You are almost correct. You cannot reach an orbital plane that is inclined less than your launch site's latitude. So you can reach any orbit from the Equator.
Once launched you cannot "change the orbital plane", that would take almost as much energy as the initial launch. In theory it's possible but the rockets we have are nowhere near light and powerful enough
Today’s revelations underscore the urgent need for significant legal reform, including proper pre-judicial authorisation and meaningful oversight of the use of surveillance powers by the UK security services, the organisation said.
Even Amnesty International stated that the surveillance doesn't appear to be illegal under current law.
The premise is that only this year's bonus matters, and that a short and planned outage this year will cost him more than keeping the plant operating efficiently in the long term. That's absurd.
I had to follow the link to Hughes' report to find how he created the list of inputs:
by importing a pair-wise comma-separated list of skills and their similarity scores...
we’re generating that automatically from job descriptions posted on our site.
So what this really shows is how often the same two buzzwords appear together in a job description posted on Dice.
I found another comment in his report interesting:
We also tried using the resume dataset, but the results were of a lower quality,
I assume by "lower quality" he really means "people list every buzzword they can think of on the resumes posted on Dice".
Given the inputs I wouldn't expect any surprises in the results. But that said, it's an interesting project and they did a very nice job with the visualization.
I also don't understand the fixation on evolution. A certain percentage of any population, any country, any religion, will say that they believe what their religion teaches because that's what they've been taught to say (whether they actually believe it or not is another issue).
Take another look at the numbers for Republican vs. Democrat. They are much closer than the summary (mis)led you to believe by quoting the Conservative vs. Liberal numbers.
Also notice the subtle wording of the AGW question: "The earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity". The word "mostly" is clearly there to bias the answers. They didn't ask "Is the earth getting warmer?", or "Is human activity contributing to the earth getting warmer?"
Also keep in mind the the Pew Trust is notoriously liberal, especially related to environmental issues. It isn't a surprise that their survey pushes their agenda. They're also known for sending their own employees (and having them claim to be from the general public) to attend congressional hearings so it appears there's more grass root support for their causes than there actually is.
Aside from pointing out the glaringly obvious (people who identify themselves as Conservative gave responses consistent with what you would expect from people who identify themselves as conservative, same for LIberals),/. the summary ignores far more interesting points.
1) There is a much smaller difference between Republicans and Democrats than there is between Conservatives and Liberals, e.g. the Evolution question goes from 21% versus 54% (Ideology) to 57% versus 72% (Party Id).
2) Several of the questions show a fairly small difference between Republicans and Democrats (pesticides, animal research, world population, vaccines, manned space programs, bioengineered fuel, and space station).
It sounds like they're considering various alternatives and haven't made the final decision. I suppose it would be easier to make that decision if the commercial rockets were rated for manned missions, but the recent launch failures are a reminder that rocket science is right at the edge of what humans can engineer.
In 10 occupations, the state’s total compensation was at or above the market. In four occupations, the state’s total compensation was below the market.
So California needs to cut (or not change) the compensation of ten occupations and increase it for four. Seems reasonable.
You don't seem to understand what you have written.
You claimed that this prototype aircraft "makes it very clear that it's entirely possible" to replace fossil fueled aircraft with solar powered aircraft. The only thing that Solar Impulse has made clear is that a solar powered aircraft can be flown; there is nothing to indicate that a solar powered aircraft of any design or any efficiency can possibly replace fossil fueled aircraft as you claimed.
Jetpack Guy flies in near house with a family of 4 on top of it, as the flood waters rise.
With only 30 minutes of flight time and only the pilot on board I'd say that's not a good application either. A helicopter with pilot and copilot that can stay up for a couple of hours would be far more practical.
In both cases he ruled that the laws made by legislatures should be respected; specifically the US is a federation of states and the states have wide autonomy to govern themselves.
And please, get over the fact that Gore lost. He was out in California and New York giving speeches in front of friendly crowds that ran up his popular vote while Bush was in the swing states trying to win the electoral count If presidents were elected by popular vote the campaign would have tried to maximize the popular vote, but presidents are elected by those autonomous states, not popular vote..
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Are you talking about the solar powered 3d printers?
You can reach a polar orbit from anywhere on Earth.
You are almost correct. You cannot reach an orbital plane that is inclined less than your launch site's latitude. So you can reach any orbit from the Equator.
Once launched you cannot "change the orbital plane", that would take almost as much energy as the initial launch. In theory it's possible but the rockets we have are nowhere near light and powerful enough
It's not clear from that post whether the Tribunal used the word "illegal" or whether that was added by Amnesty.
Today’s revelations underscore the urgent need for significant legal reform, including proper pre-judicial authorisation and meaningful oversight of the use of surveillance powers by the UK security services, the organisation said.
