Drones as decoys (and eventually attack roles) in conjunction with stealth planes are used to disable radar stations and SAM launchers. in the beginning of an air campaign. Once they've done their mission they are pointless. They don't carry much of a payload in comparison to a B-52, and are very expensive. A current B52 can carry 72 - 750 lb. bombs. Vs. a B2 that can carry 36. Once the B52 gets this upgrade, they will use internal rotary launchers that will increase their payload capacity by 66%.
From WikipediaThe B-52 turned out the lights in Baghdad."[187] During Operation Desert Storm, B-52s flew about 1,620 sorties, and delivered 40% of the weapons dropped by coalition forces.
The conventional strikes were carried out by three bombers, which dropped up to 153 750-pound bombs over an area of 1.5 by 1 mi (2.4 by 1.6 km). The bombings demoralized the defending Iraqi troops, many of whom surrendered in the wake of the strikes.
Isn't that more like a modern composite than "wood" though? That's about as different from wood as fiberglass is from glass.
Yes it is. But that is what we've been discussing and how balsa is used in a corvette floorboard. And this is how the bamboo is being used in TFA. I suppose the production of the bamboo is more eco friendly than making carbon fiber or fiber glass. But once it's been molded with the epoxy, there is no difference, environmentally at least.
It's not just "a stigma," there are many real problems with using wood in cars. It needs coatings to prevent it from absorbing water and rotting, which it will still happily do as soon as that coating is breached. It's an equal-opportunity absorber which will pick up other smelly and flammable chemicals from the car just as well - when using woods and fabrics you always have to be careful to avoid setting up something that could become a torch waiting for an ignition source. On that topic, without special treatments it will burn quite nicely. Without other treatments- or again if the treatment is compromised, it will biodegrade at a speed which will become a problem within the lifetime of the car. And finally as a material there is almost nowhere you could use wood where a metal, plastic or modern composite wouldn't do a much better job.
So remind me again why the hell you'd want to use this stuff in a car? Even when I see racers building underbody aero parts from wood it makes me cringe...
I disagree. Composite wood and epoxy layers have been used extremely successfully in professional racing speed boats for decades.Carbon fiber may have surpassed it's use( not that I know for sure as I haven't payed attention for so time). Extremely thin layers of wood were used in alternated grain directions sandwiched with epoxy in the West System since the early 1970's. It was thinner, lighter and stronger than fiberglass at that time. These were paper thing layers and the epoxy resins pretty much saturated the wood. If it was understood well enough to keep the water from rotting a speed boat, then it should be rather simple in a car.
If you want death penalty "Off with the head" is the only way guaranteed to kill quickly and with no chance of the convict getting out his assigned body bag.
We've had some new inventions since the guillotine.
I believe a pair of small explosive charges strapped to the temples would be equally effective.
I was thinking we could use the implosion devices off of decommissioned nukes. But that seems awfully unfair to the janitor who will have to clean up afterward.
How is he short sighted? The Republicans have fuck him and his company. They want to put him and all of his employees out on the streets. To their kind, autoworkers are scum that need to starve. That is their world. That is why they are doing this to him. They are forcing him at gunpoint to sell cars at a loss until they go out of business.
Are you saying that the oil and coal burning/global warming denying republicans are forcing Chrysler to sell electric cars (at a loss) "at gunpoint"? And they're going to hurt the oil and coal industries so they can add the autoworkers to the unemployed?
Marchionne blamed regulations set in place in California and by President Obama.
I must have missed when the president switched parties. Obama the Republican. Who knew.
Maxine Waters and Jessie Jackson are two of the biggest frauds in the US today. They're like the black versions of George Bush and Donald Rumsfield. Lying scum that make money by hurting others. George Bush doesn't care about black people and neither does Jessie Jackson. They care about lining their own pockets and protecting their friends.
GWB may be many things. But a racist, I have a hard time believing. And to say that GWB cares for black people in the same way Jesse Jackson and Maxine Waters do is frankly insulting to GWB.
B) The people advocating the death penalty loudest are in the an eye for an eye crowd, ODing on a trip is not cruel enough, they want revenge.
I'm not sure I believe that. The reason the gas chamber is no longer used is because the executed typically "suffered" for up to 30 seconds. Lethal injection used 3 separate injections the last time I knew. The first being a strong dose of a barbiturate of some type. This is used to render the prisoner unconscious. The second injection is to block neuromuscular activity and stops breathing. And a third injection of a potassium concoction of some sort to stop the heart. I've never attended an execution, but I would guess that these drugs are not administered as 3 separate injections, but are probably injected through an IV.
