that we as a civilization are still boasting about our abilities to do harm towards one another when we're losing the only battle that matters: the battle to save Earth.
How do you propose we battle the alien invasion if not with space weapons? Duh.
Convert them to Mormonism. They will self destruct.
Next time Google Maps publishes an unblurred image of an Indian Air Base , Modi strokes his beard and goes "nice little satellite your vendors got their. Hooaahhhhhhhh!!"
Army gets Helicopters Air Force gets Planes Space Force gets Satellites But the SpaceSHIPs go to the Navy. Navy always finds a way to get its own force whether its Infantry (Marines), Air (Carriers) or freaking SPACESHIPS. They are SHIPS so the navy needs to get them.
Programming was always a blue collar job. The problem that happened was we threw engineers at it. We have wasted an entire generation of engineers doing draftsman work - coding. Finally things are getting back to normal. The difficult part in any software is figuring out what to build and the overall architecture. After that the actual typing to pass test cases is something Teenagers should do for pocket money (aka its a McJob)
We can use this tech to create supersoldiers with embedded mini brains in their arms (faster reaction times for operating weapons,ships) as well as a backup brain in the gut to keep fighting if headshot.
It came close. US almost went communist between WW1 and WW2. Only draconian measures by the FBI prevented the US from going Communist. As it is US is pretty socialist - Social Security, Medicare, 40 hr week, Womens rights, Civil rights for colored people - these were all issues raised by US Socialists and Communists and US has adopted all of them. Only free college, universal healthcare and paid maternity leave differentiates the US from a socialist country (not communist socialist).
US keeps claiming socialism doesnt work however if people in the US were to see it works they would demand the same so the only option the US govt has is to use any and all means to sabotage any country where socialism seems to be working. Its nothing personal against Venezuela.
Global warming means there is more rain in the Sahara leading to a greening of the Sahara and fewer famines Global warming means the Arctic passage opens up for shipping reducing shipping costs for Chinese exporters to Europe Global warming means more rains and greater growth of the rain forest in Indonesia and the Amazon Global warming means stronger monsoons and a higher productivity for rain fed agriculture in India Global warming means land in Canada and Siberia becomes availbale for agriculture
Cons
Global warming means stronger Hurricanes in Florida Global warming means stronger droughts in California Global warming means colder winters in Western Europe (due to the gulf stream shutting down) Global warming means certain low lying areas will be flooded and populations will try to immigrate to US and Europe
So please stop framing Global Warming as a problem for the world. Its a problem for NATO countries. Rest of the world benefits from Global Warming. If NATO countries want the rest of the world to stop burning fossil fuels they better pony up .
Do what Europe did when the efficiencies of the renaissance created excess labor. Ship them off to a New World. Dont tax the rich to pay for UBI. Tax the rich till they squeal to fund a Mars colony and ship off the excess labor to Mars.
Planes fly with broken instruments all the time. The manufacturer provides lists of what is critical and what can be worked around through override procedures. AoA sensors were not on the critical list earlier as MCAS did not exist. Evidently it was not moved to the critical list even though now with MCAS a AoA malfunction can cause a crash.
Also the AoA diagree warning light was made an option. It really should have been mandatory with MCAS being on the plane.
The 787 can use GenX from GE Aviation. The Leap engine is from a joint venture of GE Aviation and Safran which uses a scaled down core from the GenX engine.
The A320 was infamous for not trusting pilots and having the computer override them. At that time Boeing went on to advertize that in Boeing planes the pilots are always in control. Basically Airbus has had this kid of system for long time and initially they too had crashes as pilots got used to being not in final control. This is the first time Boeing has put a similar control in where the computer overrides the pilot instead of just warning him/her. Thats what I meant avionics from the A320. Obviuosly Boeing and Airbus are not using the same supplier for their software (for one Airbus's software works)
You have 3 sensors and vote. If all 3 are showing different values you take the middle value or if you rally want to be safe dont fly.
