Why didn't the Germans invade England? Because they didn't have air superiority over the channel and lacked amphibious capabilities. The Allied raid on Deppe in '42 showed that it was folly to attack without specialized ships and craft. Had the Nazis gone across in 40-41 in ferries and river barges they'd have failed.
Why didn't the Germans support their U-Boats properly? They did. Then they didn't, then they did. To shorten a long story they never had the industrial ability to build enough to sink enough Allied ships. The Battle of the Atlantic was never as close as most have been taught, look at Clay Blair's 2 volume work on the U-Boat War, and the 1 volume USN submarine war in the Pacific if you are interested.
Also, the German industrial capacity was never put 100% behind the war and all the time they had to make decisions about what to build out of steel, Railroad Guns, Tanks or Subs and the Germans were always short of vital system.
Why didn't the Germans use chemical weapons? Because Hitler was gased in WW1.
Depending on the state it's legal to make arrests if you see a crime being commited or if you know about a crime.
Depending on the state and county, the law varies on what powers of arrest a citizen has, but in some places it's fine to do that sort of thing...IF a crime is being committed.
But I agree the RIAA is out of control and if they tried to do that sort of thing to me, I'd resist.
If they try it to the wrong person in the wrong jurisdiction I'd image an RIAA Agent catching some lead.
"No, he's the president whose main goal seems to be to make sure tax funds make it into the hands of the giant corporations, or people wealthy enough to hold large shares in giant corporations."
He's also the President got the Estate Tax reforms passed.
That made the difference of owing the Federal Goverment money because one is willed something and being able to finish one's degree.
"...tell us which asteroidal element could be mined profitably. And please don't try and pretend that humanity hasn't invented recycling."
Not to mention that we're not out of anything important yet on Earth that we know of that is in asteriods.
Remeber that the reasons we are having many little and medium sized wars over the planet for resources isn't because there aren't resources, but theres alot of them and so we have many groups fighting in many places for them.
The secret to getting this to work is the same secret that got the F-22 to survive the last 13 years of Administrations and Congresses.
Spread out the production.
I typed about this a couple days/weeks ago on/.
When the program is layed out, major production will be spread to major states and secondary production to states with smaller Electoral College delegates. The F-22 has production in 28 states IIRC.
So they spread production around to Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, Alliant Techsystems, Alcoa...and you've got major systems being built and tested in Florida, New York, New Jersey, California, Washington, Mississippi, Virginia, Maryland and a host of other states.
The perfect folks for figuring out who will work with who are the US and British Submarine Training Commands, since American and British subs have the longest deployment periods.
Back in the Cold War on the first nuke boats the deployments were longer than they are now.
The 2003 death rate is 8.44 deaths/1,000 population. So in a million people you have 8440 deaths. In a hundred million you have 844,000 deaths a year. In the 1980s there were between 210 and 225 million people in the United States. So usually you have 1.6ish million people dying in the US a year during the 1980s.
So about 16-20 million dying during the decade.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005128.html
United States 2002 Excluding data for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Marianas.
Things change and something we must all remeber is that we don't totally understand the Earth's cycles or how fast changes like the Ice Age kick in.
Sudden warm spurts in the mid North America climate occurred during the last half of the Younger Dryas, a 1,600-year-long global deep freeze that suddenly developed about 13,200 years ago just as the Earth was warming and ice sheets were starting to melt. For years scientists have speculated on what could have caused average winter temperatures in northern Europe to plunge by up to 10 degrees Celsius within 10 to 50 years at the start of the Younger Dryas and then soar again just as abruptly 1,600 years later.
For the last 30 years people have been making wildly inaccurate guesses about extinction and climate change.
I'm living in Portland OR right now, and since Midnight on Monday they've been telling us a high from the Pacific is going to push in in 4-6 hours and melt the ice and snow we have on the ground. If they can't forcast the weather 6 in advance, how the hell can they tell us what's going to happen in 2050?
