Very interesting. You really can tie yourself in knots with this stuff - what if only I exist and the rest of you are just my vivid imagination?
I have friends who believe in abiotic oil because the Earth is not old enough to have created it the usual way. (Creationist Oil???)
So I just tell them that every day oil companies bet billions of dollars that you are wrong. The conventional scientific way of looking at the world seems to give us the best chance of finding oil, curing disease, or making working airplanes. I'll be sticking to it for now:)
"God did it/planted evidence/made carbon isotopes/etc" can fill in for for ANY "discrepancy". I can think of no way at all to prove the world is not 15 hours hold and all my memories of things before that were not implanted by God. Can you?
All these plans eventually degenerate into "You can't tax OUR COUNTRY - it isn't fair wah wah wah we aren't in the 1st world yet Make us exempt wah wah..........." and end up becoming a tax on the USA/EU.
The DSC system my car had is different I think. The E-46 series DSC combined ABS, Traction Control, and rate gyros to correct yaw. I think the E-36 only had the first two parts. It really worked quite well. If you turned it off for more fun the ABS part still stayed active. Just like you discovered, sometimes you need to turn it off for ice/snow/mud or the car just sits there. The one way to "trick" it was to downshift and let off the gas mid-corner. It had a hard time correcting for that right away and you could get the rear end out some. Also obviously the laws of physics still exist and you could wreck the car if you REALLY put some effort into it. My new car - a Mazda3 - has a similar system. It has one flaw - it doesn't seem to really get understeer that much. You can easily go wide off a corner understeering and it won't do much about it. One day I took a 90 degree corner onto an (empty) 3 lane road and held enough throttle to slide over to the far lane. The stability control kept the car lined up but did not chop my power.
I do wonder about kids learning to drive. My mother got a turbo corvair for her 16th birthday and it must have made an impression on her. I got a LOT of "NEVER let of the gas in a turn and don't even THINK about the brakes" when I was learning to drive. Today it would be more like "the magic car will fix it, you don't need to know why it does what it does".
I hit a wet exit ramp that also had a fair amount of oil spilled on it. My BMW DSC system stabilized the car at a seemingly impossible tail-out angle and it must have looked like I was the best full-opposite-lock drifter EVER to an outside observer. It was pretty wild feeling the brakes being applied selectively to hold the angle and feel the throttle control shift from me to the car. All I had to do is steer.
Being in the public sector - I can tell you I have NO authority over some goof-off in my "brigade". If their own manager can't get them to work, I really have too much to do to try and make them.
My kid is sick today, gotta work from home = keep VPN up and do as much work as possible.
Then mr. X says "My kid is sick today, gotta work from home " and answers no email or phone calls all day.
We were all like "WTF? You weren't working from home - you were just home"
Well what *we* do is just send random emails CCing a bunch of people every hour that are like "waiting for your answer to this to proceed". If you engineer the CC list just right, the ENTIRE PLACE will quit being productive by lunch and you won't stand out;)
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+1 Every other explanation I have read was lame - this is such a simple answer too.
Airplanes have maximum altitudes between about 15,000 and 50,000 feet for the most part. Clouds can top that.
Except not all airplane windshields ARE glass. I have got burned flying behind a plexiglass windshield more than once.
Just FYI: Multiple generators and redundant busses were used at least as far back as the 1930s ;)
AFAIK armed ships and little-reported search-and-destroy missions on shore have cut Somali piracy down quite a bit lately.
Can you prove this?
You described alcohol, not hydrocarbons. We already do plants>alcohol ;)
Seriously - I wouldn't use Facebook if they paid me to log in to their massive privacy violation engine.
If the stereotypes hold true the North Koreans have a major deficit to overcome!
Very interesting. You really can tie yourself in knots with this stuff - what if only I exist and the rest of you are just my vivid imagination? I have friends who believe in abiotic oil because the Earth is not old enough to have created it the usual way. (Creationist Oil???) So I just tell them that every day oil companies bet billions of dollars that you are wrong. The conventional scientific way of looking at the world seems to give us the best chance of finding oil, curing disease, or making working airplanes. I'll be sticking to it for now :)
"God did it/planted evidence/made carbon isotopes/etc" can fill in for for ANY "discrepancy". I can think of no way at all to prove the world is not 15 hours hold and all my memories of things before that were not implanted by God. Can you?
Actually inspired by this book - not by goofing off at work: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Weight-Coronet-Books-Brian-Lecomber/dp/0340219998/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/275-5495205-5025956 I was mostly kidding, but we do have one guy famous for getting in the middle of email threads and CCing everyone even remotely connected to the issue when he works from home and adding almost no new content.
That sounds all nice and fair, but will do less than nothing to cut CO2.
All these plans eventually degenerate into "You can't tax OUR COUNTRY - it isn't fair wah wah wah we aren't in the 1st world yet Make us exempt wah wah..........." and end up becoming a tax on the USA/EU.
Seriously - are we supposed to outlaw coal exports or what?
I live downstream of 3 Mile Island and what happened to me was...............nothing.
Ask Georgia about Atlanta and all points between there and the sea. It *eventually* worked out, but not quite as fast as you might like.
The DSC system my car had is different I think. The E-46 series DSC combined ABS, Traction Control, and rate gyros to correct yaw. I think the E-36 only had the first two parts. It really worked quite well. If you turned it off for more fun the ABS part still stayed active. Just like you discovered, sometimes you need to turn it off for ice/snow/mud or the car just sits there. The one way to "trick" it was to downshift and let off the gas mid-corner. It had a hard time correcting for that right away and you could get the rear end out some. Also obviously the laws of physics still exist and you could wreck the car if you REALLY put some effort into it. My new car - a Mazda3 - has a similar system. It has one flaw - it doesn't seem to really get understeer that much. You can easily go wide off a corner understeering and it won't do much about it. One day I took a 90 degree corner onto an (empty) 3 lane road and held enough throttle to slide over to the far lane. The stability control kept the car lined up but did not chop my power. I do wonder about kids learning to drive. My mother got a turbo corvair for her 16th birthday and it must have made an impression on her. I got a LOT of "NEVER let of the gas in a turn and don't even THINK about the brakes" when I was learning to drive. Today it would be more like "the magic car will fix it, you don't need to know why it does what it does".
I hit a wet exit ramp that also had a fair amount of oil spilled on it. My BMW DSC system stabilized the car at a seemingly impossible tail-out angle and it must have looked like I was the best full-opposite-lock drifter EVER to an outside observer. It was pretty wild feeling the brakes being applied selectively to hold the angle and feel the throttle control shift from me to the car. All I had to do is steer.
I wonder how many people are working 9-5 SOMEPLACE ELSE and seeing how long Yahoo keeps paying them?
Being in the public sector - I can tell you I have NO authority over some goof-off in my "brigade". If their own manager can't get them to work, I really have too much to do to try and make them.
My kid is sick today, gotta work from home = keep VPN up and do as much work as possible. Then mr. X says "My kid is sick today, gotta work from home " and answers no email or phone calls all day. We were all like "WTF? You weren't working from home - you were just home"
Well what *we* do is just send random emails CCing a bunch of people every hour that are like "waiting for your answer to this to proceed". If you engineer the CC list just right, the ENTIRE PLACE will quit being productive by lunch and you won't stand out ;)
Where did the ISS come from then? AFAIK it was built right where it sits right now - in orbit.
Or just get it over with already and route the flight through Atlanta.