have you considered that the speed of sound has nolthing to do with air density and everything to do with temperature?
The speed of sound in the thin, but warmer air very high up is similar to that on ground.
The speed of sound in COLD air is slower, and in WARM air is higher.
And remember, at the altitude she'll be breaking mach at, the air will be so thin it won't be noticable (or barely). There will be no 'shock wave' to push through (at least, none that poses a problem). Breaking mach at lower altitudes won't happen easily.... not enough force to overcome resistance( terminal velocity drops with density)
No.. The spee of sound up there is roughly simiilar to at sea level.
As others point out in other threads, the speed of sound is a function of temperature, not pressure (though they are, of course, related).
And, fyi, saying she will be doing 'mach 1.5' means *specifically* that she will be going at 1.5 x the speed of sound *under her current conditions*. SO she absolutely WILL be doing mach, specifically because the air is so thin.
It's all about air density.
It's easy to hit speeds over mach during freefall at such high altitude because there is almost no air resistance. Yes, an f-15 achieve 2.5M, but has thermal issues (as does concorde, etc). That' sbecause of the realatively low altitude they work at. (A concorde cannot do Mach speeds anywhere near sea level either, it must be at around 50,000 feet.)
Given that only G is driving her downwards, she will slow down, not heat up, when encountering ever-thickening atmosphere.
I mean... if you really want your employer to pay for that much stuff... you must spend way too much time at work!
I don't *want* a pool table or a foosball table at work.. but that's probably because I don't spend weeks on end at work without going home.
Telecommuting? -aka- 'working from home'. Yes. If this fits your job, that's fantastic. Yes, your employer should furnish a few things if it's his choice to have you work from home. If it's an option, he should leave more of that up to you.
Should he pay for your network connection? Perhaps. There should be some incentive for working from home, *IF* it costs the company less money to have you do so. (I know I could do it, but then I look at the number of people I ineract with on a daily basis.. and realize that I would not be giving the company as much).
From those I've seen, an amicable arrangement is:
The company should:
Pay for the computers & equipment involved.
Pay for the data communications lines.
Pay for the software in use.
Pay the employee for travel time if they must come in for meetings.
Remember.. mach 1.5 at what altitude? Mach 1.5 is a half mile/second near sea level. at 100,000 feet, mach is WAY slower, so going 'mach' means a lot less.
Thinka bout it.. at lower altitudes, there is now ay you could achieve mach in freefall... way too much air resistance, but as you go higher, mach drops, and air resistance drops, so it gets so easy.
You worry about heat when you are going about ten times faster than this lady will be going.
Remember, orbital vehicles don't simply 'fall'.. they come out of orbit (fast). It's their lateral speed around the planet through atmosphere, not the vertical vector that really causes that red-hot friction.
She'll experience *NO* acceleration, she'll be in freefall. She will experience decelleration as the atmosphere thickens (and when she opens here chute).
Yeah. I'm sure she just has no idea about things like oxygen or heat or cold or pressure. I bet she just has no clue.
Gimme a break.
1) pressure suit.
2) Woudl not burn up, or burn at all. This is not someone entering the atmosphere at tens of thousands of mph.
3) no friction until much lower anyway.. the air is so thin the suit won't even flutter.
4) cold: Pressure suit is insulating. Also, thin atmosphere is ALSO insulating. It's the cold at lower elevations that might be dangerous.
Why would she black out, if she's in a pressure suit with an air supply? I don't figure.
*shrug* I agree about the 'make sure there's no obvious kiddie porn' thing. That's wrong.
However.. there is such thing as 'plain sight'. I forget the exact terms, and it probably varies from jurisdictuion to jurisdiction.
If they were searching for one thing, and there is a bag of pot laying on the table in plain sight, they *can* sieze it and *can* charge you for it. Same goes for kiddie porn. If he's searching CD's for evidence, ie "Logs" or something, and he sees 'Kiddie Porn III", he *can* sieze it, and investigate.
The company in question was incorporate in the US, and, though the FBI has no *jurisdiction* here, they certainly have the ability to work in cooperation with the RCMP.
Of *course* the legal power to do the raid came from the RCMP. That goes without saying. It was an RCMP warrant. The fact is, the FBI was involved, as it was a joint us/canada investigation.
