If you look at a gray scale version version of the image it's a little more noticeable. Imagine a chrome or transparent plastic version on a "wPod" device or something. Still, not enough to sue over IMHO.
Mass produced CDs and DVDs aren't "burned", they are pressed from masters so that the embedded metal foil layer has the correct pattern on it. This allows for very, very high speed production. Is it possible to do the same thing for these holographic discs? If not, this could be a nice backup media but won't replace DVD or Blu-ray.
TOW (of course, it's a ground strike missile, but I'm sure it can easilly hit a blimp).
TOW is wire guided, not active radar guided and has a maximum range of about 2 miles under perfect conditions. It's not clear how the motor nozzle and control fins would function at 20,000', my guess is "poorly".
And if I am not mistaken, you do have the portable (i.e. carryable by 3 men) ground-based AGM-65 Hellfire launcher.
Firstly, there is no AGM-65 Hellfire. The Hellfire is the AGM-114. And no, there is no portable launcher. Tests were done firing off of Humvees and ITVs, but nothing was ever fielded.
Electronically spoofing an SA-2 is about as trivial of a task as modern ECM is presented with.
Towed AAA would be a more likely threat, but moving 57mm or 100mm artillery in Afghanistan isn't easy. I'd guess they would be able to spot the guns (MMW radar, IIR) well outside their effective range.
THIS is why Google Street View is so cool. That really does look like a fun drive. I'd love to see a detailed explanation of how they do the surface detection, the little cursor can tell which side of the rock face you're mousing over. Some kind of shadow detection algorithm?
"Close" is a relative term. F-15 and F-16 pilots who've gone up against F-22s report that it's not a fair fight. They don't even know the F-22s are there until they start getting missile shot calls on their radios.
Within visual range I'm sure you can get a radar lock (and of course IR). The thing is, an F-22's speed, stealth and sensor integration allow it to choose not to merge, they can sit up high and fast and pop the enemy aircraft at will.
A company I worked for took over polling of a restaurant chain's stores via analog modems. I was sent to get trained up on the polling system this company wrote for the restaurant chain. It was, I kid you not, entirely run on DOS batch files, Perl scripts and the Windows Task Scheduler. It would crash about once a week, so I'd get a page at 4:30 AM and have to remotely reboot one or more machines or rejigger some batch file. I was so happy when we finally got the OK to write our own polling solution.
Nah, all it takes is thermonuclear bomb buried in in a mile deep shaft with a folding chair sitting on top of it. Instant fusion powered space vehicle!
It's a plan type. You pay $X per month for a plan where all minutes from incoming calls to the phone are free and you get a fixed amount of minutes from outgoing calls (calls placed from the phone) per month.
Seoul is 30 miles from the DMZ. A modern Rooskie designed 152mm gun with rocket assisted projectiles has a range of 33,000m, which is still short of getting to Seoul. Even a monster like the 180mm S-23 can only get out to 42,000m with RAP rounds.
This proposed NK artillery barrage would certainly inflict casualties, but it wouldn't flatten Seoul, would it? Does the DPRK have something else with a longer range? I don't know of any tube or rocket artillery with a 30 mile range. Hell even the 16" monsters from Iowa class BBs had a range of around 40,000m
Sims were a victim of the success of gaming as a whole. Why devote a massive game budget (like Falcon 4.0) to target a tiny segment of the customer base when you can just go after the lowest common denominator with something like Ace Combat 71?
Car Wars. That would be a pretty awesome game I think. The worst part of the tabletop game is all the fussy housekeeping rules you have to keep track of. That and the preponderance of twink subcompact ramcars in tournaments.
Bioshock was a pale shadow of the masterpieces that were System Shock and System Shock 2. I've never, ever been scared and immersed while playing a game like I was in SS or SS2.
I loved the original X:BTF, you really got the feeling the people who made it were in love with the concept, it wasn't crapped out by drones slaving away at some EA sweatshop.
X3 was equal parts awesome and buggy. I had a friggin' empire built up in that game before my saves got too unstable to play for more than 10 minutes.
Mi-26 maybe. There are no commercial operators of CH-53s however, they're military (except one where the contract went sideways and the government pulled the deal at the last minute.) But really, hauling on a truck is much safer, cheaper and more practical.
It's not just common sense, in most states oversize loads are required to have scout and chase vehicles. When I was a teenager a few times I drove a scout car with a flexible fiberglass pole the height of the load being carried plus one inch ahead of an over-height load. Supposedly the route was clear but it was still a required precaution.
Since when is a lazy/incompetent trucking company the wind power industry's fault?
"NOES! They'll destroy the historic bootprints!" - Idiot who believes that lack of erosion signals lack of change. The bootprints are likely long gone, due to heating and cooling of the rocks, vibrations from the ground and, at the landing sites proper, the exhaust from the ascent stage of the lander. Nobody but your high school science teacher seriously thinks they'll last a hundred years, or whatever numeric value you were told.
The prints near the landing site I agree with, the ascent stage could very well have wiped those out. But from the LRO images already released you can see the trails of where the Apollo astronauts walked and in the later missions drove. Once the LRO gets established into it's low orbit the images will be even better.
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If you look at a gray scale version version of the image it's a little more noticeable. Imagine a chrome or transparent plastic version on a "wPod" device or something. Still, not enough to sue over IMHO.
Mass produced CDs and DVDs aren't "burned", they are pressed from masters so that the embedded metal foil layer has the correct pattern on it. This allows for very, very high speed production. Is it possible to do the same thing for these holographic discs? If not, this could be a nice backup media but won't replace DVD or Blu-ray.
