As I understand it, there is an interesting loophole whereby people can refuse cash if they want... like paying for food on airlines where it's credit card only.
You can demand payment in pork bellies if you want, as long as you haven't received the goods yet. "Legal tender for all debts" means that if I owe you money I can put down cash and tell you to take it or leave it. You can always turn down a cash transaction up front.
Same reason troops are used to fight forest fires: If there's no immediate need in the primary mission, no reason not to employ them in something else they're capable of doing. Versatility.
This thing is at least forty years old...I had one in the Seventies, under the name Dynabee. You started it spinning by sweeping the exposed side of the ball across a tabletop, and then kept it moving in a conical motion. When you had the motion right, you could feel your hand coupling angular momentum into it, and hear a rising whine as it gathered speed.
Nice classroom demonstration of the dynamics of precession, but it made my wrist hurt like hell.
...an unbiased WTP population? Given two major political factions, couldn't the better-funded one hold massive "Sign up for WTP!" drives among its adherents and pack the vote? Random sampling won't get an unbiased sample from a biased population.
Yes, in a splendidly good way. On 12/22, NASA will be the people who said in public "You pitiful morons are pitiful morons", and some percentage of the pitiful morons will realize they've been acting like pitiful morons.
Eons ago, on a TV sitcom called [i]Maude[/i], there was a sequence at a country club bar involving several golfers, one of whom was a doctor. The dialog went like this:
Golfer 1 (walking in): Hey, did you guys hear? Harry committed suicide! Golfer 2: Hey, that's terrible. Golfer 3: Yeah, he wasn't the kind of person to do that. Golfer 2: Aw, c'mon, there isn't any specific kind of person to commit suicide. Golfer Doctor: Oh, yes there is. Golfer 1: Really? What kind is that? Golfer Doctor: It's the kind of guy that when he does it, everybody says he wasn't the type to commit suicide.
So you're suggestion is that elementary school teachers pack heat?
Mine did.
Most of the male teachers were WW2 veterans, and almost every one of those had a locked drawer in his desk. They didn't do that in the high school, because we were big enough to be dangerous around locked things, so there was a cop. In both cases, it was a quiet time.
You can't change orbit without attitude control, including deorbiting.
What gives you the impression this bird was meant to be deorbited or to collide with another spacecraft? Y'know, like going from no orbit capability to a FOBS or satellite killer in one mission? On-orbit maneuvering is several rungs up the tech ladder for these guys.
OK, simple deorbiting if they want to recover the payload, but that's doubtful.
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As I understand it, there is an interesting loophole whereby people can refuse cash if they want... like paying for food on airlines where it's credit card only.
You can demand payment in pork bellies if you want, as long as you haven't received the goods yet. "Legal tender for all debts" means that if I owe you money I can put down cash and tell you to take it or leave it. You can always turn down a cash transaction up front.
Why should I buy a car today for $20 000 if tomorrow I expect that the real cost of the car will be only $18 000 in today's dollars?
Ummm...it will. You'll have a used car tomorrow.
Same reason troops are used to fight forest fires: If there's no immediate need in the primary mission, no reason not to employ them in something else they're capable of doing. Versatility.
I prefer to let people do their own homework. Especially when they didn't do it before they handed down pronunciamenti.
Supe, Congress took that airspace away from you with the Air Commerce Act of 1926.
Wolf, do you have any idea what "flight level 600" means?
Energy is measured in joules fools.
Yes it is, professor, and a kiloton is 4.18*10^12 of them.
Check out what narrowly missed Utah in 1972.
it's fair to simply list the one object that has the greatest influence
I'd go one step further and include the Sun. Solar gravity gradients are within the same order of magnitude as those of the Moon.
Those agencies install their own.
The temperature and composition of the gas are entirely sufficient to calculate the speed of sound. The previous poster is entirely correct.
Yes, density has a bearing on velocity -- not of sound, but of the vehicle -- because it affects drag.
CPU magazine once fell for a wireless AC power adapter...
This thing is at least forty years old...I had one in the Seventies, under the name Dynabee. You started it spinning by sweeping the exposed side of the ball across a tabletop, and then kept it moving in a conical motion. When you had the motion right, you could feel your hand coupling angular momentum into it, and hear a rising whine as it gathered speed.
Nice classroom demonstration of the dynamics of precession, but it made my wrist hurt like hell.
If you really meant geometric growth, OK, sorry about that...but it didn't look that way from here. It's a heavily abused term.
You're on /. and you think "exponentially" means a whole lot?
...an unbiased WTP population? Given two major political factions, couldn't the better-funded one hold massive "Sign up for WTP!" drives among its adherents and pack the vote? Random sampling won't get an unbiased sample from a biased population.
Not so much like a crossbow: it's a wooden copy of the rubber-powered weapons used for spearfishing.
http://www.joediveramerica.com/page/JDA/CTGY/aespear
It is not even accepted that the Mayans even predicted the end of the world
Or that they predicted the collapse of their own civilization, for that matter...
Because it gets them headlines.
Yes, in a splendidly good way. On 12/22, NASA will be the people who said in public "You pitiful morons are pitiful morons", and some percentage of the pitiful morons will realize they've been acting like pitiful morons.
Eons ago, on a TV sitcom called [i]Maude[/i], there was a sequence at a country club bar involving several golfers, one of whom was a doctor. The dialog went like this:
Golfer 1 (walking in): Hey, did you guys hear? Harry committed suicide!
Golfer 2: Hey, that's terrible.
Golfer 3: Yeah, he wasn't the kind of person to do that.
Golfer 2: Aw, c'mon, there isn't any specific kind of person to commit suicide.
Golfer Doctor: Oh, yes there is.
Golfer 1: Really? What kind is that?
Golfer Doctor: It's the kind of guy that when he does it, everybody says he wasn't the type to commit suicide.
Also when we were allowed to bring real guns to Show & Tell. Miami, 1948 into the Fifties.
So you're suggestion is that elementary school teachers pack heat?
Mine did.
Most of the male teachers were WW2 veterans, and almost every one of those had a locked drawer in his desk. They didn't do that in the high school, because we were big enough to be dangerous around locked things, so there was a cop. In both cases, it was a quiet time.
Who modded this down? It's a bloody good comeback to the free-market-obsessed.
In other words: Hey, viewers, our commercials aren't louder than the program; remember the scene where that guy got shot?
You can't change orbit without attitude control, including deorbiting.
What gives you the impression this bird was meant to be deorbited or to collide with another spacecraft? Y'know, like going from no orbit capability to a FOBS or satellite killer in one mission? On-orbit maneuvering is several rungs up the tech ladder for these guys.
OK, simple deorbiting if they want to recover the payload, but that's doubtful.