Actually, the Colorado river supplies water to most of the desert/drought regions that -- I assume -- you were referring to. I seem to be missing the point of a nation-wide system that would waste Nature's own waterways in favor of massive pumping stations, reservoirs, loss of human and animal life (during construction), and the $$$. Little old Trans-Alaska cost $8 billion back in the 70's, and what you are asking for would have to transport considerably greater volumes of liquid to a considerably larger area. Such a figure would probably be in the trillions of dollars, and the U.S. isn't exactly in a position to blow that kind of money on a redundant system.
Oh, and if your apparent humor / sarcasm is directed at the other end of the pipelines, it doesn't seem to be feasible to pump flood waters out West and would be a downright bargain (compared to the System) to have pumping/irrigation systems set up on a smaller scale: to handle -- on a city by city basis -- emergency crises and nothing more. Which is pretty much where New Orleans is at right now.
arundatarchi is the Troll, not erbmjw. Check the article, he's making up the references. And they're pretty obvious too. And for the non-physicists/astronomers/etc:
interferometer: an instrument that utilizes the interference of waves (as of light) for precise determinations (as of distance or wavelength)
occultation: the interruption of the light from a celestial body or of the signals from a spacecraft by the intervention of a celestial body
Again with the damned wiki quotes. I admit, it's a great source of information, but it's all public input with very little moderation (or rather, very *slow* moderation). The article did hit the curb weight issue on the head of the nail, however. There's a reason why many compact cars are equipped with only two disk brakes, and no abs. With one of these boats on wheels (aka SUVs), ABS is necessary because of the incredible force being exerted on the tires when the wheels are 'static'.
The primary benefits for abs over non-abs kick in when that static friction is lost (with non-abs), and for light cars that takes considerably longer than SUVs and large trucks (where the momentum is enough to almost instantly cancel out any static friction between rubber tires and road surface).
If a lighter car (such as my own 2300-2400 lb '99 Corolla) is equipped with abs there is significant loss in braking power when the brake is NOT engaged (ie when the abs is releasing to allow disk brakes to momentarily cool, and for the wheel to rotate). This loss is not completely covered by the added friction (and braking power, as a result) when abs IS engaged.
For one of these 4000-5000 lb monstrosities (or more), you WOULD have to be an expert to keep pace with the abs, and even the abs is far from the optimum engage/disengage rate. As the soccer moms keep demanding larger and larger gas guzzlers, the antilock brake industry is hard pressed to keep pace.
On something of a side note, BMW has recently utilized some incredible breakthroughs in the technology, which led them to the Multiple-Brake-Light-Intensity 'warning system' on their vehicles, to warn following cars that the BMW is braking rapidly and to hopefully avoid being rearended. If I remember correctly the initial cost was somewhere in the whereabouts of $10k per brake, however, so just keep an eye out for the higher end beemers.:)
AH! But non-abs allows you to floor the brake pedal completely, and non-abs equipped cars stop sooner than abs (in 'normal' weather/driving conditions). The abs benefit is the ability to TURN while braking, *NOT* stopping distance. I think you got that switched around.:) abs allows you to avoid obstactles while still braking, but if you're not in a situation where the obstacle CAN be avoided then abs is actually hurting you. The exception is if you live in an icey region, where abs *does* improves traction (and therefore stopping distance), but everywhere else I'd elect to go without abs.
The main monetary advantage is even wear on your tires, but I'd rather blow a few hundred dollars to replace bald tires than thousands in increased insurance costs for not stopping soon enough.
And for those of you questioning my sources, it comes to you from a AAA test driver / mechanic I discussed this with back when I worked in a local garage. Even pro-abs sites (such as ABS-Education, which is funded by abs manufacturers) emphasize the turning ability over the stopping distance.
oh and uh...
"Revan had to go fight some mysterious evil in the outerrim"
I think that's the perfect open end to follow up with in the movie/tv show.:)
I disagree. Jolee with fully pumped dueling line is sufficiently buff to hold his own against dark jedi even before you throw in his insane Consular might. Besides, Juhani just looks...off.:) Her force camo is nice, but that's about it.
My favorite power team was Main/Mission/Bastilla, when my main was a scout. Between scout and scoundrel all the skill bases were covered, and if you give mission the incredible light exoskeleton from yavin spacestation and max her dueling she's easily got 32 defense.
