Besides the missing knowledge building more Saturn V's from the original plans would ignore what I suppose is a fairly substantial body of knowledge about rocket building that has been gained since the time that the Saturn V was designed. Also the manufacturing capabilities available now are probably different enough from the time of the Saturn V that a redesign would result in a rocket that is some combination of safer, cheaper and more powerful.
A bad photoshop job posted under a huge headline that says 'The Inquirer' and a link below to 'Flame Author' and you want to know if it's been verified?
Indy Cars and American saloons still typically take the wall, Mario Andretti's backflip not withstanding. Don't try Andretti's trick in your family saloon./i
The only time the typical American saloon seems to move anywhere is after a few too many pints. But then there typically is a lot of spinning and running into walls, so it is a little like racing.
So while it may seem necessary to use a sticky material to adhere one's boots to the floor -- its probably easier to carry 1000 lbs (Earthweight) of weights which would add an additional 166 lbs of Moonweight, making a 200lb earth person weigh 200 lbs on the moon.
Alternatively, residents of the moon could just get used to it and learn to use their bodies effectively in light gravity without requiring a constant supply of sticky boots.
I was going for my Masters when one of our PHD candidates (total 9 years in college combined) had to get a job at the Piggy Wiggly because she had no skills
For many years the most important question in philosophy has been "Do you want fries with that?"
Yes, simple and safe. Unfortunately its also at least as expensive as mining it in the first place, effectively doubling the cost of the fuel, and also makes it really hard to get to if you need it again (as with un-reprocessed fuel rods, much of which is still very useful as fuel).
We learn that the Earth's atmosphere is only 21% oxygen, so our 9.765 mL of pure oxygen effectively becomes 46.5 mL of normal air
The article mentions that they would be breathing 100% oxygen. At STP thats not a good idea, but the pressure can be reduced so that the partial pressure of oxygen is the same as at STP (something like 3psi). This allows one to breath pure oxygen without harm, reduces the structural demands of containing normal atmospheric pressure, and the low pressure does not result in the fire danger that pure oxygen presents at STP.
End viewers are not the Networks' customer. Large ad firms are their customer.
Who cares about networks? I like HBO's model. I pay them, I get good, commercial-free programming that I can watch purely on-demand, any show, any time I want it, thanks to the Cox network. If I want a copy of a show, I record it locally and write it off to DVDR.
Implimented properly, the only difference would the length and kind of wires the signals travel over, and where the data is stored.
I'm not worried. It'll all shake out eventually and we'll have all the networks going where HBO is now with Cox. Good programming that you can watch on-demand at any time within about a month or so that they have it available on the server. If you want it longer you have to record it locally. You'll pay a monthly fee for access and there won't be any commercials.
Over-the-air programming will remain the same, complete with commercials, until the market for it is just too small to justify it.
I just hope to hell that they won't overlay ads and promos over the bottom quarter of the screen on everything. Jebus that is annoying. If I wanted to know about new programming I'd go watch the 'promos' channel!
Also consider that when performing tasks like plowing or bailing a tractor is working near its peak power output (or it should be if it is sized properly for the task). Equipment like bailers are driven from the power take-off shaft of the tractor, so although pulling doesn't require that much power, driving the other equipment may.
I would not be surprised if a days work on a modest family farm could required as much as 500kWh.
I agree regarding portion sizes. I occasionally go out to eat at a place near work (Upstream Brewery) for lunch. A lunch plate of roast beef and potatos and a pint runs about 9 bucks. I eat until I'm no longer hungry, then take the rest with me. The leftovers from the one plate are sufficent for three more lunches.
Since food cost generally runs around 30% of the total cost of a meal (less as the place gets fancier), I don't mind the large portions. If the portions were one quarter the size my $9 meal would still be nearly $7, everything else being equal. As it is, I get to take home several meals and enjoy them without having to pay for more service.
Recently I've discovered that a nearby grocery store runs a lunch area with an incredible salad bar (obviously they don't have to worry about what it costs to have the huge variety of items delivered and stocked) which they price at $3 a pound. It's fantastic, I can get exactly what I want in the quanity that I want and pay a reasonable price (generally about $3 for more salad than I want, although the boiled eggs and cottage cheese will bump the price up pretty quick). This neatly addresses my concerns about portion size and cost, and I can have a choice of pretty much anything to drink, not just soda.
My idea is to start a Star Trek series that does not have a fixed cast or format. They take a good story and take as many episodes as it takes to tell it right. Maybe its one episode, maybe its an entire season. When that story is over, they go on to a new cast an new stories.
Kind of like Outer Limits, but in Trek space. Its a series of miniseries events. For the ones that are very popular, you can do more with the same cast. If its really popular you can spin it off as a series of its own.
With some imagination it could be an execellent format.
