I just cant imagine anyone else leading apple like Jobs has, most other CEO's don't have one thousandth of his strive for perfection and style, I don't really see anyone else as such a working force behind both the design, user interface, marketing and vision like Jobs is. He is indeed irreplaceable. He's more of a prophet than a CEO, a religious, visionary figure.
Well, no orbit is permanent, all orbits eventualy decay.
Here's what thair web site says... http://www.memorialspaceflights.com/faq.asp
How long will the cremated remains stay in Earth orbit?
The length of orbital stay depends on the final altitude of the primary satellite launched on the mission (a memorial spacecrafts is a "secondary payload" aboard each mission). For example, the orbital life span for our Celestis satellites ranged from two years to several hundred years. The anticipated orbital lifetime for each mission is posted on the dedicated flight web page, after its launch.
Indeed, with Yahoo, MSN and AIM the whole IM market is already oversaturated, Google would need at least 2-3 years to build a decent sized following. The idea does however fit in the whole "collecting all the information in the world" motto they have. Maybe they'll make it a beta like all the majority of their projects, and asses futer development based on beta's success.
Though a hero of the space race, Gordon Cooper is a new age crackpot nowadays. I'd not trust his comments that much. New Agers love to turn the Peenemunde into some kind of a Nazi Area-51.
"maybe because Korolev himself spent years in Gulag."
Well, von Braun was arrested by the SS for "crimes against the state", as Himmler didn't appreciate all the talk of space rockets, he was only saved because of Dornberger's slyness in getting him out.
Not using Germany's advanced gas was Hitler's biggest mistake, in an all out war, it was the only sane thing to do, but somehow he didn't have the guts do it, which is mind-boggling considering all other kinds of atrocities he allowed and sponsored. Had he used gas against Normandy and Kursk or Stalingrad, he'd have won the war.
Germans lost the productivity War because of one single thing, they didn't want to employ women like Soviets did, that's why Soviets, although with a lower industrial base, out-produced them, another thing was that Germans switched to wartime economy only in 1943... far too late. Use of slave labor wasn't too productive, as the slave-workers had no incentive to work effectively and with quality. This resulted in sub-pair products.
All the V2's killed just about 4000 people, but in the process wasted innumerable resources that might have otherwise been spend on manufacturing ammunitions, airplanes and tanks that had a much better kill ratio per work hour invested, V2 was actually lousy as a weapon because of its immense costs. Only reason why it existed was because Albert Speer made it for some reason his own pet project and sold the idea to Hitler. The whole project cost about ½ of the US Manhattan project, but of the kill ratio was underwhelming low. Now the good deal happened post war when US and CCCR combined the nuke with the rocket and got nuclear ballistic missiles. Hitler's biggest mistake was the fact he never used chemical weapons, allied intelligence was in fact terrified of idea of German subs being modified to carry V-2, thus opening the possibility of chemical attack on say New York or Washington.
Sputnik made no scientific discoveries, it was pretty much just a simple relay, a propaganda machine. On the other hand, Explorer 1 was packed with scientific equipment and among others discovered the van Allen belts!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1
Morally speaking, why doesn't Korolev get the same political backslash von Braun does, Stalin killed 30 million of his own people, and the Gulags were no different from Nazi concentration camps. Both Nazis and Communists had one thing in common, both ideologies required that enemies of the system be removed, to Nazis they were "the enemies of Aryan purity" the Jews, Gypises, gays and lefties, to Communists they were the "enemies of the working class" the middle class, the industrialists, intellectuals, including many Russian minorities.
Not really Jewish labour, Eastern European labour. Poles and Russian POW's. 30 million Russians died in the WW2, just 10 million were soldiers, about 5 million Poles died, that's the forgotten Holocaust.
Afther the war Allies analysts noted that the Germans were 15-20 years ahead in the filed of Aeronautics, Rocketry and Submarines. Me-262 was the first jet fighter and in fact the Jet engine was co- invented by Hans von Ohain, a German engeneer, but also don't forget Type XXI Elektroboats, the first modern submarines that were just lightyeras ahead of what the Allies and Japan had http://uboat.net/technical/electroboats.htm , also mass produced. There were also Tanks equipped with experimental night-vision devices http://www.achtungpanzer.com/ir.htm . German Sturmgewehr 44 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP44 was also the first mass produced Assault Rifle...
