How does he know they're realistic? Having a well detailed drawing for the dash does not equate to "realistic". How the plane behaves in a stall equates to realistic.
The main sad thing is that it's happening at the federal level; I don't hear about party incohesiveness at my state level (at least not enough to make a difference), yet that's where election law is made (i.e. the stuff that keeps us stuck with two parties). We need this schisming to be happening, but need it worse at our local levels first, so that we can get the election reform to support political diversity and polarization in the bigger elections.
Not going to happen, unfortunately.
The 24-hour news cycle is run by national (if not international) corporations. The don't want to fund 50 different news desks. It's nice for them to only have to fund one O'Reilly or Maddow show. Push the real decision making back to where it should be, and they have a confusing mish-mash to cover. They're not going to let this happen easily.
Yes, we are. On the schedule set by Busch. We would be staying longer if the Iraqis hadn't insisted on removing legal protections from the soldiers there.
I had a teacher that told me if I could program the calculator to get the right answer, then obviously I understood how to get the right answer. I liked that guy.
I know you laugh, but when I was in high school, there was a plumbing problem over the summer break that flooded the library for a few weeks. No one was there, so nobody noticed. Every page of every book had to be wiped down with alcohol to kill the mold ( a lot of the less valuable books were simply thrown out).
I watched a show where there was a lake in the mountains of Africa somewhere that was killing people. Vegetation fell in, sank to the bottom and decomposed. The lake was so deep that the resulting C02 stayed dissolved due to the pressure. But occasionally, the amount of C02 would get so high that it would start to bubble out of solution. When this happened, the bubbles would decrease the density of water above, allowing more C02 to bubble out. The result was a positive feedback mechanism that resulted in a cloud of C02 that would roll down the hill and kill entire villages.
The scientist's solution was to sink a pipe into the lake from a raft, then pump water out of the pipe. Once enough of the water was out of the pipe, there wasn't enough pressure to keep the C02 dissolved *in the pipe*. The water would spew out of the pipe like a warm Coca-Cola, and new C02 laden water would take its place at the bottom. With no energy input, they were able to slowly bleed off the C02 in a way that would not harm every animal around the lake.
The same technique could be used to "mine" this methane.
"reasonable" is a weasel word. You use it because there is a fuzzy area that you can't or won't define, because as soon as you try to define it, you find yourself alienating one constituency or another. If you start telling people they can't use their own property, you've lost.
The potential for abuse is great; but, so is the potential from an unrestrained legislature. The law is nothing but interpretation and subjectivity, and that is why the final interpretation must always be left to the people, and not rulers that would deign themselves our protectors.
Russia and the US have an official agreement now in fact to allow over flights.
Interesting fact: It was overflights by the U-2 program that averted a nuclear war at the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy knew exactly what firepower the Russians had. From their satellite flyovers, they knew what we had. Both sides knew a stand down was the only sane decision, since both knew that neither could win.
"The plane was designed not to be seen by radar that tech is still being perfected today."
I could build that airframe and have it invisible to radar for less than $1,000(US) and one order to aircraftspruce.com. Any Cozy, Varieze, or a dozen other types of composite aircraft are already invisible to radar. How perfect can you get?
Because there wasn't anything on board worth blowing up? The explosives would be a more sensitive load, with the potential to do more harm, than the COTS components loaded into a composite model airplane?
Think about it. Model airplane with a web-cam and smart phone connected to some control solenoids drops into foreign country. National embarrassment ensues.
Model airplane with a web-cam and smart phone connected to some control solenoids drops into foreign country and then blows up, potentially killing a nearby farmer. National outrage ensues.
I'd go for the former and feign outrage that the Iranians would be so crass as to keep my "super-secret spy plane."
That's why I think it is made of fiberglass. Glass planes have no radar signature, but you have to paint them light colors. Dark paint can absorb enough of the sun's energy while the plane is on the ramp to weaken the epoxy. Have you notices how all of Scaled Composites creations are always white? And now you know.
"Super-secret stealth skin" is most likely fiberglass cloth and epoxy. The same thing a large portion of experimental aviation planes are made from. It is already invisible to radar.
Was it even painted? It looked like a composite structure to me. Fiberglass has a radar signature approaching "not a gol-darn thing". Why would they need stealth paint? Why would you need any "secret" stuff to fly a drone and take pictures that could be sent home with a OTS satellite phone?
A competent president would start a war with a leader that is looking for a fight to get religious fanatics to rally around him, over a piece of "secret technology" that I could build in my garage?
This "stealth plane" looks like nothing more than a composite delta wing, with a small internal jet. You could build one for less than $10K (US). On board would be some "spy cameras" (Ooooh! Spooky secret spy cameras). Hell, I bet President Obama is asking for it back because they used his Blackberry to take the pictures and perform the GPS guided command and control of the plane.
Seriously, guys, how much "secret technology" is necessary to fly a remote controlled model plane and take pictures considering what people are doing with iPhones and high altitude balloons?
And the only problem with tearing down the old system to build a new one, is that the leaders to come forward in the new system will be corrupt, but there won't be any safeguards against them yet. They'll have the opportunity to take complete control 8*(
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How does he know they're realistic? Having a well detailed drawing for the dash does not equate to "realistic". How the plane behaves in a stall equates to realistic.
Isn't the Cub LSA compliant?
