If he is found to have broken the law without adequate justification, it is quite possible he will go to jail. That is the risk you take if you deem it necessary to disclose such information.
Would you be equally happy for Bush to go to jail if he is found to have been responsible for the illegal wiretaps in question?
Conversely, someone falling into the black hole (ignoring for the moment that he would in fact be ripped apart by tidal forces) would see the entire history of the universe played out above himself as he fell in.
Well not quite. Whether he'd be ripped apart would depend on the rate of change of the gravitational field strength with distance. He'd last longer if it were a larger black hole, and if it were spinning. Also he'd see the entire future of the universe play out before him. It would also appear, well, rather blue...
Whether or not you believe it should be open source, it's pretty hard to deny that it has become such. The earliest Bibles in existence are in Hebrew right? (If anyone can clarify whether they are or not please do). Any translation, no matter how true to the original you attempt to be, will always be stamped with the translater's personal bias to some degree.
I disagree. The very nature of all government projects is that the entire population of the nation is associated with them. I may not particularly agree with my my nation's current use of its military, but as a member of a democracy, we make decisions as a mass.
Frankly, I believe space exploration is far too important to be left to private companies. Sure, they can freely join in, but they are going to be looking for a profit. If there was a privtely owned space station in orbit instead of the ISS, would they be doing science, or giving trips to rich tourists?
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It's Archimedes Principle, it gives the amount of upthrust a body will exprience when immersed in a fluid.
And singing lectures do seem to be popular with biologists, I'm told that one of the biology lectures at Cambridge near the end of term is done entirely in song.
Yup, the attitude indicator is definately a gyro. It's usally a vacuum gyro, meaning it's spun up via a pump driven by the engine. Before engine start, it'll be giving a false reading in one of the corners (eg. most nose down, left bank reading it can give).
When the engine starts it'll wobble for a few seconds, then settle down to the correct reading. At this point you turn a small knob to make a small adjustment to the pitch indication (you're putting the "nose level" bar in the right place, not moving the gyro). It then requires no adjustment for the rest of the flight.
I agree this is very odd, and if anyone has a good technical explanation of how it works, I'd love to hear from you. And no, definately not a floating sphere, that would only tell you which way the local apparent gravity was acting. That can be dangerous, you can get into spiral dives in cloud thinking you're perfectly level.
You're right, giros do drift, but for some reason the attitude indicator giro in a light aircraft never seems to need reseting. The timescale such an aircraft flys over is long enough for drift to be significant (the directional giro does need realigning with a magnetic compass regularly), but the attitude giro does not. I've never been able to find a stisfactory explanation for this, anyone got one?
And no, a basic aircraft autopilot does not rely on radio beacons (the autopilot still works if the ADF, VOR etc. is unservicable), GPS (not certificated for aircraft navigation in the UK yet, don't know about the US) or the sun (a rather novel idea, but not much use at night).
I grant you radar would be pretty useless over a flat plane or lake, but then would visual cue really be any better?
Wind doesn't affect the handling of an aircraft in flight unless it gusts (ie. a quick change in wind velocity), it only affects its navigation. And simply getting something onto the ground isn't really the point here, having an aircraft rather than parachutes gives you the option to exlore far more ground (or even deloy multiple probes over a wide area).
In fact, the wind speeds on Venus could be a great advantage. As the pressure is ~90-100 times that of Earth's atmosphere, this would likely limit any aircraft to very low airspeeds, in which case flying "with" the wind would help enourmously in covering distance.
Well their prize only requires that your plane fly on Earth.
However, you've raised some interesting points, I suggest you go to www.x-plane.com and download the demo. It lets you fly on Mars (or at least the previous versions did, I assume the new one also does). There are two aircraft included in it that can fly on Mars, but they handle very oddly and you're right, you need huge wings.
Thanks for clarifying the cost there. I'm a pilot, but I have only a limited knowledge of RC aircraft. I'm interested by your claim of a 100 mile range, what sort of size would the aircraft be?
Also, what would you be using for engines? I was under the impression that turbines for model aircraft cost several thousand pounds. Or do you think either glow/petrol driven props would be a better idea? Which would give the longest endurance? It might also be worth considering whether the cameras could work with the vibration from the engines, or whether it would be necessary to stop the engines every couple of minutes and take an image for position fixing (in which case would electric motors be the best choice?).
