Nono, an engine explosion would've been disastrous. It probably would've meant the end of the program.
Virgin Galactic program did things backwards. Normally you would start with a proven engine and build a spacecraft around it that's appropriate size and weight for the engine. But Virgin went the other way, they build the spacecraft to their specs first and then went searching for an engine that can lift it to the required altitude.
After 10 years of trying they gave up and discarded the Sierra Nevada rubber engine. This year they switched to a brand new nylon engine.
At this point the funds must be getting low. Developing a new engine is a HUGE cost. If the SS2 crash had been caused by the new nylon engine exploding, there is no way they can find yet another engine to replace that. They don't have the time or money. They were probably on their last legs as it is.
But fortunately the new engine was performing well, the crash was caused by a prematurely deploying feather. That's easy to fix. All they have to do is tell the pilot to DON'T MOVE THE UNLOCK LEVER until they reach 80,000 feet altitude.
I'll bet the cause will be something really simple and stupid and mundane, like a technician installing a bolt or a relay upside down.
I read in Bob Hoover's book, in the 50's a number of F-86's crashed when their ailerons locked up if the wings flexed a certain amount. It was due to an aileron bolt mounted upside down. They traced the source to one technician at North American factory who, when interviewed said of course he knows how those damn bolts are supposed to go, he's been doing it that same way for 15 years, ever since before WW2!
They didn't have the heart to tell that guy how many pilots he killed.
Coincidentally in Chuck Yeager's book, he tells the story of a pilot in his F-86 squadron -- at the time Yeager was the squadron commander -- named Emmett Hatch. (Hatch was the lone black pilot in the squadron). He was coming down on approach one day, was feeling good so he did some rolls. Then his ailerons locked up, lost all control and had to eject.
The wing commander was a man named Col. Ascani, a really meticulous numbers guy who was obsessed with keeping the accident numbers down. When the Col. heard about this accident he went ballistic and poor Emmett was going to have his azz court-martialed. So when the Col. asked Yeager, "Why the hell was Hatch doing a roll down so low?"
Yeager replied, "All ours pilots do that, we do a roll on final approach to make sure we're not landing on top of somebody else." And so he saved Emmett's career.
Because to be a successful astronaut or F1 driver requires skills that 99.99% of humanity do not possess. Construction workers and loggers, not so much.
Basically what you're disgusted with is inequality of talent. If everyone had exact same amount of talent and money and success as the average median human, the world would be a fair place. It's what the modern liberal progressive person dreams about. We would also be all squatting in grass huts picking lice out of our hair, but that's another story.
summary was enough, just a pansy whiner blabbering about how life is precious, think of the children waa waaa.
Please nobody tell this guy how many people died building the Empire State Building. He might spontaneously combust. And no, Empire State Building didn't get us to Mars or expand human frontiers, just some rich real estate investors making money.
If you're just starting out, I'd recommend this: http://www.autohotkey.com/ The syntax is about as user friendly as you'll ever get. You can write the applications in notepad You don't even have to compile them if you don't want to. It can do just about anything any major language can.
What?? Really?
I used autohotkey before to make automate some keystrokes for leveling up in an online game (power leveling bot). But I had no idea it was a full featured programming language.
You mean to say AHK can access databases and serve up web pages and stuff??
Please stop. We don't need to invent a new word every time a different country sends a man into space. What you gonna do in a few decades, memorize 100 different words for "astronaut"?
Do you say "Angela Merkel is on her way to the summit in a Flugzeug"? "Kim Jung Eun is returning to North Korea in his private Bihenggi? You're talking in English, just use the motherfucking English word for airplane.
But it sure as hell refutes the attacks on NASA that were saying "the private sector will do space flight cheaper and safer"
Bullshit, it refutes nothing. This was a test flight, as in they were testing a new design. The saying is "private sector WILL do it safer", not "private sector is safer right now when it barely just got started".
