Me too, but it is an expiremental craft, and there were problems launching the first one. hmmm... Add a warhead and you have one hell of a fast ICBM...
You are correct, from start to finish, if you are traveling at mach 7.6 the flight would take 2 hours. But the question was, how long would it take to get up to mach 7.6. How far along on your flight would you be before you reached that speed. The test flight used a small craft, not a large passenger jet. It would be both easier and faster to reach that speed in a smaller light craft(and even then they used a MK 70 rocket engine, which I'm pretty sure isn't rated for passengers). Even if they were to just use a rocket or catapult(like on an aircraft carrier) to bring you to that speed faster, the G's would be immense, I'm not even sure if a G-suit would keep you from blacking out. And as stated earlier, if you gradually were to gain speed until you reached that point, you would be almost at your destination before you reached mach 7.6, and it would be time to start slowing down for landing.
I know that if I go on vacation, I would rather not have to strap myself to an MK 70 Rocket before the preflight movie. They have a lot of work before this is practical for almost anything than spyplanes. Also, was this flight manned, they said that the previous attempt was not, and there was no mention of what a flight like this would do to a living organism.
I see that as simply learning, the robot learned, changed how it thought. When I learn a new math equation, I don't say I underwent evolution, I say that I learned a new math equation. Neither the purpose or the form of the robot changed during the experiment. That is evolution, a change, the robot had one goal programmed into it, to obtain maximum lift, it had one form, a box with wings and legs. Had the robot changed it's programming to where it could drive a car, or had it actually altered it's physical form, then I could see calling it evolution.
"This tells us that this kind of evolution is capable of coming up with flying motion,"
However, the robot could not actually fly because it was too heavy for its electrical motor.
This thing didn't even learn to fly, it just flapped it's wings. And what kind of evolution did it go through, it didn't pass on different genetic information until a new trait was passed on forming a new race, it just flapped it wings.
Do I believe that Doom won't influence you, of corse not, do I think that it would make someone go to school and shoot up the place, no. The only people that are going to shoot up the schools are people that are predisposed to shooting up schools, it just so happens that these people also enjoy games that allow you to shoot big guns. I wouldn't be supprised if there were a copy or two of some of those big game hunting games installed on those columbine kids computers. You'd never hear about that though, because it is not sensational. As for kids, if by the time my kids are old enough to play doom, and I mean play, I can sit a two year old infront of a computer with doom running and watch him drool on the mouse all day, doesn't mean he's actually playing, and they can't tell that it's a game and not real, then I did something rather wrong in the upbringing of my children. As for it not being good for you, I don't really see how it is bad for you. It is a game, it can help releive stress, you can play it with a group of freinds and have a good time. As long as you still remember to eat and got to work in the morning, it isn't causing any harm. The only people that the game can harm, are people that are screwed up to begin with, and when people are to that level, even a butter knife is dangerous in their hands.
You're right, Doom has poisoned the minds of the young. Why look how it has possibly lead maybe 6 teens to violence, that's almost.001% of the United States population. It has certainly corrupted our way of life. I for one am thinking of moving to Palestine, they don't have doom there, and look how peaceful it is. I remember one time I downloaded a map of someone's house, and after playing it, all I could think about was grabbing the chain gun they keep on the toilet and blowing away his fireball throwing wife and kids. I was pretty scared that I could have those thoughts. Sure, his wife was over 11' tall and had hooves, but I'm sure she was a decent human being.
Talking sheep, shepards would love that.
Shepard, "Hey baby, what do you say we go behind the barn and fool around"
Sheep, "Not tonight Cletus, I have a head ache"
Of course, if they can be taught to talk dirty...
I kinda like the idea that it will work either independantly, or if I'm at a party, I can stick it into the stero so everybody can hear. If it had some kind of display, it would be helpfull, but I guess you can't have everything.
Unless you go to a store that does this, and copy the format of the ones they print, you are going to get caught. I've heard so many stories from friends about idiots that try to give themselves disocunts. One person even tried to staple a barcode he ripped off of the back of one movie to another.
As reported in the Neo Tokyo Times, August 13, 2202. In sad news today we are afraid we must report that nuclear weapons have been dropped New York. The explostion from the impact spread the harmfull materials over a 15 block radius. While we are not sure where the materials are from, the Martian Confederate is a prime suspect. Retaliation seems iminant.
*end quote from the future*
So what happens when our calculations are off by just a little. I like the idea of the sun as a giant incinerator, but I want to be sure that what we want burnt, doesn't just fly off into space, or worse, meet us at the other end of it's orbit.
I would have to agree, the whole reason for watching an IMAX is to become immersed in the movie, Which is what makes the nature ones so good. When flying over a volcano, you feel like you are actually flying there. The sharks swimming around you become a little more scarry. A 30' tall Keanu does nothing to inhance the film.
