spapin

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by spapin 2y ago
There are few reasons: 1 - Engineers and leadership didn't think landing would work that well 2 - The culture at ESA and Arianespace is to NOT have any failures. So they don't have the liberty to launch rockets that spectacularly
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by spapin 7y ago
You probably didn't intend to sound so racist. You participated in the process and you discriminated based on race? You aren't Indian, yet you still got hired? What's your point?
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by spapin 8y ago
Many lines to do one things, or many things on one line, are what makes code hard to read. Not the number of letters.
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by spapin 9y ago
Do you think pharma companies that develop this are going: "we will develop an X-Ray machine, and only Americans will pay for it"? I would assume they try to get a profit anywhere they sell it. Which means $20 x-ray is a realistic
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by spapin 10y ago
Supply can go down. But don't forget that demand can also go down.Car manufacture isn't the only job that can be outsourced.
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by spapin 10y ago
It also seem likely that opening an office outside of the USA may become an interesting alternative. Then your wage and your job may be at risk. If impact to you is how you evaluate things, it would seem like there's room for worries.
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by spapin 10y ago
This year, China will have their maiden flight for 2 new rockets CZ-5, CZ-7. Launched a new space station: Tiangong2, is making steady progress in their space program. Russia is developing Angara-5, a new rocket that made its debut in 2014.
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by spapin 10y ago
There are two problems with using Falcon 9s as reusable missile. First: missiles needs to be always ready. They need to fire as soon as needed. A rocket like Falcon 9 uses liquid oxygen which cannot be stored for long period of time. Nowada
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by spapin 10y ago
Have you tried tweetdeck ( http://tweetdeck.twitter.com )? It allows to share an account without disclosing its password.
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by spapin 10y ago
One order follower bot retweeted one of my tweet for no reason. I think it is more how they advertise.
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by spapin 11y ago
One problem I find in fortran is that subroutines quickly have a lot of arguments. In this example, glint have 30ish. I have seen fortran subroutines in the aerospace industry with more than 100 arguments.
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by spapin 11y ago
Do you think the numbers given as example are just randomly choosen? 7 (ok sign) 8 (pointing finger) 11 (should have been 13?) 12 (peace sign) 25 (satan/metal hand sign) They missed 4 ( the finger) 17 (phone sign) Coincidence? I don&#
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by spapin 11y ago
Ahah yes when I worked in the space industry and something failed we had a good time.... wait we didn't. Bosses were angry and the responsibles were sacked.
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by spapin 11y ago
Make it twenty then, I am not picky.
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by spapin 11y ago
10 years ago, you would have to pay a photographer to develop the photos and go to a fucking post office, then your mom would wait a week to receive them.
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by spapin 11y ago
It should have been called Yourscraft