Other aerospace projects include a passenger airliner that will travel at Mach 2 -- or twice the speed of sound -- for five-hour Tokyo-Los Angeles flights and an unmanned, hydrogen-fueled plane that can travel at Mach 5.
The main problem is the shockwave/sound of the jet, but remember that Japan has it's airport on an island reached by rail, so it's not a big deal on their end, only on the poor victims that they connect to - in other words, LAX.
The other question is what the fuel consumption would be - the latest commercial jets are being sold on the premise that they use half the fuel that current jetliners do - if you can travel at Mach 5 but it costs ten times as much fuel, and jet fuel costs $500 a barrel, then why is this being pushed?
Like much of what the Bush administration does, your claim is not really true while containing a grain of truth. While the overall NASA budget is being slightly increased, the administration is also dictating which areas of research will be cut and which will be expanded. Most everything but manned space-flight is being extremely reduced.
Face it, if it's for Science, and doesn't give him a chance to show up in a Flight Suit, it's being cut.
Shouldn't be too long before interstate travel in the US requires a passport. That'll finally put an end to criminals moving to another state to hide from the law.
And we all know that's a double plus good thing, right, comrade?
This seems perfectly reasonable. If you leave one gaping hole in US border patrol, like the entire northern border, then you may as well not patrol the other borders.
You do realize that the number of illegal border crossings on the southern border are 20 times larger than any on the northern border, don't you?
Want to stop illegal crossings? Make the employers go to jail.
No, technically, I can use my Canadian passport if transitting to another country via the US and orginating or ending in Canada.
I already took a citizenship test - when I was just a kid, in Canada - which was the only way you got dual citizenship back then, being born in the US to US parents.
But, recently I found out I can apply for a Canadian passport for my son too, since he's a dual citizen as well, even if his mom is only American - then he'll have two passports as well.
And structural genomics more than functional genomics.
I spend my day covered in protein sequences and worried about docking configurations and charges, quite frankly, working on drug design targets to help cure malaria and other nasty beasties.
In bioinformatics, science literacy is so much more important than computer literacy. Computer scientists rarely become good bioinfromaticians. This is the primary reason almost every single peice of commercial bioinformatics software is a complete peice of shit. And why the free stuff is hacky but gets the job done. The free stuff was written by life scientists, the commercial stuff was written by computer scientists with no domain knowledge of the question they were trying to answer.
I have to agree. If you don't have a scientific frame of mind - and "almost" went into Biology but got sidetracked by those shiny techy computers - you'll be in over your head.
During a typical week here - which pays less and some weeks you don't get much sleep - you probably sit in on 2-4 hours of research presentations and doctoral theses - and we have individual researchers assigned to track specific journals and report back to the rest of us what applied to us in summary form.
If you don't like continually relearning things, it can be strange. And you have to realize what the pipeline is, how a lab actually works, how you scale up things, and why E.coli is not just a nasty bug but your best friend in the whole wide world.
Only having Chemistry and no Biology would be a lot harder.
I just switched myself, with a DA/DBA post-grad certificate, into Bioinformatics, but I had four years of Latin, had worked in Health Care for four years, and had University-level Biology and Chemistry. The one thing you'll really need is stronger Biology.
You could take some audit courses in Biochemistry and Biology, of course. That might help.
All the acronyms will drive you crazy, but the field is so specialized that if you study hard you might make it. The difference from one lab to the next is amazing - one might be using NMR, the next is on the beamline. Even labs working on the same family are almost entirely different - one is into cell-free, the other uses a different method.
Check out a few books and see if it looks understandable or it makes your head hurt. That's a good sign, if your head can hold that in there.
Who will guard those selfsame gaurdians - if you don't grok Latin...
Seriously, is this good news?
Especially since they don't need anything more than a rumor about you, spread by a neighbor or ex-girlfriend/wife, to do a warrentless search, and institute wiretapping...
Supposedly, a good-looking chick will go up to you, pull out her white headphone miniplug, and look at you expectantly. You're then supposed to remove your white headphone plug, put it into her ipod, while she does the same to yours, and you each enjoy the other's music for a time.
Nothing wrong with dual CPU servers, heck, I've got two Linux dual-CPU boxen sitting at home, but in terms of ROI, it would make far more sense getting better bandwidth or just giving the machine more RAM or better disk access, than it would wasting all that money on the CPUs.
The government (and aliens) can monitor the radiation coming from your CRT and see what you're seeing on your monitor from far away...through walls..
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give me a break, we're talking the Department of Homeland Insecurity here, the chief fear-mongers of the world ...
heck, they don't even use warrants or talk to judges or let you talk to lawyers in our modern police state.
no, i think your irony key is turned off - must be a nanobot operating inside your keyboard ... or is it the neuron firing your finger ...
Other aerospace projects include a passenger airliner that will travel at Mach 2 -- or twice the speed of sound -- for five-hour Tokyo-Los Angeles flights and an unmanned, hydrogen-fueled plane that can travel at Mach 5.
The main problem is the shockwave/sound of the jet, but remember that Japan has it's airport on an island reached by rail, so it's not a big deal on their end, only on the poor victims that they connect to - in other words, LAX.
The other question is what the fuel consumption would be - the latest commercial jets are being sold on the premise that they use half the fuel that current jetliners do - if you can travel at Mach 5 but it costs ten times as much fuel, and jet fuel costs $500 a barrel, then why is this being pushed?
to power Japan's and China's space flights.
At least some countries believe in scientific research, even if we don't.
