Dune. Dune is a science fiction series that reads like epic fantasy. Sparring royal families, chosen ones, telepathic abilities that might as well be magic wielded by what is essentially an order of witches. Even the story structure has a very “grand quest-y” sort of feel to it.
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There’s nearly a hundred launches a year so I imagine sites like io9 or gizmodo only cover the more notable ones - io9 covered the Orion flight test in December, but there’s usually no reason to cover another launch every few days (although other places cover all the launches, obviously). I was watching the Falcon…
“Anomalies can always occur on reentry that would alter the trajectory over land.”
You say that like parachutes are so much easier, which they’re not. You have to have a strong enough cord to withstand the intense jerk as it deploys, you have to have a strong and big enough parachute to slow the craft and remain intact. Remember, NASA is currently have issues with their giant parachutes they are…
Yes, that is an insurmountable challenge. Nowhere is remote enough.
No, you have it wrong. Simple and difficulty are not the same thing. It is simple to throw a ball, it is difficult to throw that ball at a high speed and hit a target 50 yards away, but that doesn’t make the concept any less simple; it just means the simple concept is difficult to execute.
“There are billions millions of dollars in losses and sometimes even lives.”
How would you intend NASA to spend that funding, though? NASA doesn’t build all its requirements in-house. It doesn’t build rockets. During Apollo over 80% of NASA funding went to contractors, and something like 20,000 different companies and universities were involved. So it’s not like you can point at something like…
“You know, there’s a term for doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. What was that word...”
Except that they are not doing the same thing over and over. They are doing iterations of similar things repeatedly refining technique and learning along the way.
Simpler meaning less systems. You’re taking the terms out of their engineering context. You’re treating simple as “easy” which isn’t the case since this project is paving new ground. In this case, powered landing is simpler than parachute landing because it uses stuff that’s already onboard the rocket rather than…
The system was designed for descent from scratch. Its really no more complicated than the controls already in place. The thing that makes it computationally more difficult is balance as the fuel levels lower due to thrust. If it comes down too fast at the end, it has to burn fuel at max to slow down. That reduces…
Most of the time the launch goes flawlessly. It’s the landing (a totally new thing that nobody has done) that they’re still working on. And to be fair, they’ve gotten really close to sticking the landing, and the last two times it failed, it was for different reasons.
Yeah, I think you’re saying, better than I could, what I was trying to say. I agree, absolutely, she did what needed to be done and I applaud her courage to do. I live in the south and I’m just tired of hearing people saying things like “this just proves black people are criminals” and the like from the scores of…
Well, I don’t really get how this feeds her opponents, though, any more than the lunch counter sit-ins, for example, fed those protesters’ opponents. I sort of understand what you’re getting at, here, but it seems like you’re hoping for some way for there to be social change without anyone’s getting riled up. That…
I’m still stunned that it is somehow okay to strip a group of people of their nationalistic identity.
Slavery is in the articles of secession. Some hillbillies here and there may have been conned into thinking they were fighting for autonomy, but they were wrong. They were fighting for the South to maintain its economic independence — entirely through slavery.
Hardly. The difference is that they’re using hyperbole for the sake of fun, while “religious nutters” actually believe what they are saying in a literal sense. World of difference there.
It isn’t. For one thing, the size of the crystal greatly impacts both how you taste it, and how it gets used in cooking. For another, impurities can also effect the taste, iodine actually pretty much borks the taste of salt up.
