It may not have any affect on the gravitational force between them, (IANAP) but it would sure effect the orbits. Think if you transfered 95% of the Earth's mass to the moon. The gravitational force between them would still be the same, but do you think that the moon would still be orbiting around us?
This was not a test of the engine. They have already done test firings of the engine that last longer than the trip to orbit.
This was a final systems check of the whole rocket. This is (as far as I know?) a unique ability that they have in being able to clamp down the rocket and test it in a completely ready to launch condition. If nothing wrong shows up in the data from this test then they have a good indication that they are really ready to launch.
Admittedly their website sucks but they have some interesting information on there. The old iron SBC 350 was a heavy engine but the new LS family definatly is not. This is something that I would like to attempt in the future; it seems like it would be an neat car from a performance standpoint. I love the 3rd gen RX7, as well as the concept of the Rotary, but I'm scared of the engine reliablity issues.
I tried the name of a friend (pulls up 12 hits on Google) and got a single hit. Not very promising. As well, the home page looks like a clone of Google. They could have made a succinct home page but still been original at the same time.
I must admit that I've always thought that you were really cute and that I would love to meet you, but I find I'm somewhat put off by your lack of knowledge about our language, and unfortunately, what it says about your level of education. I realize that you kept hearing a word in the movies and it sure sounded like 'layer', but you were actually hearing a completely different word; 'lair'. Wacky huh?
Unfortunately your link (or the article that it links to) doesn't say anything about 6 GHz. A little googling found some that did however, but they still talk about this as 'in the Lab'. I bet Intel and AMD can get stuff running at high speed 'in the lab' too. All of the stories that I have seen say that the chip will come out at 4-5 GHz, and not for another year.
It's also important to remember that one of the reasons that Intel is walking away from the clock speed race is that AMD showed that it wasn't necessarily the best way to higher performance. My point is that just because the new IBM chip may have four cores and a high clock speed doesn't mean it will be any faster than a chip with AMD's architecture. No one will really know until it's released and compared against whatever else is available at the time.
Link to an article that does mention the 6Ghz Power 6:
With AltaVista I waded through pages and pages of results trying to find what I was looking for. Even from the begining I found relevant results near the top of Google. Also I seem to remember that back in the 14.4 dialup days Google's pages loaded faster.
Last, Altavista just didn't seem to understand the value of a simple web address. For the longest time you had to go to http://www.altavista.digital.com/ and they didn't even own altavista.com. I never knew about av.com until this thread.
Something everyone is overlooking is that the electric engine is the key to this car's performance. They are using a $25,000 200hp electric motor which was donated to them. That is how they get a 4 second zero to sixty time.
When they talk about building it out of scrounged parts they are talking about the conversion of the diesel/electric hybrid car that they already had over to a soy-diesel/electric hybrid car.
You can read about the previous version of the car here:
Also, to keep the weight down they are using a capacitor pack to power the electric engine, which means you get a very short high performance run and then the juice is gone and you are left with just the diesel engine. 1000 lbs of batteries a) would not fit in the car, b) drastically change its performance.
None of this is meant to take away from what this class has achieved, but this is not any kind of wold changing technology. Car manufacturers could easily build this car today but it would not meet safety regulations, it would be very expensive, ($75-$100K), and it has a lot of realworld shortcomings.
This really isn't the same issue. The point with Red October was to get rid of the sounds that the propellers make as they spin though the water. A ship using this mag lev tecnology would still be making cavitation sounds from the propeller.
None of the points that you mentioned are relevant to 'inspiration' or the point of the post that you replied to.
The GP never said that Space Ship One was going to 'evolve' into something more, or even that it demonstrated useful technology, just that it might spur someone's imagination. And if that wasn't clear enough he even went so far as to say that SSO would never see orbit. You even used the word 'inspire' in your post, which was the whole point of the original post, but evidently you don't understand what it means. How do you know that it hasn't already inspired some kid who will grow up to build his or her generation's space launch system?
This sounds like it was written to the give funding and publicity to Armadillo Aerospace. If they would have remembered to keep their rocket fueled, they would been doing this a year and a half ago.
Learned on a PET, but the ZX80 was the first one that I owned. Man, trying to program in ONE Kb really keeps you on your toes. I remember when I finally got that 16K upgrade cartridge - wow, the programs that I could write then. And then my first commercial game - the flight simulator - never looked back.
I don't think the CIA is going to want thier agents permanantly broacasting a message that says 'hey I work for the CIA' to anybody that has the desire and technology to listen.
