Anyone who thinks you'd be hit by a crushing "wall of air" needs to read up on shock tube experiments, and in particular how propagating shocks respond to high aspect ratios (length relative to aperture size)
When the shock hits you, is it moving fast? Yes. Several times the speed of sound. When the shock hits you, does it have meaningful density? No, unless you're talking a huge rupture and you just happen to be right next to it at the time.
Hmm...that doesn't seem to be the case, hell the original antifa which they'll claim they're based off of had leaders and even openly supported communism.
"They" don't claim anything. Fake troll twitter accounts claim things. What part about this aren't you understanding?
Almost everything you think you know about Antifa is due to trolling. There are extensive troll campaigns out there involving fake Antifa accounts. Each tries to outdo each other with the most outrageous thing they can say to make gullible right wingers take them seriously.
"Antifa" has no ideology except hatred of Nazis and those espousing similar ideologies (general white supremecists). It is not a "group". It has no "leaders". No little black book. Nothing except "hates and will actively oppose Nazis and other white supremecists", and random people who are of that view describe themselves with the term Antifa. Not all people who identify as "Antifa" support violence as a means to counter Nazi activity (there's been a widespread "Is it okay to punch a Nazi?" debate since Richard Spencer was punched on camera). Of those who would answer that with "Yes", there's a further subset known as "Black Bloc"; which again is not an ideology but more of a style (dressing in black and actively physically engaging when Nazis and aligned groups come to town). The "Don't punch a Nazi" crowd thinks of them as counterproductive. Black Bloc style protesting existed before "Antifa"; before the most recent flareup, it was most commonly associated in the US with WTO protests.
To reiterate: Black Bloc does engage in violence - although you might have been misled about "innocent victims". To pick an example: the most famous viral video of Black Bloc actions was this attack. Who is that poor innocent victim? Why, that's Keith Campbell, known on Twitter as "PatriotWarriorMedia". He's involved in R.A.M. ("Rise Above Movement"), a group built specifically around active training to engage in street brawls with perceived leftists. Rather than all black, their hide-their-face approach is black skeleton masks.
What did Campbell have to say about that protest where he got beaten up beforehand? Why let's look!: "Fuck Antifa! Let them come to Berkeley on August 27th so we can kick their asses AGAIN! @1776RealNews @ProudBoysCA @BasedCops"
How did that work out for you, Keith?
Anyway, this is all secondary to my main point, which was to make you aware of the fact that the vast majority of "Antifa" accounts are just trolling to try to dupe gullible right wingers. My personal take on the whole thing? Black Bloc protesters and R.A.M. deserve each other, and both can go F* themselves as far as I'm concerned.
You'd be how easy it can be to get a teacher's password.
Back when I lived in the US and was in high school, the school offered an introductory course to programming in Basic. I already knew how to program, so I spent the course primarily either writing games or espionage tools;) One of my favourite was a program that mimicked the DOS prompt (including most common commands), waited for them to run what they thought was the logon program, wrote out the username and password to a file, reported that the password was wrong, logged out of my account and put them back in the real DOS shell - wherein they'd log in normally and everything was fine. I'd usually leave it running on a couple random classroom computers whenever I left. By the end of the year, not only did I have most student passwords, but the password of my teacher and a different one.
Did I use it to change assignments? Alter grades? Vandalize the network? No no no, of course not. Rather, my final project was an overly elaborate demo, which had many different scenes (things like me walking around shooting lightning bolts and other similar nonsense). One scene was a stereogram generator. The hidden image in the stereogram? The teacher's username and password;)
Thankfully she found it amusing rather than disciplining me;) I got a perfect score. Looking back at it, I could imagine a teacher with a lesser sense of humor having me suspended or even calling the police.
Ultimately, HR told him there was “no place for handicapped people at Tesla” after noticing an old scar on his wrist, according to The Guardian.
I don't even.... huh? How does that even make sense? It might make some sense if the person had been repeatedly marked down for low productivity in activities involving their hands, and then some manager decided that the person just couldn't do the job and credited the scar as being associated for the reason why. But just out of the blue, with no indication that the person is failing to do some activity with their hands? I can't even begin to picture that. It's like the plaintiff neglected to mention a long history of bad productivity scores and was hoping that we wouldn't ask about that part.
You know, it's companies like Tesla and people like Musk that are great at muddling the left-right division.
Develops electric cars!.... but leading the fight against UAW. Left Trump's business council!.... but nonetheless willingly signed up for it anyway. Helping rebuild power infrastructure in Puerto Rico!.... but also is a billionaire entrepreneur. Smashing up UAW's monopoly position in rocketry!.... but also triumphing over government programmes (NASA) with the power of private enterprise. Extreme scaleup of battery production to support mass deployment of renewables on the grid!.... but fires employees at the drop of a hat if he thinks they're underperforming, because there's always more lined up to take their place.
