If you are worried about governments, the problem is not disrupting the satellites at all, the weak link is the ground station which by definition resides in somebody's territory.
I don't think there are enough friendly countries of convenience to give you line of sight and global access to the satellites 24/7. Symantec published a book on the different IT Security laws all over the globe, its dated now, but a map of something like that would be interesting for this discussion.
So then you end up only running ground stations out of frendly countires somewhere in the netherlands perhaps, maybe to command and control satellites that route CnC information and traffic to the other satellites in the constellation which may be over an unfriendly country at the time.
I can't really see it working unless every user is a ground station/autonomous node.
There are some neat things you can do once you have this up, even for broadcast. Say you used it to broadcast grain or soybean prices to farmers in rural farming villages. Reformat traffic information from publicly funded sources (traffic cameras) and send them to a generic GPS or smartphone app so I don't need to pay TomTom or Garmin for the privilege of knowing if I will be sitting in traffic or not.
I get what you're saying, but what are the odds of a 1960s transistor radio that Gilligan and the Professor could fix with a soldering iron being a little tougher than whatever 65 nanometer or smaller process they used to make the electronics in your smartphone, desktop, laptop or tablet?
I've also read the bigger problem is above ground wires taking up the energy and frying the gear in the homes and businesses those wires attach to.
In watching the MIT Opencourseware series on engineering the shuttle it was pretty flatly stated that the engineers that worked on the shuttle did the same jobs on the shuttle program that they did on the Apollo program.
So in at least that aspect the team wasn't broken up.
They could have built a big rocket instead of a side-saddle launch vehicle, it had a lot to do with politics (Nixon and the Vietnam war) and who was head of NASA at the time.
Promises were made on the reuseable launch side and how many launches a year we'd get out of the system bringing the lifecycle cost way down.
If you really were going to get the band back together, do a new vehicle a top mounted shuttle alike with self-diagnostic engines and a vehicle that doesn't need to be rebuilt every launch. Many comments were made in the MIT lectures about what they'd do if they redesigned the shuttle with AutoCAD instead of on drafting tables.
A shuttle continuation program now would have higher upfront capital costs because lots of the program facilities were dismantled. This would not be for much more than nostalgia's sake and would be proof man can't learn from his mistakes.
Yes, they're still testing it because they have to, but I am certain there are some folks out there that thought we'd be able to use Soyuz missions for crew rotation for a while until a replacement for the shuttle's capabilities is found.
Soyuz can handle crew rotations, Progress can handle food and cargo missions. With the long history of the Soyuz and Progress programs, no one likely factored in their thinking that an undiscovered problem would ground the program for weeks/months.
Eventually SpaceX will have crew and cargo capabilities and other launch alliance partners might have viable vehicles as well.
This is no bigger a setback to manned space than the Challenger or Columbia. Since many of the major ISS compunents are in orbit, I would say it is a much better time to have a gap in spaceflight capabilities.
I've seen the flying Hummingbird on Mythbusters, why the hell do we need to see an artist's impression?
Part 2, why are they calling them "impressions" artists do renderings and concept art, only French artists that died a while back did impressions, they had a whole art movement, what was it called...
When I took driver's ed all those many years ago they told us to keep so many car lengths or seconds of driving travel between you and the next car. Now nobody pays any attention to that, but there was a reason for it, you see something up ahead and you have enough time to react to it. As ABS brakes were introduced people shortened the gaps even more.
Every time I read about auto-driving cars, I think about a tire blowing out on the car in front of you, or worse. Maybe the computer can stop in time, maybe it can't.
I guess I'd be happy if the robots at least paid attention to the idea of a safety gap, and would keep people from tailgating.
Would the robots also drive highway speed (unlike old people) and stay out of the passing lane unless passing?
Would the robots always use their blinkers to signal their intent to turn or change lanes?
Would robots know how to merge with traffic and not cause huge slowdowns near every onramp?
