You also get dentists telling people that teeth need brushing and flossing in order to be healthy; despite the fact that for millennia brushing wasn't the norm.
...nor was keeping your teeth into your eighties -- if you lived that long.
You may be expecting too much. Most meteors go by too fast to see motion, because they're close: you just see a faint white line that appears and persists for less than a second. You see these mostly overhead.
If a meteor does show motion, that means it's far away (hence low rate of movement through your FOV), and bright enough to be seen through many miles of atmosphere (hence considerably bigger than average). You see these near the horizon.
If one moves slowly enough that you can say "Hey, look at that" and other people can turn and catch sight of it, it's a BIG mutha.
Would you please list four or five scientists who claimed it was, more recently than about 500 BC when it was measured to 10% precision? Or did you buy that Columbus tale they taught you in fifth grade?
Yes, pieces of debris should start washing up on beaches, but it can take a while. The first of the "lost rubber duckies" of 1992 took ten months to be found, and finds continued for at least fifteen years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Also, the floating debris won't include a lot of specifically airplane material. It will be seat cushions, clothing, plastic bottles...and the sea is already full of floating crap, so an object isn't certain to be recognized even if it appears on Waikiki Beach.
The Goose never flew again because the war was over and the government had stopped paying for it. Hughes made the one flight only to prove he had actually built a working airplane and not defrauded the taxpayers with a phony project.
Air traffic routes are like highways: you pick the one that suits your flight, and get clearance to fly it. Just the fact that the last few flights took another one means nothing.
Exactly like the slimeball "sales manager" at a car dealership who tries to sell you the extended warranty and other overpriced crap after you've agreed to a price. He demands that you justify your refusal, because he knows that if he can get you on the defensive, he can bully you into submission.
I once tore up a negotiated deal in front of one of those. That wouldn't work in this case, because this customer was already cancelling service, but it might be fun to say "Why I'm cancelling is none of your damned business. I will pay no more bills. Remember when your robot told me this call would be recorded?"
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many of the people that work in these calls centers believe they are working valid jobs to some degree or another
The part about the CLSID trick would seem to belie that...
Yes, because men need a pair of tits flashed in their faces before they'll do anything interesting.
Dunno about you, but it usually causes me to do something stupid.
You also get dentists telling people that teeth need brushing and flossing in order to be healthy; despite the fact that for millennia brushing wasn't the norm.
...nor was keeping your teeth into your eighties -- if you lived that long.
that the three have other plans for their careers.
...and all three got better offers at the same time?
Indeed. The first engineer figured out that the soup would taste better if the latrine were downstream...science came later.
It became too much blow shit up
...and their adolescent orgasmic reactions to explosions get old after a while.
OK, I know when I'm outclassed...
...to rule them all?
Let's face it, the Onion is a well known satyrical news site
Can't people just tell by the goat horns?
and much more that I don't even know anything about
...including the problems of scale in aircraft design.
You may be expecting too much. Most meteors go by too fast to see motion, because they're close: you just see a faint white line that appears and persists for less than a second. You see these mostly overhead.
If a meteor does show motion, that means it's far away (hence low rate of movement through your FOV), and bright enough to be seen through many miles of atmosphere (hence considerably bigger than average). You see these near the horizon.
If one moves slowly enough that you can say "Hey, look at that" and other people can turn and catch sight of it, it's a BIG mutha.
So the earth really was flat for awhile?
Would you please list four or five scientists who claimed it was, more recently than about 500 BC when it was measured to 10% precision? Or did you buy that Columbus tale they taught you in fifth grade?
Well, yeah, that describes the lowest level of Dante's hell...
Yes, pieces of debris should start washing up on beaches, but it can take a while. The first of the "lost rubber duckies" of 1992 took ten months to be found, and finds continued for at least fifteen years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Also, the floating debris won't include a lot of specifically airplane material. It will be seat cushions, clothing, plastic bottles...and the sea is already full of floating crap, so an object isn't certain to be recognized even if it appears on Waikiki Beach.
Nixon was impeached
Ummm, no he wasn't.
Somewhere, J. Edgar Hoover is grinning...
The Goose never flew again because the war was over and the government had stopped paying for it. Hughes made the one flight only to prove he had actually built a working airplane and not defrauded the taxpayers with a phony project.
The Hercules, aka Spruce Goose, is not amphibious: it's a seaplane, period.
This is an amphibian: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
A misspelling of bus duct. You should be able to take it from here.
it's all gonna come down to "the way I did it was better"
You could very well be a skier...
Air traffic routes are like highways: you pick the one that suits your flight, and get clearance to fly it. Just the fact that the last few flights took another one means nothing.
Yeah, rumor has it there are a lot of Muslims in Malaysia.
I'm a nerd and it's interesting to me. In fact I find several other things interesting that don't run Linux.
Well, y'know, if the cops can't slow a car down by pushing a button, there are always spike strips...
Exactly like the slimeball "sales manager" at a car dealership who tries to sell you the extended warranty and other overpriced crap after you've agreed to a price. He demands that you justify your refusal, because he knows that if he can get you on the defensive, he can bully you into submission.
I once tore up a negotiated deal in front of one of those. That wouldn't work in this case, because this customer was already cancelling service, but it might be fun to say "Why I'm cancelling is none of your damned business. I will pay no more bills. Remember when your robot told me this call would be recorded?"