The real point of the comment, though, was about how they dealt with the company's data, not who was involved.
There should also be a rule about infringing on the normal everyday life of the suspect.
What they should do is.. take the original hard drive, make a copy, and return the computer + copy to dilinger for his use, while they inspect the original drive, if it matters so much to them.
Well.. you have to understand. As another poster said.. if this was against a person, not a corporation, that person could simply decide to 'forgive & forget', or perhaps nto get worked up in the first place.
Now... consider that the directors of a public company have a LEGAL DUTY to protect the assetts of the company. They *MUST* or THEY can get sued, by the shareholders, for not doing their job. They don't have the choice of simply saying 'do we care'. The question for them is 'Do our shareholders care, and will they take it out on us if we don't act'.
So someone writes some crappy but somewhat useful to the computer uneducated software (napster), it becomes amazingly popular, even though the software sucks....
THen they get sued by every major label out there.
THEN they somehow cut a deal to develop state of the art music subscription systems?
I thought a search warrant was a warrant to search a particular place for particular things.
Seraching 'a dorm room for a computer' is not good enough. Searching for 'logs indicating xxx on a computer in the dorm room' should be fine... but they should in no way be able to sieze it!
To think of one solution, I know a company in BC that was raided by the cops/fbi/irs/ and a few others in a big sting. The admins were cornered (so nobody would erase anyhting) and then, under supervision, were permitted to keep running the system, while the cops had experts take copies of relevant information.
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If htere is no air up there for her to use to 'contorl' a spin, how would there be enough air to cause one in the first place?
Not big at all. Byt the time she reaches ground, she'll be going SLOWER than the average skydiver, due to increased bulkiness of pressure suit.
have you considered that the speed of sound has nolthing to do with air density and everything to do with temperature?
The speed of sound in the thin, but warmer air very high up is similar to that on ground.
The speed of sound in COLD air is slower, and in WARM air is higher.
And remember, at the altitude she'll be breaking mach at, the air will be so thin it won't be noticable (or barely). There will be no 'shock wave' to push through (at least, none that poses a problem). Breaking mach at lower altitudes won't happen easily.... not enough force to overcome resistance( terminal velocity drops with density)
*ahem*. PRESSURE SUIT = INSULATION.
Also, temperature at altitude will be around
-70, but in very thin air... so heat won't conduct away that fast.
No.. The spee of sound up there is roughly simiilar to at sea level.
As others point out in other threads, the speed of sound is a function of temperature, not pressure (though they are, of course, related).
And, fyi, saying she will be doing 'mach 1.5' means *specifically* that she will be going at 1.5 x the speed of sound *under her current conditions*. SO she absolutely WILL be doing mach, specifically because the air is so thin.
Predrilled PCB != Breadboard.
And his clock thing was not about 'resonant frequency of tortilla' but about induced capacitance form the tortilla; i'm sure it conducts somewhat.
One standing on a platform accelerating at 1G could not tell the difference between acceleration, or standing in a 1G field.
OF course you are correct... but...
It's all about air density.
It's easy to hit speeds over mach during freefall at such high altitude because there is almost no air resistance. Yes, an f-15 achieve 2.5M, but has thermal issues (as does concorde, etc). That' sbecause of the realatively low altitude they work at. (A concorde cannot do Mach speeds anywhere near sea level either, it must be at around 50,000 feet.)
Given that only G is driving her downwards, she will slow down, not heat up, when encountering ever-thickening atmosphere.
I mean... if you really want your employer to pay for that much stuff... you must spend way too much time at work!
I don't *want* a pool table or a foosball table at work.. but that's probably because I don't spend weeks on end at work without going home.
Telecommuting? -aka- 'working from home'. Yes. If this fits your job, that's fantastic. Yes, your employer should furnish a few things if it's his choice to have you work from home. If it's an option, he should leave more of that up to you.
Should he pay for your network connection? Perhaps. There should be some incentive for working from home, *IF* it costs the company less money to have you do so. (I know I could do it, but then I look at the number of people I ineract with on a daily basis.. and realize that I would not be giving the company as much).
From those I've seen, an amicable arrangement is:
The company should:
Pay for the computers & equipment involved.
Pay for the data communications lines.
