This is the best reply I've read here. I think that back when they built the current system (article says 1961) the military wanted to know where everything was so they could identify the military threats. (You also don't want to launch your counter-strike when that Russian rocket booster burns up over Alaska.) That's still the case, but the use for collision avoidance is becoming more important now. The data go into real-time calculations and also into long-term environmentalmodels.
The data (sure...minus classified) are already available to the public, with the caveat that these are averaged/low-res data not suitable for collision avoidance.
My utility sent out info about their on-going switch to smart meters. They'll save money by not having meter readers driving to each home! Yay! There's also a new line item on the monthly bill: Smart meter. They didn't say *I* would save money, after all. Plus I don't yet have a smart meter.
I saw a presentation on NASA's current thoughts on shielding, but didn't take notes so I can't quote specifics. The shielding choices they listed were water, polyethylene, and liquid hydrogen. The LH2 was the most effective and thinnest shield. A water shield for an Earth-Mars trip was something like 1-3 meters thick and not thought to be practical for launch from Earth. Someone did suggest captured "comet cores" as the best source of a water shield.
The peak in the center of crater Drygalski is an "uplift", which is common in craters. The Wikipedia page on impact craters describes this briefly and has other nice images. These LPI lunar maps helped me identify the crater itself.
The HDU work to-date has focused on developing processes, procedures, and some technologies you'd need to live away from Earth. The first assumption is, "We have a habitat." They're still figuring out where to put lights and bunks before building expensive hardware for tests in near-Earth space. With current Administration/NASA plans, the next step is a Lagrange point and/or asteroid. Mars (and those siting and assembly issues) will have to wait...
Where/when I grew up in Texas, sweetened fizzy water was called "coke". A party host would ask, "What kind of coke do you want?" A perfectly OK answer could be, "Oh, I'll have Sprite."
Checking #6 at the second link, they're clearly using Fortran. After seeing "Xtr" used to condense "Extra", I was surprised to see "idays" and "nweeks" instead of old-timer "idys" and "iwks" in the subroutine. As a Fortran snob, I hope the poor use of indentation and lack of whitespace is simply a result of the conversion to HTML.
This reminds me of the coverage surrounding Madison Priest's "magic box". Do the Google, or check these twoarticles (sadly no pics in the archived articles).
Also important are that there are fewer small debris at GEO and the debris-encounter velocities are much lower. There's some interesting stuff in the beginning of NASA's "History of On-Orbit Satellite Fragmentations" (like figures 1.3.2-2 & -2). This and other docs are linked here.
I had to click through to read about that 'possum immune system. I'd heard (at a presentation about wildlife rescue) that possums don't carry rabies because of their relatively low body temperature.
The wikipedia article also says that opossums *are* mammals, marsupial being a sub-set ("infraclass").
How about: In a world where death is nearly impossible, only the most cunning, persistent, X-TREME individuals reach that final destination, that light at the end of the tunnel. Cash Darwin Awards!
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The Bounty was on its way to a long-planned winter home in Galveston. I'm guessing they hurried to leave early, just not early enough.
This is the best reply I've read here. I think that back when they built the current system (article says 1961) the military wanted to know where everything was so they could identify the military threats. (You also don't want to launch your counter-strike when that Russian rocket booster burns up over Alaska.) That's still the case, but the use for collision avoidance is becoming more important now. The data go into real-time calculations and also into long-term environmental models.
The data (sure...minus classified) are already available to the public, with the caveat that these are averaged/low-res data not suitable for collision avoidance.
Cannibalism will clear up all my symptoms? There must be a downside...
;)
My utility sent out info about their on-going switch to smart meters. They'll save money by not having meter readers driving to each home! Yay! There's also a new line item on the monthly bill: Smart meter. They didn't say *I* would save money, after all. Plus I don't yet have a smart meter.
That he thinks the GP has a "pencil-like thingie" and spits out "utility fog".
I saw a presentation on NASA's current thoughts on shielding, but didn't take notes so I can't quote specifics. The shielding choices they listed were water, polyethylene, and liquid hydrogen. The LH2 was the most effective and thinnest shield. A water shield for an Earth-Mars trip was something like 1-3 meters thick and not thought to be practical for launch from Earth. Someone did suggest captured "comet cores" as the best source of a water shield.
The peak in the center of crater Drygalski is an "uplift", which is common in craters. The Wikipedia page on impact craters describes this briefly and has other nice images. These LPI lunar maps helped me identify the crater itself.
The spacecraft's orbit is too far south to pass over the HAARP site.
The HDU work to-date has focused on developing processes, procedures, and some technologies you'd need to live away from Earth. The first assumption is, "We have a habitat." They're still figuring out where to put lights and bunks before building expensive hardware for tests in near-Earth space. With current Administration/NASA plans, the next step is a Lagrange point and/or asteroid. Mars (and those siting and assembly issues) will have to wait...
Where/when I grew up in Texas, sweetened fizzy water was called "coke". A party host would ask, "What kind of coke do you want?" A perfectly OK answer could be, "Oh, I'll have Sprite."
Checking #6 at the second link, they're clearly using Fortran. After seeing "Xtr" used to condense "Extra", I was surprised to see "idays" and "nweeks" instead of old-timer "idys" and "iwks" in the subroutine. As a Fortran snob, I hope the poor use of indentation and lack of whitespace is simply a result of the conversion to HTML.
This reminds me of the coverage surrounding Madison Priest's "magic box". Do the Google, or check these two articles (sadly no pics in the archived articles).
It means the Slashdot prediction is at least a couple of hours later than the official predictions.
People communicate in Welsh?
(sorry...I've been busy)
Also important are that there are fewer small debris at GEO and the debris-encounter velocities are much lower. There's some interesting stuff in the beginning of NASA's "History of On-Orbit Satellite Fragmentations" (like figures 1.3.2-2 & -2). This and other docs are linked here.
Yup. Apple is in the driver's seat and it's their car. If they don't like what you're doing, they simply push you out the door.
Skynet went online on 1969. It continues to serve the UK military to this day. They're up to series 5, but it doesn't seem self-aware yet.
Heh. That also reminds me of the cartoon where Daffy Duck gives up his prize of "ONE MILLION BOX!"
My monoliths said never to trust your monoliths...
Shoot, you beat me to it...
I had to click through to read about that 'possum immune system. I'd heard (at a presentation about wildlife rescue) that possums don't carry rabies because of their relatively low body temperature.
The wikipedia article also says that opossums *are* mammals, marsupial being a sub-set ("infraclass").
How about: In a world where death is nearly impossible, only the most cunning, persistent, X-TREME individuals reach that final destination, that light at the end of the tunnel. Cash Darwin Awards!
You make a good point, but do you mean "dirigible" rather than "derringer"?
So the cut-in-half response should have come from someone from South Carolina?