McCain might be right, but his statement sounds frighteningly a lot like when they believed in wars after WW2 that dogfighting aircraft were no longer needed, and then had to make an about-face when the MiG fighters had no American competition in Korea. For a short time in Korea, we had WW2 propeller driven Mustangs fighting against MiG jets. There were even some pilots from WW2 flying, and supposedly helped advise the design of modern jet fighters and dogfighting techniques to counter the MiG.
I wouldn't necessarily require that you be able to refurbish for less than it'd cost to build+launch new.
Instead, you should set the bar at "less than it would cost to (build+launch a new satellite)+(cost to remove debris used in refurbishing)".
If it costs $4 mil. for a new satellite, and $2 mil. to cleanup one satellite's worth of debris, but you can instead have a solution that uses that debris to create a satellite in orbit at a cost of $5 mil. then you've saved $1 mil. even though you did it at a costs greater than building a new satellite.
If you consistently poison it so that it never has leaves, then it will die, and if it dies, it will come down. The fun part is guessing when and in which direction.
IDK if you are serious and stupid or just joking? Chopping a tree down is usually fatal... the poison is redundant. Maybe a few sprouts may come back, but are easily handled with hand clippers.
You have to be really careful with some of that stuff, as it is extremely potent and indiscriminate. Some of those tree poisons will kill plants 30ft. away that you didn't intend.
It is also uncontrolled and unpredictable as to which way the wind will be blowing the day that tree decides to come down...
They also have some analysis software to help do the math for you and account for other factors like panel orientation. I haven't read up on the various versions of the software though, to understand what features are provided.
You can use on of these and spot check in a grid like pattern. When you place it on a particular spot, the reflection will show you trees overlayed with a grid which indicates the times of the year which that tree would shade that location. This can help guide your panel placement trimming of trees, and tell you how much of the year that each spot would be unshaded.
If you went about in a grid like pattern you could enter the results into a spreadsheet and do a weighted average.
I think it really depends. Recently got some 1/8" audio cables and the insulation is like 1/4" thick (radius), so thick that the cables are not very flexible.
Who knows where they get their stock from, so maybe its a crap shoot.
Very true. You buy a single cable on monoprice and get it next day aired and it'll still be cheaper than going to a store and buying a Monster cable or one of the other super expensive cables that are your only options in local stores.
I'm glad you have considered what the risk of owning a gun is. I'm not implying no one should own a gun. I'm not advocating for gun restrictions here or anything like that. I just think many gun owners who claim to be very careful with guns and say they aren't dangerous at all if used properly, are really severely underestimating murphy's law. You have to acknowledge that no matter how careful you are, there is a level of accepted risk. Depending on the carelessness of the individual, that level of risk varies. I've personally known about half a dozen people who've accidentally shot themselves or someone else.
There are cases where people who are gun safety instructors, accidentally shooting themselves during a class. The thing about guns is that people sometimes screw up, for a variety of reasons. Mistakes usually aren't a big deal, but when you make a mistake with a gun, it can be a huge deal.
Things go wrong. When things go wrong and you have a loaded gun involved, they can go wrong in a big way.
It also lowers the quality of the teaching they provide. There are some professors who truly don't care about teaching effectively. Teaching is just a routine they go through to mix up the time they spend pulling down research grants. On top of that some of those research grants they might get paid $100/hour for that one hour/week they spend "meeting" with the team they "manage", which really is just the team telling them what they've been doing, and the professor interjecting senseless questions due to their distant knowledge of what is actually happening in the project. Basically being a hurdle and a money leach. Not sure how often this happens, but was my experience in a couple of cases where I was aware of the chunk of $ that professors were getting out of a project for essentially doing nothing but signing papers.
I read once that the problem with the siesta was that some people didn't really have any place to go or anything to do for rest. they worked to far from home to go home. So it can be a huge pain to waste 2 hours of every day.
True, but I think it's a much more gradual process, where as you accumulate more sleep, and are more rested, then by the time the bladder urge is high enough to wake you, then you are already fairly rested.
Maybe if he had a beeper that started ringing silently, and over a few hours very gradually got louder, then the interruption would not cause you to awake until you were sufficiently rested. The guy waiting for his emergency surgery may not appreciate this though.