I think the unmanned aerial vehicle might be doable for that cost. I mean, the hard bit is the AI. Other than that you've just got a model aeroplane being controlled internally rather than be someone on the ground with a transmitter.
Of course you need to know how far it has to fly etc, but IMO it can't cost over £10k to build the airframe. The programme to fly it wouldn't be too hard either, the only hard part is that it needs to know where it is and what orientation it's in . Yhe latter is trivial - use a giro like any other aircraft would. The former could probably be done by taking either a stereo image from two cameras mounted on the wing tips, or useing some sort of downward looking radar, to create a 3D picture of the local terrain, which could then be matched to a map held in memory and a "best-fit" obtained.
Does anyone know if similar laws to the DMCA exist is the UK? I'd be seriously worried if they do. I'm of the opinion that you have a right to bypass any technology used to protect spyware. It's a pretty deceitful form of software, it's effectively carrying out surviellence against you, you should be able to respond to it.
Because that's far less practical to sustain. And I'm pretty sure your calculation's off. 1 in six people in India for $200m? At $100 subsidy per laptop, you'd be providing 2m laptops, which, if your assertion is correct, would put the population of India at ~12m. According to http://www.indianchild.com/population_of_india.htm, the population of India is over 1 billion. to outfit 1 in 6 people with a laptop you would then be providing 1.67 x 10^8 laptops, which at $100 subsidy a laptop will cost ~$1.7 billion.
Well firstly they aren't providing laptops to third world countries. They are merely designing and outsourcing the production of a laptop such that it is cheap enough to be bought in bulk at $100 a time by third world governments.
I assume that, should the US government consider it necessary to provide a large number of its citizens with laptops, they would also be able to purchase them at $100 a time, if they filed a sufficiently large order.
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I dunno, but if the pigs start laying eggs, worry!
You wouldn't get a car from Apple anyway. Get over it.
If he is found to have broken the law without adequate justification, it is quite possible he will go to jail. That is the risk you take if you deem it necessary to disclose such information.
Would you be equally happy for Bush to go to jail if he is found to have been responsible for the illegal wiretaps in question?
Perhaps you can enlighten us. What classified information has Mr. Tice revealed?
Conversely, someone falling into the black hole (ignoring for the moment that he would in fact be ripped apart by tidal forces) would see the entire history of the universe played out above himself as he fell in.
Well not quite. Whether he'd be ripped apart would depend on the rate of change of the gravitational field strength with distance. He'd last longer if it were a larger black hole, and if it were spinning. Also he'd see the entire future of the universe play out before him. It would also appear, well, rather blue...
It'll read anything you like. Unless it starts with $sys$.
Whether or not you believe it should be open source, it's pretty hard to deny that it has become such. The earliest Bibles in existence are in Hebrew right? (If anyone can clarify whether they are or not please do). Any translation, no matter how true to the original you attempt to be, will always be stamped with the translater's personal bias to some degree.
It was promtply purchased by DARPA on a hunch that it might be able to see through concrete...
I disagree. The very nature of all government projects is that the entire population of the nation is associated with them. I may not particularly agree with my my nation's current use of its military, but as a member of a democracy, we make decisions as a mass. Frankly, I believe space exploration is far too important to be left to private companies. Sure, they can freely join in, but they are going to be looking for a profit. If there was a privtely owned space station in orbit instead of the ISS, would they be doing science, or giving trips to rich tourists?
It's Archimedes Principle, it gives the amount of upthrust a body will exprience when immersed in a fluid. And singing lectures do seem to be popular with biologists, I'm told that one of the biology lectures at Cambridge near the end of term is done entirely in song.
Yup, the attitude indicator is definately a gyro. It's usally a vacuum gyro, meaning it's spun up via a pump driven by the engine. Before engine start, it'll be giving a false reading in one of the corners (eg. most nose down, left bank reading it can give).
