Actually, at lift-off the Shuttle is using both the solid burning boosters (the SSRB's), and it's also using the main engines (SSME's) on the shuttle orbiter itself; getting liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen from the external tank (ET, the big orange thing).
But that would mean that you could only land on runways equipped with an ILS. Some airports don't have any runways equipped with an ILS, and even at the ones that do not all the runways are so equipped.
True, but this does give the possibility of having a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid/Expanding Vapor Explosion), like when an LPG tanker explodes. Just the liquid warming up and turning into a vapor can cause a tremendous explosion.
It isn't just any Enigma machine, it's an Abwehr Enigma machine. There were also Army, Naval, and I believe Diplomatic Enigma machines. The Abwehr were the German spies.
Because Iridium was designed to be a telephone system, not a music broadcast system. In other words, it was designed to connect one device to another device, not broadcast to lots of devices. I believe each Iridium satellite has the equivalent of a telephone central office inside. XM is using satellites, their own or space on someone else's, with equipment that's suited for this application. Besides, the Iridium satellites are still in service fulfilling most of their original functions. About the only function they don't fulfill is making money.
All radio stations "censor" themselves in what they'll play. For example, a 50's oldies station won't be playing much from "Rage Against the Machine". They play what they think is appropriate for their station. Usually a station has a program director that has some input on this.
Looks like a reference to the Lunar Authority's IBM model HOLMES IV machine. (High Order Logical Multi Evaluating Supervisor, ISTR.) It uses Loglan as the main programming language. Somewhere along the line it became sentient and it started talking to it's main technician, Manny. He called it "Mycroft", after Sherlock Holmes' brother, or Mike for short. During the Lunar rebellion Mike took an active role and used the nom de plume of "Adam Selene" and a female persona of "Michelle".
All this is from Robert Heinleins classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
In case you haven't noticed, there are more people living in forested areas today. Last week the town of Weaverville in Northern California had to be evacuated because a wild fire burned right into town. Now the town of Haystack is being threatened. Should we let whole towns burn down because it's good for the flowers?
Actually, an American student in Russia was framed on marijuana charges recently. I believe it took almost 2 years for the case to get to trial. Fortunately he only had to serve a short time after the trial was finally held and he was released. He did get consular visits during his imprisonment, however. (It didn't help that the guy is a US Army reservist in intelligence.)
It was Colossus, not Hercules. And it wasn't quite a general purpose computer.
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> Didn't we already see the dangers of mixing frog DNA with other species in Jurassic Park??:)
Jurassic Park is a work of fiction. It didn't really happen. It was a story written by an author. It was made into moving pictures by a film maker. Those dinosaurs were not real, they were images created by using computers. Once again, it didn't really happen. It currently isn't possible to do the things described in this story. Remember the computer part with the little girl hacking into the system, and how we all laughed at how fake it was? Well, if that part isn't like it is really, then maybe the other stuff isn't like reality, either.
When you go see a movie you need to use "willful suspension of disbelief" to enjoy the movie, but afterwards you have to remember that it didn't really happen.
The M-247 Sgt. York was not unmanned. It did carry a crew. It was built by taking the radar and fire control system from an F-16 and mating it with a M-48 chassis and an anti-aircraft gun. Yes, it didn't work very well. Too bad they named such a turkey for a very great man.
Huh?????? It looks like your correction has some incorrect information, too:
Scott Yerger: This looks like a combination of Scott Crossfield (who did fly the X-15 for North American Aviation before it was turned over to the Air Force) and Chuck Yeager, who did not fly the X-15, but was the first person to break the sound barrier in the X-1.
B-2 Bomber: This would be a neat trick since the B-2 didn't fly until like 1989 or 1990, afaik. The X-15's were actually launched from a B-52, just like NASA will be using for the Hyper X.
Actually, the scramjet still needs to run in the atmosphere. It's not a rocket engine and will not work in a vaccum. Actually, NASA has done some tests with one of these on the back of their SR-71.
Those were ramjets, not scramjets, used on the helicopter. It looked like a great idea, since that way you wouldn't have the torque problem with the main rotor, but it was very noisy and fuel consumption was too high. Ramjets have to go fast, but not as fast as scramjets, to get started.
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> Perhaps I missed something, but why don't they just use their satellite uplinks???
OK, we got the footage. Now we'll just dash over to that handy satellite uplink truck over by that rock. Oops! The truck was just blown up! Oh well.
Yes, the SUN is powered by hydrogen; but it's fusion of hydrogen not combustion of hydrogen that "powers" the SUN.
Actually, at lift-off the Shuttle is using both the solid burning boosters (the SSRB's), and it's also using the main engines (SSME's) on the shuttle orbiter itself; getting liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen from the external tank (ET, the big orange thing).