As for the light/dark argument, I say neutral.:) Malak says it best: You are alone. Light distrusts you because of your past, dark distrusts you because of light's tampering. All revan needs to display in a movie/tv version would be force wave/push, heal, speed, and perhaps lightning. Revan's struggle between light/dark could be portrayed through this mixture of light/dark/neutral
Finally, someone talking sense.:) The Knights of the Old Republic universe exceeds even the Old Trilogy, in many respects. If nothing else, here's hoping for a third installment of kotor!
Hell, just a few days ago I started up a new game of the original Knights of the Old Republic...good shit, good shit.:) The plot is considerably better than that of the New Trilogy, and the two main carryovers between 'episodes' are a ship and a droid (rather than living characters).
"It'll be a cosmic video jukebox where you can fire up old episodes of "Cop Rock," the fifth game of the 1993 World Series, a live high-school lacrosse game, a ranting video blogger and your own HD home-movie production of Junior's first karate tournament. While it's playing, you can engage in running voice commentary with your friends, while in a separate part of the screen you're slamming orcs in World of Warcraft. Then you can pay your bill on screen. And if you ever manage to leave your home theater, you can monitor the whole shebang in your car, at a laptop at Starbucks or via the laundry-ticket-size screen on your cell phone."
I can do that now. What's so "futuristic" about that? Each of my bed posts has a surround sound speaker mounted to it, and I have big screen tv precariously situated on top of my dresser (don't ask), so I can just wake up and commence brainrot without leaving bed. Video output from computer to tv and bam! Stick the feed tubes in me, I'm set to go!
I don't think people have a problem with you considering it a sin. It's when christian fanatics (who, in my experience, have quickly become the majority of christians over the last couple years) try and impose their religious beliefs on others (in this case, homosexuals) that things get out of hand. And that is precisely what you are condoning.
BTW: I am a religious Californian myself, but you don't see me trying to ban christianity because it conflicts with my views of the natural / metaphysical world, as well as my conscience. And believe me, in california it would stand a chance of passing (at state level), with sufficient anti-Jesus campaigning.:)
"Deep Impact is comprised of two parts, a flyby spacecraft and a smaller impactor. The impactor will be released into the comet's path for the planned high-speed collision. The crater produced by the impactor is expected to range from the width of a house up to the size of a football stadium and be from two to 14 stories deep. Ice and dust debris will be ejected from the crater revealing the material beneath." ... need I say more?
That pretty much sums it up. I'm one of the previously mentioned "total weirdos" (my eleet programmer dad wasn't really around much when I was growing up...he jetted early on). And now I'm a CE major, around a decade away from possibly making the same mistakes my dad did...joy. I just barely slipped through the cracks, but then again it was a far different world growing up in the 80's and 90's.
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Oh, and if your apparent humor / sarcasm is directed at the other end of the pipelines, it doesn't seem to be feasible to pump flood waters out West and would be a downright bargain (compared to the System) to have pumping/irrigation systems set up on a smaller scale: to handle -- on a city by city basis -- emergency crises and nothing more. Which is pretty much where New Orleans is at right now.
interferometer: an instrument that utilizes the interference of waves (as of light) for precise determinations (as of distance or wavelength)
occultation: the interruption of the light from a celestial body or of the signals from a spacecraft by the intervention of a celestial body
Etc... arundatarchi gave me a laugh, I'll admit.
and once again
Nice idea! So nice in fact, that it's already been done *cough* and again *cough*
The primary benefits for abs over non-abs kick in when that static friction is lost (with non-abs), and for light cars that takes considerably longer than SUVs and large trucks (where the momentum is enough to almost instantly cancel out any static friction between rubber tires and road surface).
If a lighter car (such as my own 2300-2400 lb '99 Corolla) is equipped with abs there is significant loss in braking power when the brake is NOT engaged (ie when the abs is releasing to allow disk brakes to momentarily cool, and for the wheel to rotate). This loss is not completely covered by the added friction (and braking power, as a result) when abs IS engaged.
For one of these 4000-5000 lb monstrosities (or more), you WOULD have to be an expert to keep pace with the abs, and even the abs is far from the optimum engage/disengage rate. As the soccer moms keep demanding larger and larger gas guzzlers, the antilock brake industry is hard pressed to keep pace.
On something of a side note, BMW has recently utilized some incredible breakthroughs in the technology, which led them to the Multiple-Brake-Light-Intensity 'warning system' on their vehicles, to warn following cars that the BMW is braking rapidly and to hopefully avoid being rearended. If I remember correctly the initial cost was somewhere in the whereabouts of $10k per brake, however, so just keep an eye out for the higher end beemers. :)
The main monetary advantage is even wear on your tires, but I'd rather blow a few hundred dollars to replace bald tires than thousands in increased insurance costs for not stopping soon enough.
