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... currents. We use all kinds of restraints to keep things close to us. We use strings, and also such things as clips, bungee cords, and Velcro. ---- Answer provided by Byron Lichtenberg ...

... lines and spheres), on the one hand, and music (actually, the comparative lengths of vibrating strings that make differing sounds), on the other, coupled with the assumption that the Universe is ... legend, hands in star thesis,” note 131 Andrew Fraknoi, “The music of the spheres in ...

... data via radio signals on two carrier frequencies. The Coarse Acquisition (CA) code is a string of bits that repeats roughly every 1/1000 of a second and is used for civilian navigation. The Precision code (P code), is a much longer string of code that repeats every 7 days and is encrypted for military use only. The ... speed is slightly, yet continuously, changed and this alters our calculated position. Clock errors are another source of error, as is the configuration of the satellite constellation when the readings were taken ...

... left a switch in the wrong position." The computer had to count …a whole unnecessary string of pulses… And it takes time to do that. As long as it's doing ... I don't know if I ever convinced him. "It was an error." No, it was not an error, because if we hadn't had the program in there to fix it ... time I tell people that the Apollo computer never made a mistake, never made an error, they always bring this up, "Yes, it did." '''Wright:''' George Mueller said so. Laughter '''Battin ...

... —the least was triplicate, which meant erasing carbon copies when you had any type of error on them, for anything that went out of the office. They were fairly lenient with ... , but I think it was Ron Evans—that I was always looking for string. I never could find string. Well, about three days later I come into the office at 7:30 ... door of my office. It looked like a web in there. They had taken the string and stretched it all over the office. They were always doing crazy things like that ...

... of 4-token strings. '''The structure of such traces has been studied in great detail in (2). The main characteristics are: ''' autonomic mode of processing (self-organization) autonomic error-correction autonomic mode ... inferences limit cycles or attractors (Hegelian cycles) autonomic generation of palindromes complementarity of 4-letter strings Some of these features are related to Douglas Hofstadter's "strange loops," as presented in ...

... . There weren’t any manual backup procedures to ensure rendezvous if the automatic system had errors in it or did not work. After flying some of these simulators, I went to ... ’re SOL. So I eliminated that by proving to the powers that be that the error that we incurred by not aligning that platform during that thirty-minute period for rendezvous ... carry this as a bundle under his arm in EVA and figure out how to string it from some point to some point to some point to give us the shade ...

... , but we thought they were pretty good and we would just keep running trials and errors until we figured it out. '''Butler:''' Well, they were certainly good in comparison to what ... to fall into place to make it all successful. When you consider the margin of error and how, as viewed from the Earth, that the altitude that we were shooting for ... 've got to make sure you get back. We talked about everything from dragging a string to dropping birdseed. Laughter All kinds of crazy navigational schemes. Some of them probably even ...

... connect first? Most of the elements have what you call a prime and a redundant string. They (the Japanese) were like, “Well, to be considered activated, we have to have both ... achieve mission success. In a sense, that’s a planning activity. They said, “Okay, one string has to be activated.” So we worked out the details for that, and there are ... activate Channel A, or maybe we do something else, and then I activate that second string. That’s how you play the priority games. EVA does that a lot, because on ...

... , if you knew the aerodynamics perfectly. If you don’t know them, then any aerodynamic error encroaches on the CG range that you can be in and fly safely. We hashed ... going on. All this financial crap that’s going on with the government. All the strings that are attached if you take government money. That’s exactly the way it is ...

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