TOW (of course, it's a ground strike missile, but I'm sure it can easilly hit a blimp).
TOW is wire guided, not active radar guided and has a maximum range of about 2 miles under perfect conditions. It's not clear how the motor nozzle and control fins would function at 20,000', my guess is "poorly".
And if I am not mistaken, you do have the portable (i.e. carryable by 3 men) ground-based AGM-65 Hellfire launcher.
Firstly, there is no AGM-65 Hellfire. The Hellfire is the AGM-114. And no, there is no portable launcher. Tests were done firing off of Humvees and ITVs, but nothing was ever fielded.
Electronically spoofing an SA-2 is about as trivial of a task as modern ECM is presented with.
Towed AAA would be a more likely threat, but moving 57mm or 100mm artillery in Afghanistan isn't easy. I'd guess they would be able to spot the guns (MMW radar, IIR) well outside their effective range.
In the television series StarGate SG-1 and StarGate Atlantis
Erm... In the television series Star Trek they have matter/anti-matter reactors and warp drives capable of traveling faster than the speed of light.
THIS is why Google Street View is so cool. That really does look like a fun drive. I'd love to see a detailed explanation of how they do the surface detection, the little cursor can tell which side of the rock face you're mousing over. Some kind of shadow detection algorithm?
even a quick look will make the RWR (Radar Warning Receiver) system on the enemy aircraft start chirping
You'd be surprised what kind of things you can do with an AESA radar and a data link. "Frequency agile" doesn't even begin to describe it.
"Close" is a relative term. F-15 and F-16 pilots who've gone up against F-22s report that it's not a fair fight. They don't even know the F-22s are there until they start getting missile shot calls on their radios.
Within visual range I'm sure you can get a radar lock (and of course IR). The thing is, an F-22's speed, stealth and sensor integration allow it to choose not to merge, they can sit up high and fast and pop the enemy aircraft at will.
A company I worked for took over polling of a restaurant chain's stores via analog modems. I was sent to get trained up on the polling system this company wrote for the restaurant chain. It was, I kid you not, entirely run on DOS batch files, Perl scripts and the Windows Task Scheduler. It would crash about once a week, so I'd get a page at 4:30 AM and have to remotely reboot one or more machines or rejigger some batch file. I was so happy when we finally got the OK to write our own polling solution.
Until they go to town on drives you didn't want destroyed. "Look daddy, I fixed this one all by myself!"
Nah, all it takes is thermonuclear bomb buried in in a mile deep shaft with a folding chair sitting on top of it. Instant fusion powered space vehicle!
A submarine patent claim in Texas? Wow, who would have guessed?
It's a plan type. You pay $X per month for a plan where all minutes from incoming calls to the phone are free and you get a fixed amount of minutes from outgoing calls (calls placed from the phone) per month.
Seoul is 30 miles from the DMZ. A modern Rooskie designed 152mm gun with rocket assisted projectiles has a range of 33,000m, which is still short of getting to Seoul. Even a monster like the 180mm S-23 can only get out to 42,000m with RAP rounds.
This proposed NK artillery barrage would certainly inflict casualties, but it wouldn't flatten Seoul, would it? Does the DPRK have something else with a longer range? I don't know of any tube or rocket artillery with a 30 mile range. Hell even the 16" monsters from Iowa class BBs had a range of around 40,000m
I'll see your soldering nostalgia and raise you a WIRE WRAP TOOL! :)
Sims were a victim of the success of gaming as a whole. Why devote a massive game budget (like Falcon 4.0) to target a tiny segment of the customer base when you can just go after the lowest common denominator with something like Ace Combat 71?
Car Wars. That would be a pretty awesome game I think. The worst part of the tabletop game is all the fussy housekeeping rules you have to keep track of. That and the preponderance of twink subcompact ramcars in tournaments.
Bioshock was a pale shadow of the masterpieces that were System Shock and System Shock 2. I've never, ever been scared and immersed while playing a game like I was in SS or SS2.
Are you thinking of the Harpoon series? I loved those games back in the day. Not much graphics but a TON of strategy.
I loved the original X:BTF, you really got the feeling the people who made it were in love with the concept, it wasn't crapped out by drones slaving away at some EA sweatshop.
X3 was equal parts awesome and buggy. I had a friggin' empire built up in that game before my saves got too unstable to play for more than 10 minutes.
But...but...but what about the baby eating WiFi routers?
Mi-26 maybe. There are no commercial operators of CH-53s however, they're military (except one where the contract went sideways and the government pulled the deal at the last minute.) But really, hauling on a truck is much safer, cheaper and more practical.
Airlift them with what, exactly? The big turbine blades weigh 12 to 15 tons each, more than even an S-64 can lift under ideal conditions.
It's not just common sense, in most states oversize loads are required to have scout and chase vehicles. When I was a teenager a few times I drove a scout car with a flexible fiberglass pole the height of the load being carried plus one inch ahead of an over-height load. Supposedly the route was clear but it was still a required precaution.
Since when is a lazy/incompetent trucking company the wind power industry's fault?
"NOES! They'll destroy the historic bootprints!" - Idiot who believes that lack of erosion signals lack of change. The bootprints are likely long gone, due to heating and cooling of the rocks, vibrations from the ground and, at the landing sites proper, the exhaust from the ascent stage of the lander. Nobody but your high school science teacher seriously thinks they'll last a hundred years, or whatever numeric value you were told.
The prints near the landing site I agree with, the ascent stage could very well have wiped those out. But from the LRO images already released you can see the trails of where the Apollo astronauts walked and in the later missions drove. Once the LRO gets established into it's low orbit the images will be even better.