If Mr. Reeves is unable to fulfill his duties, then the Deputy Ambassador, the guy who played Ted in the Bill & Ted movies, would be responsible for talking with the aliens.
I used to think it was whining too, until I suddenly became allergic or sensitive to everything I like to eat. I won't deny there are fear-mongers out there, but the fact is that people develop allergies to all sorts of things, and not knowing whether the protein that someone is are allergic to from one nut or grain is present in a completely different food could cost someone their life. Probably already has, but we'll never know. What if the cause of your diabetes is just that sort of a situation?
There was not trillions of present day dollars invested in the space race. It was not even one trillion.
According to the Office of Management and Budget and the Air Force Almanac, when measured in real terms (Meaning: if the value of $1.00 at today's rate equaled the value of $1.00 in 1958), the figure is $806.7 billion, or an average of $15.818 billion dollars per year over its fifty year history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget
RTFA. It was actually Soviet geologists back in the 80's that made some of the first discoveries. If those stinkin' commies had become stinkin' capatilists just a few years before withdrawing from Afghanistan instead of a few years after, that past 30 years might have been very different.
Later, Afghani mining officials hid the maps from the Taliban by moving the maps to there homes. Once the Americans came in, the maps were brought back. They told Americans about it, but no one checked it until the Pentagon took an interest.
The value of the experiment is the fact that these seven scientists and engineers DID NOT just sit in a chamber for 100+ days. They conducted real exploration of Devon Island and the Haughton impact crater, under constraints similar to what a crew would have to do on Mars.
The gravity is wrong. But they weren't doing physiology experiment on the effect of gravity.
The solar radiation is wrong. But they weren't doing solar radiation experiments.
The atmospheric pressure is wrong. But they weren't doing atmospheric experiments.
The soil chemistry is all wrong. But they weren't doing soil chemistry experiments.
They were doing astrobiological, geological, operational, and psychological experiments, as this page lists 22 such experiments. http://www.fmars2007.org/arctic/science-projects.a sp
So what has your indignation proved other than they can sit on your ass in front your computer and run mouth off on topics you know nothing about? Nothing.
The posting is incorrect, but the article is correct. It's not NASA's Vomit Comet (KC-135), but the Zero Gravity Corporation's G-Force One.
And yes, it's open to everyone who mets their basic health requirements and is at least 15 years old. Whether Hawking meets the requirements I'd like to know (ie. are they making an exception?)
I'm curious about GMail's spam filtering abilities. I've heard that it is pretty good. Can Slashdotters recommend the best way to pass my company's email through GMail and then back to the intended recipient? For example, I have a catch-all address which receives @mycompany.com's email when the recipient doesn't exist, and it just sits there in the catch-all inbox until I clean it out (since my email server's spam filter isn't pushing all the spam to trash). I can configure the catch-all to forward to a gmail account and hope that filters out more of the spam, but is there a better way to do this? And what about legitimated address email, can I filter it through GMail to catch the spam better?
The problem with fusion is that the technology will still take 30-40 years even according to rather optimistic guesses.
That ought to tell you they'll never get it to work, using this particularly technology line. There are other ways to do it cheaply, in small labs. Check out the work of Robert Bussard, Harrison Schmidt, or NSD-Fusion.
This may be a case where the journalist didn't get his facts right or understood the scientist he interviewed. The selection pressure described is obviously an external force. To call this anything else is moronic. To imply that this is evidence for behavior being a causative force in evolution is insane. It's hard to believe a scientist worth his PhD would make such a mistake, but it is very easy to believe the journalist did. The most that can be said from the reported observations is that the anole lizards variation of behavior naturally caused variation in their success rate of evading the predators, as every evolutionary biologist would expect. Where is the controversy in that?
Well, maybe what really happened went over your head. He didn't just say go away. He created an alliance of worlds that said to the Vorlons and Shadows that they would no longer be their puppets, so there was absolutely NO point for the Vorlons or the Shadows to stick around. Once you pull aside the curtain, the Wizard of Oz has no more power. If the Vorlons or Shadows had continued to fight they would have had to annihilate all the other races; which means both the Vorlons and Shadows would lose, because they would have no one left to carry on their philosophy. It was lose-lose scenario for them, so they left.
There is over two billion dollars of private investment in things like spaceports and launch services for suborbital and orbital rides. Check out the stats here, which just considers the New Space companies, leaving out investments from the existing commercial satellite industry.
Oh yes, because of course the government professionals are the ones who know how to do things commercially, cheaply and efficiently. Of course.
Perhaps instead of voicing your ill-informed opinion you should leave it to the professionals to comment on it. Which they have, in spades, supporting the efforts of the commercial space tourism industry. Most of these outfits have ex-astronauts working for them.
Finding out what can and can't be done on commercial levels requires doing it on commercial levels.
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thanks, I didn't know that. Link?
Hmmm... but the Merlin 2 required by the Falcon XX would be flight tested on the Falcon 9 or 9-Heavy -- perhaps that is want Tekfactory meant?
If Mr. Reeves is unable to fulfill his duties, then the Deputy Ambassador, the guy who played Ted in the Bill & Ted movies, would be responsible for talking with the aliens.
If you look at the budget in the TFA, you can see Warner Brothers simply redefined Gross to mean Net. I assume that's what New Line did too.