The main sad thing is that it's happening at the federal level; I don't hear about party incohesiveness at my state level (at least not enough to make a difference), yet that's where election law is made (i.e. the stuff that keeps us stuck with two parties). We need this schisming to be happening, but need it worse at our local levels first, so that we can get the election reform to support political diversity and polarization in the bigger elections.
Not going to happen, unfortunately.
The 24-hour news cycle is run by national (if not international) corporations. The don't want to fund 50 different news desks. It's nice for them to only have to fund one O'Reilly or Maddow show. Push the real decision making back to where it should be, and they have a confusing mish-mash to cover. They're not going to let this happen easily.
Yes, we are. On the schedule set by Busch. We would be staying longer if the Iraqis hadn't insisted on removing legal protections from the soldiers there.
Kind of like people using Microsoft operating systems throughout the 90s. They had no idea that something better was out there.
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I had a teacher that told me if I could program the calculator to get the right answer, then obviously I understood how to get the right answer. I liked that guy.
I know you laugh, but when I was in high school, there was a plumbing problem over the summer break that flooded the library for a few weeks. No one was there, so nobody noticed. Every page of every book had to be wiped down with alcohol to kill the mold ( a lot of the less valuable books were simply thrown out).
And if we knew there was a rocky core, it would still be pointless to build probes to try to reach/hit the core.
"too big to fail" financial companies was so last term. The new fashionable bailout target is "green companies".
I watched a show where there was a lake in the mountains of Africa somewhere that was killing people. Vegetation fell in, sank to the bottom and decomposed. The lake was so deep that the resulting C02 stayed dissolved due to the pressure. But occasionally, the amount of C02 would get so high that it would start to bubble out of solution. When this happened, the bubbles would decrease the density of water above, allowing more C02 to bubble out. The result was a positive feedback mechanism that resulted in a cloud of C02 that would roll down the hill and kill entire villages.
The scientist's solution was to sink a pipe into the lake from a raft, then pump water out of the pipe. Once enough of the water was out of the pipe, there wasn't enough pressure to keep the C02 dissolved *in the pipe*. The water would spew out of the pipe like a warm Coca-Cola, and new C02 laden water would take its place at the bottom. With no energy input, they were able to slowly bleed off the C02 in a way that would not harm every animal around the lake.
The same technique could be used to "mine" this methane.
"reasonable" is a weasel word. You use it because there is a fuzzy area that you can't or won't define, because as soon as you try to define it, you find yourself alienating one constituency or another. If you start telling people they can't use their own property, you've lost.
The potential for abuse is great; but, so is the potential from an unrestrained legislature. The law is nothing but interpretation and subjectivity, and that is why the final interpretation must always be left to the people, and not rulers that would deign themselves our protectors.
Russia and the US have an official agreement now in fact to allow over flights.
Interesting fact: It was overflights by the U-2 program that averted a nuclear war at the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy knew exactly what firepower the Russians had. From their satellite flyovers, they knew what we had. Both sides knew a stand down was the only sane decision, since both knew that neither could win.
Why would you need radar absorbent paint over fiberglass?
"The plane was designed not to be seen by radar that tech is still being perfected today."
I could build that airframe and have it invisible to radar for less than $1,000(US) and one order to aircraftspruce.com. Any Cozy, Varieze, or a dozen other types of composite aircraft are already invisible to radar. How perfect can you get?
No, we can't.
Because there wasn't anything on board worth blowing up? The explosives would be a more sensitive load, with the potential to do more harm, than the COTS components loaded into a composite model airplane?
Think about it. Model airplane with a web-cam and smart phone connected to some control solenoids drops into foreign country. National embarrassment ensues.
Model airplane with a web-cam and smart phone connected to some control solenoids drops into foreign country and then blows up, potentially killing a nearby farmer. National outrage ensues.
I'd go for the former and feign outrage that the Iranians would be so crass as to keep my "super-secret spy plane."
That's why I think it is made of fiberglass. Glass planes have no radar signature, but you have to paint them light colors. Dark paint can absorb enough of the sun's energy while the plane is on the ramp to weaken the epoxy. Have you notices how all of Scaled Composites creations are always white? And now you know.
"Super-secret stealth skin" is most likely fiberglass cloth and epoxy. The same thing a large portion of experimental aviation planes are made from. It is already invisible to radar.
Was it even painted? It looked like a composite structure to me. Fiberglass has a radar signature approaching "not a gol-darn thing". Why would they need stealth paint? Why would you need any "secret" stuff to fly a drone and take pictures that could be sent home with a OTS satellite phone?
A competent president would start a war with a leader that is looking for a fight to get religious fanatics to rally around him, over a piece of "secret technology" that I could build in my garage?
This "stealth plane" looks like nothing more than a composite delta wing, with a small internal jet. You could build one for less than $10K (US). On board would be some "spy cameras" (Ooooh! Spooky secret spy cameras). Hell, I bet President Obama is asking for it back because they used his Blackberry to take the pictures and perform the GPS guided command and control of the plane.
Seriously, guys, how much "secret technology" is necessary to fly a remote controlled model plane and take pictures considering what people are doing with iPhones and high altitude balloons?
I had no clue there were so few possible plots out there.
Neither does the entertainment industry execs in America.
And the only problem with tearing down the old system to build a new one, is that the leaders to come forward in the new system will be corrupt, but there won't be any safeguards against them yet. They'll have the opportunity to take complete control 8*(
It can also be used by a black jury to pardon a black man for murdering a black man.
Just a nitpick, but these drug laws are not "outdated". They were just as stupid when they were written as they are now.