I have no clue. Other than the slight roll oscillation someone else pointed out, I can't figure out what might have caused them to pull the video feed. I mean, the video cuts out at T+00:02:11
when just about nothing is supposed to be happening. Here is the timeline from the press kit available on www.spacex.com
T+00:01:09 - Max Q
T+00:02:20 - Switch to inertial guidance
T+00:02:38 - MECO
So, nothing interesting is going on at the time the video feed is cut, and stage separation doesn't even occur until T+00:02:39 which is about 28 seconds after the feed was cut.
Can't happen without a MAJOR burn every orbit. The reason is that if you get yourself in a free-return trajectory, when you come back to Earth the moon has already moved far enough in its orbit as to make you completely miss by thousands of kilometers on the second go-round. There is no such thing as a stable Moon-Earth orbit without constant application of delta-V.
As someone else said, just go download Orbiter and you'll realize how orbital mechanics work. If this type of orbit were possible, I would be doing it in Orbiter.
There has to be some justifiable reason for professors to write these books -- they need compensation for their time.
Then why not keep selling the same edition for 5-10 years? It would be easier to make more money if the same author kept getting paid for writing the one edition.
So, I don't suppose you remember how far you have to scroll down a webpage to find something?
It's absurd to suggest you can only remember location of information when it's in book form.
Exactly, and the edges would be the sharpest objects ever made by man if they were made with the extreme precision required for this job.
About pi...we have calculated billions of digits for pi. The number of atoms will have a certain number of sig figs, so just calculate pi out to the same number of sig figs and (so called) problem averted.
Yes, and the site that has measured these percentages is a pc site... It is not a site with a typical profile of users (this one is full of computer nerds like us), so it is no use for generalizing these statistics to the rest of the web.
Maybe statistics class should be moved down to high school.
I just graduated with my BS in Mathematics in the U.S. In most of my classes, I always had several Math Education majors in there with me...people that would go on to teach elementary, middle, and high school. They were always the worst students in the class. All the smart ones were going on to do really cool jobs or grad school, and the dumb ones were the ones who were going back to teach. This is a gigantic and scary negative feedback loop.
So? Do politicians' sexual lives really matter to the rest of us? Is it like they were specifically trained to be moral? No, not usually, but we still love to gawk at them when they cheat on their wives with high-dollar prostitutes.
My point is that even if Einstein wasn't a philosopher or theologist, people still care what he thinks about lots of stuff because he was an inspiration for many generations, and people look up to him not only in his capacity to do physics but in other areas of his life as well.
Hoofnagle said lending institutions should publicly report information about identity theft events such as the rate of identity theft; the form of identity theft attempted; whether it was a mortgage loan or credit card; and the amount of loss suffered as a result. would help consumers choose safer financial institutions. The full study(PDF) is available from the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology."
All those semicolons should be commas and that second to last "sentence" should be tacked on to the previous one.
Not to mention the fact that Jesus is not mentioned in ANY text until 98 AD or so...don't you think that is quite a long time to be mentioned if 500 people saw you raised from the dead (he was crucified somewhere in 32-36 AD)? That is plenty of time to have embellished the actual story beyond recognition. Look at the "Cargo Tribes"...a completely documented total history of an obviously ridiculous religion.
...and the lexicon website itself using one of those insipid right click disabling scripts. Insipid means bland. I seriously doubt that was its intended meaning as used here.
...And don't the bill of rights only protect you as long as you're not breaking _other_ laws? If I threaten to kill you, sure it's free speech, but I have committed another crime...assault. If the bill of rights protected you in all circumstances, everything would be legal. Duuurrr, bleepin' Verizon/Bush retards.
outsourcing will continue to be a problem for US workers in coming decades
Uh, do you not realize that unemployment is twice as low as it was in 1975? You people who think outsourcing is a problem just don't get it. First-semester economics will teach you that the global economy is best when each country produces the products it is best at producing. Apparently, China provides really cheap engineers. THEREFORE, it will help the global economy.
Basically, the US is just in a period of transition. Transition to what? Transition to a society of intelligent, non-hard-labor workers. My goodness...whenever houses are being built or painted or roofed, Mexicans and other hispanics who live here are doing the work (at least in my area). Why? Because hardly any American wants to work like that for such little money. Everybody is going to college to get a nice cushy job. Why do you think college tuition is going through the roof (believe me, I should know)? Because high demand for college entry is driving the prices that high.
Please, ask yourself _why_ you think outsourcing is so bad. Is it because some news station said so?
Tell him to grow his own da** corn! We can do whatever we want with our corn, because -- it's what? -- it's ours. If he doesn't like it, he can _try_ to invade us.
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I have no clue. Other than the slight roll oscillation someone else pointed out, I can't figure out what might have caused them to pull the video feed. I mean, the video cuts out at T+00:02:11 when just about nothing is supposed to be happening. Here is the timeline from the press kit available on www.spacex.com
T+00:01:09 - Max Q
T+00:02:20 - Switch to inertial guidance
T+00:02:38 - MECO
So, nothing interesting is going on at the time the video feed is cut, and stage separation doesn't even occur until T+00:02:39 which is about 28 seconds after the feed was cut.