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I just cant imagine anyone else leading apple like Jobs has, most other CEO's don't have one thousandth of his strive for perfection and style, I don't really see anyone else as such a working force behind both the design, user interface, marketing and vision like Jobs is. He is indeed irreplaceable. He's more of a prophet than a CEO, a religious, visionary figure.
Well, no orbit is permanent, all orbits eventualy decay. Here's what thair web site says... http://www.memorialspaceflights.com/faq.asp How long will the cremated remains stay in Earth orbit? The length of orbital stay depends on the final altitude of the primary satellite launched on the mission (a memorial spacecrafts is a "secondary payload" aboard each mission). For example, the orbital life span for our Celestis satellites ranged from two years to several hundred years. The anticipated orbital lifetime for each mission is posted on the dedicated flight web page, after its launch.
Ego.
Doohan was also a WW2 vet who took part in the Normandy landings, losing a part of his hand due to enemy fire.
Those ashes aren't really going into space, just low-earth orbit, and their orbit will decay in a decade or so.
Indeed, with Yahoo, MSN and AIM the whole IM market is already oversaturated, Google would need at least 2-3 years to build a decent sized following. The idea does however fit in the whole "collecting all the information in the world" motto they have. Maybe they'll make it a beta like all the majority of their projects, and asses futer development based on beta's success.
Is not even close to 2%, it's under 1%.
Though a hero of the space race, Gordon Cooper is a new age crackpot nowadays. I'd not trust his comments that much. New Agers love to turn the Peenemunde into some kind of a Nazi Area-51.
"maybe because Korolev himself spent years in Gulag." Well, von Braun was arrested by the SS for "crimes against the state", as Himmler didn't appreciate all the talk of space rockets, he was only saved because of Dornberger's slyness in getting him out.
Not using Germany's advanced gas was Hitler's biggest mistake, in an all out war, it was the only sane thing to do, but somehow he didn't have the guts do it, which is mind-boggling considering all other kinds of atrocities he allowed and sponsored. Had he used gas against Normandy and Kursk or Stalingrad, he'd have won the war.
Germans lost the productivity War because of one single thing, they didn't want to employ women like Soviets did, that's why Soviets, although with a lower industrial base, out-produced them, another thing was that Germans switched to wartime economy only in 1943... far too late. Use of slave labor wasn't too productive, as the slave-workers had no incentive to work effectively and with quality. This resulted in sub-pair products.
All the V2's killed just about 4000 people, but in the process wasted innumerable resources that might have otherwise been spend on manufacturing ammunitions, airplanes and tanks that had a much better kill ratio per work hour invested, V2 was actually lousy as a weapon because of its immense costs. Only reason why it existed was because Albert Speer made it for some reason his own pet project and sold the idea to Hitler. The whole project cost about ½ of the US Manhattan project, but of the kill ratio was underwhelming low. Now the good deal happened post war when US and CCCR combined the nuke with the rocket and got nuclear ballistic missiles. Hitler's biggest mistake was the fact he never used chemical weapons, allied intelligence was in fact terrified of idea of German subs being modified to carry V-2, thus opening the possibility of chemical attack on say New York or Washington.
Sputnik made no scientific discoveries, it was pretty much just a simple relay, a propaganda machine. On the other hand, Explorer 1 was packed with scientific equipment and among others discovered the van Allen belts! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1
Morally speaking, why doesn't Korolev get the same political backslash von Braun does, Stalin killed 30 million of his own people, and the Gulags were no different from Nazi concentration camps. Both Nazis and Communists had one thing in common, both ideologies required that enemies of the system be removed, to Nazis they were "the enemies of Aryan purity" the Jews, Gypises, gays and lefties, to Communists they were the "enemies of the working class" the middle class, the industrialists, intellectuals, including many Russian minorities.
Not really Jewish labour, Eastern European labour. Poles and Russian POW's. 30 million Russians died in the WW2, just 10 million were soldiers, about 5 million Poles died, that's the forgotten Holocaust.
Afther the war Allies analysts noted that the Germans were 15-20 years ahead in the filed of Aeronautics, Rocketry and Submarines. Me-262 was the first jet fighter and in fact the Jet engine was co- invented by Hans von Ohain, a German engeneer, but also don't forget Type XXI Elektroboats, the first modern submarines that were just lightyeras ahead of what the Allies and Japan had http://uboat.net/technical/electroboats.htm , also mass produced. There were also Tanks equipped with experimental night-vision devices http://www.achtungpanzer.com/ir.htm . German Sturmgewehr 44 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP44 was also the first mass produced Assault Rifle...