anything under 400 miles may spend less time cruising than passing through the inverted wedding cake.
Could you please explain that idiom? Thanks.
coyote-san was probably referring to Class B Airspace, which is the space around an airport under the jurisdiction of the airport's Air Traffic Controllers. (Smaller airports have class C or D airspace, but that's not usually an issue for large jetliners). This airspace looks like a set of stacked cylinders, which get larger as you go up. Thus the "inverted wedding cake" metaphor.
Why doesn't Amazon.com have scanned pages of all the books they sell? Maybe because it'll take a dozen years and millions of dollars to scan in all those pages? Maybe because the authors don't want scanned images of their books online in the first place? Maybe because having a full book in digital form doesn't fall under fair use rules?
"Today, the Authors Guild is saying that the publishers don't have the right to let Amazon do this." -- Slashdot, Oct 25, 2003 - Amazon's Book Search Hits a Snag
In a conventional helicopter, the rotor is spun by a driveshaft coming up into the center of the rotor. This creates a torque on the rotor, spinning it. By Newton's third law, there is an equal but opposite torque applied to the rest of the helicopter, causing it to rotate in the opposite direction. Thus, the tail rotor.
In the Dragonfly, hot gas is exhausted at the rotor tips, in a direction perpendicular to the rotor's axis. Since the gas is travelling down the rotor axis, a force must be applied to cause it to change direction, and Newton's third law again says that a complementary force will exist on the exhaust housing, and thus the rotor tip. This force produces the torque to spin the rotor.
Since no torque is applied to the rotor by the helicopter, no torque is applied to the helicopter by the rotor.
How'd this get modded redundant? I only see 3 posts right now and if it wasn't for this one I wouldn't be able to read the paper because it appears to be slashdotted already.
Many people consider cut-and-pasting the article to be inherently redundant. I generally agree with them.
I wonder if the fancy-shmancy simulations they run to figure out what a hurricane will do next have any applicablity to hurricanes in the southern hemisphere (which are commonly referred to as 'Typhoons', right?)
The different models rely on different proportions of past statistics, and climate modelling. The more a north Atlantic model relies on statistics, the less it is applicable to other areas prone to tropical cyclones.
Hi, this site is all about ninjas robots, REAL NINJA ROBOTS. This site is awesome. My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about ninja robots. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
You know, I submitted the Monkey Robot Arm story earlier today, but it got rejected. I guess I was just missing the Stomping Sumo Robot angle:-)
It was rejected because that story was posted yesterday. And please don't say anything about this being Slashdot and duplicate articles. Comments like that aren't funny.
Strange, you think they'd
mention that, wouldn't you?
Your link, second paragraph from the bottom:
In a nutshell, you can play your music on up to three computers, enjoy unlimited synching with your iPods, burn unlimited CDs of individual songs, and burn unchanged playlists up to 10 times each.
Here I am thinking NASA & co was tracking everyhing bigger than a tennis ball in outer space.
You thought wrong.
Nearly everything in low Earth orbit is tracked, because of the threat to satellites and manned spacecraft. But no organization has the resources set aside to track everything in the solar system.
If you want to try finding every rock the size of a beach ball in the entire volume of the solar system, be my guest.
How come this thing just goes in without anyone noticing it?
You really haven't been paying attention, have you?
The standard cliche is that the number of people looking for these things is smaller than the number of people working at your average McDonald's. You want these rocks found, you convince your government to spend the money to do it.
We've been swamped with news of some other meter which had like a 1^-1000000 chance to hit and this thing just charges in?
Firstly, it was an asteroid, not a "meter".
Secondly, we got swamped with that news because the media is stupid.
think they have some mysterious "right" to (ab)use their intended recipient's E-mail boxes.
Unfortunately, THEY DO. It's called Free Speech. Bill of Rights, at the top.
A spammer's right to free speech does not entitle them to abuse my resources to exercise it. It's the same thing as running into Kinko's, using their copiers to print flyers, and then claiming you don't have to pay because of your free speech rights.
Earthbound had some of my favorite bosses. Whether it was the five Guardian Diggers, all of whom claimed to be the third most powerful, or the Clumsy Robot that kept eating eating bologna sandwiches, or even Master Belch, the Earthbound bosses still hold a place in my memories (next to the fuzzy pickles).
The best Earthbound boss was the final one.
Giygas. The incarnation of evil. So infused with raw power that he lost his mind and body. And he's got that bastard Pokey as his sidekick.
You get him to his final form, and nothing works. Attacks are useless. PSI is even less useful. Items have no effect.
You've tried bashing, shooting, the heavy bazooka, multi bottle rockets, dragonite, psi starstorm omega, and even Poo's mimic ability. Nothing.
Your HP and PP are dropping, and your stockpile of healing items is running out.
Then you try the one command you've been avoiding since you picked up Paula. Its effects were random, and sometimes suicidal, but you had nothing to lose. It was the last boss, and nothing else was working.
Paula prayed from the bottom of her heart! "...Please give us strength, if it is possible... Please... Somebody help us..."
All of the Mr. Saturns felt a new, startling feeling they had never experienced before, and they all started praying for the safety of Ness and his friends.
