That won't work. There are Temporary Flight Restrictions that can change at any moment based on the movements of the President for one example. There needs to be a way to upload this to the database. Oops, a vulnerability!
That's true, software is not evil. But software can only be programmed to deal with the situations which were thought of at the time of programming. Only humans, and only a limited number of them, have the ability to think outside the box and solve a problem that no one has encountered before.
My religion doesn't require me to kill anybody. That didn't stop people from killing people in the name of my religion hundreds of years ago. It's not religion that is the problem. Religion is the excuse. People are the problem.
That won't work. Osama has better access to them. It doesn't matter how much money and food we give, they'll still hate us if someone close to them tells them to. As can be seen from 9/11, terrorists will enjoy the freedoms and opportunities while living in our very country, then turn around and use those very freedoms to destory us.
Peace in the middle east would cost millions of dollars, and there can be no peace as long as terrorist attacks continue. Every time peace talks start, one side or the other blows something up. Makes me think they aren't interested in peace.
Of course, everyone in the world seems to hate the U.S. Some hate us because we refuse to get involved, and some hate us because we won't butt out. Sometimes they hate us for both.
Fighters were scrambled, but were still miles away when the second plane hit the towers.
Nobody in Washington expected a hijacking to end up in anything other than the planes landing somewhere and the hijackers making demands.
The CIA and FBI were told to back off because their budgets were cut because the economy crashed.
A lot more people have an economic interest in not being at war.
It's not a software only solution. There is not an autopilot in the world that can maintain this "soft wall" database. There are some products you can get that have terrain databases, but they are definitely "hard wall" databases, and at any rate, most of them will only give you visual and audible clues, but will not physically try to avoid the object.
The twin towers were designed to withstand an impact from a 707 which is actually heavier than the planes that hit them. In fact, they did withstand the impact. It was the hours of blistering heat from the full tanks of jet fuel, which is similar in combustive property to kerosene, that weakened the metal girders.
Meigs was shut down by a terrorist. Even so, most approaches would have been over the shoreline from the south or north, or over the lake from the east. If you are talking about Midway, it's several miles out from downtown Chicago. Plenty of open approaches from anywhere except the northeast. O'Hare is even further out.
How about deviations for turbulence, weather, sick or unruly passenger (terrorist?), another airplane coming at you, aircraft malfunction, etc?
The biggest problem with most of this integrated autopilot stuff is that it would cost horrendous amounts of money to retrofit planes with, is of questionable use, and can not possible be fitted into smaller airplanes. Many general Aviation airplanes do not even have a flight computer and are not fly-by-wire. If anyone could actually afford a fly-by-wire system for these airplanes, the plane would be too heavy to lift off.
Luckily General Aviation airplanes are not a serious threat. At least no more so than, say, an automobile.
I'm sure that the ATC would still control approval. However, if this plan were implemented, a terrorist would simply hijack a plane that was going to the city he wanted to crash into.
I hope it was set in the future. There aren't any planes in existence that are so fly-by-wire as to not allow human input altogether.
I think I remeber the 777 having the ability to limit pilots from doing dumb things like wagging the rudder from full stop to full stop. (Suspected cause of the NYC Airbus crash). However, I doubt that maintenance has the ability to change the parameter for even this from the ground.
Apparently, once they reach 10,000 feet they no longer need avionics, 'cause they let you use electronics then.
Or maybe they are just concerned that most emergencies happen during take off and landing, and the fewer small loose items in the cabin, the better.
For return trips, I gues they have to count on other nearby stars. I don't know how much energy they can harness from alpha centauri, and that is only if they headed out in that direction.
If you are going to suspend belief enough to believe that a cup can make you immortal, I think you should be able to suspend belief enough to believe that the cup can trigger an earthquake with no visible physical trigger.
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What is the point of replacing the green led with a blue one? My understanding is that the most common colorblindness causes red and green to look alike. I know several people with this affliction. However, they said they can still tell the difference between a green LED when it is on and when it is off.
