I agree completely, why does splitting off Space Command from the Air Force into the Space Force cause so much consternation and confusion? NASA is a relatively small player in space. The Air Force and other governmental agencies have been doing far more and spending far more on space than NASA for many decades now. It's perfectly analogous to splitting the Air Force out of the Army after WW II.
It's a critical function, and the structure as a separate force is mostly in place, just take the current space command structure and make it stand-alone. If I did my sums right, it should come out with a budget larger than the Air Force, and maybe the Navy.
"I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than Iâ(TM)ve ever seen growing up here," (recently elected Mayor London)Breed said. "That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs â" weâ(TM)re talking about from humans."
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) â" Shocking video is calling attention to whatâ(TM)s going on in one of the busiest BART stations in the Bay Area: drug users blatantly shooting up out in the open as commuters walk by, others slumped along filthy corridors.
Search for "San Francisco feces" and "Bart Station homeless", you will see all you wanted to see, and far, far more.
I would add, the new Mayor has already said she has no intention of "interfering" with the homeless or coming up with a broad plan on how to resolve the poop on the sidewalks problem, just, ask the homeless nicely to clean up after themselves.
Yes, all that poop on the streets, used syringes everywhere, crazy bums assaulting people at the BART station and living in the elevators, we'll deal with those later, we need to address the critical issues first.
Putting repeat fines (we usually call them taxes, but...) on business *does discourage business*.
This has nothing whatever to do with consumer protection. Like all "repeat fines" it is the government extorting money from businesses because they figure they can get away with it. Effectively, they are asking for bribes to allow the practice to continue.
OK, I am going to tell you something unsettling, you should sit down
OK?
Other people exist. They might have other ideas than you do, and opinions and thoughts different from yours.
Now here is the really disturbing part - *their opinions, thoughts, and idea are just as valuable and just as worthwhile as yours*. To succeed in the world, you need to be able to deal with this reality.
Now, you should consider this very carefully. Once you have, you should be safe to leave your mom's basement and interact with the rest of the world.
The EU "carefully examined" Googles revenue reports, and decided they wanted some of it. It's as simple as that. Its rapidly turning into a kleptocracy like many other socialist utopias, complete with commissars, unelected plutocrats, and making extortion legal.
When the Governor decided to start trashing the USA recovery effort (because of Trump) while standing in front of huge piles of relief supplies, I lost my sympathy.
That may well be technically true. However, the information that the DNC systematically conspired to rig the primary for The Chosen One, against Bernie, certainly seemed to have an effect. Additionally, the most damaging information came from Wikileaks, which got the information from a disgruntled DNC insider, not via "Russian Hacking"
That's why they are so upset about it, they aren't concerned with the hacks per se, they are concerned with the fact that their own manipulations were laid bare while they themselves ran a sham primary process where the results were pre-ordained.
This is a pretty terrible article summary and the headline is absurdly hyperbolic. The original design of the Viking experiments was always going to, quite intentionally *destroyed" organic molecules, and in fact, any actual life that existed, at some point. The fact that perchlorates were later discovered, completely unexpectedly, was a wild card that absolutely no one predicted at the time, nor was it a reasonable thing to have imagined.
The headline sounds like it was written by a 12-year-old, "nasa FAILZ, LOL!"
I managed to get this more-or-less as described when I first saw it in a movie house when I was 10, in fact, it seemed fairly obvious. The sequence that didn't make much sense o ring true was the "wormhole" sequence - you could more-or-less figure out what was supposed to be happening (being transported across the galaxy) but it's looked completely unnatural. It was probably due to technical limitations, but "Contact" did it much better. And it was clearly the product of the era - the era of hippies and LSD. Hallucinations do not make for good story-telling. But the hotel sequence and the "space baby" concept was, I thought, pretty straightforward.
That aside, the rest of the movie was a tour de force technically, and was a decent story, told reasonably well, with OK acting for the most part. Part of the spin on it was that the astronauts and people around the space program (at the time) tended to be, or appear, to be dull as dishwater, which seems to have led all the actors to underplaying their roles. In fact, having met several of the eras astronauts, I can easily guess who was the model for Dave Bowman. The real astronauts were really interesting people, they were whitewashed by PR and Life magazine to be about as interesting, as a group, as insurance adjusters. Michael Collins book tells the real, and far more interesting and compelling, story - which is more-or-less exactly what you would expect from a bunch of military fighter jocks tossed into that sort of scrutiny,
Until this theory is fully tested in space, perhaps craft should use ceramic bearings. What are their drawbacks?
It was based on observed failures in space. so there is no question that something is causing that. Bialke's paper goes to some extent to test the hypothesis and to some extent the experimentally verified in ground test in the same conditions used for life testing. They frosted the bearing surface and replicated some of the observed characteristics with as little as *10 volts* across the bearing, as opposed to the likely thousands of volts or more typical of spacecraft charging events
There is no real drawback to ceramic, aside from the fact that they have little flight experience and the one remaining manufacturer Honeywell has only used steel, as far as I know. It may explain the fact that certain batches and individual barrels of grease have been known to produce much longer-lasting gyros, possibly because the conductivity of the grease matters. For the effect to happen, there has to be a thin dielectric layer present. If the grease has a higher conductivity, the charge is never allowed to build up across the interface from ball to race.
