A sounding rocket is a research rocket used to deliver an instrument package into space or the upper atmosphere.
An unguided sounding rocket is one that doesn't have any guidance system other than fixed aerodynamic fins
The aerobee (in it's various incarnations) is a liquid fueled - unguided - sounding rocket which carried a payload of up to 800 lbs including on one flight 2 live monkeys.
The example I provided was more to illustrate that one of the major problems with big-scale rockets is that the guidance system can't be "good", it has to be "great" because the stress forces from pivoting just a tiny bit out of flight line are sufficient to demolish all but the heaviest designs, something model rockets simply don't suffer from.
Nasa has used a range of unguided sounding rockets using liquid fuel carrying payloads of up to 500lbs up to altitudes of up 200 miles - so don't tell me you can't build an unguided liquid fuel rocket. Try a google search next time you want to make bold declarations of impossibility.
There are / were very large rockets (e.g. german V2 / russian scud a/b) - i.e. missiles using similar liquid fuel using only aerodynamic surfaces and relatively simply gyroscopic guidance systems. None of this technology is new or complex by modern standards.
They may not be capable of hitting a target as precisely as a cruise missle but they are more than capable of a simple suborbital flight.
I don't believe I suggested making a full size rocket out of cardboard tubes either I'm fully aware of the fact that as the scale increases so do the stresses on the airframe.
Try taking your tube - filling it with a sponge like material and then adding the water. Not such a great design problem when you think about it.
Rockets can easily be made to be aerodynamically stable - control systems are only needed for a rocket that is not aerodynamically stable during flight (ie one that has no fins or is moving too slowly for the fins to correct flight path.
Making a stable rocket isn't all that tough - the aerodynamic theory you need to succeed is pretty basic. Building engines is a little harder but then like he says the information is out there for anybody who wants to find it. So as long as a) his rocket is stable (easily determined), b) his thrust to weight ratio is high enough and c) he doesn't have a catastrophic engine failure it should work fine.
You're missing the point about context - Molson's trademark is only enforceable against another company making a beer called "Canadian" it is not applicable in any other market sector. Therefore it's entirely legit for somebody to publish a business directory called "Canadian". It is also too generic a term to be enforceable as far as I can tell (like Windows).
It's often been said that "One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter".
However *intentional* attacks on civilians with no military purpose other than killing civilians are war crimes by any normal standards. Of course the winning side in a way normally decided who gets charged with war crimes.
if AAG Charles James believes microsoft should be penalized for their conduct why did he not include any penalties in the settlement agreement with microsoft ?
Note that all the agreement contains is some (rather weak) restrictions of future conduct (for a short time) there is not one penalty for past conduct anywhere in the agreement.
Actually they probably pay a percentage of the rental price / or xx cents per rental as a royalty - otherwise they'd be breaking the law too. The premium price for new movies is just another way for the industry to skim a little more off of the rental stores.
That 1280x1024 is actual pixels - so it's nearly twice as many vertical pixels as a 1080i picture. So it should look substantially better than HDTV.
It's not perfect but then 35mm is far from perfect. It may have a nominally higher resolution than DLP but then DLP lacks the graininess that color film exhibits. DLP doesn't scratch - 35mm does - there are advantages and disadvantages to both technologies.
So what happens the first time a judge says "I don't think so" when one of these applications comes before him ? Do the FBI arrest him ? or do they appeal to a higher court ? - it just seems to me passing a law requiring a judge to grant a warrant in all cases without meeting any legal standard of proof is denying the judicial branch it's constitutional role in the government of the country.
yeah - how many people laughed at the multitude of people who wanted to fly around the world in hot air balloons ??? I don't remember anybody dying while attempting it.
I'm gonna have to call BS on the taking it to a military base - our local club has a regular clearance up to 11,500 ft above ground level - that's about 3.5km without any inspections at military bases.
FAR 101 (Federal aviation regulations) regulates what can be launched in the world of unmanned rockets - I'm not really sure what section covers manned rockets as I'm not crazy enough to sit on anything I build - I believe there is now a separate commercial space launch agency which deals with any kind of private space shot. Our local club routinely has clearance up to 11,500 feet above ground level and higher clearances are given to launches in more remote areas.
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Actually the UN mandate split the land between Israel & Palestine - neither had their own country until then.
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A sounding rocket is a research rocket used to deliver an instrument package into space or the upper atmosphere.
An unguided sounding rocket is one that doesn't have any guidance system other than fixed aerodynamic fins
The aerobee (in it's various incarnations) is a liquid fueled - unguided - sounding rocket which carried a payload of up to 800 lbs including on one flight 2 live monkeys.
