The density of the water and thus drag is such that you would hit terminal velocity fairly quickly. Just off the top of my head I think that would limit its effectiveness to the negligible range.
Are you seriously proposing a literacy test for voting? Last I checked, that's been quite illegal since 1965, due to the fact that it DOES disenfranchise people. What exactly happens when someone who doesn't read things the way you do gets into power, changes the test, and strips you of your voting rights?
So first they give the NPP to a group responsible for large amounts of violence over 70 years (murdering thug Yasser Arafat + 2 Israeli PMs) and now they give it to a man using outright hyperbole and scare tactics for his own personal gain. I feel sorry for all those that truly deserved the prize over the years, having the credibility of the award diluted to this point.
Buran could fly and land automnously. The space shuttle gained this ability only recently, and to my knowledge, it's never been attempted
One of my college professors actually worked on the guidance, navigation and control system for the shuttle program. From my conversations with him, the shuttle has always had an autoland capability, it was just the fact that none of the hot shot shuttle pilots wanted to be the first to not land manually.
Hell, there's a lot of new engineers in the mix. My roommate and two other friends among them. From their perspective, the problem is not that there are so many old engineers left in the mix, but the fact that the old ones who are left are in such positions of power and are held in such regard that essentially everything they say goes regardless of cost/benefit or technical merit. My friend doing propulsion work for Ares says that every time they go into a meeting, the old guys gripe about the differences between Ares and Saturn and by the end of the meeting Ares looks more like Saturn.
I think part of the problem is a significant number of people don't yet see broadband as an essential service, such as electricity or telephone service. If they did I think you might have a situation similar to electric cooperatives. A big reason that large segments of rural America have electric power is that people decided it was an essential service and banded together in electric cooperatives to build infrastructure and provide the service. There are certain segments of the country that still might not have electricity if it weren't for these cooperatives. I can see a situation in which broadband cooperatives spring up, once a significant portion of the population decides that broadband is an essential service.
Maybe I'm looking at this in the wrong light but at this point I don't think so.
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The density of the water and thus drag is such that you would hit terminal velocity fairly quickly. Just off the top of my head I think that would limit its effectiveness to the negligible range.
Are you seriously proposing a literacy test for voting? Last I checked, that's been quite illegal since 1965, due to the fact that it DOES disenfranchise people. What exactly happens when someone who doesn't read things the way you do gets into power, changes the test, and strips you of your voting rights?
So first they give the NPP to a group responsible for large amounts of violence over 70 years (murdering thug Yasser Arafat + 2 Israeli PMs) and now they give it to a man using outright hyperbole and scare tactics for his own personal gain. I feel sorry for all those that truly deserved the prize over the years, having the credibility of the award diluted to this point.
Buran could fly and land automnously. The space shuttle gained this ability only recently, and to my knowledge, it's never been attempted
One of my college professors actually worked on the guidance, navigation and control system for the shuttle program. From my conversations with him, the shuttle has always had an autoland capability, it was just the fact that none of the hot shot shuttle pilots wanted to be the first to not land manually.
Hell, there's a lot of new engineers in the mix. My roommate and two other friends among them. From their perspective, the problem is not that there are so many old engineers left in the mix, but the fact that the old ones who are left are in such positions of power and are held in such regard that essentially everything they say goes regardless of cost/benefit or technical merit. My friend doing propulsion work for Ares says that every time they go into a meeting, the old guys gripe about the differences between Ares and Saturn and by the end of the meeting Ares looks more like Saturn.
I think part of the problem is a significant number of people don't yet see broadband as an essential service, such as electricity or telephone service. If they did I think you might have a situation similar to electric cooperatives. A big reason that large segments of rural America have electric power is that people decided it was an essential service and banded together in electric cooperatives to build infrastructure and provide the service. There are certain segments of the country that still might not have electricity if it weren't for these cooperatives. I can see a situation in which broadband cooperatives spring up, once a significant portion of the population decides that broadband is an essential service.
Maybe I'm looking at this in the wrong light but at this point I don't think so.