Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Yes and no,

Many of the objects don't need observing at the same time - if we have Hubble data in the UV/Visible on file then observing it in the IR in the future with JWST.

The real mission for JWST is to observe things that are only IR. The early universe with stuff that is now redshifted to being IR, and are too faint for Hubble anyway.

There might be boring nearby, low energy, objects (like planets) that people might want to observe multi-wavelength at the same time, but nobody cares about a bunch of non-cosmologist stamp collectors

Yes, at least in the early days of Hubble in normal mode that I'm more familiar with.

The campaigns are planned well in advance in long cycles to minimize maneuvering, which wastes time and fuel, instrument changes, and to fit around all the constraints of a Hubble observation.

If the observation (or observer) is important enough it could bump somebody else out of a slot in the next cycle if the telescope is pointing in the right direction and the right instrument is online - this mostly happened if some country/group had lost some guaranteed time and politics was an issue.

I suspect that it is now in a degraded mode where things are more limited

Re: Yes, but can it give 110% like is expected in the workplace...

>I'm not sure what limits the life of JWST: it may be the cryogenics but I think it's the fuel.

It's fuel, there are no consumable cryogenics everything is cooled by fridges.

The limit is orbit keeping fuel. The orbit is far enough away that although it isn't absolutely stable you don't need to maintain a very precise position or boost the orbit.

I suspect it will have a much longer mission life than advertised, guessing that some smart scheduling algorithms will let you use much smaller movements / fuel burns and eek out the fuel.

Re: Yes, but can it give 110% like is expected in the workplace...

The Webb Space Telescope will exceed its ie hubble's capability

Re: ISS' swansong?

The Chinese station is small and wont be continually manned - so less than the USA/USSR were doing in the 70s.

The only point in having people in LEO is to learn how to have people in LEO, so not having any people currently there doesn't really cost you anything or give control to China. Not having a person continually on the peak of Everest doesn't take away your ability to climb Everest.

Continuing to support a LEO space station - initially intended to keep cold war rocket scientists gainfully employed when the cold war ended - as opposed to manned Mars mission seems short sighted.

Re: Solar Panel long-term performance

>The ISS is a good test environment for solar panels in a worst-case environment.

On the other hand

No snow,

No leaves,

No dust,

No pigeon shit,

No wind,

No footballs

Re: Waste of oxygen

>rather than admitting that they are too stupid/lazy to succeed.

That's the trouble with the poor, too lazy to get off their arses and get a $50Bn bailout for their "space" project

Re: There are two hard problems in Computer Science

But cock was the common use, Noah Webster and others deliberately went looking for non-naughty terms to keep American sensibilities decent

Re: Just shift the letters along...

It would be funnier to refer to the BNP as COQ....

If you are going to start imposing rigid gender rules on poultry the internet is going to have something to say.

Re: A clear case of English supremacists.

Whereas the alternative is a bunch of old men running around saying "non, you cannot say 'podcast' " you must wait 5 years until the next meeting of the secret society where we decide its gender.

Re: Bad names

And if you only know one tiny bit of it you use the singular

Re: Vin

el'reg - come for the dick jokes, stay for the ecclesiastical Latin puns

Re: There are two hard problems in Computer Science

Also the reason the treasonous colonials use faucet instead of cock for a tap

Re: For us Germans it is "WIX" or "wix.com"

Only Germans could become excited by Windows installer XML

Re: Vin

Was her name Gloria and was she sick?

Re: Nothing Fecking There

>A paper (or vellum) document, certified by accredited witnesses

Who gets to do the accrediting?

The UK court system, CERN's IT dept , the NEXT corporation shareholders?

In this case the signed by witnesses in a British lawyers office is reasonable but what about a Banksy style artist, working in Russia or China ? Would you accept a certificate from the CCP giving you ownership of an online video protesting the policing in Hong Kong

Re: Question

Of course the Australian koala is non-migratory

Re: Clothing?

I missunderstood the nature of a gender-reveal party

Re: Clothing?

Can they force you to wear clothes in the office ?

You get the planning permission to build the data center in 3 months, construction takes 6 months and it's ready in time for the ribbon cutting on all those new jobs just before the next election. The data center shuts 3 years later when the equipment is obsolete and somebody else offers a better tax deal.

Planning permission for the power station takes 10 years, it takes 5 years to build and 15 years to pay back the construction costs - even if the market for its power hadn't closed a decade earlier.

Re: So much for Moore's Law

Surely then the problem then is basing your data centers in a land known for the eloquence of its native people ? If the data centers were in say Yorkshire you would need much less power and bandwidth.

Re: Lucky Ireland

But without the tax arrangements and 'accomodating' regulatory bodies nobody would have their HQ in Ireland.

All Ireland needs to do is work out some legal arrangement where the HQ, tax and data protection remain in a brass plaque at a post office on Craggy Island while the actual servers are in a bit barn in Germany with decent connectivity and power.

Re: Reminds me of a server issue we had.

Well if you want to just give in and surrender to the machine

Re: But what about Brexit?

Well this deal wouldn't have been allowed by the Eu competition authority - but now free of their red tape we can have British infrastructure owned by the French

Re: we can use this modern asset

Your medical data is very much an asset.

It's valuable when I'm thinking of hiring you or selling you life insurance and once the NHS is privatised and sold to Kaiser/Cigna it will be very valuable in setting premiums and deciding who to cover.