but it ain't cheap. What is amazing is one of these heavy duty reverse osmosis systems, I saw one on a small trailer where the hose in harbor water in New Orleans just after Katrina. That water had all kinds of horrible stuff from sewage to industrial chemicals, but the output was nice clean drinking water. On a large scale it can be very expensive and then what to do with the filter units. Also the energy to run these things. So you can get water, it's the cost penalty.
I say for starters don't use water for fracking as others previously commented.
Headline threw me for a loop as California City is in area of long term drought (Mojave desert) and miles from the ocean, http://californiacity.com/
Blackbird pilot replies "descending from flight level 100"
Of couirse it may be an urban legend. But the SR71 could go that high
From what I've read and heard, I think highest altitudes of SR71 is in the 90s. Some years ago a former SR71 pilot giving a presentation said the plane can go higher and faster but they were limited by temperature. Engines were powerful enough to go faster than Mach 3.3 but can airframe handle the higher temperature? Nobody wanted to try that out. I forgot his name, he was working for United Airlines at the time, but unlike many other pilots who gloss over technical stuff (there are many non-secret things us techie stuff like to hear these guys can share). He said flying SR71 was very tedious, constantly watching systems when screaming at Mach 3 because going real fast, problems can become overwhelming real fast. Windows become so hot he can really feel the heat if he raise sunvisor on helmet. Sometimes hard to read instrument panel because outside is equivalent to space sunlight is very direct so the shadows are very dark (no light bouncing off atmosphere in lower altitudes) He said after they top off fuel tanks from KC135 and go up to altitude full afterburner, they burn 50,000 lbs of fuel (or some huge amount) in one hour and then have to slow down, drop altitude to get refueled. But already across the country.
Getting back to this U2, I wonder if some glitch in ATC system (new software?) that didn't recognize this altitude. I haven't read the article (who does?) but then U2s including NASA ER2s have been flying above typical airliner traffic for years. This also shows how integrated airspace system has become. It seems if one airport has problems like having to shutdown arrivals and departures because suspicious package, it reverberates to other airports and cause flight delays. It is fascinating in ways of the entire logistics of the ATC system.
Few years ago I bought on ebay the JVC SR-VS10 which is a miniDV and S-VHS, and plays regular VHS. It also has a tuner (analog). There are S-video and composite in/out. AND it has firewire (DV) input and output to complement the miniDV, I've used this to firewire video in and out from a PC. I haven't had problems with jamming but with multiple kinds of inputs/outputs it makes for handling all kinds of video experiments.
Retail price from when it was on market was $2000, this one on ebay for $500, http://www.ebay.com/itm/JVC-SR...
Going OT but I have a several VHS tapes of various shows and movies recorded in 1980s of OTA broadcasts. Other day viewed one and it is still watchable, I probably should copy them all before it's too late. Very interesting especially the commercials. CNN broadcasted live interview (and the anchors were journalists back then) with a Space Shuttle crew, there was a few minutes of trying to patch in audio (CNN anchors could hear the crew but audio uplink first didn't work). This was before TDRSS so they had only 10 minutes to resolve this and finally in last minute got audio patched in and were able to have a brief interview.
Instead having your radio go through FCC labs for Part 90 type acceptance, just say it's Part 90, pay the dues, and voila you are done. Maybe not as factious as this but it sure seems like that. Especially for some Part 15 devices which really cause havoc in radio interference and I wonder how they managed to get it on the market.
back in the days (when FCC did their job) when those gasoline tanker trucks had huge lettering INFLAMMABLE but people were confused, "does that mean it is inflammable?" So to avoid confusion it was changed to FLAMMABLE. Of course everyone knew those rolling tanks labeled Flying A, ESSO, and Richfield contained explosive liquid so a warning of inflammable was not needed.
Given the physiological limitations of the human body, when I first read this story and everyone was screaming about security, I was thinking how did he survive? I've done some skydives from 30,000 feet, obviously with full O2 mask, warm clothing, etc. And been to a few chamber ride classes. Whole security thing we can argue for eternity but comment of, "frigid temperatures cause a state of hypothermia, which preserves the nervous system." Now that's interesting.
