But you have to remember something. The way the US treated the political class of both Britain and France after world war two, your two best buddies in the whole wide world at the time, directly resulted in them developing independent nuclear deterrents.
Even you have to admit that insulting the British foreign minister to the point where a generally anti-nuclear democratic socialist cabinet will spend a significant portion of a wreaked economy by going for the bomb takes some doing.
Good idea if you ask me. Lob your hardware into orbit using this, then (if you want to man said hardware) send up your astronauts on a R7 and dock with it. Shame that I haven't realy heard that much about it.
Enought moaning about this. There are people with a few brain cells to spare here, why not come up with an idea or two on how to stop this happening instead of complaining.
Why not put a fine nylon net over the fuel tank to prevent the larger chunks of foam from hitting the shuttle?
While I'm sure they have a lot of guys working on this problem, I have no reason to suspect that this wouldn't work. It would also be fairly cheap, light, and would not require a complete redesign.
While the NASA robots have done a good job in the "Hummm thats interesting" way of Geology, if Beagle 2 had landed, we would know if life had existed in that area of Mars. Indeed, the head of the Beagle project has critised the two NASA rovers for lacking anything to conduct any real science.
It is reasons like this that we need to send more robots. Beagle 2 cost a mere fraction of either of the two NASA rovers and they in turn cost a hell of a lot less than a manned mission.
Until money is not an object (ie like in the original space race, aka "beat the commies/capitalist pig dogs"), a manned mission won't happen. This is the next best thing.
Unfortunately, this only works on the assumption that the people who are up for election will listen to you.
Sadly, this has not been the case where I come from. Any politician I have spoken to, be it the lowest town council member to the mightiest MEP will not listen to you. Instead, they will try and argue the point of view they have already taken on the issue, why its right and why you are wrong. From skate parks to rubbish collection to education policy to software patents, they don't listen they tell you have to say, they tell you what they think and why they are right.
These are the times we live in. It is the time of party political machine. Nobody else stands a chance if they don't wear the roset of the party they have sold there soles to.
Take a look at other mud piles before you start throwing mud at the EU. unlike a certain modern american figher aircraft (F22), the Eurofighter is actualy being built and is not about to get axed any time soon.
And to my knowledge, it is arguably the most advanced plane in production.
Think of the representations' location rather than the is it/ isn't it a planet debate.
Fort William.
A good place to put anything realy if you want to make the point to someone that it is a VERY long way off, even on this scale. It would be even more interesting if Sedna's orbit were to overlap with the Outer Hebrides or Shetland, then I'd put money on it too making an aperance, which are a long way from anywhere even from Fort Williams' point of view.
It is making the point that matters; not the is it, isn't it crap.
O deary me, I wonder what would have happened if the USA had not revolted against British rule, because we all know that there are no examples of a north american colony that didn't revolt;)
For people lacking in sarcasm detection software, I'm talking about Canada.
Sure speed of results isn't great, but in most countries with a good transport infrastructure it might take until the next morning, counthing through the night.
As the old saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
"Cancellation is likely to help sales of Boeing's Apache helicopters, which cost about $25 million each and were used successfully in Afghanistan and Iraq"
I find this bit of the artical a little strange, it was my understanding that the Apache took a bit of a mawling in Iraq. While in the main operation they took part in they only lost two helicopters, the rest of the squadron was effectively put out of service for the rest of the war by men armed with AK47's and RPG's. Maybe this cancelation reflects this, it might be all fine and dandy to have electronic jamming for this that and the next thing, but it's not worth much if it can be taken down with massed machine gun fire as the Apaches were subjected to.
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But you have to remember something. The way the US treated the political class of both Britain and France after world war two, your two best buddies in the whole wide world at the time, directly resulted in them developing independent nuclear deterrents.
Even you have to admit that insulting the British foreign minister to the point where a generally anti-nuclear democratic socialist cabinet will spend a significant portion of a wreaked economy by going for the bomb takes some doing.
To my knowledge, I think that the ESA was working on something along this line using a 4 km long mag-lev track.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EADS_Phoenix
Good idea if you ask me. Lob your hardware into orbit using this, then (if you want to man said hardware) send up your astronauts on a R7 and dock with it. Shame that I haven't realy heard that much about it.
