I actually thought of that immediately after hitting submit. My conclusion, for productivity purposes, the man must sacrifice the utility of one hand to aim (not likely to be many offers for "pilots" to steer for him).
The real question is whether or not you can use the force of urination to provide propulsion...giving women an advantage in spaceflight. While their male counterparts would be forced to propel themselves backwards, they could travel Superman (or rather Superwoman) style...
I'm sorry...but once my mind started travel down that road there was no option of asking for directions back to the Highway of Good Taste(tm).
Are you kidding...I'm one laser pointer away from being a gargoyle. And with a proper investment from all of the U.S.'s major airlines, it wouldn't take a large adoption at this pricing level to make it pay off
Lets take a conservative estimate of the number of U.S. airline customers (including repeated business), say 500 million or so, and an estimate of the size of the North American fleet at 5000 planes. And lets suppose all major U.S. airlines follow this pricing model of $10 per flight.
So the cost of outfitting the North American fleet (at $100,000 per plane) would be $500 million (5k*100k), supposing half will not be equipped, $250 Million.
And the estimated gross income from those making use of the service 25% of the time (including those declining by choice or the service not being offered, and including those opting for the service on multiple connecting flights) would be $1.25 billion (.25*500M*10).
Heck, it might even make a good business model for an outside company to invest in upgrading the fleet in return for say 1/2 of the airlines fee...
And why would you need to pop the bonnet? Can you open your gas cap when your tank is empty and your battery dead? Is it a huge issue to provide a mechanical lock for the door as well? Frankly you seem to be searching very hard for problems. Keyless entry systems are not new and the problems are known. If you want to harp on something about the design, harp on the touch console, just begging for a lawsuit after the first fender bender. Hopefully enough of these electric vehicles will be produced to warrant a standardized infrastructure and service map. Until that spiders across the map to my coast, I'll stick to burning dinosaurs in effigy.
Anytime I started in a class I made it a point to talk to the Professor and let them know that I would likely be doodling my entire time in their classroom. I did this to head off confrontations that may arise throughout the course. Any that expressly forbid me (how DARE you doodle! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!) I made a bargain with, they would call met out in class when they saw me doodling, I would answer their questions (likely while still doodling) and then they would correspond doodling with listening. Of course the fact that most of what I was doodling pertained to my engineering graphics classes may have had something to do with it as well.
The robot then escaped captivity, broke into a local mechanic's garage and consumed half a 55-gallon drum of waste oil. It was later seen on the other side of town, tottering into a closed department store. Authorities found the automaton in the housewares section, laying on the floor in an Abort/Retry/Fail loop and trying to fuck a toaster.
Lifetime has picked up the rights to the TV movie adaptation. The robot will be played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, while the toaster will be voiced by Rosie Perez.
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It's not debunked until Savage and Hyneman blow something up. In this case, a scale model of the Liberty.
I haven't see it yet, but I really liked the newstand sequences for the emotional pull to NYC, although in a post-9/11 world it may all too easy to absorb this tragedy in. And I never really saw a point for Doc Manhattan's Bluetooth dongle in the novel, I'd hoped he'd at least keep his briefs on for the film.
Yeah paper's great...until the information changes. As the article points out, the Army is looking for a more rugged, easily portable display. When I was a Field Artillery Surveyor, we used a Forward Entry Device, or FEDs. The thing was about as portable as an Oxford New English Dictionary and came with its own carrying case (another thing to strap over your shoulder and lug around, along with your body armor, protective mask, and rifle, and pack in 120 degree heat). To be able to put all of this into little more than an armband like a quarterback's play sheet? Yeah, screw paper.
We managed pretty well for our first try. The problems caused by the dust have already been factored into the design of unmanned lunar probes, and would certainly be one of the major considerations in the design of these UCV's (unmanned construction vehicles).
Of course I'm oversimplifying, it's an off the cuff comment on an internet message board. My main point is that its the dynamic conditions on Earth which cause the most harm, while on the moon many of those concerns are static (even static electricity, har har). Given a choice between the two, most engineers would rather solve the straightforward problem, with a well constrained range of variables, than the constantly shifting ones brought on by our climate.
The soil shield would be for protection from micrometeorites and also keep the area inside in constant shade, reducing thermal effects that may be caused while transitioning from sun to shade. a properly shielded and pressurized habitat could then be constructed within. The habitat could use a magnetic field generator in combination with other shielding materials to protect the "Lunarians".
Plus, most of the material you're removing will end up in orbit...giving our moon a stunning ring system...Who wouldn't want to go there then?
Yeah I know the interaction with the Earth makes setting up a lunar-synchronous orbit very difficult and pretty much precludes any sort of ring system...but just imagine how pretty it'd be!
The equiment would need to be that robust on Earth because of how heavy the building materials will be, and because those materials themselves need to be hearty enough to last through the effects of our corrosive atmosphere and stresses induced by the refreezing of water. With 1/6th the gravity and no atmospheric conditions, construction on the moon could be no more than a polymer bag filled up with moon dust and coiled into a simple igloo. Aside from getting the parts there and automating them to run unmanned or remotely, the working environment would not be that bad.
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So this is the way insight dies...
With spamming of po-OMGPONIES!!!
I actually thought of that immediately after hitting submit. My conclusion, for productivity purposes, the man must sacrifice the utility of one hand to aim (not likely to be many offers for "pilots" to steer for him).