Pay for the software in use.
Pay the employee for travel time if they must come in for meetings.
But that's about IT!
Remember.. mach 1.5 at what altitude? Mach 1.5 is a half mile/second near sea level. at 100,000 feet, mach is WAY slower, so going 'mach' means a lot less.
Thinka bout it.. at lower altitudes, there is now ay you could achieve mach in freefall... way too much air resistance, but as you go higher, mach drops, and air resistance drops, so it gets so easy.
Never. Without oxygen, you die, period.
You worry about heat when you are going about ten times faster than this lady will be going.
Remember, orbital vehicles don't simply 'fall'.. they come out of orbit (fast). It's their lateral speed around the planet through atmosphere, not the vertical vector that really causes that red-hot friction.
She'll experience *NO* acceleration, she'll be in freefall. She will experience decelleration as the atmosphere thickens (and when she opens here chute).
Yeah. I'm sure she just has no idea about things like oxygen or heat or cold or pressure. I bet she just has no clue.
Gimme a break.
1) pressure suit.
2) Woudl not burn up, or burn at all. This is not someone entering the atmosphere at tens of thousands of mph.
3) no friction until much lower anyway.. the air is so thin the suit won't even flutter.
4) cold: Pressure suit is insulating. Also, thin atmosphere is ALSO insulating. It's the cold at lower elevations that might be dangerous.
Why would she black out, if she's in a pressure suit with an air supply? I don't figure.
Now.. does that mean it'll do mach1.5, or the equivalent of mach 1.5 at sea level? Mach changes with altitude.....
Halloween is for Halloween, not April Fools jokes...
Jeesus that was stupid.
*shrug* I agree about the 'make sure there's no obvious kiddie porn' thing. That's wrong.
However.. there is such thing as 'plain sight'. I forget the exact terms, and it probably varies from jurisdictuion to jurisdiction.
If they were searching for one thing, and there is a bag of pot laying on the table in plain sight, they *can* sieze it and *can* charge you for it. Same goes for kiddie porn. If he's searching CD's for evidence, ie "Logs" or something, and he sees 'Kiddie Porn III", he *can* sieze it, and investigate.
I'm very well informed. I spent 25 years in BC.
It also involved the RCPM & Vancouver City cops.
Umm. I'm entirely correct.
The company in question was incorporate in the US, and, though the FBI has no *jurisdiction* here, they certainly have the ability to work in cooperation with the RCMP.
Of *course* the legal power to do the raid came from the RCMP. That goes without saying. It was an RCMP warrant. The fact is, the FBI was involved, as it was a joint us/canada investigation.
The real point of the comment, though, was about how they dealt with the company's data, not who was involved.
There should also be a rule about infringing on the normal everyday life of the suspect.
What they should do is.. take the original hard drive, make a copy, and return the computer + copy to dilinger for his use, while they inspect the original drive, if it matters so much to them.
Well.. you have to understand. As another poster said.. if this was against a person, not a corporation, that person could simply decide to 'forgive & forget', or perhaps nto get worked up in the first place.
Now... consider that the directors of a public company have a LEGAL DUTY to protect the assetts of the company. They *MUST* or THEY can get sued, by the shareholders, for not doing their job. They don't have the choice of simply saying 'do we care'. The question for them is 'Do our shareholders care, and will they take it out on us if we don't act'.
So someone writes some crappy but somewhat useful to the computer uneducated software (napster), it becomes amazingly popular, even though the software sucks....
THen they get sued by every major label out there.
THEN they somehow cut a deal to develop state of the art music subscription systems?
Egads.. that's fucked up.
It'll never happen. Where's the talent?
They can't. No warrant.
I thought a search warrant was a warrant to search a particular place for particular things.
Seraching 'a dorm room for a computer' is not good enough. Searching for 'logs indicating xxx on a computer in the dorm room' should be fine... but they should in no way be able to sieze it!
To think of one solution, I know a company in BC that was raided by the cops/fbi/irs/ and a few others in a big sting. The admins were cornered (so nobody would erase anyhting) and then, under supervision, were permitted to keep running the system, while the cops had experts take copies of relevant information.
*give up so quickly*?
Dude, if they also had a warrant for RPI logs, they wouldn't have a choice.