The spin problem can be taken care of very easily, all you need is asymetric drag (streamer, parachute...) then rapid stabilization in the lowest drag configuration (chute downstream of seat) will occur...
That was clearly not the case as the vehicle has operated successfully several times, and the original post I was replying to postulated that they accidentally crashed into the sea due to such a failure.
If you fail to see that you are beyond help.
P.S. You make me ashamed to be a pale white male...
He was talking about crashing into the sea!!! decending to 0 in meters is the same as decending to 0 in feet (yes different rates, but same time till impact...)
He passed out in an F-15 and went into a supersonic dive over the Gulf of Mexico, came to, realized he couldn't pull out of the dive in time, and punched out...
The drag broke both arms and legs, almost ripped one leg off, there was incredible bruising over his entire body, and numerous other wounds that I don't remember. The doctors said he would probably never walk again, but he did his rehab, hardcore, and now he is back in the F-15...
I don't have a source (I think it was on the discovery channel, but I don't remember), this all from memory...
IAAA (I am an aerodynamicist), I really don't think the hole (unless it covers a huge portion of the wing) would be a problem that can't be overcome. To really screw the aero up you have to have flow going where it is not supposed to, my suspicion is that the wing would quickly reach an interior pressure equal to the pressure on the outside at the hole, resulting in a very small amount of flow entering or exiting the hole, kind of an automatic gas patch...
That point aside, if they had made it further into the atmosphere without loosing structural integrity of the crew compartment they could have survived. After the Challenger (I think) they came up with a crew escape technique that works by sliding the astronauts down a pole (to clear the wings and such) and parachuting to the surface, but it doesn't work until after entering the atmosphere...
For serious high altitude sail plane action you need rotors...
They are basically the eddys in the wakes of mountains, and they are what is used to set altitude and duration records in gliders. I only flew in Illinois, so I never experienced one, but I had a friend in my glider club who was from Germany (a grad student at U of I) who had been at 20,000 for 6 hours in a rotor before.
I think (don't quote me) the unpowered altitude record is in the neighborhood of 60,000 ft.
Not quite. The best analogy I can think of off the top of my head is drugs. You don't target the users, you target the dealers. Once the supply is removed then the users are out as well. It's far easier to go after the one person who supplies 10 or 20.
And that war on drugs is going real well, isn't it? NEWSFLASH: As long as there is demand there will always be supply!
The cost (difficulty) of obtaining the good might rise, but you will always be able to get it (name one street drug that used to be available, and is no longer), FTP or messenger service trading comes to mind, if P2P is killed...
Actually, it is not known. Some of the sites in despute by some people contain articles and information that children shouldn't really exposed to because of the harm it can cause them mentally.
It is not just about sites in dispute, I can't find a link right now (anybody ?) but there was a library that changed it's own name becasue it's filter software was blocking it's own site, ya' see, the library was named after a person who shared his name with some anatomy...
Filters DO block stuff that is entirely OK according to even the most overprotective of parents.
If you like mountain biking, and running is cool by you too, you should try some trail running.
There are few things better than letting loose going full speed down a hill and splashing across a creek at the bottom on a hot day while the hikers look on in a combination of fear and amazement!
Also, trail running is not nearly as hard on the trail as biking, and a lot more trails are open to us...
I am a runner who has been wanting to do tri's for a while (signed up for a sprint a month from now...), and I just got my first road bike, I took it out last night, it was great. Previously I had been riding an old (12 years) cheap mountain bike on well groomed trails (don't have the balls or suspension for the hard core stuff).
I wish there was something easy I could tell you...
If you read some of my other posts in this story you will get a feel for some of what I had to do. And I do think that being on Ritalin for 5 years in my childhood is part of what helped me to control now...
Come up with a system for everything. I use a list in my back pocket all the time. it has what I needed to by at the store, what I need to do when I get home... everytime I think of something I need to do, I write it down. The hard part is getting into the habit of checking frequently. At work I use a different command tool for every single concurrent thing I am doing, That way I have to be off task long enough to open a new window to get further off task.
The one thing I am almost certain will help (and will help other things even if it doesn't help ADD) is exercize. I mean lots of exercize. I am a marathoner/weight lifter/aspiring triathlete, I feel that the physical exaustion focuses my mind...
