Did the shuttle, indeed, ever return a satellite? I don't recall that it ever did - or what the point of that would be. Mind you, I do recall that being one of the bullet points in the sales brochure.
If it hadn't been for all their schizophrenic dipshit specifications (polar orbit launches from Vandenburg, etc.) the Shuttle might have been designed to live up to the hype, instead of the camel-by-committee it turned out to be. As it is, we're retiring a 27 year-old vehicle which spent 365 days on orbit. The "space pickup truck" flew 39 missions - that's not even close to two a year. Still, a decent ship we learned a lot from. Maybe the commercial people will learn to stick to a single mission criteria envelope.
I see parent was unfairly modded "troll" while I was typing my response above. He raises a valid (and true) point, and whoever modded him "troll" is EXACTLY the kind of closed-minded twit he was (non-inflammatorily) talking about.
You're right. Look how long "a god did it" has lasted.
Science and religion have a lot in common in that they both attempt to explain the world (universe) and our place in it. The difference is that science can at least admit that it could be wrong. Falsifiability and all that.
Perhaps you should pull your head out of your ass and look up the history of Cepheid variable stars or supernovae. Both had several false starts before the current theory.
But you're right, "it's just space", so all we stand to learn from it is how the universe is put together and how it works.
Why call it a con? We need MORE studies like this to refute the baldfaced lies of the BSA, RIAA and MPAA. Those clowns pull numbers out of their ass and everyone treats it like gospel. Some actual facts are a useful counter.
As someone who taught programming (advanced C++, Java) part-time at the community college level for years, I can tell you that the lack of selectivity you talk about has a far more pernicious effect than simply allowing unqualified students to sign up for courses they are destined to fail. Allowing unqualified students into a classroom simply because they can pay for it has the reverse effect of "a rising tide raises all ships" - 2 or 3 (or 8 or 10) students in a classroom of 25 who don't have the prerequisite knowledge to be there causes NO END of distractions and problems for both the teacher AND the qualified students in the room.
I got out of teaching because unqualified students who didn't (and never could have) understand what I was talking about expected me to somehow pour knowledge into their heads without any effort on their parts - because, after all, they were PAYING for it, by god. Meanwhile, they were forcing me to present a dumber course to the people who really DID "get it". And the better students were frustrated by the dumber (and slower) level of instruction. Truly a lose/lose situation for all.
OK, I'll give you that. Still, he was prosecuted as a "terrist", even BEFORE 9/11. Which I suspect was the original AC's point about Gitmo. Going all uber-literal about a specific place of incarceration ignores the point that rebellion (of any kind) is met with swift and severe consequences, even here in the land of the free and the home of the brave (TM) - which, as to MY original point, is a country founded on rebellion and treason - just don't try it again.
Why do you suppose private military companies like Blackwater exist in the first place? Hint: because they're not constrained by all those pesky rules the government is required to follow.
Meanwhile, the case in question is textbook police misuse of power.
The new method has no theoretical limit in the size of feature that can be seen.
[Professor Li said] "Theoretically, there is no limit on how small an object we will be able to see."
So, below the Plank scale then? Indeed, below the wavelength of the light used by the microscope?
We all knew that SCO had no real claims years ago when we started hearing things from them like "look at errno.h - they are teh same!". It was obvious to anybody paying any attention at all that it was a shakedown from the get-go - their one mistake was picking IBM to shake down, whose policy has always been "millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute", and who has a larger legal department than the US government. The fact that it took as long as it did for the inevitable outcome just shows how broken the US legal system (and IP law in particular) really is.
Actually, it is. Remember, it takes a photon emitted by a fusion reaction reaction at the suns core tens of thousands of years to make its way to the surface of the sun, because it is reabsorbed and re-emitted so often. The fact that Cas A can be of a uniform temperature and that the temperature can change so rapidly is pretty good "direct" evidence for a superfluid. Besides, a neutron star is essentially one giant molecule anyways, since in degenerate matter protons, neutrons and electrons are pretty much in direct contact, without any "atomic" or "molecular" structure.
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Did the shuttle, indeed, ever return a satellite? I don't recall that it ever did - or what the point of that would be. Mind you, I do recall that being one of the bullet points in the sales brochure.