Scientists have been making crazy predictions based on "good science" for decades.
"In 1960, Paul Ehrlich said, "The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergoe famines-hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." Ten years later, he predicted four billion people would die during the 1980s, including 65 million Americans. The mass starvation that was predicted never occurred, and it now seems it isn't ever going to happen. Nor is the population explosion going to reach the numbers predicted even ten years ago. In 1990, climate modelers anticipated a world population of 11 billion by 2100. Today, some people think the correct number will be 7 billion and falling. But nobody knows for sure."
"...in 1991, when Carl Sagan predicted on Nightline that Kuwaiti oil fires would produce a nuclear winter effect, causing a "year without a summer," and endangering crops around the world. Sagan stressed this outcome was so likely that "it should affect the war plans." None of it happened."
http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speech es _quote04.html
Like for the taking notes on the side of the Gemini capsule I guess, or writing nasty-grams about your fellow Marsnauts during the EVA to fix the AE-23 unit in month 4 of the trip.
"NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule's] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge. Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and developement costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government.
Because of the fire in Apollo 1, in which three Astronauts died, NASA required a writing instrument that would not burn in a 100% oxygen atmosphere. It also had to work in the extreme conditions of outer space: In a vacuum. - With no gravity. - In hot temperatures of +150C in sunlight and also in the cold shadows of space where the temperatures drop to -120C."
Sweden was a big power back in the 15th-17th centuries, then the rise of Russia stole thier thunder.
In the Second World War they got really spooked by the Russian invasion of Finland and ramped up thier aviation industry by licensing German designs, then British designs and tossing that in with home-grown technology while making a profit from selling raw materials and arms to both sides.
In the Cold War Sweden took a slightly pro-western approach but was openly neutral, and thats when thier aerospace industry really took off.
They had a series of 3 great fighters from the 50s to the 80s with the J35A Draken, J32B Lansen and JA37 Viggen.
During the Post-War/Cold-War era the Swedes also bought American and British aircraft, araments and technology.
The current fighter the Swedes are building is the Gripen, there have been foriegn sales - Switzerland and South Africa IIRC and Saab Aerospace has been bought by British Aerospace recently.
The Gripen is less "home-grown" that previous Swedish fighters
Flight control system, product series 1, Lear Astronics, USA Flight control system, product series 2, Martin Marietta, USA Basic engine F404, General Electric, USA Air conditioning control, Hymatic Engineering,UK Landing gear, AP Precision Hydraulics,UK APU and engine start aggregator, Microturbo, France Emergency power and transfer, Lucas Aerospace, UK Inertia navigation, Honeywell, USA Cannon, Mauser-Werke, Germany Ejection seat, Martin Baker, UK Main generator, Sundstrand, USA Hydraulic system and transfer, Dowty, UK Brakes, Aircraft Breaking Systems, USA Fuel system, Intertechnique, France Sidewinder AIM-9 AAM, USA AMRAAM AIM-120 AAM, USA
"Surly it would be a lot easer then for sailers to sail around the world in the 1500s in comparison today."
Well the sailors in the 1500s had O2 and didn't have to worry about radiation and micrometors and they didn't have to worry about losing bone mass and muscle mass during the trip.
And if they needed more food, they could fish or find an island or other land mass.
Northrop Grumman have a stake in it, with Grumman's prior experiance in building the Command Module.
Lockheed-Martin have a stake in it, with Lockheed's prior experiance in building the Landing Module
Lockheed and Boeing both build rockets to get stuff to LEO and Lunar Orbit, Alliant Techsystems builds Solid Rocket Boosters...
So the "business case" for it is getting jobs to enough States so Senators get behind it. A quick list of states that would make out on it are - Colorado, Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, California, Washington, Utah, Virginia, New York and New Jersey, those are for big parts and big NASA facilities.
But I think they should be using RTGs on the rovers, simply for the long life.