I never would ever consider riding in a wheel well, first danger is those doors first lower prior to wheel retraction (if on one of those, drop you go). Then when wheel folds up, would know where to place yourself without getting crushed?
I remember in a magazine back in early 1970s or a long time ago, someone got a photo of a person falling from a airliner on takeoff. Apparently photog took a picture of an airliner taking off and happen to catch unlucky "hitchhiker" who fell from the wheel well.
Motracs can be a problem if the final PA tube were to blow but both these mobile radios are incredibly rugged. Unit mounts in trunk, control head under the dash. They are big, heavy, and scary. Cheap to purchase but shipping costs are brutal. However, cannot be used for Part 90 anymore as they are not narrowband. Crystal controlled and not many channels can be awkward. These trunk-mounted units can also be used for armor-plating on vehicles as they can stop a uranium-depleted artillery shell or a TOW missile.
as they go high rpm, scream to a stop, slowly move, then wham ram up to high rpm in opposite direction. Like rest of the equipment in those rooms, all made of heavy duty steel and cable.
Back when programming magazines were useful, unlike the fluffy tripe that is passed off as a computer magazine today.
Even the linux magazines today are worthless for learning from.
Could it be deliberate? They don't want to publish something useful (I thought this is what magazines are for unless they are simply ad rags nowadays or teasers for the "good stuff") i.e. like this person argues "No, You Can't Pick My Brain. It Costs Too Much"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/wo...
Pen and paper, mail forms to IRS as always since the early days. I have copies of ***exactly*** as submitted. Nobody else gets a cut except USPS for mailing costs.
now that sounds really cool doing your own laser reflection but are you using facility scope? Have amateur astronomers done this before? Does it require a really powerful laser, i.e. the kind that guvmint doesn't want in hands of individuals?
Now you people commenting of they don't think this is possible, this is one of these reflectors wwphx is talking about, http://spie.org/Images/Graphic...
How about go outdoors, outside the city, and look up (or out) and beyond instead of always looking forward or down like typical flatlanders (the same kind of people that hounded Galileo).
Actually I prefer more of their profits going into maintenance such as clearing tree branches growing into power lines, replacing sagging lines and decaying poles. Infrastructure! It's what keeps this country going. Wasting on more on security for something that happens very rarely is not good investment into future (but hey like most Americans don't think of such things).
you mean PG&E unless there is some subtle joke which I'm too dense to get. (or how about for those old enough to remember the fictious CG&E that managed the ill-fated Ventana power plant).
for me in college I would see a BASIC program (this was in pre-internet days when magazine articles listed programs) I'd type it in and run the program to see what it does. Of course I have to go back and read the article to better understand what I just entered into the computer. Not the best way to learn but had fun with it. Regarding pre-internet, I did have a Compuserve electronic mail account but far from going to article online and do copy/paste.
Europa may be hard but I like to imagine a submarine launched into the water below and take pictures of the little fishes. Well maybe not but as SETI's Cynthia Phillips says when looking for life go where the water is.
Yep, if you are a country or a corporation then you gotta have spies (like all other big organizations need accountants and other staff to do specific jobs). As earlier post, whoop de do. What really gets me though is when we export our engineering and manufacturing offshore. Hey, they don't need spies, we will send stuff to them.
It seems ***every*** piece of footage whether it be fiction, reality show, news cast, whatever of any kind of car stuff there is ***always*** some kind of dubbing. Even footage from helicopters that capture a crash, they add sound to it (I know the copter camera does not have a microphone pointed at the ground, and the sound does not travel at speed of light). Another common practice is dubbing 16mm combat war footage (all footage has been dubbed). Those cameras had no soundtrack including footage from Vietnam War with exception of a news crew that included a soundman lugging a audio tape recorder alongside cameraman.
Obviously the "General Lee" always has tires screeching on pavement sounds when accelerating, it's tradition like the ST Enterprise whoosh sound as it travels superluminal speeds.
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but it ain't cheap. What is amazing is one of these heavy duty reverse osmosis systems, I saw one on a small trailer where the hose in harbor water in New Orleans just after Katrina. That water had all kinds of horrible stuff from sewage to industrial chemicals, but the output was nice clean drinking water. On a large scale it can be very expensive and then what to do with the filter units. Also the energy to run these things. So you can get water, it's the cost penalty.
