Don't know about the UK, but American casinos won't need anything rewritten: the courts have long since held that a casino can ban anyone it sees fit. That would include people waving lasers.
So, if you were one of these aeronautical flat-earthers, how would you explain the V-2 missile which went supersonic under rocket propulsion, from a standing start, while also climbing against gravity, in 1943?
Yeager is a pilot, not an aeronautical engineer, and he had no choice about how to get through Mach 1. He had some barely adequate rocket engines to light off one at a time, and that was it. And on the historic flight, he "smashed through" all the way to Mach 1.06.
Planes were being torn apart
They were going unstable and tumbling, which will tear an airplane apart at a fraction of supersonic speed. I repeat: it was a stability and control problem, not a drag problem.
With all due respect, that's my field too and I say horse hockey. Ernst Mach was measuring supersonic drag in 1877, and supersonic rifle ammunition was a consumer product before that century was out. The X-1 aircraft's fuselage, in fact, was modeled on the ogival shape of the.50 caliber Browning machine gun bullet because of its demonstrated ability to sustain supersonic flight for a long way downrange. Supersonic airplane flight was a stability and control problem.
That tale is one of those "Aren't we smarter than those self-important authorities" homilies that are as persistent as herpes. It's on a par with "19th century scientists opposed railroad development because they believed you couldn't breathe at 20 mph"...which is very popular among folks who've never been outside in a gale or ridden the animal I alluded to in the first sentence above.
The traditional "masculine includes the feminine" standard seems to be pretty well toast. People are experimenting with all the other ways to write about persons of unknown gender, and I think the one that will win out is to use "they"...which would get your knuckles whacked in English class in my day, but hey, I can get along with it.
Using the feminine all the time has its risks; if you wrote "We don't know who plundered the Fund to End World Hunger, but we're trying to identify her," you might have a spot of trouble.
"He/she" is cumbersome, and "(s)he" is just plain ugly.
1. After fixing a problem you are blamed for ALL the other problems that will happen following the origial problem.
Hams learned that long ago, the hard way. If your signal hits the neighbor's TV, you never install a filter on the set yourself. You tell him where to buy one, maybe pay the bill, period.
I remember when the women who painted those radium dials were dying off in the 1950s. Seems they would lick their brushes to get the right painting consistency.
Here in Colorado, there are a number of hot springs bearing radioactive minerals...in the early 20th century, people paid to sit in them to "take the cure." At one time, there were radium pills and even radium suppositories.
Another thing you should know if you take physics at Rutgers is that the physics auditorium is probably exposing you to mercury vapor.
Centuries ago I was doing a thesis project at an Air Force lab, and was measuring some pressures with a mercury manometer about six feet high, made of 1/4 inch ID tubing. If I had ever blown that thing, there would have been a couple of pounds of mercury skittering around on the concrete.
Then a safety inspector came in and told me I had to put an overflow bottle on the manometer. So I did -- I taped a 2-ounce bottle to the top, connected it with a piece of Tygon, and the guy was happy.
This is weird. Here's a long thread on a forum of mostly college-educated techies, discussing the merits of joining the military -- and everybody's talking about enlisting at the Beetle Bailey level. People, there's a career path in the military for the educated. It's called being an officer.
Yes, it can be a tough go, and you don't always get what you want. But if you're smart enough to be an officer, you're really going to hate being an enlisted man.
if you're in a Wal-Mart home office - ISD building - distribution center - et al... and dial 911 - BOOM - you get Wal-Mart's private security
I read an article years ago by a fire chief, giving advice on fire safety for hotel guests. Among items like not taking a room above the seventh floor (the reach of a ladder truck), he said that if you smell smoke, you DON'T call the desk first. You dial an outside line, call the fire department, and THEN tell the desk.
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Ummm...kites have been around for centuries, but cameras have been around since 1825. rj
A. This many people have expressed an urge to "spend some time with my family" when not fired, under grand jury investigation, or pissed off.
