Huh? Santa Cruz, CA was never attacked by a Japanese submarine. However, one did attack the oil fields down south, near Long Beach. Also, there are 3 power connections to the outside world. During SCO Forum one year one of the power connections was down for maintenance and the other was brought down due to a car running into a tower. Most of Santa Cruz county was blacked out.
Yes, there isn't that much electrified railroad trackage here in the US. Some of it is 11 kv 25 Hz, some is 25 kv 60 Hz. Most of the rest is on transit system that use 600 vdc or on the newer ones they use 750 vdc.
I actually had the piece at my house for 1 night and carted it around in my car. I picked it up at an Office Depot in San Jose and took it up to Palo Alto, stopping to take pictures at the old HP garage and the Computer History Museum. It's made of thick plywood, has an integral stand, and also a cell phone with gps on the back. The cell phone and gps were used to track it on its "journey".
>I'd like to know what a rocket scientist would think of landing rockets on the bottom of the capsule, blasting off (presumably) after the parachutes have detached. That picture smells like propagandistic hype to me, but IANRS.
This is also the way the Russian Soyuz capsule lands. Since the Soyuz (and the Shenzhou which is based on the Soyuz design) are capsules that land on solid ground instead of water, there needed to be some way to cushion the landing, since the parachutes don't slow it down enough for the final impact with the earth. So, they jettison the 'chutes and fire some landing rockets to slow the descent for the final few seconds.
Well, the railroad to Tibet is about finished, so you're a little too late with this idea. Also, many major cities in China have quite a few American restaurants. In one picture I shot looking down Nanjing Road in Shanghai you can see 4 McDonald's and 3 KFC's. Shanghai also has a Taco Bell. To compete with KFC they also have CFC, Chinese Fried Chicken. It has a similar menu and the logo also looks similar, the difference is that the man in the logo is Chinese!
This is actual heavy rail, not a light rail trolley system. It will carry big freight trains and passenger trains using diesel locomotives over long distances. It is not a cog railway, just normal adhesion. I'm not sure what the max. grade is, but last November I visited the JiTong railway in Inner Mongolia and over the Jingpeng pass it's about a 3% grade. The design of the viaducts is very similar on both railways. Of course, the JiTong was still using steam locomotives over the pass at that time, they replaced them with diesels just a few months later.
"The question is...Will this technology be used primarily for unmanned military weapons? Or, will it be used in a more gentile fashion to explore hostile environments such as the Moon, Mars and the other planets?"
Actually, I think most uses will be for gentile purposes; unless the Israeli's get involved.:-)
Well, there is the problem that the SR-71 is not rocket propelled. As pointed out in the Wiki article you mentioned, the SR-71 is powered by two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines that act like turbojet engines at the lower speeds and a ramjet engine at higher speeds. Still not a rocket.
I rode the Shanghai maglev in November and then watched it go by at about 180 mph from less than 100 ft away. The traffic on a freeway about the same distance away was noisier.
Actually, a polar orbit would be much better. You'd be at a much lower altitude, so you'd get better detail. It's called a "sun synchronus" orbit. (I've probably misspelled that.) It's used quite often by spy satellites.
Actually, it's already being done. It's called biodiesel. It uses waste vegatable oil that's been filtered to remove things like french fry bits and water. I've heard the vehicle smells like french fries.
The times you gave are just for the actual flying hours spent training, there's also ground school and things like the AIM and other text books and taking the "written" test (or whatever they call it nowadays). When I took the written test back in the 70's you were allowed 3 hours for the test.
Sorry, you're wrong. SS1 is not going to go "straight up" and come "straight down". It will be going forward around Mach 3 and will be going in a parabola.
Sounds like it's going to the Technik Museum in Speyer.
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Amtrak used to do this, but has been discontinuing this service. When David Gunn took over Amtrak one of the first things he did was stop this. The reason is that it was causing long delays at terminals where the passengers were waiting on the trains while the roadrailers and "Amboxes" were being added or dropped off. Another good reason to stop this service is that it wasn't making money and the freight railroads saw it as revenue that they were losing. The only ones left are ones where the customer has a long term contract.
There's one place where you can see Tinkerbell up close after she flies down from the Matterhorn. My wife wanted her autograph, so we waited to see her slip by. She is definitely a woman.
On another story about Bob Bemer ("The father of ASCII") there was a link to his web site. In an article titled "How ASCII Came About" I found this:
Bob Bemer, at IBM, foresaw eventual computer involvement in communication. In 1960 July he described a communication method using computers at both ends, the originator compressing the text, the receiver reconstituting it.
So, it looks like we have prior art from 44 years ago!
Eureka! I found prior art for the Acacia patent (mentioned in another article) on this web site. From the article "How ASCII Came About":
Bob Bemer, at IBM, foresaw eventual computer involvement in communication. In 1960 July he described a communication method using computers at both ends, the originator compressing the text, the receiver reconstituting it.
To paraphase Gen. Patton, you don't win wars by dying for your country, you win wars by making some other SOB die for his country. The Brits still haven't been able to figure this out even after such WWI battles as the Somme and Gallipoli. The idea is to make the other guy have a larger casualty count, not kill off your own forces.
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Huh? Santa Cruz, CA was never attacked by a Japanese submarine. However, one did attack the oil fields down south, near Long Beach. Also, there are 3 power connections to the outside world. During SCO Forum one year one of the power connections was down for maintenance and the other was brought down due to a car running into a tower. Most of Santa Cruz county was blacked out.
