I love how as soon as anything gets mentioned about effort, perserverance, difficult, the push-button generation gets all cranky and wants to call it "evil", "mean", "exploitive" (Waaah! I want my free lunch - and I want it 5 minutes ago!)
It's called the "free market" - if you don't like how you're being treated somewhere, then go someplace else. Don't expect the rest of the world to dumb itself down to your level.
And then if I point to those under them who are sweating, then you'll say that they're undeservingly lazy too... and on and on... until you've singlehandedly determined that nobody is sweating (working hard) but yourself.
That's the problem with Lefties - for them, it's "turtles all the way down" - everyone is labeled an exploiter by the Lefties except the Lefties themselves (which is the diametric opposite of reality.)
Anyway, more landers on the Moon creates more experience for future human operations on the Moon. We need a Moonbase, a lunar research station, a lunar university... a lunar Disneyland?
This has nothing to do with nuclear delivery systems - India has separate military-run programs for that. This is a civilian program under a civilian agency, and the technologies involved aren't the best-suited for ICBMs.
The first US Space Shuttle, the Enterprise, didn't shuttle a whole lot of stuff back and forth either. But it was meant for developmental purposes, and wasn't the final product.
I'm more interested in the TSTO, which is supposed to be built from technologies to be validated by RLV-TD. The TSTO will help to bring down cost-per-kg to orbit. Basically, it's a 2-stage launch vehicle based on a winged flyback booster. It won't be as efficient as the F9R, which doesn't carry the weight of wings, but it will be more capable of returning to launch site because of its glide path. No barge required.
The eventual holy grail is to design, build and fly an SSTO (Single-Stage to Orbit) vehicle called AVATAR which would use scramjet technology. The scramjet-to-orbit concept is considerably more difficult, and may take much longer to accomplish.
Meanwhile the TSTO would just use regular rockets (semi-cryogenic booster & fully cryogenic for upper stage). Multiple copies of the cheap RLV-TD have been built, and will test different technologies across multiple flights, including the scramjet (on a later flight).
Get rid of your Nintendo VirtualBoy then. Things have come a long way since then.
Only $16 million? I'm surprised the people at Oculus haven't raised ten times that amount, given that this is going to be the next big wave in gaming. It certainly wasn't going to be that Wii U tablet thing.
Meh, probably the next generation of youngsters who will grow up with their eyeballs glued to VR headsets will overcome the problem. It'll only be us old-timers who feel the motion sickness then.
Ellison is a clever man who helped invent the modern RDBMS, which is the basis for much of today's information technology.
What have you invented lately?
"Henry Ford was a clever man who invented the otherwise useless automobile, which helped him to divert the productivity of his newly created workforce into filling his personal pocketbook"
"Edison was a crafty fellow who invented this light bulb thing which wasn't very useful, except to divert the productivity of many workers into fattening his own wallet"
"Einstein was a cunning patent clerk who came up with this stupid Relativity thing, which wasn't very useful to anyone except Einstein, because it allowed him to cleverly gain the confidence of the so-called scientific community, while also turning him into a household name."
"Slashdot was invented just to provide an outlet for too-clever-by-half Tinfoil Hatters (Haters?)..."
I think your comment would be best judged in the context of which country you're posting from. Are you from the United States? If so, then your comments say more about you than about the subject you're commenting upon.
Seriously, though - that guy has been working for China all along. He makes his revelations on the eve of the US-China summit, where China was facing angry US allegations about cyber-hacking attacks, and suddenly the tables are totally turned on the US. How magically convenient for the Chinese. Ohhh, but China would never stoop to a trick like that, you say?? In which case, I have a hosting service in the Everglades I'd like to interest you in...
Note that Snowden came out with his explosive revelations just as the Chinese premier was about to meet with Obama, with the US already upset at extensive Chinese hacking attacks against US targets. What convenient timing for the Chinese.
China is the new USSR - same old ColdWar double agent defection games. Same old Useful Idiots on the Left who will lap up in Pavlovian style any propaganda ploy that feeds their anti-establishment appetite.
Slashdot Mirror
They were just teaching it how to play hockey (according to Canadian rules)
What has Greece to do with anything that another country that used to be on it's current geographical location to do with that?
It's naming mishaps like this which lead to interstellar wars
I love how as soon as anything gets mentioned about effort, perserverance, difficult, the push-button generation gets all cranky and wants to call it "evil", "mean", "exploitive" (Waaah! I want my free lunch - and I want it 5 minutes ago!)
He is promoted to Tactical School.
