It makes absolutely no economic sense to land on an oil rig. In fact, it makes no sense whatsoever. They cost half to three quarters of a million dollars a day to rent. Furthermore, an oil rig is covered with a giant drill tower, various cranes, housing and offices, drilling machinery and oil processing equipment, and so on. The only flat spot on an oil rig where you could possibly land would be the helipad, which is far too small and fragile for the stage to land on. You can't get rid of the cranes, because you need them to lower the stage onto whatever barge you're going to use to ferry the stage back to land.
On the other hand, there's lots of big empty swaths of land at Kennedy spaceport. There's lots of big empty swaths of land near the proposed Texas site. Just put down on a landing pad right at the spaceport.
"Recover" as in "fetch the debris from the sea", or "recover" as in "have it land nicely"?
That is "recover" as in "having it land in once piece so we can perform engineering analysis on what worked and didn't work in our engines" (from the perspective of SpaceX).
Perhaps in the near term, However, from the SpaceX perspective, "recover" means move it back to the launch pad, repack the chutes, reload the fuel tanks, throw another Dragon on top and launch it again.
"whether booster went horizontal was expected or not"... the booster was never going to manage to stand on the water for any significant length of time...
It doesn't have to stand on the water to remain vertical. With 9 heavy engines on the bottom and big empty tanks on top, it could bob and float in the vertical position.
Less beer-brewing waste recycling means less efficient beer breweries, which means less beer breweries, which means less beer produced, which means less drunken brawls in washrooms, which means less broken sinks and urinals, which means less ceramics being thrown into the oceans, which means less acid being absorbed, which means less pH (more acidic) oceans.
Where's the controversy with evolution? Just google for it.
We're talking about the second amendment, not evolution. Try to pay attention.
Fuck wit.
Thanks! I always think it's good to have something clever to say during sex, but if you prefer to to limply lie there like a damp, smelly dishcloth, that's your business.
Like this?: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed... Not!
To the contrary- it is very clear: "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
If the amendment simply read "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.", then we wouldn't be having this conversation. The fact that you have to take a phrase out of context to make your argument is an indication that the amendment is vague. The ambiguity lies in the "...".
You mean you can print in 3D now? Why have you guys kept that so quiet for so long?
Yeah! It's really cool. You print one image in red ink, and one in cyan. Then when you look at the result with 3D glasses (the colored lens ones, not the polarized filter ones)... and poof! 3D!
Well, you could convince the sensors applet and the clock applet to wake up from suspend properly instead of randomly consuming all CPU cycles, preventing the gui from awakening.
Courthouses are often large old buildings with a lot of marble pillars, marble floors, and immovable walls. This may be why they used Wifi... It's just not feasible to drill a hole through 3 feet of marble to run Cat5.
... and yet they have power. So how did they do that... extension cords running all around the joint?
Recently both rear view cameras and sideview camera systems have been criticised as a bad idea by some here on Slashdot.
This Land Rover invisible hood system seems beyond criticism. But I'm sure slashdot naysayers will find an angle anyway. Go for it...
I think the biggest legitimate criticism that came out of the rear/side camera replacement of mirrors was that you had to refocus your eyes from infinity to dashboard to infinity each time you glanced at the video display. In this case you will already be tracking your bonnet so that the required change in eye focus will be minimal.
The biggest criticism with rear view cameras is that when you are reversing, you're looking out of the rear window so you can't even see the dashboard, let alone the display.
Instead of turning around at the halfway point and using the same thrust to decelerate, would it be possible to, theoretically, initiate an explosion in front of the craft, equal in yield to the amount of thrust used to achieve whatever speed your craft is at when you need to start accelerating? Kind of like the old police trick of pulling in front of a speeding car and using the police cruiser to slow it (but with a BOOM instead of brakes, obviously).
Only if you want everyone squashed to a jelly. The point behind the continuous acceleration, flip, and continuous deceleration is to provide a 1G environment so that the passengers/crew experience Earth normal gravity. Coasting along and slowing down with an explosion means years in a zero G environment followed by a gargantuan deceleration. Whatever bones remained within the passengers and crew would be snapped like twigs.
I know we can cut a gene from one DNA source, and splice it into another DNA strand, but that requires a particular sequence of base pairs both in the source DNA and in the target strand. I wasn't aware that we can custom build a DNA strand base pair by base pair. Can you point me to some websites?
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If a 16-year-old can find a way to squeeze into that space, it wouldn't be too difficult to fit in a couple hundred pounds of explosives.
Would you even need that much? Some thermite wrapped around a critical linkage, and the best the plane can do is belly-flop onto the tarmac.
It makes absolutely no economic sense to land on an oil rig. In fact, it makes no sense whatsoever. They cost half to three quarters of a million dollars a day to rent. Furthermore, an oil rig is covered with a giant drill tower, various cranes, housing and offices, drilling machinery and oil processing equipment, and so on. The only flat spot on an oil rig where you could possibly land would be the helipad, which is far too small and fragile for the stage to land on. You can't get rid of the cranes, because you need them to lower the stage onto whatever barge you're going to use to ferry the stage back to land.
