User: RosenSama

Re:What would be the significance of this?

On: Lake spotted on Titan?

This would make Titan only the second known celestial body that currently has liquid on its surface.

Out of the huge catalog of celestial bodies that we know anything about the surface of?

Liquids require pressure (see this) while solids and gasses don't, and pressure is a rare thing in space.

I think I know what you're trying to say, but temperature and pressure while infrequent in space aren't therefore improbable. Now the context isn't really space, but the surface of celestial bodies and signficant to me implies improbable not infrequent.

Re:I bet they can get the rotor speed to 0

On: Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier

They can't while preserving VTO/L

Re:Gach! More amateur website baloney

On: DivX 6.0 is Out

Any suggestions of sites that have good reviews on this?

Re:High IQ == High Intelligence?

On: Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence?

It's a good, not great, measure of general intelligence "g". See a good summary at http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~cfc/Chabris1998a.html

Re:K.I.S.S.

On: Computers in Space Examined

And yet the space shuttle has more moving parts and is cited as the most complex machine ever built.

Re:Naysayers

On: Saturn V Preservation Efforts

Yeah, in fact I think the space shuttle is the "world's most complicated machine" if one judges by number of moving parts.

Overengineered or Lucky

On: Spirit Rover is One Year Old

So when the specs say 3 months and it lasts 1 year, are we just getting lucky on MTBF? Is it that anything designed to reliably travel all the way to Mars and then run unmaintained for 3 months has just got a good chance of quadrupling the design lifetime? Or are we wasting money and resources overengineering things way past spec because we had the budget to do so?

Re:Why an agreement?

On: EU Presses Ahead With Galileo GPS System

If you follow the right link in "reached an agreement" link in this article you'll get your answer. The agreement ensures "compatibility" and "non-interference"

Ummm . . . Hasn't TBS been doing this forever?

On: Network Scheduling to Mess with Tivo

I think their schedule has been offset by 5 minutes for decades