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by termain 11y ago
That aircraft is more properly called the 367-80, or "Dash 80". While it did serve as the prototype of the 707, its fuselage isn't as wide. The KC-135 tanker and its derivatives also derive directly from the Dash 80, rather t
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by termain 11y ago
I wonder if this had an impact on the AT&T backhaul that went wonky today.
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by termain 11y ago
Looks like someone is trying to bring about the Diamond Age.
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by termain 11y ago
Ah, ok. I can definitely understand your frustration since exoskeleton and aerodynamic efficiency don't generally mix.
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by termain 11y ago
Exoskeleton? You mean monocoque construction (aka load bearing skin)?
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by termain 11y ago
Medical malls, too, perhaps?
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by termain 11y ago
That's a good point. I was thinking along the lines of something that's essentially like reddit or HN, but had a field where you could add additional parent comment ids, so that the parent poster was notified of the reply.
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by termain 11y ago
I'd suggest directed acyclic graph comments, too, so that a comment can reply to more than one other comment. Potentially super nice, but I haven't seen anyone implement them yet.
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by termain 11y ago
It's how engineers talk in this context.
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by termain 11y ago
"IIRC all US government contractors have to be tested on hire" That must be a new -- post 2007 -- thing, then.
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by termain 11y ago
Is it the entire SF-86 database, including contractors? Or just government employees?
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by termain 11y ago
John Green states it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsFa_MJ0gBs
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by termain 11y ago
I can't speak for the rovers, but in my experience you start with the UTC time and the convert to a UT1 for space launches. We have to correct for the difference, which is called DUT1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by termain 11y ago
tbobborap1's channel on YouTube is a good start: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMQ5IpqQ9PoRKKJI2HkUxEw
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by termain 12y ago
Exhaust plume impingement.
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by termain 12y ago
"It is bittersweet for me, the opportunity lost to keep funding NASA at a reasonable level could have a lot of useful data in the 'bank' as it were, but by and large much of the stuff that makes what SpaceX does possible is r
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by termain 12y ago
Quite impressive senior project. I know CalPoly aerospace does well with interacting with the industry and NASA.
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by termain 12y ago
It's hard to get a sword into play against massed pikemen. And you want massed pikemen against the heavy cavalry of the period. Also swords expensive compared to spears.
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by termain 12y ago
Roughly: Redstone: Designer: Army Ballistic Missile Agency (Now Marshall Spaceflight Center) Manufacturer: Chrysler Atlas: Convair and its successor interests (General Dynamics, Lockheed, ULA) Saturn V: NASA Marshall, Boeing, North Am
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by termain 12y ago
"You don't use a generalised pointer-to-rocket-engine system because you aren't going to add more engines at runtime" Well, we might. Particularly if the vehicle you're modeling for a hardware in the loop sim isn&#x
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by termain 12y ago
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Thanks for the more succinct statement.
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by termain 12y ago
Perhaps because it's not counterintuitive? Staying warm in a cold environment must require the consumption of energy.
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by termain 12y ago
I have a pet theory about the older women part: they're a remnant of gender segregation. When teaching was one of the few professions available to women, the lack of competition from other lines of work made such teachers cheaper and m
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by termain 12y ago
Ignition is fantastic and I'm continuously surprised how unknown it is amongst the engine folk at MSFC.
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by termain 12y ago
I mean it's a necessity in that you need an elastic supply of labor to respond to the market forces that ostensibly drive a free market economy to meet the needs of its participants.
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by termain 12y ago
Unemployment is such a funny thing. In a free market economy, unemployment is a necessity but seems to be treated as a universal evil.
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by termain 12y ago
"Turing was decades ahead of the rest of us." That seems unfair to Alonzo Church.
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by termain 12y ago
Which part of Nokia? Networks, HERE or Technologies?
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by termain 12y ago
Baseball is more an illustrative example than an analogy. Consider http://www.pankin.com/markov/intro.htm
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by termain 12y ago
I believe so.

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