Can't wait to see who the N2O bogeymen are going to be.
Rocketry hobbyists, perhaps?
Some of us use N2O as an oxidizer in hybrid rocket motors, and I suspect that the government is looking for revenge after we sued the ATF and won earlier this year, then hauled them back into court to sue for our legal fees back!:)
It appears to be an early prototype of a "graphecon", "radechon", or some other type of scan converter tube. The dual electron guns and image plate rule it out as a selectron.
The selectron was a real neat piece of engineering, and must have been a beautiful sight to see in operation, with rows of blinking phosphor dots, one for each stored bit.
A comprehensive page on the selectron tube here, with LOTS of pictures and technical data:
More like the Evil United Nations, if you get the "slight nudge" of the acronym and the all-white "peacekeeper" vehicles and choppers.
Sorry, but the MNU was much closer to a Blackwater, Wackenhut, or Halliburton than a UN analog. A multinational, for-profit corporation, specializing in military contracting and private security services.
The UN had it's own representation in the film, in the ineffectual "human rights observers" from the "UIO", who stood by while the aliens were forced to sign their eviction notices at gunpoint.
See, the FCC doesn't really _want_ people using amateur radios. They love taking licenses and equipment away. It's like the DEA's obsession with marijuana.
Uh, then why does the FCC continue issuing/renewing ham radio licenses? And how many license suspensions and equipment seizures have actually involved licensed hams (as opposed to outlaw CBers, pirate broadcasters, etc.)?
Or are you telling me that the DEA will issue me a license to smoke pot?
If the ham station is putting out an interfering signal (spurious emission) ON THE TV STATION'S FREQUENCY, you would be correct. But the vast majority of TV interference complaints involve TV sets that cannot handle strong signals OUTSIDE the TV frequency assignmants. This type of interference is termed "fundamental overload", and is caused by a receiver which cannot sufficiently reject unwanted signals. In these cases, the ham station has no legal requirement to curtail their operations, to compensate for a design deficiency in your TV set.
Like it or not, the "asshole with the fugly antenna" had it right.
If you look in the manual that came with your TV, you will see a little bit of small print talking about "FCC part 15 regulations". These essentially say that your TV cannot unintentionally radiate a signal that will disrupt any licensed radio service, and, more importantly, that your TV viewing IS NOT PROTECTED against interference by licensed radio services, as long as said stations are operating within their legal requirements (power output, spectral purity, etc.).
In short, you don't have a license to watch TV, but the ham DOES have a license to transmit up to 1500W of RF on various frequencies, whether it screws up your TV or not. If you don't like this, you are free to buy a better quality TV receiver, that incorporates all those "frivolous" features like proper shielding and filtering, that usually get "value engineered" out in order to sell the set for fewer bucks at WalMart.
BTW, you could be subject to FEDERAL charges for damaging a federally licensed radio transmitting station, , if your "asshole" neighbor wanted to press things. Generally, hams are more than willing to work with their neighbors to resolve interference issues (even if not legally required to), but when said complaints become abusive or threatening, we are fully within our rights to tell you to take your cheap Chinese TV set and stick it where the sun don't shine. And the FCC will back us up, every time.
Seeing as worldwide contacts can be made on a few milliwatts of RF power under favorable conditions, a BPL system in one country wiping out communications on the other side of the world is not at all farfetched....
I would highly recommend the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island. Lots of early aircraft (the museum is on the site of the old Roosevelt Field where Lindbergh took off from), and extensive artifacts from LI aerospace manufacturers, including 2 Apollo lunar modules donated by Grumman.
The part I like even better than the "blank stare" you'll get when you tell them that you are looking for "A DPDT 10 amp relay with a 12V DC coil" is the look that you get when they say "Uh, we don't carry that", just as you pull one off the pegboard yourself....
Back in the days when payphones were still ubiquitous, Radio Shack used to sell a pocket-sized tone dialer that was VERY easy to convert into an illegal device (called a "red box") that would allow you to make free calls from a payphone. All that was needed was to open the thing up and replace the original timebase crystal with a different frequency. The replacement crystal wasn't an off-the-shelf item at RS, but they supposedly could special-order it for you.
Rumor had it that if you ordered the crystal at the same time you bought the dialer, the store would give your info to the cops or the phone company.
No idea if it was true or not, because I just ordered the crystals from DigiKey or Jameco, myself. Made a fair amount of money in high school selling those modified tone dialers....
You know, the white glue that is safe enough to let kids use it in kindergarten?
How much energy will need to be expended to divert such a semingly benign substance from the waste stream, and could they get a better "bang for the buck" by focusing the recycling effort elsewhere?
A GFCI will do NOTHING to save you from a shock off the secondary side of the laptop's power supply. The secondary is completely isolated from the AC powerline, and without a return path, the GFCI will never trip.
The most likely culprit here would be the high voltage inverter that drives the CCFL backlight for the LCD screen.
I wonder if you need an Rx to get these? Are they covered on any insurance company prescription plan? Do they provide the usual patient information sheet (explaining the drug and its effects/side effects) with them?
