Just butting in to point out that I have never seen Saab branded GM or Subaru cars here in Australia. It is possible that the Saab brand hasn't been damaged outside the US in the way it is being described.
Now the real question is if they can survive as a niche player, missing out on economies of scale...
Ah but that discussion talks about phased arrays and even if you need a steerable antenna I suppose thats a lot easier to do these days with microcontrollers and compact servos.
Indignant antenna designers are invited to contemplate ABM search radars...
I actually think a manned mission to Titan should be considered. I would suggest using fission reactors and ion drives for propulsion. Degree of difficulty might be about the same as the Apollo program in 1960 or so.
Buoyancy won't be the same on Titan because the hydrocarbon fluid will have a lower density than water and the atmosphere is much more dense. But that said buoyancy on Titan is easy to calculate and I would be surprised if the designers of TiME have not done their sums.
I suppose another way would be to build a balloon borne probe, probably using hydrogen for buoyancy. It could compress the hydrogen to land, and release hydrogen to lift.
Wikipedia has a picture showing the probe floating on Titan.
One question I can immediately see an answer to is whether the ASRG generates as much power in vacuum as it will on the surface of Titan. My assumption is that having a weaker heat sink will reduce power output but I can't confirm that.
Well more to the point. You release a file format and say this is the format used by our tool. But because your tool is closed sourced nobody actually knows if you are telling the truth. Another way is to release a container format within which you encode your propitiatory format.
It runs ubuntu 9.10 now. I have it loaded with cross compilers for the openmoko and atmel. As well as java (on an SD card) and gcc, etc. I get a ton of work done commuting by tram. (yay for distrubuted version control). The laptop takes one half a small laptop case. It is light enough to carry around on the weekend.
I have taken it on two holidays. Tasmania and New Zealand. When away I back up our two digital cameras to a Sony video camera with a 30G hard disk. The eeepc is ideal for moving files around between different USB devices. It is also great for watching movies stashed on the video camera.
I wondered about pulling fuses. Probably a dangerous thing to try while in motion because you would have to feel for the fuse box and then pull stuff at random.
On a related note, a French guy I work with kept using his EU drivers license while working in Australia because the police here can't take any points off it.
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Just butting in to point out that I have never seen Saab branded GM or Subaru cars here in Australia. It is possible that the Saab brand hasn't been damaged outside the US in the way it is being described.
Now the real question is if they can survive as a niche player, missing out on economies of scale...
Hmmm. I wonder if normal emission from Earth (TV, FM Radio, Radars) could be used as a beacon.
In vacuum, yes. On Titan, probably not.
Dunno I found the book to be a bit of a downer over all. Baxter can't be a happy guy if he is having thoughts like that all the time.
Ah but that discussion talks about phased arrays and even if you need a steerable antenna I suppose thats a lot easier to do these days with microcontrollers and compact servos.
Indignant antenna designers are invited to contemplate ABM search radars...
-Arthur C Clarke
I actually think a manned mission to Titan should be considered. I would suggest using fission reactors and ion drives for propulsion. Degree of difficulty might be about the same as the Apollo program in 1960 or so.
Buoyancy won't be the same on Titan because the hydrocarbon fluid will have a lower density than water and the atmosphere is much more dense. But that said buoyancy on Titan is easy to calculate and I would be surprised if the designers of TiME have not done their sums.
Gus's mercury sank BTW.
I suppose another way would be to build a balloon borne probe, probably using hydrogen for buoyancy. It could compress the hydrogen to land, and release hydrogen to lift.
No thats what I mean. If they use this stirling engine will they get sufficient power to run the vehicle while they are in vacuum?
Come to think of it, whatever happened to that Europa lander they were planning which was supposed to bore through the ice?
Maybe it could share a launch with TiME? Its much harder to do a soft landing on Europa of course.
Wikipedia has a picture showing the probe floating on Titan.
One question I can immediately see an answer to is whether the ASRG generates as much power in vacuum as it will on the surface of Titan. My assumption is that having a weaker heat sink will reduce power output but I can't confirm that.
Isn't that a Japanese dish?
Every PC maker in the world is the same. Most piggyback off Microsoft.
Feeling rejected are we?
Well more to the point. You release a file format and say this is the format used by our tool. But because your tool is closed sourced nobody actually knows if you are telling the truth. Another way is to release a container format within which you encode your propitiatory format.
It runs ubuntu 9.10 now. I have it loaded with cross compilers for the openmoko and atmel. As well as java (on an SD card) and gcc, etc. I get a ton of work done commuting by tram. (yay for distrubuted version control). The laptop takes one half a small laptop case. It is light enough to carry around on the weekend.
I have taken it on two holidays. Tasmania and New Zealand. When away I back up our two digital cameras to a Sony video camera with a 30G hard disk. The eeepc is ideal for moving files around between different USB devices. It is also great for watching movies stashed on the video camera.
Yelp only operates in the US.
A bright light out around Saturn has to be the sun. So if your camera is not pointing at the sun it must be pointing at a reflection of the sun.
How do they know it's methane, couldn't it be any liquid?
At that temperature, anyway. It can't be water.
If it was possible to mine or drill for oxidizers under the surface of Titan, then you would have a complete energy economy.
Frozen Nitrous Oxide anyone?
I take your point but I expect Steve Jobs will try to improve javascript performance while structuring the APIs to ensure that his OS retains control.
But the only really successful app store is on the iphone, and apple won't allow firefox on that platform.
He's just a crying retard.
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who recently arrived in Melbourne from Queensland,
I rest my case.
I wondered about pulling fuses. Probably a dangerous thing to try while in motion because you would have to feel for the fuse box and then pull stuff at random.
On a related note, a French guy I work with kept using his EU drivers license while working in Australia because the police here can't take any points off it.