Totally was thinking this myself, but more from the standpoint that 10+ hours of darkness is a long period to sleep through, which correlates with the articles discussion of the invention of lighting being a game changer. If I go to bed at about sunset, I'm up at midnight again.
Yeh that seemed about the same childish mentality the threat had. That doesn't mean they aren't also recording the IP address on the server side as well, during the get request. I wouldn't doubt that some idiot in their agency truly believed that a list of IPs would have any value at all. I notice that now they have taken off that part of the page. I guess someone pointed at to them the sillyness of their idle threat.
The manipulators, and the manipulated. The biggest problem with this world.
This woman I worked with got a hoax email saying mars would appear the next night as big as the moon, supposedly from NASA(which had themselves published an article saying they were not the source of the email and that it was hoax). I told her it was a hoax, to save her the disappointment of taking her kids to stare at the bland city lit sky all night. She got pissed off at me, like I was some horrible person who must be an idiot because she was convinced the email was originated by NASA.
This is the typical hostile response of these gullible idiots across the full spectrum of bullshit, from meaningless trolling hoaxes to political deception and corruption. How dare you try to make them aware that they are idiots.
It was no surprise to me at the time that as an army reservist(not saying this is typical of all reservists, just a side note of her perspective) she bought into the whole "We have to kill 3000 Iraqis to make up for 9/11 and stop them from making weapons of mass destruction" as well as the "If you oppose the war then you are a treasonous bastard and you must hate America". She was also the one coworker who required my help more than anyone else. Almost constantly I was rolling over to her desk in response to her mind boggling failure to do her job independently and apply problem solving skills to the hurdles she encountered.
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McCain might be right, but his statement sounds frighteningly a lot like when they believed in wars after WW2 that dogfighting aircraft were no longer needed, and then had to make an about-face when the MiG fighters had no American competition in Korea. For a short time in Korea, we had WW2 propeller driven Mustangs fighting against MiG jets. There were even some pilots from WW2 flying, and supposedly helped advise the design of modern jet fighters and dogfighting techniques to counter the MiG.
I wouldn't necessarily require that you be able to refurbish for less than it'd cost to build+launch new.
Instead, you should set the bar at "less than it would cost to (build+launch a new satellite)+(cost to remove debris used in refurbishing)".
If it costs $4 mil. for a new satellite, and $2 mil. to cleanup one satellite's worth of debris, but you can instead have a solution that uses that debris to create a satellite in orbit at a cost of $5 mil. then you've saved $1 mil. even though you did it at a costs greater than building a new satellite.
If you consistently poison it so that it never has leaves, then it will die, and if it dies, it will come down. The fun part is guessing when and in which direction.
IDK if you are serious and stupid or just joking? Chopping a tree down is usually fatal... the poison is redundant. Maybe a few sprouts may come back, but are easily handled with hand clippers.
You have to be really careful with some of that stuff, as it is extremely potent and indiscriminate. Some of those tree poisons will kill plants 30ft. away that you didn't intend.
It is also uncontrolled and unpredictable as to which way the wind will be blowing the day that tree decides to come down...
They also have some analysis software to help do the math for you and account for other factors like panel orientation. I haven't read up on the various versions of the software though, to understand what features are provided.
You can use on of these and spot check in a grid like pattern. When you place it on a particular spot, the reflection will show you trees overlayed with a grid which indicates the times of the year which that tree would shade that location. This can help guide your panel placement trimming of trees, and tell you how much of the year that each spot would be unshaded.
If you went about in a grid like pattern you could enter the results into a spreadsheet and do a weighted average.
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I think it really depends. Recently got some 1/8" audio cables and the insulation is like 1/4" thick (radius), so thick that the cables are not very flexible.
Who knows where they get their stock from, so maybe its a crap shoot.
Very true. You buy a single cable on monoprice and get it next day aired and it'll still be cheaper than going to a store and buying a Monster cable or one of the other super expensive cables that are your only options in local stores.
