The idea with evolution is that includes extinction, therefore making all sorts of implied statements about God. Like he let's his creations (even indirect ones) die, that he made mistakes etc etc. I'm not saying they're right, but that's where the big hubhub about evolution comes into play. Or at least that's what it was back when Darwin first published. Just because something is not litterally banned in the scriptures, if the logical conclusion from the scripture (god is perfect and benevolent) contradicts with premises and predictions of evolution (or cosmology or whatever), then there CAN be a conflict between the scriptures and science, even if it's not litterally in the scriptures. That all being said, I think the conflict is just silly.
maybe they thought the story on this very subject about half a page down was enough.
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when your trying to paint, a vector program is not ideal. in fact, it just plain blows. there are certainly other options for digital painting (corel painter for example is in many ways far more powerful than photoshop), but GIMP/inkscape absolutely blows at it.
how the hell are you going to take the power from a geothermal plant into a warzone? i think the whole point of putting this thing in space is so that us army can stay juiced up wherever it fights, regardless of the infastructure.
yes you can. if your external geometry is sound, and you're not building out of radar transparent material, the only places where internal stuff matters is air intake, nozzles, cockpit and radar dome. the point of stealth is you combine radar absorbing material to reduce the amount of EM bounced back, and shaping to deflect your reflection away from original source.
stealth doesn't make you invincible. it just makes you hard to kill. the harder you are to kill, the better no? the stealth fighter kill was mostly a problem with american planning (they flew the same route over and over and over again). however, i have no idea what your talking bout when you say that the stealth fighter/bomber must be protected on bombing sorties. maybe the tankers that they need to make the full trip have to be protected, but when they're running the whole "slipping through your air defense network" they are very much alone.
I seem to recall a related treatment where capsaicin could be used as a longterm local anesthetic. The doctor would first apply a shortterm anesthetic to the area being treated, and then applying pure capsaicin. The capsaicin would cause all of the nerves in the treated area to fire off like crazy until they burned out, while the local anesthetic would keep you from actually feeling the burn. By the time the local anestehtic wore off (an hour or so???), your nerves arent sending anymore, and wont be sending for quite a while, and the capsaicin gets washed off. repeat as needed.
i think its a reference to the massive winds from a hurricane. from any single point, the size of the hurricane makes it appear that the wind is coming in from pretty much one direction, even if it is rotating. it's a crappy analogy, but it works after a fashion. and yes, they are talking about CMEs. it's in the first article.
it's also faster. the B-1B's supersonic ability is a joke. mach 1.2, and it's not very useful at all. the B-1A would have been faster (mach 2 i believe), but the whole canceled, brought back, and remissioning kinda screwed that up. should probably be noted that when you designed a supersonic swing wing bomber, there arent too many shapes you can make. just like when you design a giant bomb. or a reusable space launch platform. soviet's did copy/steal a lot of stuff from us (good for them, it was a good use of their money), but not everything they do should be automatically ridiculed for being a 'cheap knockoff'.
a bunch of chemical warheads airburst over a city. tell me if its not a WMD then. just because no one has pulled off a 'hiroshima' with chemical/biological weapons doesn't mean it can't cause mass destruction. cause if you have a hundred nukes aimed at someone, and they have a hundred chemical warheads pointed right back at you, your still going to think twice about nuking them.
diseal-electric boats will always be more silent than nuclear powered ones. until you have to surface and recharge that is. and i'm sure the us navy came up with something better since the 80s. then again, it might be something that you can't figure out at given resolution/angle of the shot. maybe the military took one look and went "heh".
while searching for another version of the slashdotted article, i found this http://www.designnews.com/blog/320000232/post/2900 08429.html/. its dated april 2006 and appears to be about the same product, running the same demo. dunno if its just an incorrect timestamp, or if this is just really old news.
how about for the people injured in car accidents, work place injuries, and what not? there's a whole host of reasons people may loose their limbs before you even begin comtemplating military service. i'm sure they all would like an effective prosthetic arm too.
not entirely true. battleships were great at shelling enemy beaches (you try mounting 18 inch guns on a destroyer), and there were a couple instants where battleships and other surface ships managed to catch carriers with their pants down, and completely beat the shit out of them. today the role of a massive gun ship would be pretty much limited to shore bombardment in support of amphib assualt. giant shells are cheaper than bombs and the fuel it takes to put them there.
