Re: welcome to China
Probably both
I've worked with Chinese PV manufacturers in the past and CNY is a big thing - shipping, production, everything crawls to a halt. They even sometimes close Shanghai harbour for dragon boat racing ffs.
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I'm somewhat saddened that I live in a society that throws out tonnes of food every day. And now this just gives people the choiceof eating more food that they don't need. At the very least, I hope they compost their organic slurry but that would be wishful thinking wouldn't it? :(
the composition of the asteroid is not stony, but metallic (andyman has a valid point here)? A sub 20 metre metallic asteroid (actually it would become a meteorite wouldn't it?) would still pack a wallop... provided that subsequent gravitational tugs on it's path by sun, earth, etc would put it on a collision course with Earth at some later stage.
...he would have lasted a good deal longer than 15 minutes...there is a story of a taoist monk who used to live in a cave and traipse down to the local village and give all of the local prostitutes a good seeing to before heading back up to the hills again, having nourished (but never emitted, mind you) his 'vital essence'.
I digress...but you get the idea :)
Er....no. 36 hours later, I was still thinking 'Thank God I don't have that heavy 15 inch laptop in my lap when all I wanted to do was to hit facebook and stream some music from a station in Australia.
Nice try, Mr Dell. But I haven't looked back since buying one.
Households dogs have been trained to smell prostate, lung and breast cancer from samples placed in front of them, and other tests have proven dogs can smell a chemical signature down to as low as parts per trillion...
So why do we need an e-nose, when a dog can be trained to do a better job, for far cheaper?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060106002944.htm
My point was the fact that if they have an issue during launch, or during the initial orbit insertion they would not have 11 days to send a rescue mission. You seem to imply that only heat tile damage etc (which would affect re-entry) is the only critical point in a mission...what happens if they are hit by a random object and are venting air just after insertion?
Your comment about 28.5 degrees also requires clarification...what angle are you referring to? To the ecliptic? To the Equator? To the polar axis??
I heard a similar story about 2 polish guys on a work site nipping off for up to an hour at a time...security tailed them and found them locked into a toilet cubicle together.
Upon opening the door however, they were found to be playing chess on top of the toilet...very odd.
Paris icon, as she's probably had fun with a vacum as well.
So the US government is concerned about the potential loss of life from a falling satellite but it doesn't stop them from dropping ordinance on civilians, allied troops, et al.
The pressure is on for them now to be able to hit their target, but if they miss they could always ask the Chinese to hit it for them, couldn't they? ;)
Paris icon, because only she would believe the BS story they've concocted...
I was in one of the food markets in Krabi no more than three months ago and I found a stall selling chicken satay for just over half the price of the other stalls. 'Bargain' I thought, as I was tucking in, only to discover that the meat was a lot darker and had a stronger flavour than usual. As I walked back near the stall, the guy behind the grill was smiling quite broadly at me, no doubt thinking of the profit margin he was making from getting the meat for free off the streets.
It was pretty tasty though. I went back and ordered another :)