I wonder why they don't use a sonic anemometer: precise, works in any conditions and at any wind speed, no mechanical parts and it can take fast readings several times per second to measure turbulence. Yes, I've operated one in Antarctica.
Another excuse for poor airline service !
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Don't let the airlines know about this, or they are going to 'improve the jetlag adaptation' by not feeding you anymore ! And for an additional price.
It's all about air friction and terminal velocity: a normal falling body reaches about 200km/h at normal pressure. Drop a heavy and profiled 'bullet' and there's no real limit to the speed it can reach.
Extreme snowboarder Bruno Gouvy had planned to do this 15 years ago before he fell off La Verte. His plan was a bit different: instead of jumping from very high up and use the lower pressure to gather more speed, he wanted to jump holding to a one-ton bullet...
I'm still curious as to whether this was doable or not. It would still take at least 4500 meters of free fall to go to Mach one... And letting go of the handles must be a bitch of a slap in the face!
I have tried Wine a few times without success and the documentation was sparse at the time. It has probably improved, but anyone cares to tell me:
- can you run a windows installer and then run the installed program ?
- can you do this also if the installer puts some dlls in the windows system directory ?
- what kind of programs won't work ?.NET ? ActiveX ? DirectX ?
- Photophop ?
- How much of a performance hit do you take ?
I agree... but my wife insists that I take my showers in the evening [something to do with smell, hugging and things beyond me], so it doesn't really resolve that issue. And I remember discussing this exact subject with my roommates when I was still a student way back, and I was really surprised at their horrified reaction: "What, you are pissing in the shower! Arghh! The horror! The inhumanity! [running around like chicken with their heads cut off]" I thought everybody did it.
Another example going farther off topic, an elephants trunk. A long trunk is obviously helpful. But where was the cow/horse/whatever like animal that was so reproductively successful because its nose was genetically predisposed to be.1 inches longer than the others? Very simple steps:
- the pig uses his big nose to find chestnuts under the leaves.
- the tapir uses his bigger nose to find roots and breaks down anthouses
- the elephant just follows the same evolutionary steps. Just because you don't see why doesn't make it wrong. And as another of your replies stated it doesn't necessarily work in a straight line.
American Graffiti gave us Harrison Ford Huh? You can't even see his face in the movie... He's always in the shadow of his hat and the lighting sucks. And he's in it for what, 10 minutes total ?
Hmmm, on a similar take, I get a flow coming out at a 60Â angle... up. So I basically have to put 'it' down completely vertically _or_ to have a flow that's slow enough to have a short parabolic trajectory. First case is difficult if there is any leftover morning wood, and in any case it's difficult to aim. Second case takes lots of aim and concentration, unlike when my wife tickled me and then complained that I repainted the wall almost up to the ceiling. Hey, I mean come on, what did she expect ?!?
When I lived on the US east coast as a teenager, people kept repeating the story of a insane lady who hit bikers on purpose with her car. It may have been a true story or a urban legend, but they used it as an excuse to keep their kids/teenagers from going to school on bikes. Very much a mind thing.
Fortunately Colorado was a lot more positive towards bikes.
you don't have to pay thousands of dollars for spiritual enlightenment with the other religions. How did they built all those cathedrals then ?
...none of the mainstream religions practise mind-control, brainwashing... Say that again to all the little kids who grow up into their parents' religion...
If changes are directed by which group is making the most babies, then why do you care ? You'll be long dead when the population reversal will occur. That is, unless you stick to ideas like nationalism or races. And as an aside all the countries who give financial incentives to those making babies should stop above 3: only people too stupid to use birth control or religious nutjobs make 8 kids, which is not the best way to start the next generation.
This reminds me of a few science fiction stories based on the hypothesis that you can transmit messages backwards in time, but that noise and causality acts against them being understood fully. One book, Timescape by Benford has the protagonist living in a world gone to ecological hell and he's trying to warn a young physicist in the early 50s.
The target receives messages on his lab equipment, but the funny thing is that messages that can potentially change the course of time are gibberish (because then the originator wouldn't have sent them) and the harmless ones go through just fine. It's an interesting idea. How can you transmit important information this way ?
And then the place of purchase says 'not applicable, sucker'. Yes, every fucking time I've tried it in the US. Good thing there are countries with anti-tie-in laws as mentioned in TFA.
We did use doppler, but clouds also travel at high speed at those altitudes. And the resolution was very low. It was more from analysing the paths that we could tell the difference. This radar is still on but I'm not working on it anymore.
