Not to mention that USB 1.1, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 are not equivalent to a specific speed.
Rather, USB 1.1 specifies low speed (1.5Mbit/s) and full speed (12Mbit/s), USB 2.0 adds high speed (480Mbit/s), and USB 3.0 adds superspeed (5.0Gbit/s). But you can very well have e.g. a USB 2.0-compliant device that works only at full speed.
Small correction: CHF 500 banknotes do not exist. There are CHF 100, 200 and 1000 notes. 100s are very common, 200s not so much and 1000s quite common in certain transactions (e.g. when you buy a used car from a private person, or older people doing cash only and who get their full salary or pension in cash from their bank account at the beginning of the month).
Actually, 1V can never kill you, because the resistance of your body will always be too high to allow a current strong enough to kill you. Electrical safety standards usually fix the danger limit at 50V, which is the lowest voltage that could potentially kill you in some circumstances.
True, but then you are limited to charging at 100 mA (or 500 if you cheat the USB spec), as higher currents require data pins so that the device can detect how much it can draw. See: https://www.maximintegrated.co...
Actually, the engine case is designed to withstand blade failures, including fan blades, compressor blades and turbine blades, but not disc failures. Usually, discs fail when the engine is overspeed, when the centrifugal forces are higher than what the disc was designed to withstand. This is why the ECU/FADEC/EEC will shut the engine down immediately when it detects an overspeed condition on any of the shafts.
The case of QF32 you cite was indeed a disc failure. You can see a section of the failed disc here. The turbine blades were mounted in the notches you can see on the outer diameter of the disc. The disc punctured through the wing (including the fuel tank), as you can see here and here.
You do have to switch trains in Paris, but it is far from simple, the Eurostar from London arriving in the Gare du Nord, and the TGV Lyria to Geneva departing from the Gare de Lyon, a few miles south.
After going through the turbine, the steam is condensated to water, creating vacuum at the turbine "output", and thus increasing its efficiency. That's why improving condensation improves the turbine efficiency as well.
The article mentions "electric power companies have been looking to thermal power generation for their supplies", but it's not clear what that means - geothermal?
You don't need to reduce your living space or reduce climate control to reduce your CO2 emissions. Just having higher standards for thermal insulation and heating/cooling of houses can reduce the energy consumption of the average crappy American house by 75% (note: almost all the buildings in the US have a very poor energy efficiency). Thicker and more efficient insulation layers in the walls/roof/floor, double glazing with good sealing for the windows, a condensing boiler (or better: a heat pump) for heating and hot water, a few thermal solar cells on the roof, and a reasonably efficient air conditioning: these things will probably add 10-15% to the total construction cost of a house, but will easily be amortized over 2 decades (just by the reduced energy consumption).
And regarding the other things like walking instead of driving, that's riduculous. Just begin by buying a car with a reasonable gas milage (hint: you don't need a 5000-lb vehicle with a 5000cc engine to go to work every day). And support an improvement of mass transit where it is sound (hint: using mass transit actually supports it).
Eating less meat, yeah, that's probably a good thing to do. But the good news is: you can eat better meat. Eat 2 filet mignon per week instead of 8 burgers.
The AF447 crash shows exactly the opposite of what you are trying to demonstrate. The auto-pilot disconnected as soon as the Pitot tubes started giving invalid indications. The pilots had full control of the aircraft until the end, but they just did panicked and failed to realize that the airspeed data were invalid. All the other sensors indicated that they were about to stall, but they kept on pulling up to reduce airspeed, thinking they were in overspeed.
The only thing that the flight control computer could be blamed for was to stop issuing stall warnings when the angle of attack became so high (due to the pilots' crazy actions) that it thought it was erroneous.
Had the computer been in full control, AF447 would probably never have crashed.
3) auto deaths generally - but not always - include pedistrian deaths which can inflate the number 10-15%
4) air deaths do not generally include people killed by airplanes (9/11) only the passengers
I don't think the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing were counted as road deaths, even though the bomb was in a van. On the other hand, people killed on the ground during the Concorde crash in Paris CDG were counted as victims. Some of your arguments are flawed.
Kind of true.The section of the 405 Elon Musk drives every day is the most congested of all, though.
Have a look at traffic information on Google Maps. Right now (5:05pm local time), more than half of the distance between Hawthorne and Bel Air is red or black. The estimated time for that drive is 27 min, but 55 in the current traffic. And it is the same every day of the week.
