There's an old saying that no matter how good a driver you are, you have to worry about all the other idiots on the road. However you still have some degree of control; I can to a certain extent spot crap drivers and give them a wide berth, or be mentally prepared for their craptitude which can shave a litle off the reaction time when I need to take evasive action.
Weren't we talking about space debris?
If a lump of random spacecrap is going to land on you, it's going to land on you. There's sod all you can do about it. I doubt the prediction is timely and accurate enough that you could get the heck away or shelter in a basement when it hits.
Since we are talking about kids that don't have the same kind of responsibility and rights as adults do, their guardians should be the ones to set the rules. Not the state.
The teenagers can basically blame the parents that didn't give a fuck. I'll bet you that a strong correspondence exists between those parents and their kids causing problems worse than T-P-ing/eggings.
Ironic isn't it that some people who so easily dismiss decades of research by thousands of scientists will so willingly glom onto one report that might ever so slightly support their lifestyle choice?
From my reading of the Wikipedia article (and this is my introduction to sun-synchronous orbit, so I could be wrong), the neat part is that wherever the satellite is overhead, it's at the same point in time.
Again from Wikipedia, GeoEye-1's orbit is 10:30 am sun-synchronous...I think those shadows look like about 10:30 AM in the autumn.
Congratulations, Sherlock. It is Autumn. FTA:
GeoEye-1 was launched Sept. 6 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and has been going through calibration and check-out since it was launched. This week, the satellite returned its first images.
Either his campaign is hiring them, or someone who supports him is spending a HELL of a lot of money (and violating campaign finance laws) hiring them.
I don't vote for spammers or corrupt chicago crooks. Therefore, I won't vote Obama.
Oh yeah, absolutely. It couldn't possibly be a Freeper Joe-job.
In my opinion, the central cause of all of those abuses of the Constitution is the federal income tax. The SCOTUS has upheld the constitutionality of the income tax and, therefore, all other usurpations of authority follow.
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.
Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
The SCOTUS doesn't have to uphold nothing. It's in there.
The crew bailed out and some of the survivors walked over a hundred miles in the scorching desert
By "over" you of course mean "under", right?
"crew members trekked 85 miles north to the point at which the remains were found;"
It established the fact that the crew bailed out at 2:00 A.M. on 5 April 1943; that Lieutenant John S. Woravka, the bombardier, failed to join the main team after bailout; that eight of the crew members trekked 85 miles north to the point at which the remains were found; and that Sergeants Shelley, Moore and Ripslinger continued on in search of help while Lieutenants Hatton, Toner, Hays and Sergeants Adams and LaMotte waited, too exhausted to continue....
On 12 May 1960, a British Petroleum Company work party in the area discovered Staff Sergeant Guy E. Shelley 21 miles northwest of the location of the first five crewmembers....
On 17 May, one the the helicopters conducting an air sweep spotted the remains of Technical Sergeant Harold J. Ripslinger on the eastern slope of a high dune. He had been located an additional 26 miles north of Sergeant Shelley....
In August 1960 another British Petroleum team discovered remains of Lieutenant John S. Woravka who had failed to link up with the other eight....
Unfortunately, one crew member, Staff Sergeant V.L. Moore was not found.
Here's the actual news report on this. Don't slap your wife around if you're defraying your disposables costs from work. Apparently, the prosecution did do the "street value" crap on the reporter
Wife's call leads authorities to huge Navy crime
October 1, 2008 - 10:36am
Scott McCabe and Bill Myers
Examiner Staff Writers
After Victor Papagno Jr. was arrested on a domestic violence charge in August 2007, his wife, Andrea, told his bosses at the Naval Research Laboratory that she wanted his work stuff out of the house, federal sources said.
Navy officials didn't know what she was talking about.
When they showed up at the Papagno's Calvert County home, authorities found a crime scene: 19,709 pieces of stolen computer equipment from the Navy lab - hard drives, CDs, zip drives, floppy disks - worth up to $1.6 million, according to court documents and Navy officials.
