""The passengers who fly on airlines and the airlines are paying for projects at airports where we don't fly," [Air Transport] association CEO James May says"
Nope, it's for the visitors to the park to enjoy the peace and quiet. I'd be happy to let planes fly over, as soon as the planes carry enough sound-proofing to make them inaudible from the ground.
Last time we were in Sequoia National Park, we climbed Moro Rock. Apart from our fellow tourists, the only sounds were natural. As we stood on the top, a couple military jet fighters flew west-east at very high altitude (guesstimate FL300) and they were still intrusively audible.
Imagine if the yahoos in small private planes were allowed to buzz around the parks? "Let's go circle General Sherman. Look, it's that one! Not that one, that one. No, that one. I'll go around again. It's that one. That one. No, that's General Grant, it's that one! I'll go around again..."
A paradigm doesn't have to make people scrap their core textbooks (such as the big daddy example of the acceptance of continental drift theory). Seemingly small developments can produce enormous change. The creation of vulanised rubber, so allowing pneumatic tyres, saw a paradigm shift in road transport, but it can also be seen as just an incremental shift in technology. The development of the route to the moon through enormous rockets and very complex orbital rendezvous became redundant after the LEM plan was adopted.
This is also an example of where there was significant agreement between The Experts that a similarly qualified, but not so senior, expert was wrong.
There are also things called paradigm shifts- where the vast majority of the experts are wrong. Here's a neat example from the history of space exploration, the development of the lunar lander concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Notice all these shootings seem to be happening in "gun free zones"?
Yep, 'cause the shooters are 100% cowards. Arm more people? Wrong. There will ALWAYS be somewhere where you can't have guns, so the cowards will end up there. The answer my friend is to stop the cowards getting the guns.
Jeeping? Off-roading is the term in my neck-of-the-woods. Maybe they meant they're a jeepster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-G7-yLFmCQ? Which also makes no damn sense either.
The National Geographic Society president and CEO, Gary Knell, will serve as the board's first chairman.
The new joint venture will give the National Geographic Society the "scale and reach to continue to fulfill our mission long into the future", Knell said in a statement. The transaction is expected to close later this year. "As media organizations work to meet the increasing demand for high-quality storytelling across multiple platforms, it's clear that the opportunity to grow by more closely aligning our branded content and licensing assets is the right path" he said.
Hell, yes, It took longer to find the frigging search box than to return the results. Also, IIRC, Altavista didn't even own altavista.com, which was some completely separate business. cf. Google.
Patted a SR-71 on the nose at Castle Air Museum and was amazed how small it seemed.
Answer to why it was retired is straight-forward, cost. The fuel alone was ridiculously expensive; a quote that sums it up- "It would have been cheaper to use single malt scotch". Assuming that any country that could shoot down a U2 could also shoot down a SR-71, having them do 2 000 mph is not needed. Also, satellites are a little better these days https://vimeo.com/130889259
I realise that this video is far, far below the spatial resolution of even a 50 year old spy satellite, it's still indicative of new directions that are now possible.
From TFA. And, the NERC, which owns half of K Street and has got very deep pockets, has been successful in lobbying against legislation like the Grid Act and the SHIELD Act, both bipartisan bills supported almost unanimously by Democrats and Republicans. They've been able to stall for years and keep these bills held up. One time when we got a bill passed: the Grid Act actually, in 2010, unanimously passed the House. Everybody supported it. But Washington is so broken, one senator put a hold on a bill - if they know which senator to buy, they can buy that one senator and the person can put a hold on the bill so it can't come to the floor for a vote and they can do it anonymously. The senator doesn't have to identify themselves. So, you never know who stopped the bill.
A few years prior to his death, I was looking up some obscure entry to be startled to discover that Norman Wisdom, a nonagenarian British comedian, was alleged to have invented a key device referenced within the article. Corrected and thought no more.
However, someone had big plans for Norman, as after his death, similar sets of spurious facts had been seeded all over Wikipedia, some making it to his published obituaries - see
I wasn't after a partisan approach, but interesting.
My interest was piqued by the Benghazi accusations of intelligence mismanagement, especially by Fox. To be able to say 'this was on your watch, it's your fault' about a terrorist raid in N Africa seems fine, but to do it about Sept 11th isn't. This contradiction stinks of the grossest hypocrisy (I know, quelle surprise).
Hadn't heard about the Sandy Berger accusations. Turns out there's a reason why (they weren't true) http://mediamatters.org/resear...
If you can't get the citizenry outraged over the 9/11 fuckup what makes you think they'll even wake up for that nothingburger?
Never understood this. A country attacked from within, thousands dead, hundreds of billions of associated costs, but not a single government official, was to blame? No-one?
You can see why the nutters think it was an inside job.
