Ah, well there you may have a point. I really don't know much about patents and didn't realize there were different types. But the design vs utility thing makes a lot of sense and I'd totally agree with your opinion.
In fairness, it wasn't putting a sprinkler on a tripod that was being patented. It was the fact that the hose was attached to the bottom of one leg of the tripod feeding the sprinkler head that way. Plus a custom cart to move it around.
From the patent:
the tripod junction unit comprises a first leg, a second leg, and a hose conduit;
if a story fits the media's narriative template that they will not fact check a story
unfortunately, that's not restricted to the media. It's just human nature to be less skeptical of something that fits your worldview. We would like to hold all journalists to a higher standard and would like them to scrutinize every story with the same level of skepticism, but alas, only a select few hold to that ideal and even fewer of those have enough clout to sway the corporation behind the news.
I was quoting the article. I make no endorsement of the statement, I was simply pointing out that they hoped this vehicle would make it 1,000 continuous miles.
RTFA and I think the editor was confused. It says 1,000 miles uninterrupted range is possible. I believe the 200 mile number was just for the prototype.
In the test car, the water must be refilled "every few hundred kilometers"--perhaps every 200 miles.
Please, please, please take a high school physics course
I think it's just a simple and common enough misconception about "sling-shotting" in space. I believe the thought is that gravity somehow accelerates you more than it decelerates you (even though, obviously, the deceleration is exactly the same acceleration with a '-' in front). What's missing is the understanding that the "sling-shot" is using the orbital velocity to accelerate, not the gravity itself. The gravity is just there acting like the pouch of the sling. In fact, XKCD recently likened it to bouncing a ball off a moving truck, which is illustrative, if not overly accurate.
I really hate seeing this phrase because whatever follows "because" is usually either easily mitigated (in your case, just don't choose a party affiliation and your calls will drop off dramatically), a misconception ("my vote doesn't matter," and no rain drop believes they're responsible for the flood), or just wrong. Please, please, please, keep voting for what/who you believe in. You think this country's in the shitter right now? Think about what happens when nobody gives a shit what goes on in government (votes) and those people do whatever they want with no fear of losing their power. Believe me when I tell you it gets WAY worse than it is right now. And that's saying something cuz it's pretty bad right now. </soapbox>
627 sq miles vs 271 sq miles. Toss in the UT campus (50k+ students crammed into per capita income, AMD, Motorola, and Samsung, and I think the choice actually becomes pretty clear. Houston has small areas where the money is consolidated, oil firms, Rice, and...NASA's kinda close-ish?
right, but there's a significant flying population that hasn't heard it enough or at all and they shouldn't feel like they're the only ones listening.
Peer pressure works on adults who aren't sure of their surroundings, just like it did in grade school.
the spiel is a giant waste of time.
really? giant? let's take your 1.5 minute estimate for granted. that's 6 minutes per round trip. I don't know about you, but I probably blow 6 minutes every few hours on any given workday. Hell, with two kids under 5, it probably takes me 6 minutes to get from my door to driving out of the driveway. "Giant" is hyperbolic at best. A "waste of time" is only true from your perspective. That's actually my real point. If you are clearly not paying attention, even if you aren't being disruptive, you're adding to the peer pressure to not bother listening.
They now make a point of saying that phones must be turned off, specifically that airplane mode is not sufficient
I'm guessing this is because not enough people were turning the phone to "airplane mode" and so it was just easier to get everyone to turn off their phones.
a list of approved devices either in the airline's magazine or in the safety brochure
right, and do you think the attendants are really going to spot your device which isn't on the list and only then ask you to turn it off? Enforcement is the problem and I doubt very much that the list is either detailed or very current. At the rate new devices are hitting the market, testing them, adding them to the list and re-printing the brochure would be very expensive for an industry that doesn't leave a lot of room for financial errors.
do forgive any non-sequiturs, it's late and I'm very tired right now. You made a thoughtful reply however, and I wanted to return the favor. I'm sorry it got shoehorned in at the end of my day:s
I hate responding to these type of posts, because I expect my effort will fall on deaf ears and that the greatest show of gratitude I can expect will be some stream of vitriolic nonsense, but I'll keep it directed and non-antagonistic.
C-14 can only reliably measure {in theory} thousands of years
FTFY.
The fact is, Uranium-235 is used for the old stuff with its half-life of 703.8 million years. That is more than ample to describe things back to 4.5 billion years since 1/64 of the original isotope would still be present; but dinosaurs would still be at something like 4/5.
Evolution is happening. We see it in fossils and today in animals with short generation cycles. You can argue for it being guided by an intelligent entity, but we've seen simple environmental pressure guide it time and time again.
