Religion is not God, and God did not create religion. Religion was created by man, which is why it's far from perfect, and sometimes espouses contradictory, and often stupid things.
I was raised to be a Christian, and I do believe in God, and I do believe God created everything. However, I am also an engineer, and I've studied enough physics and chemistry to not be totally ignorant. I also know that there is a lot more that I don't know than I do know. Therefore it would be stupid of me to pretend to have all the answers, or be right on everything (or maybe even anything).
What God did, or how God did it, I have no clue. And neither does anyone else, I think. But we can, and do observe the results in the universe around us.
Here's how I see it. Neither religion (choose your flavor) nor science has all the answers. I think science is how we attempt to understand what God did and how it all works. The longer we pursue science, the more we figure out. The pursuit of that knowledge is very worthwhile, and so far, humankind is better off for having learned what we have. The biggest problem is that right now, there is a lot more that we don't know, than we do know. So we should continue working at it, and learning as we go. Hopefully we don't blow ourselves up along the way.
I really liked the analogy about us being infants in the huge library. That seems quite fitting.
In any of the aircraft I've ever worked on (which does not include
anything ever made by Airbus), communication between the flight
control system and the remote actuators was usually done using a
differential circuit, like MIL-STD-1553B (or its commercial
counterpart). By using an interface like that, external interference
appears as a common mode signal and is ignored by line receivers at
either end of the connection.
Frankly, I think the poster who cited clear air turbulence as the
cause, is probably correct.
Ummm....check your history.
Yes there would be a public highway system.
The interstate highway system in the US was originally built for the military. The original bill signed in to law during the 1950's by then President Dwight Eisenhower, authorized funding for the Interstate and National Defense Highway system. This is why Eisenhower is, to this day, hailed as the "father of the interstate highway system". Now - if it weren't for the National Defense aspect of it, we wouldn't have the Interstate system we have today. In fact, some of the original specs that define what an interstate highway is, was mandated by the military. No grade over 4% (there are some exceptions that were allowed to this), one mile of straight road out of every 5 (to enable landing of aircraft), and the amount of reinforcement in the pavement was not done for tractor-trailers, it was done to support tanks and armored vehicles.
What kind of car was it?
I have a car that has been having intermittent
ABS controller failures, and you've got me wondering about
this as a possible cause.
there wasn't a hole in the reactor either. during an NRC inspection, they found significant corrosion on the steel dome that covers the containment vessel. The thickness of the dome was seriously compromised as it's thickness was down to 1/2 inch in places, but no breach actually occurred.
I don't know about the rest of the items stated, but I do
know for sure that the Davis-Besse is off line and shut
down, and has not operated for almost a year to replace a corroded steel dome on the containment
building. The reason for the long shutdown is that the
replacement dome has to be custom made, and
imported from, of all places, France. Additionally, once
the severe corrosion was found, the NRC was all over
First Energy (owner and operator of Davis-Besse)
like white on rice.
Perhaps this is a bit of urban legend, or another case
of the media blowing something all out of proportion
(again).
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Religion is not God, and God did not create religion. Religion was created by man, which is why it's far from perfect, and sometimes espouses contradictory, and often stupid things.
I was raised to be a Christian, and I do believe in God, and I do believe God created everything. However, I am also an engineer, and I've studied enough physics and chemistry to not be totally ignorant. I also know that there is a lot more that I don't know than I do know. Therefore it would be stupid of me to pretend to have all the answers, or be right on everything (or maybe even anything).
What God did, or how God did it, I have no clue. And neither does anyone else, I think. But we can, and do observe the results in the universe around us.
Here's how I see it. Neither religion (choose your flavor) nor science has all the answers. I think science is how we attempt to understand what God did and how it all works. The longer we pursue science, the more we figure out. The pursuit of that knowledge is very worthwhile, and so far, humankind is better off for having learned what we have. The biggest problem is that right now, there is a lot more that we don't know, than we do know. So we should continue working at it, and learning as we go. Hopefully we don't blow ourselves up along the way.
I really liked the analogy about us being infants in the huge library. That seems quite fitting.
In any of the aircraft I've ever worked on (which does not include anything ever made by Airbus), communication between the flight control system and the remote actuators was usually done using a differential circuit, like MIL-STD-1553B (or its commercial counterpart). By using an interface like that, external interference appears as a common mode signal and is ignored by line receivers at either end of the connection. Frankly, I think the poster who cited clear air turbulence as the cause, is probably correct.
Ummm....check your history. Yes there would be a public highway system. The interstate highway system in the US was originally built for the military. The original bill signed in to law during the 1950's by then President Dwight Eisenhower, authorized funding for the Interstate and National Defense Highway system. This is why Eisenhower is, to this day, hailed as the "father of the interstate highway system". Now - if it weren't for the National Defense aspect of it, we wouldn't have the Interstate system we have today. In fact, some of the original specs that define what an interstate highway is, was mandated by the military. No grade over 4% (there are some exceptions that were allowed to this), one mile of straight road out of every 5 (to enable landing of aircraft), and the amount of reinforcement in the pavement was not done for tractor-trailers, it was done to support tanks and armored vehicles.
What kind of car was it? I have a car that has been having intermittent ABS controller failures, and you've got me wondering about this as a possible cause.
there wasn't a hole in the reactor either. during an NRC inspection, they found significant corrosion on the steel dome that covers the containment vessel. The thickness of the dome was seriously compromised as it's thickness was down to 1/2 inch in places, but no breach actually occurred.
I don't know about the rest of the items stated, but I do know for sure that the Davis-Besse is off line and shut down, and has not operated for almost a year to replace a corroded steel dome on the containment building. The reason for the long shutdown is that the replacement dome has to be custom made, and imported from, of all places, France. Additionally, once the severe corrosion was found, the NRC was all over First Energy (owner and operator of Davis-Besse) like white on rice. Perhaps this is a bit of urban legend, or another case of the media blowing something all out of proportion (again).