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And survive. IIRC, another plane was designed to break the sound barrier and succeeded before Yeager. It disintegrated a few seconds latter.

What's BASPM?

But can we build something that will survive an airless, near absolute zero, highly irradiated environment for 40K years?

Just make sure you have a damn good computer. I tried flying an A-10C and got 10 fps in a shallow dive. I have an i7-3630QM quad core, GTX650M, and 8GB RAM.

Until the pilot throws a switch to override them. (Usually on military fighter aircraft. e.g. F/A-18, F-15, F-16, F-22, ect. Not your average run of the mill civilian aerobatic plane though.)

Almost the same here. Wound up doing it the VERY old fashioned way: shutdown -s in command.

At least they didn't throw out Alt+F4 and cmd.exe.

Where to begin? They're, there, and their used interchangeably. "I had AN drink." "I didn't use A apostrophe." "You did good" instead of "You did well." PERIODS. Add some periods to your half page long run on sentence. Interrogative sentences end with a question mark. (i.e. ?) That is just a few. I'm the son of an English major and my mom drilled these facts into my head.

IIRC, the SSMEs couldn't be restarted during flight.

Well, I'm p---ed off right about now. While scratching to reveal the online access code for one of my college textbooks, the paper tore and a SINGLE digit is illegible. This is why I prefer hard copies and hate electronic versions. I've never heard of an access code issue for a physical book. So, what do you prefer; hard copies or ebooks.

So for the last month and a half, the audio jack on my laptop has constantly broken its solder joints. I've disassembled my laptop at least three times and re-soldered the joints to the board. About two weeks after doing this, the joints break again. What am I doing wrong here?

I was up in the tower at Andrews AFB, once. That is where they store Air Force One. They said we were not allowed to photograph in a particular arc (looking towards Air Force One,) but everything else was fair game.

I assume you mean the "millennial problems." IIRC correctly, there were seven of them and one has since been solved. That is all i know, though. Edit: Who niinjaed whom?

I will likely be moderately terrified when I solo for my private pilot's license (especially since I'm with in the D.C. SFRA (read: D.C. airspace.)) As someone learning to fly myself, I can ABSOLUTELY ASSURE you that the plane has been inspected thoroughly both once a year and every 100 hours of flight time (assuming you live in the U.S., other countries may have different regulations.) If you live in the U.S, the pilots will have between 750 hours (ex-military pilots) to 1500 hours minimum and will be rated to fly solely by reference to their instruments (look up "IFR" for more info.) Flying, for me, is enjoyable. Just try and relax if your nervous. You may feel as is you are falling during certain points during the flight. This is nothing more than an annoyance in most cases (just keep your seat belt fastened.) Also, try and sit near a window if you can (either in front of or behind the wing so you have something to look at.) If you get motion sickness this WILL help a lot. Once you're airborne, breath a sigh of relief. The second most dangerous part of a flight (behind driving to the airport, of course ) is while the plane is taxiing. Around 90% of all plane crashes (which are still rare) occur on the tarmac. If you find yourself panicking as the plane rolls down the runway (or the helicopter lifts off if your flying in a helicopter for whatever reason,) just remember two things: 1. You are likely going to be nervous the first time you do anything, and 2. Its easy to imagine the worst case scenario happening to ourselves. You have a much better chance of hitting the lottery than getting in plane crash (and even then, you still have a good chance of survival.) Enjoy your flight.

I would like to know the EXACT herbs and dosages they gave you.

By definition, it is an UNIDENTIFIED flying object. I have no idea either,

I'll put 19, seeing my birthday is in a week.

1. possible, but not profitable 2. How do you plan to build them without melting your equipment on the surface 3. A good idea 4. A LOT of time and a LOT of money, but possible 5. Only for "Death Row" inmates. See #2. 6. Land: Yes. Walk for a few seconds. Return from: no (see #2) 7, 8, 9. No. See #2 10. We have a winner. The problem with Venus is that it is a physical Hell. I'm talking 800C surface temperatures. Nothing we have will last for long on that planet.

I have Celiac Disease (not a true allergy, but the effects are the same.) I know how you feel.

Why is it that I can't even start the plasma thrusters despite having a s--- load of batteries on my spacecraft? Sorry if its already been asked.

I lost power during Hurricanes Irene and Sandy for all of about two seconds.

I don't have a favorite so much as you throw A/C and a stick in it.

I'm currently finishing up my 1st of college. I took AP World History, U.S. History, Psychology, Macro/Microeconomics, and Human geography in high school. The APs are just like college finals, so you truly ARE preparing for college.

A sphere with approx. 10m thick lead walls covering 5m thick reinforced concrete walls. Shielding crew members from radiation is not that difficult. The challenge is getting said ship into orbit without breaking the bank.

I am trying to design a payload for a high powered rocket. I want the payload to take pressure, humidity, and temperature readings, then transmit the information back to my laptop in real time. The transmitter will be an XBee Pro 900 RPSMA. What I need help doing, though, is designing a minimalist microcontroller to take the data from the sensors and send it into the XBee for transmission. I want to design this from scratch, rather than use an Arduino in order to minimize weight. Anyone have any suggestions?