I believe he's saying the past human explorations had another goal - a political one - and that was good enough for them to go out into space.
If we never take the risk to explore different ways of doing things, we might still be living in caves.
Human space exploration too obsolete? We haven't even done much with it. Robots might do their jobs better in harsh space environemnts but it is more special to get a first-hand account of actually being in space. People care more about things involving...surpise PEOPLE than robots. Remember what happened this January. In any given day in space news, two Mars rover landings would've made headlines but Bush's plan stole the thunder when he mentioned manned missions.
Look at that, manned missions that wouldn't exist for at least 10 MORE YEARS made bigger news than a few robots that are ALREADY in space. That tells us something on where our interests are.
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..."Remember the part where Han Solo sliced the head off an alien with his lightsaber, chucked it at another alien and exploded? No? Then you should check out the Turkish Star Wars. Where even Spencer's Gifts have better laser effects than this movie. Hey, at least it's better than Episode One."
http://www.spacetether.com/
Another suggestion is to make a long cable that hangs in free air, from a station in a GEO altitude to a drop towards suborbital space. So it will be dangling around 100km or so above the ground. Since it's not anchored to the earth, you can probably skimp a bit on the material's strength of the tether.
A first-stage rocket will deliver the payload, which will be taken by the tether when it 'docks' with the spacecraft. The only issue I see is that the 'hangtime' of being in suborbit should be long enough to complete the procedure, and it would take some work into getting the craft going at the same speed as the tether in orbit.
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Taggers = representing their gangs. 'Artcrime' if you want to call it that, are supposed to make works that are more open to interpretation. You can't really make much of a tag. Just a guy saying he holds that territory, not much else.
Also there's not much aesthetic effort to tagging. Tagging is to chicken scratch as Artcrime is to embellished calligraphy. The big problem is the general public unable to discern tagging from true street art. I've seen some interesting wall art on a pizza shop close by, had this cool Roman warrior on it, and before that was around, it was an aerosol-painted ad of Powerade. Powerade! Just to show that some people are generous enough to put plugs on different products. No one should complain about graffiti if it's commercial.
The reality will be that most major sites will set up mirror servers on other celestial bodies. This will reduced the lag significantly. The information will be updated on a periodic basis to best match the current information found on Earth. However, due to our current limits of communication speed, there will likely be a delay of a few minutes with updates, or a few hours if it's someplace real far like Mars. So Martian citizens will be a few hours behind on Earth news.
At least Pontiac was quick to reconsider design changes to it.
In only 2 years after it came out the Aztek already went through some changes. The unsightly plastic cladding was removed, allowing for a more conservative monochrome paint job. Sure, it's still not very pretty but it's easier to look at now.
And price. I think it's a failure to the masses, but at least they're not so pretentious about their product, unlike Dean Kamen and his certain scooter. Remember, it will promise to "change the way cities are made"!
A specific demographic or target audience? What I seem to notice is, the RIAA only seeks to protect big-name artists or other Top 40 pop-garbage. A lot of the fake files are labled as popular artists.
Does this mean that others are safe if they don't listen to popular stuff? I think so, at least in the realm of underground artists and electronic music. I mean, just how many artists are covered under the RIAA?
Is it coincidential that the engine blocks of American hot rods are measured in cubic inches (ci) and Asian street racers it's in cubic centimeters (cc)? That's how I see it all the time in articles and magazines.
Also, I do realize that NASA was going to do the first two things already, no need to point that out. But what I'm saying is, no more 'made by NASA' spacecraft. Let NASA provide the science, everyone else do the planning.
1. Get those shuttles off the ground again to finish the ISS. 2. When the ISS is done, scrap the shuttles.
Meanwhile: 3. NASA has deep pockets. Let them give out all the prize money they want. I mean, it will benefit private business, right? But that's it, just prize money. We still want private firms to be self-sufficient. 4. Focus almost entirely on new scientific research instead of engineering and craft construction, and pass the knowledge on to the private firms. Leave the firms to do all the engineering for practical means and manufacture whatever they see fit.
"...Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites -- the "you're not likely to know what we're up to next until we have to push it outside" people...hopes success in this venture would initiate a new private space race to usher affordable space travel to the common (perhaps upper-upper-middle class) man. Rutan estimates first-generation public spacecraft -- and SpaceShipOne is scaleable -- will offer "rides" at $30,000-50,000 and second-generation craft will do it for closer to $10,000. "We're heading to orbit sooner than you think...The next 25 years will be a wild ride... and one that
historians will note was done for the benefit of all," said Rutan..."
