Gust responses are very benign in an airplane with such a low wing loading. It would take an extremely sharp-edged gust to achieve an actual airspeed reduction that big...basically it reacts like a leaf instead of like an airliner.
...given that they really do react in advance to earthquakes. That lore has been in the "everybody knows" class for millennia, but the observations have an unpleasant habit of being reported after the quake. If my house started shaking right now, I could certainly think of something goofy our Jack Russell Terrorist did an hour ago.
IIRC, Caltech set up a hotline in the 1980's for people to report anomalous animal behavior, and got a null result...the line would start ringing after the tremor, and there was usually an excuse involving not being near the phone. Perhaps it's time for another try, now that we all have cellphones.
Was it utterly impossible to learn this lesson without putting that flying time bomb in the air?
Well, no. There's another way: Start a war. Then your government gives you truckloads of money, and you can do all the testing you want with test pilots, and only a few people die.
Of course, huge numbers of people die from other causes, but aeronautical research doesn't get the blame.
In the history of the people who died to give you a way to get to Las Vegas that's so fast and safe you can afford to bitch about getting felt up by security droids, the Comet affair is scarcely a bump.
if you really want to get a feeling of zero G, there are many cheaper alternatives out there.
Indeed. If you'll be happy with three or four seconds of it, and you have a friend with a Cessna, he can do it for a couple of gallons of gas (though a flight instructor will usually do a better job).
Capital G is the symbol for a unit of acceleration equal to 9.80665 m/s^2, which is the acceleration of Earth gravity. Accelerometers read acceleration in G units, and that includes the one in your cellphone. Take that phone on a Vomit Comet ride, and you will indeed see zero G's on it.
I'd substitute "compressive" for "tensile", but yes, I'd imagine this fellow spent a lot of time wallowing in mud, a behavior I believe is ascribed to some other dinos.
The square/cube relation certainly affects birds: the larger ones have to employ soaring techniques to extract energy from air movement, in order to find food.
OK, so frozen stuff doesn't microwave easily, but then why does the outside heat first?
When a wave penetrates a conducting medium, it transfers energy into the medium, and as a result it gets weaker exponentially. The intensity vs. depth is given by
E=Ei*exp[-C(depth/wavelength)]
where Ei is the intensity at the surface, and C is a constant that depends on the characteristics of the medium. C is small in ice, so the wave doesn't transfer much energy initially, and most of the energy just trucks on through and out the other side. Still, there is some attenuation, so the intensity is greatest at the surface and melting occurs there first.
As soon as that happens at the surface, C gets much larger and the liquid sucks most of the energy out, getting progressively hotter. The remaining energy again encounters ice, and has almost clear sailing until it hits the water on the other side, and again heats the water.
The heat flux is proportional to the temp differential between the reactor coolant and the outside coolant. The former is typically around 600F, so another few dozen degrees on the outside coolant ain't hardly much of a difference.
During the cold war, the Soyuz capsules were equipped with a special pistol that could fire in a vacuum. I don't think it was for defending against the random alien that might wander by.
Ummm, no. It was life insurance in the case of an off-target landing.
Unlike us, the Russians recovered their spacecraft on land, usually in remote areas, and like us, they didn't always hit the target area, and there could be a few days of searching involved. When you're lost on the ocean, you need shark repellent. When you're lost in the back country of Siberia, you need bear repellent.
OK, now mixing up homophones...it sucks, but this is the Internet. But using a homophone correctly in the title and wrong in the text...that's a little more creative.
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Gust responses are very benign in an airplane with such a low wing loading. It would take an extremely sharp-edged gust to achieve an actual airspeed reduction that big...basically it reacts like a leaf instead of like an airliner.
No, in his only furball with a cat the cat was definitely the aggressor. However, he's hell on prairie dogs.
...given that they really do react in advance to earthquakes. That lore has been in the "everybody knows" class for millennia, but the observations have an unpleasant habit of being reported after the quake. If my house started shaking right now, I could certainly think of something goofy our Jack Russell Terrorist did an hour ago.
IIRC, Caltech set up a hotline in the 1980's for people to report anomalous animal behavior, and got a null result...the line would start ringing after the tremor, and there was usually an excuse involving not being near the phone. Perhaps it's time for another try, now that we all have cellphones.
moderate tailwind and you stop flying?!?
