http://www1.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43_gwr.html This site seems to suggest the official record is mach 6.8316 and has a picture of the guiness book of records certificate to confirm it. I remember watching videos on this stuff years ago and they were talking about reaching just over mach 6 so it irked me a bit when they said the official record was 3.3:(
Damn you Americans and your low latency connections, I'm lucky to get under 300ms to most game servers (500+ for World of Warcraft) and I am on adsl with no interleaving.
This is retarded... How many billions of dollars does the American government spend on their military and state dinners and bombing middle eastern nations and weapons to blow up said middle eastern nations and all that other bollocks? But when it comes to defending their own stupid laws oh no the money has to come out of the poor peoples pockets.
And to all those saying that people on welfare need to get a job, have you ever been on welfare? In my country our welfare pays a bit more and I still wouldn't be able to feed myself if I were on welfare. You can be damn sure they are trying to get a job but who is going to hire someone who is so poor they can't even dress properly? No one defends the poor because they can't offer you anything in return.
I think we're all missing an important issue here and that is, politicians no matter where they live are still politicians. Lying, cheating, scum of the world.
I am currently working as an IT Techie in a tasmanian school, it has been a real eye opener for me. The attitudes that teachers have towards other staff members, other teachers and students are all different. I agree with the statement further up the page that teachers have complexes, there must be something in the way they are trained that breeds it. Not to mention their complete lack of common sense when it comes to technology (can't operate a god damned power point???)
That being said not all teachers are bad, just most. And unfortunately the bad ones stand out more than the good ones, also there is a huge difference between high school teachers and college teachers (in this state year 11 & 12 is seperate from 7-10 and we call it college). And as for the comment that they get payed bugger all for a stressful job, they get more than twice my pay in their first year plus they get 3 months holiday to relieve all that "stress". It's always amusing come christmas time when they ask what i'm doing with my 2 months holidays and I tell them that I only have a couple of weeks that aren't all paid holidays.
The bottom line is that teachers aren't the same as other people, most of them have never been out of the education system in their entire lives and that can't be healthy.
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http://www1.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43_gwr.html :(
This site seems to suggest the official record is mach 6.8316 and has a picture of the guiness book of records certificate to confirm it. I remember watching videos on this stuff years ago and they were talking about reaching just over mach 6 so it irked me a bit when they said the official record was 3.3
Damn you Americans and your low latency connections, I'm lucky to get under 300ms to most game servers (500+ for World of Warcraft) and I am on adsl with no interleaving.
This is retarded... How many billions of dollars does the American government spend on their military and state dinners and bombing middle eastern nations and weapons to blow up said middle eastern nations and all that other bollocks? But when it comes to defending their own stupid laws oh no the money has to come out of the poor peoples pockets.
And to all those saying that people on welfare need to get a job, have you ever been on welfare? In my country our welfare pays a bit more and I still wouldn't be able to feed myself if I were on welfare. You can be damn sure they are trying to get a job but who is going to hire someone who is so poor they can't even dress properly? No one defends the poor because they can't offer you anything in return.
Just my 2cents
I think we're all missing an important issue here and that is, politicians no matter where they live are still politicians. Lying, cheating, scum of the world.
I am currently working as an IT Techie in a tasmanian school, it has been a real eye opener for me. The attitudes that teachers have towards other staff members, other teachers and students are all different. I agree with the statement further up the page that teachers have complexes, there must be something in the way they are trained that breeds it. Not to mention their complete lack of common sense when it comes to technology (can't operate a god damned power point???)
That being said not all teachers are bad, just most. And unfortunately the bad ones stand out more than the good ones, also there is a huge difference between high school teachers and college teachers (in this state year 11 & 12 is seperate from 7-10 and we call it college). And as for the comment that they get payed bugger all for a stressful job, they get more than twice my pay in their first year plus they get 3 months holiday to relieve all that "stress". It's always amusing come christmas time when they ask what i'm doing with my 2 months holidays and I tell them that I only have a couple of weeks that aren't all paid holidays.
The bottom line is that teachers aren't the same as other people, most of them have never been out of the education system in their entire lives and that can't be healthy.