Wasn't Misfits also on NBC?
Also, NBC has the second worse track record for letting different shows have a chance, and they play around with the time slot. Dark Skies for example, but that was an expensive show to produce. And luckily this even with powers is going to me a light special effects show. With just mostly compositing without generating elements not actually shot. So that helps on the budget.
Fox being the worse. However at least NBC aired the pilot first:)
Funny you should say that...
Tim Kring (the creator of Heroes) was a writer on Misfits.
however most of the comic people (okay geeks) i know say is more of a combination of "Rising Stars" with a dash of "The Authority"
Mar's moons, Phoebos and Deimos, are nothing more then captured asteroids. and the definition of satellite is a celestial body that orbits a planet. While an asteriod is a small celestial body that orbits the sun. So the only difference is what it orbits.
I'd volunteer on some conditions. At least 100 people go with me. That an indigionus supply of water is there. There is a ready supply of food/water/energy lasting 2 years brought from earth or harvested locally and at the colony site waiting for us.
For survivablity of the species, our civilization, and personal liberities.
We must send humans to other planets, not for science but to collonize, the science we do there is need for that goal. And the reason for colonization in practicle terms more then "its there and a fronteer" is two fold.
We are quickly hitting a cap on population sustainability of the earth. We can put in population controls and force people to have a max of one kid for a 4 or 5 generations or so. I'm against that, I believe in the ideal of Reproductive Freedom. One solution to this is to obtain more real estate for humanity to grow on.
There are less expensive ways in the short term of getting more real estate here on earth. but eventually it will be cheaper to build out then build up and down. However, building up and down doesn't gaurantee our safty.
We currently only know a fraction of NEOs(Near Esrth Objects) with earth crossing orbits. We do know that a very close call with a planet killer will occur around 2870. And we can not be sure if a city or country buster will hit us before then.
So having a segment of our civilzation on Mars is insurance for us.
If we are still confined on earth or even earth and moon when a planet killer hits, then everything our great thinkers and artista: Bethoven, Einstien, Beckett, Palto, Confuscious, ad nuasm; All there works will be gone from the universe and that effort is wasted.
less then 1% of our budget now for an insurance policy that will pay dividends later is not a bad thing. Plus the ability to maintain basic inalienable rights. Its truely win-win.
not completlely true.. a stable orbit is inversely related to how fast you are going. the lower you are the faster you must go to maintain altitude.
But if you want to go higher you must speed up, but then once you reeach your desired orbit you must then slow down to a velocity slower then what you were going at the previous altitude.
Its Time for NanoBrews! (I'm heading to my lawyers this second to trademark it..:) )
Personally i don't like beer, i prefer mead. Wonder if we can use this or something similar to make mead faster.
It does however open up faster production of things made ith GM yeast. Possbily if they can get Yeast to produce insulin use this technique to make insulin for diabetics cheaper.
..a civil union code allowing any combination or number of adults as defined by state law to enter into inheritance and child raising covenants binding under state law but not to be refered to as marriage, I would back that 100%.
As would one of the lobbyists against gay marriage would be for to, Insurance companies. Its against their best intrest to allow same sex marriage. That means its more people they have to insure.
Ever seen the commercials for life insurance and it says "Not available in X, Y, and Z?" These usually mean there are laws in that state that makes what ever they are selling not profitable.
Granted not all Insurance Companies are against it, as some do have Domestic Partner coverages, usually at the beheast of the Company that is their customer.
But the vocalization of it does come from the Symbloic meaning of marriage. And there is a gut reaction to protect symbols at all cost. (Flag burning issue for one) I too am guilty of symbol saving insteal of project what the symbol stands for. In my search for spirituality, I have been in many Relegions. Including, various christian sects, hinduism, buddism, a number of neo pagan relgious. And when ever i see a symbol of any of those missused I get an emotional reaction.
Most recently SpaceShipOne became a symbol to me I didn't realize it untill Bill Mahr used it as a joke in his "New Rules" segment last week on HBO, claming it to be nothing more then a stunt. Which that maybe but it was a stunt to show Burt could do it and maybe more.
Most likely some scientist in NASA has a pet project, lost funding to get satelite time, so figured getting others to do his work for him. Or they are testing reliablity of volunteers to do it. IE they'll count from Sat photo's then take a avergae count of people in same area and see how reliable it is.
I do find it odd that they are asking right after the solar eclipse today. Coincedence most liekly but still odd.
The typical aurgument against yours which i support is to change the channel.
However they are preempting regular network programming. I hate it when local stations run sports and preempt the tv shows i want to see and they don't announce when they will rerun. I am glad I'm not in a market they have a station in.
