Apples to oranges, perhaps. A rocket (including its fuel) have a single frame of reference, and the effects of the rocket's velocity relative to Earth's surface doesn't affect the engine performance because the rocket fuel is affected the same way.
I don't think we're talking a rocket-powered train here, since it would leave the vacuum tube full of exhaust gasses instead of the hypothetical vacuum. And any external power source (like an induction catapult) would be in a different frame of reference from the train....
I think my calculations might be off on this one (because it seems ridiculous) but to achieve a comfortable 0.1G lateral acceleration, the turning radius would have to be 20,000 miles - this planet isn't big enough.
Your calculations are off. Just a bit over 2000 miles radius for a 0.1g turn.
Your main point was correct, however - this is a train that does long straight lines really well, but that's about all.
It's the same thing with unemployment insurance and food stamps, and other forms of economic assistance; During times of economic prosperity, these services go largely unused, so they can stockpile funding for periods of economic downturn, and in so doing, moderate the highs and lows inherent in a capitalist system.
Alas, that turns out not to be the case. In general, those sorts of service are funded based on best guesses as to the amount they'll have to pay out.
Which means in times of prosperity, very little money goes to food stamps and suchlike.
So, no, there's no magic investing of spare income for the future by government - this year's taxes pay for this year's services, next year's taxes will pay for next year's services.
And when they spend more than the take in, they just borrow the difference. And never pay it back in good times (last time the US National Debt declined was before I was born, and I was born before Gagarin went up in Vostok)....
But if I buy a paperback copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" for only $0.10 due to a flash crash in autogenerated stock prices, I metaphysically lose, society loses, civilization loses. The seller still wins, Mephistopheles wins, evil triumphs.
In space, you don't need lift and drag (since these two factors depend on gravity), you're left with thrust.
LIft is not a function of gravity, but a function of the shape and motion of the wing.
Drag is a function of air pressure, surface area, shape and material. None of these are functions of gravity.
Biggest problems birds should have flying in zero-G is that they're trained to fly in a 1G field just like we are, and would have to learn to do it all over in zero G.
On top of that, thanks to our continuing foray into the abject failure that is trickle-down economics (/rant), people are hanging on their cars for much, much longer... [time.com]
The article you quoted blames better cars, not "trickle-down" economics for the "problem" you mention.
I'm not actually sure why you think that raising taxes (presumably on the rich) would affect how long anyone keeps their cars, though.
Personally, I drive them to a couple hundred thousand miles and change before I sell one. But I wouldn't change my habits toward newer cars if my taxes were raised, and certainly wouldn't if someone else's taxes were raised....
Also 50,000 poles were executed by nazis for being caught shielding Jews. Also the highest number of any European occupied state. So I may be wrong but have some facts on my side.
Okay, I understand now.
You're measuring by attempts to shield Jews, not by results of the shielding.
I was measuring by the results of said shielding (numbers of Jewish survivors).
just another out-of-date standard that could be fixed in one generation if that generation could get over the fact that "through," "coo," "do," "true," "knew," and "queue" all rhyme nonsensically but spelling them "throo," "koo," "doo," "troo," "nyoo," and "kyoo" simply looks silly despite being logical.
Hmm...So, how would you spell "cue" phonetically?
Or "dew"?
"Threw"?
"New"?
If you haven't guessed by now, this is why we don't use phonetic spelling.
but to credit the Polish population, their record of shielding jews from the Nazis was actually pretty impressive. More Jews (as a proportion) were successfully shielded there than in most Occupied states.
Over 90% of the pre-war Jewish population of Poland was killed during the war. Most of the survivors left for Israel as soon as that option was opened up.
By contrast, Denmark had a 99% survival rate for its Jews. Bulgaria managed a similar survival rate, in spite of being a German Ally. Even France managed >75% survival rate.
Just curious, which countries fit the "most Occupied states" you mentioned?
In some cases, the losing side will just cover the administrative costs - it's possible that the summary is wrong and this is the case here.
The summary is wrong.
