I think that I saw this already, in the land of Malaria, an Evil Scientist (Why are they always Evil?) creates a rain machine (Fires pink beams into the sky) and causes it to rain ALL the time.......causing a situation where Evil science projects are the country's only source of income........and the Igor saves the day/country/his lot in life/, in the end by destroying it.
I saw that too. I thought it was a travel documentary about Scotland.
But interestingly, the ONE government that ISN'T part of the ISS that does have a space program (China) uses a docking collar that will mate with the ISS.
What they SHOULD do is move WebOS into their Enterprise division, and work on special-purpose designs and custom solutions for various industries, and forget trying to out-Apple Apple.
I'm rather surprised they didn't go this route. HP has a reasonably large presence in the medical field, high end monitoring systems and such. It would be fairly easy to gin up a couple of apps to view / manipulate / input data to the systems. These medical systems sell for over 100K a pop so a couple of $300 extras is nothing. Get people hooked on the idea of medical tablets, bring the tablet into the mainstream of electronic medical records (EHR).
One of the big hangups in EHRs (as far as clinicians are concerned) is the stupid, ancient methods of data entry. Hauling a laptop around is a PITA. Hauling a tablet, a small tablet, not the mongo Windows tablets with 2 hours of battery life -- not so much.
Can someone tell me how you go about bribing an official? There are some laws I'd like to have ignored that impact me.
1. Have lots of money. 2. Go to official's reelection campaign dinner / kids baseball game / favorite bar and get somebody to introduce you. 3. Make it known that you have lots of money. 4. Profit!
Actually, it's more than that. Microvascular work requires a lot of training and specialized equipment. IF (big IF) this pans out, then it's possible that some dumb ol ER doc (ie, me) can put together blood vessels where today we either have to ship them someplace that has the personnel and equipment (slow and expensive) or just wack off the broken bits (cheap, fast but sometimes you want the little pieces part that's left on the floor).
Cool idea. We'll see if it pans out in clinical trials (most cool ideas don't unfortunately).
COSMOS used 90% enriched uranium which is kinda nasty stuff (when COSMOS 454 crashed it dribbled radioactive stuff over a wide swath of Canada, including pieces that would yield lethal radiation doses if handled). NASA lost an RPG earlier (can't recall the details, it's in Wikipedia of course) which dropped radioactive material in the ocean. Later RPGs including those carrying Plutonium were designed so that the fuel would remain intact during a ballistic reentry.
So we've had the technology to create safe nuclear powered spacecraft for some time. I think this attempt is just a new generation of same, perhaps 'safer' but more importantly lighter and more robust.
Not to mention the fact that we'd have to send another team of deep well drillers up to put holes in things. The last mission had tremendous loss of manpower and equipment. Although, somehow Bruce Willis survived and came back to Earth to continue his film career.
Not really. Just control the descent until you're going fast enough to drill the spike into the ground but slow enough so that the structure remains intact. Gotta think these things through - it's Rocket Science.
Who says anything about rods? As I said: you are stuck in yesterday's technology and yesterday's thinking. This needs to get out of government jurisdiction and it needs to go back where it belongs - the private sector working on ways to deliver nuclear power in small packages.
And the proposed are reactors and much, much less dangerous than the naval ones. Smaller by several orders of magnitude. (Although I didn't see power factors in the article that I read, they have to be fairly small compared to a ship powering one).
"open the pod-bay doors! open the pod-bay doors! Crap. Stupid ISS doesn't speak Chinese."
The funny thing is, the docking collar that the Chinese use is compatible with the ISS docking collar. They technically could do it. I wonder if the International Maritime Salvage laws would apply in space?
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I think that I saw this already, in the land of Malaria, an Evil Scientist (Why are they always Evil?) creates a rain machine (Fires pink beams into the sky) and causes it to rain ALL the time.......causing a situation where Evil science projects are the country's only source of income........and the Igor saves the day/country/his lot in life/, in the end by destroying it.
I saw that too. I thought it was a travel documentary about Scotland.
Here. Read this who describes the original paper and it's conclusions. Not some random blogger. One of the better posts on the thread.
If you send me your address I will a send you a three months supply of Prozac.
Kinda easier since Shonzu is based on Soyuz, but it does rather make sense.
All your base belong to us!
"hey, what's this with the Tang?
it's got all these noodles in it!
I don't know if the Shenzhou uses a docking system that's compatible with the NASA APAS system.
Is is. Not that I think they would do it. There would be no upside and it would create a great uproar. But theoretically, they could do it.
But interestingly, the ONE government that ISN'T part of the ISS that does have a space program (China) uses a docking collar that will mate with the ISS.
