His initial altitude when he leaves the plane will be 2,500m. For static-line parachuting (automatic parachute deployment as you exit the plane), the US Army can drop people at under 120m in real-life, non-training combat situations if the circumstances for some reason call for this. For those who don't know what static-line parachuting is, look at the first picture on the wiki link. The yellow line is connected to a bag that pulls their chute out of the pack. The bag is not attached to the parachute itself, and instead trails behind the plane until all jumpers are out of the plane, and the jumpmaster pulls the dozen or so deployment bags and static lines back into the plane. Also, the jumpers in the picture are likely exiting at around 300m, typical for a training jump.
He doesn't actually have a static line setup, of course, but this is only to illustrate the low altitude limits that parachutes can be used at. BASE jumpers don't jump from very high, for example.
Far quicker summary than the article deserves: Indiana put a method to square the circle into law to define pi.
If you want to see some real things you can do with only a compass/straitedge combo, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_and_straightedge. In addition to "squaring the circle", it's impossible to "double the cube" volume or to trisect an angle using only these tools. As a matter of fact, the man instrumental to the bill above also claimed to have solved these two impossible feats, as well. Very neat stuff, though.
The fact that the "good guys," neck deep in lies, blood, theft, treason
I don't disagree with this line, but overall I disagree with parent and I agree with grandparent "unity100". If you can't understand "good guys and bad guys", how about "bad guys and far worse guys"?
For however bad it may be in America at the current time and in the near future, analogies are hard to draw with the Russian government.
Or if it's a government that is opposing the motherland, then Russia shuts off natural gas to that country until said country is absolutely forced to capitulate.
In an abandoned NSA base, people found US satellites with smiley faces painted on them.
A tiny correction, it's actually a satellite dish:
Despite the site's stark appearance, there are some human - and
humorous - vestiges. A bright happy face is painted on the smallest
of the four satellite dishes on the site, something one former
employee said was done so that they could "smile back at the
Russians."
Not all that important of a point, but I thought it significant enough to bring up as it ruined my understanding of the situation.
That said, I'm halfway through the parent's linked article, and it's a great read about what an NSA facility was like in 2001 when the story was posted. Imagine what they've got in their facilities today, especially if the only things reported on in the article are what the NSA purposefully left behind!
I just restarted playing Oblivion with about 5,000 mods yesterday, and I intend on playing it until the end again.
I strongly, strongly agree with you that exploring is not nearly as fun as in Morrowind. In addition to what you mention, I think another "problem" is that you can see the entire capitol province at almost any time. It really makes it seem smaller than it is. Another problem is that the wilderness got repetitive moreso than Morrowind.
That said, Elder Scrolls 5: Coolwordhere will be an instant purchase for me when it comes out in 2020. I'm glad Morrowind and GTA games are so popular, because it is large, open-ended and exploring kind of games that I find absolutely most enjoyable.
Allow me to recommend two Oblivion mods if you decide to play again:
* Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul
* Modular Oblivion Enhanced
These two add a lot more to the game. Try reading the features/manual to them, and you just might get the itch to start playing again.
The real breakthroughs don't require advanced math. Einstein said that with all of his work the breakthroughs happen very quickly at the conceptual level and then only after that he worked out the math. For example if the speed of light really was constant then speed is distance over time then if the product is constant then either distance or time is not. That was the breakthrough or leap in thinking. The math followed.
I agree that relativity stemmed from a simple conceptual idea, but to say that advanced math wasn't required for "real breakthroughs" is doing Einstein and others a disservice. Have you seen the math present in papers chiefly authored by him? I found a few doing a google images search for einstein papers 1905. As you said, "the math followed", but conceptual ideas are nothing without the math to stand behind it.
The "influence" you are talking about travels at the speed of light, just like everything else in the universe. If we are in range of their influence, then we are in visual range. Read everybody else's posts, as they pretty much say the same thing as the poster you responded to.
Due to relativity, an object outside of the Hubble Volume will redshift further and further, just like an object that falls into a blackhole observed from the outside.
I'll put my karma on the line. wurp is correct, and Warrax 666, the original starter of this line of threads, was incorrect. At the very least, mod wurp back up.
Perhaps you haven't heard of the LIGO pair, one of several gravitational wave detectors in the world today.
Everything that moves through space causes a change in the warping of spacetime that is akin to moving your finger across the top of a pool. The information of the new location of the gravitational field propagates from a moving object at the speed of gravity (pretty much c). On earth, only extremely massive and exceedingly fast-moving objects create gravitational waves that are large enough for us to detect. Such candidates for detection are coalescing black holes or coalescing neutron stars, and even then they are only detectable with current technology during the last few seconds of coalescation, when the objects are barely more distant than their own event horizons, and therefore orbiting the fasted.
Also, I made up the word coalescation. It doesn't really exist.
