Otherwise, all but the very rich would drown in sewage. Even the very rich would have to put up with the stench. Have a read about Victorian London, the Great Stink, and Bazalgette's sewers.
It really pains me to say this, because I'm very respectful of the US space programme despite the space shuttles technical shortcomings, but I'd be very surprised if Constellation goes anywhere other than LEO. In fact, I'd be very surprised if it gets that far given the current political and economic climate.
Ares 1 doesn't look like a very good design either.
Um, you are aware that the space shuttle launches fifty times more payload that the Falcon-I does, right?
And that would be 98% more than it needs to for the kinds of missions Falcon-I is designed for. The problem with the shuttle is that all of those engines, payload bay, wings, plumbing and so forth have to go up whether you're launching a part of the space station, spy satellite or not. Suffice to say it's all pretty fragile and wonky, but in the land of the Cowboy, we don't mind recklessly sacrificing lives 'cause it's big and better to die a hero than to live to invent something better. Yeehaw! (cue musical horn from General Lee)
If you want people to take you seriously, you will have to use scientific terms correctly. You will have to base your claims upon logical reasoning and sound premises.
You should also keep myth and superstition out of discussions regarding objective reality.
The best two point I can deduce from what you have written so far are:
1: You have an engine that runs on compressed air. (Fair enough that's not unreasonable). Since compressed air cools when it expands, if you can heat that air, you can get more power out of the engine. (Also fair enough). Some famous guy added heat to the decompressing air from ambient air (i.e. a heat exchanger). He didn't get his car to go very fast. You correctly realised that adding more heat would give the engine more output, making the car faster. Your method for achieving this was by heating the expanding gas (mixing it?) with hot steam. Yes, that will work. How this is an improvement, cost and efficiency wise, over existing engines is anyones guess.
2: You have strong irrational beliefs in mythological prophecy which you sincerely believe in and want everyone else to know about.
As I originally stated, you are amusing, and pretty harmless.
Certainly, when a gas expands, it becomes cold and this is how refrigerators work. In a real-life situation, when you compress a gas, it becomes hot. Some of that heat is radiated (or conducted or convected) away, so that when the gas expands it is colder than it was at first. This is entropy in action, one of the Laws of Thermodynamics.
The reason an air hose feels cold is because it is removing heat from your skin faster than stagnant air.
Science does not depend on names or credentials, only independently verifiable experimental evidence. [Fred Hoyle, for example, is often quoted by Jehova's Witnesses where his religiously-biased speculation regarding the origins of live support their beliefs. The man was clever, qualified but biased none the less.]
What about all the Biblical prophecies which haven't happened? People have been foretelling the End of the World "since god was a boy" and it still hasn't happened. We know that the Earth will probably be around for another 4.5 billion years. Whether the human race manages to last the next 100 is up for debate based on our propensity for greed and war, but I'd bet on the Earth still being here.
There is no experimental evidence for "god" and no reason to believe that the Bible is any more real than any other religious text. I don't even think it was meant to be a source of future predictions or a literal explanation of anything.
One thing's for sure, if you could efficiently remove the nitrogen from the air going into an internal combustion engine, you could probably remove a lot of the pollution.
Molecular nitrogen is pretty inert. Yes it forms compounds in the heat and pressure of an internal combustion engine, but I think you'll find that there is no energy to be gained. In fact, I'd bet that it's endothermic.
Using the forward motion of a vehicle to compress air is not "free." It slows the vehicle down.
I have just looked at enginewow.htm and your first misunderstanding is, "compressing a free gas like nitrogen -or just plain air- presses energy into the air -stored in the air- but the various squeezed molecules move more slowly, lowering the temperature."
Compressing a gas heats it up. The molecules are closer together and the number of collisions between them, and their average speed, increases.
The heat can then be removed with a heat exchanger, reducing the temperature, pressure and therefore energy content of the gas.
I'll read the rest later, but I'll warn you, I don't believe Bible (or any other) prophecies. It is always very fishy when someone tries mixing them in with "science" or "engineering." They (prophecies) and the system upon which they are based are the very antithesis of true science (and engineering).
