NASA generates so much knowledge from pure research and a decent amount in applied research that there's no market to leverage it.
Back in the day, there was a market, the old silicon valley, bell labs, IBM R&D, HRL, Corning, etc... There was a demand aspect of corporate facilities and research universities not associated with NASA that would leverage output from NASA. Today, NASA is tightly coupled with tenured funded professors (i.e. no real cutting edge research), there are no big corp labs, and silicon valley is more interested in advertising bucks or how you make fake money (i.e. social gaming).
NASA can continue to innovate a lot--that they actually still do, but the outlet to absorb it is just not there.
Billionaires rule our education... schools are the means.
Billionaires practice the business paradigm: costs, risk, reward == money.
Billionaires can be philanthropic and give their funds to schools for facilities--and set requirements.
Billionaires invest in hedge funds and investment vehicles, which invests in the education system for R&D--and set requirements.
Billionaires has access to the highest levels of gov't, heck even run for president--and set requirements.
If you think Silicon Valley is the pinnacle of knowledge, technology... who runs that? Billionaires, which control those universities for cheap ideas and labor (e.g. grad students, think Google, Facebook) indirectly by fueling the culture with venture capital and... "fortune".
Look at all levels of K-12, University, Academia: buildings and halls are named after Billionaires to remind the academics who they work for....
Hence, they not only control the schools (via economics), but in essence, dictate the education standards in this country. There are exceptions as always, but this is the norm at every big ivy league, tech powerhouse school.
and Billionaires can get away from their mistakes, usually a hand slap and fine.
The HS601 and its XIPS system is technically electric since it is an Ion propulsive device. The above FTA is more about plasma thrust, but again all these concepts have been around for 50yrs: it's well known higher specific impulse == more acceleration for space flight == a better engine (and ions have more impulse than anything chemical)...
1. a bunch of stationary satellites/vehicles with rockets, laser, whatever. Cause aggressive maneuvering in space hasn't been done yet, so the Math/control systems aren't there yet, nor the MechEng problem is beyond the scope of current tech.
2. a bunch of guys in a room somewhere in Vegas, with 60" LCDs hooked upto a bunch of computers and joysticks, cozy armchairs, and NOC-style environment... operating the space vehicles virtually. Oh and a big radar dish in the backyard and FOXNews playing on the background TV.
THAT is what space combat will be like. Stop listening to those creative Hollywood types.
"Why not just settle disputes by actually playing video games"
Already done, it's called Congress: kids arguing with on another, collecting credits ($$$), having re-dos (reelection), cheating, and playing mind games.
If everyone is remotely fighting, instead of building up this huge infrastructure: wouldn't it be easier to just pick up the d*mn phone and settle it?
And that's why open source hardware guys have these unspoken rules. They/we don't have access to a $20million dollar custom fab house or a $100million design studio.
If you keep it cheap, you make money (really, it all comes down to this) by volume, and the 1st guy that makes his fortunes is OK, since all the OS hardware guys use the same cheap hardware (it's limited fellas), so everyone can make some cash. And they all work together since any day MS or Apple can get into the game and wipe (or buy) everyone out (e.g. Kinect)
It's not a "dominate" the competition as with MS, Apple, HP, and Google, were desired profit margins are unreasonably high. So, that a win-win in the OSH community. Also, there is no "race to the bottom". I mean name me one open source hardware developer building a improved Arduino for $900 (when we know a iPhone sold for that amount retail, unlocked)?
On second thought, IMO, Francis is off track, multirotors are cool, but don't fit the use case. That's why the Japan Ministry Of Defense's flying sphere has temporary hover capabilities, but it designed to fly horizontally, which is more efficient for long distance--its design fits the search and inspect use case. Now for search and rescue, a multirotor maybe more appropriate.
Well if you were in hi-tech back then, it made sense.
From the link:
"This system was aimed at high-end government imaging applications which were done by dedicated systems produced by the aerospace industry which cost a million dollars a seat
Bingo, they are presenting coordinated motion instead. They are close to a swarm, they are independent, but not sure if they are still commanded by a central computer (off-board), which means it's not a swarm by a mile. In hindsight, if they are playing back a script on-board each copter, it would be considered modeling swarm formation, but nothing close to flocking (there needs to be a leader quad).
