Do you extra-low UID guys have some sort of mailing list that tells you that these threads are happening? It seems like every time one starts, one of you 3-digit people comes in to trump everyone else.
But what's the efficiency of sugar? I found in a diet site the following data:
1 gram of carbohydrate (i.e. sugar) = 4 calories
1 gram of protein = 4 calories
1 gram of fat = 9 calories (this is equivalent to burning gasoline)
1 gram of alcohol = 7 calories
So sugar is very inefficiency compared to other fuels.
Kilocalories/gram is not a measure of efficiency, it is a measure of energy density.
As a fuel source, sugar is the most efficient material you've listed. Production of the other three requires large amounts of energy input, often in the form of sugar.
Hey guys, it is mid-August in what was supposed to be a record hurricane season. No storms yet.
Liar.
Nobody (reputable) claimed this would be a record hurricane season. The NHC and Klotzbach & Gray forecasts said it would be above normal. June and July are historically fairly inactive. But it's August now, and we're already up to five total named storms, with one skirting Category 5 strength right now.
Granted, your posted data is incomplete. Intentionally so. I was just providing evidence that we potentially have a late start this year. Let's look at the first tropical storm dates of the top 10 seasons by ACE.
2005 - June 8
1950 - August 12
1995 - June 2
2004 - July 31
1961 - July 20
1955 - July 31
1998 - July 28
1999 - June 11
2003 - April 20
1964 - June 2
This year, the first named storm was Subtropical Storm Andrea on May 9. Even if we limit ourselves to properly tropical systems, it started early with Barry forming on June 1, the first official day of the season.
What could be more interesting is the number of tropical storms by August 10 (today) in the above list.
2005 - 9
1950 - 0
1995 - 6
2004 - 3
1961 - 1
1955 - 4
1998 - 1
1999 - 1
2003 - 5
1964 - 4
We've had three named storms so far, although they've been fairly pathetic.
For even more statistics and pretty graphs, we have the NHC's Climatology page. There we see that on average, the first Atlantic hurricane does not form until August 14. We also can see that we're only now approaching the statistical bulk of hurricane season.
So, what does this all mean? It means that an armchair meteorologist needs to learn a little about hurricanes before spouting off that "2007 will be a bad year for hurricanes... hasnt[sic] happened". Sometimes bad seasons start early. Sometimes they do not.
And remember, it only takes one bad hurricane to make a season memorable. 1983's season was the least active since 1950, but Hurricane Alicia still did $4 billion (2006 dollars) in damage when it hit Houston. If not for Hurricane Andrew, 1992 would be an utterly forgettable season.
2006 will be a bad year for hurricanes... didnt happen
Unexpected El Niño.
2007 will be a bad year for hurricanes... hasnt happened
That's because it's the second week of August. Remember that 1950, the second most active Atlantic hurricane season on record (by accumulated cyclone energy) did not have a named storm form until August 12. The fourth most active year, 2004, had its first named storm on July 31. The number six season, 1955? July 31st again (barring the freak Hurricane Alice during New Year's). 1998, number seven on the list, and the year of Hurricane Mitch (remember Mitch? second highest death count of any Atlantic hurricane?) had its first storm on July 27th.
I am not saying this will or won't be an active season. I'm saying it's too early to call. But it's August 10th, and we're up to three named storms. We're ahead of the averages already.
Invented in 1965 as one of the many random synthetic fibers DuPont tried. The goal was to replace steel in tires, although Kevlar didn't get used for that for some time. Not developed for the space program.
Teflon
Egad, why do people believe this one? Teflon was invented accidentally in 1938. Non-stick teflon cookware was invented in 1954. Definitely not developed for the space program.
Velcro
Patented in 1951. Not developed for the space program.
Tang
Went on sale in 1959. Not developed for the space program, although later popularized by it.
Astronaut icecream
The only thing on your list actually invented for the space program. And it only flew on Apollo 7.
And if you think R&D will come up with stuff like this without the fire under their arses - that is the space program - you're mistaken.
Teflon was an accident. Velcro came from a Swiss engineer taking walks with his dog. Kevlar and Tang came from R&D people trying to develop new products with only ordinary corporate "fire under their arses". Manned spaceflight is heavily overrated.
The rest of the collider is mostly a 3 meter diameter tunnel (pic), which has a track for getting people and equipment around it as needed, and the beam conduit. The physical tunnel is being reused from an older collider that was retired in 2000 to make way for this one, and I presume was dug with a tunnel boring machine.
CERN has a page about the [http://sl-div.web.cern.ch/sl-div/history/lep_doc. html construction of the LEP] collider, which previously occupied the tunnel. Three tunnel boring machines were used.
When you now go ahead and put that so effing HOT cup right between your legs and hit the throttle, you act just plain and simply stupidly.
She was a passenger in the car that her grandson was driving. He had stopped the vehicle specifically so she could remove the lid for adding cream and sugar.