You can get "Cebocap" in 3 different "strengths" (Red, Green, and Blue) at most pharmacies. They keep it on hand in case a doctor writes an Rx for a placebo.
In addition to the actual sites where the LMs set down, most Apollo missions created at least 2 OTHER "human influence sites" on the lunar surface.
The 3rd stage of the Saturn V rocket (S-IVB) was used to accomplish the translunar injection burn, and kept on heading to the moon after the LM/CSM separated from it. It was maneuvered onto a slightly different trajectory, and deliberately crashed into the moon in an experiment to test the seismographs left on previous missions.
And after the surface crew was safely back aboard the CSM in lunar orbit, the spent ascent stage of the LM was jettisoned, with it's orbit slowly decaying to an eventual crash into the lunar surface.
We don't even know where all these impact sites ARE, so forget trying to keep people 100 km away from them...
The rocket blast from the LM ascent engine was powerful enough to knock the Apollo 11 flag over, so it certainly could have damaged the footprint, which was much closer.
Of course, the first footprint was most likely destroyed by being stepped on when they got back into the LM. It was right at the base of the ladder, after all...
Not to defend the CoS, but exactly what makes the roots of Kaballah/Judaism any more "valid" than the crap about Xenu and the DC-8?
Religions are all based on bullshit stories, put into place to comfort and/or control their believers, whether the specific bullshit stories in question date back millennia or only decades. Age and number of followers don't make one religion any more valid than another.
That's exactly what happens with the current OBDII codes. When my wife's car had a loose gas cap, the code that turned the light on translated as "Major Leak in Evaporative Emissions Control System".
Luckily, I knew enough about cars to realize what the most probable cause of that "major leak" would be.
DMT does occur in the human brain, but its function is not understood. A connection to dreams (especially lucid dreams) has been hypothesized, but not proven.
I was wondering about that, as well. Every scale model Saturn V I have seen that flew well had fins that were quite a bit larger than scale, often made of clear plastic so as not to be as obtrusive.
Without active guidance/gimballed engines, the fins are the only thing keeping the rocket flying straight once it clears the launch rail. To develop enough restoring force, they are going to have to be bigger than true scale.
Stable or not, it's gonna be an exciting flight no matter what!:) Anyone know how far spectators are going to be from the pad?
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Can't wait to see who the N2O bogeymen are going to be.
Rocketry hobbyists, perhaps?
Some of us use N2O as an oxidizer in hybrid rocket motors, and I suspect that the government is looking for revenge after we sued the ATF and won earlier this year, then hauled them back into court to sue for our legal fees back! :)
It appears to be an early prototype of a "graphecon", "radechon", or some other type of scan converter tube. The dual electron guns and image plate rule it out as a selectron.
The selectron was a real neat piece of engineering, and must have been a beautiful sight to see in operation, with rows of blinking phosphor dots, one for each stored bit.
A comprehensive page on the selectron tube here, with LOTS of pictures and technical data:
http://home.att.net/~thercaselectron/index1.html
Run your mouse over the tube pins on the front page to see a simulation of the tube in operation.
More like the Evil United Nations, if you get the "slight nudge" of the acronym and the all-white "peacekeeper" vehicles and choppers.
Sorry, but the MNU was much closer to a Blackwater, Wackenhut, or Halliburton than a UN analog. A multinational, for-profit corporation, specializing in military contracting and private security services.
The UN had it's own representation in the film, in the ineffectual "human rights observers" from the "UIO", who stood by while the aliens were forced to sign their eviction notices at gunpoint.
See, the FCC doesn't really _want_ people using amateur radios. They love taking licenses and equipment away. It's like the DEA's obsession with marijuana.
Uh, then why does the FCC continue issuing/renewing ham radio licenses? And how many license suspensions and equipment seizures have actually involved licensed hams (as opposed to outlaw CBers, pirate broadcasters, etc.)?
Or are you telling me that the DEA will issue me a license to smoke pot?
If the ham station is putting out an interfering signal (spurious emission) ON THE TV STATION'S FREQUENCY, you would be correct. But the vast majority of TV interference complaints involve TV sets that cannot handle strong signals OUTSIDE the TV frequency assignmants. This type of interference is termed "fundamental overload", and is caused by a receiver which cannot sufficiently reject unwanted signals. In these cases, the ham station has no legal requirement to curtail their operations, to compensate for a design deficiency in your TV set.
Like it or not, the "asshole with the fugly antenna" had it right.
If you look in the manual that came with your TV, you will see a little bit of small print talking about "FCC part 15 regulations". These essentially say that your TV cannot unintentionally radiate a signal that will disrupt any licensed radio service, and, more importantly, that your TV viewing IS NOT PROTECTED against interference by licensed radio services, as long as said stations are operating within their legal requirements (power output, spectral purity, etc.).
In short, you don't have a license to watch TV, but the ham DOES have a license to transmit up to 1500W of RF on various frequencies, whether it screws up your TV or not. If you don't like this, you are free to buy a better quality TV receiver, that incorporates all those "frivolous" features like proper shielding and filtering, that usually get "value engineered" out in order to sell the set for fewer bucks at WalMart.
