Well, in fairness, many places that sell large buckets of soda also forbid you bringing your own (smaller, or not) beverages. I know: you don't *have* to go to the movie theater or sports stadium, and if you do go, you could just get a sip of water from a drinking fountain (assuming they still have those!) but still.
I disagreed because I assume , from what you wrote, that using trig tables for multiplication, is but one method of several that is taught, not the only method, and learning more than one way to do something is better than learning just one way, since it gives you flexibility, and you can pick the one that's best for you, and it just gives you insight into other things. I admit I did not know about the use of trig identities to do multiplication that you linked to. That's interesting and I'm glad you taught me something!
Mozart's ability to compose was not something he got from Leopold, although perhaps playing the piano was. How many of Leopold's compositions have you heard? Not one of them comes close to what Wolfgang would do. True that would not have had the chance to develop without the his father's push to make him a great pianist. But many have been pushed to play the piano by their parents and how few have gone on to compose anything like the 41st Symphony.
1. it's possible that it would NOT be air tight during a major overhaul (like this one). it's also likely that there were cables and hoses going through hatches preventing closure. 2. the spaces are still pretty large and a fire could go quite a while doing a lot of damage, just relying on consuming all the oxygen to put it out, even if they could seal it off. The ops compartment, where this fire occurred, is one of the largest compartments. I believe it is the largest compartment on a 688 class boat. 3. even in drydock there can be people aboard (crew and/or shipyard personnel)
I was a submariner on a boomer that underwent a refueling overhaul at PNSY about twenty years ago. We had a shipyard worker die in the bilge while working on our boat (I think it was a heart attack or the like). We also had a small electrical fire that was easily controlled and didn't do a lot of harm.
"...a lot of radiation released by Fukushima." [nitpick: radioactivity would be a better term than radiation]
"A lot" is not a useful description. No, really. I don't just mean you need a number. I mean a lot of mercury is released into the environment too. And there is a lot of gold in the ocean. So what? There are many variables your blanket statement does not begin to address.
Over what time period? In what physical and chemical form? With what half-lives? Into what medium? Over how large an area? How does it diffuse/propagate? Who was exposed? How does it compare to the radiation already present? etc. etc.
Your analogies are flawed in that it would have easily been possible to design the Titanic with watertight bulkheads that extended up all the way to the main deck, making it possible to limit the flooding to the compartments where the hull was breached, and to have used better rivets that were actually available at the time and used on other ships. Of course operational conditions can undo the goodness of any design, like leaving the watertight doors open when they need to be shut.
Although the compartments were called watertight, they were actually only watertight horizontally; their tops were open and the walls extended only a few feet above the waterline [Hill, 1996]. If the transverse bulkheads (the walls of the watertight compartments that are positioned across the width of the ship) had been a few feet taller, the water would have been better contained within the damaged compartments.
Makes sense. I figured that NASA is not really the right organization for this project, but their decline, and the fact they don't get much positive attention nowadays, is still saddening to me.
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Well, in fairness, many places that sell large buckets of soda also forbid you bringing your own (smaller, or not) beverages. I know: you don't *have* to go to the movie theater or sports stadium, and if you do go, you could just get a sip of water from a drinking fountain (assuming they still have those!) but still.
Next study: helium-3 infused stouts vs. non-helium-3 infused stouts.
I disagreed because I assume , from what you wrote, that using trig tables for multiplication, is but one method of several that is taught, not the only method, and learning more than one way to do something is better than learning just one way, since it gives you flexibility, and you can pick the one that's best for you, and it just gives you insight into other things.
I admit I did not know about the use of trig identities to do multiplication that you linked to. That's interesting and I'm glad you taught me something!
Long as they're not *transparent* aluminum pants, that's cool.
Woah. What a crazy idea.
Mozart's ability to compose was not something he got from Leopold, although perhaps playing the piano was. How many of Leopold's compositions have you heard? Not one of them comes close to what Wolfgang would do. True that would not have had the chance to develop without the his father's push to make him a great pianist. But many have been pushed to play the piano by their parents and how few have gone on to compose anything like the 41st Symphony.
I disagree with his point in any case.
I suspect he meant log tables. Be a human slide rule.
Didn't Einstein come up with tensors to work out general relativity?
1. it's possible that it would NOT be air tight during a major overhaul (like this one). it's also likely that there were cables and hoses going through hatches preventing closure.
2. the spaces are still pretty large and a fire could go quite a while doing a lot of damage, just relying on consuming all the oxygen to put it out, even if they could seal it off. The ops compartment, where this fire occurred, is one of the largest compartments. I believe it is the largest compartment on a 688 class boat.
3. even in drydock there can be people aboard (crew and/or shipyard personnel)
I was a submariner on a boomer that underwent a refueling overhaul at PNSY about twenty years ago.
We had a shipyard worker die in the bilge while working on our boat (I think it was a heart attack or the like).
We also had a small electrical fire that was easily controlled and didn't do a lot of harm.
Bummer.
"...a lot of radiation released by Fukushima." [nitpick: radioactivity would be a better term than radiation]
"A lot" is not a useful description. No, really. I don't just mean you need a number. I mean a lot of mercury is released into the environment too.
And there is a lot of gold in the ocean. So what?
There are many variables your blanket statement does not begin to address.
Over what time period?
In what physical and chemical form?
With what half-lives?
Into what medium?
Over how large an area?
How does it diffuse/propagate?
Who was exposed?
How does it compare to the radiation already present?
etc.
etc.
So if we just sleep in every day instead of just on weekends, we'll lose weight. Brilliant.
"Lowes sells wine? Two buck Chuck?"
That's Trader Lowes.
or you could tell them what you want them to know ...when they're in class. It worked fine in the 'old days'.
Your analogies are flawed in that it would have easily been possible to design the Titanic with watertight bulkheads that extended up all the way to the main deck, making it possible to limit the flooding to the compartments where the hull was breached, and to have used better rivets that were actually available at the time and used on other ships. Of course operational conditions can undo the goodness of any design, like leaving the watertight doors open when they need to be shut.
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I believe the design *was* flawed, or at least there was an issue with the materials of construction, in regard to the rivets used to hold the plates together that made up the hull.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15titanic.html?pagewanted=all
and there's this which is totally a design thing:
Although the compartments were called watertight, they were actually only watertight horizontally; their tops were open and the walls extended only a few feet above the waterline [Hill, 1996]. If the transverse bulkheads (the walls of the watertight compartments that are positioned across the width of the ship) had been a few feet taller, the water would have been better contained within the damaged compartments.
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/uer/bassett.html
So you could say "jumping the shark" jumped the Atlantic?
Who uses MS Access seriously?
I guess your sig is relevant to this post.
Makes sense. I figured that NASA is not really the right organization for this project, but their decline, and the fact they don't get much positive attention nowadays, is still saddening to me.
that DOE is doing this and not NASA.
That's the version after the next. The next should be Regressive Rodent.
Dunno. Ask people in Tacoma, Olympia or Vancouver, WA or Portland, OR.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
Well, there are only a few of those. That's why they're 1337. Duh.