Let me repeat myself. Stella Liebeck was sitting in a motionless car when she spilled coffee that was so hot that she required skin grafts.
Stop making assertions about how stupid people are based on made-up "facts".
Or something. Isn't anyone else thinking this is just an excuse to covertly transport nuclear devices and massive armies without the US noticing?:p
A tunnel very neatly organizes traffic for passing through/past radiation detectors. Much easier than trying to scan ship-board container freight (which we don't, and which would be an extremely easy way to ship in a nuclear weapon).
There was that stuff they had back in the 70s, can't remember the name any more. It was a form of liquid Teflon, I remember they showed a rat with a weight tied to one leg being dropped in a beaker full of the stuff (after it had been oxygenated) and apparently it stayed in there for several minutes and suffered no ill effects afterwards.
Oxygenated perfluorocarbons. For those interested in seeing it in action, watch The Abyss. The scene with the rat being submerged in the stuff was not a special effect.
Go here and look at the nice picture on the right-hand side. Notice that the combustion takes place in the exhaust stream, heading out of the engine. Not inside a cylinder.
Sounds like someone failed basic understanding-of-how-things-work class.
Oh I agree, definitely.
Somebody failed looking at pictures class. The combustion chamber in a jet engine is quite definitely in the middle of the engine. Combustion takes place inside the engine, between the compressor and the turbine.
Not all ICEs have pistons, nor are all piston engines ICEs.
"Just park the damn thing under a roof for once."
Is this a joke or does this person not know not know about the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)?
It takes five or more hours to move the shuttle one-way from the VAB to the pad. This is not a practical trip to make every time a thunderstorm appears in the Florida sky.
Do you deny my basic premise?
Maybe you just believe that excellence is universal, that real genius will be good at everything. I don't think that's true. Take me for example, I'm very smart but also very forgetful and absent minded. I know that I have a lot to offer but I also know that, by myself, I'm kind of incomplete as a person. Having others around, I could trade my smarts for their organizational or hunting skills.
I deny your premise, because you seem to confuse "genius" and "smarts" with having a particular ability set. There are plenty of smart people in the world who think about such "mundane" things as auto repair or farming. Perhaps they aren't at what you would consider 'genius' level, but they aren't stupid because they aren't standing at a whiteboard all day.
The stupid people in the world are unable to or (worse) refuse to think about anything.
I never stopped considering Pluto a planet; the new definition is no more attractive than the previous hand-waving, and frankly, I like my definition better anyway:
If it orbits a star, and has characteristics such that the main mass has formed a sphere or oblate spheroid and it will remain that way barring impact with something, it's a planet. If it orbits a star but will not form a sphere, it's a comet or asteroid, depending on composition (ablative or not, respectively.) If it orbits a planet, it's a moon, regardless of other characteristics. If it is not orbiting a planet or a star, it is a free object; e.g. a free planet, a free asteroid, a free comet. If it is undergoing fusion, it is a star; if the fusion fire was lit, but is now out, we have a dead star, the rest of the usual classifications for the various types of stars apply as per usual.
Think about the known solar system in those terms. Does that not put everything in its place in a reasonable fashion, without disturbing our previous understandings?
Your definition includes Ceres as a planet. Reasonable it may be, but it does disturb the status quo.
Maryland? Here in Texas, we call that a "county". Call me when you have something that can devastate a real state.
Texas? Here in Quebec, we call that a "region". Call me when you have something that can devastate a province.;-)
Texas is bigger than Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and I'm just going to stop listing there. To be fair, no Texas county is bigger in area than Maryland.
Slashdot Mirror
A land-based Project Jennifer? Anybody know what the Glomar Explorer has been up to?
The first Wiki was started in 1995. 'Weblog', the less horrid precursor to 'blog' was coined only a few months after the start of Slashdot.
Do you extra-low UID guys have some sort of mailing list that tells you that these threads are happening? It seems like every time one starts, one of you 3-digit people comes in to trump everyone else.
You'd lose that bet. Lufkin's in the Lufkin Division of the Eastern District of Texas.
So sugar is very inefficiency compared to other fuels.
Kilocalories/gram is not a measure of efficiency, it is a measure of energy density.
As a fuel source, sugar is the most efficient material you've listed. Production of the other three requires large amounts of energy input, often in the form of sugar.
Liar.
Nobody (reputable) claimed this would be a record hurricane season. The NHC and Klotzbach & Gray forecasts said it would be above normal. June and July are historically fairly inactive. But it's August now, and we're already up to five total named storms, with one skirting Category 5 strength right now.
I wouldn't worry.
Assassins cost money.
This year, the first named storm was Subtropical Storm Andrea on May 9. Even if we limit ourselves to properly tropical systems, it started early with Barry forming on June 1, the first official day of the season.
What could be more interesting is the number of tropical storms by August 10 (today) in the above list.
