Hey, it takes 8 hours to get to another state just about anywhere. It's just that in Texas you can drive at the posted speed limit and it still takes that long.
Oh, and by the way, if Alaska were split in two, Texas would be the THIRD largest state.
It's a toll road isn't it?
Think about it. You don't have to build the stuff, you don't have to warehouse the stuff, all you have to do is charge people for the privelege of moving it through your state. It's like being a middleman.
Of course it will take a line of cars longer to get through a light then a single truck. The line of cars has to maintain adequate spacing, which is supposed to be 2 seconds. At low speeds, this means that car number 2 has to wait 2 seconds after the first car before he even starts moving. If all the cars started moving the instant the light turned green, they would all be too close together for safety. In fact, though, most cars still do NOT maintain adequate distance when starting up from a stoplight.
If it's anything like Illinois, it will be built entirely with bond money, but all the land will be bought with Federal money. Apparently that is supposed to make the hwole thing privately funded.
G= 6.67259E-11 m**3/kgs**2
Mass of Earth (Me)= 5.9742E24kg
Current rotation period(w) in Seconds=86040
Although these are estimates, they are close.
For Geosync orbit:
Radius=((G*Me*w**2)/(4*pi**2))**1/3
For current Geosynch, I get 42124855.2417033 meters. This may seem large, but remember that most people report Geosynch above the radius of the Earth, so they are in the neighborhood of 36000 Kilometers.
Then, since I don't have a good high precision calculator, I was able to only go to the precision of subtracting 10 microseconds instead of only 3. With this calculation, I got 42124855.2414383 meters. This makes a difference of less than a millimeter in fact, and the time change was still three times larger than it should have been.
It seems like the difference should be more, but remember that 3 microseconds is less than 1 in 10**11 of the total time in a day. And although we square the orbital period, we then take the cube of the whole thing because gravitational attraction goes down with the cube of distance.
So in all, we are talking changes 11 or more decimals out.
I know I didn't follow scientific precision principles. If I did, I would have had to cut off at five digits, which would mean I couldn't calculate any time differential less than a second. This calculation is not accurate, but the order of magnitude should be right on.
Okay, that is about the 50th post on Darwinism I've seen. But come on now, we've had how many million years to syphon these traits out of the gene pool, and people still do dumb things like this? Something is wrong with the theory.
I think it would be wrong for the United States to decide which needy people to send my tax dollars to. I believe that I should be allowed to decide to whom and how much aid I should send. The government should not be involved in humanitarian issues. That is what humans are for.
I did some calculations earlier and found that the Geos would have to move less than a centimeter. The GPS satellites reposition relative to ground stations anyway, though I am not sure on what period. At any rate, they would only have to correct course once, and not by much. Remember, we are talking about a change on the order of 10**-11 relative to the current length of the day.
Yes, A tsunami so powerful that it sucked the very water out of the seabed itself allowing the Israelites to cross "as on dry land", and lasted long enough to allow thousands of Israelites to cross the entire sea before the water came rushing back.
I'm not saying that some natural phenomenon was not responsible for aiding the crossing of the Red Sea, but the one you suggest doesn't fit the bill.
Sixth sense? Or common sense? How far away were these animals from the beach. What percentages of human deaths occurred far from shore? How far from shore do animals normally live?
From what I read of Yala National park, it consists of parts that are lagoon and swmpy land, which would be home to creatures used to dealing with water, and other parts that are on average 90 meters above sea level, which would be unaffected by the tidal wave.
I missed the part where the American news media said that 70,000 people dying was not relevant enough. As I recall, it merited just about 24/7 news coverage.
Umm, as far as I read, Americares claims a 2% administrative overhead. This is very good compared to Red Cross, which claims 9%, and is light years beyond United Way, for which I can find numbers varying from 0 (meaning someone else is paying the cost of administration), to over 20%, which is just insane.
I fail to see how the day getting longer is going to spell our doom. In fact, as the Earth's rotation slows, it seems likely to me that geological catastrophes would probably decrease as well. There seems good evidence that when the Earth was younger, and the day was only 18 hours, that there was a good deal more seismic activity.
Another poster already pointed out that the difference in time is true, but in wrong proportions. But even so, the 2 1/2 hours of daylight would have been followed by only two or so hours of darkness. There just would have been a buttload of days in a year, not that T-Rex cared about years, or seasons, or much of anything else.
