But a few people might die from the shock of seeing US politicans follow the US Consitution:)
While I agree that seeing politicians follow the US Constitution would be an amazing, once in a lifetime event, it has nothing to do with the Treaty of the Metre. It hasn't been ratified by the Senate, which, according to the Consitution, gives it no legal validity in the USA.
Metric fuel consumption is fuel _consumption_, not _efficiency_, and stated in Liters per 100km.
You are aware, I trust, that fuel consumption (as opposed to efficiency) was a choice made irrelevant to the metric system? Gallons per mile would work just as well as a measure of fuel consumption...
also, 28miles/gallon, 1000 miles, no calculator, four seconds, -> 36 gallons. Division isn't really that hard.
Showing your prejudices, aren't you? There are more than two countries in North America...or did you mean Mexico was the second? Yah, I've often thought that Canada should be considered the 51st state....
They actually said that it was NOT unconstitutional to require that you identify yourself.
Current laws on the subject are the usual mish-mash - some States do, some don't.
This does open the gate for Federal legislation making it a crime to not identify yourself to a police officer, but that hasn't happened so far as I know.
Owning the only copies does NOT give you Copyright. It just gives you the only copies.
Owning a copy does NOT give you the right to reproduce (copy) them, except for archival purposes, as allowed under Copyright law.
Noone can claim "your" copies. However, the Copyright holder (the original photographer, his heirs or assigns, as case may be) can control whether you make copies of your copies (except as allowed under Copyright law), by bringing suit against you in the Courts if you choose to do so in violation of the law.
Now, this does not imply that there is much likelihood of such suit being brought. Not terribly many photographers' heirs are likely to be aware that they own the Copyright to every picture he ever took, less any he assigned during his lifetime.
However, the likelihood that you can get away with violating the law does not make it less a violation of the law.
Probably. On the other hand, the Sun/Earth Lagrange points are technically year long orbits relative to either the Sun or Earth.
And O'Neill is why I assumed Earth/Moon points in the first place. Sun/Earth points are inconvenient to get to, as well as not terribly stable, what with Jupiter out there and all....
Overlooked the March flights. #2 did two flights in three days at the end of March. Flights 10 & 11 (& & 8 for #2).
Here's a URL for a good flight listing:
X-15 Flight List
It's in French, but numbers are numbers....
Note that the X-15 went higher than SS1 did yesterday only twice. Both Airframe #3, both in 1963, and just over a month apart. Evidence is, however, that it had the capability to do it within two weeks, if anyone had had a reason to do so.
I guess I've always considered the Moon's pull to be too weak to be of much use in stabilizing a station there. i.e. It would be too easy to accidently drift out of the gravitational "lock-in".
Hmm, seems to me that Jupiter's gravity would have more effect on the Sun/Earth L4/5 points than Earth's does. So the Sun/Earth L1 is probably the only one of that set worth even talking about. But Earth/Moon L4/5 should be more stable...I think (not like I've run the numbers, or anything;) )
I'd also like to point out that escape velocity is a function of the mass of the planet and the inverse-square of the distance to that planet.
No. Escape speed is a function of the mass of the planet and the distance to the planet.
Specifically, Vesc = 2*r*g, where r is the distance from the planet, and g is *local* gravity. Which local gravity varies as the inverse square of the distance. So Vesc reduces to 2*G*m/r, where G is the Universal Gravitiational Constant, m is the mass of the planet (or other such body as you care to determine an escape speed from), r is the distance to that planet (or other...), and 2 is, well, 2.
Except that you'd have to thrust 930,000 miles before you hit the L1 point (the closest)
930,000 miles? I think not. Especially given that L4 & 5 are only 238,000 miles away.
Even so, going to L-x in s straight line doesn't put you into orbit. If you went straight up to any L-x position, you'd be there with a speed ~1km/s away from orbital speed, and immediately after ceasing thrust, you'd fall back out of the sky - it'd take you a few days to smack into the ground, but smack into the ground you would.
Refurb % between flights for X15 is not an easily available number, but it's likely it was less than 10%; there was no ablative structure and the engines were reusable.
Actually, that pink stuff on the X-15 was a spray-on ablative. It was used for the high-speed flights.
And the drop tanks, of course. Again, for the high-speed flights.
Flights number 167 and 170 are a bad example, though. X15 #1 flew three times in two weeks, back in May 1960. I believe that the last of those flights was the first Mach 3+ flight...
The death of the original Copyright holder does not give YOU the copyrights. They still belong to him for 75 years after his death (under current US law - I am assuming you are American).
Ownership of the copies does not imply ownership of the Copyrights.
Do I have proof? Other than your statement that you bought some slides at auction, no. If you were the heir of the original copyright holder, I assume you would have said so. If not, you don't hold the Copyrights.