If it hadn't been for all their schizophrenic dipshit specifications (polar orbit launches from Vandenburg, etc.) the Shuttle might have been designed to live up to the hype, instead of the camel-by-committee it turned out to be. As it is, we're retiring a 27 year-old vehicle which spent 365 days on orbit. The "space pickup truck" flew 39 missions - that's not even close to two a year. Still, a decent ship we learned a lot from. Maybe the commercial people will learn to stick to a single mission criteria envelope.
Because Firefox doesn't chew enough CPU cycles now.
Yay. More Javascript and Flash.
I see parent was unfairly modded "troll" while I was typing my response above. He raises a valid (and true) point, and whoever modded him "troll" is EXACTLY the kind of closed-minded twit he was (non-inflammatorily) talking about.
You're right. Look how long "a god did it" has lasted.
Science and religion have a lot in common in that they both attempt to explain the world (universe) and our place in it. The difference is that science can at least admit that it could be wrong. Falsifiability and all that.
Perhaps you should pull your head out of your ass and look up the history of Cepheid variable stars or supernovae. Both had several false starts before the current theory.
But you're right, "it's just space", so all we stand to learn from it is how the universe is put together and how it works.
All great science starts with "hmmmmm, that's funny...".
Why call it a con? We need MORE studies like this to refute the baldfaced lies of the BSA, RIAA and MPAA. Those clowns pull numbers out of their ass and everyone treats it like gospel. Some actual facts are a useful counter.
As someone who taught programming (advanced C++, Java) part-time at the community college level for years, I can tell you that the lack of selectivity you talk about has a far more pernicious effect than simply allowing unqualified students to sign up for courses they are destined to fail. Allowing unqualified students into a classroom simply because they can pay for it has the reverse effect of "a rising tide raises all ships" - 2 or 3 (or 8 or 10) students in a classroom of 25 who don't have the prerequisite knowledge to be there causes NO END of distractions and problems for both the teacher AND the qualified students in the room.
I got out of teaching because unqualified students who didn't (and never could have) understand what I was talking about expected me to somehow pour knowledge into their heads without any effort on their parts - because, after all, they were PAYING for it, by god. Meanwhile, they were forcing me to present a dumber course to the people who really DID "get it". And the better students were frustrated by the dumber (and slower) level of instruction. Truly a lose/lose situation for all.
OK, I'll give you that. Still, he was prosecuted as a "terrist", even BEFORE 9/11. Which I suspect was the original AC's point about Gitmo. Going all uber-literal about a specific place of incarceration ignores the point that rebellion (of any kind) is met with swift and severe consequences, even here in the land of the free and the home of the brave (TM) - which, as to MY original point, is a country founded on rebellion and treason - just don't try it again.
Heh. That certainly doesn't hurt.
Timothy McVeigh? Oh, that's right, he was executed.
By the same token, we could talk about the 13 colonies and the British Crown. Remember, it's only treason if you lose.
Why do you suppose private military companies like Blackwater exist in the first place? Hint: because they're not constrained by all those pesky rules the government is required to follow.
Meanwhile, the case in question is textbook police misuse of power.
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And be done with it.
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Careful there, you have to go a long, long way to get to that level of boneheaded.
So, more like Windows then.
So, below the Plank scale then? Indeed, below the wavelength of the light used by the microscope?
We all knew that SCO had no real claims years ago when we started hearing things from them like "look at errno.h - they are teh same!". It was obvious to anybody paying any attention at all that it was a shakedown from the get-go - their one mistake was picking IBM to shake down, whose policy has always been "millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute", and who has a larger legal department than the US government. The fact that it took as long as it did for the inevitable outcome just shows how broken the US legal system (and IP law in particular) really is.
Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest -- a shining planet, known as Earth.
I've written up a proposal to see if anyone can hear me scream.
Yeah, I realized that later, along with the "fusion reaction reaction". Wish there was a damn "preview" button or something.
For all intents and purposes, you don't know what "perpetual" means, either.
Actually, it is. Remember, it takes a photon emitted by a fusion reaction reaction at the suns core tens of thousands of years to make its way to the surface of the sun, because it is reabsorbed and re-emitted so often. The fact that Cas A can be of a uniform temperature and that the temperature can change so rapidly is pretty good "direct" evidence for a superfluid. Besides, a neutron star is essentially one giant molecule anyways, since in degenerate matter protons, neutrons and electrons are pretty much in direct contact, without any "atomic" or "molecular" structure.