3 minutes at high altitude exposes you to the same level of radiation.
That point is debatable. While the radiation you receive in-flight is from high energy X-rays that are absorbed by your whole body, the low-energy X-rays of the "security" device are intended to be absorbed fully by your skin*, so the actual absorbed dose by your skin is far higher.
* They use Compton Scattering which requires the X-rays to interact with matter (your skin) to emit the photons that are detected. In addition, you've potentially got an ionized atom and a pesky electron running wild: "Part of the energy of the X/gamma ray is transferred to a scattering electron, which recoils and is ejected from its atom (which becomes ionized), and the rest of the energy is taken by the scattered, "degraded" photon."
Ionized atoms are another name for "free radicals" which are supposed to be detrimental to your health, and an electron of sufficient energy running loose is called beta radiation.
Those things are a necessity when the camera is a mission-critical piece of kit...
Not really true - it only takes one piece of non launch-rated equipment to mess up the whole works. Imagine it shorting out or breaking into a zillion pieces on launch and getting into the science instruments.
Your idea would work if it were physically and electrically separated from the main payload, but that would entail a lot of extra weight.
The microswitch probably did its job - the sat probably moved enough to trigger that. The fact that no amateur satellite watchers have seen it and the Air Force hasn't found it with radar are good indications that it hung up on deploy.
"On average, one acre of tobacco can produce approximately 2,100 pounds of leaf tissue, yielding approximately one pound of TMV per pound of infected leaves," he explains.
A good connector solution. Pick a popular connector line from Molex or somesuch...
For low voltage power connections I heartily recommend Anderson Powerpoles - Amateur radio folk have pretty much standardized on these - they work well and are genderless. These guys have gone all crazy over them, and offer lots of useful things like power distribution blocks, etc.
You're either talking EuropeanHornets or Cicada killers. European hornets have the odd characteristic of banging against windows at night, trying to get at the light inside. We call them "Buck Hornets" in Central Virginia. Contrary to popular belief, their sting isn't too different from a normal wasp.
Cicada killers are also very large, but are very unlikely to sting you (females can but are reluctant to do so, males are incapable).
So I guess WTVR and WRLH aren't on physical channels 25 and 26 in the same market?
My point was that if the same sort of rules exist in Australia, you could move the same number of DTV stations into half the bandwidth that was occupied by their analog counterparts.
so the 64mhz abc analog channel is going to interfere with the 226mhz digital channel hey?
At your TV, yes. Read up on receiverdesense. The situation is made even worse by using the same antenna - that means you've got to have filters or a circular mixer that will attenuate the transmitted data signal enough to not desense the TV receiver and at the same time not attenuate the desired TV signal significantly.
Back when the US was on analog TV, nearby stations had to be separated by at least 1 channel - the analog VSB filters were not good enough to prevent interference between signals on neighboring channels.
With the switch to digital, the waveform's bandwidth is determined by the modulation scheme, so it's easy to meet spectral purity limits and for the receiver to deal with adjacent channel signals. Now they can put transmitters on adjacent channels, effectively doubling the available bandwidth.
But there is plutonium in IFRs, along with other fissionable isotopes. Seems to me that a proliferator could take some of that and make a bomb.
Some people do say that, but they're wrong, according to expert bomb designers at Livermore National Laboratory. They looked at the problem in detail, and concluded that plutonium-bearing material taken from anywhere in the IFR cycle was so ornery, because of inherent heat, radioactivity and spontaneous neutrons, that making a bomb with it without chemical separation of the plutonium would be essentially impossible - far, far harder than using today's reactor-grade plutonium.
The next step would be to add a simple MIDI interface - an optocoupler and a UART that runs 31,250 baud would work, IIRC. I build one in college (back in the early 80's). That baud rate is 1/64th of 2MHz, which was prescaled down by the Z-80 DART chip I used.
My hope is that all that missing 'Dark Matter' turns out to be all those neutrinoszipping around out there. Up until recently they were considered massless, but detection of neutrino flavor oscillations means they apparently must have some rest mass.
Ironically, the RESET pin of most PICs have a Schmitt trigger on their input for just this case. If the input if a set/reset flip-flop or some other latching input, the quality of the signal doesn't matter that much. If it's a CMOS input or mosfet gate, then yeah, the 555 makes sense (or a discrete Schmitt or FF).
You don't even need the 555 if the delay signal consumer can stand a slow voltage ramp w/o oscillating. A simple RC circuit w/ a time constant of 500mS would work. The 555 adds a nice Schmitt trigger, of course.
2: Buy energy from other places. Unlike SimCity 4, this is impossible due to transmission wire loss.
While I agree building nukes is a better idea, DC transmission lines exist between Oregon and Southern California - the Pacific DC Intertie. Yes, it's DC, not AC. Note that this sort of DC transmission arrangement would be ideal for wind, tidal, and solar power sources (and other non-60Hz methods).
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3 minutes at high altitude exposes you to the same level of radiation.
That point is debatable. While the radiation you receive in-flight is from high energy X-rays that are absorbed by your whole body, the low-energy X-rays of the "security" device are intended to be absorbed fully by your skin*, so the actual absorbed dose by your skin is far higher.
