This article suggests packed dirt would be OK. http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut... I wonder if the problem would be for continuous use rather than a one time thing? Looks like the landing gear are mounted in the fuselage which is 20 ft wide, so a two lane road with shoulders might work with care. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
The article does not say why, but perhaps lack of radar contact along the Northern landlocked arc is the reason. Helpful graphic showing remaining fuel range from last ping arc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03...
I was wondering about a straight down vertical attack, which might still put bulky debris into the deck even if it were broken up. Based on the last satellite ping, it might be in central Asia now. But if so, I wonder how they got there without flying where they'd be noticed on radar and challenged. Maybe Burma to the Himalayas? Hard to think there is really a radar free path through there.
A couple of arcs of position are available from the last satellite ping. To the North, the arc is mostly over land in Western China though Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are also covered. To the South, the arc is mostly over ocean West of Australia but it crosses Sumatra.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03...
Pretty sure commercial aircraft get much closer to carrier groups when the groups get close to flight lanes. In port, distances are more like a couple of miles. Look at Pearl Harbor, for example.
When a jet lands it lays down quite a lot of rubber. A search for new skid marks on roads near water in countries with poor military radar (Bangladesh?) might indicate where the plane put down. Evidence of a recently placed fuel dump might also be worth a search.
A 9/11 type attack might be the aim here. I'm wondering how well a carrier group could defend itself against a diving attack. Also, how may of our embassies are close enough to the ocean that the host country Air Force might not have time to react to a low altitude offshore approach?
Religion has also been very good for quantum physics, cosmology, geology and biology. The saying, "God does not play dice" has been very important in elucidating just how strange quantum theory is. In cosmology, because the big bang theory is so compatible with Christian theology, scientist have given it extra scrutiny and tried to defend alternatives much more vigorously. In geology, rigor has been given a boost by odd ball dating schemes based on scripture that oppose an old earth. And, in biology, evolution has needed a more rigorous development owing to religious opposition. Perhaps more fundamentally, with its sorting of existential questions into high priority, "In the beginning" being a starting point, focus and curiosity on foundational questions have been maintained over ages.
Our interstate highway system is dual use. During war, it doubles as landing strips for the air force. One way to search for this plane would be to look for skid marks on a stretch of road in a country close to the water with poor military radar capabilities. Bangladesh comes to mind as a possibility. Evidence of a fuel dump might be the trout in the milk.
The US should consider what embassies in the area could be targeted by this jet without interception and also consider if a carrier group could repel a kamikazi attack using such a large plane. A diving attack might be difficult to stop.
I guess there is a danger to those kids and also those too young to get a vaccine. The reason people don't get vaccines which is not abuse or neglect is trying to keep them safe. They've got the facts wrong, but they don't have the motive wrong. So, getting that charge to stick might not work.
Shunning might work. Unvaccinated kids don't pose a medical danger to vaccinated kids, but they are a potential emotional liability since they may die for a tragically preventable reason. If we say we don't want our vaccinated kids to get close to unvaccinated kids to avoid a possible emotional wound, then that places a lot of social pressure on the issue. Shunning is one of the cruelest things to do, so we ought to be sure the problem is really worth taking such steps. It's been working for smoking though.
