hello. My name is PHP. I'm the most ugly hideous language known to man, but man do I have thousands of functions to get work done. And that's why I rule the server side processing world:D
Hi. I'm a 15 year old script kiddie. I just love those thousands of hideous functions because deep inside a significant fraction of them lies an exploit so obvious that three of my friends figured a half dozen of them out in a two hour Redbull and Cheetos hacking session (which consisted mostly of Googling pictures of naked 16 year olds and occasionally looking for PHP vulnerabilities).
Where are India's priorities? Most of their people don't having running water, electricity and shit in the open. A space agency is a luxury for rich nations, not for poor, backward countries like this.
And these 'rich' countries would be? The US? Russia? China? Get over it. India is probably spending less than.001% of it's GDP on space flight. India's big problem bis corruption. A high tech endevour like space flight is an excellent vehicle for this. Yes, you can bribe your way into making a heat shield, but when it melts in the first 10 minutes of re entry, people are going to notice it and get pissed off. You don't have to wait 30 years for the next earthquake to discover that your contractor can't build anything.
Stranger than I first thought. TFA talks about a 'carbon nose cap' to shield the heat of reentry. That sort of implies (subject to the translation failures of generalist journalists and PR folks) that it's going nose down through the atmosphere. However, it looks like the capsule has a posterior heat shield (like other manned capsules) albeit one that looks pretty thin in the picture.
Sigh. Be nice if they actually had real pictures of these things.
At least it doesn't look like a modified Soyuz like the Chinese effort. I'm not sure India has the drive or need to put humans in space, but they appear to be trying something different.
Seriously now: Doses are not the same for all. Even worse,
True
apparently just TWO of these could be fatal to some people.
Maybe for a hamster or a 90 pound, 90 year old woman. 20 mg of hydrocodone is the same as 4 standard strength Vicodin tablets. Very unlikely to be dangerous.
The DEA could reschedule heroin (or marijuana, another Schedule I drug). It is planning on rescheduling all hydrocodone containing products from Schedule III to Schedule II (most restrictive). So it's just an administrative rule.
The really screwball thing about marijuana and the feds is that plain old marijuana-in-a-baggie is a DEA Schedule I drug (no medical use, high risk of abuse). The concentrated form of the active ingredient in marijuana (THC) is a Schedule III drug (limited abuse potential, you can call the drug in over the phone, you can get refills unlike Schedule II drugs like The Fine Drug in TFA).
Just to be pedant, but hydrocodone (the active ingredient in The Fine Drug) is similar, but different from oxycodone, the active ingredient in Oxycontin, the long acting formulation.
The Big Deal about TFD is that it is the first pure hydrocodone product available (in the US at least). All other hydrocodone containing medications have been mixed with acetaminophen (paracetamol to you people that insist on driving on the wrong side of the road) or ibuprofen. The theory is that adding another drug with different analgesic properties increases the analgesic effect (true) and that 'adulterating' the opiate with another drug makes it harder to abuse since you will, at some point or another, die of liver failure (acetaminophen) or a GI bleed (ibuprofen) - which isn't true.
So, unleashing this drug, free from contaminating tylenol, will cause a massive uptick in hydrocodone addicts.
Which is probably not true. However, the need for long acting hydrocodone is limited at best. While there are people that can take hydrocodone and not oxycodone, you have several other long drugs in long acting formulations for chronic pain (fentanyl, morphine).
The drug WILL be popular among the abuser community because there are some people who want to keep their livers intact.
As has been described here, the current War on Drugs (TM, patent pending US Drug Enforcement Administration) is a total failure and a more rational approach to drug use is needed. But what do you expect from a country that has a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as well as a Drug Enforcement Administration. If you were naive to the US you might think these federal agencies were promoting these issues. Double plusungood.
For folks with access to Science, there is a timely article on this subject.
And we've known most of this for years (the data that is). Albumin is a commonly screened protein - the others not so much. It's long been known that people with very low albumin levels are very sick. Very sick people die soon.
This perhaps gives one a bit more quantification of the phenomena, but it's hardly a surprise.
Protip: Swathing your body with tin foil will not increase your albumin or VLDL levels. Eating hot dog contained inside the tin foil will.
If not when, and so what? Seriously, its worth the risk to try and save people.
Not necessarily. As TFA noted, a number of scenarios were considered. It wasn't at all clear than they would have worked at all and there was an excellent chance that the Atlantis AND the crew would have been lost. So making hard headed cost benefit analysis calculations really does work in the real world.
Otherwise your car would go 5 mph and no one, but no one would ever fly in a plane.
Ah, the fine folks who don't read TFA. No, you could not have moved the Columbia to the ISS - it would have taken approximately twice as much fuel as the shuttle carried to pull than maneuver off.
Yep, they investigated lots of options. They're all in TFA (the CAIB, not just the Ars article but you might start there).
No, you can't 'relocate the foam'. The damaged part was a carbon-fibre leading edge element, not foam. NASA subsequently developed a patch for this sort of damage but obviously stuff like this takes time.