Can someone remind me which side is supposed to love him and which side is supposed to hate him?;)
Media reporting on claims of discrimination at Tesla should bear a few things in mind: First, as one of the most highly reported-on companies in the world, anyone who brings claims against Tesla is all but assured that they will garner significant media coverage. Second, in the history of Tesla, there has never been a single proven case of discrimination against the company. Not one. This fact is conveniently never mentioned in any reporting. Third, as we have said repeatedly, even though we are a company of 33,000 employees, including more than 10,000 in the Fremont factory alone, and it is not humanly possible to stop all bad conduct, we care deeply about these issues and take them extremely seriously. If there is ever a case where Tesla is at fault, we will take responsibility. On the other hand, Tesla will always fight back against unmeritorious claims. In this case, neither of the two people at the center of the claim, Mr. Ferro and the person who he alleges to have mistreated him, actually worked for Tesla. Both worked for a third-party. Nevertheless, Tesla still stepped in to try to keep these individuals apart from one another and to ensure a good working environment. Regardless of these facts, every lawyer knows that if they name Tesla as a defendant in their lawsuit, it maximizes the chances of generating publicity for their case. They abuse our name, because they know it is catnip for journalists. Tesla takes any and every form of discrimination or harassment extremely seriously. There is no company on Earth with a better track record than Tesla, as they would have to have fewer than zero cases where an independent judge or jury has found a genuine case of discrimination. This is physically impossible.
Not even close to "first electric truck of the century". Some companies have been at this for ages. Smith Electric Vehicles, for example, started with electric delivery trucks in the 1920s, switched to milk floats, then in the modern era back to full-sized electric delivery trucks.
"Reusing airplanes isn't game changing either. It's an improvement, but not a game changer." Would you argue that?
No, the simple fact that something is "reused" isn't on its own the be-all end-all situation; you have to have a high enough launch rate to overwhelm your overhead costs. But SpaceX definitely looks to be en route to that, and Blue Origin likely as well eventually. Both are making good use of the lessons of the past in their designs.
Just because the Shuttle was hobbled by NASA's extremely high overhead costs, major cutbacks in the design phase that hindered reusability and turnover time, and a number of design flaws, doesn't mean that the concept of reusability is wrong. It's in most contexts essential for low costs. And while rockets are in many ways more challenging than airplanes, they're not fundamentally on some totally different playing field.
I find it weird to place a $1000 deposit on a "car you've never even touched and which nobody has had on the road for any length of time, and is based on an entirely new platform from a manufacturer's previous vehicles."
Stats, looks, experience with the company's other models, professional reviews, amateur reviews, and interactions with owners online.
One thing I can't, however, say is how reliable it will be.
As a Model 3 fan, I'm actually hear to say that I find it weird that you can rate the reliability of a car you've never even touched and which nobody has had on the road for any length of time, and is based on an entirely new platform from a manufacturer's previous vehicles.
Nothing, more, nothing less. Just strikes me as odd.
Just taking you at face value for the sake of argument (not meant to either cast aspersions, nor be naively trusting of a random AC): what do you think of UAW and their activities concerning Tesla?
Meanwhile, Tesla has 2484 open jobs on its website. A rather curious strategy if they're trying to "disguise a layoff". Let's lay off "up to 700 people" and then hire 2484 new people to.... cut back on the workforce?
... orange? They always draw the surface orange or red.
Venus's surface is primarily basalts. Which are dark gray. More specifically MORBs, and in particular the gabbro family. Daylight is yellowish-orange, but the surface is not.
Anyway, it's a rather neat tool, so kudos to them for making it:)
Nissan is pretty much neck and neck with Tesla for units sold per year of pure electric vehicles
While operating in a vastly larger market segment. The fact that Tesla sells about as many cars per year but theirs are three times the price is not a fact that's to Nissan's favour.
have some room to amortize common development costs with the gas models
Conversion EVs - even factory conversion - are terrible. EVs need to be designed from the ground up as EVs. Otherwise you're just throwing away range, stability, handling, performance....
. Either way it's weird for all of a sudden Tesla to be doing stack-rank style firing without claims of affordability issues, , which is generally considered a poor practice in the business world nowadays, especially odd coming from a company projecting a huge progressive image
No, it's really not. Musk isn't widely known for being nice and cuddly when it comes to rooting out whatever he thinks to be underperforming in his companies. Even fired Eberhard from Tesla Motors - the very guy who came up with the idea for the Tesla Roadster and co-founded the company. He doesn't suffer people he thinks are inefficient or losing money. And he can get away with it because there's people lined up for miles to work for his companies (just read the lower-rated comments on the AMA - half of them are begging him for a chance to work for him).