I used to think it was whining too, until I suddenly became allergic or sensitive to everything I like to eat. I won't deny there are fear-mongers out there, but the fact is that people develop allergies to all sorts of things, and not knowing whether the protein that someone is are allergic to from one nut or grain is present in a completely different food could cost someone their life. Probably already has, but we'll never know. What if the cause of your diabetes is just that sort of a situation?
There was not trillions of present day dollars invested in the space race. It was not even one trillion. According to the Office of Management and Budget and the Air Force Almanac, when measured in real terms (Meaning: if the value of $1.00 at today's rate equaled the value of $1.00 in 1958), the figure is $806.7 billion, or an average of $15.818 billion dollars per year over its fifty year history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget
RTFA. It was actually Soviet geologists back in the 80's that made some of the first discoveries. If those stinkin' commies had become stinkin' capatilists just a few years before withdrawing from Afghanistan instead of a few years after, that past 30 years might have been very different. Later, Afghani mining officials hid the maps from the Taliban by moving the maps to there homes. Once the Americans came in, the maps were brought back. They told Americans about it, but no one checked it until the Pentagon took an interest.
Spirituality is one of those non-words that doesn't actually mean anything because you cannot define it without a circular reference to itself.
You wouldn't want to buy this for home and turn your house in to a sterile cleanroom from which you never let your kid out.
Tell that to the bubble boy, you insensitive clod!
That's right. Businesses have never killed people in the pursuit of profit.
Gore can't claim to invent it, but it sounds like he was its Godfather.
Yes, yes it is.
The value of the experiment is the fact that these seven scientists and engineers DID NOT just sit in a chamber for 100+ days. They conducted real exploration of Devon Island and the Haughton impact crater, under constraints similar to what a crew would have to do on Mars. The gravity is wrong. But they weren't doing physiology experiment on the effect of gravity. The solar radiation is wrong. But they weren't doing solar radiation experiments. The atmospheric pressure is wrong. But they weren't doing atmospheric experiments. The soil chemistry is all wrong. But they weren't doing soil chemistry experiments. They were doing astrobiological, geological, operational, and psychological experiments, as this page lists 22 such experiments. http://www.fmars2007.org/arctic/science-projects.a sp
So what has your indignation proved other than they can sit on your ass in front your computer and run mouth off on topics you know nothing about? Nothing.
Cuba is not even in the top ten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_sugar#Production
No.. Ferrite is Fe3-O4 while hematite is Fe2-O3.
I agree, because technology should be our masters.
I'm moving my head office in orbit just as soon as its feasible.
The posting is incorrect, but the article is correct. It's not NASA's Vomit Comet (KC-135), but the Zero Gravity Corporation's G-Force One.
And yes, it's open to everyone who mets their basic health requirements and is at least 15 years old. Whether Hawking meets the requirements I'd like to know (ie. are they making an exception?)
I'm curious about GMail's spam filtering abilities. I've heard that it is pretty good. Can Slashdotters recommend the best way to pass my company's email through GMail and then back to the intended recipient? For example, I have a catch-all address which receives @mycompany.com's email when the recipient doesn't exist, and it just sits there in the catch-all inbox until I clean it out (since my email server's spam filter isn't pushing all the spam to trash). I can configure the catch-all to forward to a gmail account and hope that filters out more of the spam, but is there a better way to do this? And what about legitimated address email, can I filter it through GMail to catch the spam better?
That ought to tell you they'll never get it to work, using this particularly technology line. There are other ways to do it cheaply, in small labs. Check out the work of Robert Bussard, Harrison Schmidt, or NSD-Fusion.
This may be a case where the journalist didn't get his facts right or understood the scientist he interviewed. The selection pressure described is obviously an external force. To call this anything else is moronic. To imply that this is evidence for behavior being a causative force in evolution is insane. It's hard to believe a scientist worth his PhD would make such a mistake, but it is very easy to believe the journalist did. The most that can be said from the reported observations is that the anole lizards variation of behavior naturally caused variation in their success rate of evading the predators, as every evolutionary biologist would expect. Where is the controversy in that?
Well, maybe what really happened went over your head. He didn't just say go away. He created an alliance of worlds that said to the Vorlons and Shadows that they would no longer be their puppets, so there was absolutely NO point for the Vorlons or the Shadows to stick around. Once you pull aside the curtain, the Wizard of Oz has no more power. If the Vorlons or Shadows had continued to fight they would have had to annihilate all the other races; which means both the Vorlons and Shadows would lose, because they would have no one left to carry on their philosophy. It was lose-lose scenario for them, so they left.
There is over two billion dollars of private investment in things like spaceports and launch services for suborbital and orbital rides. Check out the stats here, which just considers the New Space companies, leaving out investments from the existing commercial satellite industry.
Yes, and the US will adopt metric any day now too.
Oh yes, because of course the government professionals are the ones who know how to do things commercially, cheaply and efficiently. Of course.
Perhaps instead of voicing your ill-informed opinion you should leave it to the professionals to comment on it. Which they have, in spades, supporting the efforts of the commercial space tourism industry. Most of these outfits have ex-astronauts working for them.
Finding out what can and can't be done on commercial levels requires doing it on commercial levels.