If this is one of those bicolor LEDs that turns red when the unit is off, but power is still supplied, then I understand. And no, I do not own an X-box. I can't justify buying one just for Oddworld. I'm sure it will port to PC some day.
This system has an inherent flaw similar to the current weather radar systems on airplanes. If you have a decent rain a half mile ahead, you can't see through it to the level 6 thunderstorm on the other side.
Similarly, the crash detetction system may be able to see the car in front of you travelling at the same speed, but 1 billionth of a second later when that guy crashes into the stopped car in front of him, coming to an almost instant stop, you're screwed.
There comes a certain age in women when what is attractive to them ceases to be Trans-Ams with huge thumping sound systems, and becomes security and predictability.
I have heard it said that no woman wants to date a geek, but they all want to marry one.
I'd have to agree. Geeks tend to improve with age, whereas jocks tend to max out at 17.
I agree. I get several e-mails a day from ISPs saying that they deleted a virus attached to the e-mail I sent them. Turns out that someone is spoofing my domain name. Seems like if it's illegal for someone to sign my name, it should be illegal for them to pretend to be me on the 'net, particularly when they could potentially be exposing ME to a lawsuit if they happen to send the e-mail to one of the states wherer it is illegal.
$500 per e-mail times 400 spam per day. Wow, I could retire by the end of the week.
My procmail currently deletes some stuff outright and I still get 400 or so that I put in a junk folder. For $500 per email, I'd even stop deleting some of the stuff outright.
Yes. You would have to redesign much of the airframe in order to make it work properly with the engine anyway. Then you would have to get it certified. Might as well just build a new airplane.
Some of the regionals and many business jets are largely composites. I don't know of anythat are ALL composites. But then I doubt the 7E7 is either, despite what BW says.
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When will the world realize that it is not up to the Americans to fix every injustice in the world?
So if you can manage to get your plane over the border area, then it won't let you back out?
That won't work. There are Temporary Flight Restrictions that can change at any moment based on the movements of the President for one example. There needs to be a way to upload this to the database. Oops, a vulnerability!
That's true, software is not evil. But software can only be programmed to deal with the situations which were thought of at the time of programming. Only humans, and only a limited number of them, have the ability to think outside the box and solve a problem that no one has encountered before.
My religion doesn't require me to kill anybody. That didn't stop people from killing people in the name of my religion hundreds of years ago. It's not religion that is the problem. Religion is the excuse. People are the problem.
That won't work. Osama has better access to them. It doesn't matter how much money and food we give, they'll still hate us if someone close to them tells them to. As can be seen from 9/11, terrorists will enjoy the freedoms and opportunities while living in our very country, then turn around and use those very freedoms to destory us.
Peace in the middle east would cost millions of dollars, and there can be no peace as long as terrorist attacks continue. Every time peace talks start, one side or the other blows something up. Makes me think they aren't interested in peace. Of course, everyone in the world seems to hate the U.S. Some hate us because we refuse to get involved, and some hate us because we won't butt out. Sometimes they hate us for both.
Fighters were scrambled, but were still miles away when the second plane hit the towers. Nobody in Washington expected a hijacking to end up in anything other than the planes landing somewhere and the hijackers making demands. The CIA and FBI were told to back off because their budgets were cut because the economy crashed. A lot more people have an economic interest in not being at war.
It's not a software only solution. There is not an autopilot in the world that can maintain this "soft wall" database. There are some products you can get that have terrain databases, but they are definitely "hard wall" databases, and at any rate, most of them will only give you visual and audible clues, but will not physically try to avoid the object.
The twin towers were designed to withstand an impact from a 707 which is actually heavier than the planes that hit them. In fact, they did withstand the impact. It was the hours of blistering heat from the full tanks of jet fuel, which is similar in combustive property to kerosene, that weakened the metal girders.
