in the UK in 2008 petrol was 89p/litre. April this year, it spiked to £1.42, now it's down to £1.33... crude is at US$20/barrel (what?? I remember not so long ago it was over US$110!) and it's definitely going up again in August by 5p/litre - pretty much wiping out the reduction in pump prices we've had over the last two months as the oil giants will use it as an excuse to gouge the fuck out of us..
by literal definition, all our cultivated crops *are* genetically modified. From high-yield wheat and rice crops, to triticale* and rape, to grapes and oranges, apples and potatoes. All selected for yield, biomass, taste, texture, use in processed food and in their raw forms, we as a species have been fucking with genetics in levels from cross-pollination to interbreeding animals and injecting chromosomes into cells in the lab, for thousands of years.
*an entirely manmade hybrid of durum wheat and rye, developed in a lab in the late 19th Century to try and come up with a cereal crop that was high yield but with low collateral biomass. It worked, and is still cultivated today in Canada.
It proved no such thing. FYI, the ALTB Project headed up by Boeing proved that a moving beam firing system (mounted on an aircraft) could hit and disable the ascent stage of a ballistic missile. Then the funding was pulled. It was far from orbital, as was the target. This was *not* a demonstration of viability of *orbital* beam weapons platforms.
you can point them in any direction you like, that doesn't necessarily make them instantly dangerous.
GRASER emitters (gamma ray beam weapons) would be good in space because they have no atmosphere to punch through. You could kill a satellite with one of those pretty much at line-of-sight range. Point one downward, and it wouldn't bother a plane cruising at 37,000 feet - because it has miles of lovely gamma-absorbing atmosphere to punch through first! Laser beams would scatter too much to be any problem by the time they hit the surface (the lunar ranging experiment uses a green laser to bounce off the mirror left on the moon by Apollo. By the time the 10mm-emitted beam hits the lunar surface it's 17km wide - almost entirely caused by atmospheric scatter in the first 14 miles of its journey).
Of course this is a death proof car, I didn't lie to you about that. But, to actually gain benefit of it being death proof, you have to be sitting... where I'm sitting!
...considering Bose have single-driver units that fill a room, and I have a pair of headphones made by Angle & Curve (with one driver either side) which, with the softHD sound processor in my netbook, gives me "virtual" surround that sounds every bit as good as my acoustically balanced 5.1 PC setup.
...Eyeball Mk. I. You should supervise children that young on the internet at ALL TIMES.Reliance on software or any other technology to babysit for you is an invitation for FAILURE.
...and not a single one attributable to equipment failure due to poor design or normal fatigue. Challenger was the result of poor management*. Columbia was the result of failure to inspect launch damage that was *known about* **. Apollo 1 was the result of a decision to use pure oxygen instead of N-O mix in 79/21 ratio such as we have here on Earth (which was rectified after the pad fire).
*Thiokol said "do not launch, we cannot vouch for the performance of seals at subzero temperatures", but NASA management ordered the launch anyway. **A suitcase-sized piece of foam broke off the ET soon after liftoff. The cause of the breakoff was attributed to freezing; such event was seen as unavoidable, but in my mind the least that could have happened was the order given to perform a visual inspection via EVA or using the RMA camera, which would have been able to angle to the damaged section, all while the shuttle was still docked to the ISS. I said on the day of the launch that Columbia wasn't landing in one piece. At least if the crew had stayed on the ISS (however uncomfortable that may have been for a few days/weeks) and jettisoned the demonstrably useless and hazardous shuttle to burn up on its own (it has a remote control so it would have been no problem to bring it in for a burn/splashdown in the middle of the Pacific), then a rescue/recovery mission for the crew would have just been a matter of warming up the VAB and strapping one of the other orbiters to an ET...
I wouldn't trust a mass produced suit. When a suit isn't made from the getgo to fit the intended wearer like a glove, quality control suffers. Loose stitching, odd frays... the old Nike Creep gets in there, and we have tourists depressurising. Messy.
..."A billion Dollars worth of hardware, held aloft by a five Dollar breaker switch."
I don't remember where I heard/read it, but it made me laugh.
But seriously, are you going to go with the lowest bidder? I would want the job doing by someone who knows what they're doing, not by someone who's desperate to close a contract. NASA have, demonstrably, several decades of experience in manned spaceflight, and of the equipment and systems used, and the companies to go to to fulfill their requirements. I'd rather go to Thiokol for rockets than Estes. FFD can keep their cabin suits - which are not designed for hard vacuum - and I'll stick with an Orlan MK or an EMU.
this got me wondering if this is a poor attempt at distraction, since modern dry batteries use lithium. There is an obscene amount of lithium in Afghanistan. Enough to ensure the financial stability of a medium sized country. Or offset the military expenditure of a large one.
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1in=25.4mm
1m=39.37in=3ft 3.37in
1 mile=1.602km=5280ft
are we clear?
in the UK in 2008 petrol was 89p/litre. April this year, it spiked to £1.42, now it's down to £1.33... crude is at US$20/barrel (what?? I remember not so long ago it was over US$110!) and it's definitely going up again in August by 5p/litre - pretty much wiping out the reduction in pump prices we've had over the last two months as the oil giants will use it as an excuse to gouge the fuck out of us..
