You seem to be sadly naive.
You seem to be under the impression that your constitution is worth something more than the paper it was hand written on.
1. Governments -- or whoever controls the military -- do whatever they want.
2. What they want is determined by the people who wield the economic power. Hint: that isn't the consumer
3. The courts -- who determine what is constitutional -- are tools of either 1, 2 or both.
The "great american dream" is that if you work your ass off and save *for yourself* you can be rich.
Helping others seems to be anti-american these days.
The truth is that if you had been paying taxes to the level your government required to remain solvent, you would not be in the mess you're in.
Instead, you kept borrowing money to pay the bills, and disposed of your disposable income having fun.
And while you were up amassing your pittance, Goldman, Sachs et al were robbing you blind for their own gain.
And you let them, and encouraged them, and bought shares in their economic rape factories, and loved it all the way to the bank, which crashed along with the rest of 'em.
Enjoy
Well not so cheap,
Call me and we can discuss terms.
If you're a crook, I don't want to know, OK?
Oh, and I do run windows, and its set up right, just sose ya know...
This is the way it has been done in Canada for YEARS!
it makes the price at the pumps higher, but last time I checked, if you take taxes out, you pay far MORE for the actual gasoline than to we north of the border.
Furthermore, the price you pay for the gas goes to INDIVIDUALS -- gas company execs -- rather than going into gernal revenue.
Take a drive on similar rural roads in Idaho and British Columbia, and you can see what a benefit a gasoline tax has.
According to the article, the satellite involved would be in geostationary orbit. OK, but the Centre of Mass of the entire system is not. Isn't the centre of mass of the orbiting body what determines the altitude of the orbit?.
Furthermore, no matter how light the elevator system structure is, may I presume that its mass is greater than 0? Thank you, I will.
The cable will apply drag >0 to the satellite. Any deceleration at all and its no longer in geostationary orbit. Oops.
Uh, since the whole purpose of this thing is to lift stuff into space, and again taking the liberty of assuming that the mass of this stuff is >0, then each and every time we hoist something up the tube, the distribution of mass shifts again, and thus the applied drag will be affected.
I'm not a rocket scientist, but...
Does not the altitude of an orbit depend on the velocity of the orbiting body? If the altitude is the fixed variable (in order to remain geostationary), then what do you adjust when an additional force is applied to to the satellite by hoisting mass upward? This additional force will be "felt" by the satellite as if it were increased mass of the Earth. Lifting mass up pulls the satellite down.
I think that the formula is something like T^2= R^3*(4+PI^2)/(G*M)
Where: T is the orbital period, R= the radius of the orbit as meassured from the earth's centre, G is the gravitational constant, and M is earth's mass
Only way out I can see is to have a body up there so massive that the entire elevator structure plus payload is insignificant. Won't be cheap getting something like 23000 mi up.
Hoping to hear the scoop on orbital mechanics from a real rocket scientist...
If not in a lab, then certainly on the first human user.
A certain cosmetic preparation company found in nearly every mall in North America boasts, "Not tested on animals". Sorry, somewhere, somehow, every single ingredient was tested on an animal. Every single formulation was tested on an animal.
Scenario:
You have some dread disease -- dandruff perhaps. I cook up a concoction I'm sure will work.
I say: "Here try this". If you do, that's testing, and I can no longer claim it was never tested on animals.
On the other hand, perhaps you're not a complete idiot, and want proof that it works, so I test it on...
Myself. Nope that won't work either. Not only am I an animal, I'm also not a complete idiot.
A carrot. Nope, they don't get dandruff.
Somewhere, somehow, everything is tested on animals.
Sigh.
Get a Mac. You're too stupid for anything else.
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The ads are condescending and insulting to their potential customers, who, wholly agreeing with the ads, will happily purchase a Mac thinking that they really are incapable of reading and following instructions. Sigh.
The real laugh was that you had to install quicktime to view the ads from Apple's website. As if. I did that once. But only once.
--Slithy
The only way out of this is to force all software writers to publish their source code for everything. Heck, they list the ingredients of soda pop! If I'm going to load it on my computer, I want to know what is in it.
(my computer is diabetic).