I still find the money would be better invested in expanding the rail/subway network. How many lanes can you add to a freeway before it becomes ridiculously dangerous? There are already 17 lanes on some sections of the I-5 over here...
Quite impressive, but it is important to note that only images with very little noise are presented. I doubt an image from an average video surveillance camera (usually pretty noisy) can be enhanced that much, if at all.
I did not step out in front of a moving car, I stepped out 100 yards from a moving car. When you are on a main street and there is a secondary street with a stop sign crossing the street you are on, do you stop to make sure that car 100 yards away from the stop sign will indeed stop?
And on what planet do you live where there are parked cars and/or trees on the whole length of pedestrian crossings? Traffic must not be very fluid.
My point is, I am tired of this category of drivers who don't give a shit about anything or anybody but themselves and make the road a dangerous place. The worse part is that they partly act like that to keep pedestrians, bicycles etc away from the streets because they are too selfish to share them with anybody else.
I was sober. I did look carefully before crossing and saw the car about 100 yards away. Considering its speed, the driver had plenty of time to stop by braking only mildly. Actually he could probably have reduced his speed without stopping and I would have had more than enough time to cross. But he thought he was such a great driver that he did not actually need to keep his eyes on the road at all time, but it was ok to change a CD or dial a phone number or whatever other stupid crap he did not really dare to deny.
Plus, it happened in a country where cars must yield to pedestrians about to engage on a crossing in all cases. A pedestrian crossing is like a yield sign for cars over here.
So the only thing I did wrong is assuming the driver would yield, since he had plenty of time to do so and there was no reason at all for not seeing me.
Now stop pulling dumb statistics out of your ass to try to tell me that I am at fault.
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The probability of failure is given per flight hour. The article is inaccurate regarding this value. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There is a Google Maps Go app, which is supposed to be lighter than the regular Google Maps. I have never tried it, though.
Not to mention that USB 1.1, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 are not equivalent to a specific speed. Rather, USB 1.1 specifies low speed (1.5Mbit/s) and full speed (12Mbit/s), USB 2.0 adds high speed (480Mbit/s), and USB 3.0 adds superspeed (5.0Gbit/s). But you can very well have e.g. a USB 2.0-compliant device that works only at full speed.
It was more likely a 1,000 note, as 10,000 ones do not exist (and never have).
Small correction: CHF 500 banknotes do not exist. There are CHF 100, 200 and 1000 notes. 100s are very common, 200s not so much and 1000s quite common in certain transactions (e.g. when you buy a used car from a private person, or older people doing cash only and who get their full salary or pension in cash from their bank account at the beginning of the month).
Actually, 1V can never kill you, because the resistance of your body will always be too high to allow a current strong enough to kill you. Electrical safety standards usually fix the danger limit at 50V, which is the lowest voltage that could potentially kill you in some circumstances.
True, but then you are limited to charging at 100 mA (or 500 if you cheat the USB spec), as higher currents require data pins so that the device can detect how much it can draw.
See:
https://www.maximintegrated.co...
"also, fuck you, developers."
Shouldn't that be:
"also, fuck you, developers, developers, developers" ?
Actually, the engine case is designed to withstand blade failures, including fan blades, compressor blades and turbine blades, but not disc failures. Usually, discs fail when the engine is overspeed, when the centrifugal forces are higher than what the disc was designed to withstand. This is why the ECU/FADEC/EEC will shut the engine down immediately when it detects an overspeed condition on any of the shafts.
The case of QF32 you cite was indeed a disc failure. You can see a section of the failed disc here. The turbine blades were mounted in the notches you can see on the outer diameter of the disc. The disc punctured through the wing (including the fuel tank), as you can see here and here.
You do have to switch trains in Paris, but it is far from simple, the Eurostar from London arriving in the Gare du Nord, and the TGV Lyria to Geneva departing from the Gare de Lyon, a few miles south.
Err, the Eurostar goes from London to Paris, not Geneva...
Multiply that by 3.3, and it seems very high.
It is, indeed, very high, but still true.
After going through the turbine, the steam is condensated to water, creating vacuum at the turbine "output", and thus increasing its efficiency. That's why improving condensation improves the turbine efficiency as well.
The article mentions "electric power companies have been looking to thermal power generation for their supplies", but it's not clear what that means - geothermal?
No, thermal usually means coal.
Yeah, that is a valid comparison, because it is well known that gasoline flies by itself from refineries to gas stations, right ?
This is utterly wrong!
