Most armor is concentrated on the front aspect of the tank with lesser amounts on the flanks and rear. Top armor is generally the most weak and also the most available target from the air.
Not sure if this is someone illustrating Poe's law, but there are enough people who genuinely hold this mistaken opinion that it's worth addressing.
Iraq wasn't invaded because there were gaps in the inspection regime (there were) or because Iraq was resistant to a more aggressive inspection regime (it was). Iraq wasn't invaded because of a criminal indictment of Saddam Hussein for the instigation of the Iran-Iraq war. Iraq wasn't invaded because of some 20 year old, probably inert gas shells buried, rusting, and forgotten in a ditch somewhere. Iraq was invaded to remove chemical, biological, and potentially nuclear weapons which constituted a grave and immediate threat to the security of the United States.
This justification was, of course, a complete fabrication. It was an utterly fantastic construction based on the stacking of all the worst case, low probability assessments generated by the US intelligence apparatus in order to stampede the public to war (and a highly successful general election).
We went back in to Iraq in 2003. After nearly 20 years of trying to get Iraq to fulfill it's obligations which it AGREED to after the first Iraq war.
The US wasn't trying to enforce sanctions on Iraq in 1983. At that time, they were selling them weapons.
Nukes, especially two stage nukes, are heavy emitters of X-ray light. Detonating the nuke at an appropriate distance allows the nuke to heat the surface matter of the object which blows off and acts as reaction mass. The efficiency of this coupling can also be improved via some design tricks for the device itself or by cratering the object with a kinetic impactor first then timing the detonation so it's directly over the resultant "rocket nozzle" on the object's surface.
Lots of people use their leisure to challenge their limits. Kayaking, mountain climbing, sky diving, etc. I don't think they'll have trouble finding those who want the life of a pioneer and explorer.
Fair enough, but why didn't they chant "Falcon! Falcon!"? After all, Lockheed and Boeing have sat on their ass for 40 years getting fat off the teat. Their heritage comes from TRW, their own hard work to fulfill a DARPA contract, and some vision on the part of NASA to get COTS off the ground. These companies and initiatives were all fairly maverick in their way, moving against the prevailing currents of hot air blowing from the Washington Beltway.
The Systemd project has eaten quite a bit of the userspace plumbing (udev and consolekit->logind) for which upstream support is no longer systemd independent. They are also pushing to control future iterations of dbus. To truly be free of systemd, maintainers will have to fork and maintain these modules or otherwise provide equivalent functionality. My guess is that few are willing or able to commit the necessary resources at the present time.
Google got a lot of their libs from Apache, and Apache had lots of contributions from other commercial entities (IBM, Intel, BEA, etc.). They built on top of an existing Apache licensed codebase for their Apache licensed virtual machine runtime which is the explicit benefit of using free software. Oracle is trolling the Java community because either Larry needs a new yacht, or they're just compulsive douchebags.
The alternative to using the term "PC" to describe IBM PCs and their descendants is to use some horribly convoluted terminology, along the lines of "Oh no, this isn't a Mac, this is a computer that implements standards comprising a descendant of the IBM PC architecture..
IBM PC compatible or IBM PC clone is what your looking for.
With Mali, Adreno, and Vivante there are viable or near viable options for open drivers. Despite having good development platforms (BeagleBone, Intel Atom boards) and a lot more lead time, OSS drivers for PowerVR are way behind. This lends credence to Wladimir from the Etnaviv (Vivante driver) project calling PowerVR's architecture a "tower of shit".
Impulse is provided by soft X-ray ablation. X-ray production and dispersal can be tuned by:
X-ray window on the radiation case The majority of the radiation case is lined with standard X-ray reflector material. An area of the radiation case is more X-ray transparent, giving some directionality to X-ray radiation previous to explosive dissassembly of the device.
X-ray lasing medium Lasing rods are installed on the device to selectively produce X-ray photons when energized by a nuclear detonation, again previous to explosive dissassembly. See Project Excalibur.
Orion probably needs a more powerful LAS because of the debris risk for the chutes if they ever have to zipper the SRBs. Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy won't rain chunks of rocket fuel for 10 minutes if they have to use the flight termination system.
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Puerto Rico was a strong candidate but was less favourable for logistics.
Most armor is concentrated on the front aspect of the tank with lesser amounts on the flanks and rear. Top armor is generally the most weak and also the most available target from the air.
Whoosh!
The rear aspect RCS of the F-35 is going to be abysmal, though.
I guess the Navy is SOL when they have to fly a carrier air patrol.
Not sure if this is someone illustrating Poe's law, but there are enough people who genuinely hold this mistaken opinion that it's worth addressing.
