Because the airlines get substantial government support (airports, airways, etc) in addition to being classified a common carrier. If the airlines want to discriminate, then they canbloody well pay back ALL of the subsidies that they been given.
I have a couple of sons with severe allergies and comments like yours tend to make my blood boil.
Y2K should have been rearing its ugly head in 1970 for financial applications, specifically for 30 year mortgages. California's DMV use of two digit date codes led to an amusing story of a 103 year-old women being denied a drivers license because she was too young.
I would hardly call the 9000 "Badge-engineered", while the design may have borrowed from Fiat, the engines were built in the Scania plant in Sodertalje the bodies were built and cars assembled in Trollhatten. I got a tour of the Trollhatten factory with my former brother-in-law in 1986, and saw both the fabrication of the body panels and assembly of the cars.
The 9000 was quite a nice design, roomy inside and not overly large outside. The 16 valve turbocharged 4 cylinder engine had some neat features - the central spark-plug allowed for a higher compression ratio and APC allowed operation on varying grades of gasolene.
And by the way, the Ford V-4's were used in the Sonetts, AFAIK, SAAB never had a car called the Sonata.
As if ATK hasn't had any experience building components for ELV's. For example, there are the SRM's for the original Delta (Thrust Augmented Thor), Titan IV's and Pegasus - not to mention ballistic missile programs such as the Trident.
Einstein's theories of relativity give easily testable predictions, many of which have measured to great precision. AGW models rely on a water vapor feedback mechanism with an uncertainty close to the same magnitude as the predicted effect. This is more like the factor of ignorance used in civil engineering analysis rather than relativistic physics.
What you're saying is that there is a correlation between CO2/Methane levels and temperature. Question is: did the temperature rise in the past because of rising CO2/methane or did the CO2/methane rise because of rising temperatures.
Yeah, I know that increasing levels of CO2 and methane will increase the sky temperature (all else being equal). My contention is that climate change (precipitation as well as temperature) is affected by far more than CO2/methane (think other GHG's, particulates, land use, etc.).
The cause of the Chernobyl disaster, however, was the poor design of Russian nuclear power plants.
The most basic designs problem with the RBMK reactors were that the reactors could remain critical with a complete loss of coolant and that under some operating conditions they had a positive void coefficient of reactivity. In addition, the initial insertion of the scram rods increased reactivity. These all contributed to the prompt critical excursion that led to the destruction of the reactor and release of large amounts of fission products.
Inherent to the design of light water reactors is that they will shut down with a loss of coolant (coolant and moderator being the same thing), with the worst consequenc being a meltdown.
A perhaps more useful definition of horsepower is 376 mile-pounds per hour, i.e. 1 pound of thrust at 375 MPH equals one horsepower.
While SI is is a bit more consistent that Imperial/US customary units (would be nice if the unit of length was the light-nanosecond), there are cases where calculations are easier to do in "English" units than SI. An example is calculating the power in HP required for an airplane in level flight which is simply the product of weight in pounds times speed in MPH divided by the product of propeller efficiency and 375. To do the same calculations in SI would require taking into account the gravitational constant (~9.8m/s/s) and converting from km/hr to m/s.
There are, of course, many situations (probably the majority) where SI is much more convenient than "English" units. I do cringe, however, when someone uses kg as a unit of weight...
Good point, I'd also wonder how much work would be needed to take care of abnormal events with an electric vehicle, e.g. a collision disturbing the integrity of the battery and wiring. This wuld be less of a problem with compressed air.
These were also the same environments that fireless steam locomotives were used in. The hot water stores a lot more energy for a given volume than compressed air.
You're assuming that the water table is far enough below the surface to allow for a basement. I recall that the water table in parts of Florida is only two feet below the surface (and something similar for New Orleans).
The Register's article on the Cenzic report also speculated the the report was based on published vulnerabilities. They made some rude noises about Cenzic's focus on the number of the vulnerabilities as opposed to the severity of vulnerabilities.
And, considering that lightning / thunderstorm related gamma rays are routinely observed with energies up to 10 MeV, there is plenty of energy to create positrons, and so I wouldn't be surprised if all of these reports included the positron annihilation line (or, at least the ones with sensitivity in that energy range).
Considering that pair production starts becoming significant at gamma energies above 5 MeV (threshold 1.022 MeV), I would be very surprised if there weren't some 0.511 MeV gammas from thunderstorms. It is also likely that the positrons could be formed by interaction between high energy electrons and matter.
I would think that the gammas are produced in conjunction with sprites (cloud to ionosphere) rather than normal cloud to ground strokes.
And, among the engineers, the various engineering disciplines had representation, including the Doctors of Basketweaving from Berkeley.
That's Underwater Basket Weaving - one of the majors presented in the Cal SOP (along with gems like Prevarication). And yes, I did get my engineering degrees from Bezerkeley.
