In retrospect I think STS would have worked better as sort of a winged Apollo service module. Consider an Apollo command module in the expanded rescue configuration as the shuttle flight flight deck. Hatch through the heat shield like the Gemini wet lab. The CM could eject and land on its own in pretty much any failure scenario.
Of course, an Apollo stack did one or two repair missions on Skylab. It was short on storage space in comparison to STS.
The shuttle was highly specialised and quite delicate. It could only accelerate at four gravities and in the challenger disaster, fell completely to bits when turned sideways against its direction of travel. An airliner would have at least held together and an apollo command module wouldn't have cared much at all. Apollo could aerobrake at 11 gravities and because of its triangulated structure could actually take a lot more of a beating than its occupants. It could land anywhere on earth, in smaller places than even a helicopter would require. The shuttle was limited to a few very long runways.
Because of its modular architecture, Apollo could have been extended for deep space missions. Attach an extended service module for long duration. Maybe build a skylab type module as a cruise stage habitat.
But my main point is that shuttle was limited to low earth orbit by its poor aerobraking capabilities, while Apollo flew to the moon and would have coped with missions to near earth asteroids. That makes it a better space craft.
Do you not think that the database would have those particular license plates listed so that no tickets would be issued?
Depends on where you are I suppose. In my state I have worked with people who set these things up, and in an official capacity with our state road authority. I know these exceptions don't exist.
I'm not deaf but I would love to hack one up to feed in data from interesting types of sensors. And screw you lot with your "five senses only" culture.
BTW I worked with a guy who's young son has a cochlear implant. The boy tended to break the antenna connector on the embedded receiver while tearing around at school, leading to expensive surgery to replace it. His dad told me that the current unit could be made to work for a while by squeezing his son's head in such a way as to re-seat the antenna connection...
QR codes are highly redundant and don't actually contain much data. There isn't enough space for a stack trace or anything like that. Probaby not even a register dump on those big modern CPUs.
I used to work in ATC and as far as I know, creating a flight plan for your weaponised aircraft would be the major challenge. And its not even hard. You can enter it directly over the web, with the 24 bit airframe ID nicely confirming the output from your modified transponder.
Australian here. Small boats regularly depart illegally from Indonesian beaches, heading for other countries and when told about it, the Indonesians show zero interest in arresting and charging the crews and passengers or even taking them back. Basically they don't gave two shits about whatever enters or leaves their country.
Primary radars are short range devices. Its pretty easy to evade them, by design or by accident. Having said that the aircraft would have to have been steered south after it crossed the Malay peninsula to the west, and there is no explanation for that at the moment. My hope is that the southern ocean search is being run to give the illusion of action while the US and China prepare to extract hostages from one of the [a-z]stans.
Dealers make their money from maintenance. They don't want to support reliable vehicles. Look at the shit which has been going wrong with the vehicles they have been selling for the last 50 years. Surely that should have been fixed by now,
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In retrospect I think STS would have worked better as sort of a winged Apollo service module. Consider an Apollo command module in the expanded rescue configuration as the shuttle flight flight deck. Hatch through the heat shield like the Gemini wet lab. The CM could eject and land on its own in pretty much any failure scenario.
Of course, an Apollo stack did one or two repair missions on Skylab. It was short on storage space in comparison to STS.
The shuttle was highly specialised and quite delicate. It could only accelerate at four gravities and in the challenger disaster, fell completely to bits when turned sideways against its direction of travel. An airliner would have at least held together and an apollo command module wouldn't have cared much at all. Apollo could aerobrake at 11 gravities and because of its triangulated structure could actually take a lot more of a beating than its occupants. It could land anywhere on earth, in smaller places than even a helicopter would require. The shuttle was limited to a few very long runways.
Because of its modular architecture, Apollo could have been extended for deep space missions. Attach an extended service module for long duration. Maybe build a skylab type module as a cruise stage habitat.
But my main point is that shuttle was limited to low earth orbit by its poor aerobraking capabilities, while Apollo flew to the moon and would have coped with missions to near earth asteroids. That makes it a better space craft.
Yeah space as well. The Apollo CSM was a significantly better space craft than the Space Shuttle, but the shuttle was a slightly better aircraft.
This is why its better to have elections than let the CIA select the government. AFAIK, anyway.
Do you not think that the database would have those particular license plates listed so that no tickets would be issued?
Depends on where you are I suppose. In my state I have worked with people who set these things up, and in an official capacity with our state road authority. I know these exceptions don't exist.
This is what speed cameras are for.
Water does that.
I'm not deaf but I would love to hack one up to feed in data from interesting types of sensors. And screw you lot with your "five senses only" culture.
BTW I worked with a guy who's young son has a cochlear implant. The boy tended to break the antenna connector on the embedded receiver while tearing around at school, leading to expensive surgery to replace it. His dad told me that the current unit could be made to work for a while by squeezing his son's head in such a way as to re-seat the antenna connection...
QR codes are highly redundant and don't actually contain much data. There isn't enough space for a stack trace or anything like that. Probaby not even a register dump on those big modern CPUs.
Many people will just grow out of FB and go somewhere else. Easier to leave their account behind and start afresh somewhere else than keep it updated.
Linus can merge his branch again, against an earlier version of Kay's branch.
(I do CM in git for a living. Been there, done that.)
Second of April here. Its just as bad.
Better tools and languages just allow bad programmers to create more bad code.
I used to work in ATC and as far as I know, creating a flight plan for your weaponised aircraft would be the major challenge. And its not even hard. You can enter it directly over the web, with the 24 bit airframe ID nicely confirming the output from your modified transponder.
Small boats regularly depart illegally from Indonesian beaches,
It 's not illegal to leave Indonesia by boat.
So what, they get their passports stamped when they pile on to leaky old fishing boats and then head for ashmore reef?
Australian here. Small boats regularly depart illegally from Indonesian beaches, heading for other countries and when told about it, the Indonesians show zero interest in arresting and charging the crews and passengers or even taking them back. Basically they don't gave two shits about whatever enters or leaves their country.
Primary radars are short range devices. Its pretty easy to evade them, by design or by accident. Having said that the aircraft would have to have been steered south after it crossed the Malay peninsula to the west, and there is no explanation for that at the moment. My hope is that the southern ocean search is being run to give the illusion of action while the US and China prepare to extract hostages from one of the [a-z]stans.
Sounds like it could be turned into a humane alternative to lethal injection.
I saw an electric skate board for 100 AUD. No more or less deadly.
How about a parasail?
Dealers make their money from maintenance. They don't want to support reliable vehicles. Look at the shit which has been going wrong with the vehicles they have been selling for the last 50 years. Surely that should have been fixed by now,
Ford would require all their dealers to only deal with them, so Telsa would be locked out.
In other words: to be in the car business you have to be big from the start. Startups are locked out.
Sure, don't register it as a motor vehicle...