"Wernher Von Braun" by Tom Lehrer (as recorded in 1965):
(spoken introduction)
What is it that put America in the forefront of the nuclear nations? And what is it that will make it possible to spend $20 billion of your money to put some clown on the moon? Well, it was good old American know-how that's what, as provided by good old Americans like Dr. Wernher Von Braun.
(breaks into song)
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher Von Braun A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience. Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown "Ha, Nazi schmazi", says Wernher Von Braun.
Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical. "Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down, That's not my department" says Wernher Von Braun.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude. Like the widows & cripples in old London town Who owe their large pensions to Wernher Von Braun.
You too may be a big hero Once you've learnt to count backwards to zero. "In German or English I know how to count down, Und I'm learning Chinese" says Wernher Von Braun.
Could an MP3 player be considered a study aid if perhaps it were to be filled with Audio Books?
A previous story about the Kalishnikov ammo magazine MP3 player led me to http://www.audiobooksforfree.com, a website that has a bunch of books in MP3 format.
Does the text of the article on a non-slashdotted website really constitute +3 Informative?
If I post the current date and time, can I also get a + moderation for 'Insightful'?
Despite appearances, this ain't a troll, I'm just offering commentary on a puzzling aspect of moderation. Hells bells, I'm at the Karma Kap of 50 (or Excellent, under the new system), so I can afford to piss off the moderators that so poorly used their ninja skills to mod up a robotic repasting.
I'm guessing you didn't bother to read the article. Those aren't sub scale models, those are the actual carrier aircraft and spacecraft. The only thing left is to finalize the hybrid rocket and complete the glide tests.
Last Halloween, my wife wanted to dress our 6 month old son as a fox. She got the costume and everything, and it was a cute little outfit. I started wondering what I could contribute...
Inspiration struck, and I built this:
http://hallert.net/images/marcustank1-med.jpg
http://hallert.net/images/marcustank2-med.jpg
It's mounted on caster wheels and has a handle on the back that I used to push it down the street.
Now I wonder if anyone can guess what I was trying for..... ?
Of course, according to Star Trek, the Eugenics wars took place during the 1990s, so these supermen must already be among us. I'm sure that when the footage is de-classified, we'll all enjoy a bunch of fascinating documentaries on how these scientists already did their stuff back in the 70s....
His rocket sprays high concentration hydrogen peroxide across a silver catalyst. When hydrogen peroxide touches silver, it breaks apart and converts into heat and water (in the form of steam). The conversion ratio is something like 600 to 1 at 100% concentration, so it's a pretty violent stuff.
The advantages of using a hydrogen peroxide rocket is that it is simple. You turn on a single valve, and peroxide is pumped/forced into the chamber and voila, you get thrust. No flames, no complicated ratios, etc.
The disadvantages are that it's not as efficient as flaming rocket fuels. The ISP (a measurement of thrust and efficiency) is much, much lower for this monopropellent then, say, the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen main engines on the shuttle.
The first episode shown was badly chosen. If it wasn't for a mistake setting up my ReplayTV, I would not have caught any of the following episodes and realized that it was a good show.
A much better choice for the first episode would have been the one where they flashbacked to each crew member being added. That was very funny, and it got my wife hooked too.
Not all the pads are active. For example, the launch pads they used to fire off Snarks and V2s captured from Germany in the 1940 are of limited use when launching vehicles that are literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of lbs heavier.
A shuttle launch pad (there are two active) has a very different set of requirements from a Titan V or Atlas launch pad, for example, because of the SRBs, the launch escape system, and more.
Additionally, newer pads are getting simpler and simpler to lower costs and increase reliability.
I was a paying member of Salon for a year. The main way I read Salon was through my PDA using Avantgo. Salon's method for prompting users to get premium subscriptions was by giving a 1 page teaser of a premium article, then saying they should become paying members to read the rest.
Their avantgo channel, however, had no method in place for Premium subscribers to get full stories on their PDAs! For a year, the premium stories would have their little teaser, then at the bottom there would be a little apology to the effect of 'Sorry, we haven't made a channel for our premium subscribers yet, but we will soon!'
Empty promises.
They never made the channel, and since my primary interface to Salon was via PDA, I wasn't getting what I had paid for (premium access).
Their business decision to indefinately postpone the premium channels have probably cost them quite a handful of customers, which is unfortunate.
The poster is a little confused about the speed of light. 186,000 miles per SECOND is the correct figure, 3600 times faster then the 186,000 miles per HOUR that the poster assumes is light speed.
Again, please note, the max speed was 260,000 mph, an acronym for miles per HOUR.
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"Wernher Von Braun" by Tom Lehrer (as recorded in 1965):
(spoken introduction)
What is it that put America in the forefront of the nuclear nations? And
what is it that will make it possible to spend $20 billion of your money
to put some clown on the moon? Well, it was good old American know-how
that's what, as provided by good old Americans like Dr. Wernher Von
Braun.
(breaks into song)
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher Von Braun
A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Ha, Nazi schmazi", says Wernher Von Braun.
Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical.
"Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down,
That's not my department" says Wernher Von Braun.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude.
Like the widows & cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher Von Braun.
You too may be a big hero
Once you've learnt to count backwards to zero.
"In German or English I know how to count down,
Und I'm learning Chinese" says Wernher Von Braun.
Or, if improperly grounded, a Raiden array.
K-zaap!
From the article:
"The human eye blends these resulting patterns of black- or white-topped capsules into text displayed in a traditional column."
