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The circular plan is not new. It was tried before and revealed that it creates real problems of orientation. No matter where you are, it all looks the same. When next in Washington DC don't miss a visit to the Hirshhorn museum...
When it comes to the government properly assessing it's budget on any of it's programs, one should consider that when the Space Shuttle was being sold to congress it was pitched that it would only cost 7 million dollars per launch. In...
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Originally Posted by Shrike
No, no, no. Atmospheric pressure on Mars is 170x less than it is on Earth (at mean surface levels). It is very very thin. Wind and dust mean nothing at those pressures. The bigger risk is that dust...
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Wasn't too hard to launch from the Moon without a launchpad... Mars is only 1/2g as opposed to 1/6g, so the only difficulties to overcome are the symptoms of journey time (I think the new ion...
One amazing new band that I know no one has heard of is called 'The Lost Chorus'. They are based out of Southern California and they sound like a new version of U2.
Youtube clip of one of their new songs @...
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
That's why it's called the Megahertz MYTH.
True, but some myths (and/or sales terminology) are more influential on an industry than the actual facts of performance. I think the speed or the...
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Originally Posted by dobby
Sparc T3' have 16 core. More to come with the T4's in October this year.
I was referring more to Macs in particular since we had 1 ghz machines 10 years (2001) ago and 33 mhz ones 20 years ago (1991)....
I want to go back to a moon, but this time I think we should go to Phobos. Landing on a moon orbiting Mars is significantly easier and cheaper than trying to land by entering the Martian atmosphere and than trying to launch off that...