Funny, I must be hallucinating the former existence of the Falcon 1, the present existence of the Falcon 9, the landing and reuse of Falcon 9s, the success of the Tesla Roadster, the success of the Tesla Model S, the success of the Tesla Model X, and now Model 3 production beginning. Every last one of these things endlessly prophesied to be pipe dreams by a doomed, DOOOOOOMED company. And instead: success and consquering each of their respective markets.
Just like the Model 3 will soon be doing. Whether you like that or not.
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Anyone who thinks you'd be hit by a crushing "wall of air" needs to read up on shock tube experiments, and in particular how propagating shocks respond to high aspect ratios (length relative to aperture size)
When the shock hits you, is it moving fast? Yes. Several times the speed of sound.
When the shock hits you, does it have meaningful density? No, unless you're talking a huge rupture and you just happen to be right next to it at the time.
What subsidies do you envision existing for tunnel boring?
Seriously, google antifa troll campaign. It isn't that hard.
They're fishing for gullible right-wingers. Amusing how well it works.
"They" don't claim anything. Fake troll twitter accounts claim things. What part about this aren't you understanding?
Almost everything you think you know about Antifa is due to trolling. There are extensive troll campaigns out there involving fake Antifa accounts. Each tries to outdo each other with the most outrageous thing they can say to make gullible right wingers take them seriously.
"Antifa" has no ideology except hatred of Nazis and those espousing similar ideologies (general white supremecists). It is not a "group". It has no "leaders". No little black book. Nothing except "hates and will actively oppose Nazis and other white supremecists", and random people who are of that view describe themselves with the term Antifa. Not all people who identify as "Antifa" support violence as a means to counter Nazi activity (there's been a widespread "Is it okay to punch a Nazi?" debate since Richard Spencer was punched on camera). Of those who would answer that with "Yes", there's a further subset known as "Black Bloc"; which again is not an ideology but more of a style (dressing in black and actively physically engaging when Nazis and aligned groups come to town). The "Don't punch a Nazi" crowd thinks of them as counterproductive. Black Bloc style protesting existed before "Antifa"; before the most recent flareup, it was most commonly associated in the US with WTO protests.
To reiterate: Black Bloc does engage in violence - although you might have been misled about "innocent victims". To pick an example: the most famous viral video of Black Bloc actions was this attack. Who is that poor innocent victim? Why, that's Keith Campbell, known on Twitter as "PatriotWarriorMedia". He's involved in R.A.M. ("Rise Above Movement"), a group built specifically around active training to engage in street brawls with perceived leftists. Rather than all black, their hide-their-face approach is black skeleton masks.
What did Campbell have to say about that protest where he got beaten up beforehand? Why let's look!: "Fuck Antifa! Let them come to Berkeley on August 27th so we can kick their asses AGAIN! @1776RealNews @ProudBoysCA @BasedCops"
How did that work out for you, Keith?
Anyway, this is all secondary to my main point, which was to make you aware of the fact that the vast majority of "Antifa" accounts are just trolling to try to dupe gullible right wingers. My personal take on the whole thing? Black Bloc protesters and R.A.M. deserve each other, and both can go F* themselves as far as I'm concerned.
You do realize that almost all "Antifa" accounts on Twitter are trolls, don't you?
Úff, wrote UAW twice. The second was supposed to be ULA :
You'd be how easy it can be to get a teacher's password.
Back when I lived in the US and was in high school, the school offered an introductory course to programming in Basic. I already knew how to program, so I spent the course primarily either writing games or espionage tools ;) One of my favourite was a program that mimicked the DOS prompt (including most common commands), waited for them to run what they thought was the logon program, wrote out the username and password to a file, reported that the password was wrong, logged out of my account and put them back in the real DOS shell - wherein they'd log in normally and everything was fine. I'd usually leave it running on a couple random classroom computers whenever I left. By the end of the year, not only did I have most student passwords, but the password of my teacher and a different one.
Did I use it to change assignments? Alter grades? Vandalize the network? No no no, of course not. Rather, my final project was an overly elaborate demo, which had many different scenes (things like me walking around shooting lightning bolts and other similar nonsense). One scene was a stereogram generator. The hidden image in the stereogram? The teacher's username and password ;)
Thankfully she found it amusing rather than disciplining me ;) I got a perfect score. Looking back at it, I could imagine a teacher with a lesser sense of humor having me suspended or even calling the police.