If you want death penalty "Off with the head" is the only way guaranteed to kill quickly and with no chance of the convict getting out his assigned body bag. Sadly it was not clean enough (pleasant to look at) for the crowd.
Agreed. If someone is going to be executed, I'm not sure those in attendance should be given the most pleasant show.
if the inmate has a tolerance to heroin from long periods of addiction/abuse, it won't be effective.
That tolerance only occurs when using it continually. It decreases after periods of not using heroin. That's why many addicts OD after being clean for a while. They think they can use as much as the always did. But it can take months to build up that tolerance. Since most, if not all death row inmates are locked up of years, if not decades before they are executed, tolerance to heroine is not going to be an issue.
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I sometimes wish there was a CTRL-S in real life. I often times speak before I think. My colleagues seem to appreciate my unfiltered honesty. At least that's what they tell me. My wife on the other hand, not so much sometimes.
I knew a guy who worked on this system. He told me about a time when they pulled one out of a plane for routine maintenance and they thought it was malfunctioning as it locked onto a star while in the hanger. After they couldn't find the fault they put a guy on a lift and turned all of the lights off in the hanger. Sure enough they found a pin hole in the roof that could only be seen close up in the dark. After they patched the hole, everything checked out fine.
Smells like urban legend / folklore tale. That pin hole would have had to line up perfectly between the device and the star overhead, and if you've ever watched pin hole light beams, you can see that they creep across the floor rather quickly (depending on the distance between you and the roof). So within a few minutes, that freak alignment of the pin hole with the device's sensor window would have changed enough that it could no longer see the star.
Basically you've got some mysterious device, that nobody really understands, doing something that is (nearly) impossible with a bunch of conditions -- all of which makes for a good bar tale.
It was during the day. But it saw the sunlight shining through the pinhole as a star.
This is only true because before the array of satellites deployed by the US military, there was no other system for finding your global position.
Not true. From the Wikipedia entry on the SR-71"Nortronics, Northrop's electronics development division, had developed an astro-inertial navigation system (ANS), which could correct navigation errors with celestial observations, for the SM-62 Snark missile, and a separate system for the ill-fated AGM-48 Skybolt missile, the latter of which was adapted for the SR-71.[50][citation needed]
Before each takeoff, a primary alignment brought the ANS's inertial components to a high degree of accuracy. Once in flight, the ANS, which sat behind the Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO)'s position, tracked stars through a circular window of quartz glass set in the upper fuselage.[37] Its "blue light" source star tracker, which could see stars during both day and night, would continuously track a variety of stars as the aircraft's changing position brought them into view. The system's digital computer ephemeris contained data on 56 (later 61) stars.[51] The ANS could supply altitude and position to flight controls and other systems, including the Mission Data Recorder, Auto-Nav steering to preset destination points, automatic pointing and control of cameras and sensors, and optical or SLR sighting of fix points loaded into the ANS before takeoff.[52] Former pilot Richard Graham told an interviewer at the Frontiers of Flight Museum that the navigation system was good enough to limit drift to 1,000 feet off the direction of travel at Mach 3."
I knew a guy who worked on this system. He told me about a time when they pulled one out of a plane for routine maintenance and they thought it was malfunctioning as it locked onto a star while in the hanger. After they couldn't find the fault they put a guy on a lift and turned all of the lights off in the hanger. Sure enough they found a pin hole in the roof that could only be seen close up in the dark. After they patched the hole, everything checked out fine.
"Steel rotors" is probably another typo. I have heard of stainless steel rotors and the commonly used cast iron rotors but a solid steel rotor that is used on a motorcycle sounds like it would heat up too fast in this application. My guess that it is a standard cast iron vented rotor.
It's hard to say. They didn't state they were "solid" steel. They could be a 2 piece design that are separate from the hubs. . Those come in both solid and ventilated.
When the brake pedal (or control or whatever) is pushed, redirect the jet / rocket exhaust out the front and accelerate in the opposite direction. It is just force vectors. You might need some ablative shield on the front where the exhaust exits. Sure, there will be some amount of loss as you do this (with a U shaped pipe or whatever) and it will need to handle the heat, but should prove more robust than exploding brakes.
Uh huh. While that sounds great in theory, you need to keep in mind this is a 1000 mph land vehicle. What happens if at full speed the redirected thrust doesn't function quite right? At best the pilot/driver will need to change his/her underwear. Worst case he/she has to be hosed out of what is left of the car as it will become one fast moving uncontrollable centrifuge of death.
