Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
They were probably spherical mirrors (like an individual small telescope mirror) these are each different parabolic shapes as if you had made one vast parabolic mirror and sliced it up. It is WAY harder to build even with modern CNC machines
It was first done in the early 90s at Keck but took years and a few technology breakthroughs to eventually figure the mirror correctly. And learning how to align it perfectly took more years.
So doing this in space and having it faultlessly unfold and align perfectly a million miles away is going to be sphincter clenching (assuming they ever finish building it)
>Politics getting in the way?
Ah the stories I could tell of Hubble.
When it was first launched the mirror problem gave the public impression was that it was totally fscked.
In fact it was just 10x better than anything on the ground, but not 100x better
So there was a plan to take some impressive pretty pictures of pretty objects to show the public.
These were taken by a European camera and so had the ESA logo as well as the NASA logo. But the ESA logo is square, so at the same width looked larger than the NASA logo. So the publication was blocked until an agreement could be reached about the relative areas of the two logos.....
25 years ago there was a design with a single 6.5m monolithic mirror.
It needed an Ariane5 with a special 'power bulge' nose cone.
But it was imperative that the launch be on an American rocket, hence the complex folding design. Then the cost got so high they needed european partners.....
>Economists for Free Trade (EFT), formerly known as Economists for Brexit, is a coalition of economists with strong ties to Brexiteer Conservative MPs
But surely that doesn't matter, economics is a science. Both the Nazis and the Soviet Academy are going to come up with the same answer to the same physics question.
Except the airline in country A is only going to let you board if they are sure you will be welcomed in the destination country B, so the best thing to show them is your passport for B.
So if you travelling between two countries you hold passports for - you are pretty much required to enter and leave on different passports.
Obviously this doesn't apply if a couple of dozen countries somehow got together and made some sort of agreement that you could travel freely...
Our wonderful PM introduced a law allowing deporting native born citizens if they had, or could obtain, some other nationality.
Obviously this would only be used for serious terrorist offences ... at first ....
But it was rather eyebrow-raising for a born again christian to introduce a law effectively allowing them to kick out all the Jews.
There was a case back in the 70s where the British Communist Party (note to Americans, as a monarchy without a constitution we allow political parties we disagree with) found a bug in their HQ and destroyed it.
While the government didn't admit they had planted the bug, and at the time didn't admit that MI5 existed, they were found guilty of the intention to destroy government property.
So if you believe that the government plants illegal GPS trackers and you destroy one you are guilty. However if you are a true patriot and believe that the US government would never violate the constitution then they can't be government property and presumably you are free to destroy them
They spent $115k on getting global publicity in such august journals as el'reg.
If they can manage to spin the response into "the security solution that made the worlds best hackers furious" and "that black hats tried to ban" ... they can probably convince a few CEOs to pay
But on balance they are probably just a wunch of bankers
>If any other politician can block people from their accounts, why not Trump?
Because he is using it to announce government policy.
Suppose he has another twitter feed that announces tariff increases, tax cuts, new bans on certain companies etc. a few days in advance - but this one is private, run by Trump and available for a mere $M donation.
He has already announced government economic statistics on his twitter ahead of official releases, so investors that follow his twitter feed have a theoretical advantage over any that don't (although possibly face higher mental health medical costs)
>What most folks don't appreciate is the economics of the situation.
Which is what Moore was originally talking about.
The most cost effective number of transistors/area scales as a power law - because although each smaller generation was more expensive, the cost increase was mostly linear but the number of transistors was area.
This hasn't necessarily been true for the last generation of process steps, 7nm may always be more expensive/transistor than 12nm - but if you want to pack more performance into a smaller package to fit in a phone or put a gazziillion CUDA cores on a GPU, you will pay for it.
Don't worry they will all get government grants to buy the best American technology
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