No. Only a small part of an iceberg is generated by freezing of seawater; most of the water arrives in the form of snow. Even the freezing of seawater is a natural salt-removal process involving the behavior of crystal lattices.
We reduce aircraft noise today by keeping them as far away as we can: 1000 feet vertically, a mile or so horizontally. And good luck beating the noise performance of a helicopter with your flying car.
This. The Goodyear Blimps often pick up bullet holes, whose only impact is a slow leak. Part of the preflight inspection is to look up through a window in the top of the cab, for little points of light.
Back in the Sixties, my California employer opened a new operation in another state where it was the first major aerospace activity. A press announcement said it would bring several hundred engineers to town, and the local engineering society made pretty much the same complaint as in TFA.
We sent them a letter saying "Sorry, we don't want to infringe on the law here. Would you please send us 300 membership application forms, 300 copies of the sample P.E. exam, and the schedule for your next officer election?"
Not exactly. Ground effect becomes significant when the altitude is less than the horizontal dimension of the lift-producing element (wingspan in an airplane, size of the fan cluster here). This machine is flying right around that limit, so the ground effect is minimal; I think it could easily get higher. But it's experimental, and there's a lot to be said for not getting any higher than you're willing to fall.
...an interpreted version of Fortran for the IBM 1620. The machine had 10K BCD digits plus the deluxe 10K add-on; the interpreter took up 15K of that, so you had 5K for your program. I/O was on cards or a console typewriter.
Separate but pretty intertwined. Marines hold some of the same shipboard positions as sailors, and the USMC has no medical corps -- it goes into action with Navy corpsmen.
Atari 800 here, with prior work experience on some mainframes. Eventually I got a contract from Adventure International, run by "the other Scott Adams") to port some Commodore games to Atari, including one called Labyrinth of Crete (1983 version). Also wrote a sector-level disk editor for the Commodore.
What a piece of crap that Commodore was...if you had two disk drives, you couldn't stack them because they'd overheat and start popping errors after a few minutes.
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What's the difference between that and any other setting in your router or browser?
..and they tell you so in, y'know, the update message.
All right, dammit. LINUXGUIWAREZ. Go back to sleep.
That's one that didn't want to join the Army but had to.
So, he's returned any campaign money that came from anti-gays, right?
No. Only a small part of an iceberg is generated by freezing of seawater; most of the water arrives in the form of snow. Even the freezing of seawater is a natural salt-removal process involving the behavior of crystal lattices.
It's been proposed once or twice in the past, and not carried through. Perhaps some of the variables have changed enough to revisit the idea.
Well, if you want to pick nits, you should have corrected "would not melt" to "would not melt very fast"...
No, it gives a lower bound that at least 3.1% have the balls to tell the truth about what they believe.
Why, umm, yes. To keep your machine in the air, it has to exert a downward force on a shitload of air. Newton's Third and all that.
We reduce aircraft noise today by keeping them as far away as we can: 1000 feet vertically, a mile or so horizontally. And good luck beating the noise performance of a helicopter with your flying car.
Can make != can afford to make. The Big Dig cost almost 10x its estimate.
(idea was actually from old scifi)
Heinlein, to be exact.
This. The Goodyear Blimps often pick up bullet holes, whose only impact is a slow leak. Part of the preflight inspection is to look up through a window in the top of the cab, for little points of light.
Back in the Sixties, my California employer opened a new operation in another state where it was the first major aerospace activity. A press announcement said it would bring several hundred engineers to town, and the local engineering society made pretty much the same complaint as in TFA.
We sent them a letter saying "Sorry, we don't want to infringe on the law here. Would you please send us 300 membership application forms, 300 copies of the sample P.E. exam, and the schedule for your next officer election?"
Never heard back.
It's hovering in ground effect.
Not exactly. Ground effect becomes significant when the altitude is less than the horizontal dimension of the lift-producing element (wingspan in an airplane, size of the fan cluster here). This machine is flying right around that limit, so the ground effect is minimal; I think it could easily get higher. But it's experimental, and there's a lot to be said for not getting any higher than you're willing to fall.
I was thinking of A Rose for Miss Emily.
...an interpreted version of Fortran for the IBM 1620. The machine had 10K BCD digits plus the deluxe 10K add-on; the interpreter took up 15K of that, so you had 5K for your program. I/O was on cards or a console typewriter.
We also had a compiler for Fortran IV.
And if you don't want to risk having your Porsche stolen, take the bus.
Separate but pretty intertwined. Marines hold some of the same shipboard positions as sailors, and the USMC has no medical corps -- it goes into action with Navy corpsmen.
...for its thoughtful resolution of the time travel causality paradox.
Atari 800 here, with prior work experience on some mainframes. Eventually I got a contract from Adventure International, run by "the other Scott Adams") to port some Commodore games to Atari, including one called Labyrinth of Crete (1983 version). Also wrote a sector-level disk editor for the Commodore.
What a piece of crap that Commodore was...if you had two disk drives, you couldn't stack them because they'd overheat and start popping errors after a few minutes.
Yeah? I remember some folks saying "Voting is for old people" and look what happened.
Ordnance and its handling procedures are designed to be safe. Vaping devices are designed to be cheap.
Where do you suppose it goes after we drink it?