Wouldn't it be easier to just say, "for all I know an asteroid can hit us tomorrow and pretty much make debating space travel moot".
Cause we have great technology, all that space stuff (in detecting asteroids, planets, solar flares, ionosphere stuff) is still much in theory (or sort of works).
And if one looks at nature, we don't need to go now...we've always been goin' (shouldn't stop).
Yep, no different from McD's using non-humane cattle farms, and risky meat. People are concerned, but when it comes to their chicken nuggets or McRib (which is NOT real RIBS), they look the other way.
To solve a problem from this is gotta come "from within", McD's did it with veggie oil and soy products, and getting there with the humane part. And it was from the leaders of that company to finally do something about it. Apple needs to do the same, they are similar companies business-wise. The customers will not, nor the investors.
it's all about weight weight weight.... retrofitting with human environmental systems will reduce the already maxxed out payload capacity and could weaken the structure. These rockets are optimized for their payloads...
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Human nature == Supply and demand.
NASA generates so much knowledge from pure research and a decent amount in applied research that there's no market to leverage it.
Back in the day, there was a market, the old silicon valley, bell labs, IBM R&D, HRL, Corning, etc... There was a demand aspect of corporate facilities and research universities not associated with NASA that would leverage output from NASA. Today, NASA is tightly coupled with tenured funded professors (i.e. no real cutting edge research), there are no big corp labs, and silicon valley is more interested in advertising bucks or how you make fake money (i.e. social gaming).
NASA can continue to innovate a lot--that they actually still do, but the outlet to absorb it is just not there.
Depends, most business printers and new printers are WiFi connected.
The USB connection is there, but why use it when you can connect via wireless.
And connecting to anything wireless usually requires a passphrase, key... or root.
Billionaires rule our education... schools are the means.
Billionaires practice the business paradigm: costs, risk, reward == money.
Billionaires can be philanthropic and give their funds to schools for facilities--and set requirements.
Billionaires invest in hedge funds and investment vehicles, which invests in the education system for R&D--and set requirements.
Billionaires has access to the highest levels of gov't, heck even run for president--and set requirements.
If you think Silicon Valley is the pinnacle of knowledge, technology... who runs that? Billionaires, which control those universities for cheap ideas and labor (e.g. grad students, think Google, Facebook) indirectly by fueling the culture with venture capital and... "fortune".
Look at all levels of K-12, University, Academia: buildings and halls are named after Billionaires to remind the academics who they work for....
Hence, they not only control the schools (via economics), but in essence, dictate the education standards in this country. There are exceptions as always, but this is the norm at every big ivy league, tech powerhouse school.
and Billionaires can get away from their mistakes, usually a hand slap and fine.
The HS601 and its XIPS system is technically electric since it is an Ion propulsive device. The above FTA is more about plasma thrust, but again all these concepts have been around for 50yrs: it's well known higher specific impulse == more acceleration for space flight == a better engine (and ions have more impulse than anything chemical)...
Should have used a autopilot with a plane+PTZ camera flying circles vs. a multicopter.... much hard to shoot something down going at 30mph...
The military figured that out with the U2 (hence the SR71 was developed).
Imagine this:
1. a bunch of stationary satellites/vehicles with rockets, laser, whatever. Cause aggressive maneuvering in space hasn't been done yet, so the Math/control systems aren't there yet, nor the MechEng problem is beyond the scope of current tech.
2. a bunch of guys in a room somewhere in Vegas, with 60" LCDs hooked upto a bunch of computers and joysticks, cozy armchairs, and NOC-style environment... operating the space vehicles virtually. Oh and a big radar dish in the backyard and FOXNews playing on the background TV.
THAT is what space combat will be like. Stop listening to those creative Hollywood types.
"Why not just settle disputes by actually playing video games"
Already done, it's called Congress: kids arguing with on another, collecting credits ($$$), having re-dos (reelection), cheating, and playing mind games.
If everyone is remotely fighting, instead of building up this huge infrastructure: wouldn't it be easier to just pick up the d*mn phone and settle it?
Can't defy the laws of physics people--this will never work from a remote aspect (think latency).
