This site says the asteroid is projected to strike in India or the Indian ocean.
I would guess that the governments of the world would find it more economical to just move the many millions of people that could be affected rather than try to alter the course of the asteroid.
Well, if we only nudge it, we are just delaying the inevitable. We need to make it hit something else. Something we don't care much about. France was already mentioned, but I would suggest something on another planet, or the Sun. If we divert it into the Sun, perhaps it will add to the fuel and make our Solar System last a bit longer.
I'm going to charge $200 an hour to fix it. No, $300 an hour. Teach them to lay me off for 9 months a few years back.
Note, all figures will be adjusted for inflation, and the rising cost of healthcare.
Because minivans are no longer as popular as SUVs. There will always be a market for four door family cars, but minivans have lost market share to SUVs, and I don't see them doing much more development on them.
True. At least they left the rear wheels exposed unlike most of the earlier electric and hybrids. I'm sure it lowerd drag by some insignificant amount, but it's ugly and I can't imagine what changing a tire was like.
Maybe I should hug my 2nd gen RX-7 too?
This sounds like the old "peak" versus "rms" aka "continuous" power that we get from amplifiers. The Honda can get 255 HP out of both systems for a short time, but before very long, the gas engine will be putting out 240 MINUS whatever it takes to run the generators, which will be, of course, greater than the 15 HP that the generators can put out. So continuous power might be only 220 or less. Still a respectable number for a family mover.
I've seen freight trains rev up to a higher RPM, which is presumably for greater power output during initial acceleration. Once they are up to speed, they bump it down to greatest efficiency RPM, as it doesn't take near the power to keep a train moving as to get it moving in the first place.
I haven't seen commuter trains do this, as they don't weigh nearly as much as a freight. But I think I remember some longer passenger trains doing it.
Just wondering, how do people in other countries get their carload of groceries home? Do the stores let you take the grocery cart all the way home? Or do you just got to the store every single day and bring home only a bag or two of groceries?
>Heck, I've seen people with lowered / wide-wheel minivans I can top that. I've seen a couple of lowered dualy pickup trucks. (4 wheels on the back axle).
>sea transport uses orders of magnitude less energy per mile than road transport I always wondered why (In the U.S.) delivery charges on Japanese cars were less than delivery charges on American cars. I guess the average American city is closer to a port than it is to a U.S. auto plant.
Of course, I live two miles from a GM plant, but they still charge much more for delivery than any of the Japanese manufacturers.
Porsches and NSXes are not muscle cars. Sure, they are sexy and fast, but not muscle cars. I'm sure that whether you can beat them depends on the type of race.
In the middle of big cities, you're unlikely even to find a gas station, let alone Diesel.
I live near Oklahoma City, though, and since most people here prefer massive diesel pickup trucks (with obligatory 4 wheels on the rear axle, even though they will never, ever subject their $40,000 pickup to the horror of pulling a fifth wheel, or even take off the rear bed cover), many of the corner gas stations DO carry Diesel.
Another nice thing about diesel is that it is usually cheaper than unleaded gasoline. Unfortunately, I only buy diesel for the backhoe.
Ha! In my company, the largest SUVs are owned by the salesladies and one Vietnamese guy. A lot of the male project managers have SUVs too, but they are mostly imports, which tend to be smaller.
As for me, I'll take a sports car over an SUV anyday.
Actually, there was not just one trick to making the airplane happen. There was the Bernoulli principle, the aeronatuical control mechanisms, the power to weight problem of available engines, how to shape the propellers (different than marine) and a host of others. It is quite amazing the number of things that had to go right for the first plane to get off the ground. It's not like solving any one problem at a time would have aided progress. It pretty much all had to be there.
I don't know. My '88 Lotus gets pretty good 0-60 and decent top speed, but it still manages 22 MPG average. Of course, the Japanese still have managed to do better at fast cars with decent mileage. I used to have a '98 Supra Turbo that got about 25 MPG and was capable of sub 5 second 0-60.
You're on to something. It certainly is easier to get something first when it is made in your country. I think part of the reason we don't have many cool gadgets in the U.S. is that we don't invest in technology or R&D. Management in U.S. companies have become extremely short term focused, not willing to invest in R&D and just trying to find clever new ways to sell the product line that they already have (since they fired all the engineers after the product passed beta).
>Though you left out the best use for the Hemi.
Chrysler must be saving a mint. They only need one plant to manufacture the first 6 feet regardless of model. Then just bolt it on to the rest of the car.
>How does Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs apply to employee motivation?"
That's nice. Do they give you time to go and research Maslow's Hierarchy of Need, or do they just enjoy severely limiting their selection pool?
>If you apply to any job without having at least one other person proof it, you're insane.
But then it is no longer a fair assessment of good a CV you can write.
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They better be pretty darned big. Your best time to hit it is when it is farthest from Earth, and that appears from my reading to be about 0.92 AUs.
This site says the asteroid is projected to strike in India or the Indian ocean.
I would guess that the governments of the world would find it more economical to just move the many millions of people that could be affected rather than try to alter the course of the asteroid.
