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Re:Your next conference should have real-time captioning
on Sunday June 01, 2014 @02:15PM (#7830083)
80% accuracy is unacceptable for a deaf or hearing impaired person to use. It really needs to be 95-98% or so for a good understanding of the entire thing.
Re:Every Space Mission Ever Flown On One Map
on Monday December 23, 2013 @10:10PM (#6958025)
http://www.braeunig.us/apollo/apollo11-TLI.htm
Not exactly complete, but an interesting look at how they avoided the Van Allen belts.
Re:SteamOS: It's here
on Friday December 13, 2013 @10:53PM (#6904511)
The 1TB one is due to the way Clonezilla images work, it expects a drive with at least 1TB capacity to mirror the image back.
Re:SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High
on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @07:53PM (#5598726)
I decided to fact check you. 57,285 U.S. gallons in a fully loaded 747. Jet-A is 6.84 lb/US gal. That's about 196 tons. Looks like stage 1 of the Falcon 9 is estimated to use 239 tons of RP-1 and stage 2 49 tons.
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/747family/pf/pf_400_...