Finally, the existence of a divine power cannot be proven with science or math and trying to do so is folly, because there is zero tangible evidence that is unequivocally linked to that being. There is no repeatable experiment that can be devised to demonstrate an existence. Well, not until we die or the Apocalypse.
That's it, I'm not going to argue with you; that's just my piece that I hope you will be able reconcile with your worldview because I truly believe it is currently dampening your ability to appreciate the majesty of our planet and our lives.
I don't know, that's not what I get from damn_registrar's post. I get from that post that they don't feel they should have to pay attention to the spiel at all. To your point about "the discriminatory nature of the ban," I have, albeit rarely, heard attendants ask that people stop reading their paper books during "The Talk."
I think the real discussion here is centered around the following:
do electronics by their nature disrupt communications or the electrical systems on planes? (spoiler: no)
do the radios in the devices disrupt communications?
- are people savvy enough to turn off these radios on their devices to reduce the noise to acceptable levels in a given population (of passengers)?
- is a list of "approved" electronics too onerous to maintain and enforce to be practical?
Jesus, that's a self-absorbed, egocentric post. You really can't delay checking your calendar while someone is talking to you for 90ish seconds? I'm pretty sure you can squeeze out that time from your busy schedule of sitting in one place for a couple of hours. The more people like you who can't be bothered to at least be polite enough to appear to pay attention, the more people who need to hear this will feel validated when they busy themselves checking their calendars.
That's awesome that you know so much about flying. That means that you'll know what to do when a yellow cup appears 2 inches from your face, you won't freak out when the bag doesn't appear to inflate, and you might even know whether to look for an inflatable vest under your seat or that your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device simply because you know on which plane you're flying.
awesome.
Not everyone is as awesome as you, but a lot people think they're that awesome and they are the ones who need to pay attention for 90 fucking seconds of their oh so important and busy lives.
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Ah, well there you may have a point. I really don't know much about patents and didn't realize there were different types. But the design vs utility thing makes a lot of sense and I'd totally agree with your opinion.
obviously not...it typically attaches right below the part that rotates as in the cited patent.
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putting a sprinkler on a tripod is patent-worthy
In fairness, it wasn't putting a sprinkler on a tripod that was being patented. It was the fact that the hose was attached to the bottom of one leg of the tripod feeding the sprinkler head that way. Plus a custom cart to move it around.
From the patent:
the tripod junction unit comprises a first leg, a second leg, and a hose conduit;
if a story fits the media's narriative template that they will not fact check a story
unfortunately, that's not restricted to the media. It's just human nature to be less skeptical of something that fits your worldview. We would like to hold all journalists to a higher standard and would like them to scrutinize every story with the same level of skepticism, but alas, only a select few hold to that ideal and even fewer of those have enough clout to sway the corporation behind the news.
Just quoting the article, making my point that they expect this vehicle to be able to go 1,000 miles without stopping.
I was quoting the article. I make no endorsement of the statement, I was simply pointing out that they hoped this vehicle would make it 1,000 continuous miles.
As far as we know, there are no vehicles on the market today that offer 1,000 miles of continuous range using either gasoline or diesel fuel.
In the test car, the water must be refilled "every few hundred kilometers"--perhaps every 200 miles.
Oh you're a fan of webcomics? Here, have a Penny Arcade.
or just don't watch porn on the incredibly tiny screen...
Please, please, please take a high school physics course
I think it's just a simple and common enough misconception about "sling-shotting" in space. I believe the thought is that gravity somehow accelerates you more than it decelerates you (even though, obviously, the deceleration is exactly the same acceleration with a '-' in front). What's missing is the understanding that the "sling-shot" is using the orbital velocity to accelerate, not the gravity itself. The gravity is just there acting like the pouch of the sling. In fact, XKCD recently likened it to bouncing a ball off a moving truck, which is illustrative, if not overly accurate.
I simply avoid registering to vote because
I really hate seeing this phrase because whatever follows "because" is usually either easily mitigated (in your case, just don't choose a party affiliation and your calls will drop off dramatically), a misconception ("my vote doesn't matter," and no rain drop believes they're responsible for the flood), or just wrong. Please, please, please, keep voting for what/who you believe in. You think this country's in the shitter right now? Think about what happens when nobody gives a shit what goes on in government (votes) and those people do whatever they want with no fear of losing their power. Believe me when I tell you it gets WAY worse than it is right now. And that's saying something cuz it's pretty bad right now.
</soapbox>
average speed of around 27,800 km/h which is sufficient for relativistic effects to noticeably come into play
not really...
27,724 kph = 7.7 kps = 2.5688 e-5 c = fast, but not relativistic fast which is more like 0.1 c.
50k+ students crammed into per capita income
...50k+ students crammed into < 100 acres), a higher per capita income...