I'm glad you have considered what the risk of owning a gun is. I'm not implying no one should own a gun. I'm not advocating for gun restrictions here or anything like that. I just think many gun owners who claim to be very careful with guns and say they aren't dangerous at all if used properly, are really severely underestimating murphy's law. You have to acknowledge that no matter how careful you are, there is a level of accepted risk. Depending on the carelessness of the individual, that level of risk varies. I've personally known about half a dozen people who've accidentally shot themselves or someone else.
There are cases where people who are gun safety instructors, accidentally shooting themselves during a class. The thing about guns is that people sometimes screw up, for a variety of reasons. Mistakes usually aren't a big deal, but when you make a mistake with a gun, it can be a huge deal.
Things go wrong. When things go wrong and you have a loaded gun involved, they can go wrong in a big way.
It also lowers the quality of the teaching they provide. There are some professors who truly don't care about teaching effectively. Teaching is just a routine they go through to mix up the time they spend pulling down research grants. On top of that some of those research grants they might get paid $100/hour for that one hour/week they spend "meeting" with the team they "manage", which really is just the team telling them what they've been doing, and the professor interjecting senseless questions due to their distant knowledge of what is actually happening in the project. Basically being a hurdle and a money leach. Not sure how often this happens, but was my experience in a couple of cases where I was aware of the chunk of $ that professors were getting out of a project for essentially doing nothing but signing papers.
I read once that the problem with the siesta was that some people didn't really have any place to go or anything to do for rest. they worked to far from home to go home. So it can be a huge pain to waste 2 hours of every day.
It's the difference between seeing a prostitute and seeing a doctor? :D
True, but I think it's a much more gradual process, where as you accumulate more sleep, and are more rested, then by the time the bladder urge is high enough to wake you, then you are already fairly rested.
Maybe if he had a beeper that started ringing silently, and over a few hours very gradually got louder, then the interruption would not cause you to awake until you were sufficiently rested. The guy waiting for his emergency surgery may not appreciate this though.
When I have someone to cuddle with, I always feel well rested, even if I didn't get much sleep.
Totally was thinking this myself, but more from the standpoint that 10+ hours of darkness is a long period to sleep through, which correlates with the articles discussion of the invention of lighting being a game changer. If I go to bed at about sunset, I'm up at midnight again.
Don't coal plants discharge a bunch of hot water into the environment as well? I seem to remember this from a childhood tour of one.
nm? Nanometer? I thought you were making some sort of joke then I realized nautical mile LOL
That's like 15 9/11's a year! So we should be launching some cruise missiles at that traffic fatality problem right about now.
Very interesting. I was simply theorizing based on the previous commenter's claim that very little in nature was UV reflective.
Yeh that seemed about the same childish mentality the threat had. That doesn't mean they aren't also recording the IP address on the server side as well, during the get request. I wouldn't doubt that some idiot in their agency truly believed that a list of IPs would have any value at all. I notice that now they have taken off that part of the page. I guess someone pointed at to them the sillyness of their idle threat.
By these metrics my filter is even better:
if(true) { delete email }
They are administered by Ministry of Silly walks.
In comedy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w
In real life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0ue-XGl9c
They would be arrested and tried for copying the ideas of Monty Python.
The manipulators, and the manipulated. The biggest problem with this world.
This woman I worked with got a hoax email saying mars would appear the next night as big as the moon, supposedly from NASA(which had themselves published an article saying they were not the source of the email and that it was hoax). I told her it was a hoax, to save her the disappointment of taking her kids to stare at the bland city lit sky all night. She got pissed off at me, like I was some horrible person who must be an idiot because she was convinced the email was originated by NASA.
This is the typical hostile response of these gullible idiots across the full spectrum of bullshit, from meaningless trolling hoaxes to political deception and corruption. How dare you try to make them aware that they are idiots.
It was no surprise to me at the time that as an army reservist(not saying this is typical of all reservists, just a side note of her perspective) she bought into the whole "We have to kill 3000 Iraqis to make up for 9/11 and stop them from making weapons of mass destruction" as well as the "If you oppose the war then you are a treasonous bastard and you must hate America". She was also the one coworker who required my help more than anyone else. Almost constantly I was rolling over to her desk in response to her mind boggling failure to do her job independently and apply problem solving skills to the hurdles she encountered.