Yes, cell phones without signal will reach for higher power mode. But after a while without success, many will simply stop trying. I'm in the mountains every WE and when I'm in the deep valleys, no signal goes through. OK. But then from the summit there's usually some far away signal, but the phone won't find it unless I turn it off and then back on. Something to remember in case you are ever lost in the woods.
the more ways to do a single operation, the more accessible it is. So by your definition (or rather Microsoft's), Perl ("TMTOWTDI") should be the most accessible language ?!? Scoff, cough, cough...
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And the fact that they won't provide an invoice for that "service charge" is borderline criminal.
I wonder why they don't use a sonic anemometer: precise, works in any conditions and at any wind speed, no mechanical parts and it can take fast readings several times per second to measure turbulence. Yes, I've operated one in Antarctica.
Don't let the airlines know about this, or they are going to 'improve the jetlag adaptation' by not feeding you anymore ! And for an additional price.
It's all about air friction and terminal velocity: a normal falling body reaches about 200km/h at normal pressure. Drop a heavy and profiled 'bullet' and there's no real limit to the speed it can reach.
I'm still curious as to whether this was doable or not. It would still take at least 4500 meters of free fall to go to Mach one... And letting go of the handles must be a bitch of a slap in the face!
I have tried Wine a few times without success and the documentation was sparse at the time. It has probably improved, but anyone cares to tell me: .NET ? ActiveX ? DirectX ?
- can you run a windows installer and then run the installed program ?
- can you do this also if the installer puts some dlls in the windows system directory ?
- what kind of programs won't work ?
- Photophop ?
- How much of a performance hit do you take ?
My wife uses a "Freshette" on climbing expeditions. Picture
I agree... but my wife insists that I take my showers in the evening [something to do with smell, hugging and things beyond me], so it doesn't really resolve that issue. And I remember discussing this exact subject with my roommates when I was still a student way back, and I was really surprised at their horrified reaction: "What, you are pissing in the shower! Arghh! The horror! The inhumanity! [running around like chicken with their heads cut off]" I thought everybody did it.
Hmmm, on a similar take, I get a flow coming out at a 60Â angle... up. So I basically have to put 'it' down completely vertically _or_ to have a flow that's slow enough to have a short parabolic trajectory. First case is difficult if there is any leftover morning wood, and in any case it's difficult to aim. Second case takes lots of aim and concentration, unlike when my wife tickled me and then complained that I repainted the wall almost up to the ceiling. Hey, I mean come on, what did she expect ?!?
Fortunately Colorado was a lot more positive towards bikes.
...none of the mainstream religions practise mind-control, brainwashing... Say that again to all the little kids who grow up into their parents' religion...If changes are directed by which group is making the most babies, then why do you care ? You'll be long dead when the population reversal will occur. That is, unless you stick to ideas like nationalism or races. And as an aside all the countries who give financial incentives to those making babies should stop above 3: only people too stupid to use birth control or religious nutjobs make 8 kids, which is not the best way to start the next generation.
Story time: During WWI in France, all publications were subject to censorship about war events and related things. Newspaper would reorganize their pages after the censor went through them, but one paper was notorious for leaving the blanks right where they were, so at least the readers would know how much was being censored (sometimes half the text was missing). It was, and still is, a political and satyrical newspaper: le Canard Enchainé which has a very interesting history.
The target receives messages on his lab equipment, but the funny thing is that messages that can potentially change the course of time are gibberish (because then the originator wouldn't have sent them) and the harmless ones go through just fine. It's an interesting idea. How can you transmit important information this way ?
I won't spoil the book for you...
And then the place of purchase says 'not applicable, sucker'. Yes, every fucking time I've tried it in the US. Good thing there are countries with anti-tie-in laws as mentioned in TFA.
We did use doppler, but clouds also travel at high speed at those altitudes. And the resolution was very low. It was more from analysing the paths that we could tell the difference. This radar is still on but I'm not working on it anymore.
Yes, cell phones without signal will reach for higher power mode. But after a while without success, many will simply stop trying. I'm in the mountains every WE and when I'm in the deep valleys, no signal goes through. OK. But then from the summit there's usually some far away signal, but the phone won't find it unless I turn it off and then back on. Something to remember in case you are ever lost in the woods.
And the magnets prevent in TVs can take the entire brain out. What a surprise !
Like the saying goes: skinny people shit everything they eat, obese ones at least transform some of it into fat !