And to everyone who thinks that the Columbia accident and Apollo 13 are somehow equivalent consider this - in Apollo 13 "all" they had to do was to stay alive until they could loop the CSM and lunar module back to earth. The Command module with it's heat shield and other reentry gear was intact.
Columbia lost it's ability to reenter the earth's atmosphere. To fix it required never-done-before-engineering outside the spacecraft. Sometimes just willing something isn't enough to get it done.
We have some inkling into how cell senescence works in simplistic models like nematodes. We have talk of 'aging reversal' technologies in higher animals but precious little real data.
It's likely that we will be able to keep simpler organisms alive for long periods of time, not so clear that you can be functionally longer lived. Human aging is an incredibly complex phenomenon, it's not just cell death and turnover. it's not just cancer prevention. It's not just prevention of dementia. It's all of those things and much more.
Plan on paying taxes. Plan on dying. Perhaps, as mentioned, you will remain as a Google+ bot, but there are things worse than death.
In wars past the US hasn't always done well in treating psychological casualties. And the US military's personnel system used in some wars didn't provide the structure and practices that other armies have had that helped provide resilience in soldiers.
This is a bit of an understatement. Other than to create terms like 'shell shock' and 'combat fatigue', long term psychological problems developed by people (non soldiers as well) in combat areas were actively ignored and swept under the table. The reasons are actually pretty clear - PTSD (the current term of art) is pervasive among combat veterans and very, very dificult to treat. Best if it doesn't happen.
Don't you all think this is a bit premature? We haven't built anything on the moon. The closest we've come is a giant multigoverment, multidecade effort to keep a bunch of cylinders in low earth orbit. We've managed to grow a few beans and worms, but haven't even assembled a Heath kit in orbit.
Doesn't seem very plausible to expect a company with unknown funding and absolutely no real world experience to run rings around everyone else's best efforts.
The "burgeneoning civilization" on the moon includes a bunch of junk from the 1970s, a few crashed probes and a half functioning Chinese probe who's largest scientific advance has been to tweet badly translated anthropomorphic homilies.
We have yet to manufacture a condom on the moon, much less complex semiconductor devices.
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ACs can't invoke sudo....
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
1 microliter = 10E-6 liters
1 ml of distilled water weighs (more or less) 1 gram
1000 ml = 1 liter
I win !
Hello. My name is PHP. I'm the most ugly hideous language known to man, but man do I have thousands of functions to get work done. And that's why I rule the server side processing world :D
Hi. I'm a 15 year old script kiddie. I just love those thousands of hideous functions because deep inside a significant fraction of them lies an exploit so obvious that three of my friends figured a half dozen of them out in a two hour Redbull and Cheetos hacking session (which consisted mostly of Googling pictures of naked 16 year olds and occasionally looking for PHP vulnerabilities).
Ah, so it's like Lotus Notes, then.
Where are India's priorities? Most of their people don't having running water, electricity and shit in the open. A space agency is a luxury for rich nations, not for poor, backward countries like this.
And these 'rich' countries would be? The US? Russia? China? Get over it. India is probably spending less than .001% of it's GDP on space flight. India's big problem bis corruption. A high tech endevour like space flight is an excellent vehicle for this. Yes, you can bribe your way into making a heat shield, but when it melts in the first 10 minutes of re entry, people are going to notice it and get pissed off. You don't have to wait 30 years for the next earthquake to discover that your contractor can't build anything.
Stranger than I first thought. TFA talks about a 'carbon nose cap' to shield the heat of reentry. That sort of implies (subject to the translation failures of generalist journalists and PR folks) that it's going nose down through the atmosphere. However, it looks like the capsule has a posterior heat shield (like other manned capsules) albeit one that looks pretty thin in the picture.
Sigh. Be nice if they actually had real pictures of these things.
At least it doesn't look like a modified Soyuz like the Chinese effort. I'm not sure India has the drive or need to put humans in space, but they appear to be trying something different.
This does explain most of the images on /b/.
Seriously now:
Doses are not the same for all. Even worse,
True
apparently just TWO of these could be fatal to some people.
Maybe for a hamster or a 90 pound, 90 year old woman. 20 mg of hydrocodone is the same as 4 standard strength Vicodin tablets. Very unlikely to be dangerous.
Unless the police find them with a bottle of it, how exactly will they tell Zohydro from Oxycontin or heroin once it's absorbed in the bloodstream?
Toxicology tests. It's easy.
The DEA could reschedule heroin (or marijuana, another Schedule I drug). It is planning on rescheduling all hydrocodone containing products from Schedule III to Schedule II (most restrictive). So it's just an administrative rule.
The really screwball thing about marijuana and the feds is that plain old marijuana-in-a-baggie is a DEA Schedule I drug (no medical use, high risk of abuse). The concentrated form of the active ingredient in marijuana (THC) is a Schedule III drug (limited abuse potential, you can call the drug in over the phone, you can get refills unlike Schedule II drugs like The Fine Drug in TFA).
Pharmacology is hard. It's not that hard.
