As expected, Tuesday is turning out to be a busy day for NASA: two American astronauts are investigating a cranky rotary joint at the International Space Station while NASA engineers run a test on shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A to pinpoint what's behind faulty fuel sensors. Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Dan Tani are currently finishing the 100th spacewalk conducted in the history of the assembly of the station. The astronauts are peeking inside all 2... lire la suite
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After experiencing a little trouble early on with the robotic arm on the Phoenix lander, it appears that all systems are go for NASA to begin sampling Martian dirt. A practice scoop was carried out successfully and scientists noted that "a bright material appears in the scooped-up soil and in the hole from which it came"—which could mean the presence of ice or salt, according to experts.
As expected, Tuesday is turning out to be a busy day for NASA: two American astronauts are investigating a cranky rotary joint at the International Space Station while NASA engineers run a test on shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A to pinpoint what's behind faulty fuel sensors.
From NASA Science News h/t to John-X Spotless Sun: is the Blankest Year of the Space Age Sept. Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the “blankest year” of the Space Age. As of Sept. the sun had been blank, i. e. had no visible sunspots, on 200 days of the year.
Speaking with Variety about their recent deal to produce an animated film based on EA's upcoming Dead Space, Starz Media's Scott Greenberg has explained how they'll be going about making a story out of a game that's not even out yet. Step 1, they're making it a prequel, and the game will pick up exactly from where the cartoon leaves off.
AP - NASA fueled space shuttle Discovery on Saturday for a late afternoon launch to the international space station.
Magnetic fields are invisible, at least usually. But Scientists from NASA's Space Sciences Laboratory have made them visible as "animated photographs," using sound-controlled CGI and 3D compositing. It makes the fields, as explained by the scientists, dance in an absolutely gorgeous movie called Magnetic Movie.
You might want to stay inside today, folks, because there's some space junk the size of a Buick set to reenter Earth's atmosphere and land, well, somewhere later today. After the spectacular disintegration of the Jules Vern earlier this year, this is the second time our earthbound space agencies have purposefully burned something up in the atmosphere.
A l'occasion de la NASA Next Generation Exploration Conference au NASA Ames Space Center, deux jeunes employés de l'agence spatiale américaine ont présenté leur travail sur la vision des jeunes de la "Génération Y" sur la NASA. Cette "Génération Y" r .
Jusqu'a présent, quelque 300 planètes hors de notre système solaire ont été découvertes en orbite autour d'autres étoiles depuis 1995, en utilisant des mesures indirectes. Mais, leur faible masse relative et leur orbite distante ont toujours rendu difficile leur détection avec des techniques standard, qui consistent a mesurer le petit voile qu'elles induisent en passant devant leur étoile.
Asia PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images The landslide victory by Taiwan's Kuomintang party will likely herald a calmer relationship between Taipei and Beijing. Accepting responsibility for the defeat, Chen Shui-bian (shown bowing at right) resigned as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party.
Previous posts have talked a bit about PictureServices. Now I'd like to run through what it took to bring PictureServices to the BizTalk Services. I've talked a bit in other posts about BizTalk Services, but it has some interesting and very useful messaging features. For starters, BizTalk Services has an endpoint that can do HTTP transforms on messages.
This post will be about code formatting and maybe some reasons for the formatting decisions developers make. Actual code that got me thinking used an if statement, but below I used 2 for loops because its easier to spot what can go wrong: for (int i = 0; i < 10; i ++) for (int j = 0;
OK, you've heard of TDD and BDD, but have you heard of SFD? SFD stands for Simple-First Development. It's a principle that we're driving on as we move forward in our " Prism" Composite WPF) project. Essentially it means that when we attempt to solve any problem, let's start with focusing on the easiest path that addresses the most common cases rather than over-complexifying the simple cases in order to handle the edge cases.
Often times I will be debugging some code and I want to see a return value of a function; but the value of the function is not saved into a variable for one reason or another. In the simplest form you can see this scenario in the following code: using System; Collections. Generic;
Exception based logic is one of those things that actually makes me cringe when I see it. Often times it is really easy to avoid like in the case below. Believe it or not, exceptions in . NET aren't cheap and shouldn't be taken for granted. Exception Based Logic: ms Try Function Based Logic:
Lazy loading in properties is very common. It is a relativity simple concept of only loading the data you once you actually need it, instead of front loading it all. Though the problem with doing this all over the place is that you end up copying and pasting code a lot to do it. And we all know how much copying and pasting code can lead to bugs and convoluted code.
There are 2 types main types of render blocks. On one hand there are style render blocks that are the more general type and allow the coder to print out directly to the html. One thing that was confusing to me, someone who had experience with php before asp. net, was that they don't actually run in the same phases of execution.
Sometimes you might run into a case where you want to know the type of an object you are dealing with. When someone first faces this situation they find two ways to solve this problem. They can use GetType() or they can use the 'is' keyword. At first glance it seem like they do the same thing, but they don't.