Don't worry, I'm sure he'll win the Republican nomination for President in 2012, if recent events are anything to go by.
ROFL!
Yeah, it's sad to see a hero go senile...But, I'm sure he has proof like a fuzzy picture of a distant light in the air or something.
What the heck does "highly" predictive mean?
"Honey, the weatherman is on and he is highly predicting some storms in the evening."
Maybe "highly effective" prediction?
Insectothopter? CIA had these back in the 70s...very hard to control in winds over 5 knots though.
Ok, fair enough. I didn't mean that my entire system became unstable, but that firefox just has a hard time not locking up.
Why would I use the latest and most annoying version of IE or the latest firefox that crashes my Ubuntu all the time?
You obviously didn't read the EULA before clicking "accept" did you?
Can't happen without a MAJOR burn every orbit. The reason is that if you get yourself in a free-return trajectory, when you come back to Earth the moon has already moved far enough in its orbit as to make you completely miss by thousands of kilometers on the second go-round. There is no such thing as a stable Moon-Earth orbit without constant application of delta-V.
As someone else said, just go download Orbiter and you'll realize how orbital mechanics work. If this type of orbit were possible, I would be doing it in Orbiter.
There has to be some justifiable reason for professors to write these books -- they need compensation for their time.
Then why not keep selling the same edition for 5-10 years? It would be easier to make more money if the same author kept getting paid for writing the one edition.
So, I don't suppose you remember how far you have to scroll down a webpage to find something? It's absurd to suggest you can only remember location of information when it's in book form.
Exactly, and the edges would be the sharpest objects ever made by man if they were made with the extreme precision required for this job. About pi...we have calculated billions of digits for pi. The number of atoms will have a certain number of sig figs, so just calculate pi out to the same number of sig figs and (so called) problem averted.
Yes, and the site that has measured these percentages is a pc site... It is not a site with a typical profile of users (this one is full of computer nerds like us), so it is no use for generalizing these statistics to the rest of the web. Maybe statistics class should be moved down to high school.
I found that to be rather large as well, but according to Wikipedia:
The lander has a mass of 350 kg, and measures 2.2 m tall by 5.5 m long with its solar panels deployed. The science deck is about 1.5 m in diameter.The Robotic Arm (RA) is designed to extend 2.35 m from its base on the lander, and have the ability to dig down to 0.5 m below the surface.
And from the Wiki picture and the article picture the bucket looks like it may be about 6 inches wide...However, I still doubt that they actually scooped up 1^3 meter of soil, but rather parts of an area that is 1^3 meter...
No. Then they would have said a square meter.I just graduated with my BS in Mathematics in the U.S. In most of my classes, I always had several Math Education majors in there with me...people that would go on to teach elementary, middle, and high school. They were always the worst students in the class. All the smart ones were going on to do really cool jobs or grad school, and the dumb ones were the ones who were going back to teach. This is a gigantic and scary negative feedback loop.
So? Do politicians' sexual lives really matter to the rest of us? Is it like they were specifically trained to be moral? No, not usually, but we still love to gawk at them when they cheat on their wives with high-dollar prostitutes. My point is that even if Einstein wasn't a philosopher or theologist, people still care what he thinks about lots of stuff because he was an inspiration for many generations, and people look up to him not only in his capacity to do physics but in other areas of his life as well.
Not to mention the fact that Jesus is not mentioned in ANY text until 98 AD or so...don't you think that is quite a long time to be mentioned if 500 people saw you raised from the dead (he was crucified somewhere in 32-36 AD)? That is plenty of time to have embellished the actual story beyond recognition. Look at the "Cargo Tribes"...a completely documented total history of an obviously ridiculous religion.
...and the lexicon website itself using one of those insipid right click disabling scripts. Insipid means bland. I seriously doubt that was its intended meaning as used here....And don't the bill of rights only protect you as long as you're not breaking _other_ laws? If I threaten to kill you, sure it's free speech, but I have committed another crime...assault. If the bill of rights protected you in all circumstances, everything would be legal. Duuurrr, bleepin' Verizon/Bush retards.
Basically, the US is just in a period of transition. Transition to what? Transition to a society of intelligent, non-hard-labor workers. My goodness...whenever houses are being built or painted or roofed, Mexicans and other hispanics who live here are doing the work (at least in my area). Why? Because hardly any American wants to work like that for such little money. Everybody is going to college to get a nice cushy job. Why do you think college tuition is going through the roof (believe me, I should know)? Because high demand for college entry is driving the prices that high.
Please, ask yourself _why_ you think outsourcing is so bad. Is it because some news station said so?
Hey...hey...I got one:
In America, you scorn the television.
In England, television scorns YOU!
Tell him to grow his own da** corn! We can do whatever we want with our corn, because -- it's what? -- it's ours. If he doesn't like it, he can _try_ to invade us.
Fermi is talking about the galaxy, not the whole universe. There are many many orders of magnitude between galactic and intergalactic travel.