Best of luck!
(I posted 'casue I thought it might help more than just you)
This thing is going to transfer momentum to the space craft it is boosting, right? Where is it getting it from? Something has to get that cable spinning, and I don't see how to get the tether started/respun after it has be put in orbit/used to boost without using just as much energy as you have saved by using it.
I am sure I am missing something, but I don't know what, could someone fill me in?
It is a bit like forcing Ford or Chevy to pay 10% of what they make to set up a fund for "independent" custom-car builders. Ask yourself, would that fly either?
No, it is more like saying that if Ford or Chevy don't use standard power outlets (cigarette lighters), so that only Ford or Chevy brand accessories will work in the car, then they have to subsidize other accessory builders adapting to the nonstandard power outlets...
I am an American, and I agree that there are lots of fubar people here, but I have never met anyone who calls their dad 'sir'. (or any of the other activities you sugest...)
Have you ever visited us in the states? Or is it all from bad fiction?
If you can find one person with it who actually thought school was fun but couldn't concentrate in class, well then I'll believe you.
I enjoyed it, particularly math class, until after I drifted off, and got yelled at for not answering when I was called on...
Then I got diagnosed and started to receive treatment, I started to enjoy it more, because I was being praised for doing well rather than reprimanded for not doing much...
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The spin problem can be taken care of very easily, all you need is asymetric drag (streamer, parachute...) then rapid stabilization in the lowest drag configuration (chute downstream of seat) will occur...
That was clearly not the case as the vehicle has operated successfully several times, and the original post I was replying to postulated that they accidentally crashed into the sea due to such a failure.
If you fail to see that you are beyond help.
P.S. You make me ashamed to be a pale white male...
He was talking about crashing into the sea!!! decending to 0 in meters is the same as decending to 0 in feet (yes different rates, but same time till impact...)
Understand my post before you insult me...
Sounds like you were misdiagnosed. Quit going around telling the world that just becasue you were bored out of your mind ADD doesn't exist...
I didn't grow out of it, I learned to deal with it, there is a big difference...
He passed out in an F-15 and went into a supersonic dive over the Gulf of Mexico, came to, realized he couldn't pull out of the dive in time, and punched out...
The drag broke both arms and legs, almost ripped one leg off, there was incredible bruising over his entire body, and numerous other wounds that I don't remember. The doctors said he would probably never walk again, but he did his rehab, hardcore, and now he is back in the F-15...
I don't have a source (I think it was on the discovery channel, but I don't remember), this all from memory...
I wonder if they thought they were at 8k meters and tried dropping the altitude, and ran smack into the ocean.. NASA's good at confusing ft and meters
Do you realize that 0m = 0ft = sea leval?
IAAA (I am an aerodynamicist), I really don't think the hole (unless it covers a huge portion of the wing) would be a problem that can't be overcome. To really screw the aero up you have to have flow going where it is not supposed to, my suspicion is that the wing would quickly reach an interior pressure equal to the pressure on the outside at the hole, resulting in a very small amount of flow entering or exiting the hole, kind of an automatic gas patch...
That point aside, if they had made it further into the atmosphere without loosing structural integrity of the crew compartment they could have survived. After the Challenger (I think) they came up with a crew escape technique that works by sliding the astronauts down a pole (to clear the wings and such) and parachuting to the surface, but it doesn't work until after entering the atmosphere...
For serious high altitude sail plane action you need rotors...
They are basically the eddys in the wakes of mountains, and they are what is used to set altitude and duration records in gliders. I only flew in Illinois, so I never experienced one, but I had a friend in my glider club who was from Germany (a grad student at U of I) who had been at 20,000 for 6 hours in a rotor before.
I think (don't quote me) the unpowered altitude record is in the neighborhood of 60,000 ft.
I have a friend (yes it was actually not me) who tried mescaline during college (I am 25, so it wasn't that long ago...).
Maybe you can't find mescaline, but others still can...
Not quite. The best analogy I can think of off the top of my head is drugs. You don't target the users, you target the dealers. Once the supply is removed then the users are out as well. It's far easier to go after the one person who supplies 10 or 20.
