In more friendly jurisdictions a car/bike collision automatically means that the car driver is at fault unless it can be proven otherwise. And if you think about it, that really makes sense.
So you punish people based on no evidence? Interesting law.
The power of self-delusion is enormous, and nowhere will you find it stronger than in the free energy community.
I would argue that the "alternative energy/environmental impact" community has got to be a close second. There are still *plenty" of "alternative energy" people who think that the big car companies are suppressing 100 mpg carburetors and intentionally stifling innovation, despite the clearly suicidal reasoning that entails, not to mention the second-law-of-thermodynamics issues. There are plenty of people talking about space power systems despite the unknown technological basis and absurdly prohibitive economics (and, bizarrely, environmental impacts) of such a system. There are still people advocating orders-of-magnitude level of "conservation" despite the obvious economic and quality of life effects that this would have. There are still those advocating isolating human population to walled cities with limited external activity to "protect the world from people" People set SUVs on fire to protest environmental impacts of SUVs, and release more pollution in 1/2 hour than the SUV would have released in its entire existence.
Problems will not be solved by "true believers", precisely because they are true believers.
So what makes it ok for a "big paper like the New York Times" to publish unsubstantiated claims? We shouldn't disengage our critical thinking regardless of the source.
That's quite a good question you have there. Should be interesting to see the rationization^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, sound reasoning behind that statement.
I admit that I never have gotten a handle on math beyond algebra but am I wrong by being bothered by statements like 10 times quieter? Wouldn't be better to say "makes only one-tenth the noise?" Or am I being pedantic?
No, not as far as I am concerned. You are not being overly pedantic, even by local standards. It's a very awkward choice of words.
But you can't possibly lift a big enough rocket with this little airplane. It barely works for tiny payloads when you drop the booster from an L1011. What this would amount to is far less effective than a rockoon, where a HUGE balloon lifted small rockets to ~100,000 feet. None of them came close to gaining sufficient velocity. Trying to raise the launcher 10-20000 feet ( at essentially zero velocity) is not worth the effort, no matter how big the lifting device is. This little thing is going to have problems even taking off with much more than a single person.
This is odd that someone hasn't already cashed in on this. Is this a possible precursor to a simple earth to orbit vehicle?
Not in any way, shape, or form. Getting to 20-30000 feet, if it was capable of that, with a very small payload, it essentially worthless in terms of orbital. To get into orbit the chief challenge is velocity. To get that (without other far more interesting technical breakthroughs) you need a HUGE rocket with very large amounts of fuel. So there is really no role at all for this teeny little helicoper/VTOL airplane.
It's already stuck. They have been trying to free it for the better part of a year. If it runs out of power, it's not going to move ever again. So they are desperate to get it tilted to improve the power situation.
idiot driver should be prosecuted since everyone knows the third light from the top is regular green and not a turn signal.
Bullshit! I would wager at least 25% of the LED lights I have seen have the third light as a combined left turn or straight green. LEDs permit that easily - just turn on the elements for the left turn, then all of them, when it goes from "left" to "green".
Plus, with a MS Office contract, you have a software vendor to fall back to when things go wrong.
That's not worth the electrons you used to type that sentence. Through work, I have had a "platinum" trouble ticket open with these idiots for about 6 years now. It's a pretty serious issue - documents that become corrupted either while they are being edited, or when opened and then closed. Not trivial stuff - characters just change from one thing to another. They haven't even made a decent effort to resolve it. Their solution to document corruption is to get a correct printed copy, somehow, then scan it in as a TIFF file. This from a senior tech at MS. Not only that, they have consistently been unable to get a simple NDA signed and ITAR certification so that I can give them some of the examples. The sticking point is that they seemingly can't ensure that all the people working it are US citizens. That's not asking a lot for the kind of money that my very large aerospace company pays them in support costs, for this serious an issue.
Heck, I was using "56K" dialup until earlier this year. Even though it was 33,600. For most things I was doing, it was plenty fast enough. Only thing that killed it was OS X software updates, and the occasional twit who forgot that email is a *text* medium.
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So you punish people based on no evidence? Interesting law.
Brett
Yeah, he walked right into that one.
The word you are searching for is "inbred".
