From a near miss. The sun's gravity accelerates it as it falls close in to the sun - gravity is dependent on the inverse of the distance squared. So as it gets very close the gravitational pull grows along square function. By not actually hitting the sun, it manages to keep some of that energy (and the sun loses the same amount in angular momentum - but for the sun it's a negligible amount of spin so you won't notice). Because its velocity is far, far greater than the (I believe it's 33km/s) escape velocity - it will slow down a little on its way out, but it's never, ever coming back. Not only that, but inverse of distance squared. It's not going to slow down much more due to gravity - most of the slowing down was done within a few solar radii.
This technique of hitching a ride on another celestial body's gravity well has been used for space probes, and you can read a dramatization of "aerobraking" in Arthur C Clarke's 2011 novel.
I'm on about why the hell do we have to be using these products at all when opium tincture (which is what paregoric and laudanum are) hasn't been wiped from the face of the earth and is more or less harmless - proof? It was widely used before, and even withdrawn from the "market" without a revolution. Opioids have been demonized by people who have zero understanding of them. And I include many of my fellow physicians in this category. They have their uses in many situations from diarrhea to pain management.
As little as 100 years ago people were using perfectly legal opium compounds such as paregoric, with little or no social problems. The fact that people are dying and people are having their lives ruined by this failed "war on drugs" and the solutions are even worse than the problem just goes to show that government has no clue what it's doing.
Irrelevant to the argument at hand. Now you just feel like handing out insults. Er, by the way I can code in assembler, pascal, fortran, and c++. Computers and computer medical records are convenient but not critical to patient care. Turning away patients from a hospital because of computer problems is a defensive move to avoid litigation and nothing more. That's all very well, unless the patient dies in the ambulance on the way to the other hospital. It has nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with bureaucracy. What will happen in a disaster when computers and record-keeping abilities are overwhelmed or unavailable? There is no pen and paper backup at all?
Useless against anything but a third world airforce. Force projection can happen with cruise missiles too. Or when the enemy outnumbers you 10 to 1 or more.
The day of the carrier is over, anyway. They're great for beating up third world nations, but "power projection" just isn't going to work against a real airforce and air defense system. The US has yet to fight a fight without air supremacy. How useful is your carrier when only 25% of your sortie makes it back?
That means that the hundreds of trillions (yeah, trillions) of dollars we've invested in shipbuilding is wasted, worthless.
Absolutely not surprising at all. This is what governments do. Kind of like the Maginot Line and other strokes of military genius. Carriers owned the sea in WW2. Times have changed, and the US has never fought a real enemy.
Yeah my wife is not fa, but she doesn't play games (apart from Spider Solitaire). Guess you can't have everything, but she's cool with me playing as much as I want so I'll count my blessings.
Usually when someone is aiming a rocket launcher at you then you are not yet at the "punishment" phase of the process but usually the "prevention" phase, which can include legally killing that person in self defense. If you don't like it then don't aim rocket launchers at people.
Why? I can afford quite a few houses and have no debt at all. I was trying to make a point which you missed, pedant. Can't see the forest for the trees eh?
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Sounds like someone has been cheesing again. Poor cats.
Round about the same time you will realize that government does not exist to serve you.
From a near miss. The sun's gravity accelerates it as it falls close in to the sun - gravity is dependent on the inverse of the distance squared. So as it gets very close the gravitational pull grows along square function. By not actually hitting the sun, it manages to keep some of that energy (and the sun loses the same amount in angular momentum - but for the sun it's a negligible amount of spin so you won't notice). Because its velocity is far, far greater than the (I believe it's 33km/s) escape velocity - it will slow down a little on its way out, but it's never, ever coming back. Not only that, but inverse of distance squared. It's not going to slow down much more due to gravity - most of the slowing down was done within a few solar radii.
This technique of hitching a ride on another celestial body's gravity well has been used for space probes, and you can read a dramatization of "aerobraking" in Arthur C Clarke's 2011 novel.
I'm on about why the hell do we have to be using these products at all when opium tincture (which is what paregoric and laudanum are) hasn't been wiped from the face of the earth and is more or less harmless - proof? It was widely used before, and even withdrawn from the "market" without a revolution. Opioids have been demonized by people who have zero understanding of them. And I include many of my fellow physicians in this category. They have their uses in many situations from diarrhea to pain management.
As little as 100 years ago people were using perfectly legal opium compounds such as paregoric, with little or no social problems. The fact that people are dying and people are having their lives ruined by this failed "war on drugs" and the solutions are even worse than the problem just goes to show that government has no clue what it's doing.
I think that's slightly above the solar escape velocity, so we can kiss this one goodbye. Don't worry boys, he won't be coming back.
Especially since often the "hot coals" turn out to be christmas lights.
Irrelevant to the argument at hand. Now you just feel like handing out insults. Er, by the way I can code in assembler, pascal, fortran, and c++. Computers and computer medical records are convenient but not critical to patient care. Turning away patients from a hospital because of computer problems is a defensive move to avoid litigation and nothing more. That's all very well, unless the patient dies in the ambulance on the way to the other hospital. It has nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with bureaucracy. What will happen in a disaster when computers and record-keeping abilities are overwhelmed or unavailable? There is no pen and paper backup at all?
As the price of digital storage drops
Someone hasn't checked prices recently, post flood.
By then your carrier is at the bottom of the sea.
I don't believe for a minute that their claims are in any way accurate.
It's not about belief. They have the drone.
only end with lots of people getting killed.
When has that ever stopped a government? The thing about people is that there are always more people.
Look on the bright side if it reaches the right concentration it will ignite all by itself.
Useless against anything but a third world airforce. Force projection can happen with cruise missiles too. Or when the enemy outnumbers you 10 to 1 or more.
The British Empire/Commonwealth has to get involved before it's a world war.
The day of the carrier is over, anyway. They're great for beating up third world nations, but "power projection" just isn't going to work against a real airforce and air defense system. The US has yet to fight a fight without air supremacy. How useful is your carrier when only 25% of your sortie makes it back?
The JFK was retired from service, but there was such a carrier.
That means that the hundreds of trillions (yeah, trillions) of dollars we've invested in shipbuilding is wasted, worthless.
Absolutely not surprising at all. This is what governments do. Kind of like the Maginot Line and other strokes of military genius. Carriers owned the sea in WW2. Times have changed, and the US has never fought a real enemy.
Yeah my wife is not fa, but she doesn't play games (apart from Spider Solitaire). Guess you can't have everything, but she's cool with me playing as much as I want so I'll count my blessings.
I'm pretty sure the person telling me this was a fucking MD
I'm a "fucking MD". Surprise.
Usually when someone is aiming a rocket launcher at you then you are not yet at the "punishment" phase of the process but usually the "prevention" phase, which can include legally killing that person in self defense. If you don't like it then don't aim rocket launchers at people.
25,000 pound sterling laser defeated by $20 welding mask. And now I know exactly where to aim the rocket. Well done.
The poetic part is that they fired the first shot, with Samsung. Will be fun to watch where the dominos end up.
Why? I can afford quite a few houses and have no debt at all. I was trying to make a point which you missed, pedant. Can't see the forest for the trees eh?
Yet, hearing about these Facebook wanks getting rich feels like a hollow victory.
Don't worry, the banks and lawyers that are negotiating the IPO deal are getting far, far richer and up front, too. Feel cynical again?