Papagno, 40, the computer administrator for the Navy research lab, had accumulated so much hardware that some of the boxes had to be stored at neighbors' homes, sources close to the investigation told The Examiner.
Victor Papagno is scheduled to appear today in a federal courtroom in the District to plead guilty to theft of government property. His attorney, Thomas Joseph Kelly Jr., said the plea agreement was "fragile" and he could not comment about the case.
The NRL, the research lab for the Navy and Marine Corps located on Overlook Avenue in Southwest Washington, conducts scientific research and develops technologies. The lab is credited with the development of radar, the proposal for the first nuclear submarine, and the creation of the satellite system that provided the basis for the Global Positioning System.
NRL spokesman Dick Thompson said that no secret technological information had been breached in the computer equipment theft.
A review found that the private information of 14 employees and contractors who worked at the laboratory from 1998 to 2002 had been found on CDs or zip drives, and those people were contacted, Thompson said.
According to charging documents, from 1997 to 2007, Papagno took the equipment home for his own personal use and for family and friends, court documents said.
Papagno, who started working for NRL in 1989, resigned on Aug. 20, Thompson said.
That was three days after his arrest for domestic violence. His wife dropped the charges.
Just as Al Gore did not claim to invent the internet, Americans did not hand out smallpox laden blankets in a genocidal fashion. In every case, suspected or documented, it was a British officer. Amherst is the most famous case and he is the namesake of the American university, but he was a British officer working for the king. The native population mostly came out short on the germ exchange. Europeans got Syphilis, they got smallpox. The Trail of Tears was not a happy incident, but it was not deliberate genocide. The Bureau of Indian Affairs did do their damnedest to try to wipe out their culture. The Spanish on the other hand....
Not My Computer. That's what I'd imagine is going on in the subjects' heads. Here they are brought in to a professionally made and run computer lab. They are given a task and in the course of completing that task something mildly interfering happens. They dispatch the interference in order to continue with the assigned task and that action had no bad consequences. Seems like a poorly designed study to me.
A low- or medium-earth orbit would be useful for resupplying the ISS and launching other space craft. Once you're at that height they use their own thrust system.
It takes more energy to change the plane of an orbit than the size or eccentricity. This is why the ISS isn't a lifeboat for a Hubble mission and more basically why they have to take off at a certain time when aiming at an orbit other the latitude they are at.
maintaining geosynchronous orbit while tethered to the ground is not a good idea.
Sorry dude but that is the whole idea that makes it work.
there are so many factors that could turn a space elevator into a complete disaster. a cat-4 or 5 hurricane could potentially put so much drag onto the cable that the whole thing tumbles to earth.
Since you have it in GEO, it is tethered at the equator. Tropical cyclones(of which a hurricane/typhoon/cyclone is the extreme case) generally can't form within 5 degrees (300mi) of the equator. They require the coriolis force to initiate rotation and that's what gets the heat engine going. There are storms in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, but they are relatively small and a mobile sea platform should be able to avoid the worst of them. In addition, the equatorial zone's wet season is very short. In addition to that, there are very well known areas in the Pacific that see almost no storm activity at all.
an earthquake could yank it out of orbit.
Not if it's on a mobile sea platform. Even were it land-based, what's a couple feet of horizontal displacement on a 22,000 mile tether? As for tsunami, mid-ocean, they're only a couple cm tall and very long wavelength.
tidal pulls from the moon could rip it from the ground.
The tidal influence of the moon is very small 1/9,000,000 compared to earth's gravity. It doesn't pull the water away from the earth so much as drag it around in a heap like dirt swept before a broom. Other geostationary satellites don't get pulled out of orbit, why would the space counterweight?
lightning damage.
I don't have an answer for that one. Liftport does, however. Basically, they say, they'll stay out of the way just as with objects in orbit. In addition, they say that current materials could be used, but the mass required would make the thing financially infeasible.
i'd love to see this become a reality, but i just dont think that will happen.