And probably the best question is would robots not cause Phantom traffic jams?
Can I send my car to get its own oil change, state inspection?
I don't know if this is still part of it, but somewhere years back I read that NASA was planning on experimenting with different types of water spraying nozzels on the ISS, IIRC there was a micro-nozzle that sprayed a mist using substantially less water than a regular nozzle and the mist put out fires more effectively than gallons of water in a narrow stream.
Those interested can Google Fine Water Mist and Fire, they did some microgravity testing on a KC-135.
I used to work on a project that was colocated with the AIRR, we imaged millions of pages, created JPEG images for people to use in our application due to network speed issues and the application we used for users to make notes on the documents wouldn't work with the TIFF images we created for NARA.
We were auditing over a hundred years of accounting for how the US government dealt with Native Americans and had Historians and Accountants both working on the program. We had our own little Indiana Jones warehouse.
Several times our leadership recommended we just scan whole boxes and digitize them, due to budget restrictions we had to pull and digitize relevant information (thousands of documents, millions of pages).
I also was part of a group outing when we delivered a TB or so worth of our records to College Park, fun times.
I used to work on a hot air balloon crew on the weekends, apparently there was a problem with flying over certain farms where the growers would shoot at the ballons passing over their property.
I was told the guy flying the balloon would note the location of the farm, and call the FBI when he landed.
At a conference last month I met a guy that built a 6-bladed-heliicopter that could carry 3 pounds. He built it to replace a very expensive RC copter he was afriad to even fly because starting it was dangerous.
Anyhow he's also built $130 flying machines that run open source swarming software, he uses multiple drones to map radio networks.
I figure the crop dusting would probably go better with something like that, the swarm knows which sections of the crops it has covered and doesn't overlap.
The drones would have to be bigger to carry enough payload to be economical, but why would you make the farmer pilot the thing? Release the drones to GPS map the farmer's property, then edit the map once to cover any issues and from then on its release them on a regular schedule like a roomba.
Also I know in California they plant rice with airplanes, maybe they can manage something similar with the same drones they do the crop dusting with.
I am thinking that the farmer can get his rice, pesticide, or fertilizer loaded and start his robot flying circus going faster than he can meet a pilot at the local airstrip with same materials.
Excuse any ignorance of the process on my part, maybe the guy with the crop dusting plane would do just as well to have a small fleet of drones that he operates out of a uhaul and not have to hangar and insure a small plane somewhere.
Well stuxnet affected Programmable logic controllers that affected centrifuges refining nuclear material. I was at a conference recently and half the talks were about stuxnet, duqu and PLCs, the show was not energy or utility industry related, but basically anything with a PLC is vulnerable to this sort of attack.
There were a lot of folks in industry talking about how uncertain they were about how tight their air-gaps were. Stuxnet got past air-gaps anyway, but at least a lot of the industrial controls folks are talking about it now. It would have been nice if someone listened when US-CERT reported researchers were able to remotely burn out an electrical generator in 2005.
Ok, I pull into your battery station say you have 1,000 batteries on hand. You swap out my dead batteries for fresh ones, you still have 1,000 batteries on hand.
With your fixed location, you can start charging my old batteries, while I drive off with the fresh ones.
So your real problem is managing to have enough fresh batteries at the peak swapping times. Next up is having enough battery chargers to ensure you can keep your number of fresh batteries above some magic Just In Time number.
In defense of the GP some people believe quite strongly in the Myers-Briggs test. I was at an HR training where they encouraged us to go to HR and take the test. Other people in the room indicated they had their personality type in their email signatures to help other people to interact with them better.
So like anything it's a tool that some people find useful in helping them deal better with other people.
If you're a serious "I am not a number" or "don't categorize me" person then you probably won't like it, but you may be missing out on insights about yourself or the way you deal with others.
And no, I haven't taken the test yet, I've been kind of busy and had mostly forgotten about it until now.