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The few children born without pain receptors generally survive, but by the time they are adults they look pretty rough, missing eyes, covered in scars, etc. Teething babies with no pain receptors tend to happily chew the skin off of their fingers. When they break bones they only complain if the protruding bone ends get in the way.
Now, if we as adults could easily learn to limit pain pereception to the level of "persistant, attention-drawing annoyance", that would be useful.
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Anecdotal story:
One evening while driving in light rain with the window down about half an inch I noticed that when a raindrop made it in through the window and landed on my face near my eye I would flinch before I felt the drop. It was a split second difference, but it happened a number of times that evening, so I had a chance to pay attention to it. Very eery, I could distinctly feel the blink and jerk of the head before the impact of the drop (I also felt the impact before the coldness of the water, which I attributed mostly to the fact that heat conduction through skin should be slower than the impact).
I don't know why I'd feel the flinch first, since the signal from the raindrop would have been transmitted first and therefore received first. Perhaps information about movements of the body are more quickly processed than information about skin touch.
I've often heard that bigger is better in power generation, so your comment about the move to smaller, more distributed energy was interesting. I know that the price per watt for solar is reasonable in remote locations where it would be necessary to install power lines, but until solar prices go down or grid electricity goes way up it won't be competitive in urban areas.
I'm all for solar collection, and since I'm building a new home right now, I wish there was a cheap way to add a renewable power generation system, but its hard to beat the local electric company!
My "Town and Country" minivan gets 17MPG in the city. It's one of the worst performers, but when I was checking them out before a bought I found that most minivans were below 20mpg. So, yep, they are pretty crappy as far as milage.
I imagine we'll start seeing some hybred minivans before too long though, I'd hope they'll do better than the hybred SUV's.
I'm having a custom home built this summer and as a long-time X10 user I'd like to include some kind of home automation. Since this is new construction I may have some options that aren't pratical with existing homes.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm mostly interested in light control, so Insteon might be a good option. I'd like something other than X10 as I've found that frequently the problems with it aren't worth the trouble to fix.
By and large, when people bitch about WalMart, they are really complaining about WalMart consumers - who demonstrate time and time again what they prefer.
True. However, I'm not convinced that people won't pay a premium for goods that are produced in an environmentally friendly and worker-friendly way.
I'd like to see a Wal-Mart administered program that certifies and tags products based upon the practices used to produce them. This would allow the consumer to choose more expensive products that are certified environmentally and/or worker friendly. Then the market that a given store is in would dictate what kinds of products that store would carry (to some extent).
I live in a fairly up-scale area and the Walmart stores in my area are very nice, clean, well stocked and with employee's who know their ass from a hole in the ground. I like shopping there because they have most of what I need at a good price, and I don't like shopping there because the 'low price at any cost' mentality can be damaging. The problem is that if I shop somewhere else and pay more there is no guarentee that I'm paying for products from someone who is environmentally and/or employee conscious. I could just be paying for their larger profit margin.
Walmart could work with some of their suppliers to produce lines of products with premium pricing where the consumer could be confident that the extra money he was paying was going toward environmentally friendly products or to provide good work environments for the people who produced the product.
I'd buy those products in prefrence to cheaper products, and I believe many other consumers (who have the luxury of choosing to pay more if they so desire) would as well.
So, where did the conspirators dispose of AA Flight 77?
A good question that I haven't yet seen addressed in depth, and that may not be answerable.
My first question would be: Do we know it existed in the first place?
Can't interview the passengers, they are either dead or never existed. How about the families? Is the data available to map the passenger list to families (how many John Smiths are there? Think you can get their drivers license info from the airlines?). If you can find some families, how do you know they aren't fake, lying, or misinformed?
It's total tinfoil hat and black helicopter stuff, but when you're dealing with something of that magnitude, how do you know how deep the rabbit hole goes? The fact that it strains credibility (or busts through it entirely) works to hide it, the bigger and more detailed the lie, the easier it becomes to dismiss it.
How hard would it be to make it look like a flight was sold and operated as normal, but never actually existed?
More sinister, how hard would it be simply to make the real thing vanish? Not hard if you're willing to kill innocent people for (what you precieve to be) the greater good.
Regardless, even if nobody figures out what did happened to flight 77, it sure as hell didn't hit the Pentagon.
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Besides the missing knowledge building more Saturn V's from the original plans would ignore what I suppose is a fairly substantial body of knowledge about rocket building that has been gained since the time that the Saturn V was designed. Also the manufacturing capabilities available now are probably different enough from the time of the Saturn V that a redesign would result in a rocket that is some combination of safer, cheaper and more powerful.
I love my 700m. Best laptop screen I've ever seen, and I can watch a full LotR DVD running on the extended battery.
Excellent machine.