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The example I provided was more to illustrate that one of the major problems with big-scale rockets is that the guidance system can't be "good", it has to be "great" because the stress forces from pivoting just a tiny bit out of flight line are sufficient to demolish all but the heaviest designs, something model rockets simply don't suffer from.
Nasa has used a range of unguided sounding rockets using liquid fuel carrying payloads of up to 500lbs up to altitudes of up 200 miles - so don't tell me you can't build an unguided liquid fuel rocket. Try a google search next time you want to make bold declarations of impossibility.
There are / were very large rockets (e.g. german V2 / russian scud a/b) - i.e. missiles using similar liquid fuel using only aerodynamic surfaces and relatively simply gyroscopic guidance systems. None of this technology is new or complex by modern standards.
They may not be capable of hitting a target as precisely as a cruise missle but they are more than capable of a simple suborbital flight.
I don't believe I suggested making a full size rocket out of cardboard tubes either I'm fully aware of the fact that as the scale increases so do the stresses on the airframe.
Try taking your tube - filling it with a sponge like material and then adding the water. Not such a great design problem when you think about it.
Rockets can easily be made to be aerodynamically stable - control systems are only needed for a rocket that is not aerodynamically stable during flight (ie one that has no fins or is moving too slowly for the fins to correct flight path.
Making a stable rocket isn't all that tough - the aerodynamic theory you need to succeed is pretty basic. Building engines is a little harder but then like he says the information is out there for anybody who wants to find it. So as long as a) his rocket is stable (easily determined), b) his thrust to weight ratio is high enough and c) he doesn't have a catastrophic engine failure it should work fine.
You're missing the point about context - Molson's trademark is only enforceable against another company making a beer called "Canadian" it is not applicable in any other market sector. Therefore it's entirely legit for somebody to publish a business directory called "Canadian". It is also too generic a term to be enforceable as far as I can tell (like Windows).
It's often been said that "One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter".
However *intentional* attacks on civilians with no military purpose other than killing civilians are war crimes by any normal standards. Of course the winning side in a way normally decided who gets charged with war crimes.
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if AAG Charles James believes microsoft should be penalized for their conduct why did he not include any penalties in the settlement agreement with microsoft ?
Note that all the agreement contains is some (rather weak) restrictions of future conduct (for a short time) there is not one penalty for past conduct anywhere in the agreement.
Actually they probably pay a percentage of the rental price / or xx cents per rental as a royalty - otherwise they'd be breaking the law too. The premium price for new movies is just another way for the industry to skim a little more off of the rental stores.
That 1280x1024 is actual pixels - so it's nearly twice as many vertical pixels as a 1080i picture. So it should look substantially better than HDTV.
It's not perfect but then 35mm is far from perfect. It may have a nominally higher resolution than DLP but then DLP lacks the graininess that color film exhibits. DLP doesn't scratch - 35mm does - there are advantages and disadvantages to both technologies.
So what happens the first time a judge says "I don't think so" when one of these applications comes before him ? Do the FBI arrest him ? or do they appeal to a higher court ? - it just seems to me passing a law requiring a judge to grant a warrant in all cases without meeting any legal standard of proof is denying the judicial branch it's constitutional role in the government of the country.
No you need a cat scanner to find a cat - it's too big to go in the van
In England where you're required to have a TV License to watch TV they have vans that drive around trying to detect such leakage from unlicensed TVs.
The also have handheld units for checking apartment buildings too.
On the third-to-last ER of the season, in the ultra-emotional opening segment where we saw people's reactions to Carter dying
Carter didn't die - it was Dr Green.
This may just be me but something isn't right here:
Last week the wall street journal quoted a source at the SEC as saying that MS would face charges for misrepresenting its revenues.
Now the matter is settled in return for "A promise not to do it again" essentially the same terms that the Antitrust case was settled on.
If I didn't know better I'd think somebody in the higher levels of governement was pulling some strings here. (sarcasm mode off)
Everybody knows the worlds oil was created when the fifth elephant crashed into the ground....
oh no - that was the discworld !!!
Sorry - I missed that - even then I wasn't aware that they were so restrictive in canada.
yeah - how many people laughed at the multitude of people who wanted to fly around the world in hot air balloons ??? I don't remember anybody dying while attempting it.
I'm gonna have to call BS on the taking it to a military base - our local club has a regular clearance up to 11,500 ft above ground level - that's about 3.5km without any inspections at military bases.
"Attention all planets ...."
FAR 101 (Federal aviation regulations) regulates what can be launched in the world of unmanned rockets - I'm not really sure what section covers manned rockets as I'm not crazy enough to sit on anything I build - I believe there is now a separate commercial space launch agency which deals with any kind of private space shot. Our local club routinely has clearance up to 11,500 feet above ground level and higher clearances are given to launches in more remote areas.