It's an interesting thing... in my jujitsu class, many students are disbelieving and otherwise biased against certain techniques. Until they receive the technique and experience its efficacy. I'm not saying waterboarding or any other form of torture is effective or humane, just pointing out an aspect of human nature that should at least provoke some thought.
I don't think any of the links you provided mentioned the use of a pulse detonation engine, only dual-mode scramjets for hypersonic flight and turbofans/jets for takeoff and landing.
Between your username and sig, I'm reminded of why I never paid my Mensa dues past the first year, way back in middle school. Seriously, get over yourself.
I had an interesting experience with this several years ago. The hard drive in my parents' new HP failed, and being under warranty, they offered to replace the drive. Within 48 hours, a package arrived with a replacement. I pop it in... and it boots into Windows NT. It was an old drive of a recycled computer (or something) and had not been wiped or formatted. It was a fully-functional install of NT, complete with all of the previous user's data. Brief inspection revealed quite a bit of personal and even sensitive information still on the disk.
I called HP about it, they apologized profusely and sent yet another replacement drive (this one in factory packaging). Still, I was scared sending my mum's drive in with everything still on it, so I took an industrial magnet to it before I returned it. Not a month later, I had a Seagate external drive fail under warranty. Needless to say, I was nervous then. Nervous now.
Off-topic, but I found a working Betamax player in my parents' basement last week. With playable copies of all 3 original Star Wars movies.
Party time.
Does anyone here know how this design would hold up against an electromagnetic pulse in the event of nuclear war? It appears to my layman's eyes that decoupling the engine from the drive train could be a very bad idea if nuclear war were to break out...
I imagine it would have something to do with extremely low mitosis rates among skeletal muscle cells... Unfortunately, given that other tissue types aren't so static, reducing mitosis would just result in failure of the tissue in some fashion.
I don't claim to know what I'm talking about, BTW.
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I was super excited to click that link until I realized that it didn't say Red Dawn. Le sigh...
Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other people, here in the trailer park.
All that really matters is that life is freaking AWESOME. Seriously.
It's an interesting thing... in my jujitsu class, many students are disbelieving and otherwise biased against certain techniques. Until they receive the technique and experience its efficacy. I'm not saying waterboarding or any other form of torture is effective or humane, just pointing out an aspect of human nature that should at least provoke some thought.
I'd expect them to breed very prodigiously...
I prefer Jugulating Jaguar.
Win.
Tried to fly that one under the radar, did they?
*rimshot*
I don't think any of the links you provided mentioned the use of a pulse detonation engine, only dual-mode scramjets for hypersonic flight and turbofans/jets for takeoff and landing.
Between your username and sig, I'm reminded of why I never paid my Mensa dues past the first year, way back in middle school. Seriously, get over yourself.
AK-47. Hard drives make very fun targets for sufficiently powerful firearms. Shotguns not advised, unless firing slugs. Trust me on that.
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First two visible posts and the problem is solved. Nothing to see here, move along.
Hoo-ah, sir.
I had an interesting experience with this several years ago. The hard drive in my parents' new HP failed, and being under warranty, they offered to replace the drive. Within 48 hours, a package arrived with a replacement. I pop it in... and it boots into Windows NT. It was an old drive of a recycled computer (or something) and had not been wiped or formatted. It was a fully-functional install of NT, complete with all of the previous user's data. Brief inspection revealed quite a bit of personal and even sensitive information still on the disk.
I called HP about it, they apologized profusely and sent yet another replacement drive (this one in factory packaging). Still, I was scared sending my mum's drive in with everything still on it, so I took an industrial magnet to it before I returned it. Not a month later, I had a Seagate external drive fail under warranty. Needless to say, I was nervous then. Nervous now.
For those of you keeping track at home, that's approximately one account for every mile between the Earth and the Sun...
*ahem...*
"Droids don't pull people's arms outta their sockets when they lose..."
Sure there's not a wookie hiding in there somewhere?
Off-topic, but I found a working Betamax player in my parents' basement last week. With playable copies of all 3 original Star Wars movies. Party time.
Does anyone here know how this design would hold up against an electromagnetic pulse in the event of nuclear war? It appears to my layman's eyes that decoupling the engine from the drive train could be a very bad idea if nuclear war were to break out...
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I imagine it would have something to do with extremely low mitosis rates among skeletal muscle cells... Unfortunately, given that other tissue types aren't so static, reducing mitosis would just result in failure of the tissue in some fashion.
I don't claim to know what I'm talking about, BTW.
At least I'm housebroken. -The Collie.
Zeus was known for such things...
Don't tell Hera!
Thank you, sir or madam.
And what astrophysicist wouldn't like to put himself on the same plane as Galileo and Copernicus?