A bad photoshop job posted under a huge headline that says 'The Inquirer' and a link below to 'Flame Author' and you want to know if it's been verified?
Indy Cars and American saloons still typically take the wall, Mario Andretti's backflip not withstanding. Don't try Andretti's trick in your family saloon. /i
The only time the typical American saloon seems to move anywhere is after a few too many pints. But then there typically is a lot of spinning and running into walls, so it is a little like racing.
So while it may seem necessary to use a sticky material to adhere one's boots
to the floor -- its probably easier to carry 1000 lbs (Earthweight) of weights
which would add an additional 166 lbs of Moonweight, making a 200lb earth person
weigh 200 lbs on the moon.
Alternatively, residents of the moon could just get used to it and learn to use their bodies effectively in light gravity without requiring a constant supply of sticky boots.
if you spend 8 hours sleeping and 8 hours at the job per day, your employer will get your wonderful personality for 50% of your conscious time.
Your employer gets your personality 100% of the time you are at work? What are you, a clown? Maybe a mime?
Get back to work or I'll put an invisible wall over your cubical door.
Yeah, well, all they had to do was pour some concrete.
I was going for my Masters when one of our PHD candidates (total 9 years in college combined) had to get a job at the Piggy Wiggly because she had no skills
For many years the most important question in philosophy has been "Do you want fries with that?"
Yes, simple and safe. Unfortunately its also at least as expensive as mining it in the first place, effectively doubling the cost of the fuel, and also makes it really hard to get to if you need it again (as with un-reprocessed fuel rods, much of which is still very useful as fuel).
We learn that the Earth's atmosphere is only 21% oxygen, so our 9.765 mL of pure oxygen effectively becomes 46.5 mL of normal air
The article mentions that they would be breathing 100% oxygen. At STP thats not a good idea, but the pressure can be reduced so that the partial pressure of oxygen is the same as at STP (something like 3psi). This allows one to breath pure oxygen without harm, reduces the structural demands of containing normal atmospheric pressure, and the low pressure does not result in the fire danger that pure oxygen presents at STP.
End viewers are not the Networks' customer. Large ad firms are their customer.
Who cares about networks? I like HBO's model. I pay them, I get good, commercial-free programming that I can watch purely on-demand, any show, any time I want it, thanks to the Cox network. If I want a copy of a show, I record it locally and write it off to DVDR.
Implimented properly, the only difference would the length and kind of wires the signals travel over, and where the data is stored.
I'm not worried. It'll all shake out eventually and we'll have all the networks going where HBO is now with Cox. Good programming that you can watch on-demand at any time within about a month or so that they have it available on the server. If you want it longer you have to record it locally. You'll pay a monthly fee for access and there won't be any commercials.
Over-the-air programming will remain the same, complete with commercials, until the market for it is just too small to justify it.
I just hope to hell that they won't overlay ads and promos over the bottom quarter of the screen on everything. Jebus that is annoying. If I wanted to know about new programming I'd go watch the 'promos' channel!
It's illegal to grow hemp
For now. There are plenty of initiatives to enable farming of hemp. Recently North Dakota started pushing ahead with plans to allow hemp farming.
Also consider that when performing tasks like plowing or bailing a tractor is working near its peak power output (or it should be if it is sized properly for the task). Equipment like bailers are driven from the power take-off shaft of the tractor, so although pulling doesn't require that much power, driving the other equipment may.
I would not be surprised if a days work on a modest family farm could required as much as 500kWh.
I agree regarding portion sizes. I occasionally go out to eat at a place near work (Upstream Brewery) for lunch. A lunch plate of roast beef and potatos and a pint runs about 9 bucks. I eat until I'm no longer hungry, then take the rest with me. The leftovers from the one plate are sufficent for three more lunches.
Since food cost generally runs around 30% of the total cost of a meal (less as the place gets fancier), I don't mind the large portions. If the portions were one quarter the size my $9 meal would still be nearly $7, everything else being equal. As it is, I get to take home several meals and enjoy them without having to pay for more service.
Recently I've discovered that a nearby grocery store runs a lunch area with an incredible salad bar (obviously they don't have to worry about what it costs to have the huge variety of items delivered and stocked) which they price at $3 a pound. It's fantastic, I can get exactly what I want in the quanity that I want and pay a reasonable price (generally about $3 for more salad than I want, although the boiled eggs and cottage cheese will bump the price up pretty quick). This neatly addresses my concerns about portion size and cost, and I can have a choice of pretty much anything to drink, not just soda.
My idea is to start a Star Trek series that does not have a fixed cast or format. They take a good story and take as many episodes as it takes to tell it right. Maybe its one episode, maybe its an entire season. When that story is over, they go on to a new cast an new stories.
