Regarding your classmate who is a "Major" in the US Navy... The Navy does not have a rank called Major. So, either your classmate is a Major in one of the other 3 branches of the military (Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps), or he is a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.
All American SSBN's (Ohio Class) can actually carry 24 missiles, with a theoretical limit of 8 (or 12, depending on the source of information) W88 warheads, each warhead with a yield of 475 Kt.
Of course, the START and SALT treaties limit the number of warheads per missile to something like 4, but it's still a mighty destructive force.
Wow, that's 500,000,000 per second... no wonder it was so short lived... it realized it was going 1.66 times the speed of light, so it expanded to become our new universe!!!!
The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23, the newest (and heavily modified version) of the Seawolf class submarines) was NOT retrofitted... it was specifically designed and built to be a replacement for the USS Parche. The keel of the Carter was laid in 1998, and the submarine was commissioned in early 2005.
If you fired a gun, and if it only dented (cracked) someone else's windshield, then either of two things seems possible: They have some DAMNED good windshield glass, or you need to get a new gun.
My personal preference, and it is a strong one, is that I will not touch console games... when I have used them, I have found the controller to be difficult to understand, slow to respond, lacking in fine-control, and in all other ways lacking. In addition, I get dramatically better resolution on my monitor than on my TV, and I happen to enjoy it more.
In other words... not every person thinks that an xbox or PS3 is a viable solution.
Bullshit. This study by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05464.pdf investigated 7 cities across the U.S. Nowhere (that I saw) in the article does it mention that the officers have to be shot by the taser as part of the training.
Now it is possible that specific states/cities might require it, but it is certainly not universal. Also, tasers are not classified as firearms by the ATF, so any schmuck can legally purchase and carry one. Again, specific states might be more stringent.
Of course, since it is shooting from the ground towards an object in the sky, then if it misses and keeps going as far as the eye can see... well, it keeps going as far as the eye can see, and then keeps going and going and going. I guess there is an almost infinitesimal chance of it hitting something before it loses all of its power, but the atmosphere is thick... more than likely, it won't even reach space.
Dang, sailormoonanime.com is a cybersquatter link...
hmmmm... a new 4 step?
Step 1- Post link to slashdot about formerly non-existent website, preferably involving large numbers of hot anime chicks. Step 2- Purchase rights to URL named in step 1 Step 3- Advertising, or ??? Step 4- PROFIT!
I would suggest a service such as http://www.mosis.com/. They specialize in doing small volume production and prototype runs, reducing cost by placing several customers onto a single mask set. They even have an educational program, where educational and research designs will be manufactured for free.
Interesting... looking at the price of 95 octane fuel in the picture (I assume the 95 is the octane level, I could be wrong), which is a higher octane than anything in the U.S. (except racing fuel), it is cheaper than regular 87 octane fuel where I live. (87 Octane is $3.35 a gallon near Los Angeles right now, whereas 92 octane is $3.55 or so.)
20.4 (Russian rubles / liter) = 3.00 U.S. dollars / US gallon
Wrong. The Vacuum Tube Diode (also known as the Fleming Valve) was invented by John Ambrose Fleming in 1904*. While it is true that other variants of vacuum tubes (basically variants of the Cathode Ray Tube) were in existence before 1904, the specific one we are talking about was NOT around in the 1800's.
* It is true that Fleming used an effect first noticed by Thomas Edison in 1880, but Edison did not make use of this effect.
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Regarding your classmate who is a "Major" in the US Navy... The Navy does not have a rank called Major. So, either your classmate is a Major in one of the other 3 branches of the military (Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps), or he is a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.
Hey, without a surface fleet, we wouldn't have any targets to kill!
All American SSBN's (Ohio Class) can actually carry 24 missiles, with a theoretical limit of 8 (or 12, depending on the source of information) W88 warheads, each warhead with a yield of 475 Kt. Of course, the START and SALT treaties limit the number of warheads per missile to something like 4, but it's still a mighty destructive force.
