
Not safe, don't forget the rest of the universe...
I'm sure other species on other planets round other stars have the same problem...
186 posts • joined 17 Dec 2010
This line is such crap:
"The coverage of each spacecraft is a narrow band around the whole world, meaning it faces global competition."
Starlink will face competition * because other companies want a slice of the action and nothing to do with the coverage of each of the thousands of satellites in the constellation. The coverage of each individual satellite is only relevant to the number of satellites needed.
* (somewhen - right now it faces none outside of a courtroom).
But, rant over, When Starlink comprised of V2 sats that don't need a local downlink will governments in the "free world" be able to stop customers using Starlink?
Hey, I had the exact same WTF moment on a multithreaded C compiler for DOS * in the 90s
The compiler would bug out with an error along the lines "you shouldn't see this error message", add back exactly 1 comment line and it would compile fine.
IIRC the compiler was from a one man band company, and yes up to a point did somehow give you multithreading on DOS but eventually enough unexplained crashes occurred that I refactored my code to be single threaded and then all was good.
I agree that is good scheme, In fact I used it when I was single.
However I think CookieMonster's 2 dishwashers both have zero storage capacity for crockery or cutlery. They are those old fashioned one at a time dishwashers.
I expect his/her dishwashers both have instead a good capacity for sweets and junk food.
On a fight from Southend to Jersey, before takeoff the Captain came on and said it was dicey they would be able to land at Jersey because it was foggy there and he would have fuel to fly back to Southend.
He also pointed out that while the airplane was a fully equipped with precision approach and autoland so it could land with zero visibility * Jersey airport did not have the required ground systems for that which seemed pretty daft as it seems fog is pretty common at Jersey airport.
The pilots made the landing on the 3rd (and last before fuel meant they would have to give up and fly back!) attempt. I had a window seat and damn we seemed pretty low when the ground became visible. They must have been using ILS until the very last bit.
* jeepers that must be weird/ scary for the pilots !
While I don't know about the 1st two or the 5th of your numbered points and they sound plausible I take issue with 3rd and 4th
3rd - it would not need all operators or planes to be fitted with the system - the airport would maintain all the old systems alongside the new just as they do now with the decades old ILS and the current precision approach systems, also right now not all airports or aircraft have precision landing systems and there are procedures to ensure the pilots know if and when they can use a precision landing system or have to use a Mk1 eyeball.
4th - it would not require the approval of all aircraft manufactures, just one - as above a precision landing system is optional - if there is demand from operators then it is a commercial decision for the manufacturer to make.
But I agree that the EU acted disgracefully over Galileo, but then the whole Brexit was (and still is) a predictable cluster fuck by both sides driven more by posturing, prejudice and hurt feelings than any considered desire for the best outcome. Fucking politicians.
It is not humanly possible to de=orbit anything by throwing it backwards, I can't be bothered to find it but Scott Manley has debunked this in one of his videos.
Page 20 of that PDF contradicts your words where it says the first 9 Falcon 9 flights:
"• Left in LEO to decay == This has been the case for Falcon 1 Flights 4 & 5 which remain in a nearly equatorial LEO to this day, as well as the first 5 Falcon 9 flights - of which COTS1
performed an unannounced upper stage restart boosting it into a 290x10,700km orbit &
CASSIOPE, which attempted a "sideways" upper stage restart which failed, stranding it in a
900km polar orbit. "
BTW I think that PDF comes across very disjointed and poorly put together which is surprising considering the author of the PDF is a Journalist and was an aerospace engineer. Perhaps he is past his best.:-(
"1,500,000km (930,000 miles) beyond Earth's orbit"
could confuse some that think of orbit as circling the planet whereas in this case the orbit referred to is the earth's orbit round the sun. *
though I think technically it will still be in orbit around earth just that the orbital period will be one year and so remain roughly inline with the sun and earth.
* that's what I did and was going to comment that it implies there is only orbit round earth and manged to understand the sentence just before making a fool of myself !!!
I'm typing this on my 4 year old OnePlus 5 and have to say until now I've been more than happy with it.
It still pisses all over my <1 yr old Samsung A50 work mobile in performance, battery life, charging speed and reliability.
It's been updated several times and is on Android 10 so support seems ok to me.
Why are there downvotes on this? It's polite, informative and sounds very reasonable.
If you downvote a post I think you should post a reply to refute the post too unless it's obvious like say, the post says the brontosaurus is not valid unit of measurement or claims the Flying Spaghetti Monster does not exist.