If you are too cheap to have 3 than you at least check both are agreeing, if they ar not agreeing you dont trigger MCAS instead show a warning that the AoA is not working as at least one is incorrect if not both and again if this is before takeoff you dont takeoff. The American Airlines planes actually have this indicator but Boeing made this an optional feature and both planes that crashed did not have this warning light.
As I read American chose to have the warning light which tells them that the AoA sensors are disagreeing. Didnt know Southwest had chosen to have the same warning lights. If thats the case and American and Southwest have procedures in place that the AoA sensor is on the critical list and planes dont take off if they are broken than FAA was probably justified in not grounding planes in the US. United flies the Max 9 which has not had crashes and as its a stretch it probably has differnt aerodynamics and doesnt suffer from the same pitch up problem .
American did force their hand but Boeing is not a small company. They have a pretty much unlimited amount of cash from Defense contracts. If any company is in a position to do the right thing its Boeing.
Either Boeing will survive this and go to 500 dollar or it will go bankrupt. The smart money is to buy a 1 year 450 dollar call and a 1 year 300 dollar put and then watch. Either one will be profitable while the other is lost cost. NO way is it going to stay within the 300-450 range.
It has fuselage from the 737, Engines from the 787, flight controls from the A320 (the famous plane where the automation led to crashes. Now 737 Max has taken that mantle)
Boeing should have done a clean sheet design as a replacement of 737 instead of putting engines so big on an airframe meant for much smaller engine.
They created and unstable plane and tried to fix it in software.
While this is an approach often used in fighter jets which are deliberately made unstable so that they can change directions easily its not something you do on a civilian airplane. A civilian pilot does not have the reflexes of a fighter pilot to fix things if the computer is misbehaving
To recap the plane was too small for the engines they wanted to put on it. So they put the engines in a cantilevered position so now the center of thrust was significantly away from the centre of gravity and the plane had a tendency to pitch up and stall. To avoid this they added MCAS which would pitch the nose down in case of a stall detection. To detect the stall they used the AoA sensor and in a freshman Fault Tolerant Computing bug depended on only one sensor when they had 2. They made the warning light showing the AoA sensor is broken an option (only American signed up for this option which is probably why American hasnt had a crash). Then to make things worse they didnt tell the pilots. Also in the NG if the auto trim was runaway pulling back on the yoke would disengage the auto trim. With MCAS they changed this. The auto trim would only disengage for 10 seconds and then MCAS would add more trim and it would keep adding more and more trim till the pilots could not counter even if they pulled the yoke all the way back. Again a software bug. Further to make things worse THEY DID NOT TELL THE PILOTS ABOUT THIS CHANGE. So the yoke maneouver does not work so the only maneovour that works is disengaing the trim using the 2 cutoff switches but this only disengages the Auto trim. If the plane is already nose down it doesnt go back to normal trim. Now you have to pull back on the yoke which was not working till a moment ago or spin two manual trim wheels to get the trim back. All this is happening close to ground as MCAS only engages at low speeds found at takeoff.
Boeing could have avoided this in many ways
1) Build a clean sheet design which is stable with the larger engines 2) Failing that build a MCAS which is fault tolerant with multiple sensors or can be countermanded by the pilot by pulling back on the yoke (This is what they are doing now with the software fix). Not ideal for if the pilot is really flying badly now he can stall the plane 3) Failing that tell the pilots about the MCAS system, the change in the yoke behaviour and have them go through difference training.
They did not do 1 as it would cost too much money They did not do 3 as they wanted to avoid airlines having to train pilots making the plane easier to sell. One of the reasons there are 5000 737 Max orders is that it needs no crosstraining to fly (officially) They did not do 2 because of sheer laziness or stupidity in the engineering team
So the Engineering team is now fixing their error No 2. But the Exec team's error No 1 and the Marketing team's error no 3 are still not fixed.
