If a dept in NASA is using a NASA facility the actual cost is zero to NASA though obviously accountants love all the internal dept budget costings but in reality they're meaningless.
Annual operating cost for the Deep Space Network is about $200 million to $215 million. So no, the actual cost to NASA is not zero.
How does MAVEN still cost 22mil a year when it actually only sends some data to antennas here which are also used for other satellites? Does it have a full dedicated crew of tens of people with a hefty salary, as I would suspect it be part of a crew of several ongoing missions. I have a feeling somebody is inflating their budget without any need.
If you had read TFA (yeah, I know), you'd know that serving as a comms relay for the rover is a background task for MAVEN. MAVEN launched in November 2013 and entered orbit around Mars in September 2014. The spacecraft’s primary science mission is to study the planet’s upper atmosphere and interactions with the solar wind, including how the atmosphere escapes into space. That is intended to help scientists understand how the planet changes from early in its history, when it had a much thicker atmosphere and was warm enough to support liquid water on its surface.
All the problems stem from the fact that FPTP encourages people to not 'waste their vote' and vote for a candidate that's more likely to win, rather than the candidate they like the most.
Most of the people I've talked to vote for the candidate they view as "the lesser of two evils". When I point out that they're still voting for evil, they tell me it's better than wasting their vote by voting for someone that has no chance of winning, or worse, not voting at all.
Personally, I think voting for anyone I consider unfit for office is a bigger waste than voting for a 3rd party candidate or not voting at all. Yes, I know - "People like you are why Trump won." Of course, I live in a state that hasn't been carried by a Republican since Reagan, so my "protest" is lost in the clutter. I would prefer to be offered a choice between (or better, among) qualified candidates whose differences revolve around policy. Fat chance, but I keep hoping.
Trump or Hillary? Hillary had two things going for her: it was "her turn"; and "I'm not Trump". Trump had two things: "I'm an asshole, like you!" and "Lock her up!" Enough assholes and Hillary haters turned out to elect Trump.
Trump or Biden? Biden had two thing going for him: "I've been doing this stuff for my entire adult life", and "I'm not Trump". Trump had one thing: "I'm an asshole, like you!" Not enough people hated Biden to keep him from winning despite a huge turnout of assholes who would spend the rest of their lives chanting "It was rigged!"
Trump or Harris? Neither of them could speak coherently for 60 seconds without a teleprompter. Harris had one thing going for her: "I'm not Trump". Trump had one thing: "I'm an asshole, like you!" So the people who thought Harris was even more incoherent than Trump teamed up with the assholes to elect him to his second term.
How come that philosophy applied to allergens resulted in a rise in peanut allergies, and now official guidance has reversed itself?
Exposure to allergens and exposure to "the brutal horrors of reality" do have something in common -- exposure at an early age reduces sensitivity. For allergens, that's a good thing. For overt brutality, perhaps not so great.
How come I was a significantly more depressed kid than my peers before phones were ensmartened?
Great question! Its almost as if there could be more than one source of depression in kids.
Hah - I'm holding out for the 16-fold Samsung, a Smartphone that I can open to an 80 inch Television. This 2 and 3-fold crap is for posers, and poor people. Wake up people - the cool kids are waiting until Samsung smartens up.
Why is it called trifold when it only has two folds?
Because that's what things with two folds are typically called. Go to Google Images and search for "tri-fold wallets".
A "literal antivirus monitoring system" should literally monitor antiviruses, shouldn't it? Ok, there's an alternative parse where it should monitor literal antiviruses. Either way, CO2 isn't an antivirus.
Thanks, Captain Pedantic. It was a hacker conference, so the use of "literal antivirus" was just a bit of computer related humor with respect to antivirus software. And as numerous slashdotters mentioned, CO2 levels are a fairly good proxy for airborne pathogens.
I use Directory Opus, and have done for 36 years.
Directory Opus for Windows was first released 24 years ago. Were you using it on Amiga before that?
Who uses Windows? I use Linux, and have done for 32 years, starting with Caldera Open Linux.
Meh. C3 was the last cool Vette and it didn't have AA.
I never had a Corvette (my one and only sport car was a '59 Porsche 356A cabriolet), but I always thought the '63 - '67 split window Stingrays looked the best.
gwher, you can always be relied upon to represent the lowest common denominator of condescending, mean-spirited human behavior. A silk purse among pigs' ears, a pearl among swine, a real prince among men - you never disappoint.
Forty two.
