The original Ranger landers were redesigned because the design was too complex and kept failing. The second version had a whole lot of needless requirements taken out and worked very well.
If you read the ALSJ there are plenty of examples of sound transmission on the moon. Sitting on the lunar rover, the crew could hear the electric motors through the seats they were sitting on. Striking a rock or tool with a hammer, astronauts could hear the sound of impact through their suits, and this sound was transmitted to the other astronaut via radio.
The indicator stalk on my wife's Jetta is on the left. The indicator stalk on my Townace is on the right. This drives me mad because I drive both cars, but my wife is fine with the situation. I don't see VW and Toyota going to war over it, despite the safety problem it creates. I think this is more of a namespace problem and it was always going to happen if desktop environments try to display each others menus. While it may be handy for KDE to display the Gnome "Internet" menu I think it is less useful for the settings menus to cross over cleanly. Perhaps each desktop environment should have a mechanism to deal with conflicts. Say when KDE sees a menu item from Gnome which might create a conflict it puts "Gnome" on the front.
IIRC we had one in the very late 1960s in East Doncaster, Victoria. Thinking back I wonder why people didn't go for composting toilets. Its a modern idea but old technology and it would eliminate a very dirty job.
My house was built in 1930 but my wife and I extended it in 2004. One thing which has changed in Australian houses is that modern homes put the kitchen in a more prominent location closer to the front. In the past the kitchen seemed to be hidden away out the back. In many houses now it seems to be the focus of all activity. Stronger materials also enable structures to have larger spans at a reasonable price, so there are fewer walls and rooms are bigger.
Weight of Dawn on Vesta: 0.022 * 1200 * 10 = 264 Newtons. Yeah its not going to work. Escape velocity 0.35 km/s. Its a pretty decent little planet. Enough to require something like the Apollo LM for a landing I would think.
I mainly shopped for DVDs in borders stores but lately they have reorganised and made it really difficult to find stuff. I could never work out their system so I wound up doing alphabetical searches in each small category. It would be easier if they just had a big stack of titles, alphabetically sorted. I assume this was some MBA inspired technique to get me to discover something else to buy in the other categories, or to spend more time in the store. In practice I couldn't find what I wanted so I went to JB.
I actually don't think any orbits were done of Itokawa. Hayabusa seemed to be using engines to maintain its distance from the asteroid. But I definitely agree that NEAR Shoemaker has the record here. I don't think it matters much that Eros is not in the main belt. And the landing on Eros was a genuine first. I can't see any way for Dawn to land on Ceres without a crash. There is too much gravity and it doesn't seem to have non-ion thrusters at all.
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There's no dark side of the moon really.
Matter of fact its all dark.
Turn in your geek card.
The monolith was in Tycho, which is on Nearside, not Farside.
Maybe Clarke was wrong on this little detail.
The original Ranger landers were redesigned because the design was too complex and kept failing. The second version had a whole lot of needless requirements taken out and worked very well.
If you read the ALSJ there are plenty of examples of sound transmission on the moon. Sitting on the lunar rover, the crew could hear the electric motors through the seats they were sitting on. Striking a rock or tool with a hammer, astronauts could hear the sound of impact through their suits, and this sound was transmitted to the other astronaut via radio.
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Looks like they reclaimed some land for the top left corner of the H. I know a few people called HAMAD so I suppose they all get to claim it.
Fortunately, Heathrow is designed in such a way that smiling is unlikely for anyone unfortunate enough to be there.
Nothing fortunate about that. Just clever design.
Please do (Aussie here).
FYI: installing gnome 3 broke xfce for me.
The KDE one should be called Kontrol Panel.
The indicator stalk on my wife's Jetta is on the left. The indicator stalk on my Townace is on the right. This drives me mad because I drive both cars, but my wife is fine with the situation. I don't see VW and Toyota going to war over it, despite the safety problem it creates. I think this is more of a namespace problem and it was always going to happen if desktop environments try to display each others menus. While it may be handy for KDE to display the Gnome "Internet" menu I think it is less useful for the settings menus to cross over cleanly. Perhaps each desktop environment should have a mechanism to deal with conflicts. Say when KDE sees a menu item from Gnome which might create a conflict it puts "Gnome" on the front.
Thank christ for version control.
I wonder how google would go indexing the contents of 10 billion files.
IBM are selling ClearCase with a straight face.
I've got a friend whose business is stuffing the iPad full of flight documentation and manuals and it's for defence. Sorry, don't make stuff up.
Sounds like nice work if you can get it. Outside apple land he would be replaced with a few short scripts.
IIRC we had one in the very late 1960s in East Doncaster, Victoria. Thinking back I wonder why people didn't go for composting toilets. Its a modern idea but old technology and it would eliminate a very dirty job.
My house was built in 1930 but my wife and I extended it in 2004. One thing which has changed in Australian houses is that modern homes put the kitchen in a more prominent location closer to the front. In the past the kitchen seemed to be hidden away out the back. In many houses now it seems to be the focus of all activity. Stronger materials also enable structures to have larger spans at a reasonable price, so there are fewer walls and rooms are bigger.
Hmmm.
Mass of Dawn: ~1200kg
Weight of Dawn on Vesta: 0.022 * 1200 * 10 = 264 Newtons. Yeah its not going to work. Escape velocity 0.35 km/s. Its a pretty decent little planet. Enough to require something like the Apollo LM for a landing I would think.
I mainly shopped for DVDs in borders stores but lately they have reorganised and made it really difficult to find stuff. I could never work out their system so I wound up doing alphabetical searches in each small category. It would be easier if they just had a big stack of titles, alphabetically sorted. I assume this was some MBA inspired technique to get me to discover something else to buy in the other categories, or to spend more time in the store. In practice I couldn't find what I wanted so I went to JB.
The US could introduce a goods and services tax at the federal level and pass the revenue to state (and ultimately) local governments.
there must be something better
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facebook is for 13+. 18+ seems a bit stupid.
Its a beta. What if it starts spamming everybody with Sergey Brin's porno collection?
Teletype, going back to the start of the last century. Maybe not using computers but definitely digital.
I actually don't think any orbits were done of Itokawa. Hayabusa seemed to be using engines to maintain its distance from the asteroid. But I definitely agree that NEAR Shoemaker has the record here. I don't think it matters much that Eros is not in the main belt. And the landing on Eros was a genuine first. I can't see any way for Dawn to land on Ceres without a crash. There is too much gravity and it doesn't seem to have non-ion thrusters at all.
Bit hard for a search engine to link to something without retaining a copy of some kind of the web page.