When the Toyota thing happened several magazines tried braking under full throttle and found it was easy - then engine hardly made a difference to stopping distances. Even with things like Dodge Vipers.
So... brake normally, switch the engine off when you've stopped.
I haven't come to a solid conclusion about the Toyota thing, but I'm leaning to human error.
Whether the problem was real or not: Engine < brakes
In all tests done, the brakes were able to stop the car normally even with the engine at full power. Even in a Dodge Viper, which at least one magazine tested...
Conclusion: Anybody who says they couldn't stop the car is either stupid or on the make.
we're just gonna schpritz a bunch of stuff into the exosphere and create like huge levelor blinds to keep the earth cool
You know what the scary part is...? They could make *one* movie where Bruce Willis flies up into the stratosphere and throws a couple of bags of sulfur out the window and you'd have two or three entire generations of people who think it's that simple.
FTA: "6.8% of the participants were excluded from the study because they appeared to have used external Internet-based sources, such as Wikipedia, to inform themselves about the survey topic."
The balloons are 20 km up. The space elevator is 30,000 km or so long. The first is feasible, the second requires a breakthrough or two in materials science. In any case I was responding to the wanker who thought that he was the first to consider the weight of the pipe.
Don't forget the weight of the water inside it, did I mention that...?
The public has made it clear they can't be bothered to do anything.
The politicians are too spineless to mandate real changes.
What options are left? The way I see it this is going to happen so we might as well start experimenting NOW.
Not sure how they're going to pump water 20km up in the air though. It would need a hell of a pump and an even more hellish pipe to hold the pressure. What size balloon could even lift that much? I suspect they haven't thought their cunning plan all the way through...
There may well be some nostalgia-gouging going on; but low-volume PPC boards fast enough to not be a complete joke on the desktop are likely just not that cheap.
At this point in history they should be using an emulator on standard hardware. No really.
Right after I posted that I remembered about things called 'parachutes'. Surely a modern passenger airship could be fitted with a parachute system which triggers if fire is detected so you float gently to the ground.
I'm sure we wouldn't want our mail disappearing in a high-pitched 'pop'! And I wouldn't really want to be under the large containers as they crash down to earth.
There's actually an invention called a 'parchute'...
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When the Toyota thing happened several magazines tried braking under full throttle and found it was easy - then engine hardly made a difference to stopping distances. Even with things like Dodge Vipers.
So ... brake normally, switch the engine off when you've stopped.
I haven't come to a solid conclusion about the Toyota thing, but I'm leaning to human error.
Whether the problem was real or not: Engine < brakes
In all tests done, the brakes were able to stop the car normally even with the engine at full power. Even in a Dodge Viper, which at least one magazine tested...
Conclusion: Anybody who says they couldn't stop the car is either stupid or on the make.
I thought all cars made in the late 1970s to early 80's* were crap, everywhere in the world.
eg. Was the 1979 Corvette any good?
[*] Which is when the 'Jaguars break down' joke dates from.
ie. Every car sold in the last 20 years.
You heel/toe the brake and throttle, and the other foot on the clutch. Just takes coordination.
Some people prefer to drive like grown-ups.
No it isn't, it's common sense.
It lets you take your time over it instead of driving like a boy racer.
When I took my driving test, *any* backwards movement of the car on the hill start was grounds for a fail.
That's exactly the problem, somebody decide automatics are 'luxury' so all the Americans instantly started demanding nothing less.
In reality automatics are for people who can't be bothered to get involved in the interesting part of 'driving'.
Oh you Americans... surely the enjoyment is in revving the engine a bit!
If you want low end torque get a diesel.
This obsession with getting low end torque from a gasoline engine is why all your vehicles get shitty mileage. It doesn't work that way...
You're showing your age...
Generally deep sea stuff tends to explode once we bring it up due to pressure differential.
Only if you bring it up quickly. There's no problem if you give the dissolved gases time to escape.
we're just gonna schpritz a bunch of stuff into the exosphere and create like huge levelor blinds to keep the earth cool
You know what the scary part is...? They could make *one* movie where Bruce Willis flies up into the stratosphere and throws a couple of bags of sulfur out the window and you'd have two or three entire generations of people who think it's that simple.
FTA: "6.8% of the participants were excluded from the study because they appeared to have used external Internet-based sources, such as Wikipedia, to inform themselves about the survey topic."
So....only the ignorant people were counted?
QED.
The balloons are 20 km up. The space elevator is 30,000 km or so long. The first is feasible, the second requires a breakthrough or two in materials science. In any case I was responding to the wanker who thought that he was the first to consider the weight of the pipe.
Don't forget the weight of the water inside it, did I mention that...?
Godddd bless them for all their self-helpful lies.
'Surveys' can get pretty much any result you want just by wording the questions appropriately.
Every time the public hears a story like this they become more apathetic about global warming.
If you can't actually build it, don't write smug little treatises about it.
You might suspect that if you assumed the Cambridge University scientists that proposed it were idiots.
The people proposing the space elevator aren't idiots either, but that doesn't mean it's ever going to be practical to build it.
The public has made it clear they can't be bothered to do anything.
The politicians are too spineless to mandate real changes.
What options are left? The way I see it this is going to happen so we might as well start experimenting NOW.
Not sure how they're going to pump water 20km up in the air though. It would need a hell of a pump and an even more hellish pipe to hold the pressure. What size balloon could even lift that much? I suspect they haven't thought their cunning plan all the way through...
When Visa, MC, and PayPal block you, moving money internationally becomes reeeealy hard.
Western union?
It's just you...
Although you're right to be suspicious. Those are only the 'demo' images.
There may well be some nostalgia-gouging going on; but low-volume PPC boards fast enough to not be a complete joke on the desktop are likely just not that cheap.
At this point in history they should be using an emulator on standard hardware. No really.
Last time, it used a Motorola 68000, but this time, they should have it running on the PPC.
Later they can transition to Intel x86 and the circle will be complete.
I was thinking of the initial free-fall before the parachute opens. It'd be bit like the dropship scene in Aliens.
(Anybody who posts the quote will be modded down...it's not clever...we all know it)
Right after I posted that I remembered about things called 'parachutes'. Surely a modern passenger airship could be fitted with a parachute system which triggers if fire is detected so you float gently to the ground.
I'm sure we wouldn't want our mail disappearing in a high-pitched 'pop'! And I wouldn't really want to be under the large containers as they crash down to earth.
There's actually an invention called a 'parchute'...
Um, no. None of those things are bullshit.