I know it was corny, but damnit, that's the only boss fight to have an emotional impact on me.
Actually no, the 5PM EST advisory downgraded it. Still, it was only 20 minutes after.
You've confused the posting time with the submission time. The article was posted 20 minutes after the downgrade. However, the article was probably submitted, and likely was approved, hours before then.
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I wasn't sure, so I erred on the side of "Well, 40 is more than 30."
For some reason, I'm reminded of the Reaching the Americas experiment.
coyote-san was probably referring to Class B Airspace, which is the space around an airport under the jurisdiction of the airport's Air Traffic Controllers. (Smaller airports have class C or D airspace, but that's not usually an issue for large jetliners). This airspace looks like a set of stacked cylinders, which get larger as you go up. Thus the "inverted wedding cake" metaphor.
The Moller Skycar, coming soon for over 30 years!
"Today, the Authors Guild is saying that the publishers don't have the right to let Amazon do this." -- Slashdot, Oct 25, 2003 - Amazon's Book Search Hits a Snag
Why speculate when we know the answer?
Ah, but that's exactly why it does make sense.
In a conventional helicopter, the rotor is spun by a driveshaft coming up into the center of the rotor. This creates a torque on the rotor, spinning it. By Newton's third law, there is an equal but opposite torque applied to the rest of the helicopter, causing it to rotate in the opposite direction. Thus, the tail rotor.
In the Dragonfly, hot gas is exhausted at the rotor tips, in a direction perpendicular to the rotor's axis. Since the gas is travelling down the rotor axis, a force must be applied to cause it to change direction, and Newton's third law again says that a complementary force will exist on the exhaust housing, and thus the rotor tip. This force produces the torque to spin the rotor.
Since no torque is applied to the rotor by the helicopter, no torque is applied to the helicopter by the rotor.
This is the Department of Energy's projects list.
If you want giant robots, then you need to talk to DARPA.
Seen is a local musical instrument shop:
NO SMOKE
(on the water)
Many people consider cut-and-pasting the article to be inherently redundant. I generally agree with them.
The different models rely on different proportions of past statistics, and climate modelling. The more a north Atlantic model relies on statistics, the less it is applicable to other areas prone to tropical cyclones.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Sure, ninja robots are great and all...
But do they guarantee delivery in 30 minutes or less, or they commit seppuku?
It was rejected because that story was posted yesterday. And please don't say anything about this being Slashdot and duplicate articles. Comments like that aren't funny.
Your link, second paragraph from the bottom:
Seems to me that they do mention it.
Looks like we've already got a nominee for 2004 Ig Nobel prize in chemistry or physics.
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
It was commented on.
On behalf of the Guild of Pedants and Correctors, I hereby state that a 0.0692% error is well within the acceptable error for most Slashdot posts.
Quite frankly, we're usually happy if you people get within an order of magnitude of the correct value.
(P.S. We really don't appreciate being called nazis. We may be fanatics, but we're not fascists.)It's the media's fault the media doesn't know jack about astronomy, and can't distinguish a harmless rock from a killer asteroid.
If the media wasn't stupid about such things, you wouldn't hear about harmless rocks on CNN.
You thought wrong.
Nearly everything in low Earth orbit is tracked, because of the threat to satellites and manned spacecraft. But no organization has the resources set aside to track everything in the solar system.
If you want to try finding every rock the size of a beach ball in the entire volume of the solar system, be my guest.
You really haven't been paying attention, have you?
The standard cliche is that the number of people looking for these things is smaller than the number of people working at your average McDonald's. You want these rocks found, you convince your government to spend the money to do it.
Firstly, it was an asteroid, not a "meter".
Secondly, we got swamped with that news because the media is stupid.
A spammer's right to free speech does not entitle them to abuse my resources to exercise it. It's the same thing as running into Kinko's, using their copiers to print flyers, and then claiming you don't have to pay because of your free speech rights.
Earthbound had some of my favorite bosses. Whether it was the five Guardian Diggers, all of whom claimed to be the third most powerful, or the Clumsy Robot that kept eating eating bologna sandwiches, or even Master Belch, the Earthbound bosses still hold a place in my memories (next to the fuzzy pickles).
The best Earthbound boss was the final one.
Giygas. The incarnation of evil. So infused with raw power that he lost his mind and body. And he's got that bastard Pokey as his sidekick.
You get him to his final form, and nothing works. Attacks are useless. PSI is even less useful. Items have no effect.
You've tried bashing, shooting, the heavy bazooka, multi bottle rockets, dragonite, psi starstorm omega, and even Poo's mimic ability. Nothing.
Your HP and PP are dropping, and your stockpile of healing items is running out.
Then you try the one command you've been avoiding since you picked up Paula. Its effects were random, and sometimes suicidal, but you had nothing to lose. It was the last boss, and nothing else was working.
I know it was corny, but damnit, that's the only boss fight to have an emotional impact on me.
You've confused the posting time with the submission time. The article was posted 20 minutes after the downgrade. However, the article was probably submitted, and likely was approved, hours before then.
It probably was still a category 4 when the article was submitted.