Check out Rutan's new toy. I wonder what he's gonna be building with that thing. Consequently, how much money do you think it will take for Rutan to design an orbital vehichle?
Does anyone have information regarding the press conference this afternoon with Scaled's crew? Like any future prospects? A link to a brief transcript of the conference would be good enough.
Competition is good indeed. This is just another example showing why capitalism is better than monopolies or state-controlled properties. NASA is turning the space race into a space stroll in the park. It's time for private enterprise to give it the kick start it deserves.
When Scaled Composites officially declares a start in space tourism services, I would really like to see the other firms catch up quick and fight for his customers. THEN the private space industry officially starts.
As a communications device/organizer, the phone is pretty good. But to compete against the market of portable gaming devices, it doesn't stand a chance. Seeing as Nintendo practically saturated the market already with the GBA and its predecessors. And in one year it will be a whole new ball game, as gaming buffs will be clamoring for the Sony SP and Nintendo DS.
If the PSP and Nintendo DS were never unveiled this year, the N-Gage QD would've done ok. I actually sympathize with Nokia on this one. They quickly noted the flaws of the original, retooled and redesigned it while taking out extraneous features, but it still won't make it. The N-Gage simply came out too late.
I just saw some TV footage from a Fox News preview of the White Kight and SpaceshipOne taking off. It looks so much cooler than all of the pictures I've seen online!
I'm interested in that Burt Rutan calls this series of SS1 flights his "tier one" project. Is there a tier two? Rutan has mentioned something along the lines of a larger White Knight using 8 modified 747 engines to carry much larger payloads. One can only hope!
Race car drivers are known to walk away after experiencing much greater G-forces, although with some broken bones. 190mph to an instant stop in the blink of an eye, it doesn't get tougher than that.
Think about it, we haven't had a good food-making computer simulator since Burgertime. Maybe it's time for a new 3D grilling simulator to help those guys at Mickey D's in training.
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I believe he's saying the past human explorations had another goal - a political one - and that was good enough for them to go out into space.
If we never take the risk to explore different ways of doing things, we might still be living in caves.
Human space exploration too obsolete? We haven't even done much with it. Robots might do their jobs better in harsh space environemnts but it is more special to get a first-hand account of actually being in space. People care more about things involving...surpise PEOPLE than robots. Remember what happened this January. In any given day in space news, two Mars rover landings would've made headlines but Bush's plan stole the thunder when he mentioned manned missions.
Look at that, manned missions that wouldn't exist for at least 10 MORE YEARS made bigger news than a few robots that are ALREADY in space. That tells us something on where our interests are.
..."Remember the part where Han Solo sliced the head off an alien with his lightsaber, chucked it at another alien and exploded? No? Then you should check out the Turkish Star Wars. Where even Spencer's Gifts have better laser effects than this movie. Hey, at least it's better than Episode One."
http://www.spacetether.com/ Another suggestion is to make a long cable that hangs in free air, from a station in a GEO altitude to a drop towards suborbital space. So it will be dangling around 100km or so above the ground. Since it's not anchored to the earth, you can probably skimp a bit on the material's strength of the tether. A first-stage rocket will deliver the payload, which will be taken by the tether when it 'docks' with the spacecraft. The only issue I see is that the 'hangtime' of being in suborbit should be long enough to complete the procedure, and it would take some work into getting the craft going at the same speed as the tether in orbit.
Taggers = representing their gangs. 'Artcrime' if you want to call it that, are supposed to make works that are more open to interpretation. You can't really make much of a tag. Just a guy saying he holds that territory, not much else.
Also there's not much aesthetic effort to tagging. Tagging is to chicken scratch as Artcrime is to embellished calligraphy. The big problem is the general public unable to discern tagging from true street art. I've seen some interesting wall art on a pizza shop close by, had this cool Roman warrior on it, and before that was around, it was an aerosol-painted ad of Powerade. Powerade! Just to show that some people are generous enough to put plugs on different products. No one should complain about graffiti if it's commercial.
The reality will be that most major sites will set up mirror servers on other celestial bodies. This will reduced the lag significantly. The information will be updated on a periodic basis to best match the current information found on Earth. However, due to our current limits of communication speed, there will likely be a delay of a few minutes with updates, or a few hours if it's someplace real far like Mars. So Martian citizens will be a few hours behind on Earth news.