Sad. I used to watch Knight Rider and wonder whether KITT was 16- or 32-bit and if that sort of thing could be done in 16MB or RAM. Was it a 286 or a 68000? Or even a Z800? Could it have been a Transputer?
6502 must have been a joke since it was about the cheapest, simplest thing that was worthy of being called a computer.
I was just thinking of something that could be done in the short term before Constellation comes on line. How long would it take to get Atlas or Delta human-rated? Building a capsule to go on top might take a bit of effort, but I'm sure they could do it in much less than 7 years (2015).
Maybe NASA could buy flights on Arianne 5 with a modified ATV ( c.f. Jules Verne)? Both are intended to be used for human flight. Arianne needs man-rating and there are designs for modifications to the ATV to carry astronauts. It's maiden flight has shown that it works. Just while they're busy building their own rockets. And what about Atlas and Delta? Weren't there proposals to man-rate them too? They're pretty reliable and capable of lifting a few people into LEO.
Looks like the race to Mars will be between China and Russia.
You want to go to Belmarsh or Gitmo because some busy-body flag-worshiping Yankee got the wrong idea about those Carol Ann Duffy poems on your PeeCee or you are brown and have a non-Christian religion?
Intel's been busy making a whole new line of quad (and greater) core processors with SMT (Hyperthreading). Microsoft writes the bloaty code, intel sells you the chips to run it on.
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Otherwise, all but the very rich would drown in sewage. Even the very rich would have to put up with the stench. Have a read about Victorian London, the Great Stink, and Bazalgette's sewers.
It really pains me to say this, because I'm very respectful of the US space programme despite the space shuttles technical shortcomings, but I'd be very surprised if Constellation goes anywhere other than LEO. In fact, I'd be very surprised if it gets that far given the current political and economic climate.
Ares 1 doesn't look like a very good design either.
Last ever Moonwalk: Apollo 17, 1972.
The next Moonwalk will not be American.
PeeCees (and workstations before them) have been using graphics accelerators since the days of Windows 3.1 (and before).
So someone put some hooks in their code to use some maths functions on a new graphics card? Big deal.
Um, you are aware that the space shuttle launches fifty times more payload that the Falcon-I does, right?
And that would be 98% more than it needs to for the kinds of missions Falcon-I is designed for. The problem with the shuttle is that all of those engines, payload bay, wings, plumbing and so forth have to go up whether you're launching a part of the space station, spy satellite or not. Suffice to say it's all pretty fragile and wonky, but in the land of the Cowboy, we don't mind recklessly sacrificing lives 'cause it's big and better to die a hero than to live to invent something better. Yeehaw! (cue musical horn from General Lee)
You completely miss my point.
If you want people to take you seriously, you will have to use scientific terms correctly. You will have to base your claims upon logical reasoning and sound premises.
You should also keep myth and superstition out of discussions regarding objective reality.
The best two point I can deduce from what you have written so far are:
1: You have an engine that runs on compressed air. (Fair enough that's not unreasonable). Since compressed air cools when it expands, if you can heat that air, you can get more power out of the engine. (Also fair enough). Some famous guy added heat to the decompressing air from ambient air (i.e. a heat exchanger). He didn't get his car to go very fast. You correctly realised that adding more heat would give the engine more output, making the car faster. Your method for achieving this was by heating the expanding gas (mixing it?) with hot steam. Yes, that will work. How this is an improvement, cost and efficiency wise, over existing engines is anyones guess.
2: You have strong irrational beliefs in mythological prophecy which you sincerely believe in and want everyone else to know about.
As I originally stated, you are amusing, and pretty harmless.
Certainly, when a gas expands, it becomes cold and this is how refrigerators work. In a real-life situation, when you compress a gas, it becomes hot. Some of that heat is radiated (or conducted or convected) away, so that when the gas expands it is colder than it was at first. This is entropy in action, one of the Laws of Thermodynamics.
The reason an air hose feels cold is because it is removing heat from your skin faster than stagnant air.