A large part of safety is the number of flights. More you fly, more you iron out the bugs and perfect the design. Anything by NASA is going to be so expensive (think Shuttle, SLS), it's going to end up with a tiny number of flights compared to something like a Falcon 9/heavy. Will the SLS be safer initially? Quite possibly yes. Will it be safer than Falcon after 500 flights? Hell no, because SLS will never get to that number, it'd be lucky to get a dozen flights. It will never get a chance to reach the mature tried-and-true phase that Falcon will go on to, all due to cost.
You got mislead by the trollish title. They didn't ban people from bringing in a Google Glass, you just have to put it away and not wear/use it during the movie. Just like a cellphone. The theaters forbid you from holding up your cellphone and recording currently also.
I wouldn't go so far as to predict a golden age. In fact I think overpopulation will be a problem in the future. Let me explain.
There have been numerous cycles of warm/cold periods in recorded history that we know about. Roman Warm Period, Medieval Optimum, Little Ice Age, and so on. We know that when the climate got warmer, we got longer growing seasons, more food was produced, populations grew, and nation-states grew in power. The reverse is true during the cold periods. Witness the blooming of grand Gothic cathedral building during the Medieval Warm period, which abruptly stopped when the Little Ice Age hit.
But all that was when the total global population was paltry. During the past warm periods, increasing arable land and and a growth in population was not a problem because the planet was so sparsely populated. Nothing but good came out of it. Today it's different. Modern technology has enabled 7+ billion people to live on the planet and we already have *too much* land under cultivation. Habitat destruction is a huge problem and pollution is an even bigger one. Humanity as a whole is not going to benefit from any further warming or population growth.
Furthermore, the areas that will benefit the most from continued warming are in places like Canada and Siberia where there the population isn't gonna increase (due to societal habits) no matter how much food you can grow there.
If I'm sounding like a weird combination of green conservationist and a AGW skeptic, well I guess that's because that's what I am. You can care about the environment and want to save endangered species and conserve natural habitats and limit population growth, while still having enough sense to see through the climate change / cap and trade bullshit.
I lived in many an apartment building, and I always had to get my own cable modem (or lease it from Time-Warner).
Not sure how public housing works in NY, but around here "public housing" means you go rent a normal apartment, and the gov't pays for the rent (a gov't agency sends a check every month to your landlord)
I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.
A new Motorola cable modem/wifi router buys how much crack?
Or someday one of us is gonna experiment with a device to collapse wave functions at will, accidentally reverse the switch and turn planet earth into one big wave function. Then later an alien astronomer will look at earth through a telescope and find a jungle planet full of sentient cats playing ball with their pet hominids.
No libertarian wants that. Libertarianism is the exact opposite of big government surveillance. Hell, even Obama and Nancy Pelosi probably wouldn't approve of gov't implanting chips on citizens.
Well at least it's not like Al Gore preaching to everyone to reduce their carbon footprint while flying around in a private jet and living large in a mansion. Rand was forced to make SS payments. Nobody forced algore into a Gulfstream.
It'd be a huge amount to print out on paper. Yes you would want to have it all on paper somewhere, but having it all on one location might be impractical except in a few cases.
However one tablet could store it all. Maybe rig a pedal-operated DC generator to power it. Bury them together inside a faraday cage.
Would a 100 year old iPad work if it were stored safely? Sure the battery would be dead but if were modified to run without a battery from external power, I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work. Is this feasible?
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Nono, an engine explosion would've been disastrous. It probably would've meant the end of the program.
Virgin Galactic program did things backwards. Normally you would start with a proven engine and build a spacecraft around it that's appropriate size and weight for the engine. But Virgin went the other way, they build the spacecraft to their specs first and then went searching for an engine that can lift it to the required altitude.
After 10 years of trying they gave up and discarded the Sierra Nevada rubber engine. This year they switched to a brand new nylon engine.
