Yeah, my reading is that the contractor reused an older routine (in English units) with a newer routine (in metric units) without double-checking the interface spec. It's (sort of) like the operators ordered a metric speedometer but received one marked in English. Since the unit wasn't marked, they assumed it was metric as per the specifications.
The MCO Investigation Board report is a quick read and an interesting case study.
Agreed! If the warning light comes on, I know I have about 1 gallon of gas in the tank. At 22 mpg, can I still make it to the cheap gas station? It's usually less than 22 miles, but not always.
Can you pull new wires just as easily using a thin wire? My two-story house includes a flexible pipe from the attic to the closet in the master bedroom. The last time I checked the HOT attic, the pull-cord had turned to white powder.
Busy work week, so I only just checked back... The NEO Program Office FAQ says they work "to detect, track and characterize", and are "responsible for facilitating communications between the astronomical community and the public". Nothing else. Who does the "aversion"? I'm thinking that falls to the "DoD and international agencies" mentioned above. (Sorry about all the quotes.)
That's not really NASA's job. NASA usually gets criticized for performing commercial or military missions. NASA's job is to do the science: quantify the threat and find good ways to fix it. Their scope might be expanded to a one-off, prototype deflection mission, but a standing "Deflection Corp" would be a millstone about NASA's neck.
It's hard to imagine myself in that situation, but I think my first thought be "Even the military is afraid of that jet." It might not make sense in retrospect, but there it is. Some hardened types would trust the fighter escort for cues, others wouldn't.
Extending that, could this be a first, clunky attempt at creating an artificial organ? How about a miniaturized, blood-powered dialysis machine? We already know where to send the waste product.
You mean some sort of Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee? They could meet every year to discuss topics and hand out assignments for the next year, and they could make reports to the UN, and stuff. Trouble is, no one else would ever know they existed.
I had to scroll down surprisingly far before I found a post that hit the button in your first paragraph. If I go to the county court records office, they'll charge around $10 just to find and pull a file. The file can't leave their office, and copies are $1 per page. Ugh.
I also read good things about the mentioned Samsung products. If it's not redundant, you might try a DVD recorder with a tuner. Here's a Philips on that same site.
Here's some light control grating material, if they don't make a panel in your size. Two of these rotated at 90 deg. to each other would leave a very narrow viewable window. Not cheap, but not VR-goggley either.
Agreed. With my current flashlight I have to change the darn batteries every 4-6 hours! It's bankrupting me! I tried the crank/shake flashlights, but people kept snatching them away and smashing them.
I've seen where a pro installer forgot to run two wires (cat5e and RG-6) from the attic to the ground floor of a 2-story house. He had to cut drill-size holes in the upstairs room, one at the ceiling and one at the floor, to drill the holes and pass the wires. He had someone else do the drywall repair, but the home stores have kits and tips for that sort of thing. You can't see the drywall repair unless you already know it's there.
Personally, I've crawled into small attic spaces, dragging along a small piece of plywood to lie on. Also, do you know a 10-year-old that can handle a drill?
An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician are traveling on a train through Scotland. Through the window of the train they notice a black sheep.
"Aha," says the astronomer. "In Scotland, all sheep are black."
"Hm...," says the physicist, "I believe you mean that some sheep in Scotland are black."
"No, no," says the mathematician. "You are both wrong. All we know is that there is at least one sheep in Scotland, and at least one side of this sheep is black".
Echoing the other comments, I'll just to add a couple of links: lots of great information from an Alaskan station, and you can find details about specific US TV broadcasters at the FCC.
By the way, with an estimated population of 13.1 persons per square km under that satellite with a random reentry time, you'd get about 0.3 person inside that "hazard area". That's pretty small, but it's not zero and it doesn't look like the government's goal of less than 1/10,000. It's been said here already, but by the time it reaches Bush's desk it's boiled down to: 1) Could we make it worse? (NO) 2) Could we make it better? (MAYBE) Probabilities don't comfort victims or leaders.
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That is a funny one... Not as common as the ubiquitous millibits and millibits per second.
The MCO Investigation Board report is a quick read and an interesting case study.
Who's your friend?
Agreed! If the warning light comes on, I know I have about 1 gallon of gas in the tank. At 22 mpg, can I still make it to the cheap gas station? It's usually less than 22 miles, but not always.
