An official near here made a sensible recommendation: Make sure you have water, food, first aid and a full tank of gas. With that, you can deal with most of the problems. But there's gonna be traffic jams, accidents, shortage of emergency personnel, and general pissed-offness.
By one estimate, the population of Oregon will be up by 25%.
Not a bad idea to plan on an extra day, or half-day. Huge crowds gather in a progressive way, but when the event is over, they all want to leave now.
Here in Colorado they do something similar for cows. Where a fenceline crosses a road, the traditional way to keep cows from going through is a "cattle guard": a shallow trench across the road spanned by a steel grating that's passable by cars, but difficult for hoofed animals to walk on. Turns out you can save money by faking some percentage of them with painted stripes on the pavement.
Of course cows are modestly intelligent at best, and don't live long enough to learn the trick...
Length has no effect (other than attenuation) if the input, termination and line impedances are all the same. Otherwise, it can have a very big effect.
For example, a line 1/4 wavelength long is an impedance inverter. Terminate it with a short and it looks like an open circuit from the input; leave the output end disconnected and it looks like a short at the input.
Figuring this stuff out is an EE course all by itself.
I don't think you got the point of that. The Elizabeth doesn't have a ramp because it's short: it's short because the Brits -- for better or for worse -- have adopted a different concept of carrier flight ops that doesn't need as long a deck as the US carriers.
If the F-35 doesn't work out...well, they're fucked.
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The TGV seems to deal with that...
I damn sure hope not.
Planes generally have failures well out of the way of other things, like the ground.
And then they stay up there?
doesn't violate Newtonian physics
That is not what "non-Newtonian" means. The google is your friend.
...and, as Mr. Bumble said, sometimes the law is a ass.
...is not just "Oracle-speak". Ask any civil servant.
According to this item, some people tried to protect their eyes with sunblock: http://nbc4i.com/2017/08/25/pa...
IIRC there was a generic-use attempt against Kodak that failed in the courts.
Yeah, like the Nazis.
Wow--after all that trolling, quibbling and backbiting, somebody shows up who reads things past the first paragraph. You must be an old fart like me.
You're feeding a troll, people...
Von Braun was a high-salary engineer, and he worked for whoever paid the bills.
An official near here made a sensible recommendation: Make sure you have water, food, first aid and a full tank of gas. With that, you can deal with most of the problems. But there's gonna be traffic jams, accidents, shortage of emergency personnel, and general pissed-offness.
By one estimate, the population of Oregon will be up by 25%.
Not a bad idea to plan on an extra day, or half-day. Huge crowds gather in a progressive way, but when the event is over, they all want to leave now.
Here in Colorado they do something similar for cows. Where a fenceline crosses a road, the traditional way to keep cows from going through is a "cattle guard": a shallow trench across the road spanned by a steel grating that's passable by cars, but difficult for hoofed animals to walk on. Turns out you can save money by faking some percentage of them with painted stripes on the pavement.
Of course cows are modestly intelligent at best, and don't live long enough to learn the trick...
Length has no effect (other than attenuation) if the input, termination and line impedances are all the same. Otherwise, it can have a very big effect.
For example, a line 1/4 wavelength long is an impedance inverter. Terminate it with a short and it looks like an open circuit from the input; leave the output end disconnected and it looks like a short at the input.
Figuring this stuff out is an EE course all by itself.
How casually condescending. Twenty years ago it might have been "Even a woman"...
...I'll betcha.
I'm gonna save this one for my ME students.
A vanity press, if you will.
If it had been supersonic, you'd know.
Or not a native Anglophone.
You must be new here. Didn't you check the Twit Filter box?
Wonder how Olympic running records would be affected if a T. Rex were one of the starters...
I need to get around to reading the books
You'll find a bit of contrast: Heinlein wasn't trolling. In fact, Verhoeven trolled Heinlein.
I don't think you got the point of that. The Elizabeth doesn't have a ramp because it's short: it's short because the Brits -- for better or for worse -- have adopted a different concept of carrier flight ops that doesn't need as long a deck as the US carriers.
If the F-35 doesn't work out...well, they're fucked.