NASA doesn't do anything. They're just a bureau of administration. They hand out money so that others can do things.
NASA don't do research, they fund others to do research. Training astronauts? Spacehab. Maintain and launch the Shuttles? United Space Alliance (Boeing+Lockheed). Build SRB's? ATK. etc.
Furthermore, it doesnt matter that they only launch when the weather is good. The orbiter is on the pad before launch. If they scrub because of stormy weather, they'll need the system. The shuttle also spends a while on the pad before launch, during which it may experience stormy weather (afaik, Ares will spend less time on the pad)
It's not a "giant lightning rod" it's a set of towers with wires between them.
Nor is it "unnecessary" because they've had few problems -- problems have been prevented because they have had lightning diversion systems in the past. It's better to prevent the problem, rather than take chances -- particularly with manned spaceflight.
Aircraft are very unlikely to collide. Beyond ATC and pilot levels of prevention, there's also TCAS, traffic collision avoidance system, which works as a last resort automatic system to detect and help avoid collisions. As said somewhere else here runway incursions are more of an issue.
But even then,the whole US ATC and ground management system is in dire need of replacement, it's inevitable that there will be a crash/accident that could have been prevented by a new system.
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NASA ain't hiding anything. All the information is available.
Look at the documentation that resulted from the investigation after Columbia. It is understood, that because of the design of the Shuttle, that impacts will continue to occurr for it's lifetime. What's important, is that these can be minimised, so that we don't encounter damaging impacts like with Columbia, and when they do occur, repair techniques have been implemented.
If you look on the NASA website, all the photos from the RPM as Atlantis approached the station are available. There are photos hilighting the damage. A raised thermal protection blanket on an OMS pod. There are photos of engineers investigating repair techniques. In the third space walk today, you can watch them repair the damage on NASA TV. This is not hidden from you.
Photos of repair techniques being tested are in the link below. If you go forward a page or two, there's a photo of the blanket in question, and earlier pages show high res photos from the RPM. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle /sts-117/ndxpage16.html This was all covered in a press conference too.
I get plenty of unsolicited phone calls. Unfortunately most of them occur around dinner time between 5-8pm on a weekday.
This ban only comes into effect at 8pm, thus, the huge range of annoying calls - which have been rising over the years - will still be calling, nearly every night, as my family and I sit to eat.
Turn off the eye candy, and you have the new Windows XP DRM Edition. Not many people have taken notice of HDCP, but I am sure they will when their videos are playing at a lower resolution. Few monitors out there support it, if any.
What I find most intruiging about the high requirements needed, is that they are elminating most of their upgrade base. Few computers out there now, will happily, easily and smoothly run Vista upon it's release. Some will run it, but that's like trying to play Doom 3 on integrated graphics.
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NASA's already outsourced.
NASA doesn't do anything. They're just a bureau of administration. They hand out money so that others can do things.
NASA don't do research, they fund others to do research. Training astronauts? Spacehab. Maintain and launch the Shuttles? United Space Alliance (Boeing+Lockheed). Build SRB's? ATK. etc.
Same setup will be used for Ares.
Furthermore, it doesnt matter that they only launch when the weather is good. The orbiter is on the pad before launch. If they scrub because of stormy weather, they'll need the system. The shuttle also spends a while on the pad before launch, during which it may experience stormy weather (afaik, Ares will spend less time on the pad)
It's not a "giant lightning rod" it's a set of towers with wires between them.
Nor is it "unnecessary" because they've had few problems -- problems have been prevented because they have had lightning diversion systems in the past. It's better to prevent the problem, rather than take chances -- particularly with manned spaceflight.
Aircraft are very unlikely to collide. Beyond ATC and pilot levels of prevention, there's also TCAS, traffic collision avoidance system, which works as a last resort automatic system to detect and help avoid collisions. As said somewhere else here runway incursions are more of an issue.
But even then,the whole US ATC and ground management system is in dire need of replacement, it's inevitable that there will be a crash/accident that could have been prevented by a new system.
NASA ain't hiding anything. All the information is available.
e /sts-117/ndxpage16.html
Look at the documentation that resulted from the investigation after Columbia. It is understood, that because of the design of the Shuttle, that impacts will continue to occurr for it's lifetime. What's important, is that these can be minimised, so that we don't encounter damaging impacts like with Columbia, and when they do occur, repair techniques have been implemented.
If you look on the NASA website, all the photos from the RPM as Atlantis approached the station are available. There are photos hilighting the damage. A raised thermal protection blanket on an OMS pod. There are photos of engineers investigating repair techniques. In the third space walk today, you can watch them repair the damage on NASA TV. This is not hidden from you.
Photos of repair techniques being tested are in the link below. If you go forward a page or two, there's a photo of the blanket in question, and earlier pages show high res photos from the RPM.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttl
This was all covered in a press conference too.
If you look at other sites than NASA's, or you watch the press conferences, again broadcasted on nasa tv, you can get even more information:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5129
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5133
Nothing is hidden. Nothing is amiss. The real information is under your nose and available.
A bare kernel and emacs.
I'm an Australian.
I get plenty of unsolicited phone calls. Unfortunately most of them occur around dinner time between 5-8pm on a weekday.
This ban only comes into effect at 8pm, thus, the huge range of annoying calls - which have been rising over the years - will still be calling, nearly every night, as my family and I sit to eat.
A weak attempt to fix an annoying problem.
Turn off the eye candy, and you have the new Windows XP DRM Edition. Not many people have taken notice of HDCP, but I am sure they will when their videos are playing at a lower resolution. Few monitors out there support it, if any.
What I find most intruiging about the high requirements needed, is that they are elminating most of their upgrade base. Few computers out there now, will happily, easily and smoothly run Vista upon it's release. Some will run it, but that's like trying to play Doom 3 on integrated graphics.
News just in: Third party Counter Strike modification shows counter terrorists defusing the bomb in the nude.
Look like they're plasma right now.
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No way would I like being scrutinized by 10 cameras, imagine 100!
How come nobody told me they released OSX 10.4?