This seems at first blush to be completely nutty, but one new idea behind the high failure rate of the Ithaco reaction wheels (as used on Kepler) is *spacecraft charging*, causing micro-arcs across the steel ball bearings:
It explains Kepler, and potentially others, and also why it seems to happen with steel bearing components and not ceramic (since they are nonconductive).
Taken to the extreme, almost everything everyone does for entertainment is pointless. Humorless bastards dwell on that, but normal people accept it and move on.
Again, this is a totalitarian state. State-owned or not, they exist to serve the ends of the government. They are not independent entities in any way.
All the communist states figure out that state-owned/planned operations are inefficient and donot work, usually pretty quickly. To first approximation, they wouldn't care, but if the business is not working, there are a lot less profits to steal for themselves. So they quickly adopt *fascist* models, where the businesses are ostensibly free to operate independently and efficiently, but only in service to the state with massive payoff to the big-shots running the show. Of course this is what Marx and his buddies called "social parasites" and is the opposite of what the claim to believe, but the communist approach does nicely keep everyone else from wanting or expecting more. If they do, Tianamen Square time.
This sequence was repeated over and over. Vlad Putin (and his predecessors back to Stalin, and Mao) didn't get fabulously rich by following the Communist philosophy to the letter, they got it by running a classic kleptocracy. China is by far the best at it so far. So it matters not one whit who supposedly owns something, or whether they are traded on exchanges, they will do the state's bidding, ultimately.
Who is surprised by this? This is SOP for them and exactly what is expected. In all likelihood, it is a legal requirement for Chinese telecom services.
China makes a lot of stuff, they act in some ways like a modern country, but in fact they are a communist totalitarian state - and now (with Li's "presidente for life" declaration) a dictatorship. This is what they are, and this is what they do.
It's a perjorative term for a particular and tragic form of developmental disability, specifically, people who are fans of the "musical" group Insane Clown Posse.
That is not bullshit at all. You will *never* get an answer to that question, or at least not an honest one. It's far too easy to get yourself in a lawsuit even if you are 100% within the law, and you only need a "Occupy" or other SJW type on the jury that "hates big corporations" or is seen to have deep pockets, and you can lose at great cost. If you don't understand that, you are absurdly naive.
Not that recruiters cutting off applicants is any better, but not to recognize why an explanation is a dead loser for the company is absurd.
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I agree completely, why does splitting off Space Command from the Air Force into the Space Force cause so much consternation and confusion? NASA is a relatively small player in space. The Air Force and other governmental agencies have been doing far more and spending far more on space than NASA for many decades now. It's perfectly analogous to splitting the Air Force out of the Army after WW II.
It's a critical function, and the structure as a separate force is mostly in place, just take the current space command structure and make it stand-alone. If I did my sums right, it should come out with a budget larger than the Air Force, and maybe the Navy.
I live nearby. The stories are 100% real:
Search for "San Francisco feces" and "Bart Station homeless", you will see all you wanted to see, and far, far more.
I would add, the new Mayor has already said she has no intention of "interfering" with the homeless or coming up with a broad plan on how to resolve the poop on the sidewalks problem, just, ask the homeless nicely to clean up after themselves.
Yes, all that poop on the streets, used syringes everywhere, crazy bums assaulting people at the BART station and living in the elevators, we'll deal with those later, we need to address the critical issues first.
Ahh, internet condescending assholes, gotta love it.
Putting repeat fines (we usually call them taxes, but...) on business *does discourage business*.
This has nothing whatever to do with consumer protection. Like all "repeat fines" it is the government extorting money from businesses because they figure they can get away with it. Effectively, they are asking for bribes to allow the practice to continue.
OK, I am going to tell you something unsettling, you should sit down
OK?
Other people exist. They might have other ideas than you do, and opinions and thoughts different from yours.
Now here is the really disturbing part - *their opinions, thoughts, and idea are just as valuable and just as worthwhile as yours*. To succeed in the world, you need to be able to deal with this reality.
Now, you should consider this very carefully. Once you have, you should be safe to leave your mom's basement and interact with the rest of the world.
The EU "carefully examined" Googles revenue reports, and decided they wanted some of it. It's as simple as that. Its rapidly turning into a kleptocracy like many other socialist utopias, complete with commissars, unelected plutocrats, and making extortion legal.
When the Governor decided to start trashing the USA recovery effort (because of Trump) while standing in front of huge piles of relief supplies, I lost my sympathy.
OY, not these guys again! Rattle their cage, and they start flinging the poo.
That may well be technically true. However, the information that the DNC systematically conspired to rig the primary for The Chosen One, against Bernie, certainly seemed to have an effect. Additionally, the most damaging information came from Wikileaks, which got the information from a disgruntled DNC insider, not via "Russian Hacking"
That's why they are so upset about it, they aren't concerned with the hacks per se, they are concerned with the fact that their own manipulations were laid bare while they themselves ran a sham primary process where the results were pre-ordained.
