If I want the advantages living outside my insular culture offers, yeah, I sure would.
I'd move anywhere in the world I could find good work. I like meeting people with different experiences than mine, and finding out that, you know what? They're pretty much just like me, when you get right down to it.
Gosh, it's almost like those developers weren't controlled by some kind of Overmind hegemony that determined what was or was not shareware. They just released their software with whatever features they felt were appropriate.
Yeah, because downloading a piece of computer software is comparable to robbing a person of their dignity and innocence. They're almost the same thing, aren't they?
Hypersonic atmospheric flight is a dead end. Learning how to colonize hostile environments is the ultimate, cosmic, utter polar opposite of a dead end. It is literally the end of dead ends.
I guarantee the price to build one more of these research vehicles is a lot less than $130M.
Why design landing gear or a recovery system if you're only concerned about what's happening inside the engine, and you can collect that data remotely?
Wow. Were you one of the designers of the F-4 Phantom?
They didn't think they needed to design a good dogfighter. Unfortunately, nobody told the Vietamese Air Force that they weren't supposed to be dogfighting anymore.
Yes, missiles are much better now than they were then, but you just try to convince a combat pilot that he doesn't need a gun and some agility above a modern battlefield. He'll laugh at you. And/or smack you.
When somebody who knows what they're talking about talks about the speed of sound, they specify their altitude or the ambient temperature. We find that saves a lot of confusion.
See my above correction. When you're wrong, at least try to be polite about it.
Since sound does not travel in a vacuum, its speed is zero. Unless you're a mathemetician or a computer programmer, and then you can define your terms in such a way that you get the ridiculous result of an infinite velocity. In that case, you should probably stick to what you're good at and leave the aeronautical engineering to those of us who understand the terminology.
Mach 1 means that your current speed is the same as the local speed of sound, at whatever altitude you happen to be operating at. It is a dimensionless ratio.
Since sound cannot travel in a vacuum, its speed is zero.
Speed of sound is fairly linear with temperature. It decreases as you go higher. I'll let you go find a Standard Atmosphere table and fill in my broad generalization.
Speed of sound is related to air density (and is pretty much linear with temperature, if you're curious). Denser air means that molecule A hits its neighbors in less time than it would at lower densities. So, as you go higher (cooler and less dense), it takes longer for molecule A to tell its neighbors "Hey! I just hit an airplane! Get outta my way!"
Cavitation doesn't really happen in the atmosphere. Cavitation occurs when a body moves through a liquid so fast, that it creates a pocket of vaporized liquid behind it. It is an extraordinarily violent phenomenon, and chews up metal at a ferocious rate.
The speed of sound is a CRITICAL tool for measuring the speed of these types of aircraft. Not for the "my airplane is faster than your airplane!" nonsense, but because all the maths for calculating the performance of high speed aircraft are based on Mach number (ratio of current speed to local speed of sound), not groundspeed or airspeed.
The speed of sound "above the atmosphere" is undefined. There is no sound. There are no air molecules to a) fly on top of or b) propagate shock waves through. The speed of sound at the altitudes where wing-borne air breathing hypersonic aircraft operate is NOT undefined. It is one of their most important metrics.
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If I want the advantages living outside my insular culture offers, yeah, I sure would.
I'd move anywhere in the world I could find good work. I like meeting people with different experiences than mine, and finding out that, you know what? They're pretty much just like me, when you get right down to it.
"First, they didn't know they were going to be asked to be iTunes"
Uh, that's why you go to the meeting.
"Hell, maybe in the back of their heads they were thinking Steve (Jobs) just wanted to shut them up."
That's why you don't do what Jobs tells you just because he's Jobs.
Gosh, it's almost like those developers weren't controlled by some kind of Overmind hegemony that determined what was or was not shareware. They just released their software with whatever features they felt were appropriate.
Stop the damn presses.
Hobby...hobbier...hobbiest. Sure. I think all nouns should have superlatives.
How about grapefruit. Grapefruiter. Grapefruitest. I think I've just cottoned to the greatest marketing thing evar. Where's my patent?
It wasn't Jobs' decision. It was Gil Amelio's decision. Jobs was running NeXT, and came as a free pack-in with the company.
You think Gassee could have revolutionized Apple? No chance. Period. Apple would be dead.