At least Pontiac was quick to reconsider design changes to it.
In only 2 years after it came out the Aztek already went through some changes. The unsightly plastic cladding was removed, allowing for a more conservative monochrome paint job. Sure, it's still not very pretty but it's easier to look at now.
And price. I think it's a failure to the masses, but at least they're not so pretentious about their product, unlike Dean Kamen and his certain scooter. Remember, it will promise to "change the way cities are made"!
A specific demographic or target audience? What I seem to notice is, the RIAA only seeks to protect big-name artists or other Top 40 pop-garbage. A lot of the fake files are labled as popular artists. Does this mean that others are safe if they don't listen to popular stuff? I think so, at least in the realm of underground artists and electronic music. I mean, just how many artists are covered under the RIAA?
Is it coincidential that the engine blocks of American hot rods are measured in cubic inches (ci) and Asian street racers it's in cubic centimeters (cc)? That's how I see it all the time in articles and magazines.
Also, I do realize that NASA was going to do the first two things already, no need to point that out. But what I'm saying is, no more 'made by NASA' spacecraft. Let NASA provide the science, everyone else do the planning.
In my opinion, here's what NASA should do:
1. Get those shuttles off the ground again to finish the ISS.
2. When the ISS is done, scrap the shuttles.
Meanwhile:
3. NASA has deep pockets. Let them give out all the prize money they want. I mean, it will benefit private business, right? But that's it, just prize money. We still want private firms to be self-sufficient.
4. Focus almost entirely on new scientific research instead of engineering and craft construction, and pass the knowledge on to the private firms. Leave the firms to do all the engineering for practical means and manufacture whatever they see fit.
"...Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites -- the "you're not likely to know what we're up to next until we have to push it outside" people...hopes success in this venture would initiate a new private space race to usher affordable space travel to the common (perhaps upper-upper-middle class) man. Rutan estimates first-generation public spacecraft -- and SpaceShipOne is scaleable -- will offer "rides" at $30,000-50,000 and second-generation craft will do it for closer to $10,000. "We're heading to orbit sooner than you think...The next 25 years will be a wild ride ... and one that
historians will note was done for the benefit of all," said Rutan..."
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We need more ambitious dreamers like him. Kudos!
Check out Rutan's new toy. I wonder what he's gonna be building with that thing. Consequently, how much money do you think it will take for Rutan to design an orbital vehichle?
Does anyone have information regarding the press conference this afternoon with Scaled's crew? Like any future prospects? A link to a brief transcript of the conference would be good enough.
Competition is good indeed. This is just another example showing why capitalism is better than monopolies or state-controlled properties. NASA is turning the space race into a space stroll in the park. It's time for private enterprise to give it the kick start it deserves. When Scaled Composites officially declares a start in space tourism services, I would really like to see the other firms catch up quick and fight for his customers. THEN the private space industry officially starts.
He should play some contempo jazz or big band. Seeing that plane fly gives me weird Cowboy Bebop vibes.
As a communications device/organizer, the phone is pretty good. But to compete against the market of portable gaming devices, it doesn't stand a chance. Seeing as Nintendo practically saturated the market already with the GBA and its predecessors. And in one year it will be a whole new ball game, as gaming buffs will be clamoring for the Sony SP and Nintendo DS.
If the PSP and Nintendo DS were never unveiled this year, the N-Gage QD would've done ok. I actually sympathize with Nokia on this one. They quickly noted the flaws of the original, retooled and redesigned it while taking out extraneous features, but it still won't make it. The N-Gage simply came out too late.
I just saw some TV footage from a Fox News preview of the White Kight and SpaceshipOne taking off. It looks so much cooler than all of the pictures I've seen online!
I'm interested in that Burt Rutan calls this series of SS1 flights his "tier one" project. Is there a tier two? Rutan has mentioned something along the lines of a larger White Knight using 8 modified 747 engines to carry much larger payloads. One can only hope!
Race car drivers are known to walk away after experiencing much greater G-forces, although with some broken bones. 190mph to an instant stop in the blink of an eye, it doesn't get tougher than that.
Think about it, we haven't had a good food-making computer simulator since Burgertime. Maybe it's time for a new 3D grilling simulator to help those guys at Mickey D's in training.