...and there is no way in hell our library would give out ANY information about ANYONE to te police, or any justice official without a warrant first. We are not even allowed to say to a police officer if someone they are looking for is in, or has been in the library.
In saying this, I am in New Zealand, where people actually care about privacy laws.
When you are going to Mars, or the Moon, you don't need slick aerodynamic spacecraft. The wings on the shuttle do nothing other than make it fly like a glider when it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere. On a trip to Mars or the Moon, they are simply dead weight that would have to be pushed along.
Nothing has changed in external capsule design over the past 35 years either, but don't count on them being oldschool tech - They will incorporate a whole heap of new technologies, and internally they will be totally different.
Whilst the internet has its place in the information age, it is not the same as having the information printed out in front of you. People that I deal with find that its better to have a solid object in front of you to refer to, rather than a hyperlink which can dissapear overnight.
There was nothing on Enterprise to canabalize. It was never rated for spaceflight (and could never go into orbit anyway, since its frame has been almost shaken to bits with early tests), and as far as I know, only had enough gear on it to be used for practising landing attempts, and to make the insides look real.
The only part of the orbiter that I know that has been used was that of the leading edge of the left wing, which was used after the Columbia incident. This was when Nasa were testing the effects of a foam strile on the wing leading edge.
The Soyuz, first of all, is Russian, not part of the US spaceflight program.
Also, the space shuttle is a reusable craft, and whilst the Soyus may have parts which are reusable, the craft as a whole is not.
The new CEV craft (which is being designed at the moment, and will replace the space shuttle) will have far less capacity than the space shuttle. The shuttle can capture satellites in orbit, and bring them back, and there is no other craft which can do this. The space shuttle is a truck, whereas the Soyuz and CEV's are more like Honda City's.
In Jurassic Park, the DNA was combined with a frogs (or something similar - can't remember exactly) so that they could produce viable young. It was this frog part of the dino that allowed it to change gender.
Apparenly the delay is due to a sensor failure that occured during tank testing. The delay will assist with getting a few other things sorted too, like cleaning up a hydraulic fluid spill.
I work for a public library in New Zealand. We have just deployed thin clients for all the staff, and one for public internet access. We are using HP Compaw thin clients, running on Win2k Pro server
The thin client for internet access works a treat, although you have to be careful with security settings if you are running them on the same network as the staff computers/library servers/district council stuff is on (which we are).
For the staff, they all have access to Word, Excel, IE, and PowerPoint. Letting anyone use Powerpoint on thin clients is a bad idea. Runs like Uncle Jack on a curry: damn shitty.
Perfectly fine for everything else however, and for the public to browse the library catelogue on. Being able to administer profiles from one location is also a big, big advantage.
The reason it is a zero gravity environment is because it is orbiting the Earth. That means it is effectively in freefall, always falling towards the Earth, but it has enough sideways motion that it keeps falling around the planet.
I like to think of it as that yes, the ISS is falling towards the Earth, its just that the Earth keeps moving out of the way.
About 5 years ago, a friend in College bought a new computer. Not being too technically inclined, he wanted to turn his computer off, other than simply telling Windows to shut down. The guy that sold him the computer told him (over the phone) there should be a main power switch on the back by the power supply. The owner saw it and flicked the the switch...
The phone cut out...
Turned out that he had actually flicked the voltage select switch from 240V (NZ standard voltage), to 120V.
I am pretty sure only the power supply was cooked in the computer, but his cordless phone, and one circuit breaker was cooked. We laughed for weeks about that!
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...and there is no way in hell our library would give out ANY information about ANYONE to te police, or any justice official without a warrant first. We are not even allowed to say to a police officer if someone they are looking for is in, or has been in the library.
In saying this, I am in New Zealand, where people actually care about privacy laws.
When you are going to Mars, or the Moon, you don't need slick aerodynamic spacecraft. The wings on the shuttle do nothing other than make it fly like a glider when it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere. On a trip to Mars or the Moon, they are simply dead weight that would have to be pushed along.
Nothing has changed in external capsule design over the past 35 years either, but don't count on them being oldschool tech - They will incorporate a whole heap of new technologies, and internally they will be totally different.
Looks like Slashdot did its darndest to that site. No more gmail invites from there for a while.
As a librarian, I find this rather sad.
Whilst the internet has its place in the information age, it is not the same as having the information printed out in front of you. People that I deal with find that its better to have a solid object in front of you to refer to, rather than a hyperlink which can dissapear overnight.
There was nothing on Enterprise to canabalize. It was never rated for spaceflight (and could never go into orbit anyway, since its frame has been almost shaken to bits with early tests), and as far as I know, only had enough gear on it to be used for practising landing attempts, and to make the insides look real.
The only part of the orbiter that I know that has been used was that of the leading edge of the left wing, which was used after the Columbia incident. This was when Nasa were testing the effects of a foam strile on the wing leading edge.
The Soyuz, first of all, is Russian, not part of the US spaceflight program.
Also, the space shuttle is a reusable craft, and whilst the Soyus may have parts which are reusable, the craft as a whole is not.
The new CEV craft (which is being designed at the moment, and will replace the space shuttle) will have far less capacity than the space shuttle. The shuttle can capture satellites in orbit, and bring them back, and there is no other craft which can do this. The space shuttle is a truck, whereas the Soyuz and CEV's are more like Honda City's.
In Jurassic Park, the DNA was combined with a frogs (or something similar - can't remember exactly) so that they could produce viable young. It was this frog part of the dino that allowed it to change gender.
Apparenly the delay is due to a sensor failure that occured during tank testing. The delay will assist with getting a few other things sorted too, like cleaning up a hydraulic fluid spill.
NasaSpaceFlight.com has a nice write-up about it.
If I remember correctly, it is made from wood, steel reinforcing and spray-on concrete.
Thank goodness I read that - I was beginning to think that we had slashdotted NASA!
...and I'm not a Slim employee!
So, you're more of the chubby kind?
Yes, yes it would.
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I work for a public library in New Zealand. We have just deployed thin clients for all the staff, and one for public internet access. We are using HP Compaw thin clients, running on Win2k Pro server The thin client for internet access works a treat, although you have to be careful with security settings if you are running them on the same network as the staff computers/library servers/district council stuff is on (which we are). For the staff, they all have access to Word, Excel, IE, and PowerPoint. Letting anyone use Powerpoint on thin clients is a bad idea. Runs like Uncle Jack on a curry: damn shitty. Perfectly fine for everything else however, and for the public to browse the library catelogue on. Being able to administer profiles from one location is also a big, big advantage.
I like to think of it as that yes, the ISS is falling towards the Earth, its just that the Earth keeps moving out of the way.
About 5 years ago, a friend in College bought a new computer. Not being too technically inclined, he wanted to turn his computer off, other than simply telling Windows to shut down. The guy that sold him the computer told him (over the phone) there should be a main power switch on the back by the power supply. The owner saw it and flicked the the switch... The phone cut out... Turned out that he had actually flicked the voltage select switch from 240V (NZ standard voltage), to 120V. I am pretty sure only the power supply was cooked in the computer, but his cordless phone, and one circuit breaker was cooked. We laughed for weeks about that!