Yes, there isn't that much electrified railroad trackage here in the US. Some of it is 11 kv 25 Hz, some is 25 kv 60 Hz. Most of the rest is on transit system that use 600 vdc or on the newer ones they use 750 vdc.
The Sony Alpha uses Minolta lenses.
I actually had the piece at my house for 1 night and carted it around in my car. I picked it up at an Office Depot in San Jose and took it up to Palo Alto, stopping to take pictures at the old HP garage and the Computer History Museum. It's made of thick plywood, has an integral stand, and also a cell phone with gps on the back. The cell phone and gps were used to track it on its "journey".
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Lately, new Tivo boxes have been available for $50 for the hardware. It's still >$300 for the lifetime service fee.
>I'd like to know what a rocket scientist would think of landing rockets on the bottom of the capsule, blasting off (presumably) after the parachutes have detached. That picture smells like propagandistic hype to me, but IANRS.
This is also the way the Russian Soyuz capsule lands. Since the Soyuz (and the Shenzhou which is based on the Soyuz design) are capsules that land on solid ground instead of water, there needed to be some way to cushion the landing, since the parachutes don't slow it down enough for the final impact with the earth. So, they jettison the 'chutes and fire some landing rockets to slow the descent for the final few seconds.
Well, the railroad to Tibet is about finished, so you're a little too late with this idea. Also, many major cities in China have quite a few American restaurants. In one picture I shot looking down Nanjing Road in Shanghai you can see 4 McDonald's and 3 KFC's. Shanghai also has a Taco Bell. To compete with KFC they also have CFC, Chinese Fried Chicken. It has a similar menu and the logo also looks similar, the difference is that the man in the logo is Chinese!
This is actual heavy rail, not a light rail trolley system. It will carry big freight trains and passenger trains using diesel locomotives over long distances. It is not a cog railway, just normal adhesion. I'm not sure what the max. grade is, but last November I visited the JiTong railway in Inner Mongolia and over the Jingpeng pass it's about a 3% grade. The design of the viaducts is very similar on both railways. Of course, the JiTong was still using steam locomotives over the pass at that time, they replaced them with diesels just a few months later.
"The question is...Will this technology be used primarily for unmanned military weapons? Or, will it be used in a more gentile fashion to explore hostile environments such as the Moon, Mars and the other planets?"
:-)
Actually, I think most uses will be for gentile purposes; unless the Israeli's get involved.
Well, there is the problem that the SR-71 is not rocket propelled. As pointed out in the Wiki article you mentioned, the SR-71 is powered by two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines that act like turbojet engines at the lower speeds and a ramjet engine at higher speeds. Still not a rocket.
USS Macon also crashed. Happened off Big Sur in 1935. USS Macon carried 5 Curtis Sparrowhawks.
The cardboard computer was probably a Bell Labs CARDIAC. I think it stood for CARDboard InstructionAl Computer.
I rode the Shanghai maglev in November and then watched it go by at about 180 mph from less than 100 ft away. The traffic on a freeway about the same distance away was noisier.
Actually, the shuttle was used to recover a few satellites that had either gone to the wrong orbit or that had broken down after being on orbit.
Actually, a polar orbit would be much better. You'd be at a much lower altitude, so you'd get better detail. It's called a "sun synchronus" orbit. (I've probably misspelled that.) It's used quite often by spy satellites.
Actually, it's already being done. It's called biodiesel. It uses waste vegatable oil that's been filtered to remove things like french fry bits and water. I've heard the vehicle smells like french fries.
The times you gave are just for the actual flying hours spent training, there's also ground school and things like the AIM and other text books and taking the "written" test (or whatever they call it nowadays). When I took the written test back in the 70's you were allowed 3 hours for the test.
Sorry, you're wrong. SS1 is not going to go "straight up" and come "straight down". It will be going forward around Mach 3 and will be going in a parabola.
Sounds like it's going to the Technik Museum in Speyer.
Amtrak used to do this, but has been discontinuing this service. When David Gunn took over Amtrak one of the first things he did was stop this. The reason is that it was causing long delays at terminals where the passengers were waiting on the trains while the roadrailers and "Amboxes" were being added or dropped off. Another good reason to stop this service is that it wasn't making money and the freight railroads saw it as revenue that they were losing. The only ones left are ones where the customer has a long term contract.
There's one place where you can see Tinkerbell up close after she flies down from the Matterhorn. My wife wanted her autograph, so we waited to see her slip by. She is definitely a woman.
On another story about Bob Bemer ("The father of ASCII") there was a link to his web site. In an article titled "How ASCII Came About" I found this:
Bob Bemer, at IBM, foresaw eventual computer involvement in communication. In 1960 July he described a communication method using computers at both ends, the originator compressing the text, the receiver reconstituting it.
So, it looks like we have prior art from 44 years ago!
Eureka! I found prior art for the Acacia patent (mentioned in another article) on this web site. From the article "How ASCII Came About":
Bob Bemer, at IBM, foresaw eventual computer involvement in communication. In 1960 July he described a communication method using computers at both ends, the originator compressing the text, the receiver reconstituting it.
To paraphase Gen. Patton, you don't win wars by dying for your country, you win wars by making some other SOB die for his country. The Brits still haven't been able to figure this out even after such WWI battles as the Somme and Gallipoli. The idea is to make the other guy have a larger casualty count, not kill off your own forces.
In that case, TECO would be a better choice.