The surface will melt lead, and there's no plate tectonics (lack of water as a lubricant)
Um...dude. Water is not a major factor in plate tectonics, which involves huge chunks of the cracked planet being pushed around by molten rock in the planet's mantle. In those dynamics, gravel is a lubricant. And by "gravel" I mean any rock smaller than Norway.
Besides, even if you presume, for the sake of argument, a necessity for liquid libricants, there is, after all, the molten lead you mention...
All of this equipment is in aluminum boxes with hefty ground straps. Lightning protection, don't ya know. And yes, they weigh a ton in aggregate.
The signal can still leak in through the cabling, unless you add a pound of filters to every box, which, generally, they do, but again they're more focussed on their own radar and lightning frequency distributions. Wi-fi is a new thing and they don't seem to have sussed it out yet.
My professional answer would be "without having traced the problem to root cause, I don't know why it's blanking".
But I turn off that part of me on/., so....
It's probably something in the display itself, and nothing to do with the radar. It could be the display controller responding to spurious data from the radar by rebooting, but that'd be an awful dumb way to respond to spurious data. Usually you just put up a bug in the status bar that indicates that the source is giving spurious data. Unless some polyanna inserted a requirement that the pilot not even be able to see the display when spurious data is being processed; you get that sort of crap from the polyannas. But at the right frequency the electronics could be setting up a parasitic circuit that rectifies and voltage-multiplies the WiFi until it causes a reset or other exceptional condition in the display hardware.
We live in a free country because we expect to have the power to imprison and/or kill people stupid enough to interfere with our freedom, including those who think updating their Facebook page is more important than landing an aircraft full of people safely.
They get a sticker from the FCC that says "this device must tolerate interference from other devices and must not interfere with other devices" or words to that effect.
Then they're not responsible if you use them for something safety-critical and interference brings down your business.
That said, the FAA is not the FCC, and has its own hardware-certification process (DO-254). It specifies that something like Wi-fi, when used for entertainment purposes in the passenger cabin, must not interfere with navigation and control electronics on the flight deck.
Expect to be told to turn your electronics OFF for the duration of the flight on any aircraft not specifically certified to be free of the problem TFA discusses.
Hmm. I mangled it a bit there. It's more like SATP doesn't affect measurements; it affects outcomes. So whether you're using volume or mass doesn't matter when measuring, since the volume or mass of the ingredients will change by the same percentage if you're not at SATP.
The 2 week turnaround was a little aggressive, but it's not the reason each shuttle didn't fly more often. Lack of missions and the existence of the other shuttles made the rapid turnaround unnecessary. Although the fact that the 2-week number was bollocks from the start is one of the reasons there are so many shuttles.
The Soviets copied our space shuttle, and put it into orbit. But Buran sucked, the Soviet space program is dog-slow, and the fall of the Soviet Union intervened, so they mothballed it after the one (unmanned) flight and fell back on Soyuz.
Some satellites cost a couple of billion dollars to build and deploy. Spending a couple of hundred million to retrieve and refurbish them, then a couple hundred million to put them back into orbit, is a bargain compared to building a new one.
As for GEO, we need only make a GEO-capable shuttle.
I really don't get why people get hung up on $/kg when the major expense of most projects is in design and inventing and testing and building of manufacturing and support facilities. But in a lot of vehicles, the size parameter is allowed to bleed into the rest of the performance and infrastructure requirements. Decouple that and standardize on a scalable design, and you can have a fleet of vehicles for marginal cost per unit. Making the rocket bigger and using more fuel is the easiest and cheapest way to make it more useful. And making it general-purpose instead of constantly doing bespoke projects is expensive as well.
That said, for all the carping people do about the complexity and expense of shuttle program, its reusability and versatility has made it an order of magnitude less expensive than building rockets for all those missions.
So what we need here is a scalable shuttle design. Who's in?
Actually, not that many people are working at SATP all the time. But that's nothing to do with measurements (there are few gaseous ingredients in food) and more to do with outcomes (there are often gaseous components and pressure-temperature dependent reactions in cooked items).
In b12 it pops up into the viewable area for the webpage, even if the status bar is there. That's annoying and annoying (especially in the M$-alternative world) is the same as broken. It should use the otherwise dead space in the status bar if the status bar is visible.
People with social skills know enough to expect a favor in return when asked to do a favor.
Frankly, if your brother is a trucker and you haven't already built up a stack of favors you owe him for hauling your shit around, you've been wasting the privilege.
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The surface will melt lead, and there's no plate tectonics (lack of water as a lubricant)
Um...dude. Water is not a major factor in plate tectonics, which involves huge chunks of the cracked planet being pushed around by molten rock in the planet's mantle. In those dynamics, gravel is a lubricant. And by "gravel" I mean any rock smaller than Norway.
Besides, even if you presume, for the sake of argument, a necessity for liquid libricants, there is, after all, the molten lead you mention...
I have a better solution:
Don't fly.
Seriously. This is one reported issue. If you saw the whole list, you'd stay 10 miles from the airport at all times.
So how're you going to watch pr0n under a blanket when your iPad has to have a clear view of a bubble on the ceiling?