On the other hand, there's lots of big empty swaths of land at Kennedy spaceport. There's lots of big empty swaths of land near the proposed Texas site. Just put down on a landing pad right at the spaceport.
There are plenty of old oil platforms the to east of Florida as well.
Why? Don't they move them to a new drill site once the well dries up?
"Recover" as in "fetch the debris from the sea", or "recover" as in "have it land nicely"?
That is "recover" as in "having it land in once piece so we can perform engineering analysis on what worked and didn't work in our engines" (from the perspective of SpaceX).
Perhaps in the near term, However, from the SpaceX perspective, "recover" means move it back to the launch pad, repack the chutes, reload the fuel tanks, throw another Dragon on top and launch it again.
"whether booster went horizontal was expected or not" ... the booster was never going to manage to stand on the water for any significant length of time...
It doesn't have to stand on the water to remain vertical. With 9 heavy engines on the bottom and big empty tanks on top, it could bob and float in the vertical position.
Less beer-brewing waste recycling means less efficient beer breweries, which means less beer breweries, which means less beer produced, which means less drunken brawls in washrooms, which means less broken sinks and urinals, which means less ceramics being thrown into the oceans, which means less acid being absorbed, which means less pH (more acidic) oceans.
Where's the controversy with evolution? Just google for it.
We're talking about the second amendment, not evolution. Try to pay attention.
Fuck wit.
Thanks! I always think it's good to have something clever to say during sex, but if you prefer to to limply lie there like a damp, smelly dishcloth, that's your business.
Where's the controversy? Just google for it. For example, what if a well regulated militia is no longer necessary for the security of a free state?
The well regulated militia was there to defend the security of the state, not the security of the people against the state
add "not" and be done with.
Like this?: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed... Not!
To the contrary- it is very clear: "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
If the amendment simply read "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.", then we wouldn't be having this conversation. The fact that you have to take a phrase out of context to make your argument is an indication that the amendment is vague. The ambiguity lies in the "...".
Coping by paying the immigrant to go Columbine ticks all three boxes.
...they're my only real broadband internet option now, and the only real option now for several cities around me now in fact.
That's odd. Usually there are two broadband options: DSL and Cable. Are you saying that Comcast owns both?
Why not let a "prosthetic" hand take the injury in the first place?
Yes, it's called a push stick. It takes about five minutes to make one.
You mean you can print in 3D now? Why have you guys kept that so quiet for so long?
Yeah! It's really cool. You print one image in red ink, and one in cyan. Then when you look at the result with 3D glasses (the colored lens ones, not the polarized filter ones)... and poof! 3D!
how much more improvement can you get?..
Well, you could convince the sensors applet and the clock applet to wake up from suspend properly instead of randomly consuming all CPU cycles, preventing the gui from awakening.
The power load of waking up 20 hard drives at the same time can be tremendous compared to the load when they're all spinning and purring.
Spinning drives... how quaint!
Courthouses are often large old buildings with a lot of marble pillars, marble floors, and immovable walls. This may be why they used Wifi... It's just not feasible to drill a hole through 3 feet of marble to run Cat5.
... and yet they have power. So how did they do that... extension cords running all around the joint?
So? Run LibreOffice everywhere
Great plan! How do I convince my affiliates, vendors, clients, and other business partners to switch?
Recently both rear view cameras and sideview camera systems have been criticised as a bad idea by some here on Slashdot.
This Land Rover invisible hood system seems beyond criticism. But I'm sure slashdot naysayers will find an angle anyway. Go for it...
I think the biggest legitimate criticism that came out of the rear/side camera replacement of mirrors was that you had to refocus your eyes from infinity to dashboard to infinity each time you glanced at the video display. In this case you will already be tracking your bonnet so that the required change in eye focus will be minimal.
The biggest criticism with rear view cameras is that when you are reversing, you're looking out of the rear window so you can't even see the dashboard, let alone the display.
Off-roading? The cameras would be caked with mud and dust within 15 minutes. How is this going to be helpful?
Why would you allow them to do an oil change at 50mph?!
Because doing one at 100mph is dangerous.
It's amazing - fucking amazing - that while the NSA was busy spying on Americans Putin was able to invade the Ukraine and surprise us.
You may have been surprised, but who says the invaion of Ukraine was a surprise to the joint chiefs?
Question:
Instead of turning around at the halfway point and using the same thrust to decelerate, would it be possible to, theoretically, initiate an explosion in front of the craft, equal in yield to the amount of thrust used to achieve whatever speed your craft is at when you need to start accelerating? Kind of like the old police trick of pulling in front of a speeding car and using the police cruiser to slow it (but with a BOOM instead of brakes, obviously).
Only if you want everyone squashed to a jelly. The point behind the continuous acceleration, flip, and continuous deceleration is to provide a 1G environment so that the passengers/crew experience Earth normal gravity. Coasting along and slowing down with an explosion means years in a zero G environment followed by a gargantuan deceleration. Whatever bones remained within the passengers and crew would be snapped like twigs.
I know we can cut a gene from one DNA source, and splice it into another DNA strand, but that requires a particular sequence of base pairs both in the source DNA and in the target strand. I wasn't aware that we can custom build a DNA strand base pair by base pair. Can you point me to some websites?