India has 1.3 billion population with a 300 million middle class with internet access. US population is 300 million with the number of internet users definitely less than that. So if we talk about balkanization its not Indian companies who will have problems of inadequate scale. China has already shown that a incountry internet can provide most of the social networks people need. They operate perfectly well without Google or Facebook. US companies need to be queueing up and jumping through hoops to keep the Indian govt happy for that is where their next growth is coming from. India has enough home grown tech talent (heck most US companies depend on Indian tech talent) that if India went for a home grown internet ecosystem Indian people would not miss anything but the US tech sector would have huge growth problems. All inflated VC valuations based on hockey stick growth would go for a toss.
All you need to do is put the people to work on something else. Lets take a simplified example.
1) Capitalists use automation to get super profits 2) Unemployment rises 3) Visionary convinces the capitalists the next big thing is a Amrs Colony 4) Capitalist buy overpriced shares of a Mars colony corporation 5) MCC builds huge factories to produce Mars ships and employs all the newly sacked employees 6) MCC gets colonists from the dissatisifed folks who are scared of getting unemployed as automation spreads 7) MCC sets up colonies on Mars 8) The capitalists are not happy with the returns and demand more 9) The colonies declare independence and repudiate all debts 10) Leaders of the revolution become the new capitalists 11) Cycle restarts
The big one is Health Insurance. Once you add that and a 401K match its a 25% loading. Plus many of the Janitariol staff are contract employees so the staffing firm makes its profit as well which probably adds 15% so a 10$ Janitarial costs $14 or $28000 a year. Thats still nowhere close to $128000 so something is off
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Co2 is plant food. the more Co2 the more plants and a greener world. Just what do climate change opponents have against trees?
that we as a civilization are still boasting about our abilities to do harm towards one another when we're losing the only battle that matters: the battle to save Earth.
How do you propose we battle the alien invasion if not with space weapons? Duh.
Convert them to Mormonism. They will self destruct.
India needs to develop its space technology to get more efficient at growing food so they can send aid for all the starving kids in Baltimore.
Next time Google Maps publishes an unblurred image of an Indian Air Base , Modi strokes his beard and goes "nice little satellite your vendors got their. Hooaahhhhhhhh!!"
Army gets Helicopters
Air Force gets Planes
Space Force gets Satellites
But the SpaceSHIPs go to the Navy.
Navy always finds a way to get its own force whether its Infantry (Marines), Air (Carriers) or freaking SPACESHIPS.
They are SHIPS so the navy needs to get them.
Programming was always a blue collar job. The problem that happened was we threw engineers at it. We have wasted an entire generation of engineers doing draftsman work - coding. Finally things are getting back to normal. The difficult part in any software is figuring out what to build and the overall architecture. After that the actual typing to pass test cases is something Teenagers should do for pocket money (aka its a McJob)
So insensitive. Part of where the wall is proposed is a bird sanctuary. You will kill a lot more birds than 2.
We can use this tech to create supersoldiers with embedded mini brains in their arms (faster reaction times for operating weapons,ships) as well as a backup brain in the gut to keep fighting if headshot.
It came close. US almost went communist between WW1 and WW2. Only draconian measures by the FBI prevented the US from going Communist. As it is US is pretty socialist - Social Security, Medicare, 40 hr week, Womens rights, Civil rights for colored people - these were all issues raised by US Socialists and Communists and US has adopted all of them. Only free college, universal healthcare and paid maternity leave differentiates the US from a socialist country (not communist socialist).
US keeps claiming socialism doesnt work however if people in the US were to see it works they would demand the same so the only option the US govt has is to use any and all means to sabotage any country where socialism seems to be working. Its nothing personal against Venezuela.