I say for starters don't use water for fracking as others previously commented.
Headline threw me for a loop as California City is in area of long term drought (Mojave desert) and miles from the ocean, http://californiacity.com/
Blackbird pilot replies "descending from flight level 100"
Of couirse it may be an urban legend. But the SR71 could go that high
From what I've read and heard, I think highest altitudes of SR71 is in the 90s. Some years ago a former SR71 pilot giving a presentation said the plane can go higher and faster but they were limited by temperature. Engines were powerful enough to go faster than Mach 3.3 but can airframe handle the higher temperature? Nobody wanted to try that out. I forgot his name, he was working for United Airlines at the time, but unlike many other pilots who gloss over technical stuff (there are many non-secret things us techie stuff like to hear these guys can share). He said flying SR71 was very tedious, constantly watching systems when screaming at Mach 3 because going real fast, problems can become overwhelming real fast. Windows become so hot he can really feel the heat if he raise sunvisor on helmet. Sometimes hard to read instrument panel because outside is equivalent to space sunlight is very direct so the shadows are very dark (no light bouncing off atmosphere in lower altitudes) He said after they top off fuel tanks from KC135 and go up to altitude full afterburner, they burn 50,000 lbs of fuel (or some huge amount) in one hour and then have to slow down, drop altitude to get refueled. But already across the country.
Getting back to this U2, I wonder if some glitch in ATC system (new software?) that didn't recognize this altitude. I haven't read the article (who does?) but then U2s including NASA ER2s have been flying above typical airliner traffic for years. This also shows how integrated airspace system has become. It seems if one airport has problems like having to shutdown arrivals and departures because suspicious package, it reverberates to other airports and cause flight delays. It is fascinating in ways of the entire logistics of the ATC system.
Few years ago I bought on ebay the JVC SR-VS10 which is a miniDV and S-VHS, and plays regular VHS. It also has a tuner (analog). There are S-video and composite in/out. AND it has firewire (DV) input and output to complement the miniDV, I've used this to firewire video in and out from a PC. I haven't had problems with jamming but with multiple kinds of inputs/outputs it makes for handling all kinds of video experiments. Retail price from when it was on market was $2000, this one on ebay for $500, http://www.ebay.com/itm/JVC-SR...
Going OT but I have a several VHS tapes of various shows and movies recorded in 1980s of OTA broadcasts. Other day viewed one and it is still watchable, I probably should copy them all before it's too late. Very interesting especially the commercials. CNN broadcasted live interview (and the anchors were journalists back then) with a Space Shuttle crew, there was a few minutes of trying to patch in audio (CNN anchors could hear the crew but audio uplink first didn't work). This was before TDRSS so they had only 10 minutes to resolve this and finally in last minute got audio patched in and were able to have a brief interview.
Instead having your radio go through FCC labs for Part 90 type acceptance, just say it's Part 90, pay the dues, and voila you are done. Maybe not as factious as this but it sure seems like that. Especially for some Part 15 devices which really cause havoc in radio interference and I wonder how they managed to get it on the market.
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
back in the days (when FCC did their job) when those gasoline tanker trucks had huge lettering INFLAMMABLE but people were confused, "does that mean it is inflammable?" So to avoid confusion it was changed to FLAMMABLE. Of course everyone knew those rolling tanks labeled Flying A, ESSO, and Richfield contained explosive liquid so a warning of inflammable was not needed.
Given the physiological limitations of the human body, when I first read this story and everyone was screaming about security, I was thinking how did he survive? I've done some skydives from 30,000 feet, obviously with full O2 mask, warm clothing, etc. And been to a few chamber ride classes. Whole security thing we can argue for eternity but comment of, "frigid temperatures cause a state of hypothermia, which preserves the nervous system." Now that's interesting.
I never would ever consider riding in a wheel well, first danger is those doors first lower prior to wheel retraction (if on one of those, drop you go). Then when wheel folds up, would know where to place yourself without getting crushed?