It's called the "free market" - if you don't like how you're being treated somewhere, then go someplace else. Don't expect the rest of the world to dumb itself down to your level.
And then if I point to those under them who are sweating, then you'll say that they're undeservingly lazy too... and on and on... until you've singlehandedly determined that nobody is sweating (working hard) but yourself.
That's the problem with Lefties - for them, it's "turtles all the way down" - everyone is labeled an exploiter by the Lefties except the Lefties themselves (which is the diametric opposite of reality.)
Anyway, more landers on the Moon creates more experience for future human operations on the Moon. We need a Moonbase, a lunar research station, a lunar university... a lunar Disneyland?
Will my Joulian magnets hold my Julian calendar on the wall?
So far, there's no intent to make it manned. It will be used for automated unmanned flights.
This has nothing to do with nuclear delivery systems - India has separate military-run programs for that. This is a civilian program under a civilian agency, and the technologies involved aren't the best-suited for ICBMs.
The first US Space Shuttle, the Enterprise, didn't shuttle a whole lot of stuff back and forth either. But it was meant for developmental purposes, and wasn't the final product.
I'm more interested in the TSTO, which is supposed to be built from technologies to be validated by RLV-TD. The TSTO will help to bring down cost-per-kg to orbit. Basically, it's a 2-stage launch vehicle based on a winged flyback booster. It won't be as efficient as the F9R, which doesn't carry the weight of wings, but it will be more capable of returning to launch site because of its glide path. No barge required.
This vehicle is a low-cost testbed, which will be use to validate the technologies required to build a larger vehicle: the TSTO (Two-Stage To Orbit)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/...
http://antariksh-space.blogspo...
The eventual holy grail is to design, build and fly an SSTO (Single-Stage to Orbit) vehicle called AVATAR which would use scramjet technology. The scramjet-to-orbit concept is considerably more difficult, and may take much longer to accomplish.
Meanwhile the TSTO would just use regular rockets (semi-cryogenic booster & fully cryogenic for upper stage). Multiple copies of the cheap RLV-TD have been built, and will test different technologies across multiple flights, including the scramjet (on a later flight).
We are canceling the space weather apocalypse!
Switch on the GlaDOS!
At least Robonaut is practical - but what's this cartoony shit for? How's that going to help conquer space?
Can't we have more meaningful units?
How many Libraries of Congress is that?
Enough hot air to heat up and terraform the planet
Get rid of your Nintendo VirtualBoy then. Things have come a long way since then.
Only $16 million? I'm surprised the people at Oculus haven't raised ten times that amount, given that this is going to be the next big wave in gaming. It certainly wasn't going to be that Wii U tablet thing.
Meh, probably the next generation of youngsters who will grow up with their eyeballs glued to VR headsets will overcome the problem. It'll only be us old-timers who feel the motion sickness then.
Ellison is a clever man who helped invent the modern RDBMS, which is the basis for much of today's information technology.
What have you invented lately?
"Henry Ford was a clever man who invented the otherwise useless automobile, which helped him to divert the productivity of his newly created workforce into filling his personal pocketbook"
"Edison was a crafty fellow who invented this light bulb thing which wasn't very useful, except to divert the productivity of many workers into fattening his own wallet"
"Einstein was a cunning patent clerk who came up with this stupid Relativity thing, which wasn't very useful to anyone except Einstein, because it allowed him to cleverly gain the confidence of the so-called scientific community, while also turning him into a household name."
"Slashdot was invented just to provide an outlet for too-clever-by-half Tinfoil Hatters (Haters?)..."
Private companies may exist to profit for the most part, but the fact is that competition forces them to become efficient and sacrifice profit.
I think your comment would be best judged in the context of which country you're posting from. Are you from the United States? If so, then your comments say more about you than about the subject you're commenting upon.
Just get China to host you - Ed Snowden did.
Seriously, though - that guy has been working for China all along. He makes his revelations on the eve of the US-China summit, where China was facing angry US allegations about cyber-hacking attacks, and suddenly the tables are totally turned on the US. How magically convenient for the Chinese. Ohhh, but China would never stoop to a trick like that, you say?? In which case, I have a hosting service in the Everglades I'd like to interest you in...
It seems to be looking more and more like Snowden has been working for China all along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCipYQOHiU
Note that Snowden came out with his explosive revelations just as the Chinese premier was about to meet with Obama, with the US already upset at extensive Chinese hacking attacks against US targets. What convenient timing for the Chinese.
China is the new USSR - same old ColdWar double agent defection games. Same old Useful Idiots on the Left who will lap up in Pavlovian style any propaganda ploy that feeds their anti-establishment appetite.