Pros
Global warming means there is more rain in the Sahara leading to a greening of the Sahara and fewer famines
Global warming means the Arctic passage opens up for shipping reducing shipping costs for Chinese exporters to Europe
Global warming means more rains and greater growth of the rain forest in Indonesia and the Amazon
Global warming means stronger monsoons and a higher productivity for rain fed agriculture in India
Global warming means land in Canada and Siberia becomes availbale for agriculture
Cons
Global warming means stronger Hurricanes in Florida
Global warming means stronger droughts in California
Global warming means colder winters in Western Europe (due to the gulf stream shutting down)
Global warming means certain low lying areas will be flooded and populations will try to immigrate to US and Europe
So please stop framing Global Warming as a problem for the world. Its a problem for NATO countries. Rest of the world benefits from Global Warming. If NATO countries want the rest of the world to stop burning fossil fuels they better pony up .
Do what Europe did when the efficiencies of the renaissance created excess labor. Ship them off to a New World. Dont tax the rich to pay for UBI. Tax the rich till they squeal to fund a Mars colony and ship off the excess labor to Mars.
Planes fly with broken instruments all the time. The manufacturer provides lists of what is critical and what can be worked around through override procedures. AoA sensors were not on the critical list earlier as MCAS did not exist. Evidently it was not moved to the critical list even though now with MCAS a AoA malfunction can cause a crash.
Also the AoA diagree warning light was made an option. It really should have been mandatory with MCAS being on the plane.
The 787 can use GenX from GE Aviation. The Leap engine is from a joint venture of GE Aviation and Safran which uses a scaled down core from the GenX engine.
The A320 was infamous for not trusting pilots and having the computer override them. At that time Boeing went on to advertize that in Boeing planes the pilots are always in control. Basically Airbus has had this kid of system for long time and initially they too had crashes as pilots got used to being not in final control.
This is the first time Boeing has put a similar control in where the computer overrides the pilot instead of just warning him/her.
Thats what I meant avionics from the A320. Obviuosly Boeing and Airbus are not using the same supplier for their software (for one Airbus's software works)
You have 3 sensors and vote. If all 3 are showing different values you take the middle value or if you rally want to be safe dont fly.
If you are too cheap to have 3 than you at least check both are agreeing, if they ar not agreeing you dont trigger MCAS instead show a warning that the AoA is not working as at least one is incorrect if not both and again if this is before takeoff you dont takeoff.
The American Airlines planes actually have this indicator but Boeing made this an optional feature and both planes that crashed did not have this warning light.
As I read American chose to have the warning light which tells them that the AoA sensors are disagreeing. Didnt know Southwest had chosen to have the same warning lights.
If thats the case and American and Southwest have procedures in place that the AoA sensor is on the critical list and planes dont take off if they are broken than FAA was probably justified in not grounding planes in the US.
United flies the Max 9 which has not had crashes and as its a stretch it probably has differnt aerodynamics and doesnt suffer from the same pitch up problem .
American did force their hand but Boeing is not a small company. They have a pretty much unlimited amount of cash from Defense contracts. If any company is in a position to do the right thing its Boeing.
If you read the article you linked to you would see that the CFM Leap is a scaled down version of the GenX used on the 787.
Either Boeing will survive this and go to 500 dollar or it will go bankrupt. The smart money is to buy a 1 year 450 dollar call and a 1 year 300 dollar put and then watch. Either one will be profitable while the other is lost cost. NO way is it going to stay within the 300-450 range.
It has fuselage from the 737, Engines from the 787, flight controls from the A320 (the famous plane where the automation led to crashes. Now 737 Max has taken that mantle)
Boeing should have done a clean sheet design as a replacement of 737 instead of putting engines so big on an airframe meant for much smaller engine.
They created and unstable plane and tried to fix it in software.
