The WTC stairwells not only lacked insulation; but also the bunker-thick walls and support structure to have kept the planes' debris from shearing-through the spaces.
Having a thick wall or protective shell around the stair core could also allow protection for its own air and power and water systems so that if the rest of the building 'went dark' or 'went dry' that those standalone systems might keep running long enough to evacuate the structure.
With today's larger (and more populated) buildings, architects and engineers are going to have to expend more effort and resources on designing a building's "survival systems" than they have in the past.
Pretty-buildings-that-you-can't-get-out-of-in-an- emergency aren't as popular as they once were...
The researchers analyzed data from 32 experiments on different marine environments.
They then analyzed the 1,000-year history of 12 coastal regions around the world, including San Francisco and Chesapeake bays in the U.S., and the Adriatic, Baltic, and North seas in Europe.
Next, they analyzed fishery data from 64 large marine ecosystems.
And finally, they looked at the recovery of 48 protected ocean areas.
It would be nice to know what those experiments were and what kinds of areas the test regions amounted-to (in comparison to the whole of the oceans' area). I've tried to find somewthing in the way of a map delineating the areas they studied and don't see one available. Anyone else?
One quick thought would be: isn't it possible that, due to environmental conditions and changes, that the fish just went elsewhere? To think that they'll always be in the same areas (and migrate in the same patterns) just because they've been seen there for the last couple-hundred years on record that they've always been there and have never left forever-and-ever-Amen?
I'm not absolutely discounting their claims; I'd just like to see a little more of their methods and true results before fully accepting their "2048" declaration.
...detecting it could be considered as hindering law enforcement...
All right then: if you find an audio or video bug in your house, will you disable it or do a "Qué Será, Será" - since it can be argued that you don't know who placed it?
...better to coat the entire surface in shock absorbing material.
Wouldn't coating the skin result in greater insulation, necessitating the need for more radiators? NASA got lucky that the object didn't pierce a liquid line (though, hopefully they're smert enough to have blowout valves on every line in the radiator).
Um, the object went through the panel (albeit only 1/2" thick) - your "multiple honeycomb layers" would be good at crushing under the load of a larger, slower object; but they're pretty useless for an object traveling a bit faster than pffft! that created a point load.
(from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hear) "...Hear, hear! (1689) was originally imperative, used as an exclamation to call attention to a speaker's words; now a general cheer of approval..."
But, it IS a good show and I've managed to, at one time or another, see all but the (traditionally) "missing episodes" and the rest of "season two" (in reality the twenty-eighth season - http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/SciFi/DrWho/epi sodes.html)
All day long at work it was "arrr"-this and "arrr"-that. A couple did Cap'n McAllister"-type "Yarrr"s (think: Simpsons), and again I was the only Billy Connolly-type (Muppet Treasure Island).
Next year: forget Scotland; time to start practicing a Welsh accent. Pirates had whales, so Wales must've had pirates, eh boyo? Didn't Neddie Seagoon play a pirate once?
I've got no dog in the fight (linux vs. windows), and I'm looking for Linux recommendations...
My Mac-unfriendly employer won't accept my Sawtooth G4/500/AGP or iMac 600's on the company's network (I must use a company-supplied Dell with XP for email & etc) but our isolated LIMS in the laboratories is open territory - our instruments have PCs that IT won't touch since they already have a hard-enough time maintaining network stability and don't have time to 'vet' the instruments' computers & custom apps. We're using company wires with our own hub and all of our 'misfits' get-along very well together with a couple of common printers and one machine to burn backups (none of the instruments have burners - SOME still have 5-1/4's in them).
I've fiddled a very little bit with Knoppix 501 (CD-based) but hear it's not recommended for hard drive installs. I know almost nothing about Linux, bare little more about microsoft, and spend most of my time with the Macs: video recording & analysis (high-speed videography), image processing (ImageJ), Labview, report generation, only enough in Terminal to do very minor things. All my home machines have been Apples - I run a Mystic G4/500x2 and have an older greymarket windows laptop I power-up occasionally (loaded w/PC-Labview). And I _still_ have my functional MOS KIM-1.:)
QUESTION: what kinds of packages are out there for an unused W'98-era PC I have hanging around so I can 'get my feet wet' with a 'non-windows/non-OSX' box on my network? K'501 doesn't exactly "stream-along" on the box.