Now, a subversive way to get the stations not to air it, is to find out what shows they are prempting, and picket infront of station with sigings saying "I want to see X, so I'm getting the Dish" with X being what ever show thats being preempted.
Yes its shallow.. but i need my escapism at times.
the two "party" system evolved from two camps that were attracted to Jefferson(Conservative) and Hamilton(Liberal) in how the constituion should be interpreted. From these philsophies came the left and the right. And supporters of each formed parties.
However, in paragraphs 17-25 of Washington's
Farewell Address, Washington warns against the concepts of parties. And if the nation must indulge them, having the dominence of two parties foster the idea of vengence between the two that care tear the nation apart. And that parties them self foster a non inclusive feeling within citizens from their own government.
Figures, just like normal computer dating, no one matches me. Maybe I should stop posting ads like:
SWM ISO Polotician enjoys quiet evenings at home discussing tough intellectual issues. Hikes up in the mountains or on the beach at sunset. Must be non-partisan, pro space, pro environment. Light social porkbarreling ok.
Vote for the third party that you agree most with the ideals. Becuase if you abstain and are registered, (and I'm asumming you will be voting on your local issues) Someone can then punch a hole that you didn't punch. Don't give away your vote to one of the Janus faces.
I thought hard on this, I do not believe in voting the lesser of two evils, or even a third evil (I don't like some of the tactics the third parties used to get on the ballot, but understand to change a system first you got to use it) But i worry more for voter fraud.
At the time of this radation's "birth" the universe was said to be only as big as either the solar system or the galaxy, so every point in the universe is relativly close to one another, comapred to today. 10^5 verses 10^10, so we could say to see it everywhere we were close to the center of the universe as was every other place. The light from other places of the universe ould only be at most 200,000 years older.
As to the first part. It is due to the severe redshifted nature of this radation that puts it so old and able to be so old. Its one of the wierd poperties of light. At least the accepted theory states.
Also of note the universe is still accelrating which blows my mind.
I like to do math and when trying to comeup with numbers to go through (which i haven't yet) i found a good explnation here.
This type of confusion is common I believe when dealing with non mechical physics. Relies on fundementals elsewhere that the eggheads can't explain in even a 10 minute sound bite to us laymen.
I've had similar confusion with the idea of the light barrier, not even my college physics teachers could straighten out until I read Brian Greene's "Ellegant Universe"
First thing, Microwaves and all Light do travel in a stright line, as long as space is not curved, if its curved then the light itself is curved also. Large bodies with high gravity curve space and this is what causes gravitational lensing, bending the light around it.
One of the theories is that the universe is a torus. (donut shape, now don't eat it Homer) But this isn't what makes us see it.
To clear up your confusion, the way I see it is this background of the radaiton is the surface of that intial ball of matter of the universe. We exsist within that ball. The light that was given off 13.7 billion years was in the visable wave lengths, but since it was expanding away from us, this light was red shifted all the way down into the microwave range.
So this microwave light we are percieving, is the light being emmited by the matter shell of the early universe at the time of the early universe. Its only taken this long because the shell was moving away from us.
Though humorous, this is exactly what I see is next for commercial space. That is assuming that the X-Prize Cup can "get off the ground."
With the price tag of 200K USD, its out of range of the average joe. So why not turn it into a spectator sport? With the rise of reality TV, makes sense.
Down side to this is, that the reason why it so popular to TV execs. The profitability. No special effects, don't pay actors (and no Screen Actors Guild fees) Sure there is a prize money. Usually a million, but the cost of one tv drama is in that neighborhood. Survivor runs for 13 or so episodes each time, maybe 4-5 million in logsitcs, plus the million prize and a million post production. so that makes the cost about $500k an episode, with high ratings versus anything else.
Now most of the shows that revolve around the X-Prize cup will me more documentray type reality shows. But a number of them may need have a part of the cost of production actual sponsership of a team. And with this expense it starts aproaching normal teen angst dramas, and soon hitting the budget of sci-fi shows.
However, it is free advetising to the sponsers if they make the condition that no logo of a corperation that is a sponser of a race be blurred out. (Cept exception of a rival network maybe?)
Only time will tell. I do hope that the xprize cup works, as I see it a big public outreach which us space advocates really need.
My question about the cost of the flight, is how much more would it cost to get up to a sustainable orbit, rather than the 3 minutes of low?
SSO's delta velocity was about 1700m/s to achieve Orbit the delta v required is about 7500m/s.
However its not as simple as adding 4 times the amount of fuel currently. As you add fuel, it requires more fuel to move that fuel. With SSO you can not acieve orbital flight no matter how much fuel you give it. You would have to redesign it Make it multiple staged possibly. Which is Burt's plan for an obital vehical.