All of this equipment is in aluminum boxes with hefty ground straps. Lightning protection, don't ya know. And yes, they weigh a ton in aggregate.
The signal can still leak in through the cabling, unless you add a pound of filters to every box, which, generally, they do, but again they're more focussed on their own radar and lightning frequency distributions. Wi-fi is a new thing and they don't seem to have sussed it out yet.
My professional answer would be "without having traced the problem to root cause, I don't know why it's blanking".
But I turn off that part of me on /., so....
It's probably something in the display itself, and nothing to do with the radar. It could be the display controller responding to spurious data from the radar by rebooting, but that'd be an awful dumb way to respond to spurious data. Usually you just put up a bug in the status bar that indicates that the source is giving spurious data. Unless some polyanna inserted a requirement that the pilot not even be able to see the display when spurious data is being processed; you get that sort of crap from the polyannas. But at the right frequency the electronics could be setting up a parasitic circuit that rectifies and voltage-multiplies the WiFi until it causes a reset or other exceptional condition in the display hardware.
We live in a free country because we expect to have the power to imprison and/or kill people stupid enough to interfere with our freedom, including those who think updating their Facebook page is more important than landing an aircraft full of people safely.
They get a sticker from the FCC that says "this device must tolerate interference from other devices and must not interfere with other devices" or words to that effect.
Then they're not responsible if you use them for something safety-critical and interference brings down your business.
That said, the FAA is not the FCC, and has its own hardware-certification process (DO-254). It specifies that something like Wi-fi, when used for entertainment purposes in the passenger cabin, must not interfere with navigation and control electronics on the flight deck.
Expect to be told to turn your electronics OFF for the duration of the flight on any aircraft not specifically certified to be free of the problem TFA discusses.
You cannot fully shield a device that is specifically designed to receive external signals.
But if you don't design it to reject signals outside the band you intend to receive, you've failed to design it at all.
According to whom?
The Soviets? Who didn't even dare put a cosmonaut in one?
He means something beyond the next point in a continuous path.
Hmm. I mangled it a bit there. It's more like SATP doesn't affect measurements; it affects outcomes. So whether you're using volume or mass doesn't matter when measuring, since the volume or mass of the ingredients will change by the same percentage if you're not at SATP.
Lack of a cold war to rattle your sabers in will do that to a country.
The 2 week turnaround was a little aggressive, but it's not the reason each shuttle didn't fly more often. Lack of missions and the existence of the other shuttles made the rapid turnaround unnecessary. Although the fact that the 2-week number was bollocks from the start is one of the reasons there are so many shuttles.
The Soviets copied our space shuttle, and put it into orbit. But Buran sucked, the Soviet space program is dog-slow, and the fall of the Soviet Union intervened, so they mothballed it after the one (unmanned) flight and fell back on Soyuz.
That's the only reason the manned space program is still based on capsules. If the Buran program had a clue nobody would know what a Soyuz was today. And the Russians are thinking of redoing Buran from scratch.
If they do, in a few years you may be back here wondering why we didn't just keep using our shuttles, which at this point are marginal cost to fly.
NASA are boring.
Yep. They're also chamfering, planing, adhering, and vibration-testing. Among about 10,000 other things.
Some satellites cost a couple of billion dollars to build and deploy. Spending a couple of hundred million to retrieve and refurbish them, then a couple hundred million to put them back into orbit, is a bargain compared to building a new one.
As for GEO, we need only make a GEO-capable shuttle.
I really don't get why people get hung up on $/kg when the major expense of most projects is in design and inventing and testing and building of manufacturing and support facilities. But in a lot of vehicles, the size parameter is allowed to bleed into the rest of the performance and infrastructure requirements. Decouple that and standardize on a scalable design, and you can have a fleet of vehicles for marginal cost per unit. Making the rocket bigger and using more fuel is the easiest and cheapest way to make it more useful. And making it general-purpose instead of constantly doing bespoke projects is expensive as well.
That said, for all the carping people do about the complexity and expense of shuttle program, its reusability and versatility has made it an order of magnitude less expensive than building rockets for all those missions.
So what we need here is a scalable shuttle design. Who's in?
The antonym of Progress.
Actually, not that many people are working at SATP all the time. But that's nothing to do with measurements (there are few gaseous ingredients in food) and more to do with outcomes (there are often gaseous components and pressure-temperature dependent reactions in cooked items).
Magnetic wire.
as for your lawn, it seems to be enjoying the position...and the attention
In b12 it pops up into the viewable area for the webpage, even if the status bar is there. That's annoying and annoying (especially in the M$-alternative world) is the same as broken. It should use the otherwise dead space in the status bar if the status bar is visible.
Wait. Do you have ears?
Get in the lawsuit.
People with social skills know enough to expect a favor in return when asked to do a favor.
Frankly, if your brother is a trucker and you haven't already built up a stack of favors you owe him for hauling your shit around, you've been wasting the privilege.
I still use BetaMax.
You see that lawn? Stay off it.
with...well...nothing.
Cuz you can't get there from here.
FF FTW.