5-1/4 years and about a hundred demonstrated examples of its place in pop culture and why?...
The Elvis lives conspiracy theory is discussed in the Elvis Presley phenomenon article. The "Media examples" is purely a trivia list. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 15:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Never mind that there were only two votes delete, two to redirect, and two to keep. The mentioned "Elvis Presley phenomenon" article contains a verrrry long list of singles that were released under his name till 30 years after his death including rereleases.
I find it hard to believe anyone would consider deleting this article. Elvis sightings are a widely-known phenomenon and figure as largely in popular culture as Catholic saint apparitions. They have been continuing for at least 20 years and there are several websites devoted to the phenomenon. They can conceivably be considered distinctly separate from the "Elvis lives" conspiracy theory, as many of the "sighters" are not subscribers to any particular theory about Elvis. At any rate, readers may want to consult a catalog of sightings not unlike a discography or list of tour dates. I think the article should stay although I can't comment on revisions
This week we're spewing our hate by posting shocking allegations on the internet saying that the majority of illegal immigrants in the United States are hispanic. Can you believe our ignorance?
It may have changed post 9/11, but traditionally, the majority of illegals in the US have been white europeans with expired visas.
So, for example, people might be far more concerned about being killed in a 9/11 repeat (5000 people) rather than in an automobile accident (~20,000 p/yr), despite the latter being far more of a risk to them.
The difference is that one is a background risk of being a participating member of society that you have some degree of control over, the other is an exceptional, even singular event controlled only by the malice of others and chance. That doesn't mean the fear is rational or even needs to be rational.
really? Because bash.org has a perfect stupidity case to prove you wrong for some of the populous.
since bash.org is currently down I'll post the quote instead of the link. Any mod is welcome and requested to edit my quote to just the link if they notice the site come back up.
gentoogod: omg dude
gentoogod: today i might the stupidest 3 people i ever met
gentoogod: thier 3 brains combined couldnt solve the dilemma they faced today
siral21: what was it
gentoogod: ok before i say this
gentoogod: 100% true, not one second of a lie
gentoogod: this lady went into mcdonalds today and ordered a big mac for her
gentoogod: and ordered 2 mcgrittles one for each kid. one had bacon one without
gentoogod: her sons are around 18 or 19 so not infants
gentoogod: she went to the counter furious cause the son that wanted bacon has no bacon on his and the one that didnt want bacon has bacon on his
gentoogod: i fell on the floor beside her and couldnt stop laughing
gentoogod: so i finally stood up and asked her to repeat, thinking maybe shes drunk
gentoogod: i swear to god she looked at me straight faced and repeated it. and her 2 sons were beside her mad that they didnt get the order they wanted
Are you posting for irony's sake? I ask because that doesn't make any sense in any fashion.
Oh, and it's populace, not populous, The first is a noun, the second is an adjective that means 'containing many people'.
now I have to run and hide from the spelling nazis.
Hey, at least loose makes some sense in that context. It's the striping of the atmosphere that has me perplexed. Horizontal stripes are gonna make the equatorial bulge really stand out. Look at Saturn!
Apollo 13's RTG (radioactive thermo-electric generator) is still chugging away on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, not too far off the coast of CA, after falling, uncontrolled, from space.
I'm not sure if you're trying to be ironic and ding "California hippies" or something, but the lunar module, still containing the RTG was intentionally deorbited to splashdown over the Tonga Trench. That's just about 60 degrees South and 60 degrees West of California. That's pretty far off the coast.
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This got modded to +3 informative, how?
Weren't we talking about space debris?
Oh yeah, we were.
No. He simply assumed the title Timothy pasted onto it was correct and didn't bother to read the summary or TFA. Just like Timothy.
The teenagers can basically blame the parents that didn't give a fuck. I'll bet you that a strong correspondence exists between those parents and their kids causing problems worse than T-P-ing/eggings.
Ironic isn't it that some people who so easily dismiss decades of research by thousands of scientists will so willingly glom onto one report that might ever so slightly support their lifestyle choice?
