If you want to broadcast wifi, you ought to be required to provide this service to all listeners If I'm paying for the router, the connection, and all that... why should I have to allow someone to mooch it for free?
Apparently the A-5 had a little problem of its own... nuclear bombs were designed to be "pooped out" of the weapons bay (a tunnel above and between the engines), but sometimes they tended to get caught in the wake, so to speak, and follow the airplane for a little while. There were also a few incidents of them pooping out during a catapult launch, leaving the bombs sitting on the carrier deck.
An F-14 once shot itself down during a test-firing of the AIM-7; the missle came back up and hit the aircraft right after ignition. Crew bailed out safely, IIRC. The aircraft was later modified with stronger ejectors.
Before we start looking for other planets, why don't we try taking care of this one? If we took every penny that is being spent on space programs right now and dumped it into "ending poverty" or "global warming" or "educating children", you wouldn't see a single bit of difference. What you and so many other people don't see is that technology developed in a space program, or using resources in space, can (in the long term) make things better down here.
-Space-based solar power could deliver electricity to remote areas, and drastically reduce air pollution from power plants.
-Development of closed, regenerative environments (which would require extremely efficient water and electricity use, efficient farming techniques, and recycling of nearly all waste products) would feed directly into making those things more efficient down here. Think high-density farming, water recycling, fuel cells for cars...
-Mining of asteroids and small bodies could provide metals and other substances without causing the damage that terrestrial mines do.
-Being proficient in space and having vehicles capable of traveling further than low orbit could one day be crucial in keeping an asteroid or comet from slamming into the earth--which I'd bet would ruin everyone's day (and the environment too).
The reason you don't see it happening is that it's expensive, and it would take too long to see the return. Today's business types (and politicians, for that matter) rarely look beyond quarterly returns or the upcoming election, respectively. Trying to convince them to spend billions on a program that won't show returns for 20 or 30 years just ain't going to work.
And you complain about social security. Did your parents not accept social security checks when they retired? I bet they did -- which makes them a part of that "ponzi scheme." And when you retire, will you not accept social security checks? After all, you don't want to be associated with a ponzi scheme. The suckiest part is that, if you die before the "retirement" age, your family doesn't see a single cent. You have to live a pretty long time in order to collect back what you put into it. I'm not counting on the system being around when I'm old...
At the risk of flogging the decomposing pony, the original "Everything will be written in 10 years" comment posted above was meant in jest--the poster was alluding to all of the other such statements/misconceptions ("man will not fly for a million years" "everything that can be invented has been" etc.) that have been made over the years.
Just get a second drive if you want to play with linux. I would, but I have no money... and it's a laptop; kinda hard to put in a second HD. I suppose I could try it on my desktop, but that's getting old and starting to wear out. I don't want to sink any more money into it, and can't presently afford to build a new one.
...is add some flashy stuff without much functionality. Mac-skins? Little gadget-things that eat extra memory just to display the time? No thanks, I'll just install linux*. Not that I want to look like a mac, mind you, as I can't stand the interface; I just want the extra security and all.
*If I can ever get my hard drive compacted to one end so I can partition it.
There's also the darker supposition that they were intended as a sort of quick "suicide pill" for the crews that couldn't live with themselves after launching...
Earth has a magnetic field, and if you place another magnet in the field, oriented differently, a torque results. The torque is very low, so it takes a while to have a noticeable effect, but if all you're doing is pointing at the earth, it's sufficient.
Generally, you'll see the magnets either on the ends of long booms (for satellites intended to stay oriented in one direction) or as electromagnets (for more pointable spacecraft).
The acacia would also be growing--it wouldn't start out at 15 feet high with the animals growing to reach it.
Rather, they probably started out short, with the ones on the tall end of the bell curve surviving more. Evolutionary pressures push the acacias taller at the same time as the giraffes. It's just like any other adversarial pairs evolving (encryption/decryption, radar/ECM, etc.)
