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by Arjuna 14y ago
Preliminary (i.e., non-record certified) telemetry: Exit altitude: 128,100 ft 39,045 m Free-fall time: 4m:20s Free-fall distance: 119,846 ft 36,529 m Maximum velocity: 373 m/s 1,342.8 km/h 833.9 mph Mach 1
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by Arjuna 14y ago
For those that are curious, the stream is being narrated by Robert Hager [1][2]. [1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3688609/ns/nbcnightlynews/t/robe... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hager
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"It's about time a major player got behind Linux [...]" What about id Software? They have a long-standing history of support for the platform, including John Carmack's philosophy and advocation of OSS that has driven his contribution of i
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"But for anyone in the occupation of creating things, it's hell to end up in a calendared life that's completely interrupt driven." PG wrote about this in an essay entitled, "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule." [1] You may have read it
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"My understanding is that it costs @$3000 USD in order to have the "privilege" of taking European Delivery of a Porsche." As of February 2012, the Porsche European Delivery Program is available at no additional charge (italic emphasis is
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Interesting comments on Mac and Linux platforms [1]: "Other interesting sort of PC-ish platforms, we have... the Mac still remains a viable platform for us. The Mac has never required any charity from id, all of those ports have carried th
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by Arjuna 14y ago
To add to the discussion... the location of a piano has a large impact on its ability to maintain its tune. For example, humidity plays a major role with impacting the soundboard, as well as all of the various wooden components of the piano
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by Arjuna 14y ago
Here is the press release with further information, video and images: http://www.uni-kiel.de/aktuell/pm/2012/2012-212-aerographit-... Interesting potential for batteries (quoted from above link): "Due to its unique material characteristi
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by Arjuna 14y ago
Worth noting here regarding the patent issue with Creative. John Carmack said [1]: "The patent [2] situation well and truly sucks. We were prepared to use a two-pass algorithm that gave equivalent results at a speed hit, but we negotiated
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by Arjuna 14y ago
Thanks for the info. You will definitely be interested in this part of John's interview, where he discusses depth and how he approached the problem. It starts at around 9:20 and ends at around 11:25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYa8kir
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by Arjuna 14y ago
Nice interview with John demoing and discussing his work: "So the way this has gone, is, I decided to treat myself after Rage on there, I bought a, you know, a head mount for $1,500 or so. It's a little cottage industry, there's a few plac
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John Aaron's "SCE to AUX" Call Saved Apollo 12 From Mission Abort(youtube.com)
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by Arjuna 14y ago
Some nice images of Dragon that were recently released: Dragon floating after splashdown: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5grpUD0qI... Dragon sitting on-board the recovery vessel: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/sl
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SpaceX Dragon Parachute Deployment And Splashdown Video(youtube.com)
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"Makes me wonder: what system was in place in the time of the Apollo missions for determining the exact location of a reentering spacecraft?" The system was called the Apollo Unified S-Band System. For further reading, this document des
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by Arjuna 14y ago
"I wouldn't be surprised if the US government considered recovering the space craft and crew to be an issue of national security." To add to your point, with regard to Apollo 11, both ships and aircraft (Boeing EC-135) played a critical m
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Dragon Splashdown Coordinates: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=27.0N,+120.0W+%28Dragon+Splas...
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"And speaking statistically, research shows that parents are no more happy than are those who are not parents." "Contrary to recent scholarship and popular belief, parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning in life than pe
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by Arjuna 14y ago
"The enthusiasm shown for this accomplishment on Hacker News is borderline ridiculous." Some thoughts: 1. We all want to live in a world where dreams become reality. I think a lot of us are passionate at this moment in time because we are
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by Arjuna 14y ago
I mentioned this yesterday, but I believe Reisman's quote really captures that feeling we are all having about SpaceX and particularly their first ISS mission: Pelley: "You know, I'm curious... you have so much background in engineering, y
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by Arjuna 14y ago
In a 60 Minutes interview [1], Scott Pelley [2] asked Garrett Reisman [3]: Pelley : "You know, I'm curious... you have so much background in engineering, you could have easily gotten a job at Boeing, or at Lockheed, but you came here..."
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by Arjuna 14y ago
"Can you give some numbers for some of the "vast" cost difference we're talking about (even if they're ballpark figures)?" "Q. How much does it cost to launch a Space Shuttle? A. The average cost to launch a Space Shuttle is about $450 mi
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by Arjuna 14y ago
In addition to what you have already noted, I found this sentence interesting: "The Option shall also vest with respect to businesses other than my Business if I enter into a binding agreement with a shark regarding such other businesses d
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by Arjuna 15y ago
"Do you know of any guides to do this? Are you aware of any free software to convert the image data into a usable stream of random data?" Look into LavaRnd [1][2][3][4]. [1] What is LavaRnd? http://www.lavarnd.org/what/index.html [2]
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by Arjuna 15y ago
"90 days of polyphasic sleep:" Thank you for the link. Actually, Steve continued to maintain his polyphasic sleep schedule for a total of 5.5 months, not 90 days [1]. It appears that he simply did not update his sleep log entries very fre
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Clear View Screen(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Arjuna 15y ago
If you are interested in Porsche and auto-manufacturing, then you will enjoy this episode of National Geographic Channel's Ultimate Factories [1] that features the manufacturing of the Porsche 911 GT3 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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A Hard Landing(cbsnews.com)
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Karateka Fan Letter From John Romero (1985)(jordanmechner.com)
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by Arjuna 15y ago
Great quote. Speaking of quotes, I like the following quote (or really, quoted section) from Dr. Feynman's lecture entitled, "Probability and Uncertainty - The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature." [1] In this lecture, he describes the double

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