Yes, there won't be metal fatigue because there isn't any metal to fatigue. However, how well do the glues and resins that hold the plane together handle the vibrational stresses after 5-10 years of service? Plastics tend to get brittle in the cold and when exposed to UV radiation. Well, guess what there's a lot of where the planes fly?
- The A350 offers airlines the chance to combine long-range services with improved fuel efficiency.
- The A350's fuselage is made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic, while many other parts of the aircraft use titanium and advanced alloys to save weight.
- It also has state-of-the-art aerodynamics
- Engine manufacturer Rolls Royce has produced a new custom-designed power unit.
- The A350 will use 25% less fuel than the current generation of equivalent aircraft, and noise and emissions will be well below current limits.
Hmm... So, with all those benefits, why didn't Airbus want to build it?
I've just been playing with Treesheet. I don't think it would make for a good tablet app, at least for me. I can picture myself using the keyboard with it moreso than a mouse. I think I'd feel hindered on a tablet, much like I would with entering text using an onscreen keyboard. A note or message here or there is fine, but for anything larger...
Of course I could be wrong, and I look forward to seeing an android version soon.
We know the practical limit is somewhere below that number.
I did some calculations about 10 years ago:
484,246 sq mi (1,254,197 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150' (a nice US suburban plot). That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom. Does *not* include street, employment, etc.
296,443 sq mi (767,787 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live at the same population density as Manhattan, New York. That is ~ Arizona or Nevada. Alternatively, that ~ double the size of Japan or Zimbabwe. *Does* include streets and employment.
Presumably you are also not counting the farming acreage needed to supply food for that many people.
I think we can take a pretty good educated guess on this as it doesn't make THEM money...
Make them money? The NRA is a non-profit agency. They are not allowed to make money. The profit motive doesn't have a role here (at least with the NRA itself).
While the NRA spends quite a bit and does a good job protecting gun rights, its important to remember that they are financed by large arms manufacturers. They probably wont lobby as hard for your ability to print your own guns.
Actually, that will be an interesting thing to watch. Which way will the NRA fall on this (and similar) issues.
However, part of the result of extensive crash testing and frame strengthening is that now the cars themselves are safer to drive, thus helping to prevent accidents, if merely by virtue of being easier to control and maneuver.
Err... umm... maybe... Okay, I might be able to accept that. However, I think that things like the third brake light, traction control/ anti-lock brakes, rumble strips, and higher visibility lane paint contribute much more to accident prevention (granted, the last two are improvements to the road, rather than the vehicle).
Easy. Use handsfree texting for a couple of months so you know how it works, THEN try it behind the wheel. Of course the driver's attention was distracted... learning a new ap behind the wheel.
It is ridiculously no where near to being a leading cause of death in this country. Heart attacks, strokes, cancer, pneumonia and respiratory illness all outpace traffic fatalities. In fact, some studies show that you have a better chance of committing suicide than dying in a car crash.
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Technically "bicycle" means "two wheels", which this has.
This is a dual prop helicopter.
No, it's a quad prop helicopter. There are two big fans in white cages, and two smaller fans in black cages to the left and right of the rider.
Yes, there won't be metal fatigue because there isn't any metal to fatigue. However, how well do the glues and resins that hold the plane together handle the vibrational stresses after 5-10 years of service? Plastics tend to get brittle in the cold and when exposed to UV radiation. Well, guess what there's a lot of where the planes fly?
- The A350 offers airlines the chance to combine long-range services with improved fuel efficiency.
- The A350's fuselage is made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic, while many other parts of the aircraft use titanium and advanced alloys to save weight.
- It also has state-of-the-art aerodynamics
- Engine manufacturer Rolls Royce has produced a new custom-designed power unit.
- The A350 will use 25% less fuel than the current generation of equivalent aircraft, and noise and emissions will be well below current limits.
Hmm... So, with all those benefits, why didn't Airbus want to build it?
They would if they built and owned it, like say.. an author.
