Comment Re:Why not leave shuttle up there? (Score 1) 77
It's going to make it pretty hard for the rest of the crew to get down when there are no spacecraft there after the shuttle crew takes them all.
It's going to make it pretty hard for the rest of the crew to get down when there are no spacecraft there after the shuttle crew takes them all.
Don't bring facts into this.
Yet, all your examples are exactly that. You have a choice of which car you want to buy, but you don't get to individually pick all of it's components unless you get something custom built.
Wasn't there a Sci-Fi TV series (or at least a pilot) about something like this?
That's an even worse idea. You might be able to keep a shuttle up there if you just shut everything down and let the rest of the ISS take care of power and oxygen, but if you want to keep it capable of flying again there is no way it can stay up there for more than a couple weeks.
It's also hard to fit 6 people in a three person soyuz.
The orbiters are not capable of staying in space for longer than about two weeks.
Completely changing all devices would be so much simpler than completely changing all devices (Many of which have already been changed)! Brilliant!
Because child rape is JUST LIKE bundling IE in windows.
Wow, people sure are butthurt. Gates has done more good than every single poster here put together.
Invisible expect for the whole fact that you're now so bright in IR that people could spot you from another planet, not even mentioning all the other EM noise emitted.
You may be slightly less visible on radar, but you're screaming "I'M HERE!!!!" in so many other ways it doesn't matter.
Yes. Being intentionally precise is not difficult. A fire accidentally setting off each explosive within the tiny fraction of a second required is incredibly unlikely. This is not a difficult concept, if you pull your head out of your ass.
Even if the core had been loaded, HE-implosion based nuclear bombs require incredibly precise timing of the explosives to compress the core to criticality. You could never get a nuclear detonation from a bomb in a fire. It is essentially impossible to detonate one of these unless you do it on purpose. It would have been a dirty bomb, yes, and dangerous. But 6 figure immediate death toll? Only if you have no concept of how these bombs work.
Here are some links:
http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/09/09/one_week_inside_the_haystack
http://jilliancyork.com/2010/09/13/haystack-and-media-irresponsibility/
http://calixte.tumblr.com/post/1120185415/no-more-haystack - Lead Developers resignation Letter
http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2010/09/14/haystack-vs-how-the-internet-works/
The software is dead. The board has resigned. The primary developer says the software in use now was never meant to be secure. It was an early testing version, and should never have been distributed.
Happiness is twin floppies.