Meigs was shut down by a terrorist. Even so, most approaches would have been over the shoreline from the south or north, or over the lake from the east. If you are talking about Midway, it's several miles out from downtown Chicago. Plenty of open approaches from anywhere except the northeast. O'Hare is even further out.
How about deviations for turbulence, weather, sick or unruly passenger (terrorist?), another airplane coming at you, aircraft malfunction, etc? The biggest problem with most of this integrated autopilot stuff is that it would cost horrendous amounts of money to retrofit planes with, is of questionable use, and can not possible be fitted into smaller airplanes. Many general Aviation airplanes do not even have a flight computer and are not fly-by-wire. If anyone could actually afford a fly-by-wire system for these airplanes, the plane would be too heavy to lift off. Luckily General Aviation airplanes are not a serious threat. At least no more so than, say, an automobile.
I'm sure that the ATC would still control approval. However, if this plan were implemented, a terrorist would simply hijack a plane that was going to the city he wanted to crash into.
I hope it was set in the future. There aren't any planes in existence that are so fly-by-wire as to not allow human input altogether. I think I remeber the 777 having the ability to limit pilots from doing dumb things like wagging the rudder from full stop to full stop. (Suspected cause of the NYC Airbus crash). However, I doubt that maintenance has the ability to change the parameter for even this from the ground.
Apparently, once they reach 10,000 feet they no longer need avionics, 'cause they let you use electronics then. Or maybe they are just concerned that most emergencies happen during take off and landing, and the fewer small loose items in the cabin, the better.
For return trips, I gues they have to count on other nearby stars. I don't know how much energy they can harness from alpha centauri, and that is only if they headed out in that direction.
2 hour battery life? Sounds good to me. Mine is only good for 20 minutes, and it's only a year old.
If you are going to suspend belief enough to believe that a cup can make you immortal, I think you should be able to suspend belief enough to believe that the cup can trigger an earthquake with no visible physical trigger.
What is the point of replacing the green led with a blue one? My understanding is that the most common colorblindness causes red and green to look alike. I know several people with this affliction. However, they said they can still tell the difference between a green LED when it is on and when it is off. If this is one of those bicolor LEDs that turns red when the unit is off, but power is still supplied, then I understand. And no, I do not own an X-box. I can't justify buying one just for Oddworld. I'm sure it will port to PC some day.
This system has an inherent flaw similar to the current weather radar systems on airplanes. If you have a decent rain a half mile ahead, you can't see through it to the level 6 thunderstorm on the other side. Similarly, the crash detetction system may be able to see the car in front of you travelling at the same speed, but 1 billionth of a second later when that guy crashes into the stopped car in front of him, coming to an almost instant stop, you're screwed.
There comes a certain age in women when what is attractive to them ceases to be Trans-Ams with huge thumping sound systems, and becomes security and predictability. I have heard it said that no woman wants to date a geek, but they all want to marry one. I'd have to agree. Geeks tend to improve with age, whereas jocks tend to max out at 17.
I agree. I get several e-mails a day from ISPs saying that they deleted a virus attached to the e-mail I sent them. Turns out that someone is spoofing my domain name. Seems like if it's illegal for someone to sign my name, it should be illegal for them to pretend to be me on the 'net, particularly when they could potentially be exposing ME to a lawsuit if they happen to send the e-mail to one of the states wherer it is illegal.
$500 per e-mail times 400 spam per day. Wow, I could retire by the end of the week. My procmail currently deletes some stuff outright and I still get 400 or so that I put in a junk folder. For $500 per email, I'd even stop deleting some of the stuff outright.
Yes. You would have to redesign much of the airframe in order to make it work properly with the engine anyway. Then you would have to get it certified. Might as well just build a new airplane.
Some of the regionals and many business jets are largely composites. I don't know of anythat are ALL composites. But then I doubt the 7E7 is either, despite what BW says.