Probably what should be done is a place like Cape Cod should be declared a 'sacrifice area' and all buildings should be vacated and leveled, and wind farms built on it.
It'll still make a hell of a conventional blast. IIRC, Fat Man had several TONS of high explosive in it. So "not a threat" isn't exactly right -- just less of one.
B-52s are an evolving aircraft -- they're constantly getting their avionics and other systems upgraded. Just because the basic design is 55 years old doesn't make all parts of current B-52s that age.
and they keep this up till you submit or die of starvation.
Or leave the country and move to another EU state. No big loss; many countries have better climate, friendlier people, less paranoid governments, etc, etc. If you can't vote 'em out, vote with your feet.
In Scotland, DNA is only kept on record if you are convicted. If not, any DNA taken must be destroyed. This new (and insanely stupid) idea has already been rejected
Scotland should finally do what it's been talking about for a long time and secede. Maybe even join with Ireland for a mutual protection pact against the British aggression that has been practiced over the last 500+ years. I don't like where the UK is heading, and it's finally time for the K to no longer be U.
Make sure to engage in oral sex with a member of the appropriate gender on the flight over (for visitors). Fight the power, corrupt the samples, have fun while doing so!
Are there any airlines that still issue actual, physical tickets? I haven't touched one of those multi-coupon, red inked tickets since at least 2001 and I fly eight to ten times a year.
LOT Polish. I had a flight out of Warsaw at 10 am and I needed to get there from Krakow in the morning. The other choice was a slow overnight train, so I went to the airline office on Basztowa and bought a ticket for the 6am plane the next day. Paid 200zl (about $65) cash, and no one looked at me like I had two heads for paying cash (unlike in the USA where I'd have got the third degree for paying cash for a one-way).
Sure they could -- braking can be accomplished by some combination of thrust reversal and speed brakes (basically panels that swing out into the wind). If the craft slows enough to lose lift from the wings or lifting body, the engines should automatically swivel to a "hover" regime.
Actually, the bigger problem is: how many drivers run out of gas on the road today due to inattention? Running out in the air is a larger problem!
Ducted or directed fan technology is hugely inefficient compared to wing technology.
AFAIK, the fans swivel and are only directed vertically at takeoff. During flight, they're positioned horizontally and the vehicle relies on two sets of wings to stay aloft.
First, getting into the sky is a series of tests and checks and licenses here in the US because, essentially, many people don't really want every Tom Dick and Harry flying over our heads.
For a VFR pilot's ticket, you need around 40 hrs of training. In most states, you're supposed to have 50+ hrs of behind the wheel time under a permit before you get your car license. If the flying cars are sufficiently automated, training requirements may also be relaxed if safety can be proven.
Keep in mind that cars on the road are fairly stable. Flying cars (aka light aircraft) tend to get blown around, requiring *much* greater separation between vehicles. And at crowded destinations, you'll still need to brave traffic to land. Also, flying in rough weather, autopilot or no, won't be much fun or terribly safe without training. Not saying that flying cars don't have their uses, but I find it hard to believe that they'll even come close to replacing land vehicles.
Both China and India have had up-close-and-personal lessons regarding the failures of command economies, and we're still trying to subvert our economy to government control and "social responsibility".
We DO need some regulations, though -- do you really want our cities' air to be of the same quality as the average Chinese or Indian large city? If you think that the air is bad in, say, NYC or LA, you've not seen anything until you've gone to say, Datong in China (or even Mexico City). As far as governmental control -- are you talking about health care? Socialized medicine would assume a burden currently carried by employers AND cause employees to nor be tied to their employers any longer for health care (thus making them more likely to go off, start their own businesses and innovate). Socialized medicine is corporate welfare in the most positive sense of the term.
Then, right out of the pages of Collectivism 101 (see also: Health Care), we claim that "freedom" has been given a chance and failed
Single-payer health care is a good thing for capitalism, since under the CURRENT system, employees are tied to their employers under risk of losing their insurance. If everyone were insured irrespective of employment, employees would be much more mobile and likely to start their own businesses, thus increasing innovation.
That being said, I think marijuana should be legalized, but on all the other drugs I think we got it right by making them illegal.
Nah, coca should be legal in leaf form -- it's actually a mild, pleasant stimulant when unrefined. Never tried the refined product, so I wouldn't know about that:)
As far as all drugs go, punish production and sales if you have to, but don't punish addicts. Offer free treatment to those who are truly hooked -- it'll be cheaper than jailing them.
Minor nitpick -- this was NOT an X-prize competition (Rutan already won X-prize last year). This was a NASA sponsored competition for design of a lander.
He said that ground shutoff could be manual, and he didn't want to add automatic shutoff code until it was triple-checked, owing to the danger of it triggering at the wrong time and destroying the craft.
ensors - never got around to testing them...we left some slop...ya think something rated at 4G would work up to 6G?
Actually, it very likely can work at 1.5x RATED load. Ever heard of "factor of safety?"
I think I'll walk
It's called "experimentation!" Sometimes things work, sometimes they fail. You learn from the failures. With your attitude, people would still be stuck in the dark ages -- after all, the fabric used to cover the Wright Flyer wasn't aeronautically RATED either!
So what have they proved other than they can sit in a phoney "space base" for 100 days and run around in mickey mouse home made space suits? Nothing.
The true test would be a closed system here on Earth, with only energy input (from the sun or from a nuclear reactor). See if it can function for two years or whatever the required duration of a mission to Mars is without running out of air, water, or nutrient. It doesn't have to be absolutely sealed like Biosphere 2 -- it could exhaust, just not take in, and it doesn't have to be in the same state at the beginning as the end; resources can be depleted. But THAT's the kind of experiment that we should be running.
