I do use their page for one purpose: I get my email at my domain host (addr.com), and I have my Comcast account configured so I can reach my mailbox easily when on the road.
I wouldn't agree with that either, and that's why I didn't say it. RTFP, and focus on the words **** A LOT ****. The costs of getting the humans to Mars orbit and back are orders of magnitude bigger than the costs of landing them.
Yes, that gives the delta-v required. But you as the system designer have to provide for delta-mv, the change in momentum delivered by the propulsion system. The amount of propulsion you need is directly proportional to the mass of the spacecraft. Big ship, big rocket. And if you want to put humans in Mars orbit, you have to keep them alive for several YEARS in something you launch from Earth (or at least from Earth orbit) -- which means a BIG ship. That will take so much propulsion, the amount required to move a landing craft down and up isn't going to make much of a difference.
Thats where I put old, non-functional smoke detectors. I don't actually know where I can go to get rid of them and I am not stupid enough to put them in the bin so they stay in the garage.
Manufacturers are required by law to accept them for disposal...likewise antistatic dust brushes that have a polonium-210 strip. Check the instructions.
Wikipedia and the AC are probably correct, assuming MG's ancestry is Swabian. If you know anybody named Shrader or Schrader, they're probably descended from Swabians named Schr[o with umlaut]der.
Just integrating devices and standardizing power requirements would be a start. Count the wall warts around your computer desk and you'll see what I mean.
That's called a mutual insurance company. State Farm is one, as are most (not all) other companies with "Mutual" in their names. Metlife converted from mutual to investor-owned some years back.
In fact, for profit insurance is stuck in a fundamental conflict of interest; they will be most successful by finding ways to weasel out of their obligations.
That's not the only conflict. No peril, no need for insurance...invent an unstealable car and there goes the car theft insurance bidness.
Plus which, bending the wings to an extreme configuration -- like touching the tips together -- is meaningless as far as aerodynamic loads are concerned. As the tips bend up, the effective area they present to the airflow decreases and the bending moment falls off. You'd have to find some way to get the air to push the tips inward to make them touch.
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How about if he got elected by deluding a specific segment of voters into thinking he stood with them on "family values"?
Actually, the word is not hypocrite but demagogue -- a man who promotes principles he considers false to people he considers fools.
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I wouldn't agree with that either, and that's why I didn't say it. RTFP, and focus on the words **** A LOT ****. The costs of getting the humans to Mars orbit and back are orders of magnitude bigger than the costs of landing them.
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Manufacturers are required by law to accept them for disposal...likewise antistatic dust brushes that have a polonium-210 strip. Check the instructions.
rj
Grammatically, that is a faux pas.
rj
How about the delta-mv required to launch humans plus their life-support system from Earth orbit to Mars orbit and back?
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And, ummm, this would be a lot simpler and cheaper than having the humans continue the remaining 0.001 percent of the way?
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How about cloning legislators who have a clue about drug wars?
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Matter of fact, it was built with an electric bell system for summoning servants.
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Ummm, that would apply just as well to the "original seven". Herodotus wrote a list and ba-bing, ba-boom, seven wonders.
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It didn't...Heathkit is still around, selling tech training materials.
rj
Wikipedia and the AC are probably correct, assuming MG's ancestry is Swabian. If you know anybody named Shrader or Schrader, they're probably descended from Swabians named Schr[o with umlaut]der.
rj
Just integrating devices and standardizing power requirements would be a start. Count the wall warts around your computer desk and you'll see what I mean.
rj
Please. The word is "forage".
rj
I know...one of those people works at my local supermarket. They held a grand opening where they gave away "helium-filled hot-air balloons".
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Georgia Tech is doing some cool stuff with aerial robotics:
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http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/atas/teams/aerialrobot
Kinda wish I was there now instead of 1962...;-)
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No less logical than "real" airbags: they're inflated by an explosive charge. No air involved.
But "airbag" just sounds more benign than "grenade bag"...
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Like Ted Bundy, who said pr()n made him do it.
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That's not the only conflict. No peril, no need for insurance...invent an unstealable car and there goes the car theft insurance bidness.
rj
The trouble with the folks in New York is that for a few brief months in 2001/2, people actually LIKED them and it went to their heads.
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Looks as if balls are not the necessary equipment.
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