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Sean K - Sep 18, 2005 7:32:58 pm PDT #4554 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I'm still rooting for Bob Zubrin and the Mars First movement, but why goes to Mars cheap and easy when you can hand out bloated government contracts instead.


tommyrot - Sep 18, 2005 7:36:30 pm PDT #4555 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

At least humans on the moon in the twenty-teens sounds likely. I was too young to remember any of the moon landings except the last one. And the new "heavy lift" booster they're gonna use will be about as big as a Saturn V.

NASA is supposed to release info on the Moon timetable to the public tomorrow. They've already briefed the President and Congress.


Sean K - Sep 18, 2005 7:44:06 pm PDT #4556 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

And the new "heavy lift" booster they're gonna use will be about as big as a Saturn V.

Really? If I were to keel over tomorrow, one of my regrets would be having never seen a Saturn V go up. Something about its size would be an acceptable substitute.


tommyrot - Sep 18, 2005 7:54:53 pm PDT #4557 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

A two-month old article on NASA's new rockets (with a picture): [link]

The heavy lifter will be unmanned, and probably have a first stage of four shuttle-derived main engines plus two shuttle solid rocket boosters (except larger, with five segments instead of four). A smaller rocket with a shuttle SRB first state will be used to ferry astronauts into space.

eta: Details of NASA's plan to put astronauts on the moon by 2018: [link]


tommyrot - Sep 19, 2005 7:07:13 am PDT #4558 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh. How about that?

What does the 4 Meg flash drive in the Nano portend for the future of Apple's low-end computers (Mini and iBook)?

Flash Based Laptops, Sooner Than You Think

Back to the harddrive vs flash debate. I fully expect the low end of Apple’s products to become flash based in the near future. I also expect Intel’s new, low power mobile chips (code named Yonah I believe) to arrive in the same time frame. And in two years I have a feeling that Jobs will announce an Intel-flash iBook that will be the thinest laptop ever made boasting the best battery life of any current machine. And when that happens expect the industry to scramble just like it is doing now after the release of the nano.

Ooh, let's hope so. Can the flash iBook be black, like my Nano?

eta: re: the Nano - Apple has yet to reveal sales numbers, but

“Customers are basically doing back flips over this thing,” Gene Munster, senior research analyst with Piper Jaffray, told MacCentral. “People see the ads and they see it on the Web, but until they actually have one in there hand they just don’t get it.”

Munster contacted 20 Apple retail locations and found that all stores were sold out of the 4GB black iPod nano, some stores were sold out of the 4GB white models and none of the stores were sold out of the 2GB models.

FTR - I "got it" before I held a Nano. In fact, I didn't even see a Nano up close until I opened up my Nano box. OTOH, I have yet to do a backflip.

[link]


Jessica - Sep 19, 2005 7:34:26 am PDT #4559 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I can't do a backflip. Can I still have a Nano?


Jon B. - Sep 19, 2005 7:36:59 am PDT #4560 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

until they actually have one in there hand they just don’t get it.

Where hand?


Sean K - Sep 19, 2005 7:51:08 am PDT #4561 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

t points

There hand. There castle.


WindSparrow - Sep 19, 2005 8:10:27 am PDT #4562 of 10003
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Ok, let's start with, can I actually post?

Great. Next question: Does anyone else have problems with Panther (both Safari and Firefox) and LiveJournal? Every few days LJ pages change sizes, such that I have to scroll horizontally in order to read each line. Last time, Daniel fixed it by, I think, View Maximize Screen. Today, that trick sure worked for the horizontal problem. But then it would not allow me to scroll all the way to the bottom of an entry to post a comment.

Is this an LJ thing, or is it more likely that someone is screwing with my computer when I am not looking?


Steph L. - Sep 19, 2005 8:32:06 am PDT #4563 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

There hand. There castle.

Blucher!