According to our current understanding of physics, the situation you describe can't actually occur. It is impossible for two pieces of matter to be moving apart at c.
If the acceleration of dark energy is increasing, then according to Hubble's Law, objects at the "Hubble Limit" will essentially be receding from the Earth at the speed of light, and will be outside of our observable universe's event horizon forever. As viewed from earth, the object would continue red-shifting forever, like an object that falls into a black hole.
However, that doesn't work in an expanding universe.
Indeed, it doesn't even work in a static universe, albeit it one with an initial Big Bang and inflation. Following GP's example numbers, we won't be able to see Galaxy B acting upon Galaxy A until the universe reaches 12bil years old.
the effect is caused by structures that are inside the galaxies observable universe, they are 6 Billion light years away, so they can see 6 Billion Light years farther than we can, but are outside our observable universe.
Sounds like you don't quite understand the concept of a light cone... Let me simplify your example and see if I understand you:
*Galaxy A is within the Milky Way's observable universe.
*Galaxy B is outside the Milky Way's observable universe, but it's within Galaxy A's observable universe.
You are suggesting that even though we can't see Galaxy B, Galaxy B is still acting upon Galaxy A, and that we are seeing its perturbations here on Earth.
However, that doesn't work in an expanding universe. If Galaxy B is already past our observation horizon and continuing to recede, we will never see its effects on Galaxy A from our vantage point in the Milky Way.
Do people really think that the Army and Marines would be so stupid to mount a weapon on a majority of their light troop transports that would be illegal to use?
Unfortunately, you can't ask those kinds of questions on Slashdot. More people than not will answer "YES THEY WOULD ITS THE GOVERNMENT". Proper punctuation is right out.
I strongly agree with your first paragraph, but for the last paragraph I think psychological operations (leaflets, broadcast, loudspeakers) are more powerful than some memories of incidences of poor treatment of POWs in Iraq.
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His initial altitude when he leaves the plane will be 2,500m.
To be less ambiguous about my statement, his initial altitude when he leaves the plane and turns on his rocket pack will be 2,500m.
His initial altitude when he leaves the plane will be 2,500m. For static-line parachuting (automatic parachute deployment as you exit the plane), the US Army can drop people at under 120m in real-life, non-training combat situations if the circumstances for some reason call for this. For those who don't know what static-line parachuting is, look at the first picture on the wiki link. The yellow line is connected to a bag that pulls their chute out of the pack. The bag is not attached to the parachute itself, and instead trails behind the plane until all jumpers are out of the plane, and the jumpmaster pulls the dozen or so deployment bags and static lines back into the plane. Also, the jumpers in the picture are likely exiting at around 300m, typical for a training jump.
He doesn't actually have a static line setup, of course, but this is only to illustrate the low altitude limits that parachutes can be used at. BASE jumpers don't jump from very high, for example.
Far quicker summary than the article deserves: Indiana put a method to square the circle into law to define pi.
If you want to see some real things you can do with only a compass/straitedge combo, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_and_straightedge. In addition to "squaring the circle", it's impossible to "double the cube" volume or to trisect an angle using only these tools. As a matter of fact, the man instrumental to the bill above also claimed to have solved these two impossible feats, as well. Very neat stuff, though.
Hexagons are the new circle. :)
... was supported, then disclamed, by Palin.
The word you're looking for is "declammed", a common issue with building bridges between the Alaskan isles.
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/wp-content/clam2.png -- Picture related, it's a bunch of clams (from an Alaskan highway project).
The fact that the "good guys," neck deep in lies, blood, theft, treason
I don't disagree with this line, but overall I disagree with parent and I agree with grandparent "unity100". If you can't understand "good guys and bad guys", how about "bad guys and far worse guys"?
For however bad it may be in America at the current time and in the near future, analogies are hard to draw with the Russian government.
Or if it's a government that is opposing the motherland, then Russia shuts off natural gas to that country until said country is absolutely forced to capitulate.
That's entirely dependent upon whose brand of pig-headed nationalism you want to subscribe to and
Does it have to nationalism to hold the opinion that in this one specific situation, the US government is a better steward than the UN might be?
In an abandoned NSA base, people found US satellites with smiley faces painted on them.
A tiny correction, it's actually a satellite dish:
Despite the site's stark appearance, there are some human - and humorous - vestiges. A bright happy face is painted on the smallest of the four satellite dishes on the site, something one former employee said was done so that they could "smile back at the Russians."
Not all that important of a point, but I thought it significant enough to bring up as it ruined my understanding of the situation.
That said, I'm halfway through the parent's linked article, and it's a great read about what an NSA facility was like in 2001 when the story was posted. Imagine what they've got in their facilities today, especially if the only things reported on in the article are what the NSA purposefully left behind!
There are ways to use mod points and also post as AC.
