I didn't honestly have any problem parsing your post, but then I didn't with the parent's either. As an example though, starting a paragraph with "Have the engines fall off is" would draw a raised eyebrow from a 'literate editor'.
I'm sorry but your sentence structure should really preclude you from complaining about other's grammar.:)
The fuel leaking issue is fairly well known so you loose points for picking on that issue too. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/
The leaks were more a design compromise than a design flaw from what I have heard. The leaking expansion joints in the fuel tank were required to allow the relatively huge expansion that occurred when the plane got up into its common operating temperature ranges. At mach 3 the heat from air friction soaking into the plane expanded the metal around the joints (along with everything else) and stopped the leaks. The joints allowed the expansion to take place without overly stressing the fuel tank.
I can only guess that the planes that you saw were empty and thus not leaking.
The summary makes it seem like there have been two different big quakes. In actuality there was a moderate 5.2 followed by what is apparently a 4.6 aftershock.
/Or I royally screwed up the math.:-) No, you got it right. Thanks for the explanation. I was counting hours/month, and well, nevermind. I'm going away now.
Except that your payoff time calcs are assuming that your windmill is generating 100% power every hour (34 hours per day?) all day, every day of the year. The wind doesn't just work that hard...
Can you back up the pedophile claim? Thought not. As far as I can tell not one shred of evidence for the claim has ever been found. He was still knighted, after a two year delay caused by these claims. That shows pretty clearly that the claims were investigated and found to be false.
Sorry about your moderation. I don't agree with you, but you certainly weren't trolling.
The marriage contract is between him and his wife, and that is none of our business. And I state that as someone who voted for him.
The issue that should concern the public is that he broke prostitution laws, (whether you agree with them or not), and from a practical viewpoint, opened himself up to extortion.
As to the freedom for consenting adults to do what they want in the privacy of their homes, unfortunately there are still a significant number of laws restricting various ah, 'acts' in various states in the US and in countries around the world.
"and never will." seems a bit strong. Here's a link to a video clip on SpaceX's website showing a simulation of their Dragon capsule approaching ISS, being captured and then docked by the station's arm.
And the article mentions that much of the delay is due to a huge increase in paperwork. The have changed their launch site to the Cape instead of the Kwajalein Atoll that they had originally planned to use, and as a consequence are faced with a maze of new documents that the Air Force is requiring that they submit.
You are not seeing the forest for the trees.:) The 'feedback loop' itself does not power the increasing volume of sound. The amplifier, using an increasing electrical current, is doing all of the work.
Nothing would happen without the amplifier. The amplifier is just amplifying an increasingly loud input, and using a correspondingly greater amount of electricity to do so. It's no more magic than if you kept turning up the volume on your stereo; you are just using the output sound as a control instead of manual control.
Before you drop the files (or whatever) that you're draging in Windows, look at the icon. If it's just the expected icon, it's going to be a move. If it has a '+' sign appended onto it, it will be a copy. If has a shortcut arrow on it, it will be a shortcut.
Running the install program, it's not obvious where to get a list of mirrors. After googling around, setting up my own list, etc. etc, I realized that :
If you click on the settings button on that screen you will find a pre-configured list of mirrors hiding there.
This is not about advancing the state of the art in rocket design, no one ever claimed that it was. They are learning how to build an infrastructure that could take paying customers to orbit.
They are gaining experience carrying passengers and a spaceship up to the edge of space. They are gaining experience dealing with novice 'astronauts' and what it takes to prepare them and what they should expect from them in a weightless environment. They are gaining experience designing and building and flying carrier aircraft. I would imagine that the next generation will use a different rocket design, go significantly faster, and start using heat shielding, with yet a bigger carrier aircraft. Once they have that in place, the next generation can upgrade the 'spaceship' to something with serious rockets that have the capability of reaching orbital speeds.
Or should they have gone for orbit first and hope everything else works at the same time?
The IRA's bombings weren't (in most cases) intended to kill people, they even gave warnings so the appropriate areas could be evacuated. I guess they just wanted publicity for their cause for the most part.
What IRA are you talking about? The Provos, which is what most people refer to as the 'IRA', were responsible for somewhere around 1,800 deaths during "The Troubles", from the late '60s through the late '90s. During this same period they were responsible for approximately 20,000 wounded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army#Casualties
OP "what the hell... is with the messed up tag: "onelaptopperblackchild"? Am I the only one who thinks that's slightly wrong?"
Responded DerekLyons:
"To date, that's what the OLPC program has been. "
That comment is just wrong, on several levels.
1) It is factually not true. According to the OLPC Wiki, the first mass deployment is in Uruguay. That is in South America, not Africa, and CIA world Fact Book lists the country as 96% White, Spanish, or European. Other smaller deployments include Peru. Do you just assume that anyone in a third world country must be black?