Steel rotors may not be elegant, but they are also fairly simple and we've understood the tech for a long time. I think I'd prefer a drag chute and rotors over some vectored thrust contraption. It's not like they are going to be doing continuous laps in this thing. Plus they won't need to entirely redesign the vehicle to accommodate a bunch of duct work and heat shielding.
If heat is a problem, it seems like regenerative breaking could be a better option.
It's a jet and rocket powered car. How are you going to regenerate those with brakes? How much weight will they add? And finally, have regenerative brakes been built that would even be practical at 10K RPM?
Rejoice! The fuel tank exhibits a delightful ability to consistently emit large cheerful conflations of thermal exuberance in response to mild percussive excitation. We recommend modifying the roof-rack to double as a full-length barbeque grill to maximize the occupants appreciation of this fortuitous feature.
Sorry, "the", "a", "and", "to". "I", "we", and "as" were all on the list too. But those were mainly added to decrease network, paper and toner usage.
"When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly, daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me"
So what happens if this becomes effective enough that eventually the geese never go there again. Where do they go?
They will migrate south to the United States where Canadian Geese are essentiall a protected species due to all the PETA folks.
They're called Canada Geese, not Canadian Geese. We had a problem with them in my town at the pond in the public park. After trying several stupid things to get rid of them, they finally killed them all.
One of the stupid things they did was to catch them all and drive them a couple of hundred miles away and release them. Amazingly they were all back in a day or two.
So what happens if this becomes effective enough that eventually the geese never go there again. Where do they go? Typically places that humans populate are not occupied by many predators and there are lots of open places by the water. So in all likelihood, they will find another place to go that humans occupy too.
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Drones as decoys (and eventually attack roles) in conjunction with stealth planes are used to disable radar stations and SAM launchers. in the beginning of an air campaign. Once they've done their mission they are pointless. They don't carry much of a payload in comparison to a B-52, and are very expensive. A current B52 can carry 72 - 750 lb. bombs. Vs. a B2 that can carry 36. Once the B52 gets this upgrade, they will use internal rotary launchers that will increase their payload capacity by 66%.
From Wikipedia The B-52 turned out the lights in Baghdad."[187] During Operation Desert Storm, B-52s flew about 1,620 sorties, and delivered 40% of the weapons dropped by coalition forces.
The conventional strikes were carried out by three bombers, which dropped up to 153 750-pound bombs over an area of 1.5 by 1 mi (2.4 by 1.6 km). The bombings demoralized the defending Iraqi troops, many of whom surrendered in the wake of the strikes.
Isn't that more like a modern composite than "wood" though? That's about as different from wood as fiberglass is from glass.
Yes it is. But that is what we've been discussing and how balsa is used in a corvette floorboard. And this is how the bamboo is being used in TFA. I suppose the production of the bamboo is more eco friendly than making carbon fiber or fiber glass. But once it's been molded with the epoxy, there is no difference, environmentally at least.
It's not just "a stigma," there are many real problems with using wood in cars. It needs coatings to prevent it from absorbing water and rotting, which it will still happily do as soon as that coating is breached. It's an equal-opportunity absorber which will pick up other smelly and flammable chemicals from the car just as well - when using woods and fabrics you always have to be careful to avoid setting up something that could become a torch waiting for an ignition source. On that topic, without special treatments it will burn quite nicely. Without other treatments- or again if the treatment is compromised, it will biodegrade at a speed which will become a problem within the lifetime of the car. And finally as a material there is almost nowhere you could use wood where a metal, plastic or modern composite wouldn't do a much better job.
So remind me again why the hell you'd want to use this stuff in a car? Even when I see racers building underbody aero parts from wood it makes me cringe...
I disagree. Composite wood and epoxy layers have been used extremely successfully in professional racing speed boats for decades.Carbon fiber may have surpassed it's use( not that I know for sure as I haven't payed attention for so time). Extremely thin layers of wood were used in alternated grain directions sandwiched with epoxy in the West System since the early 1970's. It was thinner, lighter and stronger than fiberglass at that time. These were paper thing layers and the epoxy resins pretty much saturated the wood. If it was understood well enough to keep the water from rotting a speed boat, then it should be rather simple in a car.
Balsa wood was used in the Corvette. Wood it nature's original composite.
Just in the floor boards of the C5 and C6. The C7 replaced it with some kind of foam aluminum I believe.