Viking 1 lasted from July 1976 to November 15 1982
"The Viking 1 Lander was named the Thomas Mutch Memorial Station in January 1982 in honor of the leader of the Viking imaging team. It operated until 13 November 1982 when a faulty command sent by ground control resulted in loss of contact." http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/Mas terCatalog? sc=1975-075C
Viking 2 lasted from August 9 1976 to April 11 1980
" The Viking 2 Lander operated on the surface for 1281 Mars days and was turned off on April 11, 1980 when its batteries failed." http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/Mast erCatalog? sc=1975-083C
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Because the Germans couldn't win.
Why didn't the Germans invade England?
Because they didn't have air superiority over the channel and lacked amphibious capabilities. The Allied raid on Deppe in '42 showed that it was folly to attack without specialized ships and craft. Had the Nazis gone across in 40-41 in ferries and river barges they'd have failed.
Why didn't the Germans support their U-Boats properly?
They did. Then they didn't, then they did. To shorten a long story they never had the industrial ability to build enough to sink enough Allied ships. The Battle of the Atlantic was never as close as most have been taught, look at Clay Blair's 2 volume work on the U-Boat War, and the 1 volume USN submarine war in the Pacific if you are interested.
Also, the German industrial capacity was never put 100% behind the war and all the time they had to make decisions about what to build out of steel, Railroad Guns, Tanks or Subs and the Germans were always short of vital system.
Why didn't the Germans use chemical weapons?
Because Hitler was gased in WW1.
And people need to remeber how big the American economy is, even during a dip in the economy.
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$10.45 trillion (2002 est.)
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbo
The money Bush is proposing, even if the amount goes up is minute compared to the Federal Budget and the GDP of the US.
I like a good drive anyway.
XM radio, DVD players. Now I need WiFi for on the road.
From what I've read of him, I think the proper term is "Idjit".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/32
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archi
http://www.getreading.co.uk/story.asp?inti
For all your Captain Cyborg crap
http://www.theregister.co.uk/cgi-bin/dispat
About 50 bucks a month in Portland with Qwest for a 640k up and down with no limitations and unlimited bandwidth per month and 5 static IPs.
Well...
Depending on the state it's legal to make arrests if you see a crime being commited or if you know about a crime.
Depending on the state and county, the law varies on what powers of arrest a citizen has, but in some places it's fine to do that sort of thing...IF a crime is being committed.
But I agree the RIAA is out of control and if they tried to do that sort of thing to me, I'd resist.
If they try it to the wrong person in the wrong jurisdiction I'd image an RIAA Agent catching some lead.
"Deaths due to environmental conditions can't be anything but natural..."
If I step outside and a piece of ice falls off the building and kills me, that's not a death due to natural causes.
If I get cancer (again) and die from it, that's a death to natural causes.
Either way, Off-base Assclown (my name for Paul Ehrlich) was way off on the number of deaths that'd occur in the 80s.
"No, he's the president whose main goal seems to be to make sure tax funds make it into the hands of the giant corporations, or people wealthy enough to hold large shares in giant corporations."
He's also the President got the Estate Tax reforms passed.
That made the difference of owing the Federal Goverment money because one is willed something and being able to finish one's degree.
They've orbited a man.
On the time-line of Getting to the Moon that means, if all thier Soviet designed gear works, they'll make it there...never.
But if they get lucky and can recreate the American success, they'll land around 2011-12.
"...tell us which asteroidal element could be mined profitably. And please don't try and pretend that humanity hasn't invented recycling."
Not to mention that we're not out of anything important yet on Earth that we know of that is in asteriods.
Remeber that the reasons we are having many little and medium sized wars over the planet for resources isn't because there aren't resources, but theres alot of them and so we have many groups fighting in many places for them.
The secret to getting this to work is the same secret that got the F-22 to survive the last 13 years of Administrations and Congresses.
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Spread out the production.
I typed about this a couple days/weeks ago on
When the program is layed out, major production will be spread to major states and secondary production to states with smaller Electoral College delegates. The F-22 has production in 28 states IIRC.