Congratulations, Sherlock. It is Autumn. FTA:
What exactly was your point?
Oh yeah, absolutely. It couldn't possibly be a Freeper Joe-job.
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The SCOTUS doesn't have to uphold nothing. It's in there.
85+21+26+?>100
There's medication for that.
Just as Al Gore did not claim to invent the internet, Americans did not hand out smallpox laden blankets in a genocidal fashion. In every case, suspected or documented, it was a British officer. Amherst is the most famous case and he is the namesake of the American university, but he was a British officer working for the king. The native population mostly came out short on the germ exchange. Europeans got Syphilis, they got smallpox. The Trail of Tears was not a happy incident, but it was not deliberate genocide. The Bureau of Indian Affairs did do their damnedest to try to wipe out their culture. The Spanish on the other hand....
Not My Computer. That's what I'd imagine is going on in the subjects' heads. Here they are brought in to a professionally made and run computer lab. They are given a task and in the course of completing that task something mildly interfering happens. They dispatch the interference in order to continue with the assigned task and that action had no bad consequences. Seems like a poorly designed study to me.
No. Bigger stick to beat them with.
It takes more energy to change the plane of an orbit than the size or eccentricity. This is why the ISS isn't a lifeboat for a Hubble mission and more basically why they have to take off at a certain time when aiming at an orbit other the latitude they are at.
Sorry dude but that is the whole idea that makes it work.
Since you have it in GEO, it is tethered at the equator. Tropical cyclones(of which a hurricane/typhoon/cyclone is the extreme case) generally can't form within 5 degrees (300mi) of the equator. They require the coriolis force to initiate rotation and that's what gets the heat engine going. There are storms in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, but they are relatively small and a mobile sea platform should be able to avoid the worst of them. In addition, the equatorial zone's wet season is very short. In addition to that, there are very well known areas in the Pacific that see almost no storm activity at all.
Not if it's on a mobile sea platform. Even were it land-based, what's a couple feet of horizontal displacement on a 22,000 mile tether? As for tsunami, mid-ocean, they're only a couple cm tall and very long wavelength.
The tidal influence of the moon is very small 1/9,000,000 compared to earth's gravity. It doesn't pull the water away from the earth so much as drag it around in a heap like dirt swept before a broom. Other geostationary satellites don't get pulled out of orbit, why would the space counterweight?
I don't have an answer for that one. Liftport does, however. Basically, they say, they'll stay out of the way just as with objects in orbit. In addition, they say that current materials could be used, but the mass required would make the thing financially infeasible.
I have more faith in materials science.
5-1/4 years and about a hundred demonstrated examples of its place in pop culture and why?...
Never mind that there were only two votes delete, two to redirect, and two to keep. The mentioned "Elvis Presley phenomenon" article contains a verrrry long list of singles that were released under his name till 30 years after his death including rereleases.
Unreal. Stifle, indeed.
It may have changed post 9/11, but traditionally, the majority of illegals in the US have been white europeans with expired visas.
That would actually make sense with the addition of a single comma. On the face of it anyways.
The difference is that one is a background risk of being a participating member of society that you have some degree of control over, the other is an exceptional, even singular event controlled only by the malice of others and chance. That doesn't mean the fear is rational or even needs to be rational.
Gates married the project lead. He's had 3 kids with her. What's this last chance thing?
Are you posting for irony's sake? I ask because that doesn't make any sense in any fashion. Oh, and it's populace, not populous, The first is a noun, the second is an adjective that means 'containing many people'.
Hey, at least loose makes some sense in that context. It's the striping of the atmosphere that has me perplexed. Horizontal stripes are gonna make the equatorial bulge really stand out. Look at Saturn!
Would it be shorter to say that anarchy devolves to feudalism?
I'm not sure if you're trying to be ironic and ding "California hippies" or something, but the lunar module, still containing the RTG was intentionally deorbited to splashdown over the Tonga Trench. That's just about 60 degrees South and 60 degrees West of California. That's pretty far off the coast.