Which is why they will have 7000+ SATs at 500 miles. Ping time will blow doors off fiber.

Seriously, a 16 mj railgun would work for close proximity, which is what is wanted on lasers.

In 15 years, the biggest threat to cable and phone will not be fiber, but satellite. With the 2 systems going in, you will have GB connection, with better ping times than cable or Twp.

What little part did you grab onto without reading the whole post? That's right, the very first sentence.

Read the whole thing. It's about balancing speed of development with other factors, including performance of the code.

Nobody's talking about blazing fast, careless typing into an IDE. The biggest cost in software development tends to be the software developer. Making the software developer more productive saves money. Most of us don't have unlimited budgets.

People who code in Python, Perl, Scheme, JavaScript, or whatever rather than assembly aren't all "sloppy" developers. They're producing code that does a lot more work per source line than Assembly does. If they produce the same number of lines, then they're more productive.

Assembly can call C libraries on most systems. Then again, so can Perl, Python, and Scheme.

Our 20 lb tabby (no fat) would bring us live gifts in the AM.
When you opened the door, if he ran past, it meant that he had a gift for us and 9 out of 10 x, it was very live.
These were Birds, Squirrels, Fish, Chipmunks, Rabbits, baby raccons (very dangerous for that car), 1 small hawk, and even 1 adult Canada Goose (live, but flyer could not carry him in fast enough; easy to stop).
I saw him toying with a number of animals and when I came to rescue, he would snap their necks (grab by the head and whip them).

Yes, he would eat some. Buy many were just toys, or gifts for us.

Have you actually seen the movie? I was thinking, from the trailers, that it would be a dumb movie. But the IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes scores are about as high as I've seen for a movie, particularly such a big budget action movie. I'm open the possibility that it's good.

I have no issue with the Russians. I have an issue with depending on one group to provide a critical item ( launch ) for so long. The GOP makes a big todo of using Russian, but continue to gut spending on commercial space while increasing our money flow and dendancy on Russia. Total insanity.

I want to see the iss group go to the moon. But to do that, we need multiple shlv, multiple manned launchers, multiple base builders, etc.. IOW, we should not depend on any one group for more a year. And right now, the neo-cons have broken that rule by many times over.

LOL.
Uh no. Cats hunt for food AND for fun. It does not matter if they are wild or domesticated.
In addition, a well-fed cat will NOT eat the animal. They will play with it until they decide to kill it. In fact, I see this same behavior with zoo animals. I have seen a tiger and polar beer catch and play with birds and they do NOT eat them. But they sure as heck kill them.

I should rate you as overrated, but will answer you instead.
It is mostly another anti-AGW myth that large numbers of big birds are being killed by wind generators. One site has a serious issue and others have a small issue.

Now, with that said, BATS do suffer greatly at this. Not any particular bat, but all of them seem to not see the blades even though they have the ability to track small fast things. This might help save them.

Personally, I would be far more interested in seeing what the $/KW are on this, along with what kind of winds are required to move it.

So many things wrong here.
1) you mentioned that russian parts are used in western rockets. There are exactly TWO rockets that have any major Russian parts. That is OSC and ULA's Atlas. Delta actually has some Russian made parts, or did. And nothing else in Europe uses Russian made, except for your providing a launch site for them and then marketing them.
2) you are right that we cooperate. However, for the last 10-15 years, America has been cut out of the competition because Boeing, L-Mart and then ULA were worthless. Now, along comes SpaceX and they are destroying EVERYBODY out there. By next year, there is a real good chance that ArianeSpace and all of the various Russian launch systems will be launching only their gov. systems and nothing more.

Basically, SpaceX will own 100% of commercial space by the start of 2016. The reason is that not only will FH be live, but so will F9R. In addition, they are SpaceX is currently launching at a rate of about 1 every 3 weeks. In 2016, they will bring that down to 1 every 2 weeks or less.
This is not about YOU vs. US. In fact, I have said here and elsewhere, that I want to see Europe spend some money on building up a CHEAP launch system. SpaceX has done that, and is doing more. BUT, if we are going to the moon and mars, then Europe needs to have a CHEAP and RELIABLE system.

Nope.
ILS is nothing but a marketing arm for using proton vehicles. ILS has NOTHING to do with the ISS.

10% failure rate is HORRIBLE.
How did you get modded up?

NASA had nothing to do with Constellations failure (and Ares was part of Constellation).
Constellation failed because it was grossly underfunded by neo-cons for 6 years.

The house GOP is the one gutting private space. They continue to cut funding for CCxDev, while pushing funds for SLS and Russian launches.

What you posted had absolutely NOTHING to do with funding, but 1 bill that was put forward in a committee and will likely not clear the senate.