Well BigDog now has AlphaDog which is even bigger, but Hy-q swhich is meant for search and rescue not as a beast of burden isn't even as big as BigDog.
Hy-q only weighs 70 kilos and is made out of stainless steel and high grade aluminum. Also they should bother be untethered and under their own power if there is to be a fight.
Hy-q can kick, but we've seen BigDog can take a kicking. So who would win?
You must have studied an Industrial Revolution in a parallel universe. At the beginning of the Industrial revolution a Weaver (made cloth by hand with a loom) made a pretty decent wage, at the end of the Industrial Revolution the operator of a Steam powered Loom made a pretty decent wage. In the middle there was a lot of disruption where neither the Loom Operators or Weavers made much money.
As far as all the rich taking the surplus goods, you mean like socks at the start of the revolution almost no one wore them, and at the end of the revolution almost no one was without them.
The revolution in agriculture produced so many surplus goods (food) that very few people work in agriculture anymore and it has allowed people to specialize in many other occupations.
The real fear as I see it is a lot of unskilled labor jobs going away and nothing to replace them for folks that have no skills. Other posters have mentioned disruptions in the skilled labor categories as well, and that scares everyone because they don't know what will replace their current jobs.
I don't think it will or it should at first, the same way AutoCAD didn't replace engineers or architects, there is a lot of room for productivity boosting type software ahead of us before the machines completely replace us.
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If you are worried about governments, the problem is not disrupting the satellites at all, the weak link is the ground station which by definition resides in somebody's territory.
I don't think there are enough friendly countries of convenience to give you line of sight and global access to the satellites 24/7. Symantec published a book on the different IT Security laws all over the globe, its dated now, but a map of something like that would be interesting for this discussion.
So then you end up only running ground stations out of frendly countires somewhere in the netherlands perhaps, maybe to command and control satellites that route CnC information and traffic to the other satellites in the constellation which may be over an unfriendly country at the time.
I can't really see it working unless every user is a ground station/autonomous node.
There are some neat things you can do once you have this up, even for broadcast. Say you used it to broadcast grain or soybean prices to farmers in rural farming villages. Reformat traffic information from publicly funded sources (traffic cameras) and send them to a generic GPS or smartphone app so I don't need to pay TomTom or Garmin for the privilege of knowing if I will be sitting in traffic or not.
Someone will shut it down, that's why we can't have nice things.
but did they travel through time?
I get what you're saying, but what are the odds of a 1960s transistor radio that Gilligan and the Professor could fix with a soldering iron being a little tougher than whatever 65 nanometer or smaller process they used to make the electronics in your smartphone, desktop, laptop or tablet?
I've also read the bigger problem is above ground wires taking up the energy and frying the gear in the homes and businesses those wires attach to.
And the formulary used will cause our capacitors to expand and leak self-healing fluid all over the motherboard.
In watching the MIT Opencourseware series on engineering the shuttle it was pretty flatly stated that the engineers that worked on the shuttle did the same jobs on the shuttle program that they did on the Apollo program.
So in at least that aspect the team wasn't broken up.
They could have built a big rocket instead of a side-saddle launch vehicle, it had a lot to do with politics (Nixon and the Vietnam war) and who was head of NASA at the time.
Promises were made on the reuseable launch side and how many launches a year we'd get out of the system bringing the lifecycle cost way down.
If you really were going to get the band back together, do a new vehicle a top mounted shuttle alike with self-diagnostic engines and a vehicle that doesn't need to be rebuilt every launch. Many comments were made in the MIT lectures about what they'd do if they redesigned the shuttle with AutoCAD instead of on drafting tables.
A shuttle continuation program now would have higher upfront capital costs because lots of the program facilities were dismantled. This would not be for much more than nostalgia's sake and would be proof man can't learn from his mistakes.
No crew module?