For me, it was at least plausible until:
I don't even.... huh? How does that even make sense? It might make some sense if the person had been repeatedly marked down for low productivity in activities involving their hands, and then some manager decided that the person just couldn't do the job and credited the scar as being associated for the reason why. But just out of the blue, with no indication that the person is failing to do some activity with their hands? I can't even begin to picture that. It's like the plaintiff neglected to mention a long history of bad productivity scores and was hoping that we wouldn't ask about that part.
You know, it's companies like Tesla and people like Musk that are great at muddling the left-right division.
Develops electric cars! .... but leading the fight against UAW. .... but nonetheless willingly signed up for it anyway. .... but also is a billionaire entrepreneur. .... but also triumphing over government programmes (NASA) with the power of private enterprise. .... but fires employees at the drop of a hat if he thinks they're underperforming, because there's always more lined up to take their place.
Left Trump's business council!
Helping rebuild power infrastructure in Puerto Rico!
Smashing up UAW's monopoly position in rocketry!
Extreme scaleup of battery production to support mass deployment of renewables on the grid!
Can someone remind me which side is supposed to love him and which side is supposed to hate him? ;)
That is a lie, but thanks for playing.
Similar to Tesla's response:
Not even close to "first electric truck of the century". Some companies have been at this for ages. Smith Electric Vehicles, for example, started with electric delivery trucks in the 1920s, switched to milk floats, then in the modern era back to full-sized electric delivery trucks.
"Reusing airplanes isn't game changing either. It's an improvement, but not a game changer." Would you argue that?
No, the simple fact that something is "reused" isn't on its own the be-all end-all situation; you have to have a high enough launch rate to overwhelm your overhead costs. But SpaceX definitely looks to be en route to that, and Blue Origin likely as well eventually. Both are making good use of the lessons of the past in their designs.
Just because the Shuttle was hobbled by NASA's extremely high overhead costs, major cutbacks in the design phase that hindered reusability and turnover time, and a number of design flaws, doesn't mean that the concept of reusability is wrong. It's in most contexts essential for low costs. And while rockets are in many ways more challenging than airplanes, they're not fundamentally on some totally different playing field.
Stats, looks, experience with the company's other models, professional reviews, amateur reviews, and interactions with owners online.
One thing I can't, however, say is how reliable it will be.
As a Model 3 fan, I'm actually hear to say that I find it weird that you can rate the reliability of a car you've never even touched and which nobody has had on the road for any length of time, and is based on an entirely new platform from a manufacturer's previous vehicles.
Nothing, more, nothing less. Just strikes me as odd.
I'd personally take a report from people who were fired about how they weren't deserving of being fired with a grain of salt.
Just taking you at face value for the sake of argument (not meant to either cast aspersions, nor be naively trusting of a random AC): what do you think of UAW and their activities concerning Tesla?
Meanwhile, Tesla has 2484 open jobs on its website. A rather curious strategy if they're trying to "disguise a layoff". Let's lay off "up to 700 people" and then hire 2484 new people to.... cut back on the workforce?
Okay, that's kind of annoying - they appear to only have topo maps for Earth, the Moon, Mercury and Mars.
Meh - even Celestia is better. Of course, it doesn't run in your browser....
... orange? They always draw the surface orange or red.
Venus's surface is primarily basalts. Which are dark gray. More specifically MORBs, and in particular the gabbro family. Daylight is yellowish-orange, but the surface is not.
Anyway, it's a rather neat tool, so kudos to them for making it :)
It's also worth pointing out that Tesla has 2500 open job positions on their website at the moment.
While operating in a vastly larger market segment. The fact that Tesla sells about as many cars per year but theirs are three times the price is not a fact that's to Nissan's favour.
Conversion EVs - even factory conversion - are terrible. EVs need to be designed from the ground up as EVs. Otherwise you're just throwing away range, stability, handling, performance....
No, it's really not. Musk isn't widely known for being nice and cuddly when it comes to rooting out whatever he thinks to be underperforming in his companies. Even fired Eberhard from Tesla Motors - the very guy who came up with the idea for the Tesla Roadster and co-founded the company. He doesn't suffer people he thinks are inefficient or losing money. And he can get away with it because there's people lined up for miles to work for his companies (just read the lower-rated comments on the AMA - half of them are begging him for a chance to work for him).
Funny, I must be hallucinating the former existence of the Falcon 1, the present existence of the Falcon 9, the landing and reuse of Falcon 9s, the success of the Tesla Roadster, the success of the Tesla Model S, the success of the Tesla Model X, and now Model 3 production beginning. Every last one of these things endlessly prophesied to be pipe dreams by a doomed, DOOOOOOMED company. And instead: success and consquering each of their respective markets.
Just like the Model 3 will soon be doing. Whether you like that or not.