The article says the J2-X uses liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as fuel. Does that imply the byproduct of the J2-X is water vapor? The old Apollo rockets used kerosene. I know NASA used a lot of water to control heat and vibration for shuttle launches and other rocket tests (which is likely what you see in the video)... but is that also the exhaust gas here?
Most of the white stuff you see in the video is steam from cooling and sound supression systems. But, in EVERY combustion in air, even if burning pure hydrogen and oxygen, there is some amount of nitrous oxides produced from the nitrogen present in air. This is an inescapable fact of chemistry. But what you're seeing is water vapor.
"Excuse me. Mr. $Politician, but with all of that bullshit that just spewed out of your mouth I fail to recognize even a smidgen of an answer to the question. Could you please answer the question now, minus any bullshit?"
The communists under Stalin were "fixing" photographs to remove undesirable people for a long time, many years before electronic computers and graphics were invented. Of course, the undesirable people were removed from real life as well...
"this site being a threat to the integrity of the police..."
No, I think the actions of the police threaten their own integrity. A case of "you can't handle the truth...".
I can think of several things to do. These would make great starters for science fair projects or in-class studies. You could hook one up to a microscope, or telescope. There are several projects on the web about making spectrophotometers. Use them for time-lapse studies of plants or young animals (frog's eggs developing). Use them for motion studies/kinematics. Have you asked the students for creative ideas? I bet there are several art projects that could use them.
If you could modify it to take continuous pictures (stills would be fine), I'd *love* to send one of these up in a rocket! You could either use it for a nosecone, or eject it with the parachute. Let it come down either with the rocket or under its own chute. Another neat thing would be to fly one under a kite.
From TFA: "In cold conditions, the chlorine chemicals that destroy ozone are at their most active." This is wrong, because chemical reactions slow as temperatures decrease. It is an axiom in chemistry that the rate of the reaction halves (or doubles) for each 10 degree C drop (or increase) in temperature. A far as I can tell, there has been no high altitude sampling that has detected any CFCs in the Artic. This is just more environmental fear mongering and finger pointing without scientific proof.
you can't make a derivative work of a thesis anyway
Derivatives from published, previous work is one of the foundations of educational research. You shouldn't copy the work, or duplicate it whole and call it your own (although I've seen this...), but almost all research, institutional and commercial, was based on previous work. "The reason I can see so far is because I stand on the shoulders of giants". But...if you're saying that you can't take a "chunk" of someone's thesis, call it your own, and publish it as your own work (thesis), I agree; that's plagorism.
...and I work for a state govt. I have to cover all my insurance costs, all the SS and other mandatory deductions, plus vacation and other paid time off. Some states are trying to mandate paid vacations and health insurance - even for baby sitters. This raises the costs considerably. PLUS - we are actually accountable: if we don't perform up to spec, we can lose money. A govt employee, esp. a federal employee has (in essence) a sinecure.
Lord, my soul is ripped with riot, Incited by my wicked diet. "We are what we eat!" said a wise old man; And Lord, if that's true, I'm a garbage can. I want to rise on Judgment Day, that's plain; But at my present weight, I'll need a crane. So grant me strength, that I may not fall, Into the clutches of cholesterol. May my flesh with carrot-curls be sated, That my soul may be poly-unsaturated. And show me the light, that I may bear witness, To the President's Council on Physical Fitness. And at oleomargarine I'll never mutter, For the road to Hell is spread with butter. And cream is cursed; and cake is awful; And Satan is hiding in every waffle. Mephistopheles lurks in provolone; The Devil is in each slice of baloney; Beelzebub is a chocolate drop; And Lucifer is a lollipop. Give me this day my daily slice, But cut it thin and toast it twice. I beg upon my dimpled knees; Deliver me from jujubes. And when my days of trial are done, And my war with malted milks is won, Let me stand with the heavenly throng In a shining robe - size 44 long. I can do it, Lord, if you'll show to me The virtues of lettuce and celery; If you'll teach me the evils of mayonnaise, The sinfulness of Hollandaise. Of Pasta a la Milannaise, Potatoes a la Lyonnaise. And crisp-fried chicken from the South, Lord, if you love me, shut my mouth.
"Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, have introduced the truly patriotic Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, supported by the ACLU, that "requires the government to show probable cause and get a warrant before acquiring the geolocational information of a U.S. person."
This would apply, among other forms of such tracking, to cell phones. It would also require telecommunications companies (including providers of cell phones) to get our consent to collect data from locations where we use them. Where do we go with cell phones in our ears? These companies, without telling us, already convey this location information to the FBI without our knowing we're being tracked as we talk. "
It's a complete lack of safety. A proper design would require at least a password entered while in the BIOS at a point before anything else could get its hooks into it, to temporarily allow updating. The only executable code that occurs before that point after power-on should be READ ONLY MEMORY with no programmability whatsoever.
This is exactly what IBM did with some of the Thinkpad models. There was a special chip that held the password. The problem was, that if this chip "glitched", or you forgot the password, you now have a brick. The chip was soldered onto the motherboard, and couldn't be reset by jumpers or disconnecting the battery. I've got two unit that are junk because of this.