Some anonymous user from Washington DC deleted the above reference from Wikipedia on 6 June last year (and that's all they did). Now, the discussion on this site, full of clever, well-informed people, is without that information (it would have been just above F13). That in itself is interesting.
I was at a meeting last week where we were shooting the breeze over satellite-killers and how if you were going to try out your technology, what type of target would you use? For the USAF, an old, inoperational, big weather satellite was the one we would choose = F11 and now F13.
But you are right (no sarcasm intended), we have zero proof and propellant explosion is more probable.
Unfortunately, I think they did install some bleeding edge technology as a sister satellite, the F11 exploded in a very similar manner in 2004. See last item here: http://planet4589.org/space/js...
Only interesting part of this story is that I included the JSR reference for F11 in Wikipedia in June 2004. It was deleted last year by an anonymous user in Washington DC.
Interestingly, the earlier explosion has been excised from the DMSP's wiki entry... (I added it in 2004- have been working with the SSMI and SSMIS since 1990).
Joking about how old and tired he looked, he said that people regularly meet him and say "Jon Stewart!, hey, are you OK?". Can see why he wants to leave and I don't think the Daily Show has faded that much over the decades.
Am reminded though of a show from 2008 with photos of world leaders showing how much they'd altered after their long terms in office. Then he compared W from 2000 to the present day...
Read the preview first. Sigh. Lindbergh wrote the foreword to Collins' autobiography. Also, Collins had high praise for most of his colleagues, but a minority get some criticism.
I agree with the Bill, but am re-reading Michael Collins' excellent autobiography and he's not completely effusive about many of his colleagues - he also shares the bewilderment over the David Scott Apollo 15 mailbag. [talking about heroes with leaden feet, the book's autobiography is by Charles Lindbergh].
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Plutocracy at its best.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...
""The passengers who fly on airlines and the airlines are paying for projects at airports where we don't fly," [Air Transport] association CEO James May says"
Nope, it's for the visitors to the park to enjoy the peace and quiet. I'd be happy to let planes fly over, as soon as the planes carry enough sound-proofing to make them inaudible from the ground.
Last time we were in Sequoia National Park, we climbed Moro Rock. Apart from our fellow tourists, the only sounds were natural. As we stood on the top, a couple military jet fighters flew west-east at very high altitude (guesstimate FL300) and they were still intrusively audible.
Imagine if the yahoos in small private planes were allowed to buzz around the parks? "Let's go circle General Sherman. Look, it's that one! Not that one, that one. No, that one. I'll go around again. It's that one. That one. No, that's General Grant, it's that one! I'll go around again..."
A paradigm doesn't have to make people scrap their core textbooks (such as the big daddy example of the acceptance of continental drift theory). Seemingly small developments can produce enormous change. The creation of vulanised rubber, so allowing pneumatic tyres, saw a paradigm shift in road transport, but it can also be seen as just an incremental shift in technology. The development of the route to the moon through enormous rockets and very complex orbital rendezvous became redundant after the LEM plan was adopted.
This is also an example of where there was significant agreement between The Experts that a similarly qualified, but not so senior, expert was wrong.
There are also things called paradigm shifts- where the vast majority of the experts are wrong. Here's a neat example from the history of space exploration, the development of the lunar lander concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Notice all these shootings seem to be happening in "gun free zones"?
Yep, 'cause the shooters are 100% cowards. Arm more people? Wrong. There will ALWAYS be somewhere where you can't have guns, so the cowards will end up there. The answer my friend is to stop the cowards getting the guns.
"But we need them to be able to form a militia to keep our rights".
That worked out well:
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599349-americas-police-have-become-too-militarised-cops-or-soldiers
Jeeping? Off-roading is the term in my neck-of-the-woods. Maybe they meant they're a jeepster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-G7-yLFmCQ? Which also makes no damn sense either.
The National Geographic Society president and CEO, Gary Knell, will serve as the board's first chairman.
The new joint venture will give the National Geographic Society the "scale and reach to continue to fulfill our mission long into the future", Knell said in a statement. The transaction is expected to close later this year. "As media organizations work to meet the increasing demand for high-quality storytelling across multiple platforms, it's clear that the opportunity to grow by more closely aligning our branded content and licensing assets is the right path" he said.
http://www.theguardian.com/med...
Plaster the front page with ads and 'content'.
Hell, yes, It took longer to find the frigging search box than to return the results. Also, IIRC, Altavista didn't even own altavista.com, which was some completely separate business. cf. Google.
Patted a SR-71 on the nose at Castle Air Museum and was amazed how small it seemed.
