I had the pleasure of speaking with one of the Rosies some years back. I was trying to line her up as a speaker at my workplace's "Women's Issues" month, but she lived too far away and the company wouldn't buy the plane ticket.
They have an association, naturally...they call their daughters Rosettes and their sons Rivets.
Well, see, the first woman to publish in mathematics was stripped naked and dragged to death behind a wagon, and it's been an uphill swim ever since...
Spot on. Just for a Gedankenexperiment, ask yourself:
1. In the week before the "drone delivery" commercial appeared, how many times did the word "Amazon" enter your consciousness? 2. In the ensuing week, how many times?
They paid the cost of producing and airing one commercial. Newspapers, the 6 O'clock News, blogs -- no charge.
Of course, if I thought the system they demonstrated was about to roll out, I'd be investing heavily in pediatric and veterinary hospitals...
OK, let's see. We had to fight a war that killed over half a million people to destroy slavery in a country of thirty million. That godless commie killed maybe a few hundred people in destroying apartheid in a country of fifty million. Wonder if a lesson lurks therein...
...we have a fair number of accidents involving wealthy men in airplanes that exceed their training and skill level, which they bought on the assumption that "If I can buy it, I can fly it." This would seem to be similar.
Yeah, you can make them, but there is no market for the damn thing.
(And they keep the hype up because they won't admit it is a market failure.)
No. "They" keep the hype up because there are still plenty of marks out there, willing to invest in flying cars. Paul Moller has monetized his Skycar for fifty years.
Mod parent up. In Earth orbit, aerodynamic wind is very tiny but so is solar wind, and solar steering as a primary attitude-control system would be very complex. Acceptable as a last-ditch fallback, but you wouldn't want to base a mission on it.
First off, it's not HAM but ham, definitely not an acronym. Its provenance has been debated for years...the most common explanation is that it's derived from the word "amateur" spoken in one of various accents.
At any rate, it means the possessor of a license to operate a radio transmitter under the rules of the Amateur Radio Service, as regulated by the FCC and its counterparts in other countries.
I don't know what the difference is, but I had an Air Force tech go five tries in each arm and give up, whereupon a doctor smirked at him, picked up the needle and took four tries.
But at the civilian blood shop I use today, it's first try every time.
Objects heat up when they pass through air, period. The rate of heating depends on the air density and the relative speed -- it doesn't care a fig what direction the object is going.
Earth is still throwing rocks into space in modern times, a significant portion of what was once the island of Krakatoa is now in space.
Cite? Throwing rocks into space is one thing; throwing them so they don't come back is quite another. Absent an injection thruster that kicks in at the right height, the only way to prevent an object coming back down is to accelerate it to escape velocity. That's a tall order.
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I had the pleasure of speaking with one of the Rosies some years back. I was trying to line her up as a speaker at my workplace's "Women's Issues" month, but she lived too far away and the company wouldn't buy the plane ticket.
They have an association, naturally...they call their daughters Rosettes and their sons Rivets.
Yes.
Well, see, the first woman to publish in mathematics was stripped naked and dragged to death behind a wagon, and it's been an uphill swim ever since...
Spot on. Just for a Gedankenexperiment, ask yourself:
1. In the week before the "drone delivery" commercial appeared, how many times did the word "Amazon" enter your consciousness?
2. In the ensuing week, how many times?
They paid the cost of producing and airing one commercial. Newspapers, the 6 O'clock News, blogs -- no charge.
Of course, if I thought the system they demonstrated was about to roll out, I'd be investing heavily in pediatric and veterinary hospitals...
so why the big fuss when someone suggests burying the radioactive waste underground later?
Ummm, because it's a bit tricky to turn transuranic elements back into uranium before their reinterment?
OK, let's see. We had to fight a war that killed over half a million people to destroy slavery in a country of thirty million. That godless commie killed maybe a few hundred people in destroying apartheid in a country of fifty million. Wonder if a lesson lurks therein...
For me these days, maybe one article in ten is worth a few minutes of my time,
Yeah, a lot of it is just guys jerking off about how wise they are...
...we have a fair number of accidents involving wealthy men in airplanes that exceed their training and skill level, which they bought on the assumption that "If I can buy it, I can fly it." This would seem to be similar.
Let me guess...you want the computers in the OR to have Linux on them.
a huge-ass monitor.
I believe that would be a colonoscope.
Is really another 1940's "Flying Car" scenario?
Yeah, you can make them, but there is no market for the damn thing.
(And they keep the hype up because they won't admit it is a market failure.)
No. "They" keep the hype up because there are still plenty of marks out there, willing to invest in flying cars. Paul Moller has monetized his Skycar for fifty years.
Indeed. "As good as scrap" could be corrected by deleting one of the S's.
Mod parent up. In Earth orbit, aerodynamic wind is very tiny but so is solar wind, and solar steering as a primary attitude-control system would be very complex. Acceptable as a last-ditch fallback, but you wouldn't want to base a mission on it.
Remarkable how many people think methane is smelly...
I rather suspect this actually has more to do with a/an being effectively a prefix in most spoken English
I'd say it has a lot more to do with ignorance. Trying to apply uniform principles to a creole like English is like pushing on a rope.
If you're looking for famous examples of losing faith in money, there was a period in Germany where exactly that happened.
...and resulted in people transferring their faith to something quite different.
First off, it's not HAM but ham, definitely not an acronym. Its provenance has been debated for years...the most common explanation is that it's derived from the word "amateur" spoken in one of various accents.
At any rate, it means the possessor of a license to operate a radio transmitter under the rules of the Amateur Radio Service, as regulated by the FCC and its counterparts in other countries.
Likewise the Denver light rail system...just a timetable expressed in a crude multiple-bulb display.
I don't know what the difference is, but I had an Air Force tech go five tries in each arm and give up, whereupon a doctor smirked at him, picked up the needle and took four tries.
But at the civilian blood shop I use today, it's first try every time.
Those super-sensitive radar or radio receivers make excellent satellite spotters
With all due respect, horse hockey. Artificial satellites are quite easy to find with much cheaper equipment.
Objects heat up when they pass through air, period. The rate of heating depends on the air density and the relative speed -- it doesn't care a fig what direction the object is going.
Earth is still throwing rocks into space in modern times, a significant portion of what was once the island of Krakatoa is now in space.
Cite? Throwing rocks into space is one thing; throwing them so they don't come back is quite another. Absent an injection thruster that kicks in at the right height, the only way to prevent an object coming back down is to accelerate it to escape velocity. That's a tall order.
Yeah, point taken.
You jumped out of a perfectly good plane.
Translation: Hey, I'm just smarter than he was. It's not because I don't have any balls. Honest.
Call me paranoid
OK.