(also the numbers for delta v for earth orbit is based from sealevel and not 50k feet. I don't have that number)
Actually, according to CNN due to hurrcianes it was moved from March/April to May or July.
But yeah even with my distrust of NASA middle management, I believe the shuttle will fly before the end of 2005. Its political suicide to be down for 3 years. We can't pay Russia for any more Suyez flights cause of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Act and Russia's dealings with Iran. The shuttle is the only viable option.
Only something catestrophic will delay return to flight beyond 2005.
Anyway. Virgin Galactic as part of Virgin group is a global company, there's no particular reason to run the company from America, launch from America or even to build the craft in America.
Actually there is unfortunatly. Which is why Branson is planning to launch initially from Mojave. He said it himself, and I'm paraphrasing. He'll put up launch points around the world if he is allowed to export the technology.
The US Gov can say its of militaristic value and not allow it exported to other countries. They haven't yet, but Scaled or MASV hasn't applied for export, to the best of my knowledge.
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Wasn't Misfits also on NBC? Also, NBC has the second worse track record for letting different shows have a chance, and they play around with the time slot. Dark Skies for example, but that was an expensive show to produce. And luckily this even with powers is going to me a light special effects show. With just mostly compositing without generating elements not actually shot. So that helps on the budget. Fox being the worse. However at least NBC aired the pilot first :)
Funny you should say that... Tim Kring (the creator of Heroes) was a writer on Misfits. however most of the comic people (okay geeks) i know say is more of a combination of "Rising Stars" with a dash of "The Authority"
Mar's moons, Phoebos and Deimos, are nothing more then captured asteroids. and the definition of satellite is a celestial body that orbits a planet. While an asteriod is a small celestial body that orbits the sun. So the only difference is what it orbits.
Yeah I know i was just putting it into laymen's terms.
I'd volunteer on some conditions. At least 100 people go with me. That an indigionus supply of water is there. There is a ready supply of food/water/energy lasting 2 years brought from earth or harvested locally and at the colony site waiting for us.
At Mar's firthest distance from earth its 22 light minutes, when earth and mars is closest its 5 light minutes.
We must send humans to other planets, not for science but to collonize, the science we do there is need for that goal. And the reason for colonization in practicle terms more then "its there and a fronteer" is two fold.
We are quickly hitting a cap on population sustainability of the earth. We can put in population controls and force people to have a max of one kid for a 4 or 5 generations or so. I'm against that, I believe in the ideal of Reproductive Freedom. One solution to this is to obtain more real estate for humanity to grow on.
There are less expensive ways in the short term of getting more real estate here on earth. but eventually it will be cheaper to build out then build up and down. However, building up and down doesn't gaurantee our safty.
We currently only know a fraction of NEOs(Near Esrth Objects) with earth crossing orbits. We do know that a very close call with a planet killer will occur around 2870. And we can not be sure if a city or country buster will hit us before then. So having a segment of our civilzation on Mars is insurance for us.
If we are still confined on earth or even earth and moon when a planet killer hits, then everything our great thinkers and artista: Bethoven, Einstien, Beckett, Palto, Confuscious, ad nuasm; All there works will be gone from the universe and that effort is wasted.
less then 1% of our budget now for an insurance policy that will pay dividends later is not a bad thing. Plus the ability to maintain basic inalienable rights. Its truely win-win.
But if you want to go higher you must speed up, but then once you reeach your desired orbit you must then slow down to a velocity slower then what you were going at the previous altitude.
Its Time for NanoBrews! (I'm heading to my lawyers this second to trademark it.. :) )
Personally i don't like beer, i prefer mead. Wonder if we can use this or something similar to make mead faster.
It does however open up faster production of things made ith GM yeast. Possbily if they can get Yeast to produce insulin use this technique to make insulin for diabetics cheaper.
As would one of the lobbyists against gay marriage would be for to, Insurance companies. Its against their best intrest to allow same sex marriage. That means its more people they have to insure.
Ever seen the commercials for life insurance and it says "Not available in X, Y, and Z?" These usually mean there are laws in that state that makes what ever they are selling not profitable.
Granted not all Insurance Companies are against it, as some do have Domestic Partner coverages, usually at the beheast of the Company that is their customer.
But the vocalization of it does come from the Symbloic meaning of marriage. And there is a gut reaction to protect symbols at all cost. (Flag burning issue for one) I too am guilty of symbol saving insteal of project what the symbol stands for. In my search for spirituality, I have been in many Relegions. Including, various christian sects, hinduism, buddism, a number of neo pagan relgious. And when ever i see a symbol of any of those missused I get an emotional reaction.