Science does not depend on names or credentials, only independently verifiable experimental evidence. [Fred Hoyle, for example, is often quoted by Jehova's Witnesses where his religiously-biased speculation regarding the origins of live support their beliefs. The man was clever, qualified but biased none the less.]
What about all the Biblical prophecies which haven't happened? People have been foretelling the End of the World "since god was a boy" and it still hasn't happened. We know that the Earth will probably be around for another 4.5 billion years. Whether the human race manages to last the next 100 is up for debate based on our propensity for greed and war, but I'd bet on the Earth still being here.
There is no experimental evidence for "god" and no reason to believe that the Bible is any more real than any other religious text. I don't even think it was meant to be a source of future predictions or a literal explanation of anything.
One thing's for sure, if you could efficiently remove the nitrogen from the air going into an internal combustion engine, you could probably remove a lot of the pollution.
Molecular nitrogen is pretty inert. Yes it forms compounds in the heat and pressure of an internal combustion engine, but I think you'll find that there is no energy to be gained. In fact, I'd bet that it's endothermic.
Using the forward motion of a vehicle to compress air is not "free." It slows the vehicle down.
I have just looked at enginewow.htm and your first misunderstanding is, "compressing a free gas like nitrogen -or just plain air- presses energy into the air -stored in the air- but the various squeezed molecules move more slowly, lowering the temperature."
Compressing a gas heats it up. The molecules are closer together and the number of collisions between them, and their average speed, increases.
The heat can then be removed with a heat exchanger, reducing the temperature, pressure and therefore energy content of the gas.
I'll read the rest later, but I'll warn you, I don't believe Bible (or any other) prophecies. It is always very fishy when someone tries mixing them in with "science" or "engineering." They (prophecies) and the system upon which they are based are the very antithesis of true science (and engineering).
So if it's going to change the world for the better, why not just put it on line so we can all try to make one?
You are interesting.
Am I the only one who's thinking "danger!danger!" here?
I'm sure those were Steve Irwin's last thougts.
Hmmm... "Killer application" drives adoption of platform.
Most people on Windows only consume, not produce.
Flower chase the sunshine.
Sad. I used to watch Knight Rider and wonder whether KITT was 16- or 32-bit and if that sort of thing could be done in 16MB or RAM. Was it a 286 or a 68000? Or even a Z800? Could it have been a Transputer?
6502 must have been a joke since it was about the cheapest, simplest thing that was worthy of being called a computer.
I looked at your blog and it's a crazy mix of religion, conspiracy and anti-gravity. Very funny.
You, sir, are hilarious. Thanks.
I was just thinking of something that could be done in the short term before Constellation comes on line. How long would it take to get Atlas or Delta human-rated? Building a capsule to go on top might take a bit of effort, but I'm sure they could do it in much less than 7 years (2015).
Maybe NASA could buy flights on Arianne 5 with a modified ATV ( c.f. Jules Verne)? Both are intended to be used for human flight. Arianne needs man-rating and there are designs for modifications to the ATV to carry astronauts. It's maiden flight has shown that it works. Just while they're busy building their own rockets. And what about Atlas and Delta? Weren't there proposals to man-rate them too? They're pretty reliable and capable of lifting a few people into LEO.
Looks like the race to Mars will be between China and Russia.
You want to go to Belmarsh or Gitmo because some busy-body flag-worshiping Yankee got the wrong idea about those Carol Ann Duffy poems on your PeeCee or you are brown and have a non-Christian religion?
I could live with 568ml of beer :-)
Intel's been busy making a whole new line of quad (and greater) core processors with SMT (Hyperthreading). Microsoft writes the bloaty code, intel sells you the chips to run it on.
The StarTribune article said the warrant included seizing MP3 players. How can these be used to break the law?
Copyright infringement? I hear you can get 10 years for that nowadays (if it's top quality stuff like Madonna or Britney Spears).
/me ducks.
Remind me never to buy another one of their locks.
variable constant
Bah! God does not write in C++.
Modern management theories have no models for step "2. ???" That is where they break down. It is their "Ultraviolet Catastrophe" so to speak.
Maybe someone's been hob-nobbing with GE? Core business! Core Business! Eliminate waste! Exterminate!