So they spread production around to Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, Alliant Techsystems, Alcoa...and you've got major systems being built and tested in Florida, New York, New Jersey, California, Washington, Mississippi, Virginia, Maryland and a host of other states.
The perfect folks for figuring out who will work with who are the US and British Submarine Training Commands, since American and British subs have the longest deployment periods.
Back in the Cold War on the first nuke boats the deployments were longer than they are now.
I don't think he meant natural normal deaths that are par for the course.
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But according to the CIA (the global quick stats source in my Safari toobar...)
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ge
The 2003 death rate is 8.44 deaths/1,000 population. So in a million people you have 8440 deaths. In a hundred million you have 844,000 deaths a year. In the 1980s there were between 210 and 225 million people in the United States. So usually you have 1.6ish million people dying in the US a year during the 1980s.
So about 16-20 million dying during the decade.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005128.html
United States 2002 Excluding data for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Marianas.
2,403,351 dead.
Things change and something we must all remeber is that we don't totally understand the Earth's cycles or how fast changes like the Ice Age kick in.
h es _quote04.html
Sudden warm spurts in the mid North America climate occurred during the last half of the Younger Dryas, a 1,600-year-long global deep freeze that suddenly developed about 13,200 years ago just as the Earth was warming and ice sheets were starting to melt. For years scientists have speculated on what could have caused average winter temperatures in northern Europe to plunge by up to 10 degrees Celsius within 10 to 50 years at the start of the Younger Dryas and then soar again just as abruptly 1,600 years later.
For the last 30 years people have been making wildly inaccurate guesses about extinction and climate change.
I'm living in Portland OR right now, and since Midnight on Monday they've been telling us a high from the Pacific is going to push in in 4-6 hours and melt the ice and snow we have on the ground. If they can't forcast the weather 6 in advance, how the hell can they tell us what's going to happen in 2050?
Scientists have been making crazy predictions based on "good science" for decades.
"In 1960, Paul Ehrlich said, "The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergoe famines-hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." Ten years later, he predicted four billion people would die during the 1980s, including 65 million Americans. The mass starvation that was predicted never occurred, and it now seems it isn't ever going to happen. Nor is the population explosion going to reach the numbers predicted even ten years ago. In 1990, climate modelers anticipated a world population of 11 billion by 2100. Today, some people think the correct number will be 7 billion and falling. But nobody knows for sure."
"...in 1991, when Carl Sagan predicted on Nightline that Kuwaiti oil fires would produce a nuclear winter effect, causing a "year without a summer," and endangering crops around the world. Sagan stressed this outcome was so likely that "it should affect the war plans." None of it happened."
http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speec
They mean writing when it is that cold.
Like for the taking notes on the side of the Gemini capsule I guess, or writing nasty-grams about your fellow Marsnauts during the EVA to fix the AE-23 unit in month 4 of the trip.
Actually...that's an urban legend.
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It's the Fisher Space Pen that you refer too and the pen vs. pencil thing has been tossed around by the internet and by the West Wing TV show.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.
"NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule's] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge. Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and developement costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government.
Because of the fire in Apollo 1, in which three Astronauts died, NASA required a writing instrument that would not burn in a 100% oxygen atmosphere. It also had to work in the extreme conditions of outer space:
In a vacuum. - With no gravity. - In hot temperatures of +150C in sunlight and also in the cold shadows of space where the temperatures drop to -120C."
Motorola 68030/25MHz with a 68882 FPU.
g e= gallery&model=lc520
I had a Performa 550 which was basicly the same thing but with a 33MHz 69030.
http://www.apple-history.com/frames/body.php?pa
Why not use those stick pads for inflatable kiddie pools and inflatable beds and chairs?
Or Silly Puddy, or better yet...Fruit Cake. Nothing can destroy Fruit Cake.