Iraq wasn't invaded because there were gaps in the inspection regime (there were) or because Iraq was resistant to a more aggressive inspection regime (it was). Iraq wasn't invaded because of a criminal indictment of Saddam Hussein for the instigation of the Iran-Iraq war. Iraq wasn't invaded because of some 20 year old, probably inert gas shells buried, rusting, and forgotten in a ditch somewhere. Iraq was invaded to remove chemical, biological, and potentially nuclear weapons which constituted a grave and immediate threat to the security of the United States.
This justification was, of course, a complete fabrication. It was an utterly fantastic construction based on the stacking of all the worst case, low probability assessments generated by the US intelligence apparatus in order to stampede the public to war (and a highly successful general election).
We went back in to Iraq in 2003. After nearly 20 years of trying to get Iraq to fulfill it's obligations which it AGREED to after the first Iraq war.
The US wasn't trying to enforce sanctions on Iraq in 1983. At that time, they were selling them weapons.
Nukes, especially two stage nukes, are heavy emitters of X-ray light. Detonating the nuke at an appropriate distance allows the nuke to heat the surface matter of the object which blows off and acts as reaction mass. The efficiency of this coupling can also be improved via some design tricks for the device itself or by cratering the object with a kinetic impactor first then timing the detonation so it's directly over the resultant "rocket nozzle" on the object's surface.
Network switches with stackable backplanes have been around forever.
Old SCO sold Unixware and Openserver to Caldera Systems, then became Tarantella. Caldera Systems became SCO and started sueing their customers. M'kay?
Someone who plays chicken with the national credit score is not fiscally conservative.
It also is not ruled by crazy people
Not since the 70s.
Lots of people use their leisure to challenge their limits. Kayaking, mountain climbing, sky diving, etc. I don't think they'll have trouble finding those who want the life of a pioneer and explorer.
Pretty sure they do command and control for those satellites. They also might have design documents and operations manuals kicking around.
Fair enough, but why didn't they chant "Falcon! Falcon!"? After all, Lockheed and Boeing have sat on their ass for 40 years getting fat off the teat. Their heritage comes from TRW, their own hard work to fulfill a DARPA contract, and some vision on the part of NASA to get COTS off the ground. These companies and initiatives were all fairly maverick in their way, moving against the prevailing currents of hot air blowing from the Washington Beltway.
How about the Mach 20?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAP8o5ZEo0
The Systemd project has eaten quite a bit of the userspace plumbing (udev and consolekit->logind) for which upstream support is no longer systemd independent. They are also pushing to control future iterations of dbus. To truly be free of systemd, maintainers will have to fork and maintain these modules or otherwise provide equivalent functionality. My guess is that few are willing or able to commit the necessary resources at the present time.
Tritium doesn't bioaccumulate significantly (10 day biological half life), unlike Strontium and Iodine isotopes.
Google got a lot of their libs from Apache, and Apache had lots of contributions from other commercial entities (IBM, Intel, BEA, etc.). They built on top of an existing Apache licensed codebase for their Apache licensed virtual machine runtime which is the explicit benefit of using free software. Oracle is trolling the Java community because either Larry needs a new yacht, or they're just compulsive douchebags.
The alternative to using the term "PC" to describe IBM PCs and their descendants is to use some horribly convoluted terminology, along the lines of "Oh no, this isn't a Mac, this is a computer that implements standards comprising a descendant of the IBM PC architecture..
IBM PC compatible or IBM PC clone is what your looking for.
With Mali, Adreno, and Vivante there are viable or near viable options for open drivers. Despite having good development platforms (BeagleBone, Intel Atom boards) and a lot more lead time, OSS drivers for PowerVR are way behind. This lends credence to Wladimir from the Etnaviv (Vivante driver) project calling PowerVR's architecture a "tower of shit".
http://blog.emmanueldeloget.com/index.php?post/2013/01/12/Open-source-drivers-for-SoC-GPUs
With PowerVR G6430 graphics
The worst of the worst for driver quality and developer access. Nothing's really changed from the GMA500 days.
Impulse is provided by soft X-ray ablation. X-ray production and dispersal can be tuned by:
X-ray window on the radiation case
The majority of the radiation case is lined with standard X-ray reflector material. An area of the radiation case is more X-ray transparent, giving some directionality to X-ray radiation previous to explosive dissassembly of the device.
X-ray lasing medium
Lasing rods are installed on the device to selectively produce X-ray photons when energized by a nuclear detonation, again previous to explosive dissassembly. See Project Excalibur.
Only works if the asteroid cooperates by not tumbling.
It is indisputably the best way we have to pursue the facts.
Truth is metaphysical.
Orion probably needs a more powerful LAS because of the debris risk for the chutes if they ever have to zipper the SRBs. Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy won't rain chunks of rocket fuel for 10 minutes if they have to use the flight termination system.