Easy. If you can afford to be a space tourist, you can afford to put $5M in escrow for your future medical expenses.
Let's take risks people!
troyunrau
joined 1 year ago
Good.
Raises an interesting question though: how does one become a weapon maker in Canada. Without, you know, already being a weapon maker. Like, are the only companies that can participate those that made weapons since WW2? Or are they going to put out tenders that machinists could potentially bid on? Interesting stuff, trying to ramp up production, but how...
A half dozen years ago, or thereabouts, I entered the Canadian version of this competition, just to see how I'd fare, and to look at the process. Made it through the first couple levels of screening (from 3200 applicants, I was still in the hunt at 300 remaining) but then got filtered.
Some interesting bullet points if you're thinking of applying, assuming the NASA questions are similar to the CSA ones:
(1) ham radio, morse code, or other amateur radio operator experience is an asset.
(2) Anything aviation or amateur rocketry is an asset, but in particular a pilot's license. Anything aviation adjacent is still useful.
(3) Russian language (this might be changing in the current political environment)
(4) Experience in an "operational environment" -- I suspect this is military jargon, but if you'd don't field research as a scientist out of wilderness camps, or anything like that where you're in a small group for work/adventure might apply here.
(5) Medical degrees, or advanced science degrees.
(6) Physical fitness and perfect vision
When I applied, my Russian sucked, my aviation experience was tangential (but copious), and I was a grad school dropout (from a planetary science program), so I didn't float to the top. But it was enough to make it through the first layers.
There person who ended up winning was a medical-degree air force pilot. Hard to compete haha.
Water usage is also problematic. But that's another story. It's a multi-parameter optimization problem, but different people weight parameters differently.
However, some UA crops (for example, tomatoes) and sites (for example, 25% of individually managed gardens) outperform conventional agriculture. These exceptions suggest that UA practitioners can reduce their climate impacts by cultivating crops that are typically greenhouse-grown or air-freighted, maintaining UA sites for many years, and leveraging circularity (waste as inputs).
Tomatos it is then ;)
It's really hard to compete with the efficiency that economies of scale provide. So this result isn't unexpected.
It doesn't however negate the other positive impacts of urban gardening -- in particular, the impacts on the people doing the gardening (everything from psychology, vitamin D, immune system benefits to playing in the dirt, etc.).
A lot of exploits exist to root a phone. Bad apps can abuse those exploits.
KDE had a policy editor back in v2.0... honesty I never really followed whether those features stuck around. But the simple version is to lock down write access to folders in $HOME, such as .config or similar. Linux already prevents most users from installing programs over the system directories without root, but I'm not sure if you can restrict new programs with +x in $HOME unless you write-lock the whole folder... Someone with more network admin experience probably knows this :)
Congrats on taking the plunge. I suspect there are others like you.
I'm actually kind of envious. The joy and frustration and joy again of exploring something new was something I relished in my early Linux years. Back then you had to use a text editor to configure your video card before even getting started, so it was kind of insane haha. But totally worth it later, as all of those skills translated.
The kindness of admins is a requirement of pretty much all internet infrastructure. Email servers are the same, no? And it gets even harder with proprietary networks -- if the admins are being unkind, you can just switch discord servers or whatever. Anyway, I digress.
Yes. Built into Android Studio. Has existed for at least five years. However I only ever used it with the apps I was developing and never even considered using it as a means to launch outside apps. That probably would have been painful.
Very cool as a tech demo. Terrible as a product.
I agree with maybe 99% of what Atwood ever says in interviews. She is the quintessential well-reasoned centrist. The result is that she ends up annoying both sides haha. :)