Nothing to prevent a restaurant arranging their ventilation similarly.
I didn't fly much as a kid, but I can certainly attest to the fact that most restaurants that we went to either did not rearrange their ventilation systems, or they did not work as intended. This was in the 1970's when it seemed like every other person smoked, and no restaurant was going to dump any extra money into their air handling systems when all they needed to do was put up a velvet rope to show you where the non-smoking section was.
If you're old enough, you might remember when airplanes had smoking and non-smoking sections separated by an imaginary barrier between two rows (restaurants used to do that too, it was like they thought there were little Maxwell's Demons whacking the smoke particles back as they tried to drift out of the smoking area). I can see the airline industry going in that direction with cell phones. Of course they'll charge extra for it, but I'm not sure if you'll have to pay more to sit there or not sit there.
As I recall it, they wanted to test some part of the system where the the safety systems would have normally interfered, so they purposefully disabled all the automatic safety systems. The system was put into an unstable condition where the reactor design flaws became readily apparent. I would argue that it was not an unsafe reactor design, provided one operated it in the conditions for which it was designed.
I think the only reason it is news on this site is that it involves bitcoin. $28M isn't too particularly noteworthy when compared to other cash seizures, particularly drug arrests. In relation to general asset seizures, Bernie Madoff's seized assets were reportedly worth around $826M.
Peter: The year was 1955. And the voice in my head was that of Richard Dreyfuss. Richard Dreyfuss: (narrating) I never had friends like the ones I had when I was twelve. There was me, Petey LaChance. Petey LaChance: Anyone else fed up with this over-saturation of media? Three channels and still nothing on. Richard Dreyfuss: (narrating) Then there was Joey Duchamp. The voice in his head was Roy Scheider. Roy Scheider: How are you, Richard? Dreyfuss: Fine, Roy, how are you? Scheider: Good, good. We should grab a drink sometime and catch up, maybe reminisce about Jaws. Dreyfuss: Great, you should give me a call sometime. My number's 555... Scheider: Wait, wait. What? 555? Dreyfuss: Uh, yeah. Scheider: You know what, Richard, if you don't want to have drinks, just say so. You don't have to be a dick about it.
It is funny that 30 years later, that one-liner sticks with me more than "I'll be back" or "Hasta la vista, babay". When you say it with the Arnie accent you can't help but laugh.
I think the fast typing has less to do with attention to detail and more to do with not wanting to break the flow of the movie so that we can watch him painfully hunt-and-peck commands.
I agree that most lenses will have no problem focusing 1000 nm. The problem is trying to focus across that whole wavelength range. Decent multi-element lenses are designed to operate best in the visible, and you will not get the same kind of performance near the NIR. I learned the hard way years ago after spending the effort to optimize the focus of a camera (using a decent-quality Schneider lens), I then put a NIR long-pass filter on and, until I finally had that forehead-slapping "duh" moment", I couldn't figure out how my focus got so crappy. Fortunately, the fix for me was to just re-focus the lens and the image looked fine. As you say, a crappy lens is a crappy lens, so the effect will be less noticeable with cheaper lenses.
Another thing working against the cell phone type camera as an IR detector is that the reason silicon is not very sensitive out in those wavelengths is that most photons with those wavelengths pass through and don't interact in the material. The way to make it more sensitive towards the IR is to have a thick detector substrate; however, especially with cell phone cameras, the design is to make them as thin as possible to cut down on detector noise.
Digital cameras are very insensitive to the IR. Silicon, which is what all commercial camera sensors are made of, loses its sensitivity around 1000 nm, so photons with a longer wavelength than that generally pass through undetected (they are most sensitive around 600-ish nm, which is something like orange light). On the other hand, if you look at the spectrum of light coming from the Sun, you get the most photons around that same 600 nm wavelength (how's that for coincidence?), but you also still have a whole lot of photons flying around with wavelengths of 1000 nm and less. Camera makers put IR-blocking filters on because the optics for the cameras are optimized for visible wavelengths, so IR wavelengths will not come to a nice focus. These IR wavelengths add image blur. Some people want to pop their IR filters off because it will make their camera more sensitive, which technically is true, but you'll make your pictures look blurry unless you do something else (i.e., filters) to restrict the wavelengths of light through your optics.
You also have to be careful when you talk about the IR that these cameras can detect. What you're really talking about is very deep red, or the first parts of the NIR (near infrared) region. Most people, when they hear IR, think heat signatures, but that is not what you're dealing with here. The thermal IR is much longer wavelengths, and you'll never see that with a silicon-based camera. In fact, pure silicon is very useful as a window material for IR sensors because it is very transparent to photons at those wavelengths.
Corrugated cardboard has been used for decades under high-altitude scientific balloon payloads to absorb the impact of landing from a parachute descent. You don't have to put too many of them under several thousand pounds of experiment and gondola. Here is a (not so good) picture of one example. The cardboard provides a very nice low-gee impact.