You don't need to reduce your living space or reduce climate control to reduce your CO2 emissions. Just having higher standards for thermal insulation and heating/cooling of houses can reduce the energy consumption of the average crappy American house by 75% (note: almost all the buildings in the US have a very poor energy efficiency). Thicker and more efficient insulation layers in the walls/roof/floor, double glazing with good sealing for the windows, a condensing boiler (or better: a heat pump) for heating and hot water, a few thermal solar cells on the roof, and a reasonably efficient air conditioning: these things will probably add 10-15% to the total construction cost of a house, but will easily be amortized over 2 decades (just by the reduced energy consumption).
And regarding the other things like walking instead of driving, that's riduculous. Just begin by buying a car with a reasonable gas milage (hint: you don't need a 5000-lb vehicle with a 5000cc engine to go to work every day). And support an improvement of mass transit where it is sound (hint: using mass transit actually supports it).
Eating less meat, yeah, that's probably a good thing to do. But the good news is: you can eat better meat. Eat 2 filet mignon per week instead of 8 burgers.
Correct, but 1W is still 4 orders of magnitude higher than the 0.1mW clamed by the OP...
Untrue.
Cell phones have a peak emission power of up to 3W and usually transmit a few 100s of mW.
Source: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/EbruBek.shtml
The AF447 crash shows exactly the opposite of what you are trying to demonstrate. The auto-pilot disconnected as soon as the Pitot tubes started giving invalid indications. The pilots had full control of the aircraft until the end, but they just did panicked and failed to realize that the airspeed data were invalid. All the other sensors indicated that they were about to stall, but they kept on pulling up to reduce airspeed, thinking they were in overspeed.
The only thing that the flight control computer could be blamed for was to stop issuing stall warnings when the angle of attack became so high (due to the pilots' crazy actions) that it thought it was erroneous.
Had the computer been in full control, AF447 would probably never have crashed.
3) auto deaths generally - but not always - include pedistrian deaths which can inflate the number 10-15%
4) air deaths do not generally include people killed by airplanes (9/11) only the passengers
I don't think the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing were counted as road deaths, even though the bomb was in a van. On the other hand, people killed on the ground during the Concorde crash in Paris CDG were counted as victims. Some of your arguments are flawed.
I live and work in south Orange County, so I don't take the 405 every day, thanks God.
Shifting job hours can indeed be beneficial, but most employers won't allow it (this does not apply to Elon, though).
BTW, Westlake Village to El Segundo must have been a horrible drive to do every day. Happy for you that you don't do it anymore, really.
Kind of true.The section of the 405 Elon Musk drives every day is the most congested of all, though. Have a look at traffic information on Google Maps. Right now (5:05pm local time), more than half of the distance between Hawthorne and Bel Air is red or black. The estimated time for that drive is 27 min, but 55 in the current traffic. And it is the same every day of the week.
I still find the money would be better invested in expanding the rail/subway network. How many lanes can you add to a freeway before it becomes ridiculously dangerous? There are already 17 lanes on some sections of the I-5 over here...
Quite impressive, but it is important to note that only images with very little noise are presented. I doubt an image from an average video surveillance camera (usually pretty noisy) can be enhanced that much, if at all.
What?
I did not step out in front of a moving car, I stepped out 100 yards from a moving car. When you are on a main street and there is a secondary street with a stop sign crossing the street you are on, do you stop to make sure that car 100 yards away from the stop sign will indeed stop?
And on what planet do you live where there are parked cars and/or trees on the whole length of pedestrian crossings? Traffic must not be very fluid.
My point is, I am tired of this category of drivers who don't give a shit about anything or anybody but themselves and make the road a dangerous place. The worse part is that they partly act like that to keep pedestrians, bicycles etc away from the streets because they are too selfish to share them with anybody else.
Well tried, but failed:
I was sober. I did look carefully before crossing and saw the car about 100 yards away. Considering its speed, the driver had plenty of time to stop by braking only mildly. Actually he could probably have reduced his speed without stopping and I would have had more than enough time to cross. But he thought he was such a great driver that he did not actually need to keep his eyes on the road at all time, but it was ok to change a CD or dial a phone number or whatever other stupid crap he did not really dare to deny.
Plus, it happened in a country where cars must yield to pedestrians about to engage on a crossing in all cases. A pedestrian crossing is like a yield sign for cars over here.
So the only thing I did wrong is assuming the driver would yield, since he had plenty of time to do so and there was no reason at all for not seeing me.
Now stop pulling dumb statistics out of your ass to try to tell me that I am at fault.