I'd like ideas/suggestions for a package that I can play with in my spare minutes and learn a new thing or two.
Those who go down there and make honest, informed choices (i.e. the ones who can actually NAME the candidates a week after the election) CARE; those who do NOT go down there (or go down and file null or despoiled ballots) are the ones more likely to bitch and piss and moan about the results.
I've looked through everything (maybe I missed it) but I can't believe that with all this talk of Britain and surveillance cameras and speakers that no one has referenced Patrick McGoohan or "The Prisoner" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/) or "Number Six" yet...
So, according to the second section, they're re-wiring dead-ended nerves to the muscles for them to act as _amplifiers_ for the arm's electronics?
1) don't they have decent-enough electronics to sense the nerve impulses directly?
2) if he jabs (artifically stimulates) whatever muscle is acting as an amplifier, would that cause the arm to fire the associated channel 'involuntarily'?
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Outsourced astronauts? Cheaper than hiring them and paying them benefits.
(anyway, how much space travel do we have IN the US; compared to ABOVE it?)
OT: now who among us, after reading that phrase, also had the line "...never had a dinner" run through their mind? :)
A talented Gentleman - one of my favorites. Rest in Peace, Aaron. 2/1919-7/2006
Oh PLEASE let the 'Simpsons' creators turn it into a companion for Blinky the three-eyed fish!
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The WTC stairwells not only lacked insulation; but also the bunker-thick walls and support structure to have kept the planes' debris from shearing-through the spaces.
Having a thick wall or protective shell around the stair core could also allow protection for its own air and power and water systems so that if the rest of the building 'went dark' or 'went dry' that those standalone systems might keep running long enough to evacuate the structure.
With today's larger (and more populated) buildings, architects and engineers are going to have to expend more effort and resources on designing a building's "survival systems" than they have in the past.
Pretty-buildings-that-you-can't-get-out-of-in-an- emergency aren't as popular as they once were...
...for being used as one datapoint in the product they'll be selling their traffic-data customers?
Ramsey Clark was ordered out of the courtroom in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.
Mr Clark had handed the judge a memorandum calling the trial a travesty. Judge Rauf Abdul Rahman pointed to Mr Clark and said in English: "Get out."..."
I love it. :)
The researchers analyzed data from 32 experiments on different marine environments.
They then analyzed the 1,000-year history of 12 coastal regions around the world, including San Francisco and Chesapeake bays in the U.S., and the Adriatic, Baltic, and North seas in Europe.
Next, they analyzed fishery data from 64 large marine ecosystems.
And finally, they looked at the recovery of 48 protected ocean areas.
It would be nice to know what those experiments were and what kinds of areas the test regions amounted-to (in comparison to the whole of the oceans' area). I've tried to find somewthing in the way of a map delineating the areas they studied and don't see one available. Anyone else?
One quick thought would be: isn't it possible that, due to environmental conditions and changes, that the fish just went elsewhere? To think that they'll always be in the same areas (and migrate in the same patterns) just because they've been seen there for the last couple-hundred years on record that they've always been there and have never left forever-and-ever-Amen?
I'm not absolutely discounting their claims; I'd just like to see a little more of their methods and true results before fully accepting their "2048" declaration.
He doesn't have an interface because he says he doesn't have an interface. That makes all the difference in his world.
>> Please show me an insurance company that would insure such a flood-prone property,
http://www.floodsmart.gov/
All right then: if you find an audio or video bug in your house, will you disable it or do a "Qué Será, Será" - since it can be argued that you don't know who placed it?
Wouldn't coating the skin result in greater insulation, necessitating the need for more radiators? NASA got lucky that the object didn't pierce a liquid line (though, hopefully they're smert enough to have blowout valves on every line in the radiator).