I wouldn't mind watching Star Wars though, I bet some of the space battles would be pretty beat ass, not to mention watching a bunch of ATAT's crushing Hoth.
No, it's more like if I were to send a mail bomb to australia, when the bomb kills people, I become a wanted man in australia. If the country of my residence has extradition laws, then I get sent to australia for trial.
If you living in NZ were to hack into a computer here in america, and proceede to do damage to it, you would then become wanted for computer crimes in america.
I thought that this went for any country other than Australia. I mean, if you commit a crime in another country, you can be charged there if you ever go there. Is Australia the only country speaking up, or are there other countries talking too?
Well, I've been out of school for a little over a year, I'm not sure what he has been doing since then, but last I remember, he was only using free disks.
Actually, as long as you have a free disk, you never have to pay for AOL. An old classmate of mine use free AOL disks for something like two and a half years.
The way that the laws work in the USA is that if someone breaks into your house, you can shoot him. If he lives, he can sue, so make sure that he is dead. If it looks like you disabled him, then shot him(ie; blew out both his knees, or shot him in the back of the head execution style) you can be charged with murder by the state. If you shoot him as he is leaving, it gets tricky, if he was crawling out of the window, you may be safe. If he was in the yard, or if you were firing shots at the van as it speeds away, you're probably going to get into trouble.
I'm not a geologist, but I don't believe that the magnetic feild surrounding the earth had anything to do with gravity. Magnetic North has been wandering around the globe for years without any change in gravity.
Actually, since these things are going to be moving some rather large logs around, I would think that they might have rather strong legs. A net would still trip them up, but it would probably be able to get free.
As for armor, the legs could be built out of stronger material, as opposed to actually putting 3 inch thick plates on them. And since this is a slow one or two man vehicle, I don't really see being on the front lines in the middle east. Possible as a scouting vehicle, or to move vehicles that are stuck in the sand. Until we start fighting where there are trees or other obstacles that would slow a normal apc or tank, we probably won't be using these too much.
Because that is exactly what they did, the second they got the first hint that the brits were being crooked they declared war. It's not like they tried talking first, or wrote letters. I mean who ever heard of leaving something for a last resort.
On a second note, you should remember how bloody the Revolutionary war was, do you really want to fight one again?
But unless that was covered in the search warrant, they cannot touch you for tinkering with phones. They must get another warrant to search for the phone stuff, and by then you can clean out the basement.
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I believe a dust bunny, but I could be wrong, I don't read the comic.
Me too, but it is an expiremental craft, and there were problems launching the first one.
hmmm...
Add a warhead and you have one hell of a fast ICBM...
You are correct, from start to finish, if you are traveling at mach 7.6 the flight would take 2 hours. But the question was, how long would it take to get up to mach 7.6. How far along on your flight would you be before you reached that speed.
The test flight used a small craft, not a large passenger jet. It would be both easier and faster to reach that speed in a smaller light craft(and even then they used a MK 70 rocket engine, which I'm pretty sure isn't rated for passengers). Even if they were to just use a rocket or catapult(like on an aircraft carrier) to bring you to that speed faster, the G's would be immense, I'm not even sure if a G-suit would keep you from blacking out. And as stated earlier, if you gradually were to gain speed until you reached that point, you would be almost at your destination before you reached mach 7.6, and it would be time to start slowing down for landing.
I know that if I go on vacation, I would rather not have to strap myself to an MK 70 Rocket before the preflight movie. They have a lot of work before this is practical for almost anything than spyplanes. Also, was this flight manned, they said that the previous attempt was not, and there was no mention of what a flight like this would do to a living organism.
I see that as simply learning, the robot learned, changed how it thought. When I learn a new math equation, I don't say I underwent evolution, I say that I learned a new math equation. Neither the purpose or the form of the robot changed during the experiment. That is evolution, a change, the robot had one goal programmed into it, to obtain maximum lift, it had one form, a box with wings and legs. Had the robot changed it's programming to where it could drive a car, or had it actually altered it's physical form, then I could see calling it evolution.
However, the robot could not actually fly because it was too heavy for its electrical motor.
This thing didn't even learn to fly, it just flapped it's wings. And what kind of evolution did it go through, it didn't pass on different genetic information until a new trait was passed on forming a new race, it just flapped it wings.
Cheat? Let me know when they make a robot smart enough to steal a plane. Now that's a smart robot.
Do I believe that Doom won't influence you, of corse not, do I think that it would make someone go to school and shoot up the place, no. The only people that are going to shoot up the schools are people that are predisposed to shooting up schools, it just so happens that these people also enjoy games that allow you to shoot big guns. I wouldn't be supprised if there were a copy or two of some of those big game hunting games installed on those columbine kids computers. You'd never hear about that though, because it is not sensational.