Somehow I suspect that it's more mundane than that. I'm guessing addresses are inaccurate because the mapping software interprets street addresses linearly. Say it sees that a certain stretch of street runs from 2100 to 2400 (address numbers). It then spaces the rest out evenly in between, so that if you want 2250, it picks right in the middle.
I got the ear tubes when I was young because I was having recurring ear infections (at least once a month). It's not very invasive surgery; it's certainly less so than, say, getting your wisdom teeth out. They basically just pop a tiny hole in your eardrum, drain the fluid, and stick the tube in. Total operation time for both ears is about 15-20 minutes.
I doubt the earaches had much to do with your allergies; your body probably cleared up the infection on its own.
Having the ear tubes was amazing... were it not for the part about not being able to put my head underwater while wearing them, I'd go get them again just to avoid ever dealing with ear infections and pressure differences again.
"so why not build new F15's, which are STILL better than anyone else's shit"
Not really. The Russian Su-27 and family are very close in capability to the F-15. Electronics-wise, they're a bit behind, but the airframes are about on par with current US aircraft. In exercises held recently, Indian Su-30s beat US F-15s pretty soundly.
The Typhoon, while a little smaller than the F-15, is just as (if not more) maneuverable, and has newer avionics and systems. It will eventually carry the Meteor, which outranges any current US missile.
The French Rafale is similar.
There's only so much an airframe can do for you. And even if everyone is still not caught up, what's to say that they won't in the next five or ten years? Do you wait till everyone's caught up with you before you start working on new technology? No, because everyone else will pass you in the time it takes to get everything rolling. You have to stay ahead of the game.
Okay, yes, I just kind of worked from the "starting in roughly circular orbit" assumption. Not my point.
I'm too lazy to run the exact numbers, but dropping into the sun from earth's orbit (even assuming you've already launched and escaped from earth) will take a big chunk of that 30,000m/s. That's a hell of a lot of energy, and short of some crazy slingshots around Jupiter and the like, too enough outside the realm of current technology to be practical. And it's just plain nuts to try and do it with a load of nuclear waste.
We could just send it into a stable solar orbit, but even that's far too expensive for current technology. A high earth orbit is more feasable (get it high enough so the orbit won't decay for millenia), but then you're filling up orbit with even more junk. We have a hard enough time scrounging up the money to do useful things up there, much less send our trash.
Do you know how hard it would be to actually launch something into the sun? We need to do gravity assists just to get to Mercury. The sun's a very deep gravity well, and it takes just as much to get down into it as it does to get out.
Do newer airplanes still use magnetos? Do they now use microprocessors or fancy electronics somewhere in either the fuel system or ignition system? Most light airplanes still use magnetos. Some (including a fair number of homebuilts) have electronic ignition, a few (including all of the new diesels) have been fitted with FADECs, which control fuel injection and stuff as well.
In the airplane, the key could be turned to different positions to choose to use either magneto or both magnetos at once. The only real use for that is so that you can check the magnetos. Generally, part of your preflight checks involves running the engine up, and switching to each magneto individually. You're supposed to see a moderate drop on each (100-150 RPM seems to be common) from the "both" position. If there's no change, or the engine dies, one of your magnetos is broken.
Unless you don't see it as one and zero, but as just a line or a circle. If you interpret that as an eye, for example, the one looks like a closed eye, while the zero looks like an open eye.
It happened. As told in the book, before the time came to do the jettison, Swigert had nightmares that he'd flipped the wrong switch and watched his crewmates drift away. He made the sign (saying NO) as one more check in the system. I seem to recall that he asked one of the guys to check him on it, too.
Most of the time, I use my camera to take a picture of an interesting book or other item that I see on the shelf, but can't afford to buy at the time (or I want to research it more). I don't trust my memory, so my camera phone does it for me. I've also used it to take pictures of class notes that I've missed (the resolution is good enough for that).