Kind of like Outer Limits, but in Trek space. Its a series of miniseries events. For the ones that are very popular, you can do more with the same cast. If its really popular you can spin it off as a series of its own.
With some imagination it could be an execellent format.
The few children born without pain receptors generally survive, but by the time they are adults they look pretty rough, missing eyes, covered in scars, etc. Teething babies with no pain receptors tend to happily chew the skin off of their fingers. When they break bones they only complain if the protruding bone ends get in the way.
Now, if we as adults could easily learn to limit pain pereception to the level of "persistant, attention-drawing annoyance", that would be useful.
Anecdotal story:
One evening while driving in light rain with the window down about half an inch I noticed that when a raindrop made it in through the window and landed on my face near my eye I would flinch before I felt the drop. It was a split second difference, but it happened a number of times that evening, so I had a chance to pay attention to it. Very eery, I could distinctly feel the blink and jerk of the head before the impact of the drop (I also felt the impact before the coldness of the water, which I attributed mostly to the fact that heat conduction through skin should be slower than the impact).
I don't know why I'd feel the flinch first, since the signal from the raindrop would have been transmitted first and therefore received first. Perhaps information about movements of the body are more quickly processed than information about skin touch.
Thanks for the data.
I've often heard that bigger is better in power generation, so your comment about the move to smaller, more distributed energy was interesting. I know that the price per watt for solar is reasonable in remote locations where it would be necessary to install power lines, but until solar prices go down or grid electricity goes way up it won't be competitive in urban areas.
I'm all for solar collection, and since I'm building a new home right now, I wish there was a cheap way to add a renewable power generation system, but its hard to beat the local electric company!
Anyway, thanks again.
power production over the last 30 years has proven decentralized power to be more economical and reliable.
Can you cite some sources to verify this claim?
My "Town and Country" minivan gets 17MPG in the city. It's one of the worst performers, but when I was checking them out before a bought I found that most minivans were below 20mpg. So, yep, they are pretty crappy as far as milage.
I imagine we'll start seeing some hybred minivans before too long though, I'd hope they'll do better than the hybred SUV's.
I'm having a custom home built this summer and as a long-time X10 user I'd like to include some kind of home automation. Since this is new construction I may have some options that aren't pratical with existing homes.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm mostly interested in light control, so Insteon might be a good option. I'd like something other than X10 as I've found that frequently the problems with it aren't worth the trouble to fix.
By and large, when people bitch about WalMart, they are really complaining about WalMart consumers - who demonstrate time and time again what they prefer.
True. However, I'm not convinced that people won't pay a premium for goods that are produced in an environmentally friendly and worker-friendly way.
I'd like to see a Wal-Mart administered program that certifies and tags products based upon the practices used to produce them. This would allow the consumer to choose more expensive products that are certified environmentally and/or worker friendly. Then the market that a given store is in would dictate what kinds of products that store would carry (to some extent).
I live in a fairly up-scale area and the Walmart stores in my area are very nice, clean, well stocked and with employee's who know their ass from a hole in the ground. I like shopping there because they have most of what I need at a good price, and I don't like shopping there because the 'low price at any cost' mentality can be damaging. The problem is that if I shop somewhere else and pay more there is no guarentee that I'm paying for products from someone who is environmentally and/or employee conscious. I could just be paying for their larger profit margin.
Walmart could work with some of their suppliers to produce lines of products with premium pricing where the consumer could be confident that the extra money he was paying was going toward environmentally friendly products or to provide good work environments for the people who produced the product.
I'd buy those products in prefrence to cheaper products, and I believe many other consumers (who have the luxury of choosing to pay more if they so desire) would as well.
So, where did the conspirators dispose of AA Flight 77?
A good question that I haven't yet seen addressed in depth, and that may not be answerable.
My first question would be: Do we know it existed in the first place?
Can't interview the passengers, they are either dead or never existed. How about the families? Is the data available to map the passenger list to families (how many John Smiths are there? Think you can get their drivers license info from the airlines?). If you can find some families, how do you know they aren't fake, lying, or misinformed?
It's total tinfoil hat and black helicopter stuff, but when you're dealing with something of that magnitude, how do you know how deep the rabbit hole goes? The fact that it strains credibility (or busts through it entirely) works to hide it, the bigger and more detailed the lie, the easier it becomes to dismiss it.
How hard would it be to make it look like a flight was sold and operated as normal, but never actually existed?
More sinister, how hard would it be simply to make the real thing vanish? Not hard if you're willing to kill innocent people for (what you precieve to be) the greater good.
Regardless, even if nobody figures out what did happened to flight 77, it sure as hell didn't hit the Pentagon.
at what point do you realise that the current administration is out of control
I decided that when they said a 737 crashed into the Pentagon, but there wasn't any wreckage of a 737 there.