While this is an approach often used in fighter jets which are deliberately made unstable so that they can change directions easily its not something you do on a civilian airplane. A civilian pilot does not have the reflexes of a fighter pilot to fix things if the computer is misbehaving
To recap the plane was too small for the engines they wanted to put on it. So they put the engines in a cantilevered position so now the center of thrust was significantly away from the centre of gravity and the plane had a tendency to pitch up and stall. To avoid this they added MCAS which would pitch the nose down in case of a stall detection. To detect the stall they used the AoA sensor and in a freshman Fault Tolerant Computing bug depended on only one sensor when they had 2. They made the warning light showing the AoA sensor is broken an option (only American signed up for this option which is probably why American hasnt had a crash). Then to make things worse they didnt tell the pilots. Also in the NG if the auto trim was runaway pulling back on the yoke would disengage the auto trim. With MCAS they changed this. The auto trim would only disengage for 10 seconds and then MCAS would add more trim and it would keep adding more and more trim till the pilots could not counter even if they pulled the yoke all the way back. Again a software bug. Further to make things worse THEY DID NOT TELL THE PILOTS ABOUT THIS CHANGE. So the yoke maneouver does not work so the only maneovour that works is disengaing the trim using the 2 cutoff switches but this only disengages the Auto trim. If the plane is already nose down it doesnt go back to normal trim. Now you have to pull back on the yoke which was not working till a moment ago or spin two manual trim wheels to get the trim back. All this is happening close to ground as MCAS only engages at low speeds found at takeoff.
Boeing could have avoided this in many ways
1) Build a clean sheet design which is stable with the larger engines
2) Failing that build a MCAS which is fault tolerant with multiple sensors or can be countermanded by the pilot by pulling back on the yoke (This is what they are doing now with the software fix). Not ideal for if the pilot is really flying badly now he can stall the plane
3) Failing that tell the pilots about the MCAS system, the change in the yoke behaviour and have them go through difference training.
They did not do 1 as it would cost too much money
They did not do 3 as they wanted to avoid airlines having to train pilots making the plane easier to sell. One of the reasons there are 5000 737 Max orders is that it needs no crosstraining to fly (officially)
They did not do 2 because of sheer laziness or stupidity in the engineering team
So the Engineering team is now fixing their error No 2. But the Exec team's error No 1 and the Marketing team's error no 3 are still not fixed.
He invented WWW. The Internet existed since the 70s and was a DARPA project.
India has 1.3 billion population with a 300 million middle class with internet access. US population is 300 million with the number of internet users definitely less than that.
So if we talk about balkanization its not Indian companies who will have problems of inadequate scale.
China has already shown that a incountry internet can provide most of the social networks people need. They operate perfectly well without Google or Facebook.
US companies need to be queueing up and jumping through hoops to keep the Indian govt happy for that is where their next growth is coming from.
India has enough home grown tech talent (heck most US companies depend on Indian tech talent) that if India went for a home grown internet ecosystem Indian people would not miss anything but the US tech sector would have huge growth problems. All inflated VC valuations based on hockey stick growth would go for a toss.
+1 Funny.
I wish I hadnt commented on this thread so I could have spent my 15 moderator points upvoting this
All you need to do is put the people to work on something else. Lets take a simplified example.
1) Capitalists use automation to get super profits
2) Unemployment rises
3) Visionary convinces the capitalists the next big thing is a Amrs Colony
4) Capitalist buy overpriced shares of a Mars colony corporation
5) MCC builds huge factories to produce Mars ships and employs all the newly sacked employees
6) MCC gets colonists from the dissatisifed folks who are scared of getting unemployed as automation spreads
7) MCC sets up colonies on Mars
8) The capitalists are not happy with the returns and demand more
9) The colonies declare independence and repudiate all debts
10) Leaders of the revolution become the new capitalists
11) Cycle restarts
The big one is Health Insurance. Once you add that and a 401K match its a 25% loading. Plus many of the Janitariol staff are contract employees so the staffing firm makes its profit as well which probably adds 15% so a 10$ Janitarial costs $14 or $28000 a year. Thats still nowhere close to $128000 so something is off