And that war on drugs is going real well, isn't it? NEWSFLASH: As long as there is demand there will always be supply!
The cost (difficulty) of obtaining the good might rise, but you will always be able to get it (name one street drug that used to be available, and is no longer), FTP or messenger service trading comes to mind, if P2P is killed...
It was flesh, not a body part... sorry...
Actually, it is not known. Some of the sites in despute by some people contain articles and information that children shouldn't really exposed to because of the harm it can cause them mentally.
It is not just about sites in dispute, I can't find a link right now (anybody ?) but there was a library that changed it's own name becasue it's filter software was blocking it's own site, ya' see, the library was named after a person who shared his name with some anatomy...
Filters DO block stuff that is entirely OK according to even the most overprotective of parents.
f its the size of 1 mm, shouldn't it be called a "milli-engine"?
I think they are naming it after the size of the moving parts...
Also... MIT Gas Turbine Lab Micro-Turbines
If you like mountain biking, and running is cool by you too, you should try some trail running.
There are few things better than letting loose going full speed down a hill and splashing across a creek at the bottom on a hot day while the hikers look on in a combination of fear and amazement!
Also, trail running is not nearly as hard on the trail as biking, and a lot more trails are open to us...
I am a runner who has been wanting to do tri's for a while (signed up for a sprint a month from now...), and I just got my first road bike, I took it out last night, it was great. Previously I had been riding an old (12 years) cheap mountain bike on well groomed trails (don't have the balls or suspension for the hard core stuff).
I wish there was something easy I could tell you...
If you read some of my other posts in this story you will get a feel for some of what I had to do. And I do think that being on Ritalin for 5 years in my childhood is part of what helped me to control now...
Come up with a system for everything. I use a list in my back pocket all the time. it has what I needed to by at the store, what I need to do when I get home... everytime I think of something I need to do, I write it down. The hard part is getting into the habit of checking frequently. At work I use a different command tool for every single concurrent thing I am doing, That way I have to be off task long enough to open a new window to get further off task.
The one thing I am almost certain will help (and will help other things even if it doesn't help ADD) is exercize. I mean lots of exercize. I am a marathoner/weight lifter/aspiring triathlete, I feel that the physical exaustion focuses my mind...
Best of luck!
(I posted 'casue I thought it might help more than just you)
This thing is going to transfer momentum to the space craft it is boosting, right? Where is it getting it from? Something has to get that cable spinning, and I don't see how to get the tether started/respun after it has be put in orbit/used to boost without using just as much energy as you have saved by using it.
I am sure I am missing something, but I don't know what, could someone fill me in?
P.S. I did RTFA, doesn't explain it...
MS has the right to come in and force you to put up a 500k .doc file...
And you can tell them to host it themselves and you link the damn thing.
I am not saying that I am for this (I am undecided), but the hosting dificulties arguments are BS.
The libertarian in me says this smells like governments interfering in with free market principles
Not trying to troll, but...
I thought even libertarians realized that the free market falters in the presence of a power abusing monopoly...
...this policy is antithetical to an open market.
Abusive monopolies break the free market, the goal of all this is to allow the market to repair...
It is a bit like forcing Ford or Chevy to pay 10% of what they make to set up a fund for "independent" custom-car builders. Ask yourself, would that fly either?
No, it is more like saying that if Ford or Chevy don't use standard power outlets (cigarette lighters), so that only Ford or Chevy brand accessories will work in the car, then they have to subsidize other accessory builders adapting to the nonstandard power outlets...
It is definately still a problem for me, but it is managable now...
Are you trolling?
I am an American, and I agree that there are lots of fubar people here, but I have never met anyone who calls their dad 'sir'. (or any of the other activities you sugest...)
Have you ever visited us in the states? Or is it all from bad fiction?
If you can find one person with it who actually thought school was fun but couldn't concentrate in class, well then I'll believe you.
I enjoyed it, particularly math class, until after I drifted off, and got yelled at for not answering when I was called on...
Then I got diagnosed and started to receive treatment, I started to enjoy it more, because I was being praised for doing well rather than reprimanded for not doing much...