But that would mean that you could only land on runways equipped with an ILS. Some airports don't have any runways equipped with an ILS, and even at the ones that do not all the runways are so equipped.
True, but this does give the possibility of having a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid/Expanding Vapor Explosion), like when an LPG tanker explodes. Just the liquid warming up and turning into a vapor can cause a tremendous explosion.
It isn't just any Enigma machine, it's an Abwehr Enigma machine. There were also Army, Naval, and I believe Diplomatic Enigma machines. The Abwehr were the German spies.
Because Iridium was designed to be a telephone system, not a music broadcast system. In other words, it was designed to connect one device to another device, not broadcast to lots of devices. I believe each Iridium satellite has the equivalent of a telephone central office inside. XM is using satellites, their own or space on someone else's, with equipment that's suited for this application. Besides, the Iridium satellites are still in service fulfilling most of their original functions. About the only function they don't fulfill is making money.
Now you won't need to wire a head for a reservation!
(Sorry, it's a reference to a very bad old joke. I just couldn't resist the opportunity.)
All radio stations "censor" themselves in what they'll play. For example, a 50's oldies station won't be playing much from "Rage Against the Machine". They play what they think is appropriate for their station. Usually a station has a program director that has some input on this.
Looks like a reference to the Lunar Authority's IBM model HOLMES IV machine. (High Order Logical Multi Evaluating Supervisor, ISTR.) It uses Loglan as the main programming language. Somewhere along the line it became sentient and it started talking to it's main technician, Manny. He called it "Mycroft", after Sherlock Holmes' brother, or Mike for short. During the Lunar rebellion Mike took an active role and used the nom de plume of "Adam Selene" and a female persona of "Michelle".
All this is from Robert Heinleins classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
In case you haven't noticed, there are more people living in forested areas today. Last week the town of Weaverville in Northern California had to be evacuated because a wild fire burned right into town. Now the town of Haystack is being threatened. Should we let whole towns burn down because it's good for the flowers?
Actually, an American student in Russia was framed on marijuana charges recently. I believe it took almost 2 years for the case to get to trial. Fortunately he only had to serve a short time after the trial was finally held and he was released. He did get consular visits during his imprisonment, however. (It didn't help that the guy is a US Army reservist in intelligence.)
I'll never be over Macho Grande! Sorry, I couldn't resist.
It was Colossus, not Hercules. And it wasn't quite a general purpose computer.
> Didn't we already see the dangers of mixing frog DNA with other species in Jurassic Park?? :)
Jurassic Park is a work of fiction. It didn't really happen. It was a story written by an author. It was made into moving pictures by a film maker. Those dinosaurs were not real, they were images created by using computers. Once again, it didn't really happen. It currently isn't possible to do the things described in this story. Remember the computer part with the little girl hacking into the system, and how we all laughed at how fake it was? Well, if that part isn't like it is really, then maybe the other stuff isn't like reality, either.
When you go see a movie you need to use "willful suspension of disbelief" to enjoy the movie, but afterwards you have to remember that it didn't really happen.
Actually, a lot of mainframes in the 60s and 70s were water cooled. It was a big deal when Amdahl came out with an IBM/360 clone that was air cooled.
Pick any two. You can't get all three.
The M-247 Sgt. York was not unmanned. It did carry a crew. It was built by taking the radar and fire control system from an F-16 and mating it with a M-48 chassis and an anti-aircraft gun. Yes, it didn't work very well. Too bad they named such a turkey for a very great man.
I'll say they haven't updated things in a while!!!
One of the worlds they're advertising is Hanson World! Yeech!
Military planes don't usually have black boxes. The USAF is putting them into transports, but not on fighters.
Subs don't use GPS. The signals can't be received under water. They mainly use intertial navigation.
So, are you saying we have a mine shaft gap? :-)
Huh?????? It looks like your correction has some incorrect information, too:
Scott Yerger: This looks like a combination of Scott Crossfield (who did fly the X-15 for North American Aviation before it was turned over to the Air Force) and Chuck Yeager, who did not fly the X-15, but was the first person to break the sound barrier in the X-1.
B-2 Bomber: This would be a neat trick since the B-2 didn't fly until like 1989 or 1990, afaik. The X-15's were actually launched from a B-52, just like NASA will be using for the Hyper X.
Actually, the scramjet still needs to run in the atmosphere. It's not a rocket engine and will not work in a vaccum. Actually, NASA has done some tests with one of these on the back of their SR-71.
Those were ramjets, not scramjets, used on the helicopter. It looked like a great idea, since that way you wouldn't have the torque problem with the main rotor, but it was very noisy and fuel consumption was too high. Ramjets have to go fast, but not as fast as scramjets, to get started.