Can you pull new wires just as easily using a thin wire? My two-story house includes a flexible pipe from the attic to the closet in the master bedroom. The last time I checked the HOT attic, the pull-cord had turned to white powder.
There's other evidence to suppose that civilization will continue past 2012, at least in Hollywood.
Busy work week, so I only just checked back... The NEO Program Office FAQ says they work "to detect, track and characterize", and are "responsible for facilitating communications between the astronomical community and the public". Nothing else. Who does the "aversion"? I'm thinking that falls to the "DoD and international agencies" mentioned above. (Sorry about all the quotes.)
That's not really NASA's job. NASA usually gets criticized for performing commercial or military missions. NASA's job is to do the science: quantify the threat and find good ways to fix it. Their scope might be expanded to a one-off, prototype deflection mission, but a standing "Deflection Corp" would be a millstone about NASA's neck.
It's hard to imagine myself in that situation, but I think my first thought be "Even the military is afraid of that jet." It might not make sense in retrospect, but there it is. Some hardened types would trust the fighter escort for cues, others wouldn't.
...look forward to a new episode of Criminal Minds when you get home.
Maybe they meant "look forward to sexy cops jumping out of vans/bushes to smack you down and slap the cuffs on you."
Remember: To be a criminal, you don't have to think like a criminal.
Extending that, could this be a first, clunky attempt at creating an artificial organ? How about a miniaturized, blood-powered dialysis machine? We already know where to send the waste product.
You mean some sort of Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee? They could meet every year to discuss topics and hand out assignments for the next year, and they could make reports to the UN, and stuff. Trouble is, no one else would ever know they existed.
Salesman: I can sell you a ticket to Berkeley, or Amhurst.
Later, what happens if your home reader springs a leak and loses (looses ;) all its helium? As the tags suggest, this won't be leaving the lab soon.
I had to scroll down surprisingly far before I found a post that hit the button in your first paragraph. If I go to the county court records office, they'll charge around $10 just to find and pull a file. The file can't leave their office, and copies are $1 per page. Ugh.
I also read good things about the mentioned Samsung products. If it's not redundant, you might try a DVD recorder with a tuner. Here's a Philips on that same site.
Here's some light control grating material, if they don't make a panel in your size. Two of these rotated at 90 deg. to each other would leave a very narrow viewable window. Not cheap, but not VR-goggley either.
Agreed. With my current flashlight I have to change the darn batteries every 4-6 hours! It's bankrupting me! I tried the crank/shake flashlights, but people kept snatching them away and smashing them.
No, it's just cover for their portal to evil domains.
I loved that pompous ball of lights! (Was it "Oracle"?) S.H.A.Z.A.M.!
Coming up next...Land of the Lost!
Damn you, Crichton! Oh, wait...
At the risk of being pedantic...why use the smaller gun on the larger attacker? I'd go with an 8 gauge and a bottle of whiskey, both antique.
I've seen where a pro installer forgot to run two wires (cat5e and RG-6) from the attic to the ground floor of a 2-story house. He had to cut drill-size holes in the upstairs room, one at the ceiling and one at the floor, to drill the holes and pass the wires. He had someone else do the drywall repair, but the home stores have kits and tips for that sort of thing. You can't see the drywall repair unless you already know it's there.
Personally, I've crawled into small attic spaces, dragging along a small piece of plywood to lie on. Also, do you know a 10-year-old that can handle a drill?
Repeating an old joke:
An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician are traveling on a train through Scotland. Through the window of the train they notice a black sheep.
"Aha," says the astronomer. "In Scotland, all sheep are black."
"Hm...," says the physicist, "I believe you mean that some sheep in Scotland are black."
"No, no," says the mathematician. "You are both wrong. All we know is that there is at least one sheep in Scotland, and at least one side of this sheep is black".
Echoing the other comments, I'll just to add a couple of links: lots of great information from an Alaskan station, and you can find details about specific US TV broadcasters at the FCC.
By the way, with an estimated population of 13.1 persons per square km under that satellite with a random reentry time, you'd get about 0.3 person inside that "hazard area". That's pretty small, but it's not zero and it doesn't look like the government's goal of less than 1/10,000. It's been said here already, but by the time it reaches Bush's desk it's boiled down to: 1) Could we make it worse? (NO) 2) Could we make it better? (MAYBE) Probabilities don't comfort victims or leaders.
(The numbers quoted above are accurate and come from a variety of sources, not all free.)