Answer to why it was retired is straight-forward, cost. The fuel alone was ridiculously expensive; a quote that sums it up- "It would have been cheaper to use single malt scotch". Assuming that any country that could shoot down a U2 could also shoot down a SR-71, having them do 2 000 mph is not needed. Also, satellites are a little better these days https://vimeo.com/130889259
I realise that this video is far, far below the spatial resolution of even a 50 year old spy satellite, it's still indicative of new directions that are now possible.
Not so crazy about Trudeau after his PEN remarks, but this nails it:
http://stupidevilbastard.com/2006/01/doonesbury_takes_on_creationism/
From TFA.
And, the NERC, which owns half of K Street and has got very deep pockets, has been successful in lobbying against legislation like the Grid Act and the SHIELD Act, both bipartisan bills supported almost unanimously by Democrats and Republicans. They've been able to stall for years and keep these bills held up. One time when we got a bill passed: the Grid Act actually, in 2010, unanimously passed the House. Everybody supported it. But Washington is so broken, one senator put a hold on a bill - if they know which senator to buy, they can buy that one senator and the person can put a hold on the bill so it can't come to the floor for a vote and they can do it anonymously. The senator doesn't have to identify themselves. So, you never know who stopped the bill.
This article is from Bristol, UK. They've been flying planes there for years.
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/S...
One assumes in the UK it's linked to this:
http://leaksource.info/2014/09...
but that's pure speculation.
Apologies for the ignorance, what is 'rent seeking'?
Understand it's a perception index. Anything better out there?
Sorry for feeding the troll, but this site:
http://www.transparency.org/cp...
says 14th lowest out of 175 countries.
Not the very best, but certainly the odds are that you are in a country that is more corrupt.
A few years prior to his death, I was looking up some obscure entry to be startled to discover that Norman Wisdom, a nonagenarian British comedian, was alleged to have invented a key device referenced within the article. Corrected and thought no more.
However, someone had big plans for Norman, as after his death, similar sets of spurious facts had been seeded all over Wikipedia, some making it to his published obituaries - see
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/oct/05/norman-wisdom-wikipedia-mirror
Wonder if they're still there?
I wasn't after a partisan approach, but interesting.
My interest was piqued by the Benghazi accusations of intelligence mismanagement, especially by Fox. To be able to say 'this was on your watch, it's your fault' about a terrorist raid in N Africa seems fine, but to do it about Sept 11th isn't. This contradiction stinks of the grossest hypocrisy (I know, quelle surprise).
Hadn't heard about the Sandy Berger accusations. Turns out there's a reason why (they weren't true)
http://mediamatters.org/resear...
Never understood this. A country attacked from within, thousands dead, hundreds of billions of associated costs, but not a single government official, was to blame? No-one?
You can see why the nutters think it was an inside job.
Sentence is simple- "Pour encourager les autres".
DMSP F11 exploded in the same way 11 years ago. See the last paragraph here:
http://planet4589.org/space/js...
Some anonymous user from Washington DC deleted the above reference from Wikipedia on 6 June last year (and that's all they did). Now, the discussion on this site, full of clever, well-informed people, is without that information (it would have been just above F13). That in itself is interesting.
I was at a meeting last week where we were shooting the breeze over satellite-killers and how if you were going to try out your technology, what type of target would you use? For the USAF, an old, inoperational, big weather satellite was the one we would choose = F11 and now F13.
But you are right (no sarcasm intended), we have zero proof and propellant explosion is more probable.
Unfortunately, I think they did install some bleeding edge technology as a sister satellite, the F11 exploded in a very similar manner in 2004. See last item here:
http://planet4589.org/space/js...
Only interesting part of this story is that I included the JSR reference for F11 in Wikipedia in June 2004. It was deleted last year by an anonymous user in Washington DC.
Er, yes we have.
http://planet4589.org/space/js...
Interestingly, the earlier explosion has been excised from the DMSP's wiki entry... (I added it in 2004- have been working with the SSMI and SSMIS since 1990).
Joking about how old and tired he looked, he said that people regularly meet him and say "Jon Stewart!, hey, are you OK?". Can see why he wants to leave and I don't think the Daily Show has faded that much over the decades.
Am reminded though of a show from 2008 with photos of world leaders showing how much they'd altered after their long terms in office. Then he compared W from 2000 to the present day...
Read the preview first. Sigh. Lindbergh wrote the foreword to Collins' autobiography. Also, Collins had high praise for most of his colleagues, but a minority get some criticism.
Well there were questions raised, but it's all settled now- they're her mementoes now.
http://spacenews.com/obama-sig...
I agree with the Bill, but am re-reading Michael Collins' excellent autobiography and he's not completely effusive about many of his colleagues - he also shares the bewilderment over the David Scott Apollo 15 mailbag. [talking about heroes with leaden feet, the book's autobiography is by Charles Lindbergh].
Hasn't anyone tried to verbalize that to him?