You are correct, I was wrong on the Scout's acceptance of religious diversity. I was double-checking my facts on the Scouts position on homosexuality before I posted and I read where they talked about how Scout leaders couldn't be homosexual because it interfered with the Scout Oath and Law and that you had to swear to duty to God. It just sounded so much like Christian rhetoric that I assumed that it must be. Thanks for correcting that.
Unfortunately it does nothing to change the fact that they do exclude homosexuals, and all that represents. Until they back away from that stance my children will never join them, I will never support them, and I advise my friends to follow the same course. We have enough diversity issues today without teaching our children that sexual differences are not morally acceptable.
According to Wikipedia, the Red Cross symbol was specifically chosen to be the reverse of the Swiss flag because the Swiss flag was already seen as a symbol of neutrality. It is also noted that it is different than the English and similar flags in that the Red Cross emblem does not go to the edges of the flag.
Too bad you didn't read down to the part of the page where it said:
"The Geneva Conventions obliged their signatories to prevent the unauthorized use of the name and emblem in wartime and peacetime in order to ensure universal respect for the emblem."
The Boy Scouts of America is an organization that pretends to represent America but at the same time fosters the idea that it is not acceptable to be homosexual (like people have any choice about it) and refuse to let homosexuals be a part of the Scouts. If you are straight and Christian and wish everyone else was too, the Boy Scouts are for you. If they used my logo I would sue them too.
Just because you didn't hear the word used don't extrapolate that to mean that no one else knew it either. Most people who lived on the ring of fire were probably already familar with the term, as well as anybody who was decently well read, even if you didn't see it in the media. Some of us acually learn things from other sources than TV.
I bet that the majority of highspeed chases are not preplanned events that the driver has been planning and preparing for. The average guy racing away from the cops is not going to be thinking clearly about what his best course of action is, or he wouldn't be running in the first place.
I bet you don't have to worry in this particular scenario. It's one thing for a police car to tag you when they are traveling at your speed right behind you. It would be much harder to tag a moving object at that speed when you have little or no warning and the device would then have to plot an intercept trajectory, launch the dart at a point in space ahead of you, and have the speed to catch up to you before you get out of range. Doesn't seem to likely. Now when the CHP get small high speed UAVs that they can launch from their car... But dude, I hope you check your tires very carefully - a blowout at that speed is not pretty.
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It may not have any affect on the gravitational force between them, (IANAP) but it would sure effect the orbits. Think if you transfered 95% of the Earth's mass to the moon. The gravitational force between them would still be the same, but do you think that the moon would still be orbiting around us?
Wierd. My brain apparently fixed that sentence while reading it and I didn't even realize that anything was wrong with it until I read your post.
This was a final systems check of the whole rocket. This is (as far as I know?) a unique ability that they have in being able to clamp down the rocket and test it in a completely ready to launch condition. If nothing wrong shows up in the data from this test then they have a good indication that they are really ready to launch.
Actually, it seems that a V8 conversion can actually weigh LESS than the stock Rotary twin turbo setup.
Check out: http://www.hinsonsupercars.com/FAQ.htm
Admittedly their website sucks but they have some interesting information on there. The old iron SBC 350 was a heavy engine but the new LS family definatly is not. This is something that I would like to attempt in the future; it seems like it would be an neat car from a performance standpoint. I love the 3rd gen RX7, as well as the concept of the Rotary, but I'm scared of the engine reliablity issues.
I would guess he meant 1500 Stone. Those old Fiero owners use a lot of archaic measurements and he probably just got confused.
I tried the name of a friend (pulls up 12 hits on Google) and got a single hit. Not very promising. As well, the home page looks like a clone of Google. They could have made a succinct home page but still been original at the same time.
Hi Shania!
I must admit that I've always thought that you were really cute and that I would love to meet you, but I find I'm somewhat put off by your lack of knowledge about our language, and unfortunately, what it says about your level of education. I realize that you kept hearing a word in the movies and it sure sounded like 'layer', but you were actually hearing a completely different word; 'lair'. Wacky huh?
It's also important to remember that one of the reasons that Intel is walking away from the clock speed race is that AMD showed that it wasn't necessarily the best way to higher performance. My point is that just because the new IBM chip may have four cores and a high clock speed doesn't mean it will be any faster than a chip with AMD's architecture. No one will really know until it's released and compared against whatever else is available at the time.
