Well, if I remember right, one ran out but the other stopped just short of running out - the Aliens got tired of getting shot up and found another way around.
If you like mil-sf, S.M.Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time and Draka series both feature the use of airships.
Iain M. Banks has airship-like creatures in his Culture novel Look to Windward.
And of course, in Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky, airships are prominently featured.
..and the user community is hostile, and any developer working with a database who is worth anything already knows SQL, what's the point?
Besides buzzwords, I mean.
I'm tired of all these endless wrappers and frameworks that just keep stacking up. The lower level stuff is usually easier to learn (and more reusable) than all these wrappers that change by the week.
Thank you for ruining my day. Every time I'm reminded of the Orion project I get pissed off.
If we could have just tried Orion, we could have landed full-scale bases on the moon, mars, and wherever else we wanted them with only a handful of launches. And we would have done this more than 20 years ago.
We've lost the tooling now to even make more of the Saturn V rockets we used to have. The only reason NASA can even do as much as it does anymore is because they can take advantage of miniturization to fit more in their tiny payloads. That and having Russia save our butts on the station.
It makes me sick.
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"China has started developing its first unmanned lunar exploration craft in order to meet its own tight timetable of reaching the moon before 2007, state media said Tuesday.
Work on the craft, named "Chang'e 1" after a moon traveler of ancient legend, is going smoothly, making members of the moon program confident the launch will go ahead as planned, the Xinhua news agency reported."
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I've already heard about a case, in South Africa, I believe, where someone had biometric locks on their car.
So the carjacker just cut off their hand and drove away.
Great, just what I want.
The sad thing is that certain environmental groups seriously believe that.
If some cataclysm destroys civilization, our descendants will have far bigger problems than anything this waste could ever possibly do.
You wouldn't pilot an aircraft with real people in it by remote control via a flight sim or camera setup.
As a matter of fact, I believe people are already talking about taking the pilots out of both cargo and passenger jets.
Well, that and the fact that The Hindenburg was designed to use non-flammable Helium instead, but was forced to use Hydrogen instead when the U.S. refused to sell it to the Zepplin company (fearing that Germany would use Zeppelins to bomb Britain again like they did in WWI)
And the most important thing to remember about the Hindenburg:
Despite a highly flammable skin around highly flammable hydrogen, and despite exploding mid-air, more than half the people on board survived:
"Of the ninety-seven aboard, thirty-six died, including thirteen "civilian" (paying) passengers, the first passengers of this kind killed in a dirigible accident. "
Compare the survival rate with your average airline accident...
Well, if I remember right, one ran out but the other stopped just short of running out - the Aliens got tired of getting shot up and found another way around.
2. Doesn't pay for itself? No new reactors? Then why is France building more plants? And why is over 78% of French electricity demand produced by nuclear power?
Nuclear power works. Get over it.
If you like mil-sf, S.M.Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time and Draka series both feature the use of airships. Iain M. Banks has airship-like creatures in his Culture novel Look to Windward. And of course, in Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky, airships are prominently featured.
Besides buzzwords, I mean.
I'm tired of all these endless wrappers and frameworks that just keep stacking up. The lower level stuff is usually easier to learn (and more reusable) than all these wrappers that change by the week.
Congratulations to the Scaled Composites Team.
If we could have just tried Orion, we could have landed full-scale bases on the moon, mars, and wherever else we wanted them with only a handful of launches. And we would have done this more than 20 years ago.
We've lost the tooling now to even make more of the Saturn V rockets we used to have. The only reason NASA can even do as much as it does anymore is because they can take advantage of miniturization to fit more in their tiny payloads. That and having Russia save our butts on the station.
It makes me sick.
"China has started developing its first unmanned lunar exploration craft in order to meet its own tight timetable of reaching the moon before 2007, state media said Tuesday.
Work on the craft, named "Chang'e 1" after a moon traveler of ancient legend, is going smoothly, making members of the moon program confident the launch will go ahead as planned, the Xinhua news agency reported."