OMG! Brilliant! It would look almost exactly like this: hhttp://www.lotuscars.com/eliseSC.html
I would argue that the "alternative energy/environmental impact" community has got to be a close second. There are still *plenty" of "alternative energy" people who think that the big car companies are suppressing 100 mpg carburetors and intentionally stifling innovation, despite the clearly suicidal reasoning that entails, not to mention the second-law-of-thermodynamics issues. There are plenty of people talking about space power systems despite the unknown technological basis and absurdly prohibitive economics (and, bizarrely, environmental impacts) of such a system. There are still people advocating orders-of-magnitude level of "conservation" despite the obvious economic and quality of life effects that this would have. There are still those advocating isolating human population to walled cities with limited external activity to "protect the world from people" People set SUVs on fire to protest environmental impacts of SUVs, and release more pollution in 1/2 hour than the SUV would have released in its entire existence.
Problems will not be solved by "true believers", precisely because they are true believers.
Brett
That's quite a good question you have there. Should be interesting to see the rationization^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, sound reasoning behind that statement.
Snow Leopard will not run on a PPC. Nice try.
A dupe from Dick Tracy, that is.
This "wearable computer" crap comes along every 5 years. It's still the epitome of lame, even by slashdot standards.
No, not as far as I am concerned. You are not being overly pedantic, even by local standards. It's a very awkward choice of words.
But you can't possibly lift a big enough rocket with this little airplane. It barely works for tiny payloads when you drop the booster from an L1011. What this would amount to is far less effective than a rockoon, where a HUGE balloon lifted small rockets to ~100,000 feet. None of them came close to gaining sufficient velocity. Trying to raise the launcher 10-20000 feet ( at essentially zero velocity) is not worth the effort, no matter how big the lifting device is. This little thing is going to have problems even taking off with much more than a single person.
Brett
Not in any way, shape, or form. Getting to 20-30000 feet, if it was capable of that, with a very small payload, it essentially worthless in terms of orbital. To get into orbit the chief challenge is velocity. To get that (without other far more interesting technical breakthroughs) you need a HUGE rocket with very large amounts of fuel. So there is really no role at all for this teeny little helicoper/VTOL airplane.
Brett
No it isn't. There is absolutely nothing illegal about talking about a commercial product before release. It's entirely a civil matter.
Brett
That's true. Assuming a 10G constant acceleration, the resulting barrel length is ~185 miles.
Brett
Hey! Careful there, buddy - Paris wears them. If *Paris* is wrong, I don't want to know what "right" is!
Gleep's in rehab, you insensitive clod!
No. The correct nomenclature is 7.3477x10^19. And we certainly know it to 5 significant figures, which is all original value in TFA states.
Brett
I would argue a different point, in that US and Metallica are at best C-listers compared to the others.
It's already stuck. They have been trying to free it for the better part of a year. If it runs out of power, it's not going to move ever again. So they are desperate to get it tilted to improve the power situation.
Brett
Bullshit! I would wager at least 25% of the LED lights I have seen have the third light as a combined left turn or straight green. LEDs permit that easily - just turn on the elements for the left turn, then all of them, when it goes from "left" to "green".
That's not worth the electrons you used to type that sentence. Through work, I have had a "platinum" trouble ticket open with these idiots for about 6 years now. It's a pretty serious issue - documents that become corrupted either while they are being edited, or when opened and then closed. Not trivial stuff - characters just change from one thing to another. They haven't even made a decent effort to resolve it. Their solution to document corruption is to get a correct printed copy, somehow, then scan it in as a TIFF file. This from a senior tech at MS. Not only that, they have consistently been unable to get a simple NDA signed and ITAR certification so that I can give them some of the examples. The sticking point is that they seemingly can't ensure that all the people working it are US citizens. That's not asking a lot for the kind of money that my very large aerospace company pays them in support costs, for this serious an issue.
Brett
But they are very stringy, unless you boil them.
I just wanted to use the phrase "projectile diarrhea" in print.
Neutrino oscillation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation proves that they DON'T travel at the speed of light.
Heck, I was using "56K" dialup until earlier this year. Even though it was 33,600. For most things I was doing, it was plenty fast enough. Only thing that killed it was OS X software updates, and the occasional twit who forgot that email is a *text* medium.
Brett
Great idea, with one minor issue - projectile diarrhea kills more people each year than AIDs.