I'm sorry, I did.
http://www.canit.se/~griffon/aviation/text/29tunna n.htm
I had just seen a thing on Swedish fighters on Discovery Wings and I totally spaced the J-29.
http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Jakt/118J29.htm
Sweden was a big power back in the 15th-17th centuries, then the rise of Russia stole thier thunder.
In the Second World War they got really spooked by the Russian invasion of Finland and ramped up thier aviation industry by licensing German designs, then British designs and tossing that in with home-grown technology while making a profit from selling raw materials and arms to both sides.
In the Cold War Sweden took a slightly pro-western approach but was openly neutral, and thats when thier aerospace industry really took off.
They had a series of 3 great fighters from the 50s to the 80s with the J35A Draken, J32B Lansen and JA37 Viggen.
During the Post-War/Cold-War era the Swedes also bought American and British aircraft, araments and technology.
The current fighter the Swedes are building is the Gripen, there have been foriegn sales - Switzerland and South Africa IIRC and Saab Aerospace has been bought by British Aerospace recently.
The Gripen is less "home-grown" that previous Swedish fighters
Flight control system, product series 1, Lear Astronics, USA
Flight control system, product series 2, Martin Marietta, USA
Basic engine F404, General Electric, USA
Air conditioning control, Hymatic Engineering,UK
Landing gear, AP Precision Hydraulics,UK
APU and engine start aggregator, Microturbo, France
Emergency power and transfer, Lucas Aerospace, UK
Inertia navigation, Honeywell, USA
Cannon, Mauser-Werke, Germany
Ejection seat, Martin Baker, UK
Main generator, Sundstrand, USA
Hydraulic system and transfer, Dowty, UK
Brakes, Aircraft Breaking Systems, USA
Fuel system, Intertechnique, France
Sidewinder AIM-9 AAM, USA
AMRAAM AIM-120 AAM, USA
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/sweden4.htm
Yes they did.
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However, the basic need, atmosphere was avaliable.
When you are on the way to Mars in a Titanium Can and it's 3-6 months away, atmosphere isn't avaliable.
Illnesses can crop up on the way to Mars too.
But the early trips to the New World and around the world had high rates of death, but there is a very high risk in going to Mars too.
Look how many Mars probe missions failed, in 2003-04 the world is has had 2 of 3 fail and if Opportunity works, then we are batting
"Surly it would be a lot easer then for sailers to sail around the world in the 1500s in comparison today."
Well the sailors in the 1500s had O2 and didn't have to worry about radiation and micrometors and they didn't have to worry about losing bone mass and muscle mass during the trip.
And if they needed more food, they could fish or find an island or other land mass.
There is a business case for it.
Northrop Grumman have a stake in it, with Grumman's prior experiance in building the Command Module.
Lockheed-Martin have a stake in it, with Lockheed's prior experiance in building the Landing Module
Lockheed and Boeing both build rockets to get stuff to LEO and Lunar Orbit, Alliant Techsystems builds Solid Rocket Boosters...
So the "business case" for it is getting jobs to enough States so Senators get behind it. A quick list of states that would make out on it are - Colorado, Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, California, Washington, Utah, Virginia, New York and New Jersey, those are for big parts and big NASA facilities.
Actually, many of the stories in the last few months have been about President Bush talking about going back.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104800,00.h
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/04/us.moo
http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-12/0
http://science.slashdot.org/sci
http://www.nationalrevi
They can aslso use Pu-238.
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But I think they should be using RTGs on the rovers, simply for the long life.
Viking 1 lasted from July 1976 to November 15 1982
"The Viking 1 Lander was named the Thomas Mutch Memorial Station in January 1982 in honor of the leader of the Viking imaging team. It operated until 13 November 1982 when a faulty command sent by ground control resulted in loss of contact."
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/Ma
Viking 2 lasted from August 9 1976 to April 11 1980
" The Viking 2 Lander operated on the surface for 1281 Mars days and was turned off on April 11, 1980 when its batteries failed."
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/Mas