Comment welding helmet in a bar? (Score 2) 104
Wearing a welding helmet to the local bar? Expect some ridicule.
What? Imagine the possibilities for pickup lines!
"You're so hot, I have to wear ANSI Z87.1 compliant eye protection"
Wearing a welding helmet to the local bar? Expect some ridicule.
What? Imagine the possibilities for pickup lines!
"You're so hot, I have to wear ANSI Z87.1 compliant eye protection"
Huh? The most expensive was $3B?
The James Webb Space Telescope is estimated to be just under $8B to make and launch, then another ~$800M for operations.
An article from 2011 suggested that they had already spent $5B (or maybe it was just that they had only planned on it costing $5B at that point). An FAQ from JPL states that as of 2011, they had spent $3.5B.
If they're smart on this Europa mission, they won't design the mission around low TRL technology.
1: Don't ramble so much that your audience stops caring about your recommended solution before you get to it.
2: Trim out all of the extraneous parts.
3: Give appropriate responses for your audience, their motivations and capabilities.
and maybe:
4: Use lists instead of long paragraphs so maybe we can identify which parts are important.
(yes, #1 is likely just a specialization of #2
How quickly it gets to the point.
All NASA websites have to be renewed annually in STRAW (System for Tracking and Registering Applications and Websites). If they're not updated, they're supposed to get blocked at the firewall.
Of course, they never define what a 'website' is, so someone could claim that the item in question was a 'web page' that didn't have to be individually registered.
(I made the mistake of listing a webservice as a 'web application', and had much back & forth as I said there weren't any privacy issues
But my complaint was that the 'official' page is that there are other pages out there that are *not* trying to be comprehensive that are doing a better job than the 'official' page. I had contacted the NASA official responsible for data.nasa.gov, and asked him how they had sent out the call for information to put in there
And I seriously doubt that the projects are what you claim -- as someone who's tried to push some NASA-funded software to CPAN
I gave up on it years ago, when I realized there were only 32 items in it. (2 have been listed as 'coming soon'). You'll find more open source software if you look at the lists that the individual centers maintain :
Or see the NASA Github page (34 items, but that includes 'code.nasa.gov') : https://github.com/nasa
The listed 'NASA Official' has changed since it was released
(which was my interepretation of the response I got when I contacted the previous official about http://data.nasa.gov/
I mean, realisticly -- if NASA sends someone on a one-way trip
What about once they get old, and the other people on the mission have to start taking care of them?
Or do you have to implement a euthenasia policy? And then the federal government has to approve it, which would likely open all sorts of protests, etc.
I noticed how EA / Origin didn't even make it onto the list.
(which I 100% agree with)
All it takes is one congressman inserting language in an appropriations bill about what countries NASA isn't allowed to work with.
But they'd never do something like that, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
It was so bad, we had to get a legal opinion on if I was allowed to respond to a question e-mailed to the support address for one of the projects I work on. (they said yes, because the project was international in scope, and not just between us and China).
I also had a to pass up an invitation from the US Academy of Science, as it was for a meeting that was being held in China. (later, I was informed that it was Taiwan, which didn't count as China, but it was too late at that point).
ps. if it's not obvious, I work at a NASA center.
pps. and then let's not forget about earmarks and the like. Or how the shuttle was built all over the US and then brought together, to make congress happy that it was being built in their district.
Super heroes to save us from the zombies?
If you haven't read 'Ex-Heroes', I highly recommend it. (Ex-Patriots was good, but not great
... Brandyn White, a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, and Scott Greenberg, a PhD candidate at MIT
...
At least this time we can blame Network World for the crappy headline, and not someone here at Slashdot. We can just blame them for not bothering to read the summary, much less the article.
The good news about being late to post stories (that aren't for nerds and don't matter), is that they've already been debunked:
Are we going to have to use Swatch Time with this calendar?
All kidding aside, they mention:
MINUTES, SECONDS, & FRACTIONS OF A SECOND
Both minutes and seconds have a range from 0 to 59. If including a fraction of a second, write it as a decimal at the end: 41.13.27.23.59.59.999 TC.
(and for those who complain that UTC shouldn't have leap seconds
Last month, I was at the International Digital Curation Conference, and Atel Butte started talking about outsourcing lab tests
He went downhill after Meet the Feebles. He should go back to docmentaries
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.