Also, the SM-3 missile's "warhead" is actually a maneuverable "kill vehicle" with no actual explosives. The damage is caused by good ol' kinetic energy.
Computer games have been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Why bother spending millions making a great, realistic flight simulator that 50,000 people will buy when you can pump out a first person shooter clone or God of War knock-off that you know will sell at least ten times that.
I miss the good old days, when ALL gaming was niche. My Saitek X36 is getting dusty.
The autopsy done on the tiger showed shattered and broken claws from scrambling over the concrete. The tiger didn't just do some anime style super-leap, she got claws on the edge and pulled herself up, shattering claws in the process. This was not a happy tiger that these 3 douchebags happened to get caught by. She was pissed off and looking to confront her tormentors.
The Apache's distinct sound comes from the offset blades of it's tail rotor. If you look at them they are not a 90 degree "X", but instead are offset 55/125 degrees to one another. The goal was to try and reduce the "whop-whop" rotor noise that comes from the main/tail rotor interaction to make the aircraft quieter from a distance. The fact that it sounds scary as hell was just an added bonus.
Both were safe and reliable rockets. If you think HTP is safe, ask the Me-163 pilots who were burned by it how they felt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Stoff. It isn't your medicine cabinet hydrogen peroxide.
But what will we fill the airships with!? The damn Krauts will pull ahead in airship development and then where will we be? Stuck on the ground, that's where!
Missile designers aren't working to build MANPAD SAMs to take down 747s.
It's never as simple as it seems. Some guidance systems also use UV and/or visible light for guidance, and also employ imaging sensors, that is to say they guide to the image of the target, not just "keep pointed at the nearest hot spot".
You're so right. I mean the $800 million spent on the rovers could have funded almost 3 entire days of the war in Iraq. And look at all of the scientific data we've gotten out of that. Right?
http://www.nuclear.gov/np2010/reports/NuclIndustryStudy.pdf, a US DOE study on nuclear power costs, specifically the tables labeled "Table A5-1: Components of Front-End Nuclear Fuel Costs, $ per kg U, 2003 Prices" and "Table A5-3: Fuel Cycle Cost Components under Direct Disposal, $ per MWh, 2003 Prices". $5.44/MWh. But anyone who disagrees with you is lying huh? Hard to argue logically with that I suppose.
I guess if you get your way we'll keep burning coal forever?
Why do alternatives to burning flammable liquids or solids for energy always get the "what will it do to birds" treatment? I can't understand it. Domestic cats kill TENS OF MILLIONS of birds every year. Big effin' deal. It'll weed out the dumb ones.
Uranium is actually relatively abundant, there is approximately 40 times more uranium in the Earth's crust than silver. There is an estimated 10^17kg (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg)of uranium in the Earth's crust, the question is how expensive it is to mine.
Even if you took the current price of uranium ore and multiplied it by 20, you could still produce power at a cost of $0.06/kW-hr. Of course at half that price it becomes economical to recover uranium from seawater, which provides a limitless supply.
Punch cards! 80 characters wide and 12 rows per card, that's a whopping 960 bytes per card. So you could fit a double sided DVD on about 10 MILLION punch cards.
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We do? How do we know that?
Also, the SM-3 missile's "warhead" is actually a maneuverable "kill vehicle" with no actual explosives. The damage is caused by good ol' kinetic energy.
Computer games have been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Why bother spending millions making a great, realistic flight simulator that 50,000 people will buy when you can pump out a first person shooter clone or God of War knock-off that you know will sell at least ten times that. I miss the good old days, when ALL gaming was niche. My Saitek X36 is getting dusty.
Looking out my window, it's sunny outside in February.
The autopsy done on the tiger showed shattered and broken claws from scrambling over the concrete. The tiger didn't just do some anime style super-leap, she got claws on the edge and pulled herself up, shattering claws in the process. This was not a happy tiger that these 3 douchebags happened to get caught by. She was pissed off and looking to confront her tormentors.
Overpenetration + urban environment = bad.
First one I downloaded (MojoDreams) got flagged as having a trojan. Nice site.
The Apache's distinct sound comes from the offset blades of it's tail rotor. If you look at them they are not a 90 degree "X", but instead are offset 55/125 degrees to one another. The goal was to try and reduce the "whop-whop" rotor noise that comes from the main/tail rotor interaction to make the aircraft quieter from a distance. The fact that it sounds scary as hell was just an added bonus.
582k ought to be enough for anybody.
I respectfully disagree with that statement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V
Both were safe and reliable rockets. If you think HTP is safe, ask the Me-163 pilots who were burned by it how they felt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Stoff. It isn't your medicine cabinet hydrogen peroxide.
You're right about reducing noise, but don't you mean reducing load times? And "laser wear"? Huh? No such thing.
And who's to argue with Hollywood when it comes to anything technical, right? :)
Coleco ADAM was my first gaming rig. Colecovision cartridges AND hand coding programs from BASIC magazine baby!
But what will we fill the airships with!? The damn Krauts will pull ahead in airship development and then where will we be? Stuck on the ground, that's where!
Missile designers aren't working to build MANPAD SAMs to take down 747s.
It's never as simple as it seems. Some guidance systems also use UV and/or visible light for guidance, and also employ imaging sensors, that is to say they guide to the image of the target, not just "keep pointed at the nearest hot spot".
You're so right. I mean the $800 million spent on the rovers could have funded almost 3 entire days of the war in Iraq. And look at all of the scientific data we've gotten out of that. Right?
Really? A couple of years? 1979? Whatever.
http://www.nuclear.gov/np2010/reports/NuclIndustryStudy.pdf, a US DOE study on nuclear power costs, specifically the tables labeled "Table A5-1: Components of Front-End Nuclear Fuel Costs, $ per kg U, 2003 Prices" and "Table A5-3: Fuel Cycle Cost Components under Direct Disposal, $ per MWh, 2003 Prices". $5.44/MWh. But anyone who disagrees with you is lying huh? Hard to argue logically with that I suppose.
I guess if you get your way we'll keep burning coal forever?
The seawater idea is a recent interesting idea
If 30 years is "recent" then, sure, it's a recent idea. The real factor limiting development of the idea is as you said, cheap(er) high grade ore.
Once last point - I'm curious as to which nuclear plant produces power at $0.06/kW-hr?
The answer is none. Why sell a product for cheaper than other alternatives? The difference is profit for whoever funds the power plant.
Why do alternatives to burning flammable liquids or solids for energy always get the "what will it do to birds" treatment? I can't understand it. Domestic cats kill TENS OF MILLIONS of birds every year. Big effin' deal. It'll weed out the dumb ones.
Uranium is actually relatively abundant, there is approximately 40 times more uranium in the Earth's crust than silver. There is an estimated 10^17kg (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg)of uranium in the Earth's crust, the question is how expensive it is to mine.
Even if you took the current price of uranium ore and multiplied it by 20, you could still produce power at a cost of $0.06/kW-hr. Of course at half that price it becomes economical to recover uranium from seawater, which provides a limitless supply.
Yes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
Cause we really need another Creationist nut job in the White House. Religious Whack-Jobbery
No thanks.
Punch cards! 80 characters wide and 12 rows per card, that's a whopping 960 bytes per card. So you could fit a double sided DVD on about 10 MILLION punch cards.
You're thinking of .30-06.