I remember in a magazine back in early 1970s or a long time ago, someone got a photo of a person falling from a airliner on takeoff. Apparently photog took a picture of an airliner taking off and happen to catch unlucky "hitchhiker" who fell from the wheel well.
they NEVER wanted to have to repair them.
why would they? they never break. I still have mine, "Bell System Property. Not For Sale." You can buy them on ebay.
Motracs can be a problem if the final PA tube were to blow but both these mobile radios are incredibly rugged. Unit mounts in trunk, control head under the dash. They are big, heavy, and scary. Cheap to purchase but shipping costs are brutal. However, cannot be used for Part 90 anymore as they are not narrowband. Crystal controlled and not many channels can be awkward. These trunk-mounted units can also be used for armor-plating on vehicles as they can stop a uranium-depleted artillery shell or a TOW missile.
"Viewers today are more likely captivated by the refrigerator-size computers and 1960s hairdos.".
Regarding hairdos, I love the gal's hairstyle at 6:30, very bouffant and probably needs lots of Aqua-net.
as they go high rpm, scream to a stop, slowly move, then wham ram up to high rpm in opposite direction. Like rest of the equipment in those rooms, all made of heavy duty steel and cable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Back when programming magazines were useful, unlike the fluffy tripe that is passed off as a computer magazine today.
Even the linux magazines today are worthless for learning from.
Could it be deliberate? They don't want to publish something useful (I thought this is what magazines are for unless they are simply ad rags nowadays or teasers for the "good stuff") i.e. like this person argues "No, You Can't Pick My Brain. It Costs Too Much" http://www.forbes.com/sites/wo...
Pen and paper, mail forms to IRS as always since the early days. I have copies of ***exactly*** as submitted. Nobody else gets a cut except USPS for mailing costs.
some reason that link is back to /. try this one, http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/O...
now that sounds really cool doing your own laser reflection but are you using facility scope? Have amateur astronomers done this before? Does it require a really powerful laser, i.e. the kind that guvmint doesn't want in hands of individuals?
Now you people commenting of they don't think this is possible, this is one of these reflectors wwphx is talking about, http://spie.org/Images/Graphic...
How about go outdoors, outside the city, and look up (or out) and beyond instead of always looking forward or down like typical flatlanders (the same kind of people that hounded Galileo).
Actually I prefer more of their profits going into maintenance such as clearing tree branches growing into power lines, replacing sagging lines and decaying poles. Infrastructure! It's what keeps this country going. Wasting on more on security for something that happens very rarely is not good investment into future (but hey like most Americans don't think of such things).
you mean PG&E unless there is some subtle joke which I'm too dense to get. (or how about for those old enough to remember the fictious CG&E that managed the ill-fated Ventana power plant).
for me in college I would see a BASIC program (this was in pre-internet days when magazine articles listed programs) I'd type it in and run the program to see what it does. Of course I have to go back and read the article to better understand what I just entered into the computer. Not the best way to learn but had fun with it. Regarding pre-internet, I did have a Compuserve electronic mail account but far from going to article online and do copy/paste.
Europa may be hard but I like to imagine a submarine launched into the water below and take pictures of the little fishes. Well maybe not but as SETI's Cynthia Phillips says when looking for life go where the water is.
Yep, if you are a country or a corporation then you gotta have spies (like all other big organizations need accountants and other staff to do specific jobs). As earlier post, whoop de do. What really gets me though is when we export our engineering and manufacturing offshore. Hey, they don't need spies, we will send stuff to them.
get a big enough amp to make a sound like one of these F1s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It seems ***every*** piece of footage whether it be fiction, reality show, news cast, whatever of any kind of car stuff there is ***always*** some kind of dubbing. Even footage from helicopters that capture a crash, they add sound to it (I know the copter camera does not have a microphone pointed at the ground, and the sound does not travel at speed of light). Another common practice is dubbing 16mm combat war footage (all footage has been dubbed). Those cameras had no soundtrack including footage from Vietnam War with exception of a news crew that included a soundman lugging a audio tape recorder alongside cameraman.
Obviously the "General Lee" always has tires screeching on pavement sounds when accelerating, it's tradition like the ST Enterprise whoosh sound as it travels superluminal speeds.
a human being. so far other animals not considered yet.