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Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:22PM (#16731119)
correct, also extrapolating on bunch of equation systems is bound to lead to this sort math aberration
Re:Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:00PM (#16731026)
get this, at 22:52:28 UTC, the time to reentry is 1.6h +- 1.7h
Re:Falling Chinese Space Station to Crash This Weekend on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:44AM (#16727792)
woaw this .png is updated in real-time http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png

From 11:05 to 11:25 UTC the perigee dropped ~10km (165 to 153)

yep .. but not controlled (as parent implied) .. simply because there is so many variable and the mass is enormous. Standard model can't handle that. I'm just summing a section dedicated to that in Science & Vie [No 1175], august 2015.

We know how to start the process, but the disintegration of so many heavy part is intractable .. some part will touch ground, but we can't tell where with certainty.

Nice pdf.

edit: years

btw no one know how to deorbit ISS
What will emerge from that ground when not cooked every day by 200GW? Maybe one could grow stuff
Re:Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems on Friday March 09, 2018 @03:33PM (#16554755)
Priceless!

So, a real diamond of fake value is used to engrave fake value of real bitcoin .. or something ..

xkcd material!

Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:20PM (#16497683)
yeah and then is 田中 one or two things? It all depend on the domain. To me 'é' and 'ê' mean different thing that are both outside the make domain. In French you also have half white space (diacritic that latex can handle) for terminal '?!..' Those are simply outside make domain .. so bothering about space encoding as: ' ', '+', "%20" or '_' seem futile.

It all depend of domain convention. Make align on variable naming convention .. that is all

Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects on Thursday March 01, 2018 @01:09PM (#16494492)
>There is nothing beneath the Windows UI interface.

Yes there is .. Microsoft! For instance if you have a dir named "user" it will show up in your GUI as "User". In fact User, USER, user are all the same for you because MS transliterate on the fly. Did you know that you cannot access some directory because MS prevent it .. event with the 'dir' command from the DOS prompt .. only an 'ls' non-MS command can do that.

Re:FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident on Sunday February 25, 2018 @09:38AM (#16459130)
Read between the line. It's a UFO/Rat 55 [0] in the sense that commercial pilot see poor airmanship and calling it out. The same kind of poor seamanship from the Navy we saw last year.

[0]https://thedailyintrep.com/nt-43a-the-rat-55-a-very-unusual-...

Re:DARPA's “Unhackable” Computer on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:11PM (#16016136)
giggle at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1b6iPYj3YQ some 2 move at once
hypothetically, forget friction (air, tire,..), then all energy injected with the accelerator must be remove by the break. So converting fuel to kinetic energy is only half of the emission. Breaking must save that energy and electric car (bike, truck,..) could do that.

edit: hokkos beat me :|

Wifi ad hoc network (82) seem like good thing to have in an emergency. Searching around I found Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer in Android doc at

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/wifip...

replying to myself, −1 is 1111 1111 in 8-bit two's-complement integer
Wonder the rational for

  #define TRUE (-1)
  #define FALSE 0
instead of

  #define TRUE (1==1)
  #define FALSE !TRUE
edit: re-formatting