Nice idea.
Shame about losing 85% of your viewers/cutomers/income.
The only thing worse than a bad referee is an inconsistent one.
I'd rather have a Danger Mouse or two...
Enought moaning about this. There are people with a few brain cells to spare here, why not come up with an idea or two on how to stop this happening instead of complaining.
Why not put a fine nylon net over the fuel tank to prevent the larger chunks of foam from hitting the shuttle?
While I'm sure they have a lot of guys working on this problem, I have no reason to suspect that this wouldn't work. It would also be fairly cheap, light, and would not require a complete redesign.
What do you think? Any other ideas?
Unicycle? Bah!
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Lets "upgrade" things a little...
Elephant polo anyone? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/40733
The two NASA rovers are robotic Geologists'.
The Beagles' are robotic Chemists.
While the NASA robots have done a good job in the "Hummm thats interesting" way of Geology, if Beagle 2 had landed, we would know if life had existed in that area of Mars. Indeed, the head of the Beagle project has critised the two NASA rovers for lacking anything to conduct any real science.
It is reasons like this that we need to send more robots. Beagle 2 cost a mere fraction of either of the two NASA rovers and they in turn cost a hell of a lot less than a manned mission.
Until money is not an object (ie like in the original space race, aka "beat the commies/capitalist pig dogs"), a manned mission won't happen. This is the next best thing.
With all due respect, it is the opinion of most in this field that nothing is a person when it has less than 1024 cells, clone or not.
Or perhaps this is worse than we first tought...
Unfortunately, this only works on the assumption that the people who are up for election will listen to you.
Sadly, this has not been the case where I come from. Any politician I have spoken to, be it the lowest town council member to the mightiest MEP will not listen to you. Instead, they will try and argue the point of view they have already taken on the issue, why its right and why you are wrong. From skate parks to rubbish collection to education policy to software patents, they don't listen they tell you have to say, they tell you what they think and why they are right.
These are the times we live in. It is the time of party political machine. Nobody else stands a chance if they don't wear the roset of the party they have sold there soles to.
Take a look at other mud piles before you start throwing mud at the EU. unlike a certain modern american figher aircraft (F22), the Eurofighter is actualy being built and is not about to get axed any time soon.
And to my knowledge, it is arguably the most advanced plane in production.
Think of the representations' location rather than the is it/ isn't it a planet debate.
Fort William.
A good place to put anything realy if you want to make the point to someone that it is a VERY long way off, even on this scale.
It would be even more interesting if Sedna's orbit were to overlap with the Outer Hebrides or Shetland, then I'd put money on it too making an aperance, which are a long way from anywhere even from Fort Williams' point of view.
It is making the point that matters; not the is it, isn't it crap.
Not everyone in the world has the option or money to have anything other than Dialup.
It is a WORLD wide web, not a north american wide web.
O deary me, I wonder what would have happened if the USA had not revolted against British rule, because we all know that there are no examples of a north american colony that didn't revolt ;)
For people lacking in sarcasm detection software, I'm talking about Canada.
What is wrong with counting crosses in boxes?
Sure speed of results isn't great, but in most countries with a good transport infrastructure it might take until the next morning, counthing through the night.
As the old saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
To equip 2 Rovers with the best water detecting equipment known to man and how do you find water?
You get mud stuck to the tyres!
But in all seriosness, Good on NASA.
But it certainly makes a more life seeking mission like beagle 2 all the more important.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
"Cancellation is likely to help sales of Boeing's Apache helicopters, which cost about $25 million each and were used successfully in Afghanistan and Iraq" I find this bit of the artical a little strange, it was my understanding that the Apache took a bit of a mawling in Iraq. While in the main operation they took part in they only lost two helicopters, the rest of the squadron was effectively put out of service for the rest of the war by men armed with AK47's and RPG's. Maybe this cancelation reflects this, it might be all fine and dandy to have electronic jamming for this that and the next thing, but it's not worth much if it can be taken down with massed machine gun fire as the Apaches were subjected to.