Gassee wanted too much money for not enough OS.
That, and I don't think Gil Amelio could have turned Apple around the way Jobs did.
You come on by. You'd be wise not to let me see you coming, though.
Is there a reason that American Indians can't just enter the mainstream work force?
If there aren't jobs on the Rez, why not move away? You know, like everybody else who doesn't find opportunity knocking on their door?
I don't know what sets you're buying, but the Star Wars sets are all superb. No great big pieces, just really useful new stuff.
The click hinges are absolutely awesome.
The overwhelming majority of the websites I use work just fine in Firefox. /. is a conspicuous exception.
That's funny. I feel exactly the same way about lawyers.
Strategic metagame? Eh?
It IS way fun, but I haven't found any strategic metagames.
Yeah, because downloading a piece of computer software is comparable to robbing a person of their dignity and innocence. They're almost the same thing, aren't they?
Hypersonic atmospheric flight is a dead end. Learning how to colonize hostile environments is the ultimate, cosmic, utter polar opposite of a dead end. It is literally the end of dead ends.
That'd be "stage two" boost.
Try to light a scramjet on the ground, and you get a puddle of burning fuel. No shock wave==no compression==no WHOOSH.
I guarantee the price to build one more of these research vehicles is a lot less than $130M.
Why design landing gear or a recovery system if you're only concerned about what's happening inside the engine, and you can collect that data remotely?
Wow. Were you one of the designers of the F-4 Phantom?
They didn't think they needed to design a good dogfighter. Unfortunately, nobody told the Vietamese Air Force that they weren't supposed to be dogfighting anymore.
Yes, missiles are much better now than they were then, but you just try to convince a combat pilot that he doesn't need a gun and some agility above a modern battlefield. He'll laugh at you. And/or smack you.
When somebody who knows what they're talking about talks about the speed of sound, they specify their altitude or the ambient temperature. We find that saves a lot of confusion.
Ramjets cannot operate subsonically. Operating speed for a ramjet is approximately Mach 3 to Mach 7. Above Mach 7, you need a scramjet.
All these numbers are approximate. I can provide more excruciating detail than you likely want. : )
See my above correction. When you're wrong, at least try to be polite about it.
Since sound does not travel in a vacuum, its speed is zero. Unless you're a mathemetician or a computer programmer, and then you can define your terms in such a way that you get the ridiculous result of an infinite velocity. In that case, you should probably stick to what you're good at and leave the aeronautical engineering to those of us who understand the terminology.
You're 0/2.
Not exactly.
Mach 1 means that your current speed is the same as the local speed of sound, at whatever altitude you happen to be operating at. It is a dimensionless ratio.
Mach 10 is pretty darn fast at any altitude.
Since sound cannot travel in a vacuum, its speed is zero.
Speed of sound is fairly linear with temperature. It decreases as you go higher. I'll let you go find a Standard Atmosphere table and fill in my broad generalization.
Cavitation is a rather different phenomenon.
Speed of sound is related to air density (and is pretty much linear with temperature, if you're curious). Denser air means that molecule A hits its neighbors in less time than it would at lower densities. So, as you go higher (cooler and less dense), it takes longer for molecule A to tell its neighbors "Hey! I just hit an airplane! Get outta my way!"
Cavitation doesn't really happen in the atmosphere. Cavitation occurs when a body moves through a liquid so fast, that it creates a pocket of vaporized liquid behind it. It is an extraordinarily violent phenomenon, and chews up metal at a ferocious rate.
The speed of sound is a CRITICAL tool for measuring the speed of these types of aircraft. Not for the "my airplane is faster than your airplane!" nonsense, but because all the maths for calculating the performance of high speed aircraft are based on Mach number (ratio of current speed to local speed of sound), not groundspeed or airspeed.
The speed of sound "above the atmosphere" is undefined. There is no sound. There are no air molecules to a) fly on top of or b) propagate shock waves through. The speed of sound at the altitudes where wing-borne air breathing hypersonic aircraft operate is NOT undefined. It is one of their most important metrics.
Just for the sake of trying it? No. If I thought it was better? Yes.
.6. Now, fortunately, FireFox (on PC) is far superior, and Safari on MacOS is teh awesome.
Netscape 4 pissed me off, and I used IE until Firefox about