You're aware of the Dragon capsule?
http://www.spacex.com/updates.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_(spacecraft)
Yes, they're still testing it because they have to, but I am certain there are some folks out there that thought we'd be able to use Soyuz missions for crew rotation for a while until a replacement for the shuttle's capabilities is found.
Soyuz can handle crew rotations, Progress can handle food and cargo missions. With the long history of the Soyuz and Progress programs, no one likely factored in their thinking that an undiscovered problem would ground the program for weeks/months.
Eventually SpaceX will have crew and cargo capabilities and other launch alliance partners might have viable vehicles as well.
This is no bigger a setback to manned space than the Challenger or Columbia. Since many of the major ISS compunents are in orbit, I would say it is a much better time to have a gap in spaceflight capabilities.
Still Android 2.3.4, just some crappy system Verizon version 5.5.893.XT75.Verizon.en.US
I was so hopeful.
I've seen the flying Hummingbird on Mythbusters, why the hell do we need to see an artist's impression?
Part 2, why are they calling them "impressions" artists do renderings and concept art, only French artists that died a while back did impressions, they had a whole art movement, what was it called...
Well Fan Pro has been reprinting a lot of the old books, but I was kind of interested in something new from them.
The fact that Battle Tech was 2 words was your only tip off.
It took me a while to find this story
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/13/1811250/Hotfile-Sues-Warner-Bros-Over-Abuse-of-Takedown-Tool
The record labels were caught abusing the anti-piracy tools that Google gave them to police their own content.
Reduced need for safety gaps?
When I took driver's ed all those many years ago they told us to keep so many car lengths or seconds of driving travel between you and the next car. Now nobody pays any attention to that, but there was a reason for it, you see something up ahead and you have enough time to react to it. As ABS brakes were introduced people shortened the gaps even more.
Every time I read about auto-driving cars, I think about a tire blowing out on the car in front of you, or worse. Maybe the computer can stop in time, maybe it can't.
I guess I'd be happy if the robots at least paid attention to the idea of a safety gap, and would keep people from tailgating.
Would the robots also drive highway speed (unlike old people) and stay out of the passing lane unless passing?
Would the robots always use their blinkers to signal their intent to turn or change lanes?
Would robots know how to merge with traffic and not cause huge slowdowns near every onramp?
And probably the best question is would robots not cause Phantom traffic jams?
Can I send my car to get its own oil change, state inspection?
What was it Sheldon said on big bang theory, half the size, twice the fun.
I know where they are, the Elves took them.
I don't know if this is still part of it, but somewhere years back I read that NASA was planning on experimenting with different types of water spraying nozzels on the ISS, IIRC there was a micro-nozzle that sprayed a mist using substantially less water than a regular nozzle and the mist put out fires more effectively than gallons of water in a narrow stream.
Those interested can Google Fine Water Mist and Fire, they did some microgravity testing on a KC-135.
I used to work on a project that was colocated with the AIRR, we imaged millions of pages, created JPEG images for people to use in our application due to network speed issues and the application we used for users to make notes on the documents wouldn't work with the TIFF images we created for NARA.
We were auditing over a hundred years of accounting for how the US government dealt with Native Americans and had Historians and Accountants both working on the program. We had our own little Indiana Jones warehouse.
Several times our leadership recommended we just scan whole boxes and digitize them, due to budget restrictions we had to pull and digitize relevant information (thousands of documents, millions of pages).
I also was part of a group outing when we delivered a TB or so worth of our records to College Park, fun times.
I used to work on a hot air balloon crew on the weekends, apparently there was a problem with flying over certain farms where the growers would shoot at the ballons passing over their property.
I was told the guy flying the balloon would note the location of the farm, and call the FBI when he landed.
At a conference last month I met a guy that built a 6-bladed-heliicopter that could carry 3 pounds. He built it to replace a very expensive RC copter he was afriad to even fly because starting it was dangerous.
Anyhow he's also built $130 flying machines that run open source swarming software, he uses multiple drones to map radio networks.