Link to an article that does mention the 6Ghz Power 6:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/07/ibm_power6 _show/
Care to back up that number? I looked and could only find stories about the costs ranging around TWO Billion. That's a far cry from a HUNDRED Billion.
With AltaVista I waded through pages and pages of results trying to find what I was looking for. Even from the begining I found relevant results near the top of Google. Also I seem to remember that back in the 14.4 dialup days Google's pages loaded faster.
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Last, Altavista just didn't seem to understand the value of a simple web address. For the longest time you had to go to http://www.altavista.digital.com/ and they didn't even own altavista.com. I never knew about av.com until this thread.
I still use bablefish though.
When they talk about building it out of scrounged parts they are talking about the conversion of the diesel/electric hybrid car that they already had over to a soy-diesel /electric hybrid car.
You can read about the previous version of the car here:
http://www.penn-partners.org/evteam/attack.htm
Also, to keep the weight down they are using a capacitor pack to power the electric engine, which means you get a very short high performance run and then the juice is gone and you are left with just the diesel engine. 1000 lbs of batteries a) would not fit in the car, b) drastically change its performance.
None of this is meant to take away from what this class has achieved, but this is not any kind of wold changing technology. Car manufacturers could easily build this car today but it would not meet safety regulations, it would be very expensive, ($75-$100K), and it has a lot of realworld shortcomings.
This really isn't the same issue. The point with Red October was to get rid of the sounds that the propellers make as they spin though the water. A ship using this mag lev tecnology would still be making cavitation sounds from the propeller.
None of the points that you mentioned are relevant to 'inspiration' or the point of the post that you replied to.
The GP never said that Space Ship One was going to 'evolve' into something more, or even that it demonstrated useful technology, just that it might spur someone's imagination. And if that wasn't clear enough he even went so far as to say that SSO would never see orbit. You even used the word 'inspire' in your post, which was the whole point of the original post, but evidently you don't understand what it means. How do you know that it hasn't already inspired some kid who will grow up to build his or her generation's space launch system?
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Ho me/News?news_id=272
If they put their mind to it they should be able to fullful this challenge in a number of weeks.
Learned on a PET, but the ZX80 was the first one that I owned. Man, trying to program in ONE Kb really keeps you on your toes. I remember when I finally got that 16K upgrade cartridge - wow, the programs that I could write then. And then my first commercial game - the flight simulator - never looked back.
I don't think the CIA is going to want thier agents permanantly broacasting a message that says 'hey I work for the CIA' to anybody that has the desire and technology to listen.
Unfortunately it does nothing to change the fact that they do exclude homosexuals, and all that represents. Until they back away from that stance my children will never join them, I will never support them, and I advise my friends to follow the same course. We have enough diversity issues today without teaching our children that sexual differences are not morally acceptable.
According to Wikipedia, the Red Cross symbol was specifically chosen to be the reverse of the Swiss flag because the Swiss flag was already seen as a symbol of neutrality. It is also noted that it is different than the English and similar flags in that the Red Cross emblem does not go to the edges of the flag.
"The Geneva Conventions obliged their signatories to prevent the unauthorized use of the name and emblem in wartime and peacetime in order to ensure universal respect for the emblem."
The Boy Scouts of America is an organization that pretends to represent America but at the same time fosters the idea that it is not acceptable to be homosexual (like people have any choice about it) and refuse to let homosexuals be a part of the Scouts. If you are straight and Christian and wish everyone else was too, the Boy Scouts are for you. If they used my logo I would sue them too.
Just because you didn't hear the word used don't extrapolate that to mean that no one else knew it either. Most people who lived on the ring of fire were probably already familar with the term, as well as anybody who was decently well read, even if you didn't see it in the media. Some of us acually learn things from other sources than TV.
The danger that they might get away on foot is less important than the value of saving lives by safely ending the high-speed chase.
I bet that the majority of highspeed chases are not preplanned events that the driver has been planning and preparing for. The average guy racing away from the cops is not going to be thinking clearly about what his best course of action is, or he wouldn't be running in the first place.
I bet you don't have to worry in this particular scenario. It's one thing for a police car to tag you when they are traveling at your speed right behind you. It would be much harder to tag a moving object at that speed when you have little or no warning and the device would then have to plot an intercept trajectory, launch the dart at a point in space ahead of you, and have the speed to catch up to you before you get out of range. Doesn't seem to likely. Now when the CHP get small high speed UAVs that they can launch from their car... But dude, I hope you check your tires very carefully - a blowout at that speed is not pretty.