Yes, a small company, perhaps. 5000 a year with about 250 working days a year is 20 units per day or 2.5 units per hour @ about $4000.00 per unit equals $400,000 gross per week ($2,000,000.00 a year) Build this number (1/2 his volume) with 1/2 the employees (he has 56) and you have 28 full time employees and 75 temps. It seems to work out OK, if you can survive the startup expenses. I would assume this product would be low liability. Perhaps the mechanical arcade games will outlast the digital ones, because you just can't reproduce the whole pinball experience on a video screen.
Actually, the blacks were the group who perfected the art of barbeque. They took the leftover pieces that their the masters didn't want to mess with, such as the ribs, and learned how to slow cook them to perfection.
P.S. I grilled 3 meals last weekend. On charcoal. Real flames. Not cityfied propane flames.
Beef, it's what's for dinner, because there's no such thing as a chicken knife.
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Perhaps the author remembers when the telephone and the postal mail services, both got so flooded with junk that all business quit using them, entirely, several years ago.
I also remember them becoming flooded with junk, but I don't remember when business quit using them.
And if the author does remember business quitting to use these services, what does he think we will return to ??? "giddyup, trigger" ???
no such thing as cold, just the absence of heat
no such thing as dark, just the absence of light
guess what? we english speaking humans have decided to call and the absence of heat, 'cold' the absence of light, 'dark' and negative acceleration, 'deceleration'
In 1952, E. R. Ballinger, leader of the research program at Wright-Patterson, conducted one of the earliest series of centrifuge tests directed expressly toward the problem of g forces in space flight. Ballinger found that 3 g applied transversely would be the ideal takeoff pattern from the physiological standpoint, but he realized that the rocket burning time and velocity for such a pattern would be insufficient to propel a spacecraft out of the atmosphere. Consequently he and his associates subjected men to gradually increasing g loads, building to peaks of 10 g for something over two minutes. Chest pain, shortness of breath, and occasional loss of consciousness were the symptoms of those subjected to the higher g loads. The tests led Ballinger to the conclusion that 8 g represented the acceleration safety limit for a space passenger.
They will have to spread the acceleration and deceleration down over a few miles
I agree with your argument. I've even made the same argument myself. Then I consider the medical field. Almost everyone I know has spent quite a bit of money in the medical field, and the prices are still high. Then I wonder if the volume thing would bring aviation and aircraft prices down. Or would we (aviation) continue with high prices and blame safety and certification.
For instance, on an aircraft, if you would like to modify the design of, say, the engine intake airfilter, you would have to obtain an S.T.C. to certify the new design on the previously certified aircraft. It is estimated that the paperwork, alone, to obtain an S.T.C. cost $1,000,000.00. Then each S.T.C.'d modification has to be inspected by an aircraft mechanic with an Inspection Authorization, and the mechanic has to file an FAA Form 337 certifying the modification was performed in accordance with approved procedures. Next week, I will be filing a 337 because the owner wanted to change from a lead acid battery to a recumbent gas (basically sealed lead acid) battery.
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Answer, NO.
Rent a car when you get there
Some small airports have a free 'loaner car' It cost between $20,000 and $60,000 to overhaul a piston aircraft engine. Most are overhauled every 2,000 hours. So that's between $10 and $30 per hour to overhaul the engine. The tires last about 600 hours, Assuming an average 2 hour flight, that's 1 takeoff and 1 landing per hour. If the takeoff run, and landing rollout average 1/2 mile each, that's 600 miles per tire, plus taxi time maybe 1,000 miles per tire. Can you imagine replacing the tires on your car every 1000 miles? I replaced a tail navigation light cover on a Beech Barron for $600 parts only. (4" diameter shaped clear plastic cover)
It cost about $1000 to replace the brake pads on a Cessna 190
Every part used on an aircraft is certified, right down to the $16 oil filter.
Aircraft must be maintained under the supervision of a FAA certified mechanic. If your flying car broke down on the road, you would have to round up a certified mechanic to supervise the repairs.
The airconditioner on the new Cessnas is a $20,800 option.
I can't imagine driving a certified aircraft on the road with other cars.
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If I ever get a "real car" I'm going to put my Geo in the trunk for a spare.
...is not a hybrid, is not expensive, and gets 46-53 m.p.g. I have checked it on about 20 tanks. But, no tax refund.
$2,000,000.00 a year
correction $20,000,000.00 a year
Yes, a small company, perhaps. 5000 a year with about 250 working days a year is 20 units per day or 2.5 units per hour @ about $4000.00 per unit equals $400,000 gross per week ($2,000,000.00 a year) Build this number (1/2 his volume) with 1/2 the employees (he has 56) and you have 28 full time employees and 75 temps. It seems to work out OK, if you can survive the startup expenses. I would assume this product would be low liability. Perhaps the mechanical arcade games will outlast the digital ones, because you just can't reproduce the whole pinball experience on a video screen.
That's my mom's F-150, you insensitive clod. ;-)
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Get yourself a barbeque
Now that's funny. But if it gets modded as funny then it won't be funny anymore
Actually, the blacks were the group who perfected the art of barbeque. They took the leftover pieces that their the masters didn't want to mess with, such as the ribs, and learned how to slow cook them to perfection.
