That sounds plausible, except the last I heard there weren't any radio transmissions during the episode. Wouldn't you expect at least 1 of 3 pilots to be screaming into the headset?
No, that only happens in the movies. Pilots are supposed to:
Aviate
Navigate
Communicate
In that order. I doubt they got past step one. In any event the ACARS messaging from the aircraft is the big success here. I expect more functionality to be moved from the flight data recorder to ACARS in the future.
Doesn't explain the electrical failures described in the ACARS messages. Additionally it seems strange that the crew would pay much attention to indicated air speed derived from a pitot tube at that speed and altitude. There are many better ways to determine your speed in that environment. I think it is more likely they would use GPS and other positioning data to determine aircraft speed.
My bet is that they had a structural failure in normal flight. A bit like the composite tail fin failure on the aircraft which crashed after departure from JFK a few years ago.
One night I walked out the front door of my house and a rock fell loudly onto the roof and rolled into the gutter. The next day I got up there with a ladder and took a look. A friend suggested local kids with a catapult of some sort were waiting for me to come out and gave me a scare, which is entirely possible. On the other hand the rock might have been a meteor falling at terminal velocity.
I am posting from Chrome now. It seems quite zippy. I didn't expect it to be (or seem) faster than Firefox. I wonder if the XUL middleware in FF slows things down.
Our ancestors who left Africa were as human as us. They may well have documented the event in their own way. Lets say they left cave paintings which made perfect sense to them. But in the intervening years most of the paintings have worn away and the meaning of the others has been lost. People 100000 years in the future aren't going to understand whatever we record beyond that is antelope.
But we can help archeologists of that time by preserving our important sites as much as possible.
The ascent stage used the descent stage as a launch pad. Footprints immediately around the lander wouldn't have been sprayed with exhaust until the ascent stage was a couple of metres into its trajectory. After that the ascent stage changed attitude to point along the ascent track. This would have pointed the engine back along the landing track, away from the landing site.
It is possible (but unlikely) that the first footprints beside the ladder at the front of the descent stage are still there in some form. I believe it is certain that footprints further away, particularly out around West Crater are still there.
This is ridiculous idolatry. It's not like there is something we *don't* know about these events, there is nothing to discover there, and hence nothing to protect, as opposed to an archeological site.
I would vote for preserving the apollo 11 landing site. The first footsteps on the moon represented a fundamental advance for our species. Maybe in 100000 years people will argue about when and where it happened. Much as we debate the migration out of africa.
Sounds impossible to me. You would have to hide tens of thousands of kilos of gear, clean up all those little bits of foam which rocketed around the landing sites and return the sites to their original state.
While alternating between zero and two G every two minutes? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. More like a continuous car crash than a quiet evening.
Pirating is a bit of an issue in Malaysia. A couple of years ago I took a bus from my wife's home city of Ipoh to the airport in Kuala Lumpur. The bus had a DVD player and they had The War of the Worlds playing. The problem was that the audio track was in Russian and the English subtitles appeared to have been imperfectly translated from the imperfectly translated Audio.
I was certain that we had a problem there when I watched Tom Cruise running from the aliens yelling my elephant has gone to Europe!
Yeah I see your point. Another thing is the number of people who expect the www. subdomain to be present. If I say to a (usually non-technical person) to go to telstra.com they get confused and ask me if that starts with www.
news.google.com is just as good for google as news.com would be because browsers autocomplete from left to right. I type news, the google site comes right up.
So if you want greatsite.com but thats taken then register blah.com and create a subdomain greatsite.blah.com
Down the track you may be able to snap up the domain you originally wanted, or you may have a better idea by then.
I suspect it would be like the time there was a volcano in New Zealand and somebody there set up a web cam people elsewhere could monitor it. Somebody in a different hemisphere took a look and because the scene was black assumed the surrounding area had blown up. Of course they were looking at night and had forgotten the time difference.
A company close to where I work will rent you a stretched version, a bit like a limo. Recently somebody (possibly the same company) tried to avoid an import tax on luxury cars by designating their hummers as buses.
they can't be released to China, because the Chinese government considers dissidents terrorists
It surprises me that the US can't do a deal with the Chinese for these people. David Hicks was released to the Australians, jailed for a year then released with a control order. The Chinese can do deals too.
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That sounds plausible, except the last I heard there weren't any radio transmissions during the episode. Wouldn't you expect at least 1 of 3 pilots to be screaming into the headset?
No, that only happens in the movies. Pilots are supposed to:
In that order. I doubt they got past step one. In any event the ACARS messaging from the aircraft is the big success here. I expect more functionality to be moved from the flight data recorder to ACARS in the future.
