There's not a lot of equipment that's flight rated for the kinds of vibration, temperature and pressure swings required by an external rocket, not to mention power source transmitter and antenna(s). Oh, and it can't interfere with the landing telemetry in any way.
Hollywood owns Hulu, jointly owned by several studios and broadcasters, in fact. The idea was to own and control content distribution of TV over the internet while avoiding fracturing the market, and they've done a pretty good job of it.
The commercial crew program does this in a realistic way. For about $2 billion we ended up with the Dragon, the Dream Chaser and whatever cargo lump that Orbital built, plus Orion. Three out of four are designed to be human rated.
Blue Origin got some first and second round funding but they're way behind the curve compared to everyone else. Even Dream Chaser put down money for an Atlas V for a test launch already. Bigelow already has a "space station" in a near-polar orbit since 2006, but nobody's visited it yet.
If it's your only car and you can't drive round trip to the largest near by city (Dallas-> Fort Worth and back ) on a single charge (can't always find a charging station in a strange town) it's not much good. Sure you can rent a gas car for long weekend trips, but that's really inconvenient for emergency trips or if you want to go see a concert, art festival, state fair etc one county over.
Right now it's just a supplemental car. If I could get 200 miles out of it, I could drive to Austin on Friday after work.
If only there were another use for high quality, high capacity batteries, like laptops...
The weight of the fuel decreases as you burn it out the back of the rocket, increasing efficiency For each second of the burn. Second, did you account for the rotation of the earth underneath the rocket? Zeroing out the forward momentum does eat up most of the fuel, but you don't need a whole lot of forward velocity to fall down a parabolic arc from that height to return home. Landing requires about 60m/s of delta v at it's new mass.
The rocket (1st stage) when empty needs almost no fuel (about 4% of the total fuel at launch) to return to the launch site and land. The upgraded Falcon v1.1 has 10% more fuel at launch as well as increased cargo capacity (more efficient engines). Hitting a floating barge means you have to have good conditions at the launch site, as well as 400 miles out at sea as well. That dramatically limits your launch capability and exponentially increases your recovery costs.
It's interesting what one will do when your political asylum is up for renewal.
That's pretty much the exact opposite experience I've had. I've never had an issue with BT audio, even once. Range seems to top out at about 30 ft and for music listening, is perfect. I've run in to audio lag (20-40ms) issues when streaming audio to bottom tier $20 adapters but it's completely replaced physical audio cables in my house. The sounds system in the living room and bedroom both use it exclusively and I just stream to either/or from my phone as the "head unit" and use the speaker system as a dumb Amp.
You could rev up to about 1940's era technology pretty quickly. With the exception of flat screen TVs, the internet and integrated circuits that brings us pretty close to modern standards of living. After that you've exhausted all of the low hanging fruit like high tensile steel, most ceramics and crude plastics. Space age technologies (flexible products like modern rubber, silicone rubbers and other elastomers, hyper pure titanium, rare earth alloys, etc and of course Velcro) took about 4% of the national GDP to identify uses for, and then produce on an industrial scale over the period of a decade. This was on top of an incredibly prosperous era and winding down from the education boom of the 1940's that produced the scientists needed for the space race. Given any other outcome, we'd be lucky to have late 1980's technology today.
The uptick of
There have been quite a few studies on how single-digit percent of Jews actively practice religion and/or marry a religious Jew; however those who observe at least some traditions from a cultural standpoint is well over 75%. We're all creatures of habit, but somewhere along the way we mixed religion and custom together.
And when that hardware dies... will they buy an Android tablet for $179?
People were still implementing new, paper-based workflows in 2000. By 2004-2005 that had mostly gone away, but jumping from NT4 to 2000 meant jumping 25-40% of the office to a new version, typically the smarter and higher earners who deal with change fairly well.
By 2005-2006 you're looking at Vista era and half a decade of XP dominance, nowadays all employees not working in food service and/or retail are assigned a desktop. This resulted in a huge upswing of PC sales which has now leveled off. So now in addition to server class hardware and A-level users, you're also having to migrate your B, and in most cases C, D, and E-level users at the same time. Even the guy in the mail room needs a PC to check email from his boss and HR once a day. Our copy room has a desktop to open word files.
Have you actually read an article about Google Chrome from start to finish? You clearly haven't ever used one, why did you even bother typing that post?
If a 6600 used paper tape instead of core memory, it would use up tape at about 30 miles/second. -- Grishman, Assembly Language Programming
