Re: Closing down sale?
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Are you Falcon sure, Elon? Musk vows Big Rocket will go up 2019
Hypersonic nukes! Nuclear-powered drone subs! Putin unwraps his new (propaganda) toys
Chilly willies: Swedish nudie nightclub opens in -11°C to disgust of locals
NSA boss: Trump won't pull trigger for Russia election hack retaliation
Who wanted a future in which AI can copy your voice and say things you never uttered? Who?!
Mueller bombshell: 13 Russian 'troll factory' staffers charged with allegedly meddling in US presidential election
MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF CARS: SpaceX parks a Tesla in orbit (just don't mention the barge)
Wednesday 7th February 2018 08:52 GMT
Re: Can't sell it, the battery's old and tired.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget
“To get to the sun, it is actually not necessary to use a Δv of 24 km/s. One can use 8.8 km/s to go very far away from the sun, then use a negligible Δv to bring the angular momentum to zero, and then fall into the sun.”
No-one said it had to -remain- at the sun, just had to get there.
What a Hancock-up: MP's social network app is a privacy disaster
Peak smartphone? iPhone X flunks 'supercycle' hopes
Russia could chop vital undersea web cables, warns Brit military chief
'DJI Mavic' drone seen menacing London City airliner after takeoff
Leicestershire teen admits attempting to hack director of the CIA
Has President Trump’s executive order on 'Public Safety' killed off Privacy Shield?
Don't worry, America: Elon Musk says he'll have a word with Trump
CBI: Brexit Britain needs a 'sensible and flexible' immigration programme
Why Theresa May’s hard Brexit might be softer than you think
Elon burning to get Falcon back on the launchpad
India to Russia: 'Sod you, Vlad, we're going to the moon ALONE'
Sunday 15th January 2017 12:15 GMT
Positive Karma
India was moaned at when they started launching satellites, complaints being that they ought to be spending on roads and education. But it turned out that for such a huge land-area, satellites enabled remote comms e.g. for education much more cheaply (and quickly).
As regards their moon-goal, it's an effective way of demonstrating that their hi-tech is world-class. At international conferences on alternative space shuttle designs (in 90's I think), an industry leader confided: ~"none of these countries ever intends to build a shuttle, it's just a way of advertising their aerospace capability in general, hoping instead for lots of lucrative aircraft work". Shame - everyone loved the "Dan Dare" -esque German design, "Sanger".
More generally, a successful space involvement - as India has previously demonstrated (e.g. the first nation to place a probe in Mars orbit at their first attempt) - does no harm a country's brand/image regarding technology in general. Leading to more trade - that could be used to alleviate those negative points of brand/image/peoples-lives. Along with all that Brexit bounty they're no doubt looking forward to.
As a space enthusiast, I just hope they do achieve their lunar ambitions - we've barely explored our largest natural satellite. Oh look, I inadvertently said "we" - that'll be the humanity-unifying thing. A commodity in decline on Earth...
'Govt will not pass laws to ban encryption' – Baroness Shields
Microsoft now awfully pushy with Windows 10 on Win 7, 8 PCs – Reg readers hit back
Friday 16th October 2015 09:54 GMT
Re: Seriously Misjudged the Mood
Like the FCPX fiasco?
Re "...how Apple change things. Basically they don't" :-
Apple suddenly EOL'd FCP7 while it was a broadcasting industry standard, driving most existing users to rival video editing systems from Avid and Adobe. Their replacement product FCPX was half-baked at that time, lacking vital features, and not backwards compatible, but Apple didn't care. FCPX is great now, at least for freelancers, but boy what a hiccough (stupid English spelling...).
We tried using Windows 10 for real work and ... oh, the horror
UFOs in the '50s skies? CIA admits: 'IT WAS US'
Monday 5th January 2015 11:27 GMT
Stats Contradict CIA !!!
(Dunno, I wasn't there, but...)
From [http://www.theufochronicles.com/2015/01/ex-navy-scientist-slams-cia-ufo-claims.html]
as of 2015-01-05 ~11:00
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The CIA claims (of a ‘tremendous’ increase in reports of UFOs when the U2 spy plane started flying) are wrong according to former US Navy optical physicist, Dr Bruce Maccabee, who says the numbers of sightings per month received by the USAF’s Project Blue Book totally contradict the CIA claim.
The number of sighting reports in July, before the U2 started flying, was 63. In August, when U2 test flights began, the number was 68, an increase of only 5 or about 8%. Then, in September, there was a decrease to 57 reports, a drop of almost 20%, even though the U2 continued to fly. Averaged over a longer time the statistics show little or no impact of the U2 flights on sighting rate.
In his book, "The FBI CIA UFO Connection" published last September, Dr. Maccabee shows that the number of UFO sightings reports for 10 months preceding the first U2 flights is the same as the number of reports collected during the ten months following the first flight.
‘These statistics clearly do not support the claim of a ‘tremendous’ increase in UFO reports when the U2 began flying,’ Dr Maccabee said.
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