Even Amnesty International stated that the surveillance doesn't appear to be illegal under current law.
That's sort of the point of most of his works... They don't actually work the way we expect.
Usually it ends up with the situation being explained by the robot
You repeated what GP said.
Set up a screen share and let a few hundred people kibitz while you're trying to work. Imagine all the helpful advice you would get.
People call it a "Walled Garden" for a reason.
He has no insight.
The premise is that only this year's bonus matters, and that a short and planned outage this year will cost him more than keeping the plant operating efficiently in the long term. That's absurd.
by importing a pair-wise comma-separated list of skills and their similarity scores ...
we’re generating that automatically from job descriptions posted on our site.
So what this really shows is how often the same two buzzwords appear together in a job description posted on Dice.
I found another comment in his report interesting:
We also tried using the resume dataset, but the results were of a lower quality,
I assume by "lower quality" he really means "people list every buzzword they can think of on the resumes posted on Dice".
Given the inputs I wouldn't expect any surprises in the results. But that said, it's an interesting project and they did a very nice job with the visualization.
I also don't understand the fixation on evolution. A certain percentage of any population, any country, any religion, will say that they believe what their religion teaches because that's what they've been taught to say (whether they actually believe it or not is another issue).
Take another look at the numbers for Republican vs. Democrat. They are much closer than the summary (mis)led you to believe by quoting the Conservative vs. Liberal numbers.
Also notice the subtle wording of the AGW question: "The earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity". The word "mostly" is clearly there to bias the answers. They didn't ask "Is the earth getting warmer?", or "Is human activity contributing to the earth getting warmer?"
What I see is people turning more and more away from learning, actual knowledge, and truth, and turning back towards religion
Where do you see that? Church membership per capita is way down in the US.
Also keep in mind the the Pew Trust is notoriously liberal, especially related to environmental issues. It isn't a surprise that their survey pushes their agenda. They're also known for sending their own employees (and having them claim to be from the general public) to attend congressional hearings so it appears there's more grass root support for their causes than there actually is.
Aside from pointing out the glaringly obvious (people who identify themselves as Conservative gave responses consistent with what you would expect from people who identify themselves as conservative, same for LIberals), /. the summary ignores far more interesting points.
1) There is a much smaller difference between Republicans and Democrats than there is between Conservatives and Liberals, e.g. the Evolution question goes from 21% versus 54% (Ideology) to 57% versus 72% (Party Id).
2) Several of the questions show a fairly small difference between Republicans and Democrats (pesticides, animal research, world population, vaccines, manned space programs, bioengineered fuel, and space station).
It sounds like they're considering various alternatives and haven't made the final decision. I suppose it would be easier to make that decision if the commercial rockets were rated for manned missions, but the recent launch failures are a reminder that rocket science is right at the edge of what humans can engineer.
In 10 occupations, the state’s total compensation was at or above the market. In four occupations, the state’s total compensation was below the market.
So California needs to cut (or not change) the compensation of ten occupations and increase it for four. Seems reasonable.
As opposed to posting an opinion on /.
You don't seem to understand what you have written.
You claimed that this prototype aircraft "makes it very clear that it's entirely possible" to replace fossil fueled aircraft with solar powered aircraft. The only thing that Solar Impulse has made clear is that a solar powered aircraft can be flown; there is nothing to indicate that a solar powered aircraft of any design or any efficiency can possibly replace fossil fueled aircraft as you claimed.
Storing a few hours of power in a battery doesn't solve the problem.
This article was discussed on slashdot a couple of weeks ago. It explains why Dr. Laurence's conclusions are dubious at best.
i made no claim that this ultra-lightweight solar-powered plane could be used for a commercial flight filled with cargo and hundreds of passengers,
You did indeed make that claim:
it's entirely possible to replace our environmentally destructive planes with solar planes
Nah, have the JetPack guy save the family's poodle while the family drowns.
Jetpack Guy flies in near house with a family of 4 on top of it, as the flood waters rise.
With only 30 minutes of flight time and only the pilot on board I'd say that's not a good application either. A helicopter with pilot and copilot that can stay up for a couple of hours would be far more practical.
They would have known that if they'd googled it before creating their singular cooling system.
In both cases he ruled that the laws made by legislatures should be respected; specifically the US is a federation of states and the states have wide autonomy to govern themselves.
And please, get over the fact that Gore lost. He was out in California and New York giving speeches in front of friendly crowds that ran up his popular vote while Bush was in the swing states trying to win the electoral count If presidents were elected by popular vote the campaign would have tried to maximize the popular vote, but presidents are elected by those autonomous states, not popular vote..
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