--Slithy
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And equally of course, Canada ceases to exist
You seem to be sadly naive. You seem to be under the impression that your constitution is worth something more than the paper it was hand written on. 1. Governments -- or whoever controls the military -- do whatever they want. 2. What they want is determined by the people who wield the economic power. Hint: that isn't the consumer 3. The courts -- who determine what is constitutional -- are tools of either 1, 2 or both. The "great american dream" is that if you work your ass off and save *for yourself* you can be rich. Helping others seems to be anti-american these days. The truth is that if you had been paying taxes to the level your government required to remain solvent, you would not be in the mess you're in. Instead, you kept borrowing money to pay the bills, and disposed of your disposable income having fun. And while you were up amassing your pittance, Goldman, Sachs et al were robbing you blind for their own gain. And you let them, and encouraged them, and bought shares in their economic rape factories, and loved it all the way to the bank, which crashed along with the rest of 'em. Enjoy
Well not so cheap, Call me and we can discuss terms. If you're a crook, I don't want to know, OK? Oh, and I do run windows, and its set up right, just sose ya know...
This is the way it has been done in Canada for YEARS! it makes the price at the pumps higher, but last time I checked, if you take taxes out, you pay far MORE for the actual gasoline than to we north of the border. Furthermore, the price you pay for the gas goes to INDIVIDUALS -- gas company execs -- rather than going into gernal revenue. Take a drive on similar rural roads in Idaho and British Columbia, and you can see what a benefit a gasoline tax has.
According to the article, the satellite involved would be in geostationary orbit. OK, but the Centre of Mass of the entire system is not. Isn't the centre of mass of the orbiting body what determines the altitude of the orbit?.
Furthermore, no matter how light the elevator system structure is, may I presume that its mass is greater than 0? Thank you, I will.
The cable will apply drag >0 to the satellite. Any deceleration at all and its no longer in geostationary orbit. Oops.
Uh, since the whole purpose of this thing is to lift stuff into space, and again taking the liberty of assuming that the mass of this stuff is >0, then each and every time we hoist something up the tube, the distribution of mass shifts again, and thus the applied drag will be affected.
I'm not a rocket scientist, but...
Does not the altitude of an orbit depend on the velocity of the orbiting body? If the altitude is the fixed variable (in order to remain geostationary), then what do you adjust when an additional force is applied to to the satellite by hoisting mass upward? This additional force will be "felt" by the satellite as if it were increased mass of the Earth. Lifting mass up pulls the satellite down.
I think that the formula is something like T^2= R^3*(4+PI^2)/(G*M) Where:
T is the orbital period,
R= the radius of the orbit as meassured from the earth's centre,
G is the gravitational constant, and
M is earth's mass
Only way out I can see is to have a body up there so massive that the entire elevator structure plus payload is insignificant. Won't be cheap getting something like 23000 mi up.
Hoping to hear the scoop on orbital mechanics from a real rocket scientist...
-Slithy
If not in a lab, then certainly on the first human user.
A certain cosmetic preparation company found in nearly every mall in North America boasts, "Not tested on animals". Sorry, somewhere, somehow, every single ingredient was tested on an animal. Every single formulation was tested on an animal.
Scenario:
You have some dread disease -- dandruff perhaps. I cook up a concoction I'm sure will work.
I say: "Here try this".
If you do, that's testing, and I can no longer claim it was never tested on animals.
On the other hand, perhaps you're not a complete idiot, and want proof that it works, so I test it on...
Myself. Nope that won't work either. Not only am I an animal, I'm also not a complete idiot.
A carrot. Nope, they don't get dandruff.
Somewhere, somehow, everything is tested on animals.
Sigh.
The ads are condescending and insulting to their potential customers, who, wholly agreeing with the ads, will happily purchase a Mac thinking that they really are incapable of reading and following instructions. Sigh. The real laugh was that you had to install quicktime to view the ads from Apple's website. As if. I did that once. But only once. --Slithy
The only way out of this is to force all software writers to publish their source code for everything. Heck, they list the ingredients of soda pop! If I'm going to load it on my computer, I want to know what is in it. (my computer is diabetic). --Slithy