I would think this experience would lend itself more towards group initiative and synergy to get by than "self-reliant". I mean come on, they are probably told when to eat, sleep and fart by a NASA computer.
Actually, absolute control from Earth would be impossible on a real Mars mission -- there's a lag time of about 3 min (one way) for radio communications, because of the speed of light. It's not going to be like one of the low earth orbit Shuttle missions.
Why do you need politicians? Do you feel a need to have someone tell you what to do while you support them?
Are you denying the need for any sort of government? I'm pretty libertarian in my views, but government still does need to provide certain services like defense (not offensive war!) road building, etc.
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Or flush it down a fast intercity train's toilet in a waterproof bag. Watch them try to chase it at 120 mph.
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Build them off shore?
It'll still make a hell of a conventional blast. IIRC, Fat Man had several TONS of high explosive in it. So "not a threat" isn't exactly right -- just less of one.
B-52s are an evolving aircraft -- they're constantly getting their avionics and other systems upgraded. Just because the basic design is 55 years old doesn't make all parts of current B-52s that age.
Or leave the country and move to another EU state. No big loss; many countries have better climate, friendlier people, less paranoid governments, etc, etc. If you can't vote 'em out, vote with your feet.
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It'll be nice when the Irish take away a lot of the Brits' business :) Call it one more small payback for centuries of tyranny and death.
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Scotland should finally do what it's been talking about for a long time and secede. Maybe even join with Ireland for a mutual protection pact against the British aggression that has been practiced over the last 500+ years. I don't like where the UK is heading, and it's finally time for the K to no longer be U.
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start looking in deserted mountain valleys in Colorado!
LOT Polish. I had a flight out of Warsaw at 10 am and I needed to get there from Krakow in the morning. The other choice was a slow overnight train, so I went to the airline office on Basztowa and bought a ticket for the 6am plane the next day. Paid 200zl (about $65) cash, and no one looked at me like I had two heads for paying cash (unlike in the USA where I'd have got the third degree for paying cash for a one-way).
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Sure they could -- braking can be accomplished by some combination of thrust reversal and speed brakes (basically panels that swing out into the wind). If the craft slows enough to lose lift from the wings or lifting body, the engines should automatically swivel to a "hover" regime.
Actually, the bigger problem is: how many drivers run out of gas on the road today due to inattention? Running out in the air is a larger problem!
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AFAIK, the fans swivel and are only directed vertically at takeoff. During flight, they're positioned horizontally and the vehicle relies on two sets of wings to stay aloft.
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For a VFR pilot's ticket, you need around 40 hrs of training. In most states, you're supposed to have 50+ hrs of behind the wheel time under a permit before you get your car license. If the flying cars are sufficiently automated, training requirements may also be relaxed if safety can be proven.
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976-1616. (still 7-digit dialing over here)
We DO need some regulations, though -- do you really want our cities' air to be of the same quality as the average Chinese or Indian large city? If you think that the air is bad in, say, NYC or LA, you've not seen anything until you've gone to say, Datong in China (or even Mexico City). As far as governmental control -- are you talking about health care? Socialized medicine would assume a burden currently carried by employers AND cause employees to nor be tied to their employers any longer for health care (thus making them more likely to go off, start their own businesses and innovate). Socialized medicine is corporate welfare in the most positive sense of the term.
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Single-payer health care is a good thing for capitalism, since under the CURRENT system, employees are tied to their employers under risk of losing their insurance. If everyone were insured irrespective of employment, employees would be much more mobile and likely to start their own businesses, thus increasing innovation.
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Nah, coca should be legal in leaf form -- it's actually a mild, pleasant stimulant when unrefined. Never tried the refined product, so I wouldn't know about that :)
As far as all drugs go, punish production and sales if you have to, but don't punish addicts. Offer free treatment to those who are truly hooked -- it'll be cheaper than jailing them.
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Were his specimens ever contaminated with ... tadpoles?
Minor nitpick -- this was NOT an X-prize competition (Rutan already won X-prize last year). This was a NASA sponsored competition for design of a lander.
He said that ground shutoff could be manual, and he didn't want to add automatic shutoff code until it was triple-checked, owing to the danger of it triggering at the wrong time and destroying the craft.
ensors - never got around to testing them...we left some slop...ya think something rated at 4G would work up to 6G?
Actually, it very likely can work at 1.5x RATED load. Ever heard of "factor of safety?"
I think I'll walk
It's called "experimentation!" Sometimes things work, sometimes they fail. You learn from the failures. With your attitude, people would still be stuck in the dark ages -- after all, the fabric used to cover the Wright Flyer wasn't aeronautically RATED either!
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The true test would be a closed system here on Earth, with only energy input (from the sun or from a nuclear reactor). See if it can function for two years or whatever the required duration of a mission to Mars is without running out of air, water, or nutrient. It doesn't have to be absolutely sealed like Biosphere 2 -- it could exhaust, just not take in, and it doesn't have to be in the same state at the beginning as the end; resources can be depleted. But THAT's the kind of experiment that we should be running.
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Actually, absolute control from Earth would be impossible on a real Mars mission -- there's a lag time of about 3 min (one way) for radio communications, because of the speed of light. It's not going to be like one of the low earth orbit Shuttle missions.
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Are you denying the need for any sort of government? I'm pretty libertarian in my views, but government still does need to provide certain services like defense (not offensive war!) road building, etc.
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What does this have to do with the price of opium in Tibet aka the book review.