Well, if we only nudge it, we are just delaying the inevitable. We need to make it hit something else. Something we don't care much about. France was already mentioned, but I would suggest something on another planet, or the Sun. If we divert it into the Sun, perhaps it will add to the fuel and make our Solar System last a bit longer.
Have we reviewed the chances of this asteroid hitting Mars?
And if you add the first two numbers of your slashdot ID, you get 9, and if you add the last 3 numbers you get 11.
Go get 'im boys. Paul
I'm going to charge $200 an hour to fix it. No, $300 an hour. Teach them to lay me off for 9 months a few years back.
Note, all figures will be adjusted for inflation, and the rising cost of healthcare.
It would take a lot more than an asteroid to destroy the Earth.
Because minivans are no longer as popular as SUVs. There will always be a market for four door family cars, but minivans have lost market share to SUVs, and I don't see them doing much more development on them.
True. At least they left the rear wheels exposed unlike most of the earlier electric and hybrids. I'm sure it lowerd drag by some insignificant amount, but it's ugly and I can't imagine what changing a tire was like.
Maybe I should hug my 2nd gen RX-7 too?
This sounds like the old "peak" versus "rms" aka "continuous" power that we get from amplifiers. The Honda can get 255 HP out of both systems for a short time, but before very long, the gas engine will be putting out 240 MINUS whatever it takes to run the generators, which will be, of course, greater than the 15 HP that the generators can put out. So continuous power might be only 220 or less. Still a respectable number for a family mover.
I've seen freight trains rev up to a higher RPM, which is presumably for greater power output during initial acceleration. Once they are up to speed, they bump it down to greatest efficiency RPM, as it doesn't take near the power to keep a train moving as to get it moving in the first place.
I haven't seen commuter trains do this, as they don't weigh nearly as much as a freight. But I think I remember some longer passenger trains doing it.
Just wondering, how do people in other countries get their carload of groceries home? Do the stores let you take the grocery cart all the way home? Or do you just got to the store every single day and bring home only a bag or two of groceries?
Yup. They used a pusher. Which means that the Prius can NOT go 130 mph. So the general publics perception is correct.
>Heck, I've seen people with lowered / wide-wheel minivans
I can top that. I've seen a couple of lowered dualy pickup trucks. (4 wheels on the back axle).
>sea transport uses orders of magnitude less energy per mile than road transport
I always wondered why (In the U.S.) delivery charges on Japanese cars were less than delivery charges on American cars. I guess the average American city is closer to a port than it is to a U.S. auto plant.
Of course, I live two miles from a GM plant, but they still charge much more for delivery than any of the Japanese manufacturers.
Porsches and NSXes are not muscle cars. Sure, they are sexy and fast, but not muscle cars. I'm sure that whether you can beat them depends on the type of race.
In the middle of big cities, you're unlikely even to find a gas station, let alone Diesel.
I live near Oklahoma City, though, and since most people here prefer massive diesel pickup trucks (with obligatory 4 wheels on the rear axle, even though they will never, ever subject their $40,000 pickup to the horror of pulling a fifth wheel, or even take off the rear bed cover), many of the corner gas stations DO carry Diesel.
Another nice thing about diesel is that it is usually cheaper than unleaded gasoline. Unfortunately, I only buy diesel for the backhoe.
Only 76 HP out of a 1.5 liter? That's kind of crappy for this day and age, isn't it? My '88 MR-2 was rated at 115 on a 1.6, and that was 17 years ago.
Ha! In my company, the largest SUVs are owned by the salesladies and one Vietnamese guy. A lot of the male project managers have SUVs too, but they are mostly imports, which tend to be smaller.
As for me, I'll take a sports car over an SUV anyday.
Actually, there was not just one trick to making the airplane happen. There was the Bernoulli principle, the aeronatuical control mechanisms, the power to weight problem of available engines, how to shape the propellers (different than marine) and a host of others. It is quite amazing the number of things that had to go right for the first plane to get off the ground. It's not like solving any one problem at a time would have aided progress. It pretty much all had to be there.
I don't know. My '88 Lotus gets pretty good 0-60 and decent top speed, but it still manages 22 MPG average. Of course, the Japanese still have managed to do better at fast cars with decent mileage. I used to have a '98 Supra Turbo that got about 25 MPG and was capable of sub 5 second 0-60.
You're on to something. It certainly is easier to get something first when it is made in your country. I think part of the reason we don't have many cool gadgets in the U.S. is that we don't invest in technology or R&D. Management in U.S. companies have become extremely short term focused, not willing to invest in R&D and just trying to find clever new ways to sell the product line that they already have (since they fired all the engineers after the product passed beta).
>Though you left out the best use for the Hemi.
Chrysler must be saving a mint. They only need one plant to manufacture the first 6 feet regardless of model. Then just bolt it on to the rest of the car.
>How does Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs apply to employee motivation?"
That's nice. Do they give you time to go and research Maslow's Hierarchy of Need, or do they just enjoy severely limiting their selection pool?
>If you apply to any job without having at least one other person proof it, you're insane.
But then it is no longer a fair assessment of good a CV you can write.