Oh, is THAT how pixels work?
Could an MP3 player be considered a study aid if perhaps it were to be filled with Audio Books?
A previous story about the Kalishnikov ammo magazine MP3 player led me to http://www.audiobooksforfree.com, a website that has a bunch of books in MP3 format.
We should celebrate this taking the original source code from Mosaic and updating it to include these new useful features:
Pop up ads
ActiveX controls that can have full access to your computer
An e-mail client with HTML support so you can view spam as it was intended
and so on. Go progress!
Does the text of the article on a non-slashdotted website really constitute +3 Informative?
If I post the current date and time, can I also get a + moderation for 'Insightful'?
Despite appearances, this ain't a troll, I'm just offering commentary on a puzzling aspect of moderation. Hells bells, I'm at the Karma Kap of 50 (or Excellent, under the new system), so I can afford to piss off the moderators that so poorly used their ninja skills to mod up a robotic repasting.
I'm guessing you didn't bother to read the article. Those aren't sub scale models, those are the actual carrier aircraft and spacecraft. The only thing left is to finalize the hybrid rocket and complete the glide tests.
I suspect that people buy games for the graphics, but keep playing them because of the gameplay.
It is good business to hype how pretty a game is.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 04YMSV/qid=1050343992/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/104-475058 0-6665505?v=glance&s=videogames
The trick for making LCD revenues pass CRT is simple: Make the LCD monitors more expensive.
Thank you, I will be here all ze week! Don't forget to tip your waitresses!
Nope, if you knew your history, Rommel wasn't a Nazi. In fact, Hitler had him executed because Rommel was connected to a plot to assassinate him.
Last Halloween, my wife wanted to dress our 6 month old son as a fox. She got the costume and everything, and it was a cute little outfit. I started wondering what I could contribute...
Inspiration struck, and I built this:
http://hallert.net/images/marcustank1-med.jpg
http://hallert.net/images/marcustank2-med.jpg
It's mounted on caster wheels and has a handle on the back that I used to push it down the street.
Now I wonder if anyone can guess what I was trying for..... ?
> it's really a waste of resources. ...as compared to posting on Slashdot, of course.
Of course, according to Star Trek, the Eugenics wars took place during the 1990s, so these supermen must already be among us. I'm sure that when the footage is de-classified, we'll all enjoy a bunch of fascinating documentaries on how these scientists already did their stuff back in the 70s....
Here's a quick primer on why peroxide is needed:
His rocket sprays high concentration hydrogen peroxide across a silver catalyst. When hydrogen peroxide touches silver, it breaks apart and converts into heat and water (in the form of steam). The conversion ratio is something like 600 to 1 at 100% concentration, so it's a pretty violent stuff.
The advantages of using a hydrogen peroxide rocket is that it is simple. You turn on a single valve, and peroxide is pumped/forced into the chamber and voila, you get thrust. No flames, no complicated ratios, etc.
The disadvantages are that it's not as efficient as flaming rocket fuels. The ISP (a measurement of thrust and efficiency) is much, much lower for this monopropellent then, say, the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen main engines on the shuttle.
Of course, we already know this from all the slashdot articles about people who died after marathon Everquest sessions and deathmatches.
The problem is that Netscape went from 85%+ marketshare to single digits.
Mozilla itself is fine. The consequences of the delay, however, are not.
The first episode shown was badly chosen. If it wasn't for a mistake setting up my ReplayTV, I would not have caught any of the following episodes and realized that it was a good show.
A much better choice for the first episode would have been the one where they flashbacked to each crew member being added. That was very funny, and it got my wife hooked too.
That's silly. Titan IVs are the only booster that make the shuttle look economic.
Titan IV = Super expensive, not too reliable, out of production.
Not all the pads are active. For example, the launch pads they used to fire off Snarks and V2s captured from Germany in the 1940 are of limited use when launching vehicles that are literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of lbs heavier.
A shuttle launch pad (there are two active) has a very different set of requirements from a Titan V or Atlas launch pad, for example, because of the SRBs, the launch escape system, and more.
Additionally, newer pads are getting simpler and simpler to lower costs and increase reliability.
I was a paying member of Salon for a year. The main way I read Salon was through my PDA using Avantgo. Salon's method for prompting users to get premium subscriptions was by giving a 1 page teaser of a premium article, then saying they should become paying members to read the rest.
Their avantgo channel, however, had no method in place for Premium subscribers to get full stories on their PDAs! For a year, the premium stories would have their little teaser, then at the bottom there would be a little apology to the effect of 'Sorry, we haven't made a channel for our premium subscribers yet, but we will soon!'
Empty promises.
They never made the channel, and since my primary interface to Salon was via PDA, I wasn't getting what I had paid for (premium access).
Their business decision to indefinately postpone the premium channels have probably cost them quite a handful of customers, which is unfortunate.
I don't understand, why is the above marked troll? It appears to be a legit link. Am I just naive?
What's the deal with the snide little qualifier 'but not required' for Australian entities switching to Linux?
Isn't the concept of required operating systems anathema to everything Linux stands for?
Sounds like the pigs are walking upright and living in the farmers house.
The poster is a little confused about the speed of light. 186,000 miles per SECOND is the correct figure, 3600 times faster then the 186,000 miles per HOUR that the poster assumes is light speed.
Again, please note, the max speed was 260,000 mph, an acronym for miles per HOUR.
and the Glaven!