Like much of what the Bush administration does, your claim is not really true while containing a grain of truth. While the overall NASA budget is being slightly increased, the administration is also dictating which areas of research will be cut and which will be expanded. Most everything but manned space-flight is being extremely reduced.
Face it, if it's for Science, and doesn't give him a chance to show up in a Flight Suit, it's being cut.
Move along now ...
Yes, Obi-wan, the dark side is strong in this line.
and that's what the study shows ...
then what's the point in not just saying "It's broke and you broke it" to them?
Sometimes we're too darned nice. There's no cure for stupidity.
"Blast" doesn't have consistent return codes!
You mean "BLAST"?
Of course it doesn't have consistent returns - it's a search of the known entries - people are entering new data every second.
Biology and Biochemistry hold still for no man. Or woman.
Shouldn't be too long before interstate travel in the US requires a passport. That'll finally put an end to criminals moving to another state to hide from the law.
...
And we all know that's a double plus good thing, right, comrade?
Back in the USSR
This seems perfectly reasonable. If you leave one gaping hole in US border patrol, like the entire northern border, then you may as well not patrol the other borders.
You do realize that the number of illegal border crossings on the southern border are 20 times larger than any on the northern border, don't you?
Want to stop illegal crossings? Make the employers go to jail.
No, technically, I can use my Canadian passport if transitting to another country via the US and orginating or ending in Canada.
I already took a citizenship test - when I was just a kid, in Canada - which was the only way you got dual citizenship back then, being born in the US to US parents.
But, recently I found out I can apply for a Canadian passport for my son too, since he's a dual citizen as well, even if his mom is only American - then he'll have two passports as well.
And structural genomics more than functional genomics.
I spend my day covered in protein sequences and worried about docking configurations and charges, quite frankly, working on drug design targets to help cure malaria and other nasty beasties.
In bioinformatics, science literacy is so much more important than computer literacy. Computer scientists rarely become good bioinfromaticians. This is the primary reason almost every single peice of commercial bioinformatics software is a complete peice of shit. And why the free stuff is hacky but gets the job done. The free stuff was written by life scientists, the commercial stuff was written by computer scientists with no domain knowledge of the question they were trying to answer.
I have to agree. If you don't have a scientific frame of mind - and "almost" went into Biology but got sidetracked by those shiny techy computers - you'll be in over your head.
During a typical week here - which pays less and some weeks you don't get much sleep - you probably sit in on 2-4 hours of research presentations and doctoral theses - and we have individual researchers assigned to track specific journals and report back to the rest of us what applied to us in summary form.
If you don't like continually relearning things, it can be strange. And you have to realize what the pipeline is, how a lab actually works, how you scale up things, and why E.coli is not just a nasty bug but your best friend in the whole wide world.
Only having Chemistry and no Biology would be a lot harder.
I just switched myself, with a DA/DBA post-grad certificate, into Bioinformatics, but I had four years of Latin, had worked in Health Care for four years, and had University-level Biology and Chemistry. The one thing you'll really need is stronger Biology.
You could take some audit courses in Biochemistry and Biology, of course. That might help.
All the acronyms will drive you crazy, but the field is so specialized that if you study hard you might make it. The difference from one lab to the next is amazing - one might be using NMR, the next is on the beamline. Even labs working on the same family are almost entirely different - one is into cell-free, the other uses a different method.
Check out a few books and see if it looks understandable or it makes your head hurt. That's a good sign, if your head can hold that in there.
"Bioinformatics : a practical guide to the analysis of genes and proteins"
Had much better sections in the third edition, which I got fresh out of the UW Library when it came in, on PSI-BLAST and BioPerl and suchlike.
The only downside to a textbook in our field is that half the database practical sections become out of date within a year or two.
I've got two - a US one and a Canadian one.
Born in the USA.
It's just a plot by the man to stick us with RFIDs we don't want.
true, they should have said the Feds cracked the system, as hacking implies coding abilities.
on the other hand, perhaps they did use both?
Who will guard those selfsame gaurdians - if you don't grok Latin ...
...
Seriously, is this good news?
Especially since they don't need anything more than a rumor about you, spread by a neighbor or ex-girlfriend/wife, to do a warrentless search, and institute wiretapping
Everyone has moved on to Wikimonics.
Check it out on the Gigabit Internet.
Where you surf the RFID on the opposite gender's passports, to see if you're compatible.
...
The good thing about it is you know his/her name and birthplace, as well as which passport it is.
The bad thing about it is that so does his/her girl/boyfriend
Supposedly, a good-looking chick will go up to you, pull out her white headphone miniplug, and look at you expectantly. You're then supposed to remove your white headphone plug, put it into her ipod, while she does the same to yours, and you each enjoy the other's music for a time.
...
This only happens in Marketing groups.
Besides, you don't know where her iPod's been
Next thing you'll tell me is you don't elect your judges and sherrifs and actually believe in privacy rights ...
How can we live in fear then?
We've lost every war we've fought with Canada.
Every single one.
more sense?
Seriously, what's the point?
Nothing wrong with dual CPU servers, heck, I've got two Linux dual-CPU boxen sitting at home, but in terms of ROI, it would make far more sense getting better bandwidth or just giving the machine more RAM or better disk access, than it would wasting all that money on the CPUs.
The government (and aliens) can monitor the radiation coming from your CRT and see what you're seeing on your monitor from far away...through walls..
I'm sorry, but according to the Department of Homeland Insecurity, it is a crime to publish links that might impede the Department of Grande Papito from its work/surveillance. Please report to the nearest Center for Reeducation within the next 24 hours.
That will be all.