Funny that.
Why so mad bro?
He's walking.
What they SHOULD do is move WebOS into their Enterprise division, and work on special-purpose designs and custom solutions for various industries, and forget trying to out-Apple Apple.
I'm rather surprised they didn't go this route. HP has a reasonably large presence in the medical field, high end monitoring systems and such. It would be fairly easy to gin up a couple of apps to view / manipulate / input data to the systems. These medical systems sell for over 100K a pop so a couple of $300 extras is nothing. Get people hooked on the idea of medical tablets, bring the tablet into the mainstream of electronic medical records (EHR).
One of the big hangups in EHRs (as far as clinicians are concerned) is the stupid, ancient methods of data entry. Hauling a laptop around is a PITA. Hauling a tablet, a small tablet, not the mongo Windows tablets with 2 hours of battery life -- not so much.
Can someone tell me how you go about bribing an official? There are some laws I'd like to have ignored that impact me.
1. Have lots of money.
2. Go to official's reelection campaign dinner / kids baseball game / favorite bar and get somebody to introduce you.
3. Make it known that you have lots of money.
4. Profit!
True, Obama hasn't lived up to what he promised, let alone what we hoped he'd do, but we're still better off.
With over a 9% unemployment rate (that's actually closer to 18%) I think there are millions of Americans who would disagree.
Ah yes. Blame everything on the current president. That always makes sense.
Meanwhile, Google is busy violating privacy in a way that even the Internet has no porn for...
I dispute this claim under Rule #34!
Er,
Penis Good! Google Bad! ???
How long until they can suture a wound above the spinal cord with can'd foam.
Neurons are harder to deal with than blood vessels. They're more complicated. There are more of them. They are lots smaller.
So probably not for some time.
Actually, it's more than that. Microvascular work requires a lot of training and specialized equipment. IF (big IF) this pans out, then it's possible that some dumb ol ER doc (ie, me) can put together blood vessels where today we either have to ship them someplace that has the personnel and equipment (slow and expensive) or just wack off the broken bits (cheap, fast but sometimes you want the little pieces part that's left on the floor).
Cool idea. We'll see if it pans out in clinical trials (most cool ideas don't unfortunately).
COSMOS used 90% enriched uranium which is kinda nasty stuff (when COSMOS 454 crashed it dribbled radioactive stuff over a wide swath of Canada, including pieces that would yield lethal radiation doses if handled). NASA lost an RPG earlier (can't recall the details, it's in Wikipedia of course) which dropped radioactive material in the ocean. Later RPGs including those carrying Plutonium were designed so that the fuel would remain intact during a ballistic reentry.
So we've had the technology to create safe nuclear powered spacecraft for some time. I think this attempt is just a new generation of same, perhaps 'safer' but more importantly lighter and more robust.
See above and likely below. Space isn't hot or cold, it's vacuum (pretty much). You only have radiative cooling.
Not to mention the fact that we'd have to send another team of deep well drillers up to put holes in things. The last mission had tremendous loss of manpower and equipment. Although, somehow Bruce Willis survived and came back to Earth to continue his film career.
Not really. Just control the descent until you're going fast enough to drill the spike into the ground but slow enough so that the structure remains intact. Gotta think these things through - it's Rocket Science.
It must be fun to live in your batshit crazy libertarian world.
Who says anything about rods? As I said: you are stuck in yesterday's technology and yesterday's thinking. This needs to get out of government jurisdiction and it needs to go back where it belongs - the private sector working on ways to deliver nuclear power in small packages.
Someone set us up the bomb!
The Russians have put reactors into space before, and I believe NASA did launch one before they settled on RTG and solar.
More to the point, the both the Americans and Russians have put a bunch of reactors on the sea floor in the past. Hardly optimal, but not the end of the world.
And the proposed are reactors and much, much less dangerous than the naval ones. Smaller by several orders of magnitude. (Although I didn't see power factors in the article that I read, they have to be fairly small compared to a ship powering one).
Reality is what we object to.
You know, you can take that statement several ways....
Oh yes. Forgot him. And I'm even an Alaskan...
"open the pod-bay doors! open the pod-bay doors! Crap. Stupid ISS doesn't speak Chinese."
The funny thing is, the docking collar that the Chinese use is compatible with the ISS docking collar. They technically could do it. I wonder if the International Maritime Salvage laws would apply in space?
We've lost our ability to dream, to do, and to accomplish.
But we haven't lost our ability to turn everything into a emerald green glass parking lot.
So everyone better humor us for a while longer.
This is the type of summary we can expect now that Cmdr Taco is gone.
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