The way you keep the acceleration going is by having multiple explosions along the way. What you do is line the barrel at intervals with additional combustion chambers. As the projectile passes by, each additional chamber lights off, adding further hot gas/pressure behind the projectile to further accelerate it. You don't achieve a constant acceleration doing this, but it is a lot 'smoother' than having one huge acceleration spike at the beginning.
Rail guns have other issues right now, such as the rails warping. (Imagine having to replace the entire rail after every couple of shots). However, there are some thoughts on using a linear motor to achieve something similar. A linear motor might even be superior under some of the ideas that have been thrown out there. One idea is to create a mile wide circular track that is one long continuous linear motor. You slowly (at your control) accelerate the payload to escape velocity, then switch the payload (similar to train track switching) to a ramp that sends the projectile into orbit. If I remember right, you could even launch humans into orbit this way and have them survive. Wiki calls them Launch Loops, and there are a few different designs out there.
How about a space tug? Send the payload into an orbit, even if it is elliptical and unstable, and have another craft meet up with it at some point. The craft never enters the atmosphere and is only used to ferry the payloads from the gun to the IIS or higher. You reduce weight and complexity in your payloads by having everything you'd need to reuse already in orbit.
You've never heard of Escape Velocity have you. If you get sufficient impulse, no further propellant is required.
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Except there isn't a 1:1 ration of those making $100 and those making $100,000. So it's more like the $100 guy getting taxed $10 and the $100,000 guy getting taxed $90,000. Which still beggars the point of why one person should pay more percentage why than another. 'Because they can afford it' is not a moral, ethical or constitutional reason.
Load your raster files into OpenGL, apply them as a surface, then warp the surface until it appears flat to you. This is nothing more than what Google is doing automatically with lasers.
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Flat taxes put more burden on the lower classes.
How? How does having them pay the exact same percentage of their income put more of a burden on them than anyone else?
How will taxing zero calorie beverages prevent even one case of diabetes, heart disease or cancer? Also, shouldn't it by up to me what I want to pay for my healthcare costs and not you?
Basically, the premise is that because of indifference from both the drink manufacturers and consumers overall on the possible* negative impact on health nationwide of softdrinks & similar items, the government should step in.
Tell me, how much of that problem originates from the soda companies being unable to buy sufficient quantities of sugar cane due to federal regulations and quotas on sugar imports? Is it really a market failure when the government is the source of the problem?
As an avid soda drinker, I don't have any problem with a 'soda' tax. I have much more of a problem when the government outright bans something. Keep it legal and tax it, I say.
So, how do you like paying $50 per 12oz can of soda?
I'd also add what their average speed is as well. You can get much better fuel economy in a prius if you only drive 25 mph than if you drive 65 mph due to the electric motor on board. Although, this is going to be the killer to their statement
And while the Algaeus only runs on a 5% blend of algae fuel
For a lot of things, why would the receptionist, janitor or help-desk need to know corporate law? Most times, the laws being broken are criminal law, not corporate law. Illegal dumping isn't something you need to be a VP to know is illegal. The same with writing the wrong date on a memo or order.
This to me would be the proper treatment of "corporations have the same rights as real individuals." A good alternative might be to keep the limited liability nature of a corporation for any failures or accidents, but to remove it and allow for personally prosecuting and imprisoning any and all members of upper management who knowingly support an illegal action wherever intent can be proven.
This is ALREADY the nature of the law, no need to change it. What needs to be done is to actually enforce the law this way, with one exception. It shouldn't be limmited to upper management, it should be for ANYONE in the company.
We have third parties, they just don't appear as such. The Blue Dog Democrats at the federal level are one example. It's just that they are lumped in with the Democrats. If you looked at the individuals in the Democrat and Republican parties, you'd see a wider variety than it would appear by just looking at party affiliation. At the local level, we have several third parties, they just don't make the national news.
This alone tells me you don't know much, if anything, about guns. Caliber is not an absolute measurement, it is a relative one. For example, the 16" guns on the Battleship Iowa are.50 cal.