627 sq miles vs 271 sq miles. Toss in the UT campus (50k+ students crammed into per capita income, AMD, Motorola, and Samsung, and I think the choice actually becomes pretty clear. Houston has small areas where the money is consolidated, oil firms, Rice, and...NASA's kinda close-ish?
We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period.
No, not "Period." Tell us what it is then! Simply ending the discussion isn't received well by the 8 and up crowd.
*checks pockets*
*performs 360 check of area immediately surrounding*
*checks top of head*
dammitall! where's my mod points when i need them??
Film at a 11!
People have been looking at preventing damage from impacts for more than a hundred years
While this is technically true, I think he could have added a couple more zeros to that estimate and still made a very safe assertion.
For a lot of us,
right, but there's a significant flying population that hasn't heard it enough or at all and they shouldn't feel like they're the only ones listening.
Peer pressure works on adults who aren't sure of their surroundings, just like it did in grade school.
the spiel is a giant waste of time.
really? giant? let's take your 1.5 minute estimate for granted. that's 6 minutes per round trip. I don't know about you, but I probably blow 6 minutes every few hours on any given workday. Hell, with two kids under 5, it probably takes me 6 minutes to get from my door to driving out of the driveway. "Giant" is hyperbolic at best. A "waste of time" is only true from your perspective. That's actually my real point. If you are clearly not paying attention, even if you aren't being disruptive, you're adding to the peer pressure to not bother listening.
They now make a point of saying that phones must be turned off, specifically that airplane mode is not sufficient
I'm guessing this is because not enough people were turning the phone to "airplane mode" and so it was just easier to get everyone to turn off their phones.
a list of approved devices either in the airline's magazine or in the safety brochure
right, and do you think the attendants are really going to spot your device which isn't on the list and only then ask you to turn it off? Enforcement is the problem and I doubt very much that the list is either detailed or very current. At the rate new devices are hitting the market, testing them, adding them to the list and re-printing the brochure would be very expensive for an industry that doesn't leave a lot of room for financial errors.
do forgive any non-sequiturs, it's late and I'm very tired right now. You made a thoughtful reply however, and I wanted to return the favor. I'm sorry it got shoehorned in at the end of my day :s
I hate responding to these type of posts, because I expect my effort will fall on deaf ears and that the greatest show of gratitude I can expect will be some stream of vitriolic nonsense, but I'll keep it directed and non-antagonistic.
C-14 can only reliably measure {in theory} thousands of years
FTFY.
The fact is, Uranium-235 is used for the old stuff with its half-life of 703.8 million years. That is more than ample to describe things back to 4.5 billion years since 1/64 of the original isotope would still be present; but dinosaurs would still be at something like 4/5.
Evolution is happening. We see it in fossils and today in animals with short generation cycles. You can argue for it being guided by an intelligent entity, but we've seen simple environmental pressure guide it time and time again.
Finally, the existence of a divine power cannot be proven with science or math and trying to do so is folly, because there is zero tangible evidence that is unequivocally linked to that being. There is no repeatable experiment that can be devised to demonstrate an existence. Well, not until we die or the Apocalypse.
That's it, I'm not going to argue with you; that's just my piece that I hope you will be able reconcile with your worldview because I truly believe it is currently dampening your ability to appreciate the majesty of our planet and our lives.
I don't know, that's not what I get from damn_registrar's post. I get from that post that they don't feel they should have to pay attention to the spiel at all. To your point about "the discriminatory nature of the ban," I have, albeit rarely, heard attendants ask that people stop reading their paper books during "The Talk."
I think the real discussion here is centered around the following:
do electronics by their nature disrupt communications or the electrical systems on planes? (spoiler: no)
do the radios in the devices disrupt communications?
- are people savvy enough to turn off these radios on their devices to reduce the noise to acceptable levels in a given population (of passengers)?
- is a list of "approved" electronics too onerous to maintain and enforce to be practical?
that sacred minute-and-a-half
Jesus, that's a self-absorbed, egocentric post. You really can't delay checking your calendar while someone is talking to you for 90ish seconds? I'm pretty sure you can squeeze out that time from your busy schedule of sitting in one place for a couple of hours. The more people like you who can't be bothered to at least be polite enough to appear to pay attention, the more people who need to hear this will feel validated when they busy themselves checking their calendars.
That's awesome that you know so much about flying. That means that you'll know what to do when a yellow cup appears 2 inches from your face, you won't freak out when the bag doesn't appear to inflate, and you might even know whether to look for an inflatable vest under your seat or that your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device simply because you know on which plane you're flying.
awesome.
Not everyone is as awesome as you, but a lot people think they're that awesome and they are the ones who need to pay attention for 90 fucking seconds of their oh so important and busy lives.
I sincerely hope that's an Eddie Izzard reference, because that was a great bit!