What is being covered is stuff like copying documents, having to pay to produce three different damages reports since Oracle couldn't be bothered to follow the Judge's instructions on the damages report the first two times (actually, they didn't follow them ANY of the times, but the Judge gave up after three tries)....
(there are some who theorize one of the reasons that Truman gave the go ahead was to convince the Japanese to surrender quickly before the Soviets could start moving south from the Kurils).
Which is nonsense. The USSR didn't even attack Japan until August 18, which was after both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Truman making the decision to drop the atomic bombs to prevent the Soviets from grabbing more than Kurils when the Soviets didn't have the Kurils till after the bombs were dropped would be an amazing example of prescience....
We should require that every person fit to vote (adults not a felon not crazy/senile) do so or have "standing votes" where if you declare as %party% then unless you formally vote otherwise you count as having voted for the %party% candidate (require formal voting every Nth time to remain an active voter).
Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't win the slide-lock case. As far as i can tell, they were the first company to have a broad distribution of phones that had that feature.
Alas, "broad distribution of phones" isn't one of the qualifiers to get a patent...
Uh if hes not "hiding" he fucking should be. Basically he has leaked confidential U.S. documents, that makes him a high priority target, and if he is extradited, 1 of two things will happen, one: he will be executed (not likely) two: he will be prosecuted for some crime and put in a hole for the rest of eternity (most likely).
Precedent from Watergate says that Assange has nothing to fear from a US Court for the leaked documents.
Unless, of course, it can be proved that he either paid or encouraged Manning to do the deed. That would probably come under espionage laws.
Uh, don't you mean "Where that big light will be eight and a half minutes from now"?
Alas, neither of us is quite correct. What I really meant was "where the Sun REALLY is, rather than where it appears to be due to the eight and a half minute old light we're seeing".
We at present do not have the means of sending or receiving an intelligent signal by means of gravity, which of by necessity would have to be ALMOST infinitely fast.
No.
If gravity were FTL, it would be pretty obvious, since then the Sun would appear to be in a different direction than the Sun's gravity.
Alas, all the experimentation to date shows that gravity is pulling Earth directly toward that big light in the sky, NOT toward where that big light was eight and a fraction minutes ago....
Now that there is nothing we can do about it, the shills can stop pretending it isnÃ(TM)t happening.
"Now that there is nothing we can do" is a bit misleading - the condition ("there is nothing we can do") has been true since before we ever thought about AGW....
Taxpayers: Sure, you can have your pipeline... if you want to pay for it yourself.
Oil Companies: Fuck that, without your money paying for it, that shit's too expensive! We'll just buy more trucks to run on existing infrastructure. People: Look, gas is down to $2.75 a gallon!
FTFY.
Oddly, I can find no real evidence that the oil companies want anything from the taxpayers other than to get the permits approved allow them to build the pipeline.
Note, by the by, that 2000 rail cars, plus the fees associated with moving things by rail (even when you supply the cars), isn't chicken feed....
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Apples to oranges, perhaps. A rocket (including its fuel) have a single frame of reference, and the effects of the rocket's velocity relative to Earth's surface doesn't affect the engine performance because the rocket fuel is affected the same way.
I don't think we're talking a rocket-powered train here, since it would leave the vacuum tube full of exhaust gasses instead of the hypothetical vacuum. And any external power source (like an induction catapult) would be in a different frame of reference from the train....
A quick google gives a speed of sound through rock of 6-7 km/s. Which works out to about 13,500+ mph.
So, no, if you're heading away from it, it's still going to catch you.
Won't be under an hour, unless we're pulling .2g or so.
More like 80-90 minutes.
Your point stands, however - it would make a bloody mint if it existed. If only from people who rode it just so they could say they did it....
Your calculations are off. Just a bit over 2000 miles radius for a 0.1g turn.
Your main point was correct, however - this is a train that does long straight lines really well, but that's about all.
Alas, that turns out not to be the case. In general, those sorts of service are funded based on best guesses as to the amount they'll have to pay out.
Which means in times of prosperity, very little money goes to food stamps and suchlike.