As for kids, if by the time my kids are old enough to play doom, and I mean play, I can sit a two year old infront of a computer with doom running and watch him drool on the mouse all day, doesn't mean he's actually playing, and they can't tell that it's a game and not real, then I did something rather wrong in the upbringing of my children.
As for it not being good for you, I don't really see how it is bad for you. It is a game, it can help releive stress, you can play it with a group of freinds and have a good time. As long as you still remember to eat and got to work in the morning, it isn't causing any harm. The only people that the game can harm, are people that are screwed up to begin with, and when people are to that level, even a butter knife is dangerous in their hands.
You're right, Doom has poisoned the minds of the young. Why look how it has possibly lead maybe 6 teens to violence, that's almost .001% of the United States population. It has certainly corrupted our way of life. I for one am thinking of moving to Palestine, they don't have doom there, and look how peaceful it is.
I remember one time I downloaded a map of someone's house, and after playing it, all I could think about was grabbing the chain gun they keep on the toilet and blowing away his fireball throwing wife and kids. I was pretty scared that I could have those thoughts. Sure, his wife was over 11' tall and had hooves, but I'm sure she was a decent human being.
Talking sheep, shepards would love that.
Shepard, "Hey baby, what do you say we go behind the barn and fool around"
Sheep, "Not tonight Cletus, I have a head ache"
Of course, if they can be taught to talk dirty...
I kinda like the idea that it will work either independantly, or if I'm at a party, I can stick it into the stero so everybody can hear. If it had some kind of display, it would be helpfull, but I guess you can't have everything.
Unless you go to a store that does this, and copy the format of the ones they print, you are going to get caught. I've heard so many stories from friends about idiots that try to give themselves disocunts. One person even tried to staple a barcode he ripped off of the back of one movie to another.
As reported in the Neo Tokyo Times, August 13, 2202.
In sad news today we are afraid we must report that nuclear weapons have been dropped New York. The explostion from the impact spread the harmfull materials over a 15 block radius.
While we are not sure where the materials are from, the Martian Confederate is a prime suspect. Retaliation seems iminant.
*end quote from the future*
So what happens when our calculations are off by just a little.
I like the idea of the sun as a giant incinerator, but I want to be sure that what we want burnt, doesn't just fly off into space, or worse, meet us at the other end of it's orbit.
I would have to agree, the whole reason for watching an IMAX is to become immersed in the movie, Which is what makes the nature ones so good. When flying over a volcano, you feel like you are actually flying there. The sharks swimming around you become a little more scarry. A 30' tall Keanu does nothing to inhance the film.
I wouldn't mind watching Star Wars though, I bet some of the space battles would be pretty beat ass, not to mention watching a bunch of ATAT's crushing Hoth.
No, it's more like if I were to send a mail bomb to australia, when the bomb kills people, I become a wanted man in australia. If the country of my residence has extradition laws, then I get sent to australia for trial. If you living in NZ were to hack into a computer here in america, and proceede to do damage to it, you would then become wanted for computer crimes in america.
I thought that this went for any country other than Australia. I mean, if you commit a crime in another country, you can be charged there if you ever go there. Is Australia the only country speaking up, or are there other countries talking too?
Well, I've been out of school for a little over a year, I'm not sure what he has been doing since then, but last I remember, he was only using free disks.
Actually, as long as you have a free disk, you never have to pay for AOL. An old classmate of mine use free AOL disks for something like two and a half years.
The way that the laws work in the USA is that if someone breaks into your house, you can shoot him. If he lives, he can sue, so make sure that he is dead. If it looks like you disabled him, then shot him(ie; blew out both his knees, or shot him in the back of the head execution style) you can be charged with murder by the state. If you shoot him as he is leaving, it gets tricky, if he was crawling out of the window, you may be safe. If he was in the yard, or if you were firing shots at the van as it speeds away, you're probably going to get into trouble.
I'm not a geologist, but I don't believe that the magnetic feild surrounding the earth had anything to do with gravity. Magnetic North has been wandering around the globe for years without any change in gravity.
Isn't the spare tire a natural effect of the earths rotation.
Not gravity, but a change where magnetic north suddenly becomes magnetic south.
As for armor, the legs could be built out of stronger material, as opposed to actually putting 3 inch thick plates on them. And since this is a slow one or two man vehicle, I don't really see being on the front lines in the middle east. Possible as a scouting vehicle, or to move vehicles that are stuck in the sand. Until we start fighting where there are trees or other obstacles that would slow a normal apc or tank, we probably won't be using these too much.
On a second note, you should remember how bloody the Revolutionary war was, do you really want to fight one again?
But unless that was covered in the search warrant, they cannot touch you for tinkering with phones. They must get another warrant to search for the phone stuff, and by then you can clean out the basement.