Nope, UP doesn't have any more of the GTEL's. The only ones left are in museums, and they've had the valuable gas turbine and other equipment removed. UP does have other locomotives they use on special trains, including two steam locomotives and a "Centennial" diesel locomotive.
>If these idiots can make and distribute their >own versions FOR PROFIT (which is the one of >the issues here), then fine, it should be >perfectly legal to go into a museum and start >drawing beards on the artwork, smashing of >chunks off statues etc...
Draw and whack away, as long as you own the painting or statue!
They bought up a bunch of GE locomotives that had been on the BNSF. I think they had come off of lease. I believe most of them are "B Units" that don't have cabs.
There already is something similar to dynamic braking where the energy isn't wasted. It's called regenerative braking. However, it only works on electrified railroads. The Milwaukee Road used it on their electrification about 90 years ago. The energy produced by one train going downhill could be used to help another train going up hill. Regenerative braking only works if there's something to use the power, or else it can cause damage to the substation. The new streetcar line in Portland has cars built with combination regen/dynamic braking. If the wire can take it the power gets put into the overhead wire, otherwise it goes to the resistance grids. On the control panel you can see how many watt hours have been consumed by that car and how many were put into the overhead. When I looked at one it looked like regen put about 10% of the power consumed back in the overhead.
Well, the Soviet Union brought some back with a robot lander, but what other countries do you think have brought back samples? (Hint: The answer is none. Not France, not Spain, not Japan, not Cameroon or any others.)
Yeah, there used to be a short, low speed maglev in Berlin called the M-Bahn. It ran on an unused section of the S-Bahn that was severed by the Berlin wall. After reunification they wanted to reopen the S-Bahn, so the maglev was replaced by conventional electrified track.
There was also a low speed maglev at the Birmingham, England airport. I rode it once, and didn't see where maglev was any better than conventional steel wheel on steel rail technology for that application. Due to maintenance costs the line was shutdown.
The US no longer uses F-4's, except as target drones. The F-16 now carries HARMs for the Wild Weasel mission.
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Hanger 1 at Moffett Field, the former home of the Navy's airship Macon, is going to be turned into a museum in a few years.
The Navy had been using it as a hanger for P-3 Orion's, plus it has a few buildings inside it, including one that's around 3 stories high. At airshows they'd give hot air balloon rides inside the hanger. Lots of balloon pilots would volunteer to bring their balloons because it was the only place they could log time indoors.
One of the other two smaller former blimp hangers was used for a few weeks last week for heavy maintenance on an advertising blimp.
Why does every book or movie done about Bletchley Park have to be about Turing or even mention Turing? There were a lot of other people involved with the cracking of Enigma besides him.
He built it in his spare time on weekends and holidays. (Not everyone works every day.) Also, his wife didn't divorce him. Look at the pictures, they are even some of her taking it for a spin.
> Really? I wasn't aware that tsetse flies occupied an ecological niche in another location identical to Africa.
Read the article. It's been done successfully in other locations in Africa. You see, Africa is big. Not as big as a planet, but it is a continent. It is divided up into regions callled countries. It's been done in other countries, and is now being done in an additional country.
It looks like XM has a preview channel (ch. 1) that is available before you activate, in fact they recommend you don't activate until you can hear that channel.
Sorry, but that's pure bull. There are no explosive bolts and quick disconnect fuel lines in the engines or pylons. However, the pylon is designed to shear off an engine if a certain amount of force is reached. This is so the entire wing does not fail. But there is no way for anyone on board to control this, it just is designed to shear off.
I don't think Fry's or CompUSA or Best Buy have stores in Nepal. Looks like it might be tough to buy stuff there. They'd just have to buy it from the US and get it shipped there anyway.
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28,000 punch cards is only 14 card boxes. (Cards came in boxes of 2,000, about 2 feet long.) This is pretty big for a program, I think my longest COBOL program was a little over a box, we often had data that was more than this. I easily carried 20 or more boxes in the trunk of a Datsun 510. Maybe VWs have weak axles.
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Nope, UP doesn't have any more of the GTEL's. The only ones left are in museums, and they've had the valuable gas turbine and other equipment removed. UP does have other locomotives they use on special trains, including two steam locomotives and a "Centennial" diesel locomotive.
>If these idiots can make and distribute their >own versions FOR PROFIT (which is the one of >the issues here), then fine, it should be >perfectly legal to go into a museum and start >drawing beards on the artwork, smashing of >chunks off statues etc...
Draw and whack away, as long as you own the painting or statue!