You are confusing ownership of a copy with ownership of a Copyright. The former gives you no right to sell copies (though you may sell the copy you own), the latter gives you rights to do as you wish regarding copies - to sell them, give them away, or quietly let them disappear.
Yah, God only knows how terrible it would be to preserve a piece of history!
And we'll we're at it, let's tear down the Washington Monument and make a Parking Garage there! No need to waste all that space and stone when we could make something useful of it...
Sure! Back then, Eugenics was Science! It was the wave of the future!
It was, well, pretty much like genetic engineering is viewed now. A way to improve the world, all upside, no downside.
Didn't work out that way though. And wouldn't have worked out, even if the Nazis hadn't given it a reputation that would stink to the heavens for the rest of history. Because they didn't know enough to do it right.
Any more than we know enough to do the genegeneering thing right. Someday we'll know it all. Now, we don't. If we're not careful, we'll get back to eugenics with genetic engineering as the guise to win acceptance. Then, in 50 years or so, we'll have a nice, unpleasant, world war, and get over the notion again for a time...until we find a new guise for "playing God"....
It says enough about the M16 that a lot of american troops in vietnam switched weapons when they had the change
/laughs
In WW2, the USArmy used the Tommygun as their SMG of choice. The Grease Gun was a distant second. The Germans used the various Erma SMGs. The Soviets used the PPSh (? - I think that was the basic designation).
In general, American soldiers were quite willing to pick up an Erma when they could, to replace their greaseguns, and sometimes to replace tommyguns.
At the same time, the Russians were tossing PPSh's into ditches and picking up Ermas when they could get hold of them.
Sounds like the Erma was a hell of a gun, doesn't it? While the Americans and Russians were picking up Ermas, the Germans were tossing Ermas into ditches and picking up PPSh's, and occasionally tommyguns/greaseguns (American SMG's were less popular with Germans because the/45 ACP round was harder to come by - it had to be captured along with the gun).
In other words, the grass is always greener. Only time this rule doesn't apply is when one side or another has a clearly superior weapon. Even then, soldiers will sometimes toss the "superior" weapon they were issued for an "inferior" weapon that had some characteristic they liked - M1 Garands were the best rifles used in the war, except the Sturmgewehr-44 toward the end, but were tossed aside for tommyguns and M1 carbines (which latter was a crappy little rifle, but soldiers march more than they fight, and it doesn't weigh much, so it was very popular)
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While I agree that seeing politicians follow the US Constitution would be an amazing, once in a lifetime event, it has nothing to do with the Treaty of the Metre. It hasn't been ratified by the Senate, which, according to the Consitution, gives it no legal validity in the USA.
I trust you mean "join the eighteenth century"? Metric came out of the French Revolution, and was introduced in 1798.
You are aware, I trust, that fuel consumption (as opposed to efficiency) was a choice made irrelevant to the metric system? Gallons per mile would work just as well as a measure of fuel consumption...
also, 28miles/gallon, 1000 miles, no calculator, four seconds, -> 36 gallons. Division isn't really that hard.
I trust you really meant Hectometremeter? Last time I checked, "hecto-" was still the prefix for 100....
Showing your prejudices, aren't you? There are more than two countries in North America...or did you mean Mexico was the second? Yah, I've often thought that Canada should be considered the 51st state....
As those of us who read Groklaw know, a "writing" is required to transfer copyright, explicitly stating what copyrights are being transferred.
Do you have such? If not, then you bought copies, not Copyright.
Sonny Bono isn't a Senator. He never was, even when he was alive. He was a Representative.
Quite so. In fact, the Supremese ruled many years ago that the police have no legal obligation to protect you, as an individual.
They actually said that it was NOT unconstitutional to require that you identify yourself.
Current laws on the subject are the usual mish-mash - some States do, some don't.
This does open the gate for Federal legislation making it a crime to not identify yourself to a police officer, but that hasn't happened so far as I know.
Owning a copy does NOT give you the right to reproduce (copy) them, except for archival purposes, as allowed under Copyright law.
Noone can claim "your" copies. However, the Copyright holder (the original photographer, his heirs or assigns, as case may be) can control whether you make copies of your copies (except as allowed under Copyright law), by bringing suit against you in the Courts if you choose to do so in violation of the law.
Now, this does not imply that there is much likelihood of such suit being brought. Not terribly many photographers' heirs are likely to be aware that they own the Copyright to every picture he ever took, less any he assigned during his lifetime.
However, the likelihood that you can get away with violating the law does not make it less a violation of the law.
And O'Neill is why I assumed Earth/Moon points in the first place. Sun/Earth points are inconvenient to get to, as well as not terribly stable, what with Jupiter out there and all....
Overlooked the March flights. #2 did two flights in three days at the end of March. Flights 10 & 11 (& & 8 for #2).