For the record, I do not currently nor have I ever owned any gun.
The case is still on appeal, meaning the justice system is still processing the case. Or should we just execute everyone sentenced to death before the appeals process is done being carried out? After all, they were found guilty already.
Off the shelf wouldn't survive one month. Read up on the military environmental requirements. Start with MIL-STD-810. Also, since when is Radar off the shelf?
The judgement went against MS. All they have to do is license the patent from i4i. If they win the appeal, they can stop paying. If they haven't even tried to come to a licensing agreement with i4i, no court should even listen to them about lifting the injunction. What is being claimed is effectively that MS (and partners) will suffer hardship if they don't pay their bills. No shit! The obvious solution would be to pay the bill, and for Dell to sue MS for losses incurred due to their illegal practices if they don't.
And if MS is correct and they don't infringe, why should they pay the bill in the first place? If MS is wrong and they do infringe, why can't i4i just wait until after the lawsuit has been completely settled to start collecting royalties?
Consider that price includes development (not just construction), and that to power the radar you're going to need a multi-kilowatt power source that will last for as long as the blimp is in the air, without refueling.
When a man is about to die, prevention and protection are achieved naturally and rehabilitation is pointless.
I'll agree with you on protection and rehabilitation. However, on prevention, you can still use the man as an example for prevention. i.e. Prevention of other people from committing the same crime. If you give someone a sentence and actually follow through with the sentence, then it should serve as a deterent to prevent others from committing the same crime.
If it was off the shelf, then the technology would already have trickled down.
As to $40,000. That is a lot more affordable than all other electric cars have been and that price INCLUDES a replacement of the batteries. GM is giving a 10 year warranty and that includes a replacement cost in the cost of the vehicle.
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Start by trying to get a job at Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Insitu or any of the other companies making UASs.
The way you keep the acceleration going is by having multiple explosions along the way. What you do is line the barrel at intervals with additional combustion chambers. As the projectile passes by, each additional chamber lights off, adding further hot gas/pressure behind the projectile to further accelerate it. You don't achieve a constant acceleration doing this, but it is a lot 'smoother' than having one huge acceleration spike at the beginning.
Rail guns have other issues right now, such as the rails warping. (Imagine having to replace the entire rail after every couple of shots). However, there are some thoughts on using a linear motor to achieve something similar. A linear motor might even be superior under some of the ideas that have been thrown out there. One idea is to create a mile wide circular track that is one long continuous linear motor. You slowly (at your control) accelerate the payload to escape velocity, then switch the payload (similar to train track switching) to a ramp that sends the projectile into orbit. If I remember right, you could even launch humans into orbit this way and have them survive. Wiki calls them Launch Loops, and there are a few different designs out there.
How about a space tug? Send the payload into an orbit, even if it is elliptical and unstable, and have another craft meet up with it at some point. The craft never enters the atmosphere and is only used to ferry the payloads from the gun to the IIS or higher. You reduce weight and complexity in your payloads by having everything you'd need to reuse already in orbit.
You've never heard of Escape Velocity have you. If you get sufficient impulse, no further propellant is required.
Except there isn't a 1:1 ration of those making $100 and those making $100,000. So it's more like the $100 guy getting taxed $10 and the $100,000 guy getting taxed $90,000. Which still beggars the point of why one person should pay more percentage why than another. 'Because they can afford it' is not a moral, ethical or constitutional reason.
Load your raster files into OpenGL, apply them as a surface, then warp the surface until it appears flat to you. This is nothing more than what Google is doing automatically with lasers.
Flat taxes put more burden on the lower classes.
How? How does having them pay the exact same percentage of their income put more of a burden on them than anyone else?
How will taxing zero calorie beverages prevent even one case of diabetes, heart disease or cancer? Also, shouldn't it by up to me what I want to pay for my healthcare costs and not you?