What utter bollocks!
"bring money into the US for it to be taxed and then sent out of the country again" this is TAX on profit not revenue why would it go back out of the country? they are retaining the money outside the US waiting to it slip it in when they have applied enough grease to your government to get a tax holiday so they can pay more of it to their rich shareholders.
"US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world" https://taxfoundation.org/publications/corporate-tax-rates-around-the-world/#Rates
There's many places higher, e.g. France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, India but don't let the truth get in the way of a good rant!
I would vae a large selection of clothes from the 80ies onward except I got married 13 years ago and SWMBO insisted I throw most of it away. Shame really, around now would probably be back in fashion! It was probably going out of fashion when I bought it - would have been nice to actually wear fashionable clothes! :-)
Says the person too chicken to put his name to his post. Oh the irony!
You think the simple servants responsible for most of the Brexit trade arrangements will be held responsible (you don't actually think Boris's bungling pals got involved with the details or will accept an iota of responsibility do you?)
"high resolution pictures of Pluto (for example) are .....non-pedestrian"
True but the legacy space industry (eg. Boeing) deciding not to bother developing booster recovery because it's too hard or they assume the customer will always be happy to pay to build a new one is shortsighted, arrogant and is now costing them SpaceX is eating their lunch/launch.
Maybe, but back then MicroShaft * even (allegedly) blackmailed PC makers into not selling PC without a Microsoft OS so effectively applying a Microsoft TAX onto the entire PC market.
That and other anticompetitive practices explains the hatred for Microsoft and lack of sympathy for your comment shown here.
* other hateophones are available.
Agriculture research! pull the other one - I know it's made from plants but wine is not agriculture. Someone realized they could make some cheap plonk worth a fortune by sending it to space and back!
Otherwise surely they would have drunk some of the wine in orbit - you know for science!
As that experiment has apparently still to be performed can I please offer myself as a volunteer to test a variety of alcoholic beverages in orbit. (but not Whiskey - horrible stuff!).
You remind me of something from a while ago.
My folks are lucky enough to live by a river and have a narrowboat, this was mostly used as a floating shed and study and the side door was open most days. Their cat used to like lying on the bunk in the boat and when getting off the boat used to leap up from the floor over the door sill and onto the bank.
They eventually got around to going on a boat trip and took the cat with them.... I've still got a picture of the horrified cat trying to stop and reverse direction in mid air like a cartoon cat when it discovered the bank no longer there.
Turns out cats can swim pretty well if they have to!
I'd like to see a world where the standard of living in the "other countries" levels up such that there is not enough to gain by outsourcing production to those places or any other.
That way you can have trade and all the benefits that brings without workers either losing jobs or getting exploited.
But that needs a level of education of the populace and honesty and expertise from the people in power that I don't see happening anytime soon.
Yep, I think in the UK at least if the Printer cost over £100 *, but the CC company don't have to recover the money for you, they are liable to refund you themselves. You can get your money back from the credit card company under Section 75 if you bought the printer with your credit card and you are not getting what you paid for...
The CC company can then decide to chase HP to get their money back if they choose too.
* mind you not many consumer level inkjets are over £100 are they?
@P .V. Jeltz (nice username, how is the poetry coming along)
A kettle is designed to run at a particular voltage, if a 120V kettle is to have the same power as a 240V kettle it must be designed to present a quarter the resistance and draw twice the current.
If you plug a kettle designed for 240V into 120V it will draw half the current and have a quarter of the power because P = I x V and your brew up will be delayed, if you plug a 120V kettle into 240 V please warn me first...
PS I've always wondered why we use "I" for current.
Unless you stand there watching your shiny iThing charging for however long it takes I don't see the benefit of an off switch on it on safety grounds.
OTOH I often wonder what standby power they consume - probably very very little but x a billion or so and it's probably a decent sized power station worth.
For many years the higher ups in big companies have used the concept of the legally responsible entity being the company to hide from the consequences of their actions.
So saying the company does not deserve to be in business is saying the company is responsible and while that may be right it's also ignoring that actually it's people that are responsible and should be made accountable. And the people that would be worst affected by the company failing would probably not be the people responsible.
One or two scapegoats will or have been found in Boeing but I bet a lot of the people that are responsible for MCASgate have escaped any reckoning.
We need new laws to make higher management personally responsible for the behavior of the company they run, that way they might take the "safety first" or "Your privacy is important to us" mantra as something more than marketing BS.
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