How about a baffle. Maybe some kind of sacrificial breakwater? Probably prohibitably expensive, though. And environmentally rude to the fishies, as well.
>I'm not merely being pedantic, I'm fed up with amateurish, downright sloppy "scientific" journalism.
Darn straight. This morning the weather guy said the sun would rise at 7:37 AM and set at 5:25 PM. I mean, this is a professional meteorologist. Can't he even get basic astrology right?
Okay, so I'm being sarcastic. The point is, if you are going to get offended every time somebody can't get scientific terms right, you're going to be pretty darn miserable. But hey, you keep correcting people. Maybe it'll catch on.
I found another site that says that the Earth will never stop rotating, but will stabilize at a rotation once every 55 days, as will the moon. Still, this means that eventually the Earth and the moon will always have the same faces facing each other. This has already happened in the moon. This is called Tidal Locking. The same is true of every moon in our solar system except for Hyperion. Our moon did used to rotate with respect to Earth, but tidal locking eventually slowed it down to where it always faces the same face toward Earth now. This will eventually happen to Earth as well, except that the Earth's mass is much larger than the moon, so it will take longer to happen. The Earth and the moon will still rotate with respect to the sun. Pluto has already locked one face towards its moon, Charon.
Hyperion will never stop rotating with respect to Saturn, because other moons of Saturn exert forces on it causing it to "tumble".
Thank you. I don't know what scientific basis that link had for saying that the rotational period has EVER been constant. I mean, FRICTION folks! Geological evidence supports that 900 million years ago the Earth rotated once every 18 hours, and the moon was only 200,000 KM from Earth and had 50% more influence on tides. (Gravitational forces decrease cubically with distance). Friction due to tidal forces slows the moon down, increasing it's distance from Earth, as well as slowing the Earth's rotational period.
Regardless of what we do, the Earth, in about 400 billion years will not rotate at all. This is due to our relationship with what we refer to as our moon, which is actually celestially speaking, the second of the pair in our binary planet system. Eventually, one side of the Earth will be constantly facing the moon.
Geostationary satellites would have to come slightly closer in in order to remain in position. I don't have a particularly useful calculator, so my calculation is probably only experimental error, but I came up with 0.00009087762539 meters, which is probably wrong by orders of magnitude due to crappy precision and too many years since high school physics.
As far as the measurement of time, we don't go by the rotational period anyway. You may be surprised to know that the Earth rotates every 23.9 hours, not every 24 hours. The reason we don't see the day shifting by 4 minutes every day is due to the fact the Earth is also moving about the sun and presents a slightly different face each day depending on the time of year.
Unfortunately, the Earth has not caught on to this whole metric thing and thus the number of rotations of the Earth bears no whole number resemblance to the time it takes to go around the sun. Also, the interaction of the Earth and the moon is causing the length of our day to increase and the distance from the Earth to the Moon to increase by about 3 cm per year. The Earths day has been getting longer by about 0.00016 seconds each year.
GPS satellites, like any satellite, are subject to drift, and are tracked and corrected via stations on the ground. GPS satellites use atomic clocks and do NOT account for leap seconds and are affected by relativity causing an error of around 38 microseconds per day which is corrected by on board electronics. This error, which existed long before the earthquake, already represents a 10fold error beyond the changes caused by the earthquake. The biggest problem I could think of relating to GPS is if one of the ground stations was on the islands which moved. If that were the case, I would imagine that they would immediately stop that facility from updating tracking information on the satellites until such time as the precise new location of the factility could be determined.
Why don't you donate more money, then and bump up the aid spent on each victim.
Anyway, $350 a person goes pretty far in some parts of the world.
Also, I don't believe that they will spend the money on the people who are already dead. I believe this money is for those who are now lacking basic needs. Which is probably even more than 100,000.
Yes, but even with perfect conversion of energy, the AVERAGE power output can be no greater than the power input. Since the only ACTUAL power comes from the internal combustion engine, the AVERAGE power output can be no higher than 240, and that is when running at optimal RPM, and then you have to subtract out the HP sucked up by the battery charger, when it is on, which is going to suck out more than it can give back, due to nasty thermodynamic principles.
But even 240 minus a bit is good for a family car.
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Hey, it takes 8 hours to get to another state just about anywhere. It's just that in Texas you can drive at the posted speed limit and it still takes that long.
