Maybe the problem is that they are getting help from the Russians. SpaceX might be a better go. Pay them for a technology transfer deal. License their processes, designs and software. SpaceX gets $$$, SK gets a working system.
I think the interpretation of the law is wrong in that case because there are many situations where it is appropriate to append../../ to a URL. How is the person browsing the site expected to know the difference?
safely addapt Stephen Hawking's theory to this situation and state that laws of the universe conspire to prevent anybody ever actually finishing the development of Duke Nukem Forever. True the evidence is purely anecdotal, but then the same goes for his original application of the concept to time machines so that's alright then.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
No, the sun would go nova... (obscure Larry Niven? allusion....)
Yeah I suppose so but the Galileo entry probe entered Jupiter at 45km/s or so and it survived okay. Designing a heat shield is really just a question of how much energy vs how thick to make it.
You mean it survived OK for a little over an hour. On a planet that may or may not have a solid surface to speak of, and probably has a huge "liquid" layer that the probe didn't get close to reaching it (See the thin yellow line, the probe stopped communicating somewhere in there!) would be analogous to the Hayabusa completely burning-up before leaving the mesosphere.
The heat shield is for aerobraking which takes a few minutes at the most. There is no guarantee that this probe will survive for hours in the Australian outback without assistance, too.
safely addapt Stephen Hawking's theory to this situation and state that laws of the universe conspire to prevent anybody ever actually finishing the development of Duke Nukem Forever. True the evidence is purely anecdotal, but then the same goes for his original application of the concept to time machines so that's alright then.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
There's an important point to the re-entry process, separate from the asteroid sample: the craft will be coming at interplanetary speed (about escape velocity from Earth) -- is much faster than typical re-entries from Earth-orbit. Seeing if the heat-shielding technology will work is important for future missions around the solar system.
Yeah I suppose so but the Galileo entry probe entered Jupiter at 45km/s or so and it survived okay. Designing a heat shield is really just a question of how much energy vs how thick to make it.
As far as I can tell, any place with "prohibited area" in the name doesn't sound hospitable.
Oh sure, just because the place is teeming with unexploded munitions, you think it's somehow less hospitable than most of the bush? Please -- it's more hospitable! I mean, there's signs of civilization in there and stuff...
It was used for open air nuclear bomb tests for many years. Beliive me you don't want to go there.
Though I recall that when the vehicle bounced off the asteroid the operators had no idea whether it had collected material from the surface and it is likely they still don't know.
Its a 24 hour drive to Woomera, and from Saturday I will actually be allowed to drive again. But medically its just a really bad idea to spend two whole days on the road right now. It would be great to be close to the landing (or crash, or splat) but in reality I would just spend a few hours waiting at the road block with binoculars stuck to my eys, then turn around and go home.
You can tell, we don't see space craft very often in.au
What makes you such globe trotters. Want to see the world or just want to get the hell out of that place?
My parents did it in 1975 when I was 9 years old. We bought a Commer van outside Australia House in London and drove it around the continent for a year. We had a great time. We almost blew ourselves up a couple of times and very nearly fell into a gorge in Yugoslavia. I missed grade four and to this day I can't do long division.
Part of the reason may be that while there are plenty of things to see in Australia you often have to travel a long way to see them, so international travel is not such a big deal. Christchurch is closer to Melbourne than Brisbane for example.
Many of us have relatives and friends overseas so this gives us reasons to travel, and somebody to fall back on if it doesn't work out. I travel for work quite a bit and one thing I notice when I return to Melbourne is that our airport has an "end of the line" feeling about it. Its where they turn the planes around and send them back to asia. Its a nice place to live but you know you are in a different place when you leave.
And for me now, my wife was born in Malaysia and her family have a house and car there. If we want a holiday it makes sense to make use of them. The funny thing is that I haven't been to Brisbane since I was five years old.
Maybe we should have an icon for articles about Australia as well. I am not sure what though. I don't think a picture of a Sydney bus would convey the right impression. So whats our icon? A can of beer? A kangaroo diving head first through a windscreen?
I recall that many years ago the Australian Computer Society ditched the IT mob, so that you had to be a computer scientist to get in. I was a "member" when I was a student, because it was free for me.
Firstly is very few fans of football can truly consider themselves independent enough to do this well.
Yeah one year where I work a French manager cleaned up in the office Aussie rules footy tipping competition using just football statistics and a copy of excel. The losers always bet their team to win.
Actually Australia would be a good place to put a space port. Many rockets were launched from Woomera a couple of decades ago. I also remember some corporation wanted to launch Russian rockets from Christmas Island. The problem is most of the places which actually manufacture launchers are very far away from Australia...
Woomera is too far south for equatorial launches. There was a proposal for a spaceport on Cape York but in truth it is going to lose out to places right on the equator.
Also if you launch east from woomera you cross the east coast, where is where most of the population lives. Its a bad architecture from the word go.
If orbital commerce really takes off the ideal place would be the east side of Johor Bahru. Unless Singapore beats them to it of course.
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South Korea can't lock people up for less than perfect engineering.
Maybe the problem is that they are getting help from the Russians. SpaceX might be a better go. Pay them for a technology transfer deal. License their processes, designs and software. SpaceX gets $$$, SK gets a working system.
I think the interpretation of the law is wrong in that case because there are many situations where it is appropriate to append ../../ to a URL. How is the person browsing the site expected to know the difference?
you're missing the difference between bandwidth and latency....
