We have an atmosphere. A goodly percentage of that energy would be shed in re-entry before impact. However, you'll note I said, 'on the beach' - not 'in a yacht.'
Technology should be monitored, but the present ITAR regime isn't working well.
The world's largest Theme Park is HolyLand, run by the Disney Corp. It "features the colorful and historic actual former countries of Palestine/Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. Of course, all inhabitants are Disney employees wearing colorful costumes. Parting of the Red Sea at 10 am, noon, and 2 pm. When asked what happened to the former inhabitants, the tour guides always say, "We don't like to talk about that," and offer a two-for-one coupon for the donkey ride in Jerusalem.
If this is the custom where you work, it's in error. For example, at DoD they are being directed to digitally sign, and at some later point encrypt, all email. However, there are directives that routine email will be 'unclassified.' Again, it saves money and time. An announcement that hot links will be sold in the cafeteria is not justifiably classified.
By the way, most government correspondence is mind-numbingly dull, and would be categorized as a weapon of mass stupefaction if unleashed on the 'enemy.'
>Government bureaucrats have a knee-jerk reaction to stamp the highest-possible classification on everything, just "to be safe."
Not the ones I've worked with. Storing SECRET and above costs money, time, and labor, and has penalties if you screw up and disclose it. "FOUO" is much more common.
Oh, here we go again with the slams on government employees.
Ok. All the consultants I met in the government during my career were overpaid, came in late with their lattes, failed on their deliverables, ran their own businesses on government time, and routinely gave advice calculated to benefit their company, not the agency they worked for.
They also all had horns growing out of their heads.
Foes don't even show up when I read comments or replies. I don't need input from the likes of you. You hope someone gets flooded out because he contradicts you?
I wish you a long and enjoyable life. I also hope you get a clue.
Here's where we get to watch a lot of folks decide whether to comment on the effects of something outside of their experience and expertise.
I've seen photos and 3D imaging of the bashed tiles. I know very little of the forces involved. I have seen no structural analysis of the materials that are beneath the deepest part of the gouge.
To a limited extent, I can compare this damage to the past damaged tiles. There seem to have been a number of similar damaged tiles in the past, and those flights landed safely.
The astronauts could slap some of that goop on the gouge, but risk damaging the tiles by accident, or changing the aerodynamics of the craft.
There are many unknowns. I really don't know what will happen when Endeavour reenters.
I wish them well, and hope that NASA can complete the remaining shuttle flights without mishap.
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Never has the old phrase been so accurate.
Just don't try the same letter switching with 'firetruck.'
Or 'Friar Tuck.'
Rev. Spooner could tell you.
>heavily lifted plot elements from Dune...
Ok, I saw the movie, (great performance from Kiefer Sutherland) and didn't see that.
Explain, please.
They have the potential to be the next Packard Bell.
We have an atmosphere. A goodly percentage of that energy would be shed in re-entry before impact. However, you'll note I said, 'on the beach' - not 'in a yacht.'
Technology should be monitored, but the present ITAR regime isn't working well.
No, that's the 'Pilates of the Mediterranean' ride.
Yeah. I was being a nit-picker. There's also the weight of a shipping container, which we bring through our ports daily in the hundreds of thousands.
>500 Kg steel ball in orbit, which would make a weapon as good as a nuke
Tell ya what. De-orbit that into San Diego Bay. I'll stand on the beach and watch.
And then I'll go have a fish dinner. Nukes have a wee bit more power.
The world's largest Theme Park is HolyLand, run by the Disney Corp. It "features the colorful and historic actual former countries of Palestine/Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. Of course, all inhabitants are Disney employees wearing colorful costumes. Parting of the Red Sea at 10 am, noon, and 2 pm. When asked what happened to the former inhabitants, the tour guides always say, "We don't like to talk about that," and offer a two-for-one coupon for the donkey ride in Jerusalem.
Zis Zawodny, zo?
>"web20"
Dang. I must have been asleep. When did we go past version 2?
>some kid in the Midwest who can stand on his head and spit wooden nickels.
Youtube linky please?
You could start by reading this book for a practical approach:
Zawodny is pretty good...
Apple?
...seven results on Google means I came close. ...except that one of the results was two years old. Drat!
How about NannyNazi? Nope. Four results. Snick.
NannyFürher? There we go...
Nannyfascist.
If this is the custom where you work, it's in error. For example, at DoD they are being directed to digitally sign, and at some later point encrypt, all email. However, there are directives that routine email will be 'unclassified.' Again, it saves money and time. An announcement that hot links will be sold in the cafeteria is not justifiably classified.
By the way, most government correspondence is mind-numbingly dull, and would be categorized as a weapon of mass stupefaction if unleashed on the 'enemy.'
>Government bureaucrats have a knee-jerk reaction to stamp the highest-possible classification on everything, just "to be safe."
Not the ones I've worked with. Storing SECRET and above costs money, time, and labor, and has penalties if you screw up and disclose it. "FOUO" is much more common.
Thank you. Sometimes the lamb must submit to the lion.
So where's my jar of honey?
As a youngster, I used to chew pine gum while walking through the woods to relieve thirst. I wasn't aware of any tooth problems.
Oh, here we go again with the slams on government employees.
Ok. All the consultants I met in the government during my career were overpaid, came in late with their lattes, failed on their deliverables, ran their own businesses on government time, and routinely gave advice calculated to benefit their company, not the agency they worked for.
They also all had horns growing out of their heads.
>they even went after the President of Transunion, one of the credit reporting bureaus.
I'll bet the freeze on that record went through without any quibbles or extra charge.
*stares*
*marks amightywind as foe*
Foes don't even show up when I read comments or replies. I don't need input from the likes of you. You hope someone gets flooded out because he contradicts you?
I wish you a long and enjoyable life. I also hope you get a clue.
>you might as well have gone into Jack Valenti's house and grabbed a vase off his mantle...
So we're stealing from the dead, too? OMG, that vase might have contained his ashes!
Here's where we get to watch a lot of folks decide whether to comment on the effects of something outside of their experience and expertise.
I've seen photos and 3D imaging of the bashed tiles. I know very little of the forces involved. I have seen no structural analysis of the materials that are beneath the deepest part of the gouge.
To a limited extent, I can compare this damage to the past damaged tiles. There seem to have been a number of similar damaged tiles in the past, and those flights landed safely.
The astronauts could slap some of that goop on the gouge, but risk damaging the tiles by accident, or changing the aerodynamics of the craft.
There are many unknowns. I really don't know what will happen when Endeavour reenters.
I wish them well, and hope that NASA can complete the remaining shuttle flights without mishap.