Oh, and by the way, if Alaska were split in two, Texas would be the THIRD largest state.
So Texas gets more money spent on it, then say, Rhode Island? What an outrage!
It's a toll road isn't it?
Think about it. You don't have to build the stuff, you don't have to warehouse the stuff, all you have to do is charge people for the privelege of moving it through your state. It's like being a middleman.
Of course it will take a line of cars longer to get through a light then a single truck. The line of cars has to maintain adequate spacing, which is supposed to be 2 seconds. At low speeds, this means that car number 2 has to wait 2 seconds after the first car before he even starts moving. If all the cars started moving the instant the light turned green, they would all be too close together for safety. In fact, though, most cars still do NOT maintain adequate distance when starting up from a stoplight.
If it's anything like Illinois, it will be built entirely with bond money, but all the land will be bought with Federal money. Apparently that is supposed to make the hwole thing privately funded.
My calculations are based on:
G= 6.67259E-11 m**3/kgs**2
Mass of Earth (Me)= 5.9742E24kg
Current rotation period(w) in Seconds=86040
Although these are estimates, they are close.
For Geosync orbit:
Radius=((G*Me*w**2)/(4*pi**2))**1/3
For current Geosynch, I get 42124855.2417033 meters. This may seem large, but remember that most people report Geosynch above the radius of the Earth, so they are in the neighborhood of 36000 Kilometers.
Then, since I don't have a good high precision calculator, I was able to only go to the precision of subtracting 10 microseconds instead of only 3. With this calculation, I got 42124855.2414383 meters. This makes a difference of less than a millimeter in fact, and the time change was still three times larger than it should have been.
It seems like the difference should be more, but remember that 3 microseconds is less than 1 in 10**11 of the total time in a day. And although we square the orbital period, we then take the cube of the whole thing because gravitational attraction goes down with the cube of distance. So in all, we are talking changes 11 or more decimals out.
I know I didn't follow scientific precision principles. If I did, I would have had to cut off at five digits, which would mean I couldn't calculate any time differential less than a second. This calculation is not accurate, but the order of magnitude should be right on.
Okay, that is about the 50th post on Darwinism I've seen. But come on now, we've had how many million years to syphon these traits out of the gene pool, and people still do dumb things like this? Something is wrong with the theory.
I think it would be wrong for the United States to decide which needy people to send my tax dollars to. I believe that I should be allowed to decide to whom and how much aid I should send. The government should not be involved in humanitarian issues. That is what humans are for.
I did some calculations earlier and found that the Geos would have to move less than a centimeter. The GPS satellites reposition relative to ground stations anyway, though I am not sure on what period. At any rate, they would only have to correct course once, and not by much. Remember, we are talking about a change on the order of 10**-11 relative to the current length of the day.
Yes, A tsunami so powerful that it sucked the very water out of the seabed itself allowing the Israelites to cross "as on dry land", and lasted long enough to allow thousands of Israelites to cross the entire sea before the water came rushing back.
I'm not saying that some natural phenomenon was not responsible for aiding the crossing of the Red Sea, but the one you suggest doesn't fit the bill.
Sixth sense? Or common sense? How far away were these animals from the beach. What percentages of human deaths occurred far from shore? How far from shore do animals normally live?
From what I read of Yala National park, it consists of parts that are lagoon and swmpy land, which would be home to creatures used to dealing with water, and other parts that are on average 90 meters above sea level, which would be unaffected by the tidal wave.
I missed the part where the American news media said that 70,000 people dying was not relevant enough. As I recall, it merited just about 24/7 news coverage.
Umm, as far as I read, Americares claims a 2% administrative overhead. This is very good compared to Red Cross, which claims 9%, and is light years beyond United Way, for which I can find numbers varying from 0 (meaning someone else is paying the cost of administration), to over 20%, which is just insane.
I fail to see how the day getting longer is going to spell our doom. In fact, as the Earth's rotation slows, it seems likely to me that geological catastrophes would probably decrease as well. There seems good evidence that when the Earth was younger, and the day was only 18 hours, that there was a good deal more seismic activity.
Another poster already pointed out that the difference in time is true, but in wrong proportions. But even so, the 2 1/2 hours of daylight would have been followed by only two or so hours of darkness. There just would have been a buttload of days in a year, not that T-Rex cared about years, or seasons, or much of anything else.