We've had three named storms so far, although they've been fairly pathetic.
For even more statistics and pretty graphs, we have the NHC's Climatology page. There we see that on average, the first Atlantic hurricane does not form until August 14. We also can see that we're only now approaching the statistical bulk of hurricane season.
So, what does this all mean? It means that an armchair meteorologist needs to learn a little about hurricanes before spouting off that "2007 will be a bad year for hurricanes... hasnt[sic] happened". Sometimes bad seasons start early. Sometimes they do not.
And remember, it only takes one bad hurricane to make a season memorable. 1983's season was the least active since 1950, but Hurricane Alicia still did $4 billion (2006 dollars) in damage when it hit Houston. If not for Hurricane Andrew, 1992 would be an utterly forgettable season.
Unexpected El Niño.
2007 will be a bad year for hurricanes... hasnt happenedThat's because it's the second week of August. Remember that 1950, the second most active Atlantic hurricane season on record (by accumulated cyclone energy) did not have a named storm form until August 12. The fourth most active year, 2004, had its first named storm on July 31. The number six season, 1955? July 31st again (barring the freak Hurricane Alice during New Year's). 1998, number seven on the list, and the year of Hurricane Mitch (remember Mitch? second highest death count of any Atlantic hurricane?) had its first storm on July 27th.
I am not saying this will or won't be an active season. I'm saying it's too early to call. But it's August 10th, and we're up to three named storms. We're ahead of the averages already.
Never even read it.
Invented in 1965 as one of the many random synthetic fibers DuPont tried. The goal was to replace steel in tires, although Kevlar didn't get used for that for some time. Not developed for the space program.
TeflonEgad, why do people believe this one? Teflon was invented accidentally in 1938. Non-stick teflon cookware was invented in 1954. Definitely not developed for the space program.
VelcroPatented in 1951. Not developed for the space program.
TangWent on sale in 1959. Not developed for the space program, although later popularized by it.
Astronaut icecreamThe only thing on your list actually invented for the space program. And it only flew on Apollo 7.
And if you think R&D will come up with stuff like this without the fire under their arses - that is the space program - you're mistaken.Teflon was an accident. Velcro came from a Swiss engineer taking walks with his dog. Kevlar and Tang came from R&D people trying to develop new products with only ordinary corporate "fire under their arses". Manned spaceflight is heavily overrated.
CERN has a page about the [http://sl-div.web.cern.ch/sl-div/history/lep_doc. html construction of the LEP] collider, which previously occupied the tunnel. Three tunnel boring machines were used.
Stella Liebeck was not driving. She was a passenger in a vehicle stopped specifically so she could safely remove the lid.
She was a passenger in the car that her grandson was driving. He had stopped the vehicle specifically so she could remove the lid for adding cream and sugar.
Let me repeat myself. Stella Liebeck was sitting in a motionless car when she spilled coffee that was so hot that she required skin grafts.
Stop making assertions about how stupid people are based on made-up "facts".
A tunnel very neatly organizes traffic for passing through/past radiation detectors. Much easier than trying to scan ship-board container freight (which we don't, and which would be an extremely easy way to ship in a nuclear weapon).
Who watches the watchmen?
Automatic camera systems. That's who.
Require potential moderators to take a pop quiz on TFA before they are allowed to moderate on it.
That would require the "editors" to read TFA so they can write the quiz. That'll never happen.
Oxygenated perfluorocarbons. For those interested in seeing it in action, watch The Abyss. The scene with the rat being submerged in the stuff was not a special effect.
How naive!
Answered from my Blackberry at a lavish film festival.
Watch out for that flaming tornado riding a tsunami!
Sounds like someone failed basic understanding-of-how-things-work class.
Oh I agree, definitely.
Somebody failed looking at pictures class. The combustion chamber in a jet engine is quite definitely in the middle of the engine. Combustion takes place inside the engine, between the compressor and the turbine.
Not all ICEs have pistons, nor are all piston engines ICEs.
It takes five or more hours to move the shuttle one-way from the VAB to the pad. This is not a practical trip to make every time a thunderstorm appears in the Florida sky.
I deny your premise, because you seem to confuse "genius" and "smarts" with having a particular ability set. There are plenty of smart people in the world who think about such "mundane" things as auto repair or farming. Perhaps they aren't at what you would consider 'genius' level, but they aren't stupid because they aren't standing at a whiteboard all day.
The stupid people in the world are unable to or (worse) refuse to think about anything.
I never stopped considering Pluto a planet; the new definition is no more attractive than the previous hand-waving, and frankly, I like my definition better anyway:
Think about the known solar system in those terms. Does that not put everything in its place in a reasonable fashion, without disturbing our previous understandings?
Your definition includes Ceres as a planet. Reasonable it may be, but it does disturb the status quo.
Texas is bigger than Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and I'm just going to stop listing there. To be fair, no Texas county is bigger in area than Maryland.