So the first commercial computer we bought was an NEC and it came loaded with BOB.
Seriously, BOB was cool. So imaginative and fun. So was Sierra's OnLine service, which I forget what it was called. Oh man the days when the bubble just formed kicked ass. I think im ready to go back to playing Doom 2 on BBS's and starting notepad by clicking on the picture of the pad on my table in my BOB house.
I said they were not made out of foam but RCC ceramic material. They are not made out of foam. Period. There is no, "no", to it. Not made out of foam. Not made in a process that even closely resembles a foam process.
Carbon-carbon is brittle like a piece of ceramic is brittle. Not like foam. Furthermore, I have found no refrence to fingernail scoring in carbon-carbon in the CAIB report. Could you please point me to it.
And how exactly are you proposing to finish the ISS? Forget that the only thing in service capable of delivering modules to the ISS is the Shuttle fleet?
External obligation requires the shuttle fleet to stay in service till the ISS is complete or an alternative is built/tested/implemented.
Yes. 1960s technology.
Endeavor's construction period --> 1987-1990
Endeavor's first flight --> 1992
And it was the first shuttle to feature the drag-chute on landing.
The space shuttle could hugely benefit from continued use of its current tech. New tech will have to be tested to the nth degree, and will be a huge and costly pain in the *** to implement.
The control systems only do controlling the flight. here hasn't been much added to the concept of shuttle flight (as far as control goes) to drastically change the computation requirements of the control system. Hence there has been no need for increase in computing power. AS-101s works just fine.
All of the shuttles are designed for 100 missions each. They have only flown about a fourth of design. This is not true for Endeavor, the youngest of the shuttles, has only flown 13 missions, while Atlantis has only flown 19.
Not designed to be retired a decade ago, seeing as how Endeavor's first flight was only 13 years ago.
(making it a 3 year program).
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So the first commercial computer we bought was an NEC and it came loaded with BOB.
Seriously, BOB was cool. So imaginative and fun. So was Sierra's OnLine service, which I forget what it was called. Oh man the days when the bubble just formed kicked ass. I think im ready to go back to playing Doom 2 on BBS's and starting notepad by clicking on the picture of the pad on my table in my BOB house.
I said they were not made out of foam but RCC ceramic material. They are not made out of foam. Period. There is no, "no", to it. Not made out of foam. Not made in a process that even closely resembles a foam process. Carbon-carbon is brittle like a piece of ceramic is brittle. Not like foam. Furthermore, I have found no refrence to fingernail scoring in carbon-carbon in the CAIB report. Could you please point me to it.
And how exactly are you proposing to finish the ISS? Forget that the only thing in service capable of delivering modules to the ISS is the Shuttle fleet? External obligation requires the shuttle fleet to stay in service till the ISS is complete or an alternative is built/tested/implemented.
The tiles on the shuttle are made from carbon-carbon ceramic type material. not foam.
They are easily damaged because they get hit with a force of 10,000N per 60 sq. in.
Lots of things get damaged at that type of speed.
Yes. 1960s technology. Endeavor's construction period --> 1987-1990 Endeavor's first flight --> 1992 And it was the first shuttle to feature the drag-chute on landing.
The space shuttle could hugely benefit from continued use of its current tech. New tech will have to be tested to the nth degree, and will be a huge and costly pain in the *** to implement. The control systems only do controlling the flight. here hasn't been much added to the concept of shuttle flight (as far as control goes) to drastically change the computation requirements of the control system. Hence there has been no need for increase in computing power. AS-101s works just fine.
My facts are off too. Endeavor has flown 19. Atlantis has flown 26.
Your facts are a little off.
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All of the shuttles are designed for 100 missions each. They have only flown about a fourth of design. This is not true for Endeavor, the youngest of the shuttles, has only flown 13 missions, while Atlantis has only flown 19. Not designed to be retired a decade ago, seeing as how Endeavor's first flight was only 13 years ago. (making it a 3 year program).
But then we'd be about to have better technology than the Aliens and our European friends still can't land a probe on the nearest planet.
But they can land a probe on a very distant moon, as long as they piggy back on an american probe. Go figure.
I wonder if they can scrounge up any remanants of Turing's estrogen treatments.