P.S. I grilled 3 meals last weekend. On charcoal. Real flames. Not cityfied propane flames.
Beef, it's what's for dinner, because there's no such thing as a chicken knife.
you could probably fry a steak on
the chip consumes 23 percent less power than the single core version: 100W to 130W, the chip maker said.
I wouldn't want to try to fry a steak on a measly 130 watt heating element
Just about every single piston engine manufactured since WWII has had mechanical fuel injection.
I don't have any numbers, but my experience as a piston engine aircraft mechanic for the past fifteen years says, and I quote, "NOT"
50%/50% maybe
link!
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it's late (this comment modified to make it original).
it's late.
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Perhaps the author remembers when the telephone and the postal mail services, both got so flooded with junk that all business quit using them, entirely, several years ago.
I also remember them becoming flooded with junk, but I don't remember when business quit using them.
And if the author does remember business quitting to use these services, what does he think we will return to ??? "giddyup, trigger" ???
I think the original sig meant that blaming guns for killing people is like blaming keyboards for misspelling words.
you probably also suggest that there is...
;-)
no such thing as cold, just the absence of heat
no such thing as dark, just the absence of light
guess what?
we english speaking humans have decided to call
and the absence of heat, 'cold'
the absence of light, 'dark'
and negative acceleration, 'deceleration'
You can look up what we call things here
"If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words." - Keyboards that depress their own keys, who would have thought?
-Guns that pull their own triggers, who would have thought?
Early space related centrifuge tests performed at WADC
In 1952, E. R. Ballinger, leader of the research program at Wright-Patterson, conducted one of the earliest series of centrifuge tests directed expressly toward the problem of g forces in space flight. Ballinger found that 3 g applied transversely would be the ideal takeoff pattern from the physiological standpoint, but he realized that the rocket burning time and velocity for such a pattern would be insufficient to propel a spacecraft out of the atmosphere. Consequently he and his associates subjected men to gradually increasing g loads, building to peaks of 10 g for something over two minutes. Chest pain, shortness of breath, and occasional loss of consciousness were the symptoms of those subjected to the higher g loads. The tests led Ballinger to the conclusion that 8 g represented the acceleration safety limit for a space passenger.
They will have to spread the acceleration and deceleration down over a few miles
1st child -> boil bottles and pacifiers for 10 minutes, after each use
2nd child -> boil bottles and pacifiers for 10 minutes, after dropped
3rd child -> boil bottles and pacifiers for 10 minutes, once a month
4th child -> boil bottles and pacifiers for 10 minutes, before major holidays or reunions
5th child -> blow the germs off the bottle or pacifier, after dropped (only if grandma is watching, otherwise simply reinsert)
6th child -> ???? (don't know yet)
I agree with your argument. I've even made the same argument myself. Then I consider the medical field. Almost everyone I know has spent quite a bit of money in the medical field, and the prices are still high. Then I wonder if the volume thing would bring aviation and aircraft prices down. Or would we (aviation) continue with high prices and blame safety and certification.
For instance, on an aircraft, if you would like to modify the design of, say, the engine intake airfilter, you would have to obtain an S.T.C. to certify the new design on the previously certified aircraft. It is estimated that the paperwork, alone, to obtain an S.T.C. cost $1,000,000.00. Then each S.T.C.'d modification has to be inspected by an aircraft mechanic with an Inspection Authorization, and the mechanic has to file an FAA Form 337 certifying the modification was performed in accordance with approved procedures. Next week, I will be filing a 337 because the owner wanted to change from a lead acid battery to a recumbent gas (basically sealed lead acid) battery.
Answer, NO.
Rent a car when you get there
Some small airports have a free 'loaner car'
It cost between $20,000 and $60,000 to overhaul a piston aircraft engine. Most are overhauled every 2,000 hours. So that's between $10 and $30 per hour to overhaul the engine. The tires last about 600 hours, Assuming an average 2 hour flight, that's 1 takeoff and 1 landing per hour. If the takeoff run, and landing rollout average 1/2 mile each, that's 600 miles per tire, plus taxi time maybe 1,000 miles per tire. Can you imagine replacing the tires on your car every 1000 miles?
I replaced a tail navigation light cover on a Beech Barron for $600 parts only. (4" diameter shaped clear plastic cover)
It cost about $1000 to replace the brake pads on a Cessna 190
Every part used on an aircraft is certified, right down to the $16 oil filter.
Aircraft must be maintained under the supervision of a FAA certified mechanic. If your flying car broke down on the road, you would have to round up a certified mechanic to supervise the repairs.
The airconditioner on the new Cessnas is a $20,800 option.
I can't imagine driving a certified aircraft on the road with other cars.
How about a 4.8 km long cylinder with a .8 km radius, for a grand total of 9.65 km^3 of rock, or 9.65e9 m^3, or about 1/6th of your estimate.
Assume you have a 3-mile diameter asteroid...
The 3-mile-long (4.8-kilometer-long) peanut-shaped asteroid...
Probably a three mile long cylinder with a 1 mile diameter would be more accurate.