I have a garmin etrex. I use it with a bicycle mobile phone case which clamps to a handle bar. I saw that gps in the shop the other day for 149 AUD. It should be pretty cheap wherever you are.
My etrex doesn't support maps though. I am mainly interested in marking locations of interest only to me.
Software is a hobby which he could give up whenever he wants to.
You realize this is how most of the linux world works right?
I am not sure it is how the kernel developers work. Think about it: it is likely that Con Kolivas has never once used an operating system other than windows in his working environment. He uses linux at home, in his spare time. He may never have seen Linux used in a large scale production environment.
Sorry, it's not the right tool for me so it's not worth me investing the time in setting one up.
C'mon Con. DSCM is a great way to distribute forks of software. If you don't like git (I don't) there is a mercurial mirror of the linux kernel available and hosting a repository is dead easy. There are plenty of free options anyway. Or ask me.
The "bad maintainer" part is referring to bad blood over the adoption of Ingo Molnar's CFS over Kolivas's own RSDL
Yeah but Con just didn't give the impression that he intended to be around to support his code. He is an anaesthetist. Software is a hobby which he could give up whenever he wants to. I think that is very different from somebody who is doing software for their career.
They could easily limit the amount of deceleration.
How would you propose they do that? Aerobraking on return from Mars is going to be similar to the return from the moon. It has to be done in one go and the delta-V is about 11 km/s.
it is safe to think that the supplies sent would last until just a few days before the last one dies.
Yeah but what about nursing care. In Robert Forward's book Rocheworld robots were advanced enough to take care of that. But we don't have the technology at the moment.
Yeah I know but it wouldn't be humane to send a bunch of people who are all going to hit old age at the same time. And I wouldn't want to be the one to be stranded on Mars cleaning up after elderly people with no bowel control for a decade or so.
One big problem with that is that after a couple of years in zero G and 1/3 G the crew may not be able to move around on Earth without medical help. Aerobraking on return to Earth would expose them to 10G of acceleration and that could even be immediately fatal.
My father in law is currently dying from terminal cancer and I reckon anybody who has seen it happen would look for a fast way out. What I am seeing now is almost indescribably horrible. I don't blame this guy one bit.
For many impactors up to about the size of The Foot it is enough to know exactly where and when they will impact. For objects bigger than that (Lucifers Hammer) is may be easier to move people off the planet than changing the trajectory of the impactor.
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I have a garmin etrex. I use it with a bicycle mobile phone case which clamps to a handle bar. I saw that gps in the shop the other day for 149 AUD. It should be pretty cheap wherever you are.
My etrex doesn't support maps though. I am mainly interested in marking locations of interest only to me.
Here in Australia there is an informal club called he Cave Clan who do stuff like that.
In Adelaide no less.
Good luck putting all those lawyers out of business.
Well, when almost all the activity is from 2 ips - hoe and...
Spend a lot of time there do you?
While the counties are surely in the Republic, I seriously doubt that "Ulster says No" applies to meteors, exploding blimps or celestial pyrotechnics.
(Unless, of course, it was one of them popish meteors)
You would have to look around for Three Wise Men.
The problem with firing the afterburners over Ireland is finding the country again afterwards.
Really? When I search Google for that phrase now it just finds your comment. That's damn impressive from Google.
Maybe google gets it directly from firefox in real time.
Software is a hobby which he could give up whenever he wants to.
You realize this is how most of the linux world works right?
I am not sure it is how the kernel developers work. Think about it: it is likely that Con Kolivas has never once used an operating system other than windows in his working environment. He uses linux at home, in his spare time. He may never have seen Linux used in a large scale production environment.
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Sorry, it's not the right tool for me so it's not worth me investing the time
in setting one up.
C'mon Con. DSCM is a great way to distribute forks of software. If you don't like git (I don't) there is a mercurial mirror of the linux kernel available and hosting a repository is dead easy. There are plenty of free options anyway. Or ask me.
Don't know about freebsd but I have had many linux systems lock up with a runaway process. Never happened to me on netbsd.
The "bad maintainer" part is referring to bad blood over the adoption of Ingo Molnar's CFS over Kolivas's own RSDL
Yeah but Con just didn't give the impression that he intended to be around to support his code. He is an anaesthetist. Software is a hobby which he could give up whenever he wants to. I think that is very different from somebody who is doing software for their career.
One possibility is having them sleep in a centrifuge with 1G of rotation.
They would need to work and run around in the centrifuge but we don't have any realistic way of building a spacecraft like that.
They could easily limit the amount of deceleration.
How would you propose they do that? Aerobraking on return from Mars is going to be similar to the return from the moon. It has to be done in one go and the delta-V is about 11 km/s.
And as RAH pointed out, the biggest threat to the crew would be themselves. Might make planning for an indefinite mission a bit difficult.
it is safe to think that the supplies sent would last until just a few days before the last one dies.
Yeah but what about nursing care. In Robert Forward's book Rocheworld robots were advanced enough to take care of that. But we don't have the technology at the moment.
they die.
Yeah I know but it wouldn't be humane to send a bunch of people who are all going to hit old age at the same time. And I wouldn't want to be the one to be stranded on Mars cleaning up after elderly people with no bowel control for a decade or so.
One big problem with that is that after a couple of years in zero G and 1/3 G the crew may not be able to move around on Earth without medical help. Aerobraking on return to Earth would expose them to 10G of acceleration and that could even be immediately fatal.
Its easier and safer to resupply them for life than to try to bring them back. But I wonder what would happen when they get very old.
Hey, I know someone who professes to be the world's foremost expert on moodily lit tubes of toothpaste!
So how are we gonna make this happen?
Well there is this big space goat you see....
My father in law is currently dying from terminal cancer and I reckon anybody who has seen it happen would look for a fast way out. What I am seeing now is almost indescribably horrible. I don't blame this guy one bit.
For many impactors up to about the size of The Foot it is enough to know exactly where and when they will impact. For objects bigger than that (Lucifers Hammer) is may be easier to move people off the planet than changing the trajectory of the impactor.
Well it seems to have prevented them from flying the Mirage out of that strip.
The Vulcan bomber raid did minimal damage.
What about the crater in the middle of the runway?
I recall reading about it at the time. The pilots called it "VIFFing".