The Gundam approach is the way to go.
Keep it cheap.
And that's why open source hardware guys have these unspoken rules. They/we don't have access to a $20million dollar custom fab house or a $100million design studio.
If you keep it cheap, you make money (really, it all comes down to this) by volume, and the 1st guy that makes his fortunes is OK, since all the OS hardware guys use the same cheap hardware (it's limited fellas), so everyone can make some cash. And they all work together since any day MS or Apple can get into the game and wipe (or buy) everyone out (e.g. Kinect)
It's not a "dominate" the competition as with MS, Apple, HP, and Google, were desired profit margins are unreasonably high. So, that a win-win in the OSH community. Also, there is no "race to the bottom". I mean name me one open source hardware developer building a improved Arduino for $900 (when we know a iPhone sold for that amount retail, unlocked)?
"What will it take for humans to live beyond this limit?"
Simple:
Cyborg Technology.
"does more to integrate social networking and file-synching into a personal computer than any other OS."
a. Mt. Lion it's not out yet.
b. Have you seen Windows 8 preview?
c. Have you used Chrome OS (on paper it can be called a PC)?
Of course, It's getting better everyday in time and distance.
On second thought, IMO, Francis is off track, multirotors are cool, but don't fit the use case. That's why the Japan Ministry Of Defense's flying sphere has temporary hover capabilities, but it designed to fly horizontally, which is more efficient for long distance--its design fits the search and inspect use case. Now for search and rescue, a multirotor maybe more appropriate.
Well if you were in hi-tech back then, it made sense.
From the link:
"This system was aimed at high-end government imaging applications which were done by dedicated systems produced by the aerospace industry which cost a million dollars a seat
Having been there, yes, they were that expensive!
An election is essentially crowd sourcing. Stop reinventing the wheel with a new buzz word folks..
People just hate to vote in the end.
Then again, what do people like? As the saying goes: sex, love, and money--oh and include food too.
Bingo, they are presenting coordinated motion instead. They are close to a swarm, they are independent, but not sure if they are still commanded by a central computer (off-board), which means it's not a swarm by a mile. In hindsight, if they are playing back a script on-board each copter, it would be considered modeling swarm formation, but nothing close to flocking (there needs to be a leader quad).
Or everyone becomes a generalist since to make sense of all that new information, we need to integrate it.
In the end, my theory is that robots will be the specialists, as humans are pretty good at integration.... or in other terms systems engineering...
why track by RFID when in the future, we'll likely be tracked by DNA alone. It's coming... believe me...
Top Down == innovation for the sake of business (value)
Bottom Up == innovation for the sake of knowledge (evolution)
Hasn't changed for thousands of years if you think about it. Aside from the power hunger dictator once in a while.
You all realize Newt was in Broward Co during that speech... you know, where KSC is located and the biggest employer in the area?
Wouldn't it be easier to just say, "for all I know an asteroid can hit us tomorrow and pretty much make debating space travel moot".
Cause we have great technology, all that space stuff (in detecting asteroids, planets, solar flares, ionosphere stuff) is still much in theory (or sort of works).
And if one looks at nature, we don't need to go now...we've always been goin' (shouldn't stop).
Yep, no different from McD's using non-humane cattle farms, and risky meat. People are concerned, but when it comes to their chicken nuggets or McRib (which is NOT real RIBS), they look the other way.
To solve a problem from this is gotta come "from within", McD's did it with veggie oil and soy products, and getting there with the humane part. And it was from the leaders of that company to finally do something about it. Apple needs to do the same, they are similar companies business-wise. The customers will not, nor the investors.
Good luck.
it's all about weight weight weight.... retrofitting with human environmental systems will reduce the already maxxed out payload capacity and could weaken the structure. These rockets are optimized for their payloads...
FYI, their U-verse service runs similarity. I just switched after finding out I'm too far away from the switching station excuse...
Problem is their U-verse VOIP implementation is just plainly a hack and screws everything else (TV, Internet) up.
This will not handle well, period... the physics don't allow it.
But as something to casually get from point A to B, not bad...
Gesture input that is....
Put a sheet of pepper's ghost horizontally and some cool things can come out of a large space like that.