For Hubble, maybe. But Kepler is currently 187 million kilometers behind Earth on a heliocentric orbit and drifting back at 31km/s. Nothing we had, have or will have for a long time can reach there to do a refueling job. It was designed as a sacrificial instrument from the start.
Fourth, we know from the launch of the car that the guidance systems and engine control are flaky. They failed to put the car on the intended orbit by a few million miles. Buggy software in a rocket is never good, but said buggy software controls the refuelling systems and we've seen where that goes. All over the landscape. Now, SpaceX and NASA want to do this with people on board.
Nothing to do with guidance or engine control. They just let the second stage engine burn to fuel exhaustion and it burned longer than expected. Except for the aborted ride-along satellite with the one ISS servicing mission because of the single engine failure in the first stage, all their launches have been precisely where the client wanted them. Including the spy sats.
Of course [SPOLIER ALERT] the notion that we (and not God) choose whether we view ourselves as devils or angels is offensive to many Christians, so revealing that plot point sooner might not have saved the show, but the show really does make one think and we do need more of that in this country.
Interestingly, as a Roman Catholic I was taught basically this. The fallen angels chose to separate themselves from God because they had perfect knowledge from their creation and are unable to be redeemed because they cannot unmake the decision, because of the perfect knowledge.
Us, on the other hand, have imperfect knowledge and we only get to make that decision after living our lives and being exposed to God at the final judgement. Again, however, we are choosing to separate ourselves from God because we find ourselves unworthy because of how we lived our lives in the light of revealed knowledge at the final judgement. That's also why Catholics are taught that people who lived their life outside of the knowledge of Christianity are not damned for that lack, but get the same choice once given the knowledge after death.
It's a difficult concept to grasp for some of the more fire-and-brimstone, God-as-punisher branches of Christianity and they tend to go on a bit about damnation and punishment in their preaching. The show seems to have gotten it right, but suffered because those branches don't understand it and find it offensive. Also, they might be offended because it points out that living a life going to church on a Sunday and being a bastard the other six days isn't going to save you once you have to reflect on that.
Only for very rare operating systems. For the regular suspects, we just pull the ISO direct from MS licensing, Redhat.com, Ubuntu.org and so forth. No risk of getting bits swapped because of a scratch on the disk.
Whois has 2.2.0.0/16 assigned to France Telecom Orange and 2.2.2.2 isn't pingable at the moment.
The question is whether Amazon is Weyland-Yutani or Union Aerospace Corporation.
With Bezos building rockets and not talking about Mars, does that exclude UAC?
Wikipedia should have an image carousel that can take an unlimited number of images and start randomly in the stack on page load. Then all the diversity of a subject can be displayed and nobody can moan that X is always first. There's many of us, put them all up there.
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/566/
Are you seriously trying to argue that SpaceX who had been demonstrating vertical landing capability on the Grasshopper since September 2012 and who landed a Falcon 9 first stage on 22 December 2015, copied Blue Origin who only started demonstrating landing capability on 23 November 2015?
I know Musk is accused of projecting a reality distortion field, but I suggest you check your own one, it's reflecting back on you.
Probably not, but the chances with the card packs and the Lego minifigs aren't as loaded as loot boxes are, IIRC from my youthful days. That was last century, so maybe things have changed.
The crowd of boys at school would trade and share, fight and steal from each other to get a complete collection and we would succeed without buying ten thousand packs each. The cards were random, but spread fairly evenly and I doubt they printed only two Maradona cards in total for example.
The loot boxes seem to have gone to the far extreme with total junk except for one item every 1000000000000 times. And the game company can tweak that it never happens.
It's called flash memory.
They launched 3 cubesats along with their reflector ball. So the wasted opportunity is down to 25% of the original zero wasted opportunity.
Let me guess, the conversation went as follows.
Boss - Show me our system can't make the same mistake what the Hawaii one did.
Operator - It can't boss, look. First you click here, then here and then her.. oh shit, oh shit, shit.
Boss - <running in circles> Make it stop, make it stop.
You're behind the times, 18th of December 2017, the ANC party rejected his ex-wife as their future president and elected the current deputy president as party leader and future state president. https://www.timeslive.co.za/anc-conference-2017/2017-12-18-cyril-ramaphosa-wins-anc-presidential-race/
Watching the crowd waiting for the results to be announced and seeing Jacob Zuma sitting with a stunned and unhappy look on his face was brilliant.
Nope, not by many orders of magnitude. Estimates of current nuclear weapon stockpiles range from 1500 to 6600 megatons TNT equivalent. The Chicxulub impactor is estimated at 100000 megatons and all that did was drill a hole 180km across and 20km deep and possibly triggered vulcanism on the other side of the planet. It didn't shatter the planet.
The impactor in the event 3.26 billion years back was a rock between 37km and 58km and that didn't fracture the planet into pieces either.
If we put all the nukes in a hole 10km down and set them off at once, I doubt we'd even get surface displacement beyond seismic shaking for a couple of seconds.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
