This was more or less in the plans for both a Mir replacement, and "Spacestation Freedom", the US's old space station idea.
In fact, in many ways, both the late Salyuts, Mir and the IIS do this.
There's no remaining real Buran; it was destroyed, along with its sister craft, in a warehouse. The desert one was a non-launch-capable test craft, like enterprise.
The Buran was indeed superior (though not necessarily TECHNOLOGICALLY superior) in that it had a considerably higher payload, and its companion rocket could be used as a standalone (in fact, an Energia-4 coupled with an Energia-2 was designed to have larger capacity than the Saturn V)
In a press release on the subject a couple of months back, the Russian space agency showed it red with a star (presumably an accident; it looks quite like an old Soviet design for launch on Proton, which was never used).
This is what Russia has been doing for some time, now, with the Soyuz/Proton combination. Some progress (honestly didn't mean that as a silly pun) would be interesting.
Communism is a political system which sadly requires everyone in the world to be perfectly ethical. As such, it doesn't work. Libertarianism has similar issues, for slightly different reasons.
I think they're a US-only phenominon. Like cheer-leaders, I thought they were partly or wholly mythical until a few years ago. I'm still not completely convinced... (Cheer-leaders, in particular, seem positively surreal)
> to potentially improve Iraqi society
I would really be very, very surprised if it DOES improve in the long term. Already, women can't leave the home without the burqa, lest fundamentalists attack them or throw acid on them. Say what you like about Sadaam, he discouraged that. There's no reason to suppose that it will suddenly turn into a democratic paradise; rather it seems to be going the way of Iran.
I'm inclined to think that despite the amusing config files, Apache beats IIS for most normal applications. IIS doesn't even HAVE proper config files, it has a GRAPHICAL tool. It's okay for a single website on a machine you control; try it for shared rent-a-host and you'll have problems.
But did they use a text from Google Scholar on how best to shoot people? If not, then it's off topic.
And 'execution' is death meted out by due process. This is either murder or killed while resisting arrest.
Well, it's certainly against Google's policies, which they're beginning to enforce in the last month or so. They have a "report spam" button, now. If you see these sites, click the Google Adsense link under the ads, and click "report spam".
*blinks* You've never used public transport? I pity you, I really do. I have a nice, relaxing half-hour on the bus reading before work every morning. Would go slowly mad if I had to drive then.
They shouldn't, even then. Funny how China and the US slowly become more and more similar. Prison labour (sounds nice; very dangerous in practice, as you end up jailing more people for cheap slave labour), execution (tho I can sorta see the charms of executing corrupt politicians like in China...), prudishness, surpressing freedoms... But in many ways China is getting better while the US is getting worse. Wonder how long before they pass each other out?
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There's rude bits in Monty Python?
It *censors* them? Why? They're generally hardly risque... Did some braindead fundamentalist get upset by Are You Being Served, or something?
No, the Russians are keen on analog computers for their space program (really!)
This was more or less in the plans for both a Mir replacement, and "Spacestation Freedom", the US's old space station idea. In fact, in many ways, both the late Salyuts, Mir and the IIS do this.
There's no remaining real Buran; it was destroyed, along with its sister craft, in a warehouse. The desert one was a non-launch-capable test craft, like enterprise. The Buran was indeed superior (though not necessarily TECHNOLOGICALLY superior) in that it had a considerably higher payload, and its companion rocket could be used as a standalone (in fact, an Energia-4 coupled with an Energia-2 was designed to have larger capacity than the Saturn V)
In a press release on the subject a couple of months back, the Russian space agency showed it red with a star (presumably an accident; it looks quite like an old Soviet design for launch on Proton, which was never used).
This is what Russia has been doing for some time, now, with the Soyuz/Proton combination. Some progress (honestly didn't mean that as a silly pun) would be interesting.
The reason for the lack of fast P4s is the limits encountered win the shift to 90nm process.
Y2K was not overblown. It was simply dealt with.
Dollar inflation since Apollo has been HUGE. But yes, the shuttle is very inefficient; it exists largely for political reasons.
You may be thinking of the Soviet Buran, which on most test flights and its only orbital flight was landed by computer.
Communism is a political system which sadly requires everyone in the world to be perfectly ethical. As such, it doesn't work. Libertarianism has similar issues, for slightly different reasons.
And of course, the existance of the super-Energia configuration (a few tons more to LEO than SatV)
I think they're a US-only phenominon. Like cheer-leaders, I thought they were partly or wholly mythical until a few years ago. I'm still not completely convinced... (Cheer-leaders, in particular, seem positively surreal)
I hope you mean ASP.NET.
Not, it's not just a case of "jam an embryo in there".
> to potentially improve Iraqi society I would really be very, very surprised if it DOES improve in the long term. Already, women can't leave the home without the burqa, lest fundamentalists attack them or throw acid on them. Say what you like about Sadaam, he discouraged that. There's no reason to suppose that it will suddenly turn into a democratic paradise; rather it seems to be going the way of Iran.
I'm inclined to think that despite the amusing config files, Apache beats IIS for most normal applications. IIS doesn't even HAVE proper config files, it has a GRAPHICAL tool. It's okay for a single website on a machine you control; try it for shared rent-a-host and you'll have problems.
But did they use a text from Google Scholar on how best to shoot people? If not, then it's off topic. And 'execution' is death meted out by due process. This is either murder or killed while resisting arrest.
Slow tho. VERY slow.
A new way for the chronically stupid to obtain degrees enabling them to build bridges.
Why is it more controversial to be racist about black and jewish people than about chinese people, precisely?
Well, it's certainly against Google's policies, which they're beginning to enforce in the last month or so. They have a "report spam" button, now. If you see these sites, click the Google Adsense link under the ads, and click "report spam".
*blinks* You've never used public transport? I pity you, I really do. I have a nice, relaxing half-hour on the bus reading before work every morning. Would go slowly mad if I had to drive then.
They shouldn't, even then. Funny how China and the US slowly become more and more similar. Prison labour (sounds nice; very dangerous in practice, as you end up jailing more people for cheap slave labour), execution (tho I can sorta see the charms of executing corrupt politicians like in China...), prudishness, surpressing freedoms... But in many ways China is getting better while the US is getting worse. Wonder how long before they pass each other out?