The cool thing about Apollo 12 was they were able to set down within walking distance from Surveyor 3 and return parts of it back to Earth to study long term exposure effects on the Moon.
Lovell continued to describe the terrain over which they were passing. One of the crew's major tasks was reconnaissance of the planned landing sites on the Moon, especially one in Mare Tranquillitatis that would be the Apollo 11 landing site.
I think for the amount of money we've dumped into G.W.'s Middle East Adventure in Iraq we would have already paid for a manned mission to Mars. Space exploration is a minuscule portion of the budget.
We used the early Apollo flights (as in some of the ones BEFORE Apollo 11) to take photographs of the Moon looking for landing sites. They had already picked out candidates, but the in-orbit photos were of much better resolution than from an Earth based telescope.
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I am annoyed about how they're trying to rid of trivia sections. Those are some of the most interesting parts of an article if you ask me.
The problem I have is that the trivia section of an article can get to be larger than the rest of the article. Maybe someone should start Wikitrivia, where every topic can have an unlimited amount of inane blather, all linked together. Then you could write like a meta degrees of Kevin Bacon, where it will automatically calculate how many articles it takes to link back to Kevin Bacon! It'd be awesome! On a serious note, maybe a sub-page of trivia for an article where the main article page randomly displays one trivia factoid, and if you're REALLY interested you can go to the trivia page?
How is it a good example? The crew was dead less than 30 seconds after the fire started. With the pressurized 100% O2 environment they were testing with on the pad, it was more of an explosion than a fire. They couldn't even get the capsule door open before the pressure inside pinned it closed.
When I supported POS systems five years ago I was amazed at what they would store in plain text in log files. Not just CC numbers but the entire contents of the magnetic strip. And POS software is a very stagnant industry, once retailers have a system that works they're very slow to change. Hell, I know of one convenience store chain that is still running Windows 95 with a WinNT back of house.
Last time I had a vexing BSOD on a fresh install it turned out to be the thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink. A friend had purchased a "combo" of MB, CPU and RAM that had supposedly been "burned in". Well, when installing XP it would BSOD before completing.
At first I thought RAM, so I swapped in a known good stick. Same thing, but I noticed that the BSOD happened earlier in the install. For grins I started another install and it BSOD'd immediately. Let it sit for an hour and tried again, the install went for about as long as it did the first time before the BSOD.
Putting on my logic hat, I figured it had to do with heat. All the fans turned fine, everything seemed to be working. It came with a stock CPU fan, my last ditch effort was going to be installing a monster HSF I had that didn't fit in one of my machines. When I took the stock HSF off the motherboard, I found that HALF of the CPU die was bare, had no thermal compound (this was an Athlon XP with the exposed die). After I applied a new layer of thermal grease the box worked fine.
The thing I learned from that is the "factory tested" bundles are a joke.
The article claims "hard science" but instead is a collection of blurbs that read like half-assed filler written by someone without a clue as to the subject.
After he had been told by a pilot to NEVER do that again, and one pilot refused to ever fly with him again.
The guy, through a combination of his own inflated ego and the flawed American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program (AAMP) killed everyone onboard that flight. What happened was in the AAMP one of the things taught was a "Wake Turbulence Avoidance Manuver" in a commercial flight simulator. The problem was they started with the simulation paused. Some pilots figured out that if you start with the rudder at full deflection with the sim paused, then as soon as it unpaused input full opposite rudder you could "fool" the sim into doing what it wanted. So then when he was flying the departure on flight 587, they encountered wake turbulence and he did the same damned thing, threw the rudder hard over, bang-bang-bang. Ripped the tail right off, not just the rudder, the whole vertical tail. An aluminum tail would have snapped off just the same.
If anything, an argument was made that the flight control system shouldn't have allowed such large rudder deflections, the trouble was the deflection angle was safe, didn't apply an unacceptable load to the tail. The load came from the cycle of full deflection one way to full deflection the other way, like rocking a car out of a rut. The momentum of the yaw combined with the full opposite rudder input snapped the tail off.
I know you're a BSG fan pointing out an amusing coincidence, but ATC radar doesn't rely on "skin paints" (primary returns) to track air traffic. Transponder
The F-16 is made from aluminum. Production started in 1976. In the block 30, 40 and 50 F-16Cs some composite materials are used, but not in any great quantity. Carbon fiber composites emit very toxic fumes when burned, but then so do a lot of other materials used in aerospace.
The B-1A was a high altitude, high speed bomber capable of Mach 2+. The B-1B was changed to a low altitude penetrator. The engine inlets were simplified, removing the variable geometry inlets. This limited the B-1Bs high altitude top speed. On the deck its faster than the Tu-160.
On a related note, Paul Greengrass needs to be strapped into a giant paint shaker until his brain liquefies for what he did to the last two Bourne movies. I mean for christsakes can we have a conversation with two people sitting in a restaurant on screen without a cameraman suffering from Parkinson's?
Is the difference between sleep and off obvious to a non-technical person?
It is to these people now, to the tune of five grand. Besides, Apple users can't be bothered with manuals, everything about their products is so simple and elegant that they don't need them.
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Yep, they returned (among other things) the video camera and the sample scoop.
