"It will enable us to accomplish inspiring exploration, science and R and D, the kinds of things the agency has been known for throughout its history."
NASA does a hell of a lot more than just launch people into space. This new budget will give NASA a leg up on real cutting edge R & D in new technologies. All the billions of dollars going towards getting men to the Moon will be spent on next generation rocket tech and many other exciting fields.
For those of you interested in Moonbounce, google "eme moonbounce". EME is Ham Radio slang for bouncing signals of the moon, and it comes from Earth-Moon-Earth. These signals are in the VHF or UHF frequency sections. Most notably, it is in the 144Mhz (2m) or 432Mhz Mhz.
Granted, it takes a fairly big antenna and lots of power to bounce signals off the moon. However, there are computer programs that allow for slow text transmission (think really slow modem) via moonbounce, reducing the antenna and power requirements.
Talk with people around the world by bouncing signals off the moon
On "HF" or shortwave radio, you can talk to people around the world with 100watts of RF power. 100w is probably 1/3 or less of the power used to run your desktop computer.
It's probably one of the geekiest of the geek hobbies. You can play with electronics and build and repair radios. You can interface radios with computers and send and receive messages over radio. You can play with RF and antenna theory, flexing those math muscles to enhance your signal.
You get to talk without infrastructure
Cool people from around the world to talk with, and you never know who you're going to talk to next. Kind of like fishing
All the gents wear top hats, walk around with boards up their ass and sip tea. The ladies wear huge foofy dresses and ride in horse drawn carriages while sipping tea.
Frenchmen are a bunch of beret wearing, pea-balled wino weenies who spit on American flags. French women are slutty goddess incarnates who seduce every man on the street.
This is a very cool outcome to a long and very annoying program. Carte Blanche policies for spying one one's citizens is not just annoying, it ensure whoever's at the top will get corrupter that much faster.
by the way, I miss April Fools, OMGPONIES! Style. That was the best April Fools EVAR [cries]
"Thank you for your patience! We at Innovative Marketing take our work very seriously. We have operators standing by to blackmail you into submission! Please be patient and wait for the next representative, or we will hunt you down and steal your first born son! You wouldn't want that, would you?"
[operator, thick east European accent] Good morning! This is Vladamir from Innovative Marketing. We know who you are, we have stolen your identity. We trust you will do the right thing, and not report us. We know where grandma lives, and you wouldn't want grandma hurt, would you? heheheh
SSDs offer speed. Spinning Disk HDDs offer cheap space. Hybrid disks offer a nice compromise until SSDs overtake spinning disks in storage/price.
I mean really, who needs an expensive big SSD for your porn collection? Unless you have 12 monitors running porn simulcasting...SSD speeds are really only needed for heavily accessed files. HDDs offer cheap storage for those not-so-often used files. The solution is relatively inexpensive, and here today
I can do without fancy lightshows while I'm driving. But, if they can project upcoming terrain and potential hazards a few hundred feet ahead in blanket-thick fog, I'm all for it! If they can perfect this technology, there are many, many customers who wouldn't hesitate for a second to buy one of their vehicles with this tech, assuming it was in an appropriate price range.
Once the flood gates of ISP level censorship are pushed open, it's simply going to keep cascading until our Mate's internet connection is "sanitized" to death, where sanitized is on a sliding scale depending on whoever is in power at the time.
You can't impose Draconian surveillance and anti-privacy laws immediately. The British government are imposing them the only way they can, by slowly freezing Britain into a harsh moral winter.
common now. When Papa needs the router reset, who does he most often turn to? The 10 year old, or his wife? The 10 year old most likely either knows how already, or can Google it and follow the steps.
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NASA does a hell of a lot more than just launch people into space. This new budget will give NASA a leg up on real cutting edge R & D in new technologies. All the billions of dollars going towards getting men to the Moon will be spent on next generation rocket tech and many other exciting fields.
The Amateur Radio Relay League is a great spot to start. They are the largest Ham Radio organization in the country.
Another good site with basic info is the How Stuff Works page
These links will give you a good spot to start. Best of luck!