So, no, there's no magic investing of spare income for the future by government - this year's taxes pay for this year's services, next year's taxes will pay for next year's services.
And when they spend more than the take in, they just borrow the difference. And never pay it back in good times (last time the US National Debt declined was before I was born, and I was born before Gagarin went up in Vostok)....
I'm curious how the seller wins in your scenario.
And how you lose.
Looks to me like he loses, and you win.
LIft is not a function of gravity, but a function of the shape and motion of the wing.
Drag is a function of air pressure, surface area, shape and material. None of these are functions of gravity.
Biggest problems birds should have flying in zero-G is that they're trained to fly in a 1G field just like we are, and would have to learn to do it all over in zero G.
The article you quoted blames better cars, not "trickle-down" economics for the "problem" you mention.
I'm not actually sure why you think that raising taxes (presumably on the rich) would affect how long anyone keeps their cars, though.
Personally, I drive them to a couple hundred thousand miles and change before I sell one. But I wouldn't change my habits toward newer cars if my taxes were raised, and certainly wouldn't if someone else's taxes were raised....
Which wouldn't address the problem of two or more words with the same pronunciation, now would it?
Note that while many homophones can be determined from context, but this is not necessarily true for all them:
Or
Okay, I understand now.
You're measuring by attempts to shield Jews, not by results of the shielding.
I was measuring by the results of said shielding (numbers of Jewish survivors).
Hmm...So, how would you spell "cue" phonetically?
Or "dew"?
"Threw"?
"New"?
If you haven't guessed by now, this is why we don't use phonetic spelling.
If you come across as semi-literate at best, your message will be automatically discounted by some people (me included).
Which means that you did NOT "effectively communicate the idea".
What you effectively communicated is "I am semi-literate, but have an opinion anyway"....
HORDE of lobbyists.
Though each of them will probaby have a HOARD of money to bribe the congresscritters with...
Over 90% of the pre-war Jewish population of Poland was killed during the war. Most of the survivors left for Israel as soon as that option was opened up.
By contrast, Denmark had a 99% survival rate for its Jews. Bulgaria managed a similar survival rate, in spite of being a German Ally. Even France managed >75% survival rate.
Just curious, which countries fit the "most Occupied states" you mentioned?
The summary is wrong.
What is being covered is stuff like copying documents, having to pay to produce three different damages reports since Oracle couldn't be bothered to follow the Judge's instructions on the damages report the first two times (actually, they didn't follow them ANY of the times, but the Judge gave up after three tries)....
Which is nonsense. The USSR didn't even attack Japan until August 18, which was after both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Truman making the decision to drop the atomic bombs to prevent the Soviets from grabbing more than Kurils when the Soviets didn't have the Kurils till after the bombs were dropped would be an amazing example of prescience....
Because there's no way to abuse that, right?
Alas, "broad distribution of phones" isn't one of the qualifiers to get a patent...
Precedent from Watergate says that Assange has nothing to fear from a US Court for the leaked documents.
Unless, of course, it can be proved that he either paid or encouraged Manning to do the deed. That would probably come under espionage laws.
Note that he could have granted himself patents on his own inventions quite legally as a patent examiner.
Which would not require corruption on his part.
Alas, neither of us is quite correct. What I really meant was "where the Sun REALLY is, rather than where it appears to be due to the eight and a half minute old light we're seeing".
No doubt.
It should be noted, however, that politicians were bought and sold long before "superpacs" were even thought of.
No.
If gravity were FTL, it would be pretty obvious, since then the Sun would appear to be in a different direction than the Sun's gravity.
Alas, all the experimentation to date shows that gravity is pulling Earth directly toward that big light in the sky, NOT toward where that big light was eight and a fraction minutes ago....
"Now that there is nothing we can do" is a bit misleading - the condition ("there is nothing we can do") has been true since before we ever thought about AGW....
Oddly, I can find no real evidence that the oil companies want anything from the taxpayers other than to get the permits approved allow them to build the pipeline.
Note, by the by, that 2000 rail cars, plus the fees associated with moving things by rail (even when you supply the cars), isn't chicken feed....