Here's the report: Surveyor III Parts and Materials/Evaluation of Lunar Effects
The cool thing about Apollo 12 was they were able to set down within walking distance from Surveyor 3 and return parts of it back to Earth to study long term exposure effects on the Moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8#Lunar_orbit
I think for the amount of money we've dumped into G.W.'s Middle East Adventure in Iraq we would have already paid for a manned mission to Mars. Space exploration is a minuscule portion of the budget.
We used the early Apollo flights (as in some of the ones BEFORE Apollo 11) to take photographs of the Moon looking for landing sites. They had already picked out candidates, but the in-orbit photos were of much better resolution than from an Earth based telescope.
On a serious note, maybe a sub-page of trivia for an article where the main article page randomly displays one trivia factoid, and if you're REALLY interested you can go to the trivia page?
The cameras on the Mars Rovers are "B&W" as well. They just image in three different wavelengths and combine them to get the color images.
The ANT Lab doesn't care about color(blind) people.
How is it a good example? The crew was dead less than 30 seconds after the fire started. With the pressurized 100% O2 environment they were testing with on the pad, it was more of an explosion than a fire. They couldn't even get the capsule door open before the pressure inside pinned it closed.
When I supported POS systems five years ago I was amazed at what they would store in plain text in log files. Not just CC numbers but the entire contents of the magnetic strip. And POS software is a very stagnant industry, once retailers have a system that works they're very slow to change. Hell, I know of one convenience store chain that is still running Windows 95 with a WinNT back of house.
Last time I had a vexing BSOD on a fresh install it turned out to be the thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink. A friend had purchased a "combo" of MB, CPU and RAM that had supposedly been "burned in". Well, when installing XP it would BSOD before completing.
At first I thought RAM, so I swapped in a known good stick. Same thing, but I noticed that the BSOD happened earlier in the install. For grins I started another install and it BSOD'd immediately. Let it sit for an hour and tried again, the install went for about as long as it did the first time before the BSOD.
Putting on my logic hat, I figured it had to do with heat. All the fans turned fine, everything seemed to be working. It came with a stock CPU fan, my last ditch effort was going to be installing a monster HSF I had that didn't fit in one of my machines. When I took the stock HSF off the motherboard, I found that HALF of the CPU die was bare, had no thermal compound (this was an Athlon XP with the exposed die). After I applied a new layer of thermal grease the box worked fine.
The thing I learned from that is the "factory tested" bundles are a joke.
No, it leaves the the Linux and BSD crowds to have to do it the hard way, something they should be used to by now.
Hate to break it to you, but they'll still have to tile images together.
If you spend your time playing a game staring at your character's butt, you're doing it wrong.
And what ever you do, DON'T pick Mimas as the planetiod... That's no moon!
Number one should be "Developers forgot how to provide more than 10 hours of gameplay per title"
The article claims "hard science" but instead is a collection of blurbs that read like half-assed filler written by someone without a clue as to the subject.
After he had been told by a pilot to NEVER do that again, and one pilot refused to ever fly with him again.
The guy, through a combination of his own inflated ego and the flawed American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program (AAMP) killed everyone onboard that flight. What happened was in the AAMP one of the things taught was a "Wake Turbulence Avoidance Manuver" in a commercial flight simulator. The problem was they started with the simulation paused. Some pilots figured out that if you start with the rudder at full deflection with the sim paused, then as soon as it unpaused input full opposite rudder you could "fool" the sim into doing what it wanted. So then when he was flying the departure on flight 587, they encountered wake turbulence and he did the same damned thing, threw the rudder hard over, bang-bang-bang. Ripped the tail right off, not just the rudder, the whole vertical tail. An aluminum tail would have snapped off just the same.
If anything, an argument was made that the flight control system shouldn't have allowed such large rudder deflections, the trouble was the deflection angle was safe, didn't apply an unacceptable load to the tail. The load came from the cycle of full deflection one way to full deflection the other way, like rocking a car out of a rut. The momentum of the yaw combined with the full opposite rudder input snapped the tail off.
I know you're a BSG fan pointing out an amusing coincidence, but ATC radar doesn't rely on "skin paints" (primary returns) to track air traffic. Transponder
The F-16 is made from aluminum. Production started in 1976. In the block 30, 40 and 50 F-16Cs some composite materials are used, but not in any great quantity. Carbon fiber composites emit very toxic fumes when burned, but then so do a lot of other materials used in aerospace.
Cooler Master figured it out. I love this case:
Centurion 532
The B-1A was a high altitude, high speed bomber capable of Mach 2+. The B-1B was changed to a low altitude penetrator. The engine inlets were simplified, removing the variable geometry inlets. This limited the B-1Bs high altitude top speed. On the deck its faster than the Tu-160.
On a related note, Paul Greengrass needs to be strapped into a giant paint shaker until his brain liquefies for what he did to the last two Bourne movies. I mean for christsakes can we have a conversation with two people sitting in a restaurant on screen without a cameraman suffering from Parkinson's?
It is to these people now, to the tune of five grand. Besides, Apple users can't be bothered with manuals, everything about their products is so simple and elegant that they don't need them.