Comment You can't go home again. (Score 1) 167
Not really the same anymore, is it?
Nothing is ever the same. Get used to it. B-)
Not really the same anymore, is it?
Nothing is ever the same. Get used to it. B-)
rocket built and the fuel delivered.
That strongly implies the rocket was assembled and sitting on the launch pad when canceled.
Nobody born and bred in the U.S of A. ends their correspondence with cheers.
Lots of us do - and have for decades.
I've used it in email practically since there's been email - and I was born and raised almost in the center of the "radio accent" heartland.
It's short and often just the right tone for ending a written communication.
That's a political stunt.
Political stunts require political justifications. In this case, it was that enough people wanted the money spent on something else.
And that's economics.
We had rockets that went to the moon.
And when we got there, we found lots of jagged dust.
We had supersonic transport.
Which we already knew was horribly expensive due to (a) the effort required to slice through the air that vast, and (b) the heat generated at such speeds.
We built the fastest airplane ever,
And retired it because flying that fast is so fscking expensive!
we built several different airplane models that are still in production and have yet to be surpassed.
Because in the real world, there are always engineering trade-offs between physics and economics, and it turns out that the sound "barrier" is in actuality an economics barrier.
Yes, it saddens me, but I've moved on from youthful sci-fi dreams.
the microwave downlink gets misaligned and burns down the city block next to the ground station.
10 years ago, the first comment to an article such as this would have been about robots with Messiah complexes, and the second would have welcome our new Robot Prophet Overlords, IN SPACE!!
The science fiction nerd quotient of
If wildfires are increasing, my first suspect is the decades of fuel we stored when the states had enough money to put out every spark. Now we don't have the money, but we have all that fuel stored.
That argument is 90 years old. The National Park Service has been doing controlled burns for 45 years.
Ultraviolet Magic Pixie Rays.
You're a bit thick, eh? We're talking laser comms here, which are nearly monochromatic -- you don't need a "big" window.
Unless you want to simultaneously use multiple frequencies so as to increase throughput even more.
we used to "turbo boost" our connections by using large packets (1024 bytes).
Takes me back to the days of ZMODEM, which was significantly faster than TCP/IP and FTP
My comments were directed towards people who think this could be used for something else.
Where are those people's comments/delusions?
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.