I'm horribly addicted to the $1 double cheeseburgers. I think it's those little reconstituted oniony things.
Some area McD's sell 'McDoubles' as their $1 cheeseburger instead of the standard double cheeseburger. What's the difference? The McDouble has one slice of cheeselike-substance instead of two on the double cheeseburger.
Arguments claiming that the area involved is too large to patrol with ships have been proffered. If that's the case, have a few AWACS planes orbit the area to vector planes armed with torpedoes from a centrally-placed carrier. Cheap (relatively), easy, effective. Great training exercise, too.
AWACS have look-down radar, so they can see maritime traffic.
You can hear pirates on some of the clips here (search for 'pirate'). The UHF-Satcom Site has a lot of interesting information on monitoring satellites from UHF and above.
And Tsar Bomba was only a half power test. The Russians didn't add a hot third stage to avoid fallout on their own territory. Interestingly, it achieved about 97% mass to energy conversion - impressive.
New York City's Con Ed has the world's largest distributed steam system that supplies buildings with large quantities of steam for use as building heat, hot water, and somehow air-conditioning!
From the article:
Con Edison's steam system provides service to more than 1,800 customers and serves more than 100,000 commercial and residential establishments in Manhattan from the Battery to 96th Street.
We have an average of 41 days over 90F/32C a year, and our record highs exceed 90F/32C from March to October. Humidity is always high - it's not unusual to have temps and humidity both in the mid- to high 90's.
Anyone else remember Sensurround? I remember seeing what I remember as a "Battlestar Galactica" movie in Sensurround, but I wasn't moved by the experience.
Doh!!! Double math fail! Sorry about that. The number is correct, the label is incorrect. That was my frist psot of the morning - I'll wait for the coffee to kick in next time.
I agree. The electrical systems on British cars refuse to work when damp or even vaguely moist, so why are they in charge of something that has 10,000V running on it for the amplifiers and will be _submerged_ in seawater???
Oops - math typo. Diameter of the earth = approx 40,000 km, so in the time it takes the signal to reach the satellite the fiber has made it more than half way around. Alternatively, in the time it takes for the round trip to the satellite, the fiber signal has made it all the way around almost 1.5 times.
You are correct, grasshopper. The speed at which light or radio waves propagate in a medium is determined by that medium's index of refraction, which (as you stated) is 1 for a vacuum. A typical value for fiber is 1.47, so the signal in the fiber travels only 68% as fast as the radio wave in a vacuum. The distances involved with geosynchronous orbits, however, make up for that slower speed. In the time it takes the radio wave to reach the satellite (35,786 km / 300,000 km/s = 119 mS), the fiber signal could've circled the Earth 1.2 times (119 mS * 204,082 km/s = 24,286 km (Diameter of the Earth is approx 20,000 km).
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Unless you have the whisky stored in its cask, it will taste exactly the same as the day it left the distillery. Whisky doesn't age in glass.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_whiskey_age_in_a_bottle
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_sealed_whiskey_go_bad_after_time
Note that the article you link to calls them transformers for HVDC links. /me Head explodes!
Actually I've seen similar things in the wild. I was lucky enough to tour the Celilo Converter Station at The Dalles, Oregon. That was really cool.
Don't you mean condensers, Dr. Meacham? I'll order some via telex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Island_Earth
I'm horribly addicted to the $1 double cheeseburgers. I think it's those little reconstituted oniony things.
Some area McD's sell 'McDoubles' as their $1 cheeseburger instead of the standard double cheeseburger. What's the difference? The McDouble has one slice of cheeselike-substance instead of two on the double cheeseburger.
Arguments claiming that the area involved is too large to patrol with ships have been proffered. If that's the case, have a few AWACS planes orbit the area to vector planes armed with torpedoes from a centrally-placed carrier. Cheap (relatively), easy, effective. Great training exercise, too.
AWACS have look-down radar, so they can see maritime traffic.
See http://www.uhf-satcom.com./ They even have sound samples of the pirates in action.
You can hear pirates on some of the clips here (search for 'pirate'). The UHF-Satcom Site has a lot of interesting information on monitoring satellites from UHF and above.
My fault; of course those of you who corrected me are right.
And Tsar Bomba was only a half power test. The Russians didn't add a hot third stage to avoid fallout on their own territory. Interestingly, it achieved about 97% mass to energy conversion - impressive.
Attending his funeral?
This must be your license plate.
From the article:
Welcome to Richmond, Virginia!
We have an average of 41 days over 90F/32C a year, and our record highs exceed 90F/32C from March to October. Humidity is always high - it's not unusual to have temps and humidity both in the mid- to high 90's.
Uncomfortable!!!
Unfortunately the sunniest places are also some of the hottest, requiring quite a lot of power-hungry air conditioning.
Hopefully they'll take advantage of highly-efficient ground source heat pumps since the water table is probably very high in the Ft. Meyers area.
Shamelessly stolen from a previous post - the military version of what you're describing: The Electrolaser.
New Jersey.
Right now a fusion reactor is beaming sunlight @ 1366W per square meter...
And exposure to that beam for as little as 15 minutes can cause burns and reddening of the skin! Ban that fusion reactor, I say!!!
Sounds like a dhmo.org scare. Seriously though, 5x solar irradiance is pretty high.
Anyone else remember Sensurround? I remember seeing what I remember as a "Battlestar Galactica" movie in Sensurround, but I wasn't moved by the experience.
what happens if they prove too successful in the wild ?
The whole world will turn into Willy Wonka's Everything is eat-able land, we'll all have a massive sugar rush, then die from starvation.
Doh!!! Double math fail! Sorry about that. The number is correct, the label is incorrect. That was my frist psot of the morning - I'll wait for the coffee to kick in next time.
I agree. The electrical systems on British cars refuse to work when damp or even vaguely moist, so why are they in charge of something that has 10,000V running on it for the amplifiers and will be _submerged_ in seawater???
Grin 8-)
Time-domain reflectometry using a Time-Domain Reflectometer.
Oops - math typo. Diameter of the earth = approx 40,000 km, so in the time it takes the signal to reach the satellite the fiber has made it more than half way around. Alternatively, in the time it takes for the round trip to the satellite, the fiber signal has made it all the way around almost 1.5 times.
You are correct, grasshopper. The speed at which light or radio waves propagate in a medium is determined by that medium's index of refraction, which (as you stated) is 1 for a vacuum. A typical value for fiber is 1.47, so the signal in the fiber travels only 68% as fast as the radio wave in a vacuum. The distances involved with geosynchronous orbits, however, make up for that slower speed. In the time it takes the radio wave to reach the satellite (35,786 km / 300,000 km/s = 119 mS), the fiber signal could've circled the Earth 1.2 times (119 mS * 204,082 km/s = 24,286 km (Diameter of the Earth is approx 20,000 km).
Do subs have anchors?
PS - Thank you for your service. Serving on an SSBN is hard on sailors and their families, although the food is good.