Comment Re:The Slash Fanfic People Will Love This... (Score 1) 87
Hey, be green on your own log!
coopetition
Awesome, it's a mix of cooperation and competition. Still not quite sure how that works though.
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I'm not a satellite engineer, but wouldn't it be easy enough to just install a lead shield around the PCB to protect from most radiation? As long as the shield's not too thick, it shouldn't add too much weight, especially compared to using older-technology chips that'll take up more board space.
To cosmic rays, a lead shield is just a bigger impact target and a source for more secondary particles. Unless your lead shield is larger than current spacecraft.
When I begin to hallucinate I usually like to take a break.
Quit slacking off. As long as you're alert enough to dodge the snails that the elephant is throwing at you, you're alert enough to keep that truck moving.
news for you, any manned space exploration we do in the next two centuries will still leave all our eggs in the earth basket.
That is true. Fortunately, any manned space colonization will reduce the basket problem somewhat. Even if only a few survive, we have to try to get a few to Oregon in order to have a chance at Oregon growing. Wherever you live, can I buy your land at pioneer prices?
I blame Star Trek.
Every time they have a problem near a planet they immediately start to spiral in.
Apologists/idiots invented a 'new kind of powered orbit'.
If we had Star Trek's cheap power and movement tools, we'd have to establish traffic control on the "Dawn Patrol" powered parking orbits, where craft would be cruising to watch the sunrise and sunset. Falling out of orbit due to propulsion failure would also be a routine occurrence. It's an obvious side effect.
Well when you say that the Earth is going to become less habitable and try to then say that is why we should go to places even less habitable makes one think you are a nutter. Why couldn't we use the same technologies that would allow us to live on, say, Mars to live on Earth as it becomes less habitable?
I'll watch on Mars while you experiment on your own planet, thank you very much.
Our vapid advertisements and ghastly reality TV dreck will still be cruising the aether long after we are a thin layer of ash in one of the smaller gravity wells surrounding a dying star of no particular distinction...
Don't know much about the Earth's rotation, do you? How about directional broadcast TV antennas?
It seems reasonable that debating moon travel 40 years after Apollo might be considered unexpected. What am I missing?
Well, a single science fiction author, Heinlein, did have a Hiatus in interplanetary travel. So we can debate whether it was unexpected. Although even Heinlein thought we'd quickly have large colonies on the Moon.
What actually was unexpected was that ridiculously large rocket, the Saturn V. We shouldn't have been able to use a giant bottle rocket to toss a few men on the Moon. We should have built space stations which could build and refuel spacecraft. Infrastructure should have made the Moon much cheaper to reach.
I see their point however the methods are still misplaced. If I buy a used car, It's not like I can't use Gears 4 and up.
Maybe you can't if you don't renew your OnStar service. Did you read your contract?
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
