Merrill

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by Merrill 7y ago
Scientific research is not the objective of higher volume space tourism as planned by Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and others. Virgin apparently sold over 700 tickets at $200K or more each for suborbital flights. Tourism to ISS is temporari
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by Merrill 7y ago
The early communications satellites were launched with Thor-Delta and Delta rockets. In general, communications satellites reached low earth orbit before manned spacecraft, and satellites where put into geosynchronous orbit before manned sp
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by Merrill 7y ago
It's a pastime in the same sense as having a 414 foot yacht. It provides personal amusement, and it is a great status signal. https://www.forbes.com/sites/billspringer/2019/09/04/microso...
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by Merrill 7y ago
Over the last 6 years, 29 people have gone into space or about 5 per year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_travelers_by_nam... Globally, babies are born at the rate of about 145 million per year. So at the
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by Merrill 7y ago
Looks like some of these proposals in the article are for hybrid systems with electric motor assist to the turboprop/fan during takeoff and landing so that the liquid fueled jet engine can be sized for the most efficient cruise at alti
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by Merrill 7y ago
In the US, college is very much about being taught - everyone following the professor's lectures through the syllabus step by step, with exercises, quizzes, and tests for course after course. It's my impression that in other count
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by Merrill 7y ago
I'm very fortunate to have her with me still. Brain capabilities probably vary as much as other phenotype characteristics. No one without the genes for it will be able to do a good still rings gymnastic routine. And at the other end of
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by Merrill 7y ago
"This is how the world works", is science. "This is what we can do about it", is engineering. "This is what we should do about it", is politics. It's OK for scientists to work on engineering problems or on
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by Merrill 7y ago
When a company does well it is usually because the mid-level management is effective. This article doesn't say much about the hiring, training and promotion of an effective mid-level management team, which are all key tasks that must b
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by Merrill 7y ago
Is this to compensate for the large number of Polish workers who have moved to other EU countries?
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by Merrill 7y ago
It is the result of a stroke. Small to moderate strokes can result in an array of fairly specific impairments. Congenital malformations could conceivably do the same, but likely brain plasticity at an early age can compensate for missing ti
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by Merrill 7y ago
My wife has anomic aphasia. She can reason and think OK, but she has difficulty in coming up with the words to express herself. In some cases circumlocution works. In other cases, twenty questions works. We also rely on our ability to finis
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by Merrill 7y ago
The effect of the 24x7 news flow is to cause "learned helplessness" in the masses. >"Learned helplessness occurs when an animal is repeatedly subjected to an aversive stimulus that it cannot escape. Eventually, the animal
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by Merrill 7y ago
A good strategy is to off-shore jobs in a function that is to be eliminated. When it comes time to close the operation down, there isn't as much mid-level management inside the company opposing the closure. It also minimizes community
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Urgent race for a reliable drone killer(asiatimes.com)
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by Merrill 7y ago
The thing that higher animals and humans can do is imagine alternative futures, predict consequences, and choose to act accordingly. This would probably meet some definition of consciousness. Classification, abstraction, language and logic
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by Merrill 7y ago
They need to establish minimum upper body strength qualifications, since MAX pilots have to be able to manually trim the horizontal stabilizer using the wheel and cable mechanical controls.
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by Merrill 7y ago
Drake drilled the well to secure a greater supply for the Seneca oil company. The drilling technology was not particularly revolutionary, since water wells and wells to pump salt brine had been previously drilled. The key technology was fra
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by Merrill 7y ago
So engineering colleges no longer tell incoming freshmen "look to your right, look to your left - only one of you three will be here four years from now"?
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by Merrill 7y ago
There are a few "have" universities in each case, and mostly "have not" universities, which is consistent with the direction AI is going, according to the NY Times article. Even then, the experimental aircraft at Caltech
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by Merrill 7y ago
It may be a sign that CS is becoming a mature field. Aeronautical Engineering doesn't build experimental aircraft. Chemical doesn't build experimental refineries. If you want to do those things you work for Lockheed, Boeing, Exxon
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by Merrill 7y ago
Does Wiley-Blackwell as publisher have any responsibility, or are they just a print shop?
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by Merrill 7y ago
It's doubtful that suicide was rare in pre-1950s Nunavut. More likely there is a problem with non-existent records or with definition of what constitutes suicide. In particular, when hunts failed and food was scarce, both infanticide a
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by Merrill 7y ago
The Chinese are also able to build high-speed rail systems, while the US is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail Also consider continued spending on projects to send men to orbit/Moon&#x2F
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by Merrill 7y ago
There appear to be 48 nuclear plants under construction. Most are in Eastern Europe and Asia. In North America and Western Europe the main activity is life extension and uprate projects. https://www.world-nuclear.org/informa
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by Merrill 7y ago
When you listen to official announcements by government leaders these days, you have to conclude that Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf was ahead of his time.
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The newly graduated BS-CS is going to be expected to work at least 40 hours/week, with two weeks vacation, and to study outside work hours to get up to speed with his co-workers. And his cousin, the apprentice electrician has been work
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by Merrill 7y ago
Quality of MOOCs varies a lot. The edX ones tend to be more like regular college courses if you are selective. Coursera and Udacity are more MOOC-specific courses. Even within edX, the quality varies a lot. The Harvard introductory course i
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The 4 years of college includes a lot of non-college time during summers, breaks, holiday vacations, etc. There is no reason why a serious student shouldn't be actively learning 50 weeks a year, minus holidays, and putting in the same
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by Merrill 7y ago
Proctor & Gamble was founded in Cincinnati near the slaughterhouses where tallow was readily available. William Proctor made candles and James Gamble made soap. https://news.pg.com/blog/procter-meets-gamble

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