I figure the crop dusting would probably go better with something like that, the swarm knows which sections of the crops it has covered and doesn't overlap.
The drones would have to be bigger to carry enough payload to be economical, but why would you make the farmer pilot the thing? Release the drones to GPS map the farmer's property, then edit the map once to cover any issues and from then on its release them on a regular schedule like a roomba.
Also I know in California they plant rice with airplanes, maybe they can manage something similar with the same drones they do the crop dusting with.
I am thinking that the farmer can get his rice, pesticide, or fertilizer loaded and start his robot flying circus going faster than he can meet a pilot at the local airstrip with same materials.
Excuse any ignorance of the process on my part, maybe the guy with the crop dusting plane would do just as well to have a small fleet of drones that he operates out of a uhaul and not have to hangar and insure a small plane somewhere.
Well stuxnet affected Programmable logic controllers that affected centrifuges refining nuclear material. I was at a conference recently and half the talks were about stuxnet, duqu and PLCs, the show was not energy or utility industry related, but basically anything with a PLC is vulnerable to this sort of attack.
There were a lot of folks in industry talking about how uncertain they were about how tight their air-gaps were. Stuxnet got past air-gaps anyway, but at least a lot of the industrial controls folks are talking about it now. It would have been nice if someone listened when US-CERT reported researchers were able to remotely burn out an electrical generator in 2005.
Ok, I pull into your battery station say you have 1,000 batteries on hand. You swap out my dead batteries for fresh ones, you still have 1,000 batteries on hand.
With your fixed location, you can start charging my old batteries, while I drive off with the fresh ones.
So your real problem is managing to have enough fresh batteries at the peak swapping times. Next up is having enough battery chargers to ensure you can keep your number of fresh batteries above some magic Just In Time number.
It may take a while for the new myths to come out, but come on how many experiments have they done with Duct Tape?
In defense of the GP some people believe quite strongly in the Myers-Briggs test. I was at an HR training where they encouraged us to go to HR and take the test. Other people in the room indicated they had their personality type in their email signatures to help other people to interact with them better.
So like anything it's a tool that some people find useful in helping them deal better with other people.
If you're a serious "I am not a number" or "don't categorize me" person then you probably won't like it, but you may be missing out on insights about yourself or the way you deal with others.
And no, I haven't taken the test yet, I've been kind of busy and had mostly forgotten about it until now.
Well BigDog now has AlphaDog which is even bigger, but Hy-q swhich is meant for search and rescue not as a beast of burden isn't even as big as BigDog.
Hy-q only weighs 70 kilos and is made out of stainless steel and high grade aluminum. Also they should bother be untethered and under their own power if there is to be a fight.
Hy-q can kick, but we've seen BigDog can take a kicking. So who would win?
You must have studied an Industrial Revolution in a parallel universe. At the beginning of the Industrial revolution a Weaver (made cloth by hand with a loom) made a pretty decent wage, at the end of the Industrial Revolution the operator of a Steam powered Loom made a pretty decent wage. In the middle there was a lot of disruption where neither the Loom Operators or Weavers made much money.
As far as all the rich taking the surplus goods, you mean like socks at the start of the revolution almost no one wore them, and at the end of the revolution almost no one was without them.
The revolution in agriculture produced so many surplus goods (food) that very few people work in agriculture anymore and it has allowed people to specialize in many other occupations.
The real fear as I see it is a lot of unskilled labor jobs going away and nothing to replace them for folks that have no skills. Other posters have mentioned disruptions in the skilled labor categories as well, and that scares everyone because they don't know what will replace their current jobs.
I don't think it will or it should at first, the same way AutoCAD didn't replace engineers or architects, there is a lot of room for productivity boosting type software ahead of us before the machines completely replace us.
My Tivo caught 3, so I kind of know the answer to your question, there will at least be 1 more for you.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571437/episodes