* They use Compton Scattering which requires the X-rays to interact with matter (your skin) to emit the photons that are detected. In addition, you've potentially got an ionized atom and a pesky electron running wild: "Part of the energy of the X/gamma ray is transferred to a scattering electron, which recoils and is ejected from its atom (which becomes ionized), and the rest of the energy is taken by the scattered, "degraded" photon."
Ionized atoms are another name for "free radicals" which are supposed to be detrimental to your health, and an electron of sufficient energy running loose is called beta radiation.
Those things are a necessity when the camera is a mission-critical piece of kit ...
Not really true - it only takes one piece of non launch-rated equipment to mess up the whole works. Imagine it shorting out or breaking into a zillion pieces on launch and getting into the science instruments.
Your idea would work if it were physically and electrically separated from the main payload, but that would entail a lot of extra weight.
The microswitch probably did its job - the sat probably moved enough to trigger that. The fact that no amateur satellite watchers have seen it and the Air Force hasn't found it with radar are good indications that it hung up on deploy.
I said: war = whatIsItGoodFor()
That method returns:
ABS(0);
That's "Absolutely Nothin!" for the song-impaired.
"On average, one acre of tobacco can produce approximately 2,100 pounds of leaf tissue, yielding approximately one pound of TMV per pound of infected leaves," he explains.
Those leaves are 100% TMV? Yuck!
I think that should read '1 lb/ton'.
A good connector solution. Pick a popular connector line from Molex or somesuch...
For low voltage power connections I heartily recommend Anderson Powerpoles - Amateur radio folk have pretty much standardized on these - they work well and are genderless. These guys have gone all crazy over them, and offer lots of useful things like power distribution blocks, etc.
You're either talking European Hornets or Cicada killers. European hornets have the odd characteristic of banging against windows at night, trying to get at the light inside. We call them "Buck Hornets" in Central Virginia. Contrary to popular belief, their sting isn't too different from a normal wasp.
Cicada killers are also very large, but are very unlikely to sting you (females can but are reluctant to do so, males are incapable).
So I guess WTVR and WRLH aren't on physical channels 25 and 26 in the same market?
My point was that if the same sort of rules exist in Australia, you could move the same number of DTV stations into half the bandwidth that was occupied by their analog counterparts.
so the 64mhz abc analog channel is going to interfere with the 226mhz digital channel hey?
At your TV, yes. Read up on receiver desense. The situation is made even worse by using the same antenna - that means you've got to have filters or a circular mixer that will attenuate the transmitted data signal enough to not desense the TV receiver and at the same time not attenuate the desired TV signal significantly.
Back when the US was on analog TV, nearby stations had to be separated by at least 1 channel - the analog VSB filters were not good enough to prevent interference between signals on neighboring channels.
With the switch to digital, the waveform's bandwidth is determined by the modulation scheme, so it's easy to meet spectral purity limits and for the receiver to deal with adjacent channel signals. Now they can put transmitters on adjacent channels, effectively doubling the available bandwidth.
Bin Laden didn't kill anybody. Neither did Charles Manson.
No, but Manson was a demon with that red-hot fork he branded his followers with.
Yes, given that the reprocessing methods proposed do not ever have useful isotopes for weapons available:
My 2003 Mini Cooper S has self-leveling HID lights from the factory.
The funny thing is that they're all technically illegal.
I wish the cops would start doing something about it - they're dangerous.
Water regularly, not just generously. If you allow the soil to get too dried out and then give them a lot of water, the tomatoes will split.
The next step would be to add a simple MIDI interface - an optocoupler and a UART that runs 31,250 baud would work, IIRC. I build one in college (back in the early 80's). That baud rate is 1/64th of 2MHz, which was prescaled down by the Z-80 DART chip I used.
How about a Formula 1 car that plays God Save the Queen, La Marseillaise or We Are the Champions?
My hope is that all that missing 'Dark Matter' turns out to be all those neutrinos zipping around out there. Up until recently they were considered massless, but detection of neutrino flavor oscillations means they apparently must have some rest mass.
Ironically, the RESET pin of most PICs have a Schmitt trigger on their input for just this case. If the input if a set/reset flip-flop or some other latching input, the quality of the signal doesn't matter that much. If it's a CMOS input or mosfet gate, then yeah, the 555 makes sense (or a discrete Schmitt or FF).
Not to disagree, but most PICs have internal oscillators these days.
You don't even need the 555 if the delay signal consumer can stand a slow voltage ramp w/o oscillating. A simple RC circuit w/ a time constant of 500mS would work. The 555 adds a nice Schmitt trigger, of course.
Thanks for the correction.
The Lacrosse and Keyhole birds can maneuver in altitude, but can't change their inclination as the X-37 is thought to be capable of doing.
2: Buy energy from other places. Unlike SimCity 4, this is impossible due to transmission wire loss.
While I agree building nukes is a better idea, DC transmission lines exist between Oregon and Southern California - the Pacific DC Intertie. Yes, it's DC, not AC. Note that this sort of DC transmission arrangement would be ideal for wind, tidal, and solar power sources (and other non-60Hz methods).
The mod system isn't broken, the original poster is simply wrong, that's all.
The USPS will ship live day-old chicks. They absorb the last of the yolk before hatching which gives them enough water and nourishment for the trip.
Put me in a vat and wake me up every 100 years for 5 years at a time.
So try and find "Brigadoon".