Where I live, we don't have hurricanes. But you CANNOT open a gas station without installing a generator capable of powering the whole business, including lights, pumps and cash registers. The generator is expected to have a separate tank and to run on something that the gas station sells (usually diesel). The same AFAIK is in the whole EU and the whole post-Soviet world. Isn't it the same in US ?
I'll try to translate: The construction of the Rome's subway is halted because of archaeology research. Tools from the era when the subway construction started are found in the borehole.
Sextant is good and even a relatively small ships carry more than one. Highly trained, my ass. A day of training for a clever man, that is. Or a month for a barely reading, but motivated one.
And I don't imply that the sextant has to be mechanical and human-operated. A simple webcam w/ an infrared filter and not so complex software can do. There is an app for that (probably!).
> Unlike aircraft, ships lack a back-up navigation system
Really? Ships had pretty reliable means of open sea navigation for at good 1000++y before GPS and even before the first aircraft, gradually improved trough the centuries. Paper maps, magnetic compass, more or less accurate clocks, tools for optical measurements? Whatever happened to them?
LORAN is good, but it is just as vulnerable as GPS and is pretty much the same basic technology, having infrastructure on the ground instead of space.
OTOH, sun/star/compass-based navigation can be improved by modern technology and still work autonomously on the ship. The fog and the clouds, preventing optical measurements by naked eye are almost non-issue in infrared. And more, now we have modern laser gyroscopes and precise accelerometers for a good inertial add-ons.
Most power plants (natural gas, oil or coal) run on supercritical steam anyways, at least in their designed power level. The technology is neither new nor rare. The need to run on "dry" steam for efficiency is known at least from steam locomotives. The only modern power-generating subcritical steam systems I know of are some nuclear power plants where the reactor expects some of the cooling water in it to stay liquid (read: dense) because it serves as neutron moderator as well.
You can never be sure with Russian accounting. There is a lot of invisible (to the western mind) and implicit streams of goods and services from everything in Russia to military structures and then (besides everywhere else) to military technology companies. Those companies (including space-related) are then almost free (or meant to, in some cases) to cross-subsidy other products.
So in Soviet (and post-Soviet) Russia no one can really estimate the real cost of something even remotely related to military. So they never try. The space launches are outright politically priced.
All your points converge to "can't afford". Then again, in company terms, a lot of people can't afford to lose a job. Better yet if it is the company paying the insurance.
And probably, both SpaceX and the sat owner have some kind of insurance coverage.
European here. Clinton is profoundly corrupt and no one really tries to hide the fact, Trump is an idiot. Both your parties nominated candidates as if they don't really want the office and hope the other party wins the election. Is it really the case or I am missing something?
Every 1-2 years (or after a major air crash) someone, somewhere suggests this idea. Which amounts to:
1. Aircraft to become more complex (e.g. heavy, expensive, failure-prone, carrying less passengers per unit of fuel)
2. The idea works only when aircraft is at high enough altitude for the 'chutes to work reasonably. So no profit in takeoff and landing (when most of crashes happen)
3. The idea works only when aircraft is slow enough for the "bus" and it's precious contents to survive aerodynamic hit and turbulence without having shape and controls of an airplane, rocket or something similar. So no profit at marching speed, either.
And yes, 2 and 3 pretty much cover the whole flight.
4. Bombs inside and missiles outside still invariably fatal.
Sorry. Back to fighting terrorism, training pilots and engineering better avionics.
As a non-smoker, I really prefer occasional battery incident now and then if this reduces the ordinary fires caused by ordinary burning tobacco products.
From the smokers view, it could be different. Smoker usually dies in the fire and that's all, vaper survives and complains. If you are concerned, QUIT SMOKING, after all...
US are not in a position to invade Canada. The cost will pretty much outweigh the benefit, all other collateral costs put aside (electoral, diplomatic and/or others helping Canada, fearing the same fate). Then again, some crazy US ruler can try and even succeed. Ukraine is different. USSR (extended Russia) _failed to keep_ Ukraine in 1990s. Their populations of Ukraine and Russia are something like 1:2, their economies (sans oil pumping) are pretty much near that. Most sympathies (and help) are to Ukraine, Russia has more weapons. The result is unclear (except Putin keeping the office). Pretty unlike Russia vs Georgia (Russia clearly succeeded in 2008).
Well, I RTFA. The photos are from Russia, made in an affected village near Ukraine and 180km downwind (at the moment of disaster) from Chernobyl. As for the rest, Russia still occupies between 1% and 2% of Ukrainian territory (which were the most economically active, indeed), but all the war happens at the opposite to Chernobyl end of Ukraine.
Well, it is a kind of equilibrium. There were women investing mainly in their attractiveness since... well, at least before the dawn of humankind. And yes, a lot of men stay clear, but not all. Those men and women tend to have a lot less children. Seems convenient to me.
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Where I live, we don't have hurricanes. But you CANNOT open a gas station without installing a generator capable of powering the whole business, including lights, pumps and cash registers. The generator is expected to have a separate tank and to run on something that the gas station sells (usually diesel). The same AFAIK is in the whole EU and the whole post-Soviet world. Isn't it the same in US ?