If the MMO is on a phone the user will no doubt be driving or operating on people while they play so the latency in the link may not be such an issue.
safely addapt Stephen Hawking's theory to this situation and state that laws of the universe conspire to prevent anybody ever actually finishing the development of Duke Nukem Forever.
True the evidence is purely anecdotal, but then the same goes for his original application of the concept to time machines so that's alright then.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
No, the sun would go nova... (obscure Larry Niven? allusion....)
Yes the sun is somewhat inconstant.
Yeah I suppose so but the Galileo entry probe entered Jupiter at 45km/s or so and it survived okay. Designing a heat shield is really just a question of how much energy vs how thick to make it.
You mean it survived OK for a little over an hour. On a planet that may or may not have a solid surface to speak of, and probably has a huge "liquid" layer that the probe didn't get close to reaching it (See the thin yellow line, the probe stopped communicating somewhere in there!) would be analogous to the Hayabusa completely burning-up before leaving the mesosphere.
The heat shield is for aerobraking which takes a few minutes at the most. There is no guarantee that this probe will survive for hours in the Australian outback without assistance, too.
safely addapt Stephen Hawking's theory to this situation and state that laws of the universe conspire to prevent anybody ever actually finishing the development of Duke Nukem Forever.
True the evidence is purely anecdotal, but then the same goes for his original application of the concept to time machines so that's alright then.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
I have a tablet from the early 1990s which I bought at a second hand place for the sake of curiosity. It runs windows 3.1
There's an important point to the re-entry process, separate from the asteroid sample: the craft will be coming at interplanetary speed (about escape velocity from Earth) -- is much faster than typical re-entries from Earth-orbit. Seeing if the heat-shielding technology will work is important for future missions around the solar system.
Yeah I suppose so but the Galileo entry probe entered Jupiter at 45km/s or so and it survived okay. Designing a heat shield is really just a question of how much energy vs how thick to make it.
The Japanese will probably just get fined for littering.
We haven't had much luck fining them for killing whales so I don't like our chances with this one.
As far as I can tell, any place with "prohibited area" in the name doesn't sound hospitable.
Oh sure, just because the place is teeming with unexploded munitions, you think it's somehow less hospitable than most of the bush? Please -- it's more hospitable! I mean, there's signs of civilization in there and stuff...
It was used for open air nuclear bomb tests for many years. Beliive me you don't want to go there.
then a small town in the area
Andromeda Strain.
Adelaide!
No, first the Dutch, then the British...
You would have to be at Woomera to have a hope of seeing anything.
Though I recall that when the vehicle bounced off the asteroid the operators had no idea whether it had collected material from the surface and it is likely they still don't know.
Its a 24 hour drive to Woomera, and from Saturday I will actually be allowed to drive again. But medically its just a really bad idea to spend two whole days on the road right now. It would be great to be close to the landing (or crash, or splat) but in reality I would just spend a few hours waiting at the road block with binoculars stuck to my eys, then turn around and go home.
You can tell, we don't see space craft very often in .au
What makes you such globe trotters. Want to see the world or just want to get the hell out of that place?
My parents did it in 1975 when I was 9 years old. We bought a Commer van outside Australia House in London and drove it around the continent for a year. We had a great time. We almost blew ourselves up a couple of times and very nearly fell into a gorge in Yugoslavia. I missed grade four and to this day I can't do long division.
Part of the reason may be that while there are plenty of things to see in Australia you often have to travel a long way to see them, so international travel is not such a big deal. Christchurch is closer to Melbourne than Brisbane for example.
Many of us have relatives and friends overseas so this gives us reasons to travel, and somebody to fall back on if it doesn't work out. I travel for work quite a bit and one thing I notice when I return to Melbourne is that our airport has an "end of the line" feeling about it. Its where they turn the planes around and send them back to asia. Its a nice place to live but you know you are in a different place when you leave.
And for me now, my wife was born in Malaysia and her family have a house and car there. If we want a holiday it makes sense to make use of them. The funny thing is that I haven't been to Brisbane since I was five years old.
Maybe we should have an icon for articles about Australia as well. I am not sure what though. I don't think a picture of a Sydney bus would convey the right impression. So whats our icon? A can of beer? A kangaroo diving head first through a windscreen?
John Varley did it in the 1970s
SF thanks.
Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief. All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief
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I recall that many years ago the Australian Computer Society ditched the IT mob, so that you had to be a computer scientist to get in. I was a "member" when I was a student, because it was free for me.
You guys must really hate Uwe Boll. This is the third identical post.
Firstly is very few fans of football can truly consider themselves independent enough to do this well.
Yeah one year where I work a French manager cleaned up in the office Aussie rules footy tipping competition using just football statistics and a copy of excel. The losers always bet their team to win.
Actually Australia would be a good place to put a space port. Many rockets were launched from Woomera a couple of decades ago. I also remember some corporation wanted to launch Russian rockets from Christmas Island. The problem is most of the places which actually manufacture launchers are very far away from Australia...
Woomera is too far south for equatorial launches. There was a proposal for a spaceport on Cape York but in truth it is going to lose out to places right on the equator.
Also if you launch east from woomera you cross the east coast, where is where most of the population lives. Its a bad architecture from the word go.
If orbital commerce really takes off the ideal place would be the east side of Johor Bahru. Unless Singapore beats them to it of course.