You probably need to factor in the fact that it is a local story in the NYC market. In my opinion, anything that happens in the NYC market gets amplified much more than other stories based on the fact that NYC is the center of media coverage.
Years ago there was someone around here who used to love to argue and there would be these long tangent threads on whatever subject. He used to post anonymously and give supporting opinions. He got busted for it because he forgot to click the post anonymous on one of his posts, which went something like "I think Mr. Smith makes a great point..." It was pretty hilarious because he then went off trying to deny regularly doing that. I used to have that comment thread bookmarked on an old computer.
I read TFA and I don't see where this comes from: but would alter scientists' understanding of how stars can be powered
It sounds like Thorne and Zytkow proposed the scenario and predicted what one would observe, followed up by people like the guy quoted in the brief article (Podsiadlowski), and these astronomers are putting forth a candidate based upon their observations being similar to what the theory suggests. I'm missing the part that alters the understanding. Podsiadlowski, by the way, has been thinking about these objects for a very long time.
because consumers are rarely informed enough to purchase anything other than the least expensive (or most hyped) product.
I think they're plenty informed; I just think they don't care as long as they can get it a few pennies cheaper somewhere else and it fits in with their short-term outlook. In the 70's and 80's the autoworker unions were very militant about buying US-made cars, going so far as to ostracize their fellow workers who owned imports and made them park in lots off site of the factory. In that case you were supposed to spend more on a comparable car because they saw it as an issue that went straight to their job security. However, there was never any qualms about buying other cheaper commodities made in China and other countries. In that case you were "stretching your dollar" (those weren't their jobs) and finding great bargains and being an otherwise wise consumer.
I recall an interview with an airline executive many (20?) years ago. He said they heard and listened to customer complaints about the quality of air travel, in particular leg room. He said they tried all sorts of quality of flight improvements, including putting less seats in the plane, but in the end people made their choices largely on the price of the ticket, so they ended up going back to cramming as many seats in the plane they could.
he was an air force pilot, iam sure some of the real Air force guys here can verify that he did indeed serve
300,000 people in the Air Force. That's like finding out what state someone is from, then saying "hey, my friend Bill is from that state. Maybe you know him?"
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Nothing to prevent a restaurant arranging their ventilation similarly.
I didn't fly much as a kid, but I can certainly attest to the fact that most restaurants that we went to either did not rearrange their ventilation systems, or they did not work as intended. This was in the 1970's when it seemed like every other person smoked, and no restaurant was going to dump any extra money into their air handling systems when all they needed to do was put up a velvet rope to show you where the non-smoking section was.
If you're old enough, you might remember when airplanes had smoking and non-smoking sections separated by an imaginary barrier between two rows (restaurants used to do that too, it was like they thought there were little Maxwell's Demons whacking the smoke particles back as they tried to drift out of the smoking area). I can see the airline industry going in that direction with cell phones. Of course they'll charge extra for it, but I'm not sure if you'll have to pay more to sit there or not sit there.
Washington DC has exploding manholes now. Perhaps they know why now.
As I recall it, they wanted to test some part of the system where the the safety systems would have normally interfered, so they purposefully disabled all the automatic safety systems. The system was put into an unstable condition where the reactor design flaws became readily apparent. I would argue that it was not an unsafe reactor design, provided one operated it in the conditions for which it was designed.
A forfeiture worth ~$28M is surely news?
I think the only reason it is news on this site is that it involves bitcoin. $28M isn't too particularly noteworthy when compared to other cash seizures, particularly drug arrests. In relation to general asset seizures, Bernie Madoff's seized assets were reportedly worth around $826M.
Bugs Bunny did that to Yosemite Sam's ship in Captain Hareblower, but it is a powder room not a gas leak
inherited from old-timer UNIX neckbeards.
Old-school UNIX guys had full beards.
From Family Guy Stand By Me parody:
Peter: The year was 1955. And the voice in my head was that of Richard Dreyfuss.
Richard Dreyfuss: (narrating) I never had friends like the ones I had when I was twelve. There was me, Petey LaChance.
Petey LaChance: Anyone else fed up with this over-saturation of media? Three channels and still nothing on.
Richard Dreyfuss: (narrating) Then there was Joey Duchamp. The voice in his head was Roy Scheider.
Roy Scheider: How are you, Richard?
Dreyfuss: Fine, Roy, how are you?
Scheider: Good, good. We should grab a drink sometime and catch up, maybe reminisce about Jaws.
Dreyfuss: Great, you should give me a call sometime. My number's 555...
Scheider: Wait, wait. What? 555?
Dreyfuss: Uh, yeah.
Scheider: You know what, Richard, if you don't want to have drinks, just say so. You don't have to be a dick about it.
It is funny that 30 years later, that one-liner sticks with me more than "I'll be back" or "Hasta la vista, babay". When you say it with the Arnie accent you can't help but laugh.
Nibble Magazine used things like "Fuck You Asshole"?
I think the fast typing has less to do with attention to detail and more to do with not wanting to break the flow of the movie so that we can watch him painfully hunt-and-peck commands.