If you want death penalty "Off with the head" is the only way guaranteed to kill quickly and with no chance of the convict getting out his assigned body bag.
We've had some new inventions since the guillotine.
I believe a pair of small explosive charges strapped to the temples would be equally effective.
I was thinking we could use the implosion devices off of decommissioned nukes. But that seems awfully unfair to the janitor who will have to clean up afterward.
How is he short sighted? The Republicans have fuck him and his company. They want to put him and all of his employees out on the streets. To their kind, autoworkers are scum that need to starve. That is their world. That is why they are doing this to him. They are forcing him at gunpoint to sell cars at a loss until they go out of business.
Are you saying that the oil and coal burning/global warming denying republicans are forcing Chrysler to sell electric cars (at a loss) "at gunpoint"? And they're going to hurt the oil and coal industries so they can add the autoworkers to the unemployed?
Marchionne blamed regulations set in place in California and by President Obama.
I must have missed when the president switched parties. Obama the Republican. Who knew.
so in truth this would only matter to the small perce=nt of users
NT users? How many of those are left?
Maxine Waters and Jessie Jackson are two of the biggest frauds in the US today. They're like the black versions of George Bush and Donald Rumsfield. Lying scum that make money by hurting others. George Bush doesn't care about black people and neither does Jessie Jackson. They care about lining their own pockets and protecting their friends.
GWB may be many things. But a racist, I have a hard time believing. And to say that GWB cares for black people in the same way Jesse Jackson and Maxine Waters do is frankly insulting to GWB.
Except the last execution in the US using the gas chamber was Walter LaGrand in Arazona on Mar 3, 1999.
B) The people advocating the death penalty loudest are in the an eye for an eye crowd, ODing on a trip is not cruel enough, they want revenge.
I'm not sure I believe that. The reason the gas chamber is no longer used is because the executed typically "suffered" for up to 30 seconds. Lethal injection used 3 separate injections the last time I knew. The first being a strong dose of a barbiturate of some type. This is used to render the prisoner unconscious. The second injection is to block neuromuscular activity and stops breathing. And a third injection of a potassium concoction of some sort to stop the heart. I've never attended an execution, but I would guess that these drugs are not administered as 3 separate injections, but are probably injected through an IV.
If you want death penalty "Off with the head" is the only way guaranteed to kill quickly and with no chance of the convict getting out his assigned body bag. Sadly it was not clean enough (pleasant to look at) for the crowd.
Agreed. If someone is going to be executed, I'm not sure those in attendance should be given the most pleasant show.
if the inmate has a tolerance to heroin from long periods of addiction/abuse, it won't be effective.
That tolerance only occurs when using it continually. It decreases after periods of not using heroin. That's why many addicts OD after being clean for a while. They think they can use as much as the always did. But it can take months to build up that tolerance. Since most, if not all death row inmates are locked up of years, if not decades before they are executed, tolerance to heroine is not going to be an issue.
I sometimes wish there was a CTRL-S in real life. I often times speak before I think. My colleagues seem to appreciate my unfiltered honesty. At least that's what they tell me. My wife on the other hand, not so much sometimes.
I knew a guy who worked on this system. He told me about a time when they pulled one out of a plane for routine maintenance and they thought it was malfunctioning as it locked onto a star while in the hanger. After they couldn't find the fault they put a guy on a lift and turned all of the lights off in the hanger. Sure enough they found a pin hole in the roof that could only be seen close up in the dark. After they patched the hole, everything checked out fine. Smells like urban legend / folklore tale. That pin hole would have had to line up perfectly between the device and the star overhead, and if you've ever watched pin hole light beams, you can see that they creep across the floor rather quickly (depending on the distance between you and the roof). So within a few minutes, that freak alignment of the pin hole with the device's sensor window would have changed enough that it could no longer see the star. Basically you've got some mysterious device, that nobody really understands, doing something that is (nearly) impossible with a bunch of conditions -- all of which makes for a good bar tale.
It was during the day. But it saw the sunlight shining through the pinhole as a star.
This is only true because before the array of satellites deployed by the US military, there was no other system for finding your global position.