No. Moderate tailwind and you cover ground moderately faster. You can look these things up.
I can sense your pride.
If they interdicted your router you'd never get it.
I guess he wasn't that good after all.
Not nearly as good. That crash advertised itself in advance, repeatedly, and everybody else missed every opportunity to head it off.
...will never get you a date if you (a) are a fairly nice-looking kid, (b) drive a BMW, and (c) have a father who employs actresses?
About the only one I can think of is "Let me tell you about Amway".
you use a safe rocket design
You mean one that won't fall in the ocean?
What mdsolar said. Just putting it back where it came from doesn't work -- unless you put certain protons and neutrons back where they came from.
This ain't the first kind of waste they've taken on, either. A lot of the plastic people think is getting recycled is getting landfilled in Australia.
Nor was that the first:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
And he's been pushing this silly concept since the 1970s at least.
Silly? That's four decades of very nice income for Mr. Moeller.The Skycar does precisely what it's designed to do.
Was it utterly impossible to learn this lesson without putting that flying time bomb in the air?
Well, no. There's another way: Start a war. Then your government gives you truckloads of money, and you can do all the testing you want with test pilots, and only a few people die.
Of course, huge numbers of people die from other causes, but aeronautical research doesn't get the blame.
In the history of the people who died to give you a way to get to Las Vegas that's so fast and safe you can afford to bitch about getting felt up by security droids, the Comet affair is scarcely a bump.
Airplane barf is a well-explored phenomenon. To quote The Graduate, plastics.
if you really want to get a feeling of zero G, there are many cheaper alternatives out there.
Indeed. If you'll be happy with three or four seconds of it, and you have a friend with a Cessna, he can do it for a couple of gallons of gas (though a flight instructor will usually do a better job).
Capital G is the symbol for a unit of acceleration equal to 9.80665 m/s^2, which is the acceleration of Earth gravity. Accelerometers read acceleration in G units, and that includes the one in your cellphone. Take that phone on a Vomit Comet ride, and you will indeed see zero G's on it.
I'd substitute "compressive" for "tensile", but yes, I'd imagine this fellow spent a lot of time wallowing in mud, a behavior I believe is ascribed to some other dinos.
The square/cube relation certainly affects birds: the larger ones have to employ soaring techniques to extract energy from air movement, in order to find food.
OK, so frozen stuff doesn't microwave easily, but then why does the outside heat first?
When a wave penetrates a conducting medium, it transfers energy into the medium, and as a result it gets weaker exponentially. The intensity vs. depth is given by
E=Ei*exp[-C(depth/wavelength)]
where Ei is the intensity at the surface, and C is a constant that depends on the characteristics of the medium. C is small in ice, so the wave doesn't transfer much energy initially, and most of the energy just trucks on through and out the other side. Still, there is some attenuation, so the intensity is greatest at the surface and melting occurs there first.
As soon as that happens at the surface, C gets much larger and the liquid sucks most of the energy out, getting progressively hotter. The remaining energy again encounters ice, and has almost clear sailing until it hits the water on the other side, and again heats the water.
its the volume of air flowing over the aircraft
No, not volume, mass. And water is 800 times as dense as air.
The heat flux is proportional to the temp differential between the reactor coolant and the outside coolant. The former is typically around 600F, so another few dozen degrees on the outside coolant ain't hardly much of a difference.
...produce a musical comedy.
During the cold war, the Soyuz capsules were equipped with a special pistol that could fire in a vacuum. I don't think it was for defending against the random alien that might wander by.
Ummm, no. It was life insurance in the case of an off-target landing.
Unlike us, the Russians recovered their spacecraft on land, usually in remote areas, and like us, they didn't always hit the target area, and there could be a few days of searching involved. When you're lost on the ocean, you need shark repellent. When you're lost in the back country of Siberia, you need bear repellent.
Also, what AC said. Read a book on guns.
Indeed. And if you define pi as the smallest positive real number whose cosine is -1, the Planck length becomes immaterial.
OK, now mixing up homophones...it sucks, but this is the Internet. But using a homophone correctly in the title and wrong in the text...that's a little more creative.
Couldn't they use ordinary food coloring without making people sick?