Bad conditions could prevent them from landing but I doubt they'd make the launch depend on it.
They could learn a thing or two from trying a pinpoint splashdown in poor weather.
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- Sat Jul 26, 2014 5:42 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
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- Sat May 24, 2014 12:16 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Go Forth And Prosper
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6372
Re: Go Forth And Prosper
I'm not saying algebraic notation is not convenient, but just that it does not reflect the way any machine actually operates. True, but mainstream CPU architectures don't operate on a stack either but use a directly addressable register file. And they will try to execute multiple independent operat...
- Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:38 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
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- Views: 1341351
Re: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
1 m³ of water raised by 10m is 27.3Wh of stored energy, that's about an iPad battery. A few kWh of Li-ion batteries seem like a better option than a water tower.
Pumped hydro storage only makes sense where you have the potential for huge (and deep) natural reservoirs.
Pumped hydro storage only makes sense where you have the potential for huge (and deep) natural reservoirs.
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:49 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Latest drug addict loons.
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Re: Latest drug addict loons.
The WoD ought to have as its standard for success a net positive outcome for society. It doesn't meet that standard.
- Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: "Conservatives" adopt Progressive Principles
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4151
Re: "Conservatives" adopt Progressive Principles
Ah, the myth of "rational" people...
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:23 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Social Conservatism Is Dieing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5877
Re: Social Conservatism Is Dieing
And it's silly to argue that Human nature isn't the issue of relevance. Yeah, we know how humans do in different environments. We have the history, and we wrote it down. We can certainly learn lessons from history. Lesson one: The environment changes. We don't live like people did a few thousand ye...
- Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:41 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Social Conservatism Is Dieing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5877
Re: Social Conservatism Is Dieing
Social Conservatism always wins the long game, because it is an evolutionarily derived system of societal structure. It's based on long experience with what works. The one thing that survives in the long run is adaptability to a changing environment. Human nature changes at the speed of biological ...
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:49 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Social Conservatism Is Dieing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5877
Re: Social Conservatism Is Dieing
The one thing that survives in the long run is adaptability to a changing environment.Diogenes wrote:Social Conservatism always wins the long game, because it is an evolutionarily derived system of societal structure. It's based on long experience with what works.
- Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Why druggies don't work
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12016
Re: Why druggies don't work
I think that website is satire. Either that, or they're nuts. Maybe from cannabis? Who knows...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 2:21 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
- Replies: 86
- Views: 46390
Re: The Libertarians Are Coming
I'm saying the graphs are a poor starting point to find out. Incarceration rate is not crime rate (and even crime rate isn't equivalent to the number of lifetime criminals). A stacked area graph makes it difficult to properly see the magnitude and change of all but the bottom data series. And the wa...
- Wed Dec 11, 2013 5:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
- Replies: 86
- Views: 46390
Re: The Libertarians Are Coming
Yes, that's vague. There are plenty of children born outside marriage who don't commit crimes.Diogenes wrote:"Vague"? That bastard Children will grow up and commit crimes is a "vague" prediction?
If you wanted to show correlation your graphs are poorly chosen.
- Wed Dec 11, 2013 12:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Why druggies don't work
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12016
Re: Why druggies don't work
Maybe there should be a mandatory dose for politicians, then.
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:30 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
- Replies: 86
- Views: 46390
Re: The Libertarians Are Coming
The only way to test Atheism as a moral system [...] There is no such test because atheism is not a system of morality, in the same way theism isn't. There are various atheistic moral systems, just as there are theistic moral systems. Western atheists are mostly infused with Christian morality – So...
- Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:43 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
- Replies: 86
- Views: 46390
Re: The Libertarians Are Coming
You invoke "Precrime" because you are really stuck on favoring that "anything goes in the bedroom" opinion you have developed. It doesn't take a great powers of prognostication to realize that creating fatherless children is a recipe for social deconstruction. The problem with Libertarians is that ...
- Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Libertarians Are Coming
- Replies: 86
- Views: 46390
Re: The Libertarians Are Coming
Some people really like to use the word "Control" because it's loaded with their preconceived bias. I like to use the word "Defense" as in not letting people screw me over by their foolish or reckless behavior. Talking about words loaded with bias, the problem with that kind of "defense" which take...