2) Even if it were true, it would still be racist to bring it up. Unless the skin color of the recipients has some bearing on the conversation, why bring it up at all? Why should it matter? Was the laptop designed only for black people? Is it destined to be given solely to blacks? No? Then why else bring it to the conversation? One doesn't categorize groups of people by say, sock color or fingernail length. Why should skin color be any different? If race isn't important to the conversation, leave it out.
It would be too easy to hunt primitive Earth creatures with your laser, the challenge lies in creating weapons from locally found resources. It's considered acceptable to use your laser for smelting and boring to create the weapons though.
The B-58 had no internal bomb bay to launch bombs out of, which is the whole point of TFA. It's one thing to detach a weapon on a pylon that is already in a supersonic airstream, it's another to try to force one out of a stagnant weapons bay into a supersonic airstream.
1) Legislative restrictions. Difficult to make a plane that passes laws for cars; crash worthiness etc.
2) Not many have the skill to fly a plane thus limiting the market. It is much harder to become a licensed pilot than it is to get an automobile drivers license.
Please go back to shoes and stay out of discussions where you don't belong. You clearly don't understand anything about flight.
Quoted 'Womens Shoes': "Barring some absolutely physics-defying discovery, it takes a relatively huge amount of energy to keep a vehicle off the ground".
If we were talking about helicopters, that might be true, but we are talking about planes. The wings hold the plane up, not the engine. The engine is just there to pull the plane through the air fast enough for the wings to work, and that doesn't take much power at all for reasonable speeds.
Quoted 'Womens Shoes': "Steering, stopping, and idling in the air are far more expensive and imprecise because you've got nothing fixed to hold on to -- we get a lot of freebies by being in contact with the ground."
You are trying to apply the automobile paradigm to planes and that doesn't make sense. Cars are usually limited to travel on narrow roads that intersect with each other and thus traffic requires stopping and idling and sharp corners. Flight is not constrained to narrow two dimensional lanes, you have a huge three dimensional chunk of sky to fly in, and stopping and idling are not issues. As for precision, planes don't have to be as close as cars on the road do, and they can be flown very precisely anyway; just watch one of the aerial acrobatics teams sometime.
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Troll?!?
What, did I piss off an Blackbird crew member talking about the fuel leak or something? How the hell was this a troll in any way shape or form?
I didn't honestly have any problem parsing your post, but then I didn't with the parent's either. As an example though, starting a paragraph with "Have the engines fall off is" would draw a raised eyebrow from a 'literate editor'.
I'm sorry but your sentence structure should really preclude you from complaining about other's grammar. :)
The fuel leaking issue is fairly well known so you loose points for picking on that issue too. Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/
The leaks were more a design compromise than a design flaw from what I have heard. The leaking expansion joints in the fuel tank were required to allow the relatively huge expansion that occurred when the plane got up into its common operating temperature ranges. At mach 3 the heat from air friction soaking into the plane expanded the metal around the joints (along with everything else) and stopped the leaks. The joints allowed the expansion to take place without overly stressing the fuel tank.
I can only guess that the planes that you saw were empty and thus not leaking.
The summary makes it seem like there have been two different big quakes. In actuality there was a moderate 5.2 followed by what is apparently a 4.6 aftershock.
/Or I royally screwed up the math.Except that your payoff time calcs are assuming that your windmill is generating 100% power every hour (34 hours per day?) all day, every day of the year. The wind doesn't just work that hard...
"Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!"
The facts have come out. Years ago. He never did anything. No one ever came forward. No evidence was ever found. This is old news.
Can you back up the pedophile claim? Thought not. As far as I can tell not one shred of evidence for the claim has ever been found. He was still knighted, after a two year delay caused by these claims. That shows pretty clearly that the claims were investigated and found to be false.
Sorry about your moderation. I don't agree with you, but you certainly weren't trolling.
The marriage contract is between him and his wife, and that is none of our business. And I state that as someone who voted for him.
The issue that should concern the public is that he broke prostitution laws, (whether you agree with them or not), and from a practical viewpoint, opened himself up to extortion.
As to the freedom for consenting adults to do what they want in the privacy of their homes, unfortunately there are still a significant number of laws restricting various ah, 'acts' in various states in the US and in countries around the world.
"and never will." seems a bit strong. Here's a link to a video clip on SpaceX's website showing a simulation of their Dragon capsule approaching ISS, being captured and then docked by the station's arm.
http://www.spacex.com/00Graphics/Videos/Dragon_ISS_Rendezvous.mpg
Granted, it hasn't happened yet, but it sure is in the planning stages.
And the article mentions that much of the delay is due to a huge increase in paperwork. The have changed their launch site to the Cape instead of the Kwajalein Atoll that they had originally planned to use, and as a consequence are faced with a maze of new documents that the Air Force is requiring that they submit.
You are not seeing the forest for the trees. :) The 'feedback loop' itself does not power the increasing volume of sound. The amplifier, using an increasing electrical current, is doing all of the work.
