Plenty of 486 around that had more than 16M of RAM, especially these days.
Impossible to figure out what you think you meant while you're mixing tenses.
I believe radiation hardened 486s for aerospace applications are still being sold.
It uses VRTX, reportedly. Linux wasn't suitable as a real-time OS when the Hubble was designed, or really even when the Hubble got the 486 installed in 2009.
Why was VRTX chosen? Because of the embedded environment or because of real time needs?
If the decision was about embedded and real-time was not required, then Linux would be a viable solution today. Today, embedded Linux is a fine choice for non-real time needs.
If you already have a space station in Earth orbit, why do you need one in Lunar orbit too?
- Specialization and optimization, ie cost reduction, on each leg (up, across, down).
- Expansion, servicing flights to/from asteroids.
Why would you not seek to do your interplanetary burn direct from Earth orbit, like we have done with literally every single thing we've ever sent to Mars?
I would expect flights to mars to eventually be originating from both earth and the moon. Different missions, different needs. Plus the moon is also its own destination independent of mars.
Not being snarky, just wondering if there is some delta-V advantage to being higher up the well, but in a different (lesser) well.
I'm thinking payloads. Something mined/manufactured on the moon useful to mars. At least until we get good at mining asteroids.
Like you say, there are pros and cons, but unless the long term goal is colonization, the cost/benefit analysis tends to argue against manned missions.
I don't think colonization is the only justification. Sometimes the science will benefit too.
..the secret nazi moon base with space nazi's?
Spazis?
"South Korea's law actually requires Apple to re-verify someone's age annually."
So they're concerned that, as time passes, a devious person will... grow younger?
They probably want a current verified ID, with the current address and contact info that comes with that. Ie. Also 15, 18, and 21 years olds may be required to provide different levels of info.
KBJ has undergrad and JD degrees from Harvard, where she edited the Law Review, clerked for Breyer, and was a distinguished federal district and circuit court judge on the D.C. Circuit, the country's "second highest court." THAT'S who you're using as your example of an underqualified diversity hire?
Actually, academia and political appointments tend to work very different from NASA. So that's not quite an all other things being equal comparison.
Bahrain and Dubai
Given domestic production levels and an interruption of international deliveries from Amazon, Bacon and Liquor prices must be sky rocketing.
Spacecraft haven't flown to the moon though. You need air to fly.
NASA disagrees.
"For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts on a NASA mission are bound to fly around the Moon after successfully completing a key burn of Orion’s main engine."
https://www.nasa.gov/news-rele...
We need to increase the penalties
I think we first need to be sure that the lawyers actually paid the penalty themselves, and not passed it on to the client as some sort of expense. And if not passed on to the client, ensure that the penalty is not a business expense they can deduct.
Elliptic paraboloids for sale.