One of the really attractive things about a Steady State Universe is that it does not require a beginning. It can be infinite in both space and time. This leaves time for the nearly impossible to occur without resort to special circumstances. It is fine for a monkey to hand us the works of Shakespeare now, if there has been infinite time already for him and his friends to bang on typewriters, but if they've only had 14 billion years so far, we might have to suppose they at least read the Cliff Notes. Being able to avoid those special circumstances means that the origin of life is to be expected as a mere accident. However, there is a problem with this solution to the very complex existing in less than infinite time: the monkey should be handing us a large number of copies of the the works of Shakespeare, not just one. So, the Fermi Paradox would seem to indicate that the Steady State Universe is not occurring, independent of all the observational evidence confirming the big bang. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Another Hoyle cause, panspermia, which urges that the origin of life is so unlikely that a larger event space is needed, so life spreads through the galaxy as microbes once started somewhere, is getting somewhat of a second look. The idea that life may be hoping between planets in the solar system, hitchhiking on meteorites, is gaining adherents. While still a long way from a microbe populated interstellar cloud, or the solution to the statistical problem Hoyle was addressing, this is another echo of the importance of his thinking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
The question is: when does skepticism turn into shilling? There is a point when a subject area becomes so well explored that there is nothing to be gained by taking potshots at the fundamentals. Claims against the foundations become extraordinary and require extraordinary evidence. So, when you hear a lot of noise about a well explored field with claims that the experts are frauds etc... it is pretty easy to infer that the noise is coming from money being spent to raise doubt to protect commercial interests. The link between smoking and cancer was very well established, but many shills were employed to question it in public, as an example. That is not debate, it is a fraud perpetrated on the public.
The Romans used lead to flavor food. But they ended up collapsing. We can understand that now. Lead in gasoline explains the crime wave of the seventies. http://www.motherjones.com/env...
Actually, accurate documents seem to be rare. It was very hard to find out if Vermont Yankee had pipes running under it. Entergy told the State no until they started to leak. And, the military nuclear culture seems to be turning to falsified documents such as test cheating so the future work force for nuclear power is becoming more corrupt. Probably those documents will become completely useless in another generation.
The risk of an overwhelming seismic event striking a power plant is proportional to the length of time it is exposed to the risk. This policy doubles the risk. There should be upgrades in survivability requirements to manage this and keep risk constant. Events with recurrence intervals four times longer than the present design basis should become the new design basis to account for the already suffered exposure.
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This article suggests packed dirt would be OK. http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut... I wonder if the problem would be for continuous use rather than a one time thing? Looks like the landing gear are mounted in the fuselage which is 20 ft wide, so a two lane road with shoulders might work with care. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
The article does not say why, but perhaps lack of radar contact along the Northern landlocked arc is the reason. Helpful graphic showing remaining fuel range from last ping arc. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03...
Slate is suggesting a circuitous path to near Kyrgyzstan. http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
I was wondering about a straight down vertical attack, which might still put bulky debris into the deck even if it were broken up. Based on the last satellite ping, it might be in central Asia now. But if so, I wonder how they got there without flying where they'd be noticed on radar and challenged. Maybe Burma to the Himalayas? Hard to think there is really a radar free path through there.
A couple of arcs of position are available from the last satellite ping. To the North, the arc is mostly over land in Western China though Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are also covered. To the South, the arc is mostly over ocean West of Australia but it crosses Sumatra. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03...
Pretty sure commercial aircraft get much closer to carrier groups when the groups get close to flight lanes. In port, distances are more like a couple of miles. Look at Pearl Harbor, for example.
When a jet lands it lays down quite a lot of rubber. A search for new skid marks on roads near water in countries with poor military radar (Bangladesh?) might indicate where the plane put down. Evidence of a recently placed fuel dump might also be worth a search.
A 9/11 type attack might be the aim here. I'm wondering how well a carrier group could defend itself against a diving attack. Also, how may of our embassies are close enough to the ocean that the host country Air Force might not have time to react to a low altitude offshore approach?
Religion has also been very good for quantum physics, cosmology, geology and biology. The saying, "God does not play dice" has been very important in elucidating just how strange quantum theory is. In cosmology, because the big bang theory is so compatible with Christian theology, scientist have given it extra scrutiny and tried to defend alternatives much more vigorously. In geology, rigor has been given a boost by odd ball dating schemes based on scripture that oppose an old earth. And, in biology, evolution has needed a more rigorous development owing to religious opposition. Perhaps more fundamentally, with its sorting of existential questions into high priority, "In the beginning" being a starting point, focus and curiosity on foundational questions have been maintained over ages.
