My thoughts were either that he had been hotdogging through the mountains and made a wrong turn, or that he had a heart attack and the aircraft continued flying until it hit something. 10000 feet seems a bit high for that type of aircraft. Maybe he lost control during a climb. If that happened the altitude would probably stablilise at 10k or so.
There aren't many places to land up there without hitting something big and hard.
True but in a light aircraft you should be able to glide to lower altitude (and flat land) in the event of an engine failure. Of course if the pilot fails the airplane will almost certainly hit the big hard thing.
Now that I think about it, a medical problem is actually a good fit with the facts. The pilot couldn't declare an emergency. The aircraft flew on until it hit a mountain.
Some parts of Skylab landed in inhabited parts of Australia; IIRC, an American newspaper had offered a prize for the first Skylab fragments handed in, and an enterprising citizen picked up some bits from the roof of his house and took them with him on the first flight over there.
The only bits I remember were found years later on a remote cattle station. The bloke who found them tried to return them to NASA but they weren't interested.
With the uncertainty over the future of the American manned capability, there is now talk of developing an upgraded ATV which would include a re-entry module, and make ATV into a complete manned spaceflight system.
It might be handy to be able to use the ATV as an emergency return vehicle, so perhaps a heat shield would not be so bad an idea on a supply ship.
I reckon thats enough mass for a partly reusable single person capsule. Add two million for the capsule and operational support and you are still at half the price of a trip to the ISS with the Russians.
I suspect unless the tests done with this gadget were blind tests on unsuspecting users, the test-effect where the driver knows at some level that they are meant to be driving efficiently is largely responsible.
We could tell everybody their fuel economy is being tested. Maybe that will reduce consumption. A rental car I drove recently had a display for the distance remaining on the current tank of fuel, based on quantity remaining and current rate of consumption. I found that it encouraged me to find ways to push the number up.
I bought my current house from an individual who was forced to sell by his bank. In the years since he has got into more trouble but when court officials come looking for him they always come here because he didn't give them his new address.
One trick he seems to use is that when a lawyer refuses to work for him because they haven't been paid he just finds another lawyer and uses them to sue the previous one.
Even if my health was perfect and I was properly trained, I don't see how a 'manned' mission to Mars will happen anytime soon. Primarily due to the issues of space radiation
I don't think the radiation issue is that bad but I am in favor of it because it is a good reason to send old people.
I worked for the state road authority here in Victoria, Australia. We did a lot of electronics and employed a few talented techs. When we wanted to lay our own fiber for CCTV we sent the techs away to learn how it was done. Its not hard if you have a background in technology. If you don't it should be possible to find a qualified contractor to do it for you.
Where I live you have to have a telecommunications carrier license to provide telecommunications services across property boundaries. I used to work for the state road authority and we laid fibre along freeways because we owned all the land. I could get in trouble over this for letting neighbors use my wifi.
Maybe the municipality needs to get a license to lay the cable? They might be okay along road alignments they control but they may be crossing property boundaries at some point.
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Why not? Do you guys use paper money?
Very, very few small planes carry chutes unless you're going to be doing aerobatics (at which point they're required).
Also for skydiving, and in fact, any particularly hazardous type of operation.
My thoughts were either that he had been hotdogging through the mountains and made a wrong turn, or that he had a heart attack and the aircraft continued flying until it hit something. 10000 feet seems a bit high for that type of aircraft. Maybe he lost control during a climb. If that happened the altitude would probably stablilise at 10k or so.
There aren't many places to land up there without hitting something big and hard.
True but in a light aircraft you should be able to glide to lower altitude (and flat land) in the event of an engine failure. Of course if the pilot fails the airplane will almost certainly hit the big hard thing.
Now that I think about it, a medical problem is actually a good fit with the facts. The pilot couldn't declare an emergency. The aircraft flew on until it hit a mountain.
This is a hoax.
Yeah but who is the hoaxer?
Well lets add in. Travel. Just how many people from Africa went to the US or Europe before around 1965.
Actually I think patient zero was identified as somebody who travelled from the west to africa. But yes, mobility is the issue.
Some parts of Skylab landed in inhabited parts of Australia; IIRC, an American newspaper had offered a prize for the first Skylab fragments handed in, and an enterprising citizen picked up some bits from the roof of his house and took them with him on the first flight over there.
The only bits I remember were found years later on a remote cattle station. The bloke who found them tried to return them to NASA but they weren't interested.
With the uncertainty over the future of the American manned capability, there is now talk of developing an upgraded ATV which would include a re-entry module, and make ATV into a complete manned spaceflight system.
It might be handy to be able to use the ATV as an emergency return vehicle, so perhaps a heat shield would not be so bad an idea on a supply ship.
Helium is inert gas. It does not react. Therefore it does not explode. End of story.
Helium fuses inside stars, though you have to be on the way to a supernova for that to be happening.
$7.9M for 420 kg
I reckon thats enough mass for a partly reusable single person capsule. Add two million for the capsule and operational support and you are still at half the price of a trip to the ISS with the Russians.
Maybe it is still blanked by something more plausible?
Did this guy really not look at these locations?
Maybe google knows his IP address.
At that point, the powers-that-be will have to spend big bucks implementing a more capable filter. They probably don't want to do that.
I think they probably will want to do that. Anything for the children you know.
I downloaded her new porn movie, but it was no good, all the good bits were finnished."
Better than being sweeded I suppose.
I suspect unless the tests done with this gadget were blind tests on unsuspecting users, the test-effect where the driver knows at some level that they are meant to be driving efficiently is largely responsible.
We could tell everybody their fuel economy is being tested. Maybe that will reduce consumption. A rental car I drove recently had a display for the distance remaining on the current tank of fuel, based on quantity remaining and current rate of consumption. I found that it encouraged me to find ways to push the number up.
I bought my current house from an individual who was forced to sell by his bank. In the years since he has got into more trouble but when court officials come looking for him they always come here because he didn't give them his new address.
One trick he seems to use is that when a lawyer refuses to work for him because they haven't been paid he just finds another lawyer and uses them to sue the previous one.
I wrote a two page prolog program at uni. I still have absolutely no idea how it works.
Maybe that part of the universe just has accumulated a lot of entropy. Lots of mass, not much in the way of energetic matter.
Mind you the "artist's impressions" are pretty.
Yes, they are.
Even if my health was perfect and I was properly trained, I don't see how a 'manned' mission to Mars will happen anytime soon. Primarily due to the issues of space radiation
I don't think the radiation issue is that bad but I am in favor of it because it is a good reason to send old people.
Yes now get off my lawn.
Maybe a new movie version is needed.
Lets not find work for Mel Gibson.
I worked for the state road authority here in Victoria, Australia. We did a lot of electronics and employed a few talented techs. When we wanted to lay our own fiber for CCTV we sent the techs away to learn how it was done. Its not hard if you have a background in technology. If you don't it should be possible to find a qualified contractor to do it for you.
Where I live you have to have a telecommunications carrier license to provide telecommunications services across property boundaries. I used to work for the state road authority and we laid fibre along freeways because we owned all the land. I could get in trouble over this for letting neighbors use my wifi.
Maybe the municipality needs to get a license to lay the cable? They might be okay along road alignments they control but they may be crossing property boundaries at some point.
Actually the character talks about having to give up the phone because it wouldn't have access to the earth bound "relay stations" it relies on.