The SpaceX Falcon 1e will cost $8.5 million for the end user, and can get 750 kg to LEO, according to the fact sheets provided by SpaceX. It is not operational as of yet, however current plans are to launch it in 2009, which is well before the December 31, 2012 deadline.
My senior design project is to design a mission from the ground up that could potentially compete in the competition. Our preliminary budgets are coming in around $20-30 million, so it's not impossible to do it for that price. What most people don't realize is that you don't have to send a 1000 kg rover to the moon, we are looking at a mass to the moon of about 75-100 kg. This allows you to use much smaller launch vehicles which are considerably cheaper, in fact we only need to get about 800 kg to LEO which can be done for under $10 million. Additionally most of the technology is already in place to do this, so there wouldn't be a lot of development costs.
I don't precisely think that CERN is going to be purchasing thousands of dell PCs to analyze the data that they collect. maybe they are talking about a distributed computing project?
Many things that add security don't do anything to prevent the crime from happening, but if the bad guy doesn't think that he can get away with it, then they might not commit the crime to begin with. Just think about fingerprinting, it hasn't once stopped people from committing a crime, but it sure does make it easier to catch the bad guy. Also these will help prevent innocent people from being wrongfully arrested.
That might explain why in my home town(in Michigan) 89 octane is the same price as 87 octane. The 89 might be just 87 with some ethanol blended in. That would actually make it more profitable for the gas station because ethanol is cheaper per gallon.
This might work until somebody decides to use the barriers for their original purpose(separating traffic). When the Powers That Be realize that the only thing separating two lanes of traffic moving at each other at 140 mph is a few turbines they may decide that this is a Bad Idea.
If you had RTFA, you would have seen that the corruption wasn't with the govt. but with other companies. The other companies received money from Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Dell and Oracle, among others for preferential treatment when it came to govt contracts.
Is it really possible for kids to have to many tech toys growing up? I say expose them to all the tech that they can handle, it's not going to hurt them and will only give them an advantage later in life.
They should have gone with Cingular, then they wouldn't have to worry about the dropped periphery vision and the dropped colors. And if they were dropped, they could at least get a credit on their bill.
Giving public accessing to the database is also designed to correct mistakes if an individual discovers that their name, number and picture don't match.
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of of the database in the first place. Say you make a fake ID, you then access the database and correct the mistake that "your" name, number and picture don't match. You now have a valid ID.
haha, it's the lack of contractions. I was to lazy to spend the half second to figure out if it was their, or there, or they're, and i didn't want to get bitched at by the grammar Nazi's.
What I want to see is someone who actually scientifically tests the randomness of the suffle. Perhaps you could use Autofill a couple hundred times, and test it to see if all the songs are chosen equally.
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I need a +1 Introspective Mod.
The SpaceX Falcon 1e will cost $8.5 million for the end user, and can get 750 kg to LEO, according to the fact sheets provided by SpaceX. It is not operational as of yet, however current plans are to launch it in 2009, which is well before the December 31, 2012 deadline.
My senior design project is to design a mission from the ground up that could potentially compete in the competition. Our preliminary budgets are coming in around $20-30 million, so it's not impossible to do it for that price. What most people don't realize is that you don't have to send a 1000 kg rover to the moon, we are looking at a mass to the moon of about 75-100 kg. This allows you to use much smaller launch vehicles which are considerably cheaper, in fact we only need to get about 800 kg to LEO which can be done for under $10 million. Additionally most of the technology is already in place to do this, so there wouldn't be a lot of development costs.
I know you are are just making a joke, but the Ares V has both more thrust and more payload capicity that the Saturn V. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_V
I kinda wonder how much apple would charge to change the battery on THAT.
All i want to know is which beam is making them all align. I'm betting that it's shardik's beam, he's bad ass.
I don't precisely think that CERN is going to be purchasing thousands of dell PCs to analyze the data that they collect. maybe they are talking about a distributed computing project?
Many things that add security don't do anything to prevent the crime from happening, but if the bad guy doesn't think that he can get away with it, then they might not commit the crime to begin with. Just think about fingerprinting, it hasn't once stopped people from committing a crime, but it sure does make it easier to catch the bad guy. Also these will help prevent innocent people from being wrongfully arrested.
That might explain why in my home town(in Michigan) 89 octane is the same price as 87 octane. The 89 might be just 87 with some ethanol blended in. That would actually make it more profitable for the gas station because ethanol is cheaper per gallon.
I really do hate to nitpick, but the skunk-works are Lockheed Martin, not Boeing.
um, check your math. 1 million out of 100 million is 1%.
This might work until somebody decides to use the barriers for their original purpose(separating traffic). When the Powers That Be realize that the only thing separating two lanes of traffic moving at each other at 140 mph is a few turbines they may decide that this is a Bad Idea.
If you had RTFA, you would have seen that the corruption wasn't with the govt. but with other companies. The other companies received money from Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Dell and Oracle, among others for preferential treatment when it came to govt contracts.
Oh god, I looked at it 3 times and missed them every time.
Why wasn't Comcast in the poll. I would have voted them all the way.
They should have gone with Cingular, then they wouldn't have to worry about the dropped periphery vision and the dropped colors. And if they were dropped, they could at least get a credit on their bill.
Sometimes the co-ed isn't all that great looking either. I go to Michigan, and let me say, the pickings are pretty slim.
haha, it's the lack of contractions. I was to lazy to spend the half second to figure out if it was their, or there, or they're, and i didn't want to get bitched at by the grammar Nazi's.
It's fine they are just slashdotted, give it an hour or two and they will be running just fine again.
What I think we need is a .goog, or a .ggl or something along those lines.
I don't think that it would be as bad if a phone wasn't JUST released under the "iPhone" name.
What I want to see is someone who actually scientifically tests the randomness of the suffle. Perhaps you could use Autofill a couple hundred times, and test it to see if all the songs are chosen equally.
All i have to say is: RIP F-14 Tomcat. You were a great plane.