Just to be pedant, but hydrocodone (the active ingredient in The Fine Drug) is similar, but different from oxycodone, the active ingredient in Oxycontin, the long acting formulation.
The Big Deal about TFD is that it is the first pure hydrocodone product available (in the US at least). All other hydrocodone containing medications have been mixed with acetaminophen (paracetamol to you people that insist on driving on the wrong side of the road) or ibuprofen. The theory is that adding another drug with different analgesic properties increases the analgesic effect (true) and that 'adulterating' the opiate with another drug makes it harder to abuse since you will, at some point or another, die of liver failure (acetaminophen) or a GI bleed (ibuprofen) - which isn't true.
So, unleashing this drug, free from contaminating tylenol, will cause a massive uptick in hydrocodone addicts.
Which is probably not true. However, the need for long acting hydrocodone is limited at best. While there are people that can take hydrocodone and not oxycodone, you have several other long drugs in long acting formulations for chronic pain (fentanyl, morphine).
The drug WILL be popular among the abuser community because there are some people who want to keep their livers intact.
As has been described here, the current War on Drugs (TM, patent pending US Drug Enforcement Administration) is a total failure and a more rational approach to drug use is needed. But what do you expect from a country that has a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as well as a Drug Enforcement Administration. If you were naive to the US you might think these federal agencies were promoting these issues. Double plusungood.
For folks with access to Science, there is a timely article on this subject.
And we've known most of this for years (the data that is). Albumin is a commonly screened protein - the others not so much. It's long been known that people with very low albumin levels are very sick. Very sick people die soon.
This perhaps gives one a bit more quantification of the phenomena, but it's hardly a surprise.
Protip: Swathing your body with tin foil will not increase your albumin or VLDL levels. Eating hot dog contained inside the tin foil will.
If not when, and so what? Seriously, its worth the risk to try and save people.
Not necessarily. As TFA noted, a number of scenarios were considered. It wasn't at all clear than they would have worked at all and there was an excellent chance that the Atlantis AND the crew would have been lost. So making hard headed cost benefit analysis calculations really does work in the real world.
Otherwise your car would go 5 mph and no one, but no one would ever fly in a plane.
Ah, the fine folks who don't read TFA. No, you could not have moved the Columbia to the ISS - it would have taken approximately twice as much fuel as the shuttle carried to pull than maneuver off.
Yep, they investigated lots of options. They're all in TFA (the CAIB, not just the Ars article but you might start there).
No, you can't 'relocate the foam'. The damaged part was a carbon-fibre leading edge element, not foam. NASA subsequently developed a patch for this sort of damage but obviously stuff like this takes time.
And to everyone who thinks that the Columbia accident and Apollo 13 are somehow equivalent consider this - in Apollo 13 "all" they had to do was to stay alive until they could loop the CSM and lunar module back to earth. The Command module with it's heat shield and other reentry gear was intact.
Columbia lost it's ability to reenter the earth's atmosphere. To fix it required never-done-before-engineering outside the spacecraft. Sometimes just willing something isn't enough to get it done.
Oh, Paraguay
And the stories about his womanizing? Almost every guy posting at Slashdot.
Womanizing isn't really the same thing as fantasizing.
Who figured out how to reverse aging?
We have some inkling into how cell senescence works in simplistic models like nematodes. We have talk of 'aging reversal' technologies in higher animals but precious little real data.
It's likely that we will be able to keep simpler organisms alive for long periods of time, not so clear that you can be functionally longer lived. Human aging is an incredibly complex phenomenon, it's not just cell death and turnover. it's not just cancer prevention. It's not just prevention of dementia. It's all of those things and much more.
Plan on paying taxes. Plan on dying. Perhaps, as mentioned, you will remain as a Google+ bot, but there are things worse than death.
In wars past the US hasn't always done well in treating psychological casualties. And the US military's personnel system used in some wars didn't provide the structure and practices that other armies have had that helped provide resilience in soldiers.
This is a bit of an understatement. Other than to create terms like 'shell shock' and 'combat fatigue', long term psychological problems developed by people (non soldiers as well) in combat areas were actively ignored and swept under the table. The reasons are actually pretty clear - PTSD (the current term of art) is pervasive among combat veterans and very, very dificult to treat. Best if it doesn't happen.
Don't you all think this is a bit premature? We haven't built anything on the moon. The closest we've come is a giant multigoverment, multidecade effort to keep a bunch of cylinders in low earth orbit. We've managed to grow a few beans and worms, but haven't even assembled a Heath kit in orbit.
Doesn't seem very plausible to expect a company with unknown funding and absolutely no real world experience to run rings around everyone else's best efforts.
The "burgeneoning civilization" on the moon includes a bunch of junk from the 1970s, a few crashed probes and a half functioning Chinese probe who's largest scientific advance has been to tweet badly translated anthropomorphic homilies.
We have yet to manufacture a condom on the moon, much less complex semiconductor devices.
They don't have to worry about beta software. Besides, it takes about this long to allow for our in depth analysis and witty repartes.