Or wholesale? FP, by the way.
by literal definition, all our cultivated crops *are* genetically modified. From high-yield wheat and rice crops, to triticale* and rape, to grapes and oranges, apples and potatoes. All selected for yield, biomass, taste, texture, use in processed food and in their raw forms, we as a species have been fucking with genetics in levels from cross-pollination to interbreeding animals and injecting chromosomes into cells in the lab, for thousands of years.
*an entirely manmade hybrid of durum wheat and rye, developed in a lab in the late 19th Century to try and come up with a cereal crop that was high yield but with low collateral biomass. It worked, and is still cultivated today in Canada.
cherry stones, apple pips, orange pips... most fruit seeds have prussic acid in them.
yes. I have this on my server, if anyone wants I can set it on a tracker - it's public domain so no problem.
It proved no such thing. FYI, the ALTB Project headed up by Boeing proved that a moving beam firing system (mounted on an aircraft) could hit and disable the ascent stage of a ballistic missile. Then the funding was pulled. It was far from orbital, as was the target. This was *not* a demonstration of viability of *orbital* beam weapons platforms.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you argue a point - by making personal attacks on someone you've never met, on a public forum.
Not.
you can point them in any direction you like, that doesn't necessarily make them instantly dangerous.
GRASER emitters (gamma ray beam weapons) would be good in space because they have no atmosphere to punch through. You could kill a satellite with one of those pretty much at line-of-sight range. Point one downward, and it wouldn't bother a plane cruising at 37,000 feet - because it has miles of lovely gamma-absorbing atmosphere to punch through first! Laser beams would scatter too much to be any problem by the time they hit the surface (the lunar ranging experiment uses a green laser to bounce off the mirror left on the moon by Apollo. By the time the 10mm-emitted beam hits the lunar surface it's 17km wide - almost entirely caused by atmospheric scatter in the first 14 miles of its journey).
I know this might be a tad predictable, but...
Citation needed.
...let me just warm up my 360 degree camera and my LIDAR gear, like we all have one, and go take mapping data for my neighbourhood...
I was going to say something about large gas ovens, but that might be in poor taste.
(what, too soon?)
Of course this is a death proof car, I didn't lie to you about that. But, to actually gain benefit of it being death proof, you have to be sitting... where I'm sitting!
...considering Bose have single-driver units that fill a room, and I have a pair of headphones made by Angle & Curve (with one driver either side) which, with the softHD sound processor in my netbook, gives me "virtual" surround that sounds every bit as good as my acoustically balanced 5.1 PC setup.
I *am* a parent. My kids do not get to use the Internet unless under constant supervision.
...Eyeball Mk. I. You should supervise children that young on the internet at ALL TIMES.Reliance on software or any other technology to babysit for you is an invitation for FAILURE.
I had a couple of these. My reply was as follows:
Sirs,
I refer you to the response of Private Eye Magazine in Arkell -v- Pressdram (1971):
Fuck off.
Sincerely, ..
I wonder if the thing can read fingerprints through a pair of leathers... I THINK NOT!
...and not a single one attributable to equipment failure due to poor design or normal fatigue. Challenger was the result of poor management*. Columbia was the result of failure to inspect launch damage that was *known about* **. Apollo 1 was the result of a decision to use pure oxygen instead of N-O mix in 79/21 ratio such as we have here on Earth (which was rectified after the pad fire).
*Thiokol said "do not launch, we cannot vouch for the performance of seals at subzero temperatures", but NASA management ordered the launch anyway.
**A suitcase-sized piece of foam broke off the ET soon after liftoff. The cause of the breakoff was attributed to freezing; such event was seen as unavoidable, but in my mind the least that could have happened was the order given to perform a visual inspection via EVA or using the RMA camera, which would have been able to angle to the damaged section, all while the shuttle was still docked to the ISS. I said on the day of the launch that Columbia wasn't landing in one piece. At least if the crew had stayed on the ISS (however uncomfortable that may have been for a few days/weeks) and jettisoned the demonstrably useless and hazardous shuttle to burn up on its own (it has a remote control so it would have been no problem to bring it in for a burn/splashdown in the middle of the Pacific), then a rescue/recovery mission for the crew would have just been a matter of warming up the VAB and strapping one of the other orbiters to an ET...
I wouldn't trust a mass produced suit. When a suit isn't made from the getgo to fit the intended wearer like a glove, quality control suffers. Loose stitching, odd frays... the old Nike Creep gets in there, and we have tourists depressurising. Messy.
..."A billion Dollars worth of hardware, held aloft by a five Dollar breaker switch."
I don't remember where I heard/read it, but it made me laugh.
But seriously, are you going to go with the lowest bidder? I would want the job doing by someone who knows what they're doing, not by someone who's desperate to close a contract. NASA have, demonstrably, several decades of experience in manned spaceflight, and of the equipment and systems used, and the companies to go to to fulfill their requirements. I'd rather go to Thiokol for rockets than Estes. FFD can keep their cabin suits - which are not designed for hard vacuum - and I'll stick with an Orlan MK or an EMU.
a thermocouple would work, I don't know how many you'd need to say, power an mp3 player though...
this got me wondering if this is a poor attempt at distraction, since modern dry batteries use lithium. There is an obscene amount of lithium in Afghanistan. Enough to ensure the financial stability of a medium sized country. Or offset the military expenditure of a large one.
meh. Now, where's my spare Illudium Pu-36 explosive space modulator...?
oh, to have mod points...