There is a Macintosh apple? Or are you thinking of McIntosh apples (not trademarked to my knowledge)?
Not that the point is wrong, but well known trademarks tend to sue any other use, even if unrelated. For instance, Cal Tech (the university) disputed CalTech (the paint company) being allowed to use its name.
This makes finding a good example harder, but how about Apple (records) and Apple (computer)? Though I hear there is a potential conflict now over iTunes.
Obscure examples are plentiful, just look in different cities with the same name for similar businesses. I'll bet there is more than one Springfield Cleaners in the US.
Well, actually, some of the color of bright stars is easily seen. The ancients knew Antares (roughly anti-Ares i.e. not Mars), Betelgeuse and the like were reddish.
I really shouldn't have tried to post a comment at 2 AM, I had writer's remorse about the wings as soon as I woke up. Now I see I didn't even read your post properly, I was only talking about SS1.
SS! probably has short wings to reduce drag on the way up, and maybe to keep them from breaking off on the way down.
IANAAE (areonautical engineeer), but I'm guessing that long, narrow wings always give you more lift per unit area, but cause too much drag at high sub-sonic speeds and low altitudes. There could also be an issue with wing strength. High altitude reduces drag and lets you use a wing design that is more efficient.
The whole re-entry problem is about how to slow down. It is not feasible to take up enough fuel do any significant slowing, so you have to use atmospheric breaking. Slowing down from LEO without burning up is a much more difficult problem than it is on a sub-orbital flight.
The SS1 isn't designed to reach orbit, and scaling up wouldn't help. It does not have the ability to handle re-entry heating.
Even for its designed sub-orbital flight, heat is a problem, and the flight plan calls for going into a high drag attitute during the return to keep the heat down.
Reducing heat buildup sounds like a good reason to have short wings to me, but there may well be others.
I thought the idea of being close to the ocean for fuel in the AP article kind of silly. Shipping the small amount of deuterium used by the reactor an extra few miles can't add much to the cost.
He said 200 miles square (40000 sq miles), not 200 sq miles. Half the area of CO is 52000 sq miles, so given his 15% solar cells, he is calling for more land than you would.
Yes, but the details of the altruism seem to be missed in a lot of popular science writing.
Evolution is working on behavior here, and the more complicated a behavior is the harder it is to appear and persist.
So, if a simple response of helping a neighbor at only a minor cost usually benefits a relative, the fact that nearby non-relatives sometimes get helped isn't violating some evolutionary principle.
I wanted to listen on the internet to a conference call for a stock that I own. According to the instructions, I had to install Real Player to listen to it; no other choices. I hated what it did to my system, so I uninstalled it as soon as the call was over.
This was a few years ago, maybe they offer other streaming options now.
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There is a Macintosh apple? Or are you thinking of McIntosh apples (not trademarked to my knowledge)?
Not that the point is wrong, but well known trademarks tend to sue any other use, even if unrelated. For instance, Cal Tech (the university) disputed CalTech (the paint company) being allowed to use its name.
This makes finding a good example harder, but how about Apple (records) and Apple (computer)? Though I hear there is a potential conflict now over iTunes.
Obscure examples are plentiful, just look in different cities with the same name for similar businesses. I'll bet there is more than one Springfield Cleaners in the US.
Well, actually, some of the color of bright stars is
easily seen. The ancients knew Antares (roughly anti-Ares i.e. not Mars), Betelgeuse and the like were reddish.
There seems to be a lot of celebrating just for catching the dust.
Two years before its returned to Earth, if everything goes as planned. THEN I'll chear.
For now, just a tepid thumbs up.
I really shouldn't have tried to post a comment at 2 AM, I had writer's remorse about the wings as soon as I woke up. Now I see I didn't even read your post properly, I was only talking about SS1.
SS! probably has short wings to reduce drag on the way up, and maybe to keep them from breaking off on the way down.
IANAAE (areonautical engineeer), but I'm guessing that long, narrow wings always give you more lift per unit area, but cause too much drag at high sub-sonic speeds and low altitudes. There could also be an issue with wing strength. High altitude reduces drag and lets you use a wing design that is more efficient.
The whole re-entry problem is about how to slow down. It is not feasible to take up enough fuel do any significant slowing, so you have to use atmospheric breaking. Slowing down from LEO without burning up is a much more difficult problem than it is on a sub-orbital flight.
The SS1 isn't designed to reach orbit, and scaling up wouldn't help. It does not have the ability to handle re-entry heating.
Even for its designed sub-orbital flight, heat is a problem, and the flight plan calls for going into a high drag attitute during the return to keep the heat down.
Reducing heat buildup sounds like a good reason to have short wings to me, but there may well be others.
I thought the idea of being close to the ocean for fuel in the AP article kind of silly. Shipping the small amount of deuterium used by the reactor an extra few miles can't add much to the cost.
Ok, let's see...
Fusion furnaces from France fought for, asians
annex Americans assistance.
Is that alliterate enough for you?
He said 200 miles square (40000 sq miles), not 200 sq miles. Half the area of CO is 52000 sq miles, so given his 15% solar cells, he is calling for more land than you would.
I should have said L1, same situation though.
L2 is not dynamically stable. The farther you are from it the more effort it takes to stay there. L5 and L6 are the only ones orbitable.
There is a sample song from the soundtrack available from the site linked to in the intro. Unbelievably good.
300 mm is 11.8 inches, so backwards Americans usually refer to them as 12 inch wafers. But not forwards Americans, of course.
Yes, but the details of the altruism seem to be missed in a lot of popular science writing. Evolution is working on behavior here, and the more complicated a behavior is the harder it is to appear and persist. So, if a simple response of helping a neighbor at only a minor cost usually benefits a relative, the fact that nearby non-relatives sometimes get helped isn't violating some evolutionary principle.
I wanted to listen on the internet to a conference call for a stock that I own. According to the instructions, I had to install Real Player to listen to it; no other choices. I hated what it did to my system, so I uninstalled it as soon as the call was over. This was a few years ago, maybe they offer other streaming options now.
Burning gasoline produces CO2 and WATER VAPOR. If hydrogen fuel cells are more efficient, they might well put less water into the air than we get now.
Five was the correct number of ^H's. Only four would have left two spaces in a row.