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They really are. You don't even need glue to put them together (though some parts will fall off easily if not). But in terms of reward for effort they can't really be beat.
The "asteroid belt" is unimaginably sparsely populated. Nothing like you see in Star Wars with spaceships dodging and weaving around dense fields of rocks. Asteroids are separated by a million kilometers. The chance of hitting anything at all on a random trajectory is extremely low, on the order of one in a million.
Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back did some horrible things to a lot of people's conceptions about asteroid belts.
The asteroid belt is so unbelievably sparse, you would never even know you are flying through it. Absolutely no concern was given to the prospect of a collision.
To give you some perspective, as a test they flew one of the pioneer spacecraft through the rings of saturn, even the rings of saturn are so sparse that the spacecraft flew through completely untouched.
While I get your point, this surely isn't true though, right?
Absolutely no concern was given to the prospect of a collision.
Doesn't NASA have to constantly deal with and prepare for one-in-a-million chance scenarios? It seems reasonable to have a collision detector and "auto-route-arounder" that help here (among many other scenarios).
It might be more accurate to say that thought has been given to the prospect of a "generic" collision with a space object, but that no thought was spared for asteroids in the asteroid belt in particular. Twice nearly nothing per cubic megameter is still nearly nothing.
They're really not that close together. If you were flying through space, you'd have a fairly difficult time determining that you were in an asteroid field when you reached one. Albeit some asteroids do travel in 'families.'
Dr. Marc D. Rayman on the Dawn Project:
Dawn will travel 7.7 astronomical units (AU), or nearly 1.2 billion kilometers (almost 720 million miles), to its July 2011 rendezvous with Vesta. Yet in all that time, and across all that distance, the closest the probe will come to a catalogued asteroid is 1.0 million kilometers (greater than 600 thousand miles), or more than 2.5 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
It had a gyroscope that would rotate it to measure magnetic effects in a 360 range, but I believe it was disabled years ago. As far as I know, it's not being controlled. If it was ever manually controlled, the fuel would likely have run out decades ago. Either it got lucky or the engineers ran the calculations to find a clear path.
It already is. There are numerous rules of the patent system that were specifically put in there to prevent people from patenting vague, broad, obvious inventions. Sadly, no one upholds that part.
I'm thinking there's a distinct lack of computer-knowledgeable people (coders, hackers, engineers) approving the patents at USPTO. So many of these patents are of the type where any two-bit code monkey would think of the exact same solution given the circumstances.
These patents just reek of an ignorant bureaucratic type rubber-stamping the patents without doing any research.
I agree with your last line. We have numerous parties that are "caste based". Bigger parties typically have alliance with the smaller "caste based" parties because they can win the votes of people who are of particular caste.
One such example of a party(there are many) is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattali_Makkal_Katchi
[From wikipedia]
>Ramdoss had earlier worked with the Vanniyar Sangham (Vanniyar Union) founded by him in 1980. PMK is based amongst the Most Backward Class Vanniyakula Kshatriyas community.
Vanniyar is a caste in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu
If you can prove that you're smart and capable of contributing to the bottom line, it's very possible to get hired with the assumption that you'll quickly pick up anything you need to know.
Eg, at a previous job I'd saved the company $3MM/year using a technology I'd never really worked with before. With that kind of track record this company was happy to hire me even if I didn't have direct ML experience.
Buildit, Wipro Digital's global engineering studios are looking for people who want to help us change the way companies think and approach problems. We are looking for people who want to work in cross-functional teams, and want to help others learn how to build them, and why they're valuable; people with a grasp of a variety of technologies, languages, and methodologies, along with their pros and cons.
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