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7 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: From... · 0 replies · +2 points

i'd cover parking if you don't mind playing tour guide.
It would be enlightening to hear you "Brain Dump"
on an exhibit.

7 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Ghos... · 0 replies · +2 points

The advantage of putting serious computing into spacecraft means they need less computing.
Each image can be compressed. The more computing power, the better the compression.

7 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Ghos... · 0 replies · +2 points

Isaac Asimov posited the concept of a Robot Psychologist.
Perhaps the future Dr Susan Calvin will have to work on that.

2001: A Space Oddysey posited that intelligent computers would need teachers/psychologists to make them
grow.

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: When... · 0 replies · -1 points

A small spacetug running Electric propulsion could Fetch these aging birds and lower the Apogee .

If the Apogee drops decently, you can probably let the atmosphere do the rest.

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: The ... · 2 replies · +1 points

well NRO has declassified the KH-7 imagery, and with a declass of the KH-9 spacecraft, i imagine much of the
KH-9 film will be declassed.

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Clos... · 0 replies · +2 points

I am sure for a large enough check, PWR would have been willing to do this.

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Clos... · 0 replies · +1 points

When the paperwork weighs as much as the aircraft, it's ready for revenue service.

That regime of analysis, is why air travel is so incredibly safe.

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Clos... · 0 replies · +1 points

The significant NASA and DARPA funding has done a lot for SpaceX.

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 0 replies · +3 points

" the woman who ran the group in the lab’s early years rejected any man who applied for computer jobs, seeing them as a “potential disruption” to a largely harmonious group of young women."

-- Today that would be a significant lawsuit.

9 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: A st... · 0 replies · +1 points

i figured it was going to be worse...
text has a hard way of capturing tone.

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