They bought up a bunch of GE locomotives that had been on the BNSF. I think they had come off of lease. I believe most of them are "B Units" that don't have cabs.
There already is something similar to dynamic braking where the energy isn't wasted. It's called regenerative braking. However, it only works on electrified railroads. The Milwaukee Road used it on their electrification about 90 years ago. The energy produced by one train going downhill could be used to help another train going up hill. Regenerative braking only works if there's something to use the power, or else it can cause damage to the substation. The new streetcar line in Portland has cars built with combination regen/dynamic braking. If the wire can take it the power gets put into the overhead wire, otherwise it goes to the resistance grids. On the control panel you can see how many watt hours have been consumed by that car and how many were put into the overhead. When I looked at one it looked like regen put about 10% of the power consumed back in the overhead.
Well, the Soviet Union brought some back with a robot lander, but what other countries do you think have brought back samples? (Hint: The answer is none. Not France, not Spain, not Japan, not Cameroon or any others.)
The flags were left on the moon, they weren't brought back.
How come WWI didn't repay the debt? I think WWII and the Cold War put them back in our debt!
Yeah, there used to be a short, low speed maglev in Berlin called the M-Bahn. It ran on an unused section of the S-Bahn that was severed by the Berlin wall. After reunification they wanted to reopen the S-Bahn, so the maglev was replaced by conventional electrified track.
There was also a low speed maglev at the Birmingham, England airport. I rode it once, and didn't see where maglev was any better than conventional steel wheel on steel rail technology for that application. Due to maintenance costs the line was shutdown.
The US no longer uses F-4's, except as target drones. The F-16 now carries HARMs for the Wild Weasel mission.
Hanger 1 at Moffett Field, the former home of the Navy's airship Macon, is going to be turned into a museum in a few years.
The Navy had been using it as a hanger for P-3 Orion's, plus it has a few buildings inside it, including one that's around 3 stories high. At airshows they'd give hot air balloon rides inside the hanger. Lots of balloon pilots would volunteer to bring their balloons because it was the only place they could log time indoors.
One of the other two smaller former blimp hangers was used for a few weeks last week for heavy maintenance on an advertising blimp.
Why does every book or movie done about Bletchley Park have to be about Turing or even mention Turing? There were a lot of other people involved with the cracking of Enigma besides him.
Seattle. There are others, too. Like Tokyo.
He built it in his spare time on weekends and holidays. (Not everyone works every day.) Also, his wife didn't divorce him. Look at the pictures, they are even some of her taking it for a spin.
I think it's a TEM-7, the latest in a line descended from some Alco MRS-1's the Soviets got during WWII. It uses a knock of the Alco 539 engine.
Here's one link with other links to more info and documents. http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/Press/Focus/Tsetse/i ndex.shtml
Also, remember that not all research is publicy available on the web.
> Really? I wasn't aware that tsetse flies occupied an ecological niche in another location identical to Africa.
Read the article. It's been done successfully in other locations in Africa. You see, Africa is big. Not as big as a planet, but it is a continent. It is divided up into regions callled countries. It's been done in other countries, and is now being done in an additional country.
That was a train load of normal garbage, not nuclear waste.
You can read this story here: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_ archive/shaw/shaw1.html
>Not to mention, I could rule the WOLRD! I'll show them! They all laughed, but I'll show them!! I'll show them ALL!!!!
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You can rule the world, but if you lose control they'll take away your t-shirt.
It looks like XM has a preview channel (ch. 1) that is available before you activate, in fact they recommend you don't activate until you can hear that channel.
> Pilots can jettison engines from the cockpit
Sorry, but that's pure bull. There are no explosive bolts and quick disconnect fuel lines in the engines or pylons. However, the pylon is designed to shear off an engine if a certain amount of force is reached. This is so the entire wing does not fail. But there is no way for anyone on board to control this, it just is designed to shear off.
I don't think Fry's or CompUSA or Best Buy have stores in Nepal. Looks like it might be tough to buy stuff there. They'd just have to buy it from the US and get it shipped there anyway.
28,000 punch cards is only 14 card boxes. (Cards came in boxes of 2,000, about 2 feet long.) This is pretty big for a program, I think my longest COBOL program was a little over a box, we often had data that was more than this. I easily carried 20 or more boxes in the trunk of a Datsun 510. Maybe VWs have weak axles.
They were probably talking about the first bombing of the WTC in 93.
A cure for Aids or cancer would likely earn a Nobel prize for medicine. What we're talking about is the Nobel prize for physics.