Wow, that's 500,000,000 per second... no wonder it was so short lived... it realized it was going 1.66 times the speed of light, so it expanded to become our new universe!!!!
Hey, where'd you go?
Nope, I don't find it either entertaining or amusing, either.
$6000 per bottle, or $3500 for a six pack... if you buy a case, is it free of charge?
The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23, the newest (and heavily modified version) of the Seawolf class submarines) was NOT retrofitted... it was specifically designed and built to be a replacement for the USS Parche. The keel of the Carter was laid in 1998, and the submarine was commissioned in early 2005.
If you fired a gun, and if it only dented (cracked) someone else's windshield, then either of two things seems possible: They have some DAMNED good windshield glass, or you need to get a new gun.
My personal preference, and it is a strong one, is that I will not touch console games... when I have used them, I have found the controller to be difficult to understand, slow to respond, lacking in fine-control, and in all other ways lacking. In addition, I get dramatically better resolution on my monitor than on my TV, and I happen to enjoy it more.
In other words... not every person thinks that an xbox or PS3 is a viable solution.
What about simply not caring? Isn't that an excuse?
Why is it up to the United States to decide what we can and should do about it? Isn't the U.S. in enough trouble already?
<ducks head and runs>
Bullshit. This study by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05464.pdf investigated 7 cities across the U.S. Nowhere (that I saw) in the article does it mention that the officers have to be shot by the taser as part of the training.
Now it is possible that specific states/cities might require it, but it is certainly not universal. Also, tasers are not classified as firearms by the ATF, so any schmuck can legally purchase and carry one. Again, specific states might be more stringent.
Please don't forget natural methane gas production.
Of course, since it is shooting from the ground towards an object in the sky, then if it misses and keeps going as far as the eye can see... well, it keeps going as far as the eye can see, and then keeps going and going and going. I guess there is an almost infinitesimal chance of it hitting something before it loses all of its power, but the atmosphere is thick... more than likely, it won't even reach space.
0.000001 Amp is 1 microAmp. You have a few extra zeroes. Also, that is 0.01 calories, not (kilo)Calories... Considerably less than 1/4 gram of sugar.
Dang, sailormoonanime.com is a cybersquatter link...
hmmmm... a new 4 step?
Step 1- Post link to slashdot about formerly non-existent website, preferably involving large numbers of hot anime chicks.
Step 2- Purchase rights to URL named in step 1
Step 3- Advertising, or ???
Step 4- PROFIT!
... at 5 pounds/kg over weightI would suggest a service such as http://www.mosis.com/. They specialize in doing small volume production and prototype runs, reducing cost by placing several customers onto a single mask set. They even have an educational program, where educational and research designs will be manufactured for free.
With today's "legal system", it is highly probable she would have gotten less if she had killed a child.
Haven't you heard? Humans were intelligently designed in a single day!
True, the designer had his notes from the previous few days, but that's beside the point.
ubiquous? Did you perhaps mean ubiquitous? I am not trolling, but honestly wondering what ubiquous means... I can't seem to find a definition for it.
Interesting... looking at the price of 95 octane fuel in the picture (I assume the 95 is the octane level, I could be wrong), which is a higher octane than anything in the U.S. (except racing fuel), it is cheaper than regular 87 octane fuel where I live. (87 Octane is $3.35 a gallon near Los Angeles right now, whereas 92 octane is $3.55 or so.)
20.4 (Russian rubles / liter) = 3.00 U.S. dollars / US gallon
It seems that nobody else wants them.... so, rather than try to steal some other system, we just claim this unwanted, outdated system for ourselves!
Wrong. The Vacuum Tube Diode (also known as the Fleming Valve) was invented by John Ambrose Fleming in 1904*. While it is true that other variants of vacuum tubes (basically variants of the Cathode Ray Tube) were in existence before 1904, the specific one we are talking about was NOT around in the 1800's.
* It is true that Fleming used an effect first noticed by Thomas Edison in 1880, but Edison did not make use of this effect.