I'd use the mp3 player on it, too, but I've been too cheap to buy headphones for it yet.
What I'm talking about is suing the manufacturer when the pilot or the mechanic is at fault. It's like suing car manufacturers because of drunk driving accidents. If the wings break off because they weren't designed right, that's a manufacturer's problem. But, if the pilot flies into bad weather that he's not trained for, or runs out of gas, the manufacturer shouldn't be liable. And since the public is fairly uneducated with regards to aviation, it's even easier for attorneys to sway juries.
This is why my dad and I built our own airplane, and I'm planning on building one myself eventually. Both of us have aerospace engineering degrees, and the aircraft we built is a relatively proven design.
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Hey, I used to eat glue, you insensitive clod!
Apparently the A-5 had a little problem of its own... nuclear bombs were designed to be "pooped out" of the weapons bay (a tunnel above and between the engines), but sometimes they tended to get caught in the wake, so to speak, and follow the airplane for a little while. There were also a few incidents of them pooping out during a catapult launch, leaving the bombs sitting on the carrier deck.
An F-14 once shot itself down during a test-firing of the AIM-7; the missle came back up and hit the aircraft right after ignition. Crew bailed out safely, IIRC. The aircraft was later modified with stronger ejectors.
-Space-based solar power could deliver electricity to remote areas, and drastically reduce air pollution from power plants.
-Development of closed, regenerative environments (which would require extremely efficient water and electricity use, efficient farming techniques, and recycling of nearly all waste products) would feed directly into making those things more efficient down here. Think high-density farming, water recycling, fuel cells for cars...
-Mining of asteroids and small bodies could provide metals and other substances without causing the damage that terrestrial mines do.
-Being proficient in space and having vehicles capable of traveling further than low orbit could one day be crucial in keeping an asteroid or comet from slamming into the earth--which I'd bet would ruin everyone's day (and the environment too).
The reason you don't see it happening is that it's expensive, and it would take too long to see the return. Today's business types (and politicians, for that matter) rarely look beyond quarterly returns or the upcoming election, respectively. Trying to convince them to spend billions on a program that won't show returns for 20 or 30 years just ain't going to work.
At the risk of flogging the decomposing pony, the original "Everything will be written in 10 years" comment posted above was meant in jest--the poster was alluding to all of the other such statements/misconceptions ("man will not fly for a million years" "everything that can be invented has been" etc.) that have been made over the years.
...is add some flashy stuff without much functionality. Mac-skins? Little gadget-things that eat extra memory just to display the time? No thanks, I'll just install linux*. Not that I want to look like a mac, mind you, as I can't stand the interface; I just want the extra security and all.
*If I can ever get my hard drive compacted to one end so I can partition it.
Personally, I'd like to see emails split up individually instead of in "message threads." I work best that way.
I also like the preview pane, too.
There's also the darker supposition that they were intended as a sort of quick "suicide pill" for the crews that couldn't live with themselves after launching...
Earth has a magnetic field, and if you place another magnet in the field, oriented differently, a torque results. The torque is very low, so it takes a while to have a noticeable effect, but if all you're doing is pointing at the earth, it's sufficient.
Generally, you'll see the magnets either on the ends of long booms (for satellites intended to stay oriented in one direction) or as electromagnets (for more pointable spacecraft).
The acacia would also be growing--it wouldn't start out at 15 feet high with the animals growing to reach it.
Rather, they probably started out short, with the ones on the tall end of the bell curve surviving more. Evolutionary pressures push the acacias taller at the same time as the giraffes. It's just like any other adversarial pairs evolving (encryption/decryption, radar/ECM, etc.)
Somehow I suspect that it's more mundane than that. I'm guessing addresses are inaccurate because the mapping software interprets street addresses linearly. Say it sees that a certain stretch of street runs from 2100 to 2400 (address numbers). It then spaces the rest out evenly in between, so that if you want 2250, it picks right in the middle.
That's my guess, anyways.