Basically, the premise is that because of indifference from both the drink manufacturers and consumers overall on the possible* negative impact on health nationwide of softdrinks & similar items, the government should step in.
Tell me, how much of that problem originates from the soda companies being unable to buy sufficient quantities of sugar cane due to federal regulations and quotas on sugar imports? Is it really a market failure when the government is the source of the problem?
As an avid soda drinker, I don't have any problem with a 'soda' tax. I have much more of a problem when the government outright bans something. Keep it legal and tax it, I say.
So, how do you like paying $50 per 12oz can of soda?
And while the Algaeus only runs on a 5% blend of algae fuel
For a lot of things, why would the receptionist, janitor or help-desk need to know corporate law? Most times, the laws being broken are criminal law, not corporate law. Illegal dumping isn't something you need to be a VP to know is illegal. The same with writing the wrong date on a memo or order.
This to me would be the proper treatment of "corporations have the same rights as real individuals." A good alternative might be to keep the limited liability nature of a corporation for any failures or accidents, but to remove it and allow for personally prosecuting and imprisoning any and all members of upper management who knowingly support an illegal action wherever intent can be proven.
This is ALREADY the nature of the law, no need to change it. What needs to be done is to actually enforce the law this way, with one exception. It shouldn't be limmited to upper management, it should be for ANYONE in the company.
We have third parties, they just don't appear as such. The Blue Dog Democrats at the federal level are one example. It's just that they are lumped in with the Democrats. If you looked at the individuals in the Democrat and Republican parties, you'd see a wider variety than it would appear by just looking at party affiliation. At the local level, we have several third parties, they just don't make the national news.
Are weapons with a caliber larger than .50 legal?
This alone tells me you don't know much, if anything, about guns. Caliber is not an absolute measurement, it is a relative one. For example, the 16" guns on the Battleship Iowa are .50 cal.
For the record, I do not currently nor have I ever owned any gun.
The case is still on appeal, meaning the justice system is still processing the case. Or should we just execute everyone sentenced to death before the appeals process is done being carried out? After all, they were found guilty already.
Off the shelf wouldn't survive one month. Read up on the military environmental requirements. Start with MIL-STD-810. Also, since when is Radar off the shelf?
The judgement went against MS. All they have to do is license the patent from i4i. If they win the appeal, they can stop paying. If they haven't even tried to come to a licensing agreement with i4i, no court should even listen to them about lifting the injunction. What is being claimed is effectively that MS (and partners) will suffer hardship if they don't pay their bills. No shit! The obvious solution would be to pay the bill, and for Dell to sue MS for losses incurred due to their illegal practices if they don't.
And if MS is correct and they don't infringe, why should they pay the bill in the first place? If MS is wrong and they do infringe, why can't i4i just wait until after the lawsuit has been completely settled to start collecting royalties?
Consider that price includes development (not just construction), and that to power the radar you're going to need a multi-kilowatt power source that will last for as long as the blimp is in the air, without refueling.
When a man is about to die, prevention and protection are achieved naturally and rehabilitation is pointless.
I'll agree with you on protection and rehabilitation. However, on prevention, you can still use the man as an example for prevention. i.e. Prevention of other people from committing the same crime. If you give someone a sentence and actually follow through with the sentence, then it should serve as a deterent to prevent others from committing the same crime.
He said Causality, not Casualty. Although I'm still curious as to what he means..
Don't forget the Ice Cream parlor on the first floor as well, if it is still there.
If it was off the shelf, then the technology would already have trickled down.
As to $40,000. That is a lot more affordable than all other electric cars have been and that price INCLUDES a replacement of the batteries. GM is giving a 10 year warranty and that includes a replacement cost in the cost of the vehicle.
Ten ponds? Try twenty. My old 286 laptop was 3 inches thick, had a lead acid battery and a removable keyboard that attached by a wire.
Can't we just create the "Green Police" that ecosopher Pentti Linkola recommended, and be done with these irksome charities?
I sincerely hope that is sarcasm. Especially when these guys seem to be some of his inspiration.