A good summary of FCC Part 15 available here:
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/part15.html
BTW, you could be subject to FEDERAL charges for damaging a federally licensed radio transmitting station, , if your "asshole" neighbor wanted to press things. Generally, hams are more than willing to work with their neighbors to resolve interference issues (even if not legally required to), but when said complaints become abusive or threatening, we are fully within our rights to tell you to take your cheap Chinese TV set and stick it where the sun don't shine. And the FCC will back us up, every time.
Seeing as worldwide contacts can be made on a few milliwatts of RF power under favorable conditions, a BPL system in one country wiping out communications on the other side of the world is not at all farfetched....
I would highly recommend the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island. Lots of early aircraft (the museum is on the site of the old Roosevelt Field where Lindbergh took off from), and extensive artifacts from LI aerospace manufacturers, including 2 Apollo lunar modules donated by Grumman.
http://www.cradleofaviation.org/
And if they did, did he inhale?
Nothing to do with political leanings....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts
The part I like even better than the "blank stare" you'll get when you tell them that you are looking for "A DPDT 10 amp relay with a 12V DC coil" is the look that you get when they say "Uh, we don't carry that", just as you pull one off the pegboard yourself....
Back in the days when payphones were still ubiquitous, Radio Shack used to sell a pocket-sized tone dialer that was VERY easy to convert into an illegal device (called a "red box") that would allow you to make free calls from a payphone. All that was needed was to open the thing up and replace the original timebase crystal with a different frequency. The replacement crystal wasn't an off-the-shelf item at RS, but they supposedly could special-order it for you.
Rumor had it that if you ordered the crystal at the same time you bought the dialer, the store would give your info to the cops or the phone company.
No idea if it was true or not, because I just ordered the crystals from DigiKey or Jameco, myself. Made a fair amount of money in high school selling those modified tone dialers....
You know, the white glue that is safe enough to let kids use it in kindergarten?
How much energy will need to be expended to divert such a semingly benign substance from the waste stream, and could they get a better "bang for the buck" by focusing the recycling effort elsewhere?
So if I don't use any, does that mean that I can die from a massive overdose?
A GFCI will do NOTHING to save you from a shock off the secondary side of the laptop's power supply. The secondary is completely isolated from the AC powerline, and without a return path, the GFCI will never trip.
The most likely culprit here would be the high voltage inverter that drives the CCFL backlight for the LCD screen.
more impressive when you use centimeters rather than inches, no?
I noticed that, as well.
I wonder if you need an Rx to get these? Are they covered on any insurance company prescription plan? Do they provide the usual patient information sheet (explaining the drug and its effects/side effects) with them?
You can get "Cebocap" in 3 different "strengths" (Red, Green, and Blue) at most pharmacies. They keep it on hand in case a doctor writes an Rx for a placebo.
http://www.walgreens.com/library/finddrug/druginfo.jsp?particularDrug=Cebocap&searchChar=
In addition to the actual sites where the LMs set down, most Apollo missions created at least 2 OTHER "human influence sites" on the lunar surface.
The 3rd stage of the Saturn V rocket (S-IVB) was used to accomplish the translunar injection burn, and kept on heading to the moon after the LM/CSM separated from it. It was maneuvered onto a slightly different trajectory, and deliberately crashed into the moon in an experiment to test the seismographs left on previous missions.
And after the surface crew was safely back aboard the CSM in lunar orbit, the spent ascent stage of the LM was jettisoned, with it's orbit slowly decaying to an eventual crash into the lunar surface.
We don't even know where all these impact sites ARE, so forget trying to keep people 100 km away from them...
The rocket blast from the LM ascent engine was powerful enough to knock the Apollo 11 flag over, so it certainly could have damaged the footprint, which was much closer.
Of course, the first footprint was most likely destroyed by being stepped on when they got back into the LM. It was right at the base of the ladder, after all...
Not to defend the CoS, but exactly what makes the roots of Kaballah/Judaism any more "valid" than the crap about Xenu and the DC-8?
Religions are all based on bullshit stories, put into place to comfort and/or control their believers, whether the specific bullshit stories in question date back millennia or only decades. Age and number of followers don't make one religion any more valid than another.
That's exactly what happens with the current OBDII codes. When my wife's car had a loose gas cap, the code that turned the light on translated as "Major Leak in Evaporative Emissions Control System".
Luckily, I knew enough about cars to realize what the most probable cause of that "major leak" would be.
DMT does occur in the human brain, but its function is not understood. A connection to dreams (especially lucid dreams) has been hypothesized, but not proven.
Yes, as well as DMT, a Schedule I hallucinogen.
Turn yourself in at once.
I was wondering about that, as well. Every scale model Saturn V I have seen that flew well had fins that were quite a bit larger than scale, often made of clear plastic so as not to be as obtrusive.
Without active guidance/gimballed engines, the fins are the only thing keeping the rocket flying straight once it clears the launch rail. To develop enough restoring force, they are going to have to be bigger than true scale.
Stable or not, it's gonna be an exciting flight no matter what! :) Anyone know how far spectators are going to be from the pad?