When the engine starts it'll wobble for a few seconds, then settle down to the correct reading. At this point you turn a small knob to make a small adjustment to the pitch indication (you're putting the "nose level" bar in the right place, not moving the gyro). It then requires no adjustment for the rest of the flight.
I agree this is very odd, and if anyone has a good technical explanation of how it works, I'd love to hear from you. And no, definately not a floating sphere, that would only tell you which way the local apparent gravity was acting. That can be dangerous, you can get into spiral dives in cloud thinking you're perfectly level.
You're right, giros do drift, but for some reason the attitude indicator giro in a light aircraft never seems to need reseting. The timescale such an aircraft flys over is long enough for drift to be significant (the directional giro does need realigning with a magnetic compass regularly), but the attitude giro does not. I've never been able to find a stisfactory explanation for this, anyone got one?
And no, a basic aircraft autopilot does not rely on radio beacons (the autopilot still works if the ADF, VOR etc. is unservicable), GPS (not certificated for aircraft navigation in the UK yet, don't know about the US) or the sun (a rather novel idea, but not much use at night).
I grant you radar would be pretty useless over a flat plane or lake, but then would visual cue really be any better?
Wind doesn't affect the handling of an aircraft in flight unless it gusts (ie. a quick change in wind velocity), it only affects its navigation. And simply getting something onto the ground isn't really the point here, having an aircraft rather than parachutes gives you the option to exlore far more ground (or even deloy multiple probes over a wide area). In fact, the wind speeds on Venus could be a great advantage. As the pressure is ~90-100 times that of Earth's atmosphere, this would likely limit any aircraft to very low airspeeds, in which case flying "with" the wind would help enourmously in covering distance.
Well their prize only requires that your plane fly on Earth. However, you've raised some interesting points, I suggest you go to www.x-plane.com and download the demo. It lets you fly on Mars (or at least the previous versions did, I assume the new one also does). There are two aircraft included in it that can fly on Mars, but they handle very oddly and you're right, you need huge wings.
Thanks for clarifying the cost there. I'm a pilot, but I have only a limited knowledge of RC aircraft. I'm interested by your claim of a 100 mile range, what sort of size would the aircraft be? Also, what would you be using for engines? I was under the impression that turbines for model aircraft cost several thousand pounds. Or do you think either glow/petrol driven props would be a better idea? Which would give the longest endurance? It might also be worth considering whether the cameras could work with the vibration from the engines, or whether it would be necessary to stop the engines every couple of minutes and take an image for position fixing (in which case would electric motors be the best choice?).
I think the unmanned aerial vehicle might be doable for that cost. I mean, the hard bit is the AI. Other than that you've just got a model aeroplane being controlled internally rather than be someone on the ground with a transmitter.
Of course you need to know how far it has to fly etc, but IMO it can't cost over £10k to build the airframe. The programme to fly it wouldn't be too hard either, the only hard part is that it needs to know where it is and what orientation it's in . Yhe latter is trivial - use a giro like any other aircraft would. The former could probably be done by taking either a stereo image from two cameras mounted on the wing tips, or useing some sort of downward looking radar, to create a 3D picture of the local terrain, which could then be matched to a map held in memory and a "best-fit" obtained.
Does anyone know if similar laws to the DMCA exist is the UK? I'd be seriously worried if they do. I'm of the opinion that you have a right to bypass any technology used to protect spyware. It's a pretty deceitful form of software, it's effectively carrying out surviellence against you, you should be able to respond to it.
Because that's far less practical to sustain. And I'm pretty sure your calculation's off. 1 in six people in India for $200m? At $100 subsidy per laptop, you'd be providing 2m laptops, which, if your assertion is correct, would put the population of India at ~12m. According to http://www.indianchild.com/population_of_india.htm , the population of India is over 1 billion. to outfit 1 in 6 people with a laptop you would then be providing 1.67 x 10^8 laptops, which at $100 subsidy a laptop will cost ~$1.7 billion.
Well firstly they aren't providing laptops to third world countries. They are merely designing and outsourcing the production of a laptop such that it is cheap enough to be bought in bulk at $100 a time by third world governments. I assume that, should the US government consider it necessary to provide a large number of its citizens with laptops, they would also be able to purchase them at $100 a time, if they filed a sufficiently large order.