I agree that most lenses will have no problem focusing 1000 nm. The problem is trying to focus across that whole wavelength range. Decent multi-element lenses are designed to operate best in the visible, and you will not get the same kind of performance near the NIR. I learned the hard way years ago after spending the effort to optimize the focus of a camera (using a decent-quality Schneider lens), I then put a NIR long-pass filter on and, until I finally had that forehead-slapping "duh" moment", I couldn't figure out how my focus got so crappy. Fortunately, the fix for me was to just re-focus the lens and the image looked fine. As you say, a crappy lens is a crappy lens, so the effect will be less noticeable with cheaper lenses.
Another thing working against the cell phone type camera as an IR detector is that the reason silicon is not very sensitive out in those wavelengths is that most photons with those wavelengths pass through and don't interact in the material. The way to make it more sensitive towards the IR is to have a thick detector substrate; however, especially with cell phone cameras, the design is to make them as thin as possible to cut down on detector noise.
Digital cameras are very insensitive to the IR. Silicon, which is what all commercial camera sensors are made of, loses its sensitivity around 1000 nm, so photons with a longer wavelength than that generally pass through undetected (they are most sensitive around 600-ish nm, which is something like orange light). On the other hand, if you look at the spectrum of light coming from the Sun, you get the most photons around that same 600 nm wavelength (how's that for coincidence?), but you also still have a whole lot of photons flying around with wavelengths of 1000 nm and less. Camera makers put IR-blocking filters on because the optics for the cameras are optimized for visible wavelengths, so IR wavelengths will not come to a nice focus. These IR wavelengths add image blur. Some people want to pop their IR filters off because it will make their camera more sensitive, which technically is true, but you'll make your pictures look blurry unless you do something else (i.e., filters) to restrict the wavelengths of light through your optics.
You also have to be careful when you talk about the IR that these cameras can detect. What you're really talking about is very deep red, or the first parts of the NIR (near infrared) region. Most people, when they hear IR, think heat signatures, but that is not what you're dealing with here. The thermal IR is much longer wavelengths, and you'll never see that with a silicon-based camera. In fact, pure silicon is very useful as a window material for IR sensors because it is very transparent to photons at those wavelengths.
A cop in Maryland tried to enforce it and it made national news.
Corrugated cardboard has been used for decades under high-altitude scientific balloon payloads to absorb the impact of landing from a parachute descent. You don't have to put too many of them under several thousand pounds of experiment and gondola. Here is a (not so good) picture of one example. The cardboard provides a very nice low-gee impact.
You probably need to factor in the fact that it is a local story in the NYC market. In my opinion, anything that happens in the NYC market gets amplified much more than other stories based on the fact that NYC is the center of media coverage.
It is funny how they don't seem to consider the cars built in Canada foreign. :)
If you stand on it, we'll stand behind it!
Years ago there was someone around here who used to love to argue and there would be these long tangent threads on whatever subject. He used to post anonymously and give supporting opinions. He got busted for it because he forgot to click the post anonymous on one of his posts, which went something like "I think Mr. Smith makes a great point ..." It was pretty hilarious because he then went off trying to deny regularly doing that. I used to have that comment thread bookmarked on an old computer.
I have no experience to speak for his company, but he has a pretty catchy jingle on the radio.
You now have 15 seconds to comply. You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.
I read TFA and I don't see where this comes from: but would alter scientists' understanding of how stars can be powered
It sounds like Thorne and Zytkow proposed the scenario and predicted what one would observe, followed up by people like the guy quoted in the brief article (Podsiadlowski), and these astronomers are putting forth a candidate based upon their observations being similar to what the theory suggests. I'm missing the part that alters the understanding. Podsiadlowski, by the way, has been thinking about these objects for a very long time.
because consumers are rarely informed enough to purchase anything other than the least expensive (or most hyped) product.
I think they're plenty informed; I just think they don't care as long as they can get it a few pennies cheaper somewhere else and it fits in with their short-term outlook. In the 70's and 80's the autoworker unions were very militant about buying US-made cars, going so far as to ostracize their fellow workers who owned imports and made them park in lots off site of the factory. In that case you were supposed to spend more on a comparable car because they saw it as an issue that went straight to their job security. However, there was never any qualms about buying other cheaper commodities made in China and other countries. In that case you were "stretching your dollar" (those weren't their jobs) and finding great bargains and being an otherwise wise consumer.
I recall an interview with an airline executive many (20?) years ago. He said they heard and listened to customer complaints about the quality of air travel, in particular leg room. He said they tried all sorts of quality of flight improvements, including putting less seats in the plane, but in the end people made their choices largely on the price of the ticket, so they ended up going back to cramming as many seats in the plane they could.
I loved those shows. I liked Yes, Minister more than Yes, Prime Minister, but both are wonderful shows.
he was an air force pilot, iam sure some of the real Air force guys here can verify that he did indeed serve
300,000 people in the Air Force. That's like finding out what state someone is from, then saying "hey, my friend Bill is from that state. Maybe you know him?"