Uranus is always the butt of planetary jokes.
Neptune though never seems to get much of a look in so a dedicated probe to Neptune would be interesting.
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This is beginning to look like the 'Volkswagen effect'
To save time and money while getting around legislation and maintaining a competitive edge they have taken short cuts without thinking the whole thing through or possibly without caring enough.
Being the biggest kid on the American block and too big to fail, helps to engender that kind of attitude.
I wonder if this goes to criminal charges, if the company will have an engineering patsy ready to fo some bird while the executives still get their bonuses?
It may be that gravity which is an enemy to parts of female anatomy on Earth is virtually non existent in orbit, so the need to 'lift and separate' is replaced by the need to ' support and restrain.
In my defence, this suggestion is a result of consultation with my wife who has a more intimate understanding of the potential issues.
Maybe I'm stupid but I don't see how this is valid for battery development. I can see how it could be useful for deciding which battery may be good for a given application or price range but for development of a new battery how can just statistics of existing types be enough to predict performance without investigating the physics and chemistry going on within a new battery model?
I suspect a lot of the absurd prices paid for many of the dot com takeovers are as much vanity as corporate business acumen.
' I've got the money and I want it' kind of thing.
How many emerging tech companies that were not even that wel established have been snapped up for ridiculous sums of money?
Facebook is the cockroach of the internet, needs treading on but then you will have a mess on the sole of your shoe. There is also the saying that if you tread on a
cockroach it will release hundreds of eggs that will become little cockroaches do I guess Faecebook needs incineration.
Aren't these modern buzzwords and phrases just great?
Translated, ' rich and granular' means all of your data down to the tiniest detail, warts and all. Think what a marvellous contribution you will be making to healthcare/drug marketing/health insurance/richer better targeted advertising direct to you etc.
I think a lot of you underestimate preceding generations. Being a retired farty I can tell you that few of my generation haven't tried the occasional blast back int the '60s. Also back in the '60s at a party that my dad (who was a cool dude) was attending with me and a lot of my mates, someone was skinning up , glanced at my dad and said ' you don't mind do you?. The old man replied ' I was rolling those in the Western Desert in the 1940s, I don't think I'll be shocked.
One of the aunts of my girlfriend at the time was a coke snorting flapper in the roaring twenties so turning on is nothing new.
@AC. It is not evasion or avoidance if she is being taxed wrongfully by an organisation that either doesn't comply with or understand it's own rules.
She has a services company that undoubtedly pays it's legally required taxes based on declared income and audited accounts. So don't cut people off with 'Fuck off before yo start' if you are speaking via an anterior sphincter.
My father passed away at the age of 92 three years ago. The bank, hospital, social services were all appalled that he had no access to the internet. When he would tell them he had no intention of buying a pc or learning how tuse one they would roll their eyes and say surely a family member or neighbour could helpyou learn.Nobody listening t what he wanted only interested in what they wanted. So stuff the UC online government should be for the people not the other way round.
It looks as though penny pinching may be to blame on the part of Boeing. While minor upgrades to a model may be okay with only the issue of a bulletin, changing the engine type and altering the aerodynamics and flight characteristics should always require new type approval and relevant training. Also in this case it seems as though instrument redundancy has also been left out to save money. Boing should be held to account along with whoever allowed them to get away with taking shortcuts, whether it is the FAA or pressure from the administration.
If you modify an existing model of aircraft such that the modification alters the flight characteristics significantly, then the new model should undergo new C of A testing and flight training. Clearly Boeing used their muscle and political clout to avoid that. Also interesting that a manufacturer insists that 80% of accidents are human/pilot error; ' it's not our planes, oh no!'.