SPARC International, IMHO, actually has a better trademark infringement case than Intel did when Intel went after an organization called "Serenity Inside". The organization using "Serenity Inside" was both in a more completely different market (mediation inside jails and prisons) and even less likely to be confused that SPARC and Sparkfun.
If you're going to bitch about Sun for this lawsuit you should be spending a lot more effort bitching at the likes of Intel.
Similarly, at one point they were considering having a brand new unit of length, defined as the length of a pendulum that swung in exactly one second when dangled at sea level at latitude 45 degrees (which would have been similar to, but not quite the same as, the metre).
Actually that was Jefferson's idea, which he came up with before the French decided on the meter being 1/10,000,000 the distance from the pole to the equator at the Paris Meridian. The beauty of Jefferson's unit of length was that it could be recreated in any well equipped instrument shop (laboratory), something that did not happen with the metric system until 1960.
As long as I'm ranting about units of length, it would have been really nice if the foot was 98.4% as long as the American customary foot - i.e. one light-nanosecond.
One thing that keeps the US on the "imperial" system of units is that the land titles are almost always described in feet - changing that would be an enormous undertaking.
Celsius makes a lot more sense to me, 0 C = water freezes, 100 C = water boils (and it's "compatible" with the Kelvin scale). What was it fahrenheit was measured by? 32 F = water freezes, 100 F = body temperature, 212 F = water boils?
The boiling point of water is a really lousy datum for a temperature scale. Two problems, first it isn't well defined given a specified pressure, secondly atmospheric pressure depends on both altitude and weather condition.
FWIW, Fahrenheit is compatible with the Rankine scale. For any kind of calculation regarding temperature, one will need to use a look-up table anyway, so Kelvin doesn't have that much of an advantage over Rankine. If you want a rational temperature scale, use electron-volts.
I remember seeing an article on a flywheel powered bus in the likes of Popular Science back in the mid-60's. There would be a recharging station every few stops where the flywheel would be spun up again. These stations consisted of something similar to a trolley wire bracket with three contacts (three phase AC) and three wires from the bus would rise up to meet the contacts similar to how a trolley pole contacts the trolley wire.
Ultracaps and modern power electronics make this idea a lot more practical.
Asynchronous connections can be made without having to convert to/from DC. GE has recently developed a rotary transformer that allows for slight frequency offsets. This allows for transfer of reactive power as well as real power. Efficiency should be better than a DC intertie as well.
The 16 inch guns on the Iowa class ships had 2700 fps muzzle velocity, about the same as a 30-'06 with a 150 grain bullet. Typical quoted range was on the order of 22 miles, vacuum range would be about 40 miles "according to my preecise calculations".
She said Serling was very short and extremely charismatic.
I met one of his cousins 15 years ago and she was also very short. While she may not have been as charismatic as Rod, she was friendly and an interesting conversationalist.
You may have been thinking William Shatner instead of Leonard Nimoy. I remember the scary monster on the airplane wing episode when it first aired and when seeing it again a few years alter was surprised to realize that Shatner had the lead role in that episode.
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I have a couple of sons with severe allergies and comments like yours tend to make my blood boil.
Y2K should have been rearing its ugly head in 1970 for financial applications, specifically for 30 year mortgages. California's DMV use of two digit date codes led to an amusing story of a 103 year-old women being denied a drivers license because she was too young.
The Fulton plant shows two HTGR's. Alas HTGR construction ended with the Ft St Vrain plant in Colorado, so the Fulton plant was not built.
I didn't say anything about GM.
Hole punching??? How about flipping the front panel switches! OTOH, the old plugboards were even more archaic.
The 9000 was quite a nice design, roomy inside and not overly large outside. The 16 valve turbocharged 4 cylinder engine had some neat features - the central spark-plug allowed for a higher compression ratio and APC allowed operation on varying grades of gasolene.
And by the way, the Ford V-4's were used in the Sonetts, AFAIK, SAAB never had a car called the Sonata.
As if ATK hasn't had any experience building components for ELV's. For example, there are the SRM's for the original Delta (Thrust Augmented Thor), Titan IV's and Pegasus - not to mention ballistic missile programs such as the Trident.
I wonder how many people using that quote realize that it is a paraphrasing of chapter 2, verses 44 and 45 of "Acts of the Apostles".
Einstein's theories of relativity give easily testable predictions, many of which have measured to great precision. AGW models rely on a water vapor feedback mechanism with an uncertainty close to the same magnitude as the predicted effect. This is more like the factor of ignorance used in civil engineering analysis rather than relativistic physics.
Yeah, I know that increasing levels of CO2 and methane will increase the sky temperature (all else being equal). My contention is that climate change (precipitation as well as temperature) is affected by far more than CO2/methane (think other GHG's, particulates, land use, etc.).
The cause of the Chernobyl disaster, however, was the poor design of Russian nuclear power plants.