Most recently SpaceShipOne became a symbol to me I didn't realize it untill Bill Mahr used it as a joke in his "New Rules" segment last week on HBO, claming it to be nothing more then a stunt. Which that maybe but it was a stunt to show Burt could do it and maybe more.
Most likely some scientist in NASA has a pet project, lost funding to get satelite time, so figured getting others to do his work for him. Or they are testing reliablity of volunteers to do it. IE they'll count from Sat photo's then take a avergae count of people in same area and see how reliable it is. I do find it odd that they are asking right after the solar eclipse today. Coincedence most liekly but still odd.
However they are preempting regular network programming. I hate it when local stations run sports and preempt the tv shows i want to see and they don't announce when they will rerun. I am glad I'm not in a market they have a station in.
Now, a subversive way to get the stations not to air it, is to find out what shows they are prempting, and picket infront of station with sigings saying "I want to see X, so I'm getting the Dish" with X being what ever show thats being preempted.
Yes its shallow.. but i need my escapism at times.
However, in paragraphs 17-25 of Washington's Farewell Address, Washington warns against the concepts of parties. And if the nation must indulge them, having the dominence of two parties foster the idea of vengence between the two that care tear the nation apart. And that parties them self foster a non inclusive feeling within citizens from their own government.
SWM ISO Polotician enjoys quiet evenings at home discussing tough intellectual issues. Hikes up in the mountains or on the beach at sunset. Must be non-partisan, pro space, pro environment. Light social porkbarreling ok.
I thought hard on this, I do not believe in voting the lesser of two evils, or even a third evil (I don't like some of the tactics the third parties used to get on the ballot, but understand to change a system first you got to use it) But i worry more for voter fraud.
As to the first part. It is due to the severe redshifted nature of this radation that puts it so old and able to be so old. Its one of the wierd poperties of light. At least the accepted theory states.
Also of note the universe is still accelrating which blows my mind.
I like to do math and when trying to comeup with numbers to go through (which i haven't yet) i found a good explnation here.
This type of confusion is common I believe when dealing with non mechical physics. Relies on fundementals elsewhere that the eggheads can't explain in even a 10 minute sound bite to us laymen.
I've had similar confusion with the idea of the light barrier, not even my college physics teachers could straighten out until I read Brian Greene's "Ellegant Universe"
One of the theories is that the universe is a torus. (donut shape, now don't eat it Homer) But this isn't what makes us see it.
To clear up your confusion, the way I see it is this background of the radaiton is the surface of that intial ball of matter of the universe. We exsist within that ball. The light that was given off 13.7 billion years was in the visable wave lengths, but since it was expanding away from us, this light was red shifted all the way down into the microwave range.
So this microwave light we are percieving, is the light being emmited by the matter shell of the early universe at the time of the early universe. Its only taken this long because the shell was moving away from us.
Clear as Mud?
Though humorous, this is exactly what I see is next for commercial space. That is assuming that the X-Prize Cup can "get off the ground."
With the price tag of 200K USD, its out of range of the average joe. So why not turn it into a spectator sport? With the rise of reality TV, makes sense.
Down side to this is, that the reason why it so popular to TV execs. The profitability. No special effects, don't pay actors (and no Screen Actors Guild fees) Sure there is a prize money. Usually a million, but the cost of one tv drama is in that neighborhood. Survivor runs for 13 or so episodes each time, maybe 4-5 million in logsitcs, plus the million prize and a million post production. so that makes the cost about $500k an episode, with high ratings versus anything else.
Now most of the shows that revolve around the X-Prize cup will me more documentray type reality shows. But a number of them may need have a part of the cost of production actual sponsership of a team. And with this expense it starts aproaching normal teen angst dramas, and soon hitting the budget of sci-fi shows.
However, it is free advetising to the sponsers if they make the condition that no logo of a corperation that is a sponser of a race be blurred out. (Cept exception of a rival network maybe?)
Only time will tell. I do hope that the xprize cup works, as I see it a big public outreach which us space advocates really need.
SSO's delta velocity was about 1700m/s to achieve Orbit the delta v required is about 7500m/s.
However its not as simple as adding 4 times the amount of fuel currently. As you add fuel, it requires more fuel to move that fuel. With SSO you can not acieve orbital flight no matter how much fuel you give it. You would have to redesign it Make it multiple staged possibly. Which is Burt's plan for an obital vehical.
(also the numbers for delta v for earth orbit is based from sealevel and not 50k feet. I don't have that number)
But yeah even with my distrust of NASA middle management, I believe the shuttle will fly before the end of 2005. Its political suicide to be down for 3 years. We can't pay Russia for any more Suyez flights cause of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Act and Russia's dealings with Iran. The shuttle is the only viable option.
Only something catestrophic will delay return to flight beyond 2005.