At this point the funds must be getting low. Developing a new engine is a HUGE cost. If the SS2 crash had been caused by the new nylon engine exploding, there is no way they can find yet another engine to replace that. They don't have the time or money. They were probably on their last legs as it is.
But fortunately the new engine was performing well, the crash was caused by a prematurely deploying feather. That's easy to fix. All they have to do is tell the pilot to DON'T MOVE THE UNLOCK LEVER until they reach 80,000 feet altitude.
fight the power!
and
Freedommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
where do you get the enzymes? Is it scalable?
I hope they don't have to squeeze it from baby kittens.
or hip hop, I don't mind.
But they will have to contend with the market leader, U.S. Robotics
I'll bet the cause will be something really simple and stupid and mundane, like a technician installing a bolt or a relay upside down.
I read in Bob Hoover's book, in the 50's a number of F-86's crashed when their ailerons locked up if the wings flexed a certain amount. It was due to an aileron bolt mounted upside down. They traced the source to one technician at North American factory who, when interviewed said of course he knows how those damn bolts are supposed to go, he's been doing it that same way for 15 years, ever since before WW2!
They didn't have the heart to tell that guy how many pilots he killed.
Coincidentally in Chuck Yeager's book, he tells the story of a pilot in his F-86 squadron -- at the time Yeager was the squadron commander -- named Emmett Hatch. (Hatch was the lone black pilot in the squadron). He was coming down on approach one day, was feeling good so he did some rolls. Then his ailerons locked up, lost all control and had to eject.
The wing commander was a man named Col. Ascani, a really meticulous numbers guy who was obsessed with keeping the accident numbers down. When the Col. heard about this accident he went ballistic and poor Emmett was going to have his azz court-martialed. So when the Col. asked Yeager, "Why the hell was Hatch doing a roll down so low?"
Yeager replied, "All ours pilots do that, we do a roll on final approach to make sure we're not landing on top of somebody else." And so he saved Emmett's career.
er, I mean Doctor of the Dance
There weren't any flames visible. It was probably the nitrous oxide tank exploding, like in the 2007 ground test explosion.
Pete Siebold is in the hospital alive and talking to doctors. They'll probably figure out what went wrong real soon.
"wired"? This is what we can expect from a publication that presumes to be farseeing into technology and science?
I thought Wired was about dot com internet companies. You know, the exciting business of serving ads on websites.
Because to be a successful astronaut or F1 driver requires skills that 99.99% of humanity do not possess. Construction workers and loggers, not so much.
Basically what you're disgusted with is inequality of talent. If everyone had exact same amount of talent and money and success as the average median human, the world would be a fair place. It's what the modern liberal progressive person dreams about. We would also be all squatting in grass huts picking lice out of our hair, but that's another story.
summary was enough, just a pansy whiner blabbering about how life is precious, think of the children waa waaa.
Please nobody tell this guy how many people died building the Empire State Building. He might spontaneously combust. And no, Empire State Building didn't get us to Mars or expand human frontiers, just some rich real estate investors making money.
If you're just starting out, I'd recommend this: http://www.autohotkey.com/
The syntax is about as user friendly as you'll ever get.
You can write the applications in notepad
You don't even have to compile them if you don't want to.
It can do just about anything any major language can.
What?? Really?
I used autohotkey before to make automate some keystrokes for leveling up in an online game (power leveling bot). But I had no idea it was a full featured programming language.
You mean to say AHK can access databases and serve up web pages and stuff??
Taikonauts will be
Please stop. We don't need to invent a new word every time a different country sends a man into space. What you gonna do in a few decades, memorize 100 different words for "astronaut"?
Do you say "Angela Merkel is on her way to the summit in a Flugzeug"? "Kim Jung Eun is returning to North Korea in his private Bihenggi? You're talking in English, just use the motherfucking English word for airplane.