Our interstate highway system is dual use. During war, it doubles as landing strips for the air force. One way to search for this plane would be to look for skid marks on a stretch of road in a country close to the water with poor military radar capabilities. Bangladesh comes to mind as a possibility. Evidence of a fuel dump might be the trout in the milk.
The US should consider what embassies in the area could be targeted by this jet without interception and also consider if a carrier group could repel a kamikazi attack using such a large plane. A diving attack might be difficult to stop.
Just so long as the sell them in the mall....
Find the state with the least taxes. Sell each car bound for NJ to a buyer there. Let them sell it in the mall in NJ as a used car.
I guess there is a danger to those kids and also those too young to get a vaccine. The reason people don't get vaccines which is not abuse or neglect is trying to keep them safe. They've got the facts wrong, but they don't have the motive wrong. So, getting that charge to stick might not work.
Shunning might work. Unvaccinated kids don't pose a medical danger to vaccinated kids, but they are a potential emotional liability since they may die for a tragically preventable reason. If we say we don't want our vaccinated kids to get close to unvaccinated kids to avoid a possible emotional wound, then that places a lot of social pressure on the issue. Shunning is one of the cruelest things to do, so we ought to be sure the problem is really worth taking such steps. It's been working for smoking though.
Not only that, we've produced the works of Shakespeare.
One of the really attractive things about a Steady State Universe is that it does not require a beginning. It can be infinite in both space and time. This leaves time for the nearly impossible to occur without resort to special circumstances. It is fine for a monkey to hand us the works of Shakespeare now, if there has been infinite time already for him and his friends to bang on typewriters, but if they've only had 14 billion years so far, we might have to suppose they at least read the Cliff Notes. Being able to avoid those special circumstances means that the origin of life is to be expected as a mere accident. However, there is a problem with this solution to the very complex existing in less than infinite time: the monkey should be handing us a large number of copies of the the works of Shakespeare, not just one. So, the Fermi Paradox would seem to indicate that the Steady State Universe is not occurring, independent of all the observational evidence confirming the big bang. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Consider a spherical dirtball.
Infinity divided by one million is infinity.
Another Hoyle cause, panspermia, which urges that the origin of life is so unlikely that a larger event space is needed, so life spreads through the galaxy as microbes once started somewhere, is getting somewhat of a second look. The idea that life may be hoping between planets in the solar system, hitchhiking on meteorites, is gaining adherents. While still a long way from a microbe populated interstellar cloud, or the solution to the statistical problem Hoyle was addressing, this is another echo of the importance of his thinking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
The question is: when does skepticism turn into shilling? There is a point when a subject area becomes so well explored that there is nothing to be gained by taking potshots at the fundamentals. Claims against the foundations become extraordinary and require extraordinary evidence. So, when you hear a lot of noise about a well explored field with claims that the experts are frauds etc... it is pretty easy to infer that the noise is coming from money being spent to raise doubt to protect commercial interests. The link between smoking and cancer was very well established, but many shills were employed to question it in public, as an example. That is not debate, it is a fraud perpetrated on the public.
This is a network in the sky.....
The Romans used lead to flavor food. But they ended up collapsing. We can understand that now. Lead in gasoline explains the crime wave of the seventies. http://www.motherjones.com/env...
Here is a link for the Navy cheating. http://www.stripes.com/news/na...
Actually, accurate documents seem to be rare. It was very hard to find out if Vermont Yankee had pipes running under it. Entergy told the State no until they started to leak. And, the military nuclear culture seems to be turning to falsified documents such as test cheating so the future work force for nuclear power is becoming more corrupt. Probably those documents will become completely useless in another generation.
The risk of an overwhelming seismic event striking a power plant is proportional to the length of time it is exposed to the risk. This policy doubles the risk. There should be upgrades in survivability requirements to manage this and keep risk constant. Events with recurrence intervals four times longer than the present design basis should become the new design basis to account for the already suffered exposure.
Looks like they want the closing of a nuclear power plant to happen on the Fukushima model. Run them till they are overwhelmed by circumstance.