Nothing would happen without the amplifier. The amplifier is just amplifying an increasingly loud input, and using a correspondingly greater amount of electricity to do so. It's no more magic than if you kept turning up the volume on your stereo; you are just using the output sound as a control instead of manual control.
Before you drop the files (or whatever) that you're draging in Windows, look at the icon.
If it's just the expected icon, it's going to be a move.
If it has a '+' sign appended onto it, it will be a copy.
If has a shortcut arrow on it, it will be a shortcut.
Running the install program, it's not obvious where to get a list of mirrors. After googling around, setting up my own list, etc. etc, I realized that :
If you click on the settings button on that screen you will find a pre-configured list of mirrors hiding there.
Maybe I'm just slow today...
This is not about advancing the state of the art in rocket design, no one ever claimed that it was.
They are learning how to build an infrastructure that could take paying customers to orbit.
They are gaining experience carrying passengers and a spaceship up to the edge of space.
They are gaining experience dealing with novice 'astronauts' and what it takes to prepare them and what they should expect from them in a weightless environment.
They are gaining experience designing and building and flying carrier aircraft.
I would imagine that the next generation will use a different rocket design, go significantly faster, and start using heat shielding, with yet a bigger carrier aircraft.
Once they have that in place, the next generation can upgrade the 'spaceship' to something with serious rockets that have the capability of reaching orbital speeds.
Or should they have gone for orbit first and hope everything else works at the same time?
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Bob Holmes' website:
http://ari.home.mchsi.com/index.htm
List of asteroids discovered this school year:
http://ari.home.mchsi.com/mp_discoveries_table_2007.htm
And some info on the telescope he uses to capture images:
http://bi-staff.beckman.uiuc.edu/~melockwo/telescopes/holmes32/holmes32.html
What IRA are you talking about? The Provos, which is what most people refer to as the 'IRA', were responsible for somewhere around 1,800 deaths during "The Troubles", from the late '60s through the late '90s. During this same period they were responsible for approximately 20,000 wounded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army#Casualties
Their primary strategy was "A war of attrition against enemy personnel [British Army] based on causing as many deaths as possible so as to create a demand from their [the British] people at home for their withdrawal."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army#The_.22Long_War.22
'as many deaths as possible'.
OP
"what the hell... is with the messed up tag: "onelaptopperblackchild"? Am I the only one who thinks that's slightly wrong?"
Responded DerekLyons:
"To date, that's what the OLPC program has been. "
That comment is just wrong, on several levels.
1) It is factually not true. According to the OLPC Wiki, the first mass deployment is in Uruguay. That is in South America, not Africa, and CIA world Fact Book lists the country as 96% White, Spanish, or European. Other smaller deployments include Peru. Do you just assume that anyone in a third world country must be black?
2) Even if it were true, it would still be racist to bring it up. Unless the skin color of the recipients has some bearing on the conversation, why bring it up at all? Why should it matter? Was the laptop designed only for black people? Is it destined to be given solely to blacks? No? Then why else bring it to the conversation? One doesn't categorize groups of people by say, sock color or fingernail length. Why should skin color be any different? If race isn't important to the conversation, leave it out.
It would be too easy to hunt primitive Earth creatures with your laser, the challenge lies in creating weapons from locally found resources. It's considered acceptable to use your laser for smelting and boring to create the weapons though.
The B-58 had no internal bomb bay to launch bombs out of, which is the whole point of TFA. It's one thing to detach a weapon on a pylon that is already in a supersonic airstream, it's another to try to force one out of a stagnant weapons bay into a supersonic airstream.
Should not critique others' vocabulary, those who use 'LOL'.
1) Legislative restrictions. Difficult to make a plane that passes laws for cars; crash worthiness etc. 2) Not many have the skill to fly a plane thus limiting the market. It is much harder to become a licensed pilot than it is to get an automobile drivers license.
Please go back to shoes and stay out of discussions where you don't belong. You clearly don't understand anything about flight.
Quoted 'Womens Shoes': "Barring some absolutely physics-defying discovery, it takes a relatively huge amount of energy to keep a vehicle off the ground".
If we were talking about helicopters, that might be true, but we are talking about planes. The wings hold the plane up, not the engine. The engine is just there to pull the plane through the air fast enough for the wings to work, and that doesn't take much power at all for reasonable speeds.
Quoted 'Womens Shoes': "Steering, stopping, and idling in the air are far more expensive and imprecise because you've got nothing fixed to hold on to -- we get a lot of freebies by being in contact with the ground."
You are trying to apply the automobile paradigm to planes and that doesn't make sense. Cars are usually limited to travel on narrow roads that intersect with each other and thus traffic requires stopping and idling and sharp corners. Flight is not constrained to narrow two dimensional lanes, you have a huge three dimensional chunk of sky to fly in, and stopping and idling are not issues. As for precision, planes don't have to be as close as cars on the road do, and they can be flown very precisely anyway; just watch one of the aerial acrobatics teams sometime.