Here's a URL for a good flight listing:
X-15 Flight List
It's in French, but numbers are numbers....
Note that the X-15 went higher than SS1 did yesterday only twice. Both Airframe #3, both in 1963, and just over a month apart. Evidence is, however, that it had the capability to do it within two weeks, if anyone had had a reason to do so.
Hmm, seems to me that Jupiter's gravity would have more effect on the Sun/Earth L4/5 points than Earth's does. So the Sun/Earth L1 is probably the only one of that set worth even talking about. But Earth/Moon L4/5 should be more stable...I think (not like I've run the numbers, or anything ;) )
I sincerely hope we weren't talking Sun/Earth Lagrange points! But if we were, my apologies to you....
No. Escape speed is a function of the mass of the planet and the distance to the planet.
Specifically, Vesc = 2*r*g, where r is the distance from the planet, and g is *local* gravity. Which local gravity varies as the inverse square of the distance. So Vesc reduces to 2*G*m/r, where G is the Universal Gravitiational Constant, m is the mass of the planet (or other such body as you care to determine an escape speed from), r is the distance to that planet (or other...), and 2 is, well, 2.
930,000 miles? I think not. Especially given that L4 & 5 are only 238,000 miles away.
Even so, going to L-x in s straight line doesn't put you into orbit. If you went straight up to any L-x position, you'd be there with a speed ~1km/s away from orbital speed, and immediately after ceasing thrust, you'd fall back out of the sky - it'd take you a few days to smack into the ground, but smack into the ground you would.
Actually, that pink stuff on the X-15 was a spray-on ablative. It was used for the high-speed flights.
And the drop tanks, of course. Again, for the high-speed flights.
Flights number 167 and 170 are a bad example, though. X15 #1 flew three times in two weeks, back in May 1960. I believe that the last of those flights was the first Mach 3+ flight...
Obviously, I made the right choice last week when I decided the M&M's would be my munchy of choice for the next few weeks....
Umm...the first orbital flight was two years earlier, in 1961.
One of the teams competing for the X-Prize is planning on balloon lift for that purpose. The da Vinci Project, as I recall.
The death of the original Copyright holder does not give YOU the copyrights. They still belong to him for 75 years after his death (under current US law - I am assuming you are American).
Ownership of the copies does not imply ownership of the Copyrights.
Do I have proof? Other than your statement that you bought some slides at auction, no. If you were the heir of the original copyright holder, I assume you would have said so. If not, you don't hold the Copyrights.
You are confusing ownership of a copy with ownership of a Copyright. The former gives you no right to sell copies (though you may sell the copy you own), the latter gives you rights to do as you wish regarding copies - to sell them, give them away, or quietly let them disappear.
And we'll we're at it, let's tear down the Washington Monument and make a Parking Garage there! No need to waste all that space and stone when we could make something useful of it...
Sure! Back then, Eugenics was Science! It was the wave of the future!
It was, well, pretty much like genetic engineering is viewed now. A way to improve the world, all upside, no downside.
Didn't work out that way though. And wouldn't have worked out, even if the Nazis hadn't given it a reputation that would stink to the heavens for the rest of history. Because they didn't know enough to do it right.
Any more than we know enough to do the genegeneering thing right. Someday we'll know it all. Now, we don't. If we're not careful, we'll get back to eugenics with genetic engineering as the guise to win acceptance. Then, in 50 years or so, we'll have a nice, unpleasant, world war, and get over the notion again for a time...until we find a new guise for "playing God"....
/laughs
In WW2, the USArmy used the Tommygun as their SMG of choice. The Grease Gun was a distant second. The Germans used the various Erma SMGs. The Soviets used the PPSh (? - I think that was the basic designation).
In general, American soldiers were quite willing to pick up an Erma when they could, to replace their greaseguns, and sometimes to replace tommyguns.
At the same time, the Russians were tossing PPSh's into ditches and picking up Ermas when they could get hold of them.
Sounds like the Erma was a hell of a gun, doesn't it? While the Americans and Russians were picking up Ermas, the Germans were tossing Ermas into ditches and picking up PPSh's, and occasionally tommyguns/greaseguns (American SMG's were less popular with Germans because the /45 ACP round was harder to come by - it had to be captured along with the gun).
In other words, the grass is always greener. Only time this rule doesn't apply is when one side or another has a clearly superior weapon. Even then, soldiers will sometimes toss the "superior" weapon they were issued for an "inferior" weapon that had some characteristic they liked - M1 Garands were the best rifles used in the war, except the Sturmgewehr-44 toward the end, but were tossed aside for tommyguns and M1 carbines (which latter was a crappy little rifle, but soldiers march more than they fight, and it doesn't weigh much, so it was very popular)
Eugenics quietly dropped out of sight after the Nazis' implementation of the idea pretty much offended/appalled everyone.