How about a baffle. Maybe some kind of sacrificial breakwater? Probably prohibitably expensive, though. And environmentally rude to the fishies, as well.
>I'm not merely being pedantic, I'm fed up with amateurish, downright sloppy "scientific" journalism.
Darn straight. This morning the weather guy said the sun would rise at 7:37 AM and set at 5:25 PM. I mean, this is a professional meteorologist. Can't he even get basic astrology right?
Okay, so I'm being sarcastic. The point is, if you are going to get offended every time somebody can't get scientific terms right, you're going to be pretty darn miserable. But hey, you keep correcting people. Maybe it'll catch on.
I found another site that says that the Earth will never stop rotating, but will stabilize at a rotation once every 55 days, as will the moon. Still, this means that eventually the Earth and the moon will always have the same faces facing each other. This has already happened in the moon. This is called Tidal Locking. The same is true of every moon in our solar system except for Hyperion. Our moon did used to rotate with respect to Earth, but tidal locking eventually slowed it down to where it always faces the same face toward Earth now. This will eventually happen to Earth as well, except that the Earth's mass is much larger than the moon, so it will take longer to happen. The Earth and the moon will still rotate with respect to the sun. Pluto has already locked one face towards its moon, Charon.
Hyperion will never stop rotating with respect to Saturn, because other moons of Saturn exert forces on it causing it to "tumble".
Not since the 1800s, when the hall of records was mysteriously swept away.
Thank you. I don't know what scientific basis that link had for saying that the rotational period has EVER been constant. I mean, FRICTION folks! Geological evidence supports that 900 million years ago the Earth rotated once every 18 hours, and the moon was only 200,000 KM from Earth and had 50% more influence on tides. (Gravitational forces decrease cubically with distance). Friction due to tidal forces slows the moon down, increasing it's distance from Earth, as well as slowing the Earth's rotational period.
Regardless of what we do, the Earth, in about 400 billion years will not rotate at all. This is due to our relationship with what we refer to as our moon, which is actually celestially speaking, the second of the pair in our binary planet system. Eventually, one side of the Earth will be constantly facing the moon.
>earth rotates once every 24 hours right?
Wrong.
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Geostationary satellites would have to come slightly closer in in order to remain in position. I don't have a particularly useful calculator, so my calculation is probably only experimental error, but I came up with 0.00009087762539 meters, which is probably wrong by orders of magnitude due to crappy precision and too many years since high school physics.
As far as the measurement of time, we don't go by the rotational period anyway. You may be surprised to know that the Earth rotates every 23.9 hours, not every 24 hours. The reason we don't see the day shifting by 4 minutes every day is due to the fact the Earth is also moving about the sun and presents a slightly different face each day depending on the time of year.
Unfortunately, the Earth has not caught on to this whole metric thing and thus the number of rotations of the Earth bears no whole number resemblance to the time it takes to go around the sun. Also, the interaction of the Earth and the moon is causing the length of our day to increase and the distance from the Earth to the Moon to increase by about 3 cm per year. The Earths day has been getting longer by about 0.00016 seconds each year.
GPS satellites, like any satellite, are subject to drift, and are tracked and corrected via stations on the ground. GPS satellites use atomic clocks and do NOT account for leap seconds and are affected by relativity causing an error of around 38 microseconds per day which is corrected by on board electronics. This error, which existed long before the earthquake, already represents a 10fold error beyond the changes caused by the earthquake. The biggest problem I could think of relating to GPS is if one of the ground stations was on the islands which moved. If that were the case, I would imagine that they would immediately stop that facility from updating tracking information on the satellites until such time as the precise new location of the factility could be determined.
Why don't you donate more money, then and bump up the aid spent on each victim.
Anyway, $350 a person goes pretty far in some parts of the world.
Also, I don't believe that they will spend the money on the people who are already dead. I believe this money is for those who are now lacking basic needs. Which is probably even more than 100,000.
Yes, but even with perfect conversion of energy, the AVERAGE power output can be no greater than the power input. Since the only ACTUAL power comes from the internal combustion engine, the AVERAGE power output can be no higher than 240, and that is when running at optimal RPM, and then you have to subtract out the HP sucked up by the battery charger, when it is on, which is going to suck out more than it can give back, due to nasty thermodynamic principles.
But even 240 minus a bit is good for a family car.