I mean, if you want a "Spaceport", why not go to where the facilities are the best? The Okla. Spaceport in Burns Flat has longer, wider runways (13,503' x 300' w/1000 overruns versus only 10,000' x 200'), better access to major transportation and major population centers, 50,000 square foot manufacturing facility with loading docks adjacent to main line rail spur, and a golf course on site. BTW, it's where Armadillo Aerospace goes to play
A black roof doesn't help you heat a house if it is covered with white snow. And even the south, we spend more on heating than cooling...
And how many days does that roof "in the south" get covered in snow? Here in central Okla., snow - enough to cover roofs and stick - is rare, only a few days a year. Light covered roofs (or even galvanized tin like in the old days) would be ideal. That's why I chose tan for my new roof.
...which are: 1) how do you get the signal from the cameras in the glasses to the processor and back to the display, and 2) how do you power them? It seems like you're going to need a fairly high bandwidth to carry visual information from the cameras and back up. Since these are glasses, you'll need to do this over a meter or more, and have to use an extremely flexible data pipe. Maybe some sort of flexure- or motion-powered charger could be used to top off the batteries. This (power) is the single greatest hurdle to overcome in the design of prosthetics.
That viewpoint, I can respect. I disagree, but I can respect it. When you pick and choose who is within the boundries of the law, the law loses its function, and you become a vigilante.
My "agenda" is to point out the hypocrisy. The same people that clapped in glee with the release of this and other govt. data should either clap in glee with the release of ALL hacked data, or should object to the release of ALL hacked data.
So are the same people that decried the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone going to speak out against this hack attack too? Hmmph - thought not. One set of rules for you, another set of rules for those you have decided are the "bad guys".
Fascinating. Anonymous, LulzSec, Wikileaks all publish information, and are praised by all slashdotters. A private investigator, somehow associated with Rupert Murdoch (and therefore all of Fox News) does the same thing and all are ready to stone him to death? I suppose no one else sees the hypocrisy?
How do you do this? How do you insure/verify that one person only votes once? And at the same time that you do this verification, you have to insure an anonymous vote. How? (really - no sarcasm - how do we do this?)
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The article says the J2-X uses liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as fuel. Does that imply the byproduct of the J2-X is water vapor? The old Apollo rockets used kerosene. I know NASA used a lot of water to control heat and vibration for shuttle launches and other rocket tests (which is likely what you see in the video)... but is that also the exhaust gas here?
Most of the white stuff you see in the video is steam from cooling and sound supression systems. But, in EVERY combustion in air, even if burning pure hydrogen and oxygen, there is some amount of nitrous oxides produced from the nitrogen present in air. This is an inescapable fact of chemistry. But what you're seeing is water vapor.
"Excuse me. Mr. $Politician, but with all of that bullshit that just spewed out of your mouth I fail to recognize even a smidgen of an answer to the question. Could you please answer the question now, minus any bullshit?"
There, fixed that for you...
"As a composer who uses computers for anything and everything from engraving..."
What kind of "composer" does engraving, and why does he need a random number generator? And yeah, I read TFA, and it had nothing about applications.
The communists under Stalin were "fixing" photographs to remove undesirable people for a long time, many years before electronic computers and graphics were invented. Of course, the undesirable people were removed from real life as well...
"this site being a threat to the integrity of the police..."
No, I think the actions of the police threaten their own integrity. A case of "you can't handle the truth...".
I can think of several things to do. These would make great starters for science fair projects or in-class studies. You could hook one up to a microscope, or telescope. There are several projects on the web about making spectrophotometers. Use them for time-lapse studies of plants or young animals (frog's eggs developing). Use them for motion studies/kinematics. Have you asked the students for creative ideas? I bet there are several art projects that could use them.
If you could modify it to take continuous pictures (stills would be fine), I'd *love* to send one of these up in a rocket! You could either use it for a nosecone, or eject it with the parachute. Let it come down either with the rocket or under its own chute. Another neat thing would be to fly one under a kite.
No Lunch Left Behind?
From TFA: "In cold conditions, the chlorine chemicals that destroy ozone are at their most active." This is wrong, because chemical reactions slow as temperatures decrease. It is an axiom in chemistry that the rate of the reaction halves (or doubles) for each 10 degree C drop (or increase) in temperature. A far as I can tell, there has been no high altitude sampling that has detected any CFCs in the Artic. This is just more environmental fear mongering and finger pointing without scientific proof.
The answer is both Yes and No.
I know the answer...
...I looked.
you can't make a derivative work of a thesis anyway
Derivatives from published, previous work is one of the foundations of educational research. You shouldn't copy the work, or duplicate it whole and call it your own (although I've seen this...), but almost all research, institutional and commercial, was based on previous work. "The reason I can see so far is because I stand on the shoulders of giants". But...if you're saying that you can't take a "chunk" of someone's thesis, call it your own, and publish it as your own work (thesis), I agree; that's plagorism.