But it sure as hell refutes the attacks on NASA that were saying "the private sector will do space flight cheaper and safer"
Bullshit, it refutes nothing. This was a test flight, as in they were testing a new design. The saying is "private sector WILL do it safer", not "private sector is safer right now when it barely just got started".
A large part of safety is the number of flights. More you fly, more you iron out the bugs and perfect the design. Anything by NASA is going to be so expensive (think Shuttle, SLS), it's going to end up with a tiny number of flights compared to something like a Falcon 9/heavy. Will the SLS be safer initially? Quite possibly yes. Will it be safer than Falcon after 500 flights? Hell no, because SLS will never get to that number, it'd be lucky to get a dozen flights. It will never get a chance to reach the mature tried-and-true phase that Falcon will go on to, all due to cost.
You got mislead by the trollish title. They didn't ban people from bringing in a Google Glass, you just have to put it away and not wear/use it during the movie. Just like a cellphone. The theaters forbid you from holding up your cellphone and recording currently also.
I wouldn't go so far as to predict a golden age. In fact I think overpopulation will be a problem in the future. Let me explain.
There have been numerous cycles of warm/cold periods in recorded history that we know about. Roman Warm Period, Medieval Optimum, Little Ice Age, and so on. We know that when the climate got warmer, we got longer growing seasons, more food was produced, populations grew, and nation-states grew in power. The reverse is true during the cold periods. Witness the blooming of grand Gothic cathedral building during the Medieval Warm period, which abruptly stopped when the Little Ice Age hit.
But all that was when the total global population was paltry. During the past warm periods, increasing arable land and and a growth in population was not a problem because the planet was so sparsely populated. Nothing but good came out of it. Today it's different. Modern technology has enabled 7+ billion people to live on the planet and we already have *too much* land under cultivation. Habitat destruction is a huge problem and pollution is an even bigger one. Humanity as a whole is not going to benefit from any further warming or population growth.
Furthermore, the areas that will benefit the most from continued warming are in places like Canada and Siberia where there the population isn't gonna increase (due to societal habits) no matter how much food you can grow there.
If I'm sounding like a weird combination of green conservationist and a AGW skeptic, well I guess that's because that's what I am. You can care about the environment and want to save endangered species and conserve natural habitats and limit population growth, while still having enough sense to see through the climate change / cap and trade bullshit.
I lived in many an apartment building, and I always had to get my own cable modem (or lease it from Time-Warner).
Not sure how public housing works in NY, but around here "public housing" means you go rent a normal apartment, and the gov't pays for the rent (a gov't agency sends a check every month to your landlord)
I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.
A new Motorola cable modem/wifi router buys how much crack?
Or someday one of us is gonna experiment with a device to collapse wave functions at will, accidentally reverse the switch and turn planet earth into one big wave function. Then later an alien astronomer will look at earth through a telescope and find a jungle planet full of sentient cats playing ball with their pet hominids.
No libertarian wants that. Libertarianism is the exact opposite of big government surveillance. Hell, even Obama and Nancy Pelosi probably wouldn't approve of gov't implanting chips on citizens.
Well at least it's not like Al Gore preaching to everyone to reduce their carbon footprint while flying around in a private jet and living large in a mansion. Rand was forced to make SS payments. Nobody forced algore into a Gulfstream.
It'd be a huge amount to print out on paper. Yes you would want to have it all on paper somewhere, but having it all on one location might be impractical except in a few cases.
However one tablet could store it all. Maybe rig a pedal-operated DC generator to power it. Bury them together inside a faraday cage.
Would a 100 year old iPad work if it were stored safely? Sure the battery would be dead but if were modified to run without a battery from external power, I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work. Is this feasible?
Also, it completely lacks sections on psychology, sociology and politics.
And women's studies, and bunch of other "studies". I imagine this is a feature, not a bug.
Sounds like they took useful things from the current civilization and threw out the junk. Sensible.
when most of your subscribers have an upstream bandwidth of 1mbps or less, does it matter whether their storage limit is 1 TB or 100000 TB?