The author doesn't own my copy of $X, even though they wrote and produced it. Why should they get a say in what I do with it?
There's nothing wrong with ending a sentence with the word "is". There's nothing wrong with ending a sentence with two ises: That which is, is.
Copyright comes into existence when a work is fixed, not when it is published.
Great! So we can freely copy the version of Star Wars where Greedo shoots first, because that work definitely needs fixing.
OneNote is the only thing keeping me from ditching windows on my current laptop.
It is also tempting me to get a Windows tablet so that I can use OneNote for handwriting and drawing. Pity it doesn't work in Wine.
I've just been playing with Treesheet. I don't think it would make for a good tablet app, at least for me. I can picture myself using the keyboard with it moreso than a mouse. I think I'd feel hindered on a tablet, much like I would with entering text using an onscreen keyboard. A note or message here or there is fine, but for anything larger...
Of course I could be wrong, and I look forward to seeing an android version soon.
Desalinization is as expensive as Saran Wrap.
We know the practical limit is somewhere below that number.
I did some calculations about 10 years ago: 484,246 sq mi (1,254,197 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150' (a nice US suburban plot). That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom. Does *not* include street, employment, etc.
296,443 sq mi (767,787 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live at the same population density as Manhattan, New York. That is ~ Arizona or Nevada. Alternatively, that ~ double the size of Japan or Zimbabwe. *Does* include streets and employment.
Presumably you are also not counting the farming acreage needed to supply food for that many people.
I think we'd hit food and energy production limits long before we hit Gideon style population density limits.
A: Whoosh!
B: Solar distillation.
C: Reverse Osmosis.
D: Nano-fiber filtration.
There are all sorts of cheap purification techniques out there, and you want us to boil water... like some kind of animal.
... resources are only scarce where local governments force them to become so to gain control over their people.
Currently true. However, there are hard limits as to how many people a certain tract of land will support.
Good for him. Unfortunately food is not the issue, Potable water is.
I'd like to see the water that couldn't be put in a pot.
I think we can take a pretty good educated guess on this as it doesn't make THEM money...
Make them money? The NRA is a non-profit agency. They are not allowed to make money. The profit motive doesn't have a role here (at least with the NRA itself).
This will be the interesting point... Will it be legal to sell/share the control files that you feed into a 3d printer to print a gun?
While the NRA spends quite a bit and does a good job protecting gun rights, its important to remember that they are financed by large arms manufacturers. They probably wont lobby as hard for your ability to print your own guns.
Actually, that will be an interesting thing to watch. Which way will the NRA fall on this (and similar) issues.
Owning gun != Self defense. You'd still be able to keep a chainsaw, or a suit of plate mail, or one of those annoying yip-yip-yip armpit dogs.
Given the damage he's done to the US and the West,...
What damage?
Airbags.. OK, you've got me there.
However, part of the result of extensive crash testing and frame strengthening is that now the cars themselves are safer to drive, thus helping to prevent accidents, if merely by virtue of being easier to control and maneuver.
Err... umm... maybe... Okay, I might be able to accept that. However, I think that things like the third brake light, traction control/ anti-lock brakes, rumble strips, and higher visibility lane paint contribute much more to accident prevention (granted, the last two are improvements to the road, rather than the vehicle).
Easy. Use handsfree texting for a couple of months so you know how it works, THEN try it behind the wheel. Of course the driver's attention was distracted... learning a new ap behind the wheel.
Even today, handwriting analysis isn't nearly as fast as Graffiti; I miss it to this day even though I love my Android phone.
You can get Graffiti for your Android.
It is ridiculously no where near to being a leading cause of death in this country. Heart attacks, strokes, cancer, pneumonia and respiratory illness all outpace traffic fatalities. In fact, some studies show that you have a better chance of committing suicide than dying in a car crash.
Yup, because assholes cut in in an unsafe manner if you do leave a safe gap.
Ah! So instead of one unsafe driver, we now have two. Brilliant!