Doesn't explain the electrical failures described in the ACARS messages. Additionally it seems strange that the crew would pay much attention to indicated air speed derived from a pitot tube at that speed and altitude. There are many better ways to determine your speed in that environment. I think it is more likely they would use GPS and other positioning data to determine aircraft speed.
My bet is that they had a structural failure in normal flight. A bit like the composite tail fin failure on the aircraft which crashed after departure from JFK a few years ago.
One night I walked out the front door of my house and a rock fell loudly onto the roof and rolled into the gutter. The next day I got up there with a ladder and took a look. A friend suggested local kids with a catapult of some sort were waiting for me to come out and gave me a scare, which is entirely possible. On the other hand the rock might have been a meteor falling at terminal velocity.
added /etc/chron.daily/google-chrome
Hey that is different!
I am posting from Chrome now. It seems quite zippy. I didn't expect it to be (or seem) faster than Firefox. I wonder if the XUL middleware in FF slows things down.
Our ancestors who left Africa were as human as us. They may well have documented the event in their own way. Lets say they left cave paintings which made perfect sense to them. But in the intervening years most of the paintings have worn away and the meaning of the others has been lost. People 100000 years in the future aren't going to understand whatever we record beyond that is antelope.
But we can help archeologists of that time by preserving our important sites as much as possible.
The ascent stage used the descent stage as a launch pad. Footprints immediately around the lander wouldn't have been sprayed with exhaust until the ascent stage was a couple of metres into its trajectory. After that the ascent stage changed attitude to point along the ascent track. This would have pointed the engine back along the landing track, away from the landing site.
It is possible (but unlikely) that the first footprints beside the ladder at the front of the descent stage are still there in some form. I believe it is certain that footprints further away, particularly out around West Crater are still there.
This is ridiculous idolatry. It's not like there is something we *don't* know about these events, there is nothing to discover there, and hence nothing to protect, as opposed to an archeological site.
I would vote for preserving the apollo 11 landing site. The first footsteps on the moon represented a fundamental advance for our species. Maybe in 100000 years people will argue about when and where it happened. Much as we debate the migration out of africa.
Sounds impossible to me. You would have to hide tens of thousands of kilos of gear, clean up all those little bits of foam which rocketed around the landing sites and return the sites to their original state.
Erosion Requires an atmosphere doesn't it?
No. They can be eroded by micrometeorites and thermal changes. But that would take millions of years.
How many places would remain if all those spots are banned? There are only so much good landing sites on the Moon.
At the current rate there are enough landing sites to keep us busy for a couple of thousand years.
while drinking
While alternating between zero and two G every two minutes? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. More like a continuous car crash than a quiet evening.
...since it will all be over in 30 seconds.
Pirating is a bit of an issue in Malaysia. A couple of years ago I took a bus from my wife's home city of Ipoh to the airport in Kuala Lumpur. The bus had a DVD player and they had The War of the Worlds playing. The problem was that the audio track was in Russian and the English subtitles appeared to have been imperfectly translated from the imperfectly translated Audio.
I was certain that we had a problem there when I watched Tom Cruise running from the aliens yelling my elephant has gone to Europe!
This is a list of examples..
Quite a good record too. I went looking for howlers to link to but they seem to be doing a good professional job of tracking changes to their code.
Yeah I see your point. Another thing is the number of people who expect the www. subdomain to be present. If I say to a (usually non-technical person) to go to telstra.com they get confused and ask me if that starts with www.
news.google.com is just as good for google as news.com would be because browsers autocomplete from left to right. I type news, the google site comes right up.
So if you want greatsite.com but thats taken then register blah.com and create a subdomain greatsite.blah.com
Down the track you may be able to snap up the domain you originally wanted, or you may have a better idea by then.
Sites will now pay the PRS 0.085p per track, compared to the 0.22p they paid previously.
I assume that one p means 0.01 UK pounds but I could be wrong about that.
A few CCs of silicone would make a handy lethal weapon if delivered appropriately.
Of course, when the year of linux-on-the-desktop-comes, it will all be better. Right?
Apparently it has, but according to The Age it isn't Linux.
I suspect it would be like the time there was a volcano in New Zealand and somebody there set up a web cam people elsewhere could monitor it. Somebody in a different hemisphere took a look and because the scene was black assumed the surrounding area had blown up. Of course they were looking at night and had forgotten the time difference.
A company close to where I work will rent you a stretched version, a bit like a limo. Recently somebody (possibly the same company) tried to avoid an import tax on luxury cars by designating their hummers as buses.
they can't be released to China, because the Chinese government considers dissidents terrorists
It surprises me that the US can't do a deal with the Chinese for these people. David Hicks was released to the Australians, jailed for a year then released with a control order. The Chinese can do deals too.
When they can not find the @ key, they usually give up.
How do you type an email address in Iceland?
...and just say "You can try." and smile. :-)
A left handed mouse configuration serves the same purpose for me.