Really? What would they DO with it- and how would they pay for maintaining it in LEO? Do you have ANY idea just how "small" the thing is? Space Hotel? Not likely- and it'd cost a couple of million per person at least for a 1-2 week stay. Try again.
And how much did those celebrity "tourists" pay to go to MIR?
Still, better to auction it off. Make the billionaires fight for their new big boy toy
They might form a new joint company to put in the only bid and work together to maintain it, that's fine too.
One way of getting "the rich" to pay more, eh? And even voluntarily
However this tends to be done *after* the hazardess materials have been removed from the ships....
Purely uninformed - but what hazmats are on the ISS?
I'd guess that it would start tumbling first and fling off a whole bunch of debris before plunging into the atmosphere.
You want to bring it down in one piece. It's the debris that's worrisome. The big pieces they can track. It's the nuts, wrenches, and other bits that give the controllers fits. A nut travelling at 3 km/s is a pretty deadly proijectile (even if your speed is pretty close to that....) A
You *DO* realize that objects heat up, burn up, and slow down during re-entry, right? A
the Sahara would work, but politically it's hot enough there
Climatalogically, it's hot enough there, too.
In actuality, we need BOTH things. There's actually enough resources for maintaining low gravity manufacturing, etc. on the Moon (which we actually need to start getting to if you're going to travel to the stars in the first place...) and we need those experiments on the ISS (Which isn't zero gravity (If it was, you wouldn't need to constantly push it back into orbit...), but close enough to count for what we're needing right now...) for the reasons you give.
The brutal truth of the matter is that we're pouring money into "social" programs that are hopelessly mis-managed and we keep trimming the budgets for doing this stuff because "it's unnecessary" (Never mind that we're where we are mainly because of the space and defense budgets of the world...). Something we need to realise isn't a useful utilisation of our collective resources as a species.
We spend $1100+ Billion on some of those social programs ($500 Billion on Medicare, $620 Billion on Social Security, and let's not count all the others).
We spend $19 Billion on NASA (which, incidentally, works out to the amount we spend every 14 months on SS vs the duration of NASA). It's like cutting one vending-machine Coke from your budget when you have have payments on a pair of brand-new cars.
I remember an article in PC World about the original pentium chips. The author suggested the ideal placement of the chip was on the outside of the case with the writting:
"Place Coffee Here to Keep Warm"
Ahh yes, "nothing quite like a Pentium on a cold winter's day"
Interesting you used Markdown syntax for your link. May I ask why you chose to?
If I had to guess, it's because he hangs out on the SE family of sites
so maybe Redhat just introduces a few interesting little tweaks to some meta-portion of their system
They already do this - that's why CentOS 6 took nearly a year to arrive.
And yet Scientific Linux was able to release months ahead of CentOS from the same RH source....
On July 21, 2011, Oracle announced they acquired Ksplice, Inc. At the time of the company was acquired, Ksplice, Inc. claimed to have over 700 companies using the service to protect over 100,000 servers. While the service had been available for multiple Linux distributions, it was stated at the time Ksplice, Inc. was acquired that "Oracle believes it will be the only enterprise Linux provider that can offer zero downtime updates."
Only 100k servers across 700 companies? That's barely anything (~140 servers per company) - they must be pretty small outfits.
While a cool idea, it's merely an extension of manual queue tracking. Give someone a time-stamped card. Record what time they get through the checkpoint, update your ticker system.
This is a great idea, assuming that your airport has multiple security checkpoints to choose from. Every airport I've flown through has one checkpoint per terminal (and no way to switch terminals without re-going through security checkpoints), or a massive single checkpoint for all terminals.
You must fly through pretty craptacular airports. Which ones do this to you?
I was actually thinking solitaire 3D or Suduko 3D. Just imagine how it would improve your gameplay.
I could go for *actual* 3D chess: I have an old board game of such from - I think - the 60s called "Space Chess" (and here). That'd be pretty cool in 3D.
I hope he didn't infringe on a copyrighted font for that project!
He's using a Sands Serf font
1000m high and 2 miles long - now everybody can complain about the units of measurement!
1000m high? That's quite an achievement in just "weeks" - the Freedom Tower is only going to be 1776 feet (541m) high, and is taking *years* to complete. We need to hire this guy's workers!
1,000 meters high is a kilometer, yet the length is given in miles.
Didn't NASA have a problem when they didn't convert from metric to standard?
They're just using metric feet per second
"The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is." -- Narciso Yepes