...and I work for a state govt. I have to cover all my insurance costs, all the SS and other mandatory deductions, plus vacation and other paid time off. Some states are trying to mandate paid vacations and health insurance - even for baby sitters. This raises the costs considerably. PLUS - we are actually accountable: if we don't perform up to spec, we can lose money. A govt employee, esp. a federal employee has (in essence) a sinecure.
A Fat Man's Prayer:
Lord, my soul is ripped with riot,
Incited by my wicked diet.
"We are what we eat!" said a wise old man;
And Lord, if that's true, I'm a garbage can.
I want to rise on Judgment Day, that's plain;
But at my present weight, I'll need a crane.
So grant me strength, that I may not fall,
Into the clutches of cholesterol.
May my flesh with carrot-curls be sated,
That my soul may be poly-unsaturated.
And show me the light, that I may bear witness,
To the President's Council on Physical Fitness.
And at oleomargarine I'll never mutter,
For the road to Hell is spread with butter.
And cream is cursed; and cake is awful;
And Satan is hiding in every waffle.
Mephistopheles lurks in provolone;
The Devil is in each slice of baloney;
Beelzebub is a chocolate drop;
And Lucifer is a lollipop.
Give me this day my daily slice,
But cut it thin and toast it twice.
I beg upon my dimpled knees;
Deliver me from jujubes.
And when my days of trial are done,
And my war with malted milks is won,
Let me stand with the heavenly throng
In a shining robe - size 44 long.
I can do it, Lord, if you'll show to me
The virtues of lettuce and celery;
If you'll teach me the evils of mayonnaise,
The sinfulness of Hollandaise.
Of Pasta a la Milannaise,
Potatoes a la Lyonnaise.
And crisp-fried chicken from the South,
Lord, if you love me, shut my mouth.
From http://wnd.ha-hosting.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=346997
"Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, have introduced the truly patriotic Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, supported by the ACLU, that "requires the government to show probable cause and get a warrant before acquiring the geolocational information of a U.S. person."
This would apply, among other forms of such tracking, to cell phones. It would also require telecommunications companies (including providers of cell phones) to get our consent to collect data from locations where we use them. Where do we go with cell phones in our ears? These companies, without telling us, already convey this location information to the FBI without our knowing we're being tracked as we talk. "
This is exactly what IBM did with some of the Thinkpad models. There was a special chip that held the password. The problem was, that if this chip "glitched", or you forgot the password, you now have a brick. The chip was soldered onto the motherboard, and couldn't be reset by jumpers or disconnecting the battery. I've got two unit that are junk because of this.
I mean, if you want a "Spaceport", why not go to where the facilities are the best? The Okla. Spaceport in Burns Flat has longer, wider runways (13,503' x 300' w/1000 overruns versus only 10,000' x 200'), better access to major transportation and major population centers, 50,000 square foot manufacturing facility with loading docks adjacent to main line rail spur, and a golf course on site. BTW, it's where Armadillo Aerospace goes to play
For me the capacity seized to matter...
Does this mean you now have a solid-state drive?
Why would you assume a warrant is necessary? There's no constitutional right to not be photographed.
Except that I've copyrighted my face and all derivative works. And patented my DNA and its derivative works.
A black roof doesn't help you heat a house if it is covered with white snow. And even the south, we spend more on heating than cooling...
And how many days does that roof "in the south" get covered in snow? Here in central Okla., snow - enough to cover roofs and stick - is rare, only a few days a year. Light covered roofs (or even galvanized tin like in the old days) would be ideal. That's why I chose tan for my new roof.
...which are: 1) how do you get the signal from the cameras in the glasses to the processor and back to the display, and 2) how do you power them? It seems like you're going to need a fairly high bandwidth to carry visual information from the cameras and back up. Since these are glasses, you'll need to do this over a meter or more, and have to use an extremely flexible data pipe. Maybe some sort of flexure- or motion-powered charger could be used to top off the batteries. This (power) is the single greatest hurdle to overcome in the design of prosthetics.
I am in favor of the release of ALL hacked data.
That viewpoint, I can respect. I disagree, but I can respect it. When you pick and choose who is within the boundries of the law, the law loses its function, and you become a vigilante.
what's your agenda here, btw?
My "agenda" is to point out the hypocrisy. The same people that clapped in glee with the release of this and other govt. data should either clap in glee with the release of ALL hacked data, or should object to the release of ALL hacked data.
So are the same people that decried the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone going to speak out against this hack attack too? Hmmph - thought not. One set of rules for you, another set of rules for those you have decided are the "bad guys".
Ruthless fucking cunts all the way down.
Fascinating. Anonymous, LulzSec, Wikileaks all publish information, and are praised by all slashdotters. A private investigator, somehow associated with Rupert Murdoch (and therefore all of Fox News) does the same thing and all are ready to stone him to death? I suppose no one else sees the hypocrisy?
Why not just go ahead and make it all verifiable?
How do you do this? How do you insure/verify that one person only votes once? And at the same time that you do this verification, you have to insure an anonymous vote. How? (really - no sarcasm - how do we do this?)