It was a three-barreled gun that fired shotgun shells, rifle rounds, and rescue flares. 10 rounds of each type of ammunition were supplied. The stock could be detached and used as a machete.
For a while, these guns were on every Soyuz capsule that docked with ISS, and they were under the operational control of the Soyuz commander. I’ve read that they may have been retired in 2007 because Russia finally ran out of the very unique ammo.
They later said it was less than 1 mile away from the target spot.
A big benefit of the ocean is if the capsule loses all attitude control, it can still reenter and survive. But it will be a “ballistic reentry”, much more punishing with the g forces, and also about 1500 miles short of the target zone.
The Pacific Ocean makes it easy to ensure that those backup contingency landing sites are also safe landing sites.
The Russian system has a braking rocket that fires at the very last second to soften up the landing. On one early Soyuz mission, this rocket didn’t fire, and the solo cosmonaut suffered substantial injuries from the landing.
The Orion capsule hits the water at the final parachute speed of 20-30 mph without injuring the crew. But as you state, they also have to design the capsule for flotation and egress in potentially rough sea state.
Boeing Starliner is designed for a land landing, but it uses deployable air bags instead of a braking rocket. It’s not clear that Starliner will ever fly again after the RCS thruster problems.
“Red dirt” specifically refers to a region straddling the Red River, including parts of Oklahoma and Texas. The soil in the region is actually red. But the musical area is much larger than the geological area.
Linux (at least the mainline version) never supported 16-bit processors. Linus started writing the operating system on his brand new 32-bit 386 machine, and he never looked back.
Allegedly, Outlook doesn’t handle intermittent broken connectivity very well when you’re trying to configure it initially. Such as when your gateway is handing off between TDRS and the fricken Deep Space Network.
Switzerland distributes a lot of firearms, particularly through their mandatory military service. But Switzerland also very tightly controls the supply of ammunition for all of those firearms they issue.
120 giga-grand-pianos-per-football-field.
And Love Is In The Bin became more valuable than Girl With Balloon at a subsequent auction, too, by a factor of 18x.
In Gentoo, you have to compile the kernel
This is not true any more. Gentoo provides sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin as an option.
For me 1.0 only means that I’ve delivered the software to a paying customer.
Eh, the fucking cellular modems in my car that stream the camera data for training can be used to track me. Hell, the anti theft tracker that I paid money for can be used to track me.
Before he puts boots on the ground in Iran, he’s got to put boots on the staging ground somewhere in the theater. Unlike strategic bombing, invasions don’t happen from Missouri.
Maybe not exactly the same, but Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu derivative that develops the Moksha desktop environment based on the Enlightenment window manager.
That painting should be old enough to be in the public domain. (Although photographs thereof get their own copyright terms.)
The Presidential immunity does not extend to the President’s underlings, such as DHS Secretary Noem, or the CBP officer that actually collected a tariff from you.
Interesting because factions in Belfast use those exact colors.
And severance pay and notice of layoffs are de facto fairly common in corporate America.
This doesn’t happen “on a distro” because all of the different software functions are at different safety criticalities. The autopilot is (usually) level B, the air data system that delivers altitude and airspeed is level A, the navigation computer is level C (because pilots can still navigate without the aid of the computer). And so on.
At level C, the standard is statement coverage with unit tests. At level B, it’s decision coverage, covering every branch. And at level A, it’s modified condition / decision coverage, which is a lot more complex and expensive to write.
If you mix code for stuff at different levels, you have to develop the whole package to the highest level. Unless you can prove that the lower level code can’t interfere with the higher level code.
The easiest way to prove that is to put the different levels into different computers, so they’re only talking to each other on some digital bus interface. That’s called “hardware partitioning”. There’s also “software partitioning”, but it requires an operating system or supervisor layer to provide the guarantees, and that operating system has to be developed to the highest safety level that it handles.
Final result: you still see a lot of discrete computer boxes on airplanes. Various vendors have developed safety-critical OSes for main avionics computers, but they’re closed-source, and usually not based on Linux at all.