I would have thought that a Yellowstone eruption was going to wipe out a few states, and pretty much anyone in them.
Yellowstone is located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Their total destruction would result in roughly 3 million deaths. This sounds like a big number, but compared to how many would die if it happened just about anywhere else in the country, it's tiny.
Assuming these are piston engine-based, they won't self-start. One "charge[s] the generator" by ensuring that the battery driving the electric starter motor is in proper condition for a cold start.
In this case, the reason why the coffee was substantially hotter than most stores is because McDonald's had meticulously conducted market research and determined that enough people thought coffee brewed at that temperature tasted better to justify the extra energy expended.
Coffee hot enough to cause third-degree (full thickness) burns requiring hospitalization and skin grafts is too hot to consume without causing severe burns to the mouth and throat.
And the woman happened to squeeze the coffee cup while she was driving and had the cup in between her legs.
The woman was in the passenger seat of an unmoving car.
What would be really cool is if the crew of one of these shows was smart/interested enough to actually produce "enhanced" camera shots as they would look coming out of one of these experimental image reconstruction algorithms.
One of my favorite scenes from Monk involved an "enhanced" image.
DISHER: The shooter abandoned the car in a parking lot. There was a security camera. We got a picture of him.
He hands the captain a large, blown up photograph of a man standing near the car in black and white. It's a surveillance grab. It's rather hard to make out any defining features.
STOTTLEMEYER: Wait, that's it? They can't clean that up?
DISHER: It is cleaned up. I mean, he was 50 feet away. Should I release it to the press?
STOTTLEMEYER: What's the point? I've seen better pictures of Bigfoot!
The refineries aren't that badly damaged. The problem is that they have no power.
The more fundamental issue is that the workers' homes are badly damaged. It's hard to get productivity out of someone whose home is a pile of rubble in three feet of water and is living in a shelter 200 miles away.
It would take 5 minutes to update the world of this on Wikipedia. Every minute longer this remains unresolved by Jimbo directly fuels my concerns.
The story broke rather late in the day on Germany time (CEST, I believe). Jimbo responded directly pretty much first thing in the morning. He's only human, he has to sleep sometime.
It is, however, a source I'd use to get a vague possible idea of a topic, and use as a starting point to find reliable information from authoritative sources.
Which is, of course, the point of an encyclopedia.
I have no idea how they plan on implementing this, but if it was up to me, I'd have a "stable" and "draft" version of each high-profile page. Anyone should be able to edit the draft.
This is almost certainly what Jimbo said (or at least meant to say), before being selectively quoted.
What I don't understand is why the tiles have to be exposed at all during launch. Why not put a lightweight, reinforced plastic shield over the tiles? I'm taling about something that weighs very little, but can absorb the impact of any foam fragments by spreading the energy over a wide area.
Weight.
No, seriously. They stopped painting the external tank to save weight. A big solid piece of plastic is right out.
Yeah, as fragile as empty eggshells being hit by a pellet gun. I'm sure velocity has nothing to do with it.
The rocketheads talk about the tiles being so fragile that if an installer bumps them, they'd have to go back and replace them. Shooting them with a pellet gun would probably put a hole straight into the orbiter.
We're talking about audiophiles here. These people would convince themselves that they can hear a difference in their equipment in Nebraska when I turn my TV in Alaska on because our power grids are connected somewhere in Texas.
Made all the more funny by a completely irrelevant bit of power transmission trivia. In the lower 48, there are three almost separate "interconnect" grids: east, west, and Texas. The east and west grids are separated on Nebraska's western border. I don't even know that an electrical path from Alaska down to the rest of the country even exists.
Yeah, after GNAA troll posts, I had to see what it was all about. I watched the movie and it was so horrible I had to stop half way through. It was HORRIBLE. It wasn't even funny!
You know, I've seen the GNAA entry requirements on Slashdot for quite a while now, and I had always thought the "watch this movie" one was just a joke. But if it really is that horrible, there may be something else to it.
Little did I know of the history, for I was born in 1968 and at the time was a child.
I was born in 1979. I don't have any memories of the space program being a big grandiose symbol of just how great the United States is.
My first reasonably clear memory of the space program is the day Challenger exploded.
I think that the only memorable (to non-sciency-types) thing NASA's manned spaceflight program has accomplished in the last 20 years is the loss of two shuttle crews probably says something.
We're talking subjective time. As the craft accelerates, its perception of time slows down. If the craft can accelerate fast enough, it can travel 100,000 ly in 3 minutes as measured by an on-board clock. An outside observer, stationary relative to the origin and destination, will measure the time taken as somewhat over 100,000 years.
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Yellowstone is located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Their total destruction would result in roughly 3 million deaths. This sounds like a big number, but compared to how many would die if it happened just about anywhere else in the country, it's tiny.
The flight systems were burnt out by the lightning strike.
Anybody can get 10 pounds of cornnuts.
It's eating the 10 pounds of cornnuts that requires superhuman abilities.
Assuming these are piston engine-based, they won't self-start. One "charge[s] the generator" by ensuring that the battery driving the electric starter motor is in proper condition for a cold start.
Coffee hot enough to cause third-degree (full thickness) burns requiring hospitalization and skin grafts is too hot to consume without causing severe burns to the mouth and throat.
The woman was in the passenger seat of an unmoving car.
One of my favorite scenes from Monk involved an "enhanced" image.
The more fundamental issue is that the workers' homes are badly damaged. It's hard to get productivity out of someone whose home is a pile of rubble in three feet of water and is living in a shelter 200 miles away.
Which likely as not means the poster is American.
The story broke rather late in the day on Germany time (CEST, I believe). Jimbo responded directly pretty much first thing in the morning. He's only human, he has to sleep sometime.
Which is, of course, the point of an encyclopedia.
This is almost certainly what Jimbo said (or at least meant to say), before being selectively quoted.
It was definitely Bill Murray's Venkman.
Weight.
No, seriously. They stopped painting the external tank to save weight. A big solid piece of plastic is right out.
The rocketheads talk about the tiles being so fragile that if an installer bumps them, they'd have to go back and replace them. Shooting them with a pellet gun would probably put a hole straight into the orbiter.
Made all the more funny by a completely irrelevant bit of power transmission trivia. In the lower 48, there are three almost separate "interconnect" grids: east, west, and Texas. The east and west grids are separated on Nebraska's western border. I don't even know that an electrical path from Alaska down to the rest of the country even exists.
Tropical Storm Franklin is going to be in the way.
You mean Michael Crichton, perhaps best known for Jurassic Park?
River was described in the pilot as excelling in dance.
You know, I've seen the GNAA entry requirements on Slashdot for quite a while now, and I had always thought the "watch this movie" one was just a joke. But if it really is that horrible, there may be something else to it.
If you're anal enough that you're going back to printed trig tables, I don't think you're going to trust OCR.
I was born in 1979. I don't have any memories of the space program being a big grandiose symbol of just how great the United States is.
My first reasonably clear memory of the space program is the day Challenger exploded.
I think that the only memorable (to non-sciency-types) thing NASA's manned spaceflight program has accomplished in the last 20 years is the loss of two shuttle crews probably says something.
Looks like the story says "Motorola" to me.
Leaving the participants sweaty and tired at the end does not necessarily make an activity a sport.
The real reason to drop the story and move on is that Scientific American covered it better last month.
We're talking subjective time. As the craft accelerates, its perception of time slows down. If the craft can accelerate fast enough, it can travel 100,000 ly in 3 minutes as measured by an on-board clock. An outside observer, stationary relative to the origin and destination, will measure the time taken as somewhat over 100,000 years.