I just restarted playing Oblivion with about 5,000 mods yesterday, and I intend on playing it until the end again.
I strongly, strongly agree with you that exploring is not nearly as fun as in Morrowind. In addition to what you mention, I think another "problem" is that you can see the entire capitol province at almost any time. It really makes it seem smaller than it is. Another problem is that the wilderness got repetitive moreso than Morrowind.
That said, Elder Scrolls 5: Coolwordhere will be an instant purchase for me when it comes out in 2020. I'm glad Morrowind and GTA games are so popular, because it is large, open-ended and exploring kind of games that I find absolutely most enjoyable.
Allow me to recommend two Oblivion mods if you decide to play again:
* Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul
* Modular Oblivion Enhanced
These two add a lot more to the game. Try reading the features/manual to them, and you just might get the itch to start playing again.
You're right. :) The summary is poorly written in regards to "observable universe".
The real breakthroughs don't require advanced math. Einstein said that with all of his work the breakthroughs happen very quickly at the conceptual level and then only after that he worked out the math. For example if the speed of light really was constant then speed is distance over time then if the product is constant then either distance or time is not. That was the breakthrough or leap in thinking. The math followed.
I agree that relativity stemmed from a simple conceptual idea, but to say that advanced math wasn't required for "real breakthroughs" is doing Einstein and others a disservice. Have you seen the math present in papers chiefly authored by him? I found a few doing a google images search for einstein papers 1905. As you said, "the math followed", but conceptual ideas are nothing without the math to stand behind it.
The "influence" you are talking about travels at the speed of light, just like everything else in the universe. If we are in range of their influence, then we are in visual range. Read everybody else's posts, as they pretty much say the same thing as the poster you responded to.
I think I misunderstood you. Did you think my conclusion was suspect, or did you come to my same conclusion? I thought the former. :/
Due to relativity, an object outside of the Hubble Volume will redshift further and further, just like an object that falls into a blackhole observed from the outside.
I'll put my karma on the line. wurp is correct, and Warrax 666, the original starter of this line of threads, was incorrect. At the very least, mod wurp back up.
Perhaps you haven't heard of the LIGO pair, one of several gravitational wave detectors in the world today.
Everything that moves through space causes a change in the warping of spacetime that is akin to moving your finger across the top of a pool. The information of the new location of the gravitational field propagates from a moving object at the speed of gravity (pretty much c). On earth, only extremely massive and exceedingly fast-moving objects create gravitational waves that are large enough for us to detect. Such candidates for detection are coalescing black holes or coalescing neutron stars, and even then they are only detectable with current technology during the last few seconds of coalescation, when the objects are barely more distant than their own event horizons, and therefore orbiting the fasted.
Also, I made up the word coalescation. It doesn't really exist.
According to our current understanding of physics, the situation you describe can't actually occur. It is impossible for two pieces of matter to be moving apart at c.
If the acceleration of dark energy is increasing, then according to Hubble's Law, objects at the "Hubble Limit" will essentially be receding from the Earth at the speed of light, and will be outside of our observable universe's event horizon forever. As viewed from earth, the object would continue red-shifting forever, like an object that falls into a black hole.
However, that doesn't work in an expanding universe.
Indeed, it doesn't even work in a static universe, albeit it one with an initial Big Bang and inflation. Following GP's example numbers, we won't be able to see Galaxy B acting upon Galaxy A until the universe reaches 12bil years old.
the effect is caused by structures that are inside the galaxies observable universe, they are 6 Billion light years away, so they can see 6 Billion Light years farther than we can, but are outside our observable universe.
Sounds like you don't quite understand the concept of a light cone... Let me simplify your example and see if I understand you:
*Galaxy A is within the Milky Way's observable universe.
*Galaxy B is outside the Milky Way's observable universe, but it's within Galaxy A's observable universe.
You are suggesting that even though we can't see Galaxy B, Galaxy B is still acting upon Galaxy A, and that we are seeing its perturbations here on Earth.
However, that doesn't work in an expanding universe. If Galaxy B is already past our observation horizon and continuing to recede, we will never see its effects on Galaxy A from our vantage point in the Milky Way.
You can read more on this fascinating topic at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe, and it's far better written there than I could ever hope to personally explain.
This begs the question, does common language change over time? :)
Youtube blocks Kuwait. Kuwait cries.
Do people really think that the Army and Marines would be so stupid to mount a weapon on a majority of their light troop transports that would be illegal to use?
Unfortunately, you can't ask those kinds of questions on Slashdot. More people than not will answer "YES THEY WOULD ITS THE GOVERNMENT". Proper punctuation is right out.
I strongly agree with your first paragraph, but for the last paragraph I think psychological operations (leaflets, broadcast, loudspeakers) are more powerful than some memories of incidences of poor treatment of POWs in Iraq.