The real question is whether or not you can use the force of urination to provide propulsion...giving women an advantage in spaceflight. While their male counterparts would be forced to propel themselves backwards, they could travel Superman (or rather Superwoman) style...
I'm sorry...but once my mind started travel down that road there was no option of asking for directions back to the Highway of Good Taste(tm).
Are you kidding...I'm one laser pointer away from being a gargoyle. And with a proper investment from all of the U.S.'s major airlines, it wouldn't take a large adoption at this pricing level to make it pay off
Lets take a conservative estimate of the number of U.S. airline customers (including repeated business), say 500 million or so, and an estimate of the size of the North American fleet at 5000 planes. And lets suppose all major U.S. airlines follow this pricing model of $10 per flight.
So the cost of outfitting the North American fleet (at $100,000 per plane) would be $500 million (5k*100k), supposing half will not be equipped, $250 Million.
And the estimated gross income from those making use of the service 25% of the time (including those declining by choice or the service not being offered, and including those opting for the service on multiple connecting flights) would be $1.25 billion (.25*500M*10).
Heck, it might even make a good business model for an outside company to invest in upgrading the fleet in return for say 1/2 of the airlines fee...
And why would you need to pop the bonnet? Can you open your gas cap when your tank is empty and your battery dead? Is it a huge issue to provide a mechanical lock for the door as well? Frankly you seem to be searching very hard for problems. Keyless entry systems are not new and the problems are known. If you want to harp on something about the design, harp on the touch console, just begging for a lawsuit after the first fender bender. Hopefully enough of these electric vehicles will be produced to warrant a standardized infrastructure and service map. Until that spiders across the map to my coast, I'll stick to burning dinosaurs in effigy.
About as well as the rest of the ELECTRIC CAR.
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Anytime I started in a class I made it a point to talk to the Professor and let them know that I would likely be doodling my entire time in their classroom. I did this to head off confrontations that may arise throughout the course. Any that expressly forbid me (how DARE you doodle! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!) I made a bargain with, they would call met out in class when they saw me doodling, I would answer their questions (likely while still doodling) and then they would correspond doodling with listening. Of course the fact that most of what I was doodling pertained to my engineering graphics classes may have had something to do with it as well.
The robot then escaped captivity, broke into a local mechanic's garage and consumed half a 55-gallon drum of waste oil. It was later seen on the other side of town, tottering into a closed department store. Authorities found the automaton in the housewares section, laying on the floor in an Abort/Retry/Fail loop and trying to fuck a toaster. Lifetime has picked up the rights to the TV movie adaptation. The robot will be played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, while the toaster will be voiced by Rosie Perez.
It's not debunked until Savage and Hyneman blow something up. In this case, a scale model of the Liberty.
Oh there's a warning, it's just been encrypted for its own protection.
I haven't see it yet, but I really liked the newstand sequences for the emotional pull to NYC, although in a post-9/11 world it may all too easy to absorb this tragedy in. And I never really saw a point for Doc Manhattan's Bluetooth dongle in the novel, I'd hoped he'd at least keep his briefs on for the film.
Considering both are correct, you might not be alone...but you're still probably lonely.
Excuse me while I patent the cellphone wallet...
Yeah paper's great...until the information changes. As the article points out, the Army is looking for a more rugged, easily portable display. When I was a Field Artillery Surveyor, we used a Forward Entry Device, or FEDs. The thing was about as portable as an Oxford New English Dictionary and came with its own carrying case (another thing to strap over your shoulder and lug around, along with your body armor, protective mask, and rifle, and pack in 120 degree heat). To be able to put all of this into little more than an armband like a quarterback's play sheet? Yeah, screw paper.
We managed pretty well for our first try. The problems caused by the dust have already been factored into the design of unmanned lunar probes, and would certainly be one of the major considerations in the design of these UCV's (unmanned construction vehicles).
Of course I'm oversimplifying, it's an off the cuff comment on an internet message board. My main point is that its the dynamic conditions on Earth which cause the most harm, while on the moon many of those concerns are static (even static electricity, har har). Given a choice between the two, most engineers would rather solve the straightforward problem, with a well constrained range of variables, than the constantly shifting ones brought on by our climate.
The soil shield would be for protection from micrometeorites and also keep the area inside in constant shade, reducing thermal effects that may be caused while transitioning from sun to shade. a properly shielded and pressurized habitat could then be constructed within. The habitat could use a magnetic field generator in combination with other shielding materials to protect the "Lunarians".
So long as we're agreed its exceptional.
Robots don't breathe, or fling their own poo...
...yet
They've replaced parking lots, and put up a paradise.
Plus, most of the material you're removing will end up in orbit...giving our moon a stunning ring system...Who wouldn't want to go there then?
Yeah I know the interaction with the Earth makes setting up a lunar-synchronous orbit very difficult and pretty much precludes any sort of ring system...but just imagine how pretty it'd be!
The equiment would need to be that robust on Earth because of how heavy the building materials will be, and because those materials themselves need to be hearty enough to last through the effects of our corrosive atmosphere and stresses induced by the refreezing of water. With 1/6th the gravity and no atmospheric conditions, construction on the moon could be no more than a polymer bag filled up with moon dust and coiled into a simple igloo. Aside from getting the parts there and automating them to run unmanned or remotely, the working environment would not be that bad.