Posts by Vulch 484 posts • joined 28 May 2008
Elsewhere speculation is split between him having rejected proposals from Boeing for both Lunar Gateway resupply and the Lunar Lander and them leaning on people, or for having included the Blue Origin bid for the Lander and the Orange One getting upset because Bezos is so supportive of the White House occupant.
Strictly speaking it was Apollos 15 and 19 were the second batch of cancellations, with 16-18 being renumbered to become 15-17. In the original schedule Apollo 16 was going to be the first to carry an LRV so the less capable all-walking version of 15 was the one that got the chop.
IT Admins/support group concensus on tickets for VPN problems seems to be "Are you using wifi? Yes? Then I'm closing this ticket, open a new one if you're still having problems with a wired connection".
Lots of interference with everyone, their kids and their dog all trying to use wireless connections in multiple adjacent premises on a limied number of channels.
Falcon 9 launch in the early hours of the morning sent a comsat on its way to GEO. The first stage made its landng on Of Course I Still Love You, but both fairing catchers (first time two have tried, last launch they both set out but had to return to port because of weather) narrowly missed.
In the early 80s the computer centre of what's now University of Bangor was moving from its home in the old MANWEB maintenance base to a shiny new purpose based building with lots of equally shiny new kit. Commissioning started with the aircon being fired up for the first time which proved its effectiveness by coating everything with a fine layer of cement dust from the open bag that had been left in a duct by the builders. I'd graduated by then, but several friends landed summer holiday jobs cleaning it out again.
It's not exactly a micro-brewer running these experiments...
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Strictly speaking they don't have any complete suits in a particular size on the station. What they have is a number of space suit parts in different sizes that can be combined to produce the best fit for any given astronaut. It takes time to swap bits round, in particular to move the life support bits from one torso unit to another. In the previous spacewalk it was decided to change who would be going outside rather than spend the several crew days required to build the different sized suit.
I got myself an S7 Active for Ingressing in the rain after my S6 objected to a few damp 8-rolls. Has a tendency to zoom right in as raindrops hit and run down the screen but lets you finish the banner. Also has a 50% bigger battery giving you longer to find a suitable tree or shop awning to shelter undder while you try and persuade it the USB port is dry enough to use. Downside, only officially sold via AT&T in the states so grey import and the additional crap is less useable than usual.
40 years ago was the 80s, not the 60s! The current suits were designed alongside the Shuttle and although the design is that old, the actual items in use were manufactured more recently. There has been a need for new components for a while as the old ones wear out and are taken out of service, but not enough in the budget for everything needed.
According to the extradition treaty the USA can not bring additional charges once they've got hold of him, what's in the request is it. Additionally the UK will not extradite for capital crimes unless a guarantee is made that the death penalty will not be invoked. Yes, the USA could ignore both of those conditions, provided they are willing to never have an extradition request go through again.
Appoint Chris Grayling as Minister for Disposing of Nuclear Submarines and we should be able to get through all of them before anyone spots the pattern.
Mind you, half of them would probably miss the Russian ships, and the US Navy, French Navy (we tried once with them already, score draw) and Isle of Wight might spot it...
With that being the 35th landing and the 69th Falcon 9 launch, it has now reached the point of more than half the launches have had the first stage land again.
There are two Heavy launches planned for the imminent future, the first one for Arabsat 6A is due to be the next flight from LC-39A so needs the base of the TEL to be reconfigured. The second is a test flight for the US Air Force expected to fly 6 to 8 weeks after the first using the same set of three first stage cores.
It's not relevant to Ingress because it doesn't have critters spawning randomly around the area, and being on private residential property is already a no-no for new portals and grounds for swift removal of any remaining legacy portals. As far as I'm aware, no-one outside Niantic has any idea of how the Potter games mechanics will work.
I always tried to have two copies of the manual. One stayed in the house so I could have a quick read through before I started and the other was the garage copy that got covered in oil and eventually disintegrated. I think I got through 4 copies of the Morris Minor guide over the years...
It was something like four slightly larger satellites deployed from the second stage, then three dispensers with a varying number on each separated. The three dispensers then released thier satellites over the next half hour or so. Because of the orbit the various separations were out of range of ground stations so no video.
NASA may have been pushed into the inspections according to a tweet from Eric Berger last week.
You need to watch the address bus width. The ARM processors used by Acorn, including the StrongARM, used 27 bits (I think, getting on for 20 years since I left Acorn) of the notional 32. More recent versions use the whole 32 and I think RISC OS 4 and 5 are intended for the full width architecture. It may or may not be possible to build for the older architecture.
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