Um, the object went through the panel (albeit only 1/2" thick) - your "multiple honeycomb layers" would be good at crushing under the load of a larger, slower object; but they're pretty useless for an object traveling a bit faster than pffft! that created a point load.
And don't forget Niven's "Ringworld".
The. Movies. Must. End. Here.
Thanks - scroll-around the map a bit: it's really funny.
I've noticed the same distortion in other high-rise cities; but not to this extent.
Ever see "Ghost in the Shell"? (anime)
Research "laughing man", "face", and "logo" in that context.
One believes Dell defines "recycle" as "refurbish and resell".
(from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hear)
"...Hear, hear! (1689) was originally imperative, used as an exclamation to call attention to a speaker's words; now a general cheer of approval..."
But, it IS a good show and I've managed to, at one time or another, see all but the (traditionally) "missing episodes" and the rest of "season two" (in reality the twenty-eighth season - http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/SciFi/DrWho/epi sodes.html)
And my submission about weird-looking buildings gets rejected, but bugs they post. Huh, I'm saying! :D
Um, I _think_ that last line is gonne be more like:
Will you please come quietly with us, Sir?
All day long at work it was "arrr"-this and "arrr"-that. A couple did Cap'n McAllister"-type "Yarrr"s (think: Simpsons), and again I was the only Billy Connolly-type (Muppet Treasure Island).
Next year: forget Scotland; time to start practicing a Welsh accent. Pirates had whales, so Wales must've had pirates, eh boyo? Didn't Neddie Seagoon play a pirate once?
I've got no dog in the fight (linux vs. windows), and I'm looking for Linux recommendations...
:)
My Mac-unfriendly employer won't accept my Sawtooth G4/500/AGP or iMac 600's on the company's network (I must use a company-supplied Dell with XP for email & etc) but our isolated LIMS in the laboratories is open territory - our instruments have PCs that IT won't touch since they already have a hard-enough time maintaining network stability and don't have time to 'vet' the instruments' computers & custom apps. We're using company wires with our own hub and all of our 'misfits' get-along very well together with a couple of common printers and one machine to burn backups (none of the instruments have burners - SOME still have 5-1/4's in them).
I've fiddled a very little bit with Knoppix 501 (CD-based) but hear it's not recommended for hard drive installs. I know almost nothing about Linux, bare little more about microsoft, and spend most of my time with the Macs: video recording & analysis (high-speed videography), image processing (ImageJ), Labview, report generation, only enough in Terminal to do very minor things. All my home machines have been Apples - I run a Mystic G4/500x2 and have an older greymarket windows laptop I power-up occasionally (loaded w/PC-Labview). And I _still_ have my functional MOS KIM-1.
QUESTION: what kinds of packages are out there for an unused W'98-era PC I have hanging around so I can 'get my feet wet' with a 'non-windows/non-OSX' box on my network? K'501 doesn't exactly "stream-along" on the box.
I'd like ideas/suggestions for a package that I can play with in my spare minutes and learn a new thing or two.
Have you read Lin Carter's "Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings" (1969, Ballantine)?
Do yourself the favor - excellent.
Those who go down there and make honest, informed choices (i.e. the ones who can actually NAME the candidates a week after the election) CARE; those who do NOT go down there (or go down and file null or despoiled ballots) are the ones more likely to bitch and piss and moan about the results.
I've looked through everything (maybe I missed it) but I can't believe that with all this talk of Britain and surveillance cameras and speakers that no one has referenced Patrick McGoohan or "The Prisoner" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/) or "Number Six" yet...
So, according to the second section, they're re-wiring dead-ended nerves to the muscles for them to act as _amplifiers_ for the arm's electronics?
1) don't they have decent-enough electronics to sense the nerve impulses directly?
2) if he jabs (artifically stimulates) whatever muscle is acting as an amplifier, would that cause the arm to fire the associated channel 'involuntarily'?