The most basic designs problem with the RBMK reactors were that the reactors could remain critical with a complete loss of coolant and that under some operating conditions they had a positive void coefficient of reactivity. In addition, the initial insertion of the scram rods increased reactivity. These all contributed to the prompt critical excursion that led to the destruction of the reactor and release of large amounts of fission products.
Inherent to the design of light water reactors is that they will shut down with a loss of coolant (coolant and moderator being the same thing), with the worst consequenc being a meltdown.
While SI is is a bit more consistent that Imperial/US customary units (would be nice if the unit of length was the light-nanosecond), there are cases where calculations are easier to do in "English" units than SI. An example is calculating the power in HP required for an airplane in level flight which is simply the product of weight in pounds times speed in MPH divided by the product of propeller efficiency and 375. To do the same calculations in SI would require taking into account the gravitational constant (~9.8m/s/s) and converting from km/hr to m/s.
There are, of course, many situations (probably the majority) where SI is much more convenient than "English" units. I do cringe, however, when someone uses kg as a unit of weight...
These were also the same environments that fireless steam locomotives were used in. The hot water stores a lot more energy for a given volume than compressed air.
You're assuming that the water table is far enough below the surface to allow for a basement. I recall that the water table in parts of Florida is only two feet below the surface (and something similar for New Orleans).
The Register's article on the Cenzic report also speculated the the report was based on published vulnerabilities. They made some rude noises about Cenzic's focus on the number of the vulnerabilities as opposed to the severity of vulnerabilities.
And, considering that lightning / thunderstorm related gamma rays are routinely observed with energies up to 10 MeV, there is plenty of energy to create positrons, and so I wouldn't be surprised if all of these reports included the positron annihilation line (or, at least the ones with sensitivity in that energy range).
Considering that pair production starts becoming significant at gamma energies above 5 MeV (threshold 1.022 MeV), I would be very surprised if there weren't some 0.511 MeV gammas from thunderstorms. It is also likely that the positrons could be formed by interaction between high energy electrons and matter.
I would think that the gammas are produced in conjunction with sprites (cloud to ionosphere) rather than normal cloud to ground strokes.
And, among the engineers, the various engineering disciplines had representation, including the Doctors of Basketweaving from Berkeley.
That's Underwater Basket Weaving - one of the majors presented in the Cal SOP (along with gems like Prevarication). And yes, I did get my engineering degrees from Bezerkeley.
If you're going to bitch about Sun for this lawsuit you should be spending a lot more effort bitching at the likes of Intel.
Similarly, at one point they were considering having a brand new unit of length, defined as the length of a pendulum that swung in exactly one second when dangled at sea level at latitude 45 degrees (which would have been similar to, but not quite the same as, the metre).
Actually that was Jefferson's idea, which he came up with before the French decided on the meter being 1/10,000,000 the distance from the pole to the equator at the Paris Meridian. The beauty of Jefferson's unit of length was that it could be recreated in any well equipped instrument shop (laboratory), something that did not happen with the metric system until 1960.
As long as I'm ranting about units of length, it would have been really nice if the foot was 98.4% as long as the American customary foot - i.e. one light-nanosecond.
One thing that keeps the US on the "imperial" system of units is that the land titles are almost always described in feet - changing that would be an enormous undertaking.
Celsius makes a lot more sense to me, 0 C = water freezes, 100 C = water boils (and it's "compatible" with the Kelvin scale). What was it fahrenheit was measured by? 32 F = water freezes, 100 F = body temperature, 212 F = water boils?
The boiling point of water is a really lousy datum for a temperature scale. Two problems, first it isn't well defined given a specified pressure, secondly atmospheric pressure depends on both altitude and weather condition.
FWIW, Fahrenheit is compatible with the Rankine scale. For any kind of calculation regarding temperature, one will need to use a look-up table anyway, so Kelvin doesn't have that much of an advantage over Rankine. If you want a rational temperature scale, use electron-volts.
Ultracaps and modern power electronics make this idea a lot more practical.
Asynchronous connections can be made without having to convert to/from DC. GE has recently developed a rotary transformer that allows for slight frequency offsets. This allows for transfer of reactive power as well as real power. Efficiency should be better than a DC intertie as well.
The 16 inch guns on the Iowa class ships had 2700 fps muzzle velocity, about the same as a 30-'06 with a 150 grain bullet. Typical quoted range was on the order of 22 miles, vacuum range would be about 40 miles "according to my preecise calculations".
She said Serling was very short and extremely charismatic.
I met one of his cousins 15 years ago and she was also very short. While she may not have been as charismatic as Rod, she was friendly and an interesting conversationalist.
You may have been thinking William Shatner instead of Leonard Nimoy. I remember the scary monster on the airplane wing episode when it first aired and when seeing it again a few years alter was surprised to realize that Shatner had the lead role in that episode.