I got the ear tubes when I was young because I was having recurring ear infections (at least once a month). It's not very invasive surgery; it's certainly less so than, say, getting your wisdom teeth out. They basically just pop a tiny hole in your eardrum, drain the fluid, and stick the tube in. Total operation time for both ears is about 15-20 minutes.
I doubt the earaches had much to do with your allergies; your body probably cleared up the infection on its own.
Having the ear tubes was amazing... were it not for the part about not being able to put my head underwater while wearing them, I'd go get them again just to avoid ever dealing with ear infections and pressure differences again.
The ones that really get me:
.doc format (paste image in Word and send) instead of just attaching the image
One-slide Powerpoints to announce a meeting
People sending images in
The stupid "warning" you see on some business emails that state the message is for intended recipient only, please delete if that's not you, etc.
Lotus notes = teh suck.
"so why not build new F15's, which are STILL better than anyone else's shit"
Not really. The Russian Su-27 and family are very close in capability to the F-15. Electronics-wise, they're a bit behind, but the airframes are about on par with current US aircraft. In exercises held recently, Indian Su-30s beat US F-15s pretty soundly.
The Typhoon, while a little smaller than the F-15, is just as (if not more) maneuverable, and has newer avionics and systems. It will eventually carry the Meteor, which outranges any current US missile.
The French Rafale is similar.
There's only so much an airframe can do for you. And even if everyone is still not caught up, what's to say that they won't in the next five or ten years? Do you wait till everyone's caught up with you before you start working on new technology? No, because everyone else will pass you in the time it takes to get everything rolling. You have to stay ahead of the game.
Beagle 2 was not a rover; it was a stationary lander.
Okay, yes, I just kind of worked from the "starting in roughly circular orbit" assumption. Not my point.
I'm too lazy to run the exact numbers, but dropping into the sun from earth's orbit (even assuming you've already launched and escaped from earth) will take a big chunk of that 30,000m/s. That's a hell of a lot of energy, and short of some crazy slingshots around Jupiter and the like, too enough outside the realm of current technology to be practical. And it's just plain nuts to try and do it with a load of nuclear waste.
We could just send it into a stable solar orbit, but even that's far too expensive for current technology. A high earth orbit is more feasable (get it high enough so the orbit won't decay for millenia), but then you're filling up orbit with even more junk. We have a hard enough time scrounging up the money to do useful things up there, much less send our trash.
Do you know how hard it would be to actually launch something into the sun? We need to do gravity assists just to get to Mercury. The sun's a very deep gravity well, and it takes just as much to get down into it as it does to get out.
Unless you don't see it as one and zero, but as just a line or a circle. If you interpret that as an eye, for example, the one looks like a closed eye, while the zero looks like an open eye.
It happened. As told in the book, before the time came to do the jettison, Swigert had nightmares that he'd flipped the wrong switch and watched his crewmates drift away. He made the sign (saying NO) as one more check in the system. I seem to recall that he asked one of the guys to check him on it, too.
Most of the time, I use my camera to take a picture of an interesting book or other item that I see on the shelf, but can't afford to buy at the time (or I want to research it more). I don't trust my memory, so my camera phone does it for me. I've also used it to take pictures of class notes that I've missed (the resolution is good enough for that).
I'd use the mp3 player on it, too, but I've been too cheap to buy headphones for it yet.
There, fixed that for you.
What I'm talking about is suing the manufacturer when the pilot or the mechanic is at fault. It's like suing car manufacturers because of drunk driving accidents. If the wings break off because they weren't designed right, that's a manufacturer's problem. But, if the pilot flies into bad weather that he's not trained for, or runs out of gas, the manufacturer shouldn't be liable. And since the public is fairly uneducated with regards to aviation, it's even easier for attorneys to sway juries.
This is why my dad and I built our own airplane, and I'm planning on building one myself eventually. Both of us have aerospace engineering degrees, and the aircraft we built is a relatively proven design.