Sometimes you also get fun stuff like what's coming up in a week. The Arecibo radio astronomy antenna (huge white dish) is bouncing signals off the moon and listening for ham radio operators in a week or two
Granted, it takes a fairly big antenna and lots of power to bounce signals off the moon. However, there are computer programs that allow for slow text transmission (think really slow modem) via moonbounce, reducing the antenna and power requirements.
Talk with people around the world by bouncing signals off the moon
On "HF" or shortwave radio, you can talk to people around the world with 100watts of RF power. 100w is probably 1/3 or less of the power used to run your desktop computer.
It's probably one of the geekiest of the geek hobbies. You can play with electronics and build and repair radios. You can interface radios with computers and send and receive messages over radio. You can play with RF and antenna theory, flexing those math muscles to enhance your signal.
You get to talk without infrastructure
Cool people from around the world to talk with, and you never know who you're going to talk to next. Kind of like fishing
All the gents wear top hats, walk around with boards up their ass and sip tea. The ladies wear huge foofy dresses and ride in horse drawn carriages while sipping tea.
They're all convicts.
We're a bunch of elephant sized fat asses who smash McD BigMacs into our triple chinned faces.
Frenchmen are a bunch of beret wearing, pea-balled wino weenies who spit on American flags. French women are slutty goddess incarnates who seduce every man on the street.
This is a very cool outcome to a long and very annoying program. Carte Blanche policies for spying one one's citizens is not just annoying, it ensure whoever's at the top will get corrupter that much faster.
by the way, I miss April Fools, OMGPONIES! Style. That was the best April Fools EVAR
[cries]
"Thank you for your patience! We at Innovative Marketing take our work very seriously. We have operators standing by to blackmail you into submission! Please be patient and wait for the next representative, or we will hunt you down and steal your first born son! You wouldn't want that, would you?"
[operator, thick east European accent] Good morning! This is Vladamir from Innovative Marketing. We know who you are, we have stolen your identity. We trust you will do the right thing, and not report us. We know where grandma lives, and you wouldn't want grandma hurt, would you? heheheh
SSDs offer speed. Spinning Disk HDDs offer cheap space. Hybrid disks offer a nice compromise until SSDs overtake spinning disks in storage/price.
I mean really, who needs an expensive big SSD for your porn collection? Unless you have 12 monitors running porn simulcasting...SSD speeds are really only needed for heavily accessed files. HDDs offer cheap storage for those not-so-often used files. The solution is relatively inexpensive, and here today
I can do without fancy lightshows while I'm driving. But, if they can project upcoming terrain and potential hazards a few hundred feet ahead in blanket-thick fog, I'm all for it! If they can perfect this technology, there are many, many customers who wouldn't hesitate for a second to buy one of their vehicles with this tech, assuming it was in an appropriate price range.
Dolphins also don't have hands or anything but their fins,teeth and echolocation as tools. If dolphins had hands, watch out!
You are making them work for their attempt. Soon, you're servers are just too expensive time wise to make it a worthwhile investment.
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Once the flood gates of ISP level censorship are pushed open, it's simply going to keep cascading until our Mate's internet connection is "sanitized" to death, where sanitized is on a sliding scale depending on whoever is in power at the time.
DC or BC are more than adequate, are already in 99% of the distros out there and are chock full of features!
that analogy is now retired. Time for a new one! (BTW, thanks for the link)
Slowly turn up the heat.
If you crank up the heat too fast, the frog jumps out of the pot. Turn the heat up slowly, and the frog will not notice until it's too late.
You can't impose Draconian surveillance and anti-privacy laws immediately. The British government are imposing them the only way they can, by slowly freezing Britain into a harsh moral winter.
I think this clip from WALL-E is sadly a very real possibility.
Why not ask Jeeves? Oops, wrong decade.
common now. When Papa needs the router reset, who does he most often turn to? The 10 year old, or his wife? The 10 year old most likely either knows how already, or can Google it and follow the steps.
Researchers have recently discovered gamblers like money, scholars spend lots of time reading and fishermen are often on boats.