Not true. From the Wikipedia entry on the SR-71"Nortronics, Northrop's electronics development division, had developed an astro-inertial navigation system (ANS), which could correct navigation errors with celestial observations, for the SM-62 Snark missile, and a separate system for the ill-fated AGM-48 Skybolt missile, the latter of which was adapted for the SR-71.[50][citation needed]
Before each takeoff, a primary alignment brought the ANS's inertial components to a high degree of accuracy. Once in flight, the ANS, which sat behind the Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO)'s position, tracked stars through a circular window of quartz glass set in the upper fuselage.[37] Its "blue light" source star tracker, which could see stars during both day and night, would continuously track a variety of stars as the aircraft's changing position brought them into view. The system's digital computer ephemeris contained data on 56 (later 61) stars.[51] The ANS could supply altitude and position to flight controls and other systems, including the Mission Data Recorder, Auto-Nav steering to preset destination points, automatic pointing and control of cameras and sensors, and optical or SLR sighting of fix points loaded into the ANS before takeoff.[52] Former pilot Richard Graham told an interviewer at the Frontiers of Flight Museum that the navigation system was good enough to limit drift to 1,000 feet off the direction of travel at Mach 3."
I knew a guy who worked on this system. He told me about a time when they pulled one out of a plane for routine maintenance and they thought it was malfunctioning as it locked onto a star while in the hanger. After they couldn't find the fault they put a guy on a lift and turned all of the lights off in the hanger. Sure enough they found a pin hole in the roof that could only be seen close up in the dark. After they patched the hole, everything checked out fine.
Maybe we shouldn't be making woolly mammoths just now, with climate change and all that apocalyptic-ness right around the corner.
Just sayin'.
It depends. Did they find the genes that make them tasty?
"Steel rotors" is probably another typo. I have heard of stainless steel rotors and the commonly used cast iron rotors but a solid steel rotor that is used on a motorcycle sounds like it would heat up too fast in this application. My guess that it is a standard cast iron vented rotor.
It's hard to say. They didn't state they were "solid" steel. They could be a 2 piece design that are separate from the hubs. . Those come in both solid and ventilated.
When the brake pedal (or control or whatever) is pushed, redirect the jet / rocket exhaust out the front and accelerate in the opposite direction. It is just force vectors. You might need some ablative shield on the front where the exhaust exits. Sure, there will be some amount of loss as you do this (with a U shaped pipe or whatever) and it will need to handle the heat, but should prove more robust than exploding brakes.
Uh huh. While that sounds great in theory, you need to keep in mind this is a 1000 mph land vehicle. What happens if at full speed the redirected thrust doesn't function quite right? At best the pilot/driver will need to change his/her underwear. Worst case he/she has to be hosed out of what is left of the car as it will become one fast moving uncontrollable centrifuge of death.
Steel rotors may not be elegant, but they are also fairly simple and we've understood the tech for a long time. I think I'd prefer a drag chute and rotors over some vectored thrust contraption. It's not like they are going to be doing continuous laps in this thing. Plus they won't need to entirely redesign the vehicle to accommodate a bunch of duct work and heat shielding.
If heat is a problem, it seems like regenerative breaking could be a better option.
It's a jet and rocket powered car. How are you going to regenerate those with brakes? How much weight will they add? And finally, have regenerative brakes been built that would even be practical at 10K RPM?
At least prisoners get complimentary meals and don't have to pay for carry-ons.
And none of those pesky "op-outs"
They were treating us like prisoners.
Were?
Rejoice! The fuel tank exhibits a delightful ability to consistently emit large cheerful conflations of thermal exuberance in response to mild percussive excitation. We recommend modifying the roof-rack to double as a full-length barbeque grill to maximize the occupants appreciation of this fortuitous feature.
Sorry, "the", "a", "and", "to". "I", "we", and "as" were all on the list too. But those were mainly added to decrease network, paper and toner usage.
"When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly, daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me"
-Maximillian Cohen
So what happens if this becomes effective enough that eventually the geese never go there again. Where do they go?
They will migrate south to the United States where Canadian Geese are essentiall a protected species due to all the PETA folks.
They're called Canada Geese, not Canadian Geese. We had a problem with them in my town at the pond in the public park. After trying several stupid things to get rid of them, they finally killed them all.
One of the stupid things they did was to catch them all and drive them a couple of hundred miles away and release them. Amazingly they were all back in a day or two.
So what happens if this becomes effective enough that eventually the geese never go there again. Where do they go? Typically places that humans populate are not occupied by many predators and there are lots of open places by the water. So in all likelihood, they will find another place to go that humans occupy too.
Put up a beware of Doug sign and get a Glock window decal.
I was going to suggest a sign that said, "Beware of Rabid Dog with AIDS". But if Doug has a Glock it's probably more humane.