Q. What is zero?
rj
Umm,no. They want the government to be a nanny to your kids.
rj
Don't know about the UK, but American casinos won't need anything rewritten: the courts have long since held that a casino can ban anyone it sees fit. That would include people waving lasers.
rj
Yeager is a pilot, not an aeronautical engineer, and he had no choice about how to get through Mach 1. He had some barely adequate rocket engines to light off one at a time, and that was it. And on the historic flight, he "smashed through" all the way to Mach 1.06.
Planes were being torn apart
They were going unstable and tumbling, which will tear an airplane apart at a fraction of supersonic speed. I repeat: it was a stability and control problem, not a drag problem.
rj
Either [1] there exists some absolute age limit X such that you can live to X-1 second but you can't live to X+1 second;
or [2] you can live to any age.
This meme is available for licensing to life-extension clinics at fees to be negotiated. Some restrictions apply.
rj
Of course there were people who believed that...but they weren't running NACA or Bell Aircraft.
rj
Precisely. They're larger.
rj
So, ummm, you can reduce the supersonic drag of an object by making it blunter?
rj
With all due respect, that's my field too and I say horse hockey. Ernst Mach was measuring supersonic drag in 1877, and supersonic rifle ammunition was a consumer product before that century was out. The X-1 aircraft's fuselage, in fact, was modeled on the ogival shape of the .50 caliber Browning machine gun bullet because of its demonstrated ability to sustain supersonic flight for a long way downrange. Supersonic airplane flight was a stability and control problem.
That tale is one of those "Aren't we smarter than those self-important authorities" homilies that are as persistent as herpes. It's on a par with "19th century scientists opposed railroad development because they believed you couldn't breathe at 20 mph"...which is very popular among folks who've never been outside in a gale or ridden the animal I alluded to in the first sentence above.
rj
1953; chiffonier. I added an E.
rj
...I lost the South Florida Spelling Bee on an easy one too.
rj
Two words. One of them is Viet.
rj
And you'd think people who buy CPU chips would understand the difference between development cost and incremental cost...
rj
Well, smarty, if it's full of helium, how do we get it down here to the museum?
rj
Compared to the hit rate of spam, that would be pretty bloody good.
rj
The traditional "masculine includes the feminine" standard seems to be pretty well toast. People are experimenting with all the other ways to write about persons of unknown gender, and I think the one that will win out is to use "they"...which would get your knuckles whacked in English class in my day, but hey, I can get along with it.
Using the feminine all the time has its risks; if you wrote "We don't know who plundered the Fund to End World Hunger, but we're trying to identify her," you might have a spot of trouble.
"He/she" is cumbersome, and "(s)he" is just plain ugly.
rj
Hams learned that long ago, the hard way. If your signal hits the neighbor's TV, you never install a filter on the set yourself. You tell him where to buy one, maybe pay the bill, period.
rj
I remember when the women who painted those radium dials were dying off in the 1950s. Seems they would lick their brushes to get the right painting consistency.
Here in Colorado, there are a number of hot springs bearing radioactive minerals...in the early 20th century, people paid to sit in them to "take the cure." At one time, there were radium pills and even radium suppositories.
rj
Centuries ago I was doing a thesis project at an Air Force lab, and was measuring some pressures with a mercury manometer about six feet high, made of 1/4 inch ID tubing. If I had ever blown that thing, there would have been a couple of pounds of mercury skittering around on the concrete.
Then a safety inspector came in and told me I had to put an overflow bottle on the manometer. So I did -- I taped a 2-ounce bottle to the top, connected it with a piece of Tygon, and the guy was happy.
rj
This is weird. Here's a long thread on a forum of mostly college-educated techies, discussing the merits of joining the military -- and everybody's talking about enlisting at the Beetle Bailey level. People, there's a career path in the military for the educated. It's called being an officer.
Yes, it can be a tough go, and you don't always get what you want. But if you're smart enough to be an officer, you're really going to hate being an enlisted man.
rj
Why not run a simulation and let the clod think it's real?
rj
Wouldn't you love to be on the jury?
rj
I read an article years ago by a fire chief, giving advice on fire safety for hotel guests. Among items like not taking a room above the seventh floor (the reach of a ladder truck), he said that if you smell smoke, you DON'T call the desk first. You dial an outside line, call the fire department, and THEN tell the desk.
rj
Truly have You a good Analyzing given.
rj