Maybe they should also consider the layout of their digital network, because right now, it ain't making it.
This is a pretty terrible article summary and the headline is absurdly hyperbolic. The original design of the Viking experiments was always going to, quite intentionally *destroyed" organic molecules, and in fact, any actual life that existed, at some point. The fact that perchlorates were later discovered, completely unexpectedly, was a wild card that absolutely no one predicted at the time, nor was it a reasonable thing to have imagined.
The headline sounds like it was written by a 12-year-old, "nasa FAILZ, LOL!"
I managed to get this more-or-less as described when I first saw it in a movie house when I was 10, in fact, it seemed fairly obvious. The sequence that didn't make much sense o ring true was the "wormhole" sequence - you could more-or-less figure out what was supposed to be happening (being transported across the galaxy) but it's looked completely unnatural. It was probably due to technical limitations, but "Contact" did it much better. And it was clearly the product of the era - the era of hippies and LSD. Hallucinations do not make for good story-telling. But the hotel sequence and the "space baby" concept was, I thought, pretty straightforward.
That aside, the rest of the movie was a tour de force technically, and was a decent story, told reasonably well, with OK acting for the most part. Part of the spin on it was that the astronauts and people around the space program (at the time) tended to be, or appear, to be dull as dishwater, which seems to have led all the actors to underplaying their roles. In fact, having met several of the eras astronauts, I can easily guess who was the model for Dave Bowman. The real astronauts were really interesting people, they were whitewashed by PR and Life magazine to be about as interesting, as a group, as insurance adjusters. Michael Collins book tells the real, and far more interesting and compelling, story - which is more-or-less exactly what you would expect from a bunch of military fighter jocks tossed into that sort of scrutiny,
It was based on observed failures in space. so there is no question that something is causing that. Bialke's paper goes to some extent to test the hypothesis and to some extent the experimentally verified in ground test in the same conditions used for life testing. They frosted the bearing surface and replicated some of the observed characteristics with as little as *10 volts* across the bearing, as opposed to the likely thousands of volts or more typical of spacecraft charging events
There is no real drawback to ceramic, aside from the fact that they have little flight experience and the one remaining manufacturer Honeywell has only used steel, as far as I know. It may explain the fact that certain batches and individual barrels of grease have been known to produce much longer-lasting gyros, possibly because the conductivity of the grease matters. For the effect to happen, there has to be a thin dielectric layer present. If the grease has a higher conductivity, the charge is never allowed to build up across the interface from ball to race.
Someone already thought of that, 60 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
which was used in *exactly* the manner you suggest.
This seems at first blush to be completely nutty, but one new idea behind the high failure rate of the Ithaco reaction wheels (as used on Kepler) is *spacecraft charging*, causing micro-arcs across the steel ball bearings:
http://esmats.eu/esmatspapers/...
It explains Kepler, and potentially others, and also why it seems to happen with steel bearing components and not ceramic (since they are nonconductive).
ESA has done very little useful in space, and certainly no manned space flight on their own.
Taken to the extreme, almost everything everyone does for entertainment is pointless. Humorless bastards dwell on that, but normal people accept it and move on.
Again, this is a totalitarian state. State-owned or not, they exist to serve the ends of the government. They are not independent entities in any way.
All the communist states figure out that state-owned/planned operations are inefficient and donot work, usually pretty quickly. To first approximation, they wouldn't care, but if the business is not working, there are a lot less profits to steal for themselves. So they quickly adopt *fascist* models, where the businesses are ostensibly free to operate independently and efficiently, but only in service to the state with massive payoff to the big-shots running the show. Of course this is what Marx and his buddies called "social parasites" and is the opposite of what the claim to believe, but the communist approach does nicely keep everyone else from wanting or expecting more. If they do, Tianamen Square time.
This sequence was repeated over and over. Vlad Putin (and his predecessors back to Stalin, and Mao) didn't get fabulously rich by following the Communist philosophy to the letter, they got it by running a classic kleptocracy. China is by far the best at it so far. So it matters not one whit who supposedly owns something, or whether they are traded on exchanges, they will do the state's bidding, ultimately.
Bullshit. IF it's ATT, you switch to Verizon, or any number of others. It's called a free market.
Who is surprised by this? This is SOP for them and exactly what is expected. In all likelihood, it is a legal requirement for Chinese telecom services.
China makes a lot of stuff, they act in some ways like a modern country, but in fact they are a communist totalitarian state - and now (with Li's "presidente for life" declaration) a dictatorship. This is what they are, and this is what they do.
It's a perjorative term for a particular and tragic form of developmental disability, specifically, people who are fans of the "musical" group Insane Clown Posse.
That is not bullshit at all. You will *never* get an answer to that question, or at least not an honest one. It's far too easy to get yourself in a lawsuit even if you are 100% within the law, and you only need a "Occupy" or other SJW type on the jury that "hates big corporations" or is seen to have deep pockets, and you can lose at great cost. If you don't understand that, you are absurdly naive.
Not that recruiters cutting off applicants is any better, but not to recognize why an explanation is a dead loser for the company is absurd.
It's almost as if the gambling is set up by organized operations just to rip you off or something.
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