I'll try to translate: The construction of the Rome's subway is halted because of archaeology research. Tools from the era when the subway construction started are found in the borehole.
Sextant is good and even a relatively small ships carry more than one. Highly trained, my ass. A day of training for a clever man, that is. Or a month for a barely reading, but motivated one.
And I don't imply that the sextant has to be mechanical and human-operated. A simple webcam w/ an infrared filter and not so complex software can do. There is an app for that (probably!).
> Unlike aircraft, ships lack a back-up navigation system
Really? Ships had pretty reliable means of open sea navigation for at good 1000++y before GPS and even before the first aircraft, gradually improved trough the centuries. Paper maps, magnetic compass, more or less accurate clocks, tools for optical measurements? Whatever happened to them?
LORAN is good, but it is just as vulnerable as GPS and is pretty much the same basic technology, having infrastructure on the ground instead of space.
OTOH, sun/star/compass-based navigation can be improved by modern technology and still work autonomously on the ship. The fog and the clouds, preventing optical measurements by naked eye are almost non-issue in infrared. And more, now we have modern laser gyroscopes and precise accelerometers for a good inertial add-ons.
It used to be here for ages. It is called STDs. Well, it doesn't cover all of the microbiome, but still works.
Most power plants (natural gas, oil or coal) run on supercritical steam anyways, at least in their designed power level. The technology is neither new nor rare. The need to run on "dry" steam for efficiency is known at least from steam locomotives. The only modern power-generating subcritical steam systems I know of are some nuclear power plants where the reactor expects some of the cooling water in it to stay liquid (read: dense) because it serves as neutron moderator as well.
Not that I would in the first place.
DST is a very good example of how the politicians can fuck pretty much everyone with a stupid populist idea advertized well enough.
Timezones are pretty much inevitable. The planet rotates.
You can never be sure with Russian accounting. There is a lot of invisible (to the western mind) and implicit streams of goods and services from everything in Russia to military structures and then (besides everywhere else) to military technology companies. Those companies (including space-related) are then almost free (or meant to, in some cases) to cross-subsidy other products.
So in Soviet (and post-Soviet) Russia no one can really estimate the real cost of something even remotely related to military. So they never try. The space launches are outright politically priced.
All your points converge to "can't afford". Then again, in company terms, a lot of people can't afford to lose a job. Better yet if it is the company paying the insurance.
And probably, both SpaceX and the sat owner have some kind of insurance coverage.
European here. Clinton is profoundly corrupt and no one really tries to hide the fact, Trump is an idiot. Both your parties nominated candidates as if they don't really want the office and hope the other party wins the election. Is it really the case or I am missing something?
damn text editor!
Every 1-2 years (or after a major air crash) someone, somewhere suggests this idea. Which amounts to:
1. Aircraft to become more complex (e.g. heavy, expensive, failure-prone, carrying less passengers per unit of fuel)
2. The idea works only when aircraft is at high enough altitude for the 'chutes to work reasonably. So no profit in takeoff and landing (when most of crashes happen)
3. The idea works only when aircraft is slow enough for the "bus" and it's precious contents to survive aerodynamic hit and turbulence without having shape and controls of an airplane, rocket or something similar. So no profit at marching speed, either.
And yes, 2 and 3 pretty much cover the whole flight.
4. Bombs inside and missiles outside still invariably fatal.
Sorry. Back to fighting terrorism, training pilots and engineering better avionics.
SECURE 5 and TOASTED 495 is much, much better approximation
TV is soooooo 20th century.
You are soooo 80's... but still probably right.
Compared to burning dried tobacco near your face, vaping is a lot better.
As a non-smoker, I really prefer occasional battery incident now and then if this reduces the ordinary fires caused by ordinary burning tobacco products. From the smokers view, it could be different. Smoker usually dies in the fire and that's all, vaper survives and complains. If you are concerned, QUIT SMOKING, after all...
US are not in a position to invade Canada. The cost will pretty much outweigh the benefit, all other collateral costs put aside (electoral, diplomatic and/or others helping Canada, fearing the same fate). Then again, some crazy US ruler can try and even succeed. Ukraine is different. USSR (extended Russia) _failed to keep_ Ukraine in 1990s. Their populations of Ukraine and Russia are something like 1:2, their economies (sans oil pumping) are pretty much near that. Most sympathies (and help) are to Ukraine, Russia has more weapons. The result is unclear (except Putin keeping the office). Pretty unlike Russia vs Georgia (Russia clearly succeeded in 2008).
IANA US Lawyer, but most jurisdictions explicitly ban entrapment. Does serving an illegal web content from government facility count as one?
Well, I RTFA. The photos are from Russia, made in an affected village near Ukraine and 180km downwind (at the moment of disaster) from Chernobyl. As for the rest, Russia still occupies between 1% and 2% of Ukrainian territory (which were the most economically active, indeed), but all the war happens at the opposite to Chernobyl end of Ukraine.
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Well, it is a kind of equilibrium. There were women investing mainly in their attractiveness since... well, at least before the dawn of humankind. And yes, a lot of men stay clear, but not all. Those men and women tend to have a lot less children. Seems convenient to me.
oh, wait...