Yeah, plus the fact that aircraft are more reliable now so you know in advance when they will need maintenance, You don't need a big base with both maintenance and passenger facilities. You can fly your aircraft to a remote repair shop, and get them back at a known time. Having onboard service life monitoring helps with that a lot.
And a lot less stuff is done in house. Small organisations can handle logistics, food, fuel. Having more contractors would have been difficult in the past, more to manage but offloading that task to software means you can have a more complex business at less cost.
This was Boeing's prediction from 25 years ago. There is just less travel between huge hubs, and there is a lot more point to point travel between smaller airports. The growth of asian and gulf airlines cut into labour costs so it was more economic to operate smaller aircraft.
If most labour had continued to be from Europe and the US, bigger aircraft would have made more sense.
Which never made sense to me. All through the movies, artificial organisms have serial numbers, as did the Nexus 8 in 2049. Couldn't Deckard just sample Rachel's DNA? Probably do it with a hand held reader by that time.
Okay how's this for an idea: FUSE python and PIL to generate an infinite directory tree containing random image data which matches the skin filter without being actually pornographic...
I initially thought they were going to crash it into Mars which would be a stupid idea because the Tesla was never designed to be sterilized. But even in solar orbit its going to be a needless hazard in the long term and objects which originate at Earth eventually come back.
Low Earth orbit is pretty much part of Earth. Its in our outer atmosphere for a start. Bacteria from the moon (but not from the inside of a camera) would be a big deal.
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Let me rephrase that. Growth in traffic between hubs has not increased as much as Airbus would prefer.
Yeah, plus the fact that aircraft are more reliable now so you know in advance when they will need maintenance, You don't need a big base with both maintenance and passenger facilities. You can fly your aircraft to a remote repair shop, and get them back at a known time. Having onboard service life monitoring helps with that a lot.
And a lot less stuff is done in house. Small organisations can handle logistics, food, fuel. Having more contractors would have been difficult in the past, more to manage but offloading that task to software means you can have a more complex business at less cost.
Okay thats interesting. The higher load factors must be the difference there.
B777 right now. B787 if the engine problems can be resolved. Right now a lot of 787s aren't flying due to engine maintenance issues.
I haven't seen one in Melbourne for years. If I hang out at the airport I might see five B777s for one A380.
This was Boeing's prediction from 25 years ago. There is just less travel between huge hubs, and there is a lot more point to point travel between smaller airports. The growth of asian and gulf airlines cut into labour costs so it was more economic to operate smaller aircraft.
If most labour had continued to be from Europe and the US, bigger aircraft would have made more sense.
The shuttle never blew up on the pad.
I think experience has shown that the first flights were the safest. Later flights were less safe because there was weaker oversight.
Makes me wonder if Disney will reduce the amount of cash they put in from now on, while taking the profits from the next couple of movies.
Yeah its like Git is really just Linus's name for Andrew Tridgell.
I will take a look. Thanks.
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Which never made sense to me. All through the movies, artificial organisms have serial numbers, as did the Nexus 8 in 2049. Couldn't Deckard just sample Rachel's DNA? Probably do it with a hand held reader by that time.
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Okay how's this for an idea: FUSE python and PIL to generate an infinite directory tree containing random image data which matches the skin filter without being actually pornographic...
Which is weird. The Shuttle, for all its faults, flew almost perfectly first time,
And get bad press if the rocket explodes and takes out a dozen university projects with it?
Yeah better not to try in the first place.
Have you perfected the Jupiter gravity assist then fly directly into the sun trajectory?
Musk could test a dragon capsule and launch escape system. There is value in demonstrating that launch escape works before they fly a human cargo.
As long as lockheed martin calculates the trajectory I am okay with it,
I initially thought they were going to crash it into Mars which would be a stupid idea because the Tesla was never designed to be sterilized. But even in solar orbit its going to be a needless hazard in the long term and objects which originate at Earth eventually come back.
They could launch an experimental payload though. Anything is better than an old car which will accomplish fuck all apart from promoting Tesla.
SpaceX could give somebody (maybe a university) a free launch though.
Its easier to stay warm in the cold than cool in the heat.
And slaves!
Low Earth orbit is pretty much part of Earth. Its in our outer atmosphere for a start. Bacteria from the moon (but not from the inside of a camera) would be a big deal.