And for those of you questioning my sources, it comes to you from a AAA test driver / mechanic I discussed this with back when I worked in a local garage. Even pro-abs sites (such as ABS-Education, which is funded by abs manufacturers) emphasize the turning ability over the stopping distance.
oh and uh... "Revan had to go fight some mysterious evil in the outerrim" I think that's the perfect open end to follow up with in the movie/tv show. :)
I disagree. Jolee with fully pumped dueling line is sufficiently buff to hold his own against dark jedi even before you throw in his insane Consular might. Besides, Juhani just looks...off. :) Her force camo is nice, but that's about it.
:) Malak says it best: You are alone. Light distrusts you because of your past, dark distrusts you because of light's tampering. All revan needs to display in a movie/tv version would be force wave/push, heal, speed, and perhaps lightning. Revan's struggle between light/dark could be portrayed through this mixture of light/dark/neutral
My favorite power team was Main/Mission/Bastilla, when my main was a scout. Between scout and scoundrel all the skill bases were covered, and if you give mission the incredible light exoskeleton from yavin spacestation and max her dueling she's easily got 32 defense.
As for the light/dark argument, I say neutral.
Finally, someone talking sense. :) The Knights of the Old Republic universe exceeds even the Old Trilogy, in many respects. If nothing else, here's hoping for a third installment of kotor!
:) The plot is considerably better than that of the New Trilogy, and the two main carryovers between 'episodes' are a ship and a droid (rather than living characters).
Hell, just a few days ago I started up a new game of the original Knights of the Old Republic...good shit, good shit.
Really.
"It'll be a cosmic video jukebox where you can fire up old episodes of "Cop Rock," the fifth game of the 1993 World Series, a live high-school lacrosse game, a ranting video blogger and your own HD home-movie production of Junior's first karate tournament. While it's playing, you can engage in running voice commentary with your friends, while in a separate part of the screen you're slamming orcs in World of Warcraft. Then you can pay your bill on screen. And if you ever manage to leave your home theater, you can monitor the whole shebang in your car, at a laptop at Starbucks or via the laundry-ticket-size screen on your cell phone."
I can do that now. What's so "futuristic" about that? Each of my bed posts has a surround sound speaker mounted to it, and I have big screen tv precariously situated on top of my dresser (don't ask), so I can just wake up and commence brainrot without leaving bed. Video output from computer to tv and bam! Stick the feed tubes in me, I'm set to go!
I don't think people have a problem with you considering it a sin. It's when christian fanatics (who, in my experience, have quickly become the majority of christians over the last couple years) try and impose their religious beliefs on others (in this case, homosexuals) that things get out of hand. And that is precisely what you are condoning.
:)
BTW: I am a religious Californian myself, but you don't see me trying to ban christianity because it conflicts with my views of the natural / metaphysical world, as well as my conscience. And believe me, in california it would stand a chance of passing (at state level), with sufficient anti-Jesus campaigning.
This is frightening.
Free advertising in the name of April Fools? :)
My own fault for attempting humor on slashdot. The insightful baffled me almost as much as the +4 informative... *cough*
No shit. Anyone who so much as skimmed the article could figure that out. Humor...get a sense.
European? Cynic? 0 for 2.
"Deep Impact is comprised of two parts, a flyby spacecraft and a smaller impactor. The impactor will be released into the comet's path for the planned high-speed collision. The crater produced by the impactor is expected to range from the width of a house up to the size of a football stadium and be from two to 14 stories deep. Ice and dust debris will be ejected from the crater revealing the material beneath."
... need I say more?
Fool, what do you think his level question is referring to!?! hmm!?!? n00b
That pretty much sums it up. I'm one of the previously mentioned "total weirdos" (my eleet programmer dad wasn't really around much when I was growing up...he jetted early on). And now I'm a CE major, around a decade away from possibly making the same mistakes my dad did...joy. I just barely slipped through the cracks, but then again it was a far different world growing up in the 80's and 90's.
Um okay...it isn't $1,599 per email so what exactly are you trying to say?
Promises of reform on Mars...I can see it now...
It is a digital pony express: five Motomen ride their routes five days a week, downloading and uploading e-mail.
And thus emerged the new Cambodian WARrior caste.