kinetic energy penatrators (anti tank guns) have to be made with very dense materials. before the use of DU, most KE shells used a tungsten alloy of somesort (lead was way too soft or something). DU had the advantage of being denser, as well as being self sharpening (the tip shears while traveling through armor, continously forming a new tip), as well as being extremly flamable under high temperature (once it penetrates, the interior of the tank goes up in flames). for 'normal' bullets, pretty much nothing can beat lead. you need something that's dense, easy to work with, and cheap.
i think kids get safety lectures about stuff like that. countless cartoon/comic spoofs aside, i remember when i was in grade school (kindergarden to grade 6 or whatever), we would have police officers show up and teach us about street safety and stuff like that. overall, i don't think this is a bad idea. im just worried about the actual execution.
i thought china and india could do it cause they have 3-4x the population of america, and at least in china has a culture that places a much higher emphasis on education (by proxy of other cultural factors). my understanding of china's current university/college situation, is that they actually dont have enough, so in order to get into university you have to get like 98% or higher on your entrance exam. seems like an environment that would produce a lot of well studied students.
not even half a year. for example, towards the end of my school year, i got seriously overloaded by work (along with my own hopeless time management). at the start i could stay up with just 80mg per day. at the end (about one month), i was at 240-320mg a day and still barely being able to stay up till midnight. then school finished. none, or nearly none caffeine for like 3 weeks. the first week was hell (caffeine withdraw is not fun). then i drank one energy drink (80mg), and i was bouncing off walls for the next 8 hours.
you can't bump medeco's. the pins are all placed on angles (like 15 degrees or something). that's was the whole point of medeco's to start with, they're impossible to bump, and a headache to pick traditionally.
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The idea with evolution is that includes extinction, therefore making all sorts of implied statements about God. Like he let's his creations (even indirect ones) die, that he made mistakes etc etc. I'm not saying they're right, but that's where the big hubhub about evolution comes into play. Or at least that's what it was back when Darwin first published. Just because something is not litterally banned in the scriptures, if the logical conclusion from the scripture (god is perfect and benevolent) contradicts with premises and predictions of evolution (or cosmology or whatever), then there CAN be a conflict between the scriptures and science, even if it's not litterally in the scriptures. That all being said, I think the conflict is just silly.
how much of university P2P traffic is porn? serious question.
maybe they thought the story on this very subject about half a page down was enough.
when your trying to paint, a vector program is not ideal. in fact, it just plain blows. there are certainly other options for digital painting (corel painter for example is in many ways far more powerful than photoshop), but GIMP/inkscape absolutely blows at it.
how the hell are you going to take the power from a geothermal plant into a warzone? i think the whole point of putting this thing in space is so that us army can stay juiced up wherever it fights, regardless of the infastructure.
yes you can. if your external geometry is sound, and you're not building out of radar transparent material, the only places where internal stuff matters is air intake, nozzles, cockpit and radar dome. the point of stealth is you combine radar absorbing material to reduce the amount of EM bounced back, and shaping to deflect your reflection away from original source.
stealth doesn't make you invincible. it just makes you hard to kill. the harder you are to kill, the better no? the stealth fighter kill was mostly a problem with american planning (they flew the same route over and over and over again). however, i have no idea what your talking bout when you say that the stealth fighter/bomber must be protected on bombing sorties. maybe the tankers that they need to make the full trip have to be protected, but when they're running the whole "slipping through your air defense network" they are very much alone.
I seem to recall a related treatment where capsaicin could be used as a longterm local anesthetic. The doctor would first apply a shortterm anesthetic to the area being treated, and then applying pure capsaicin. The capsaicin would cause all of the nerves in the treated area to fire off like crazy until they burned out, while the local anesthetic would keep you from actually feeling the burn. By the time the local anestehtic wore off (an hour or so???), your nerves arent sending anymore, and wont be sending for quite a while, and the capsaicin gets washed off. repeat as needed.
i think its a reference to the massive winds from a hurricane. from any single point, the size of the hurricane makes it appear that the wind is coming in from pretty much one direction, even if it is rotating. it's a crappy analogy, but it works after a fashion. and yes, they are talking about CMEs. it's in the first article.
wasn't there some strap-on wing and w/e developed for us special forces? i seem to recall reading about it on slashdot sometime in the past.
it's also faster. the B-1B's supersonic ability is a joke. mach 1.2, and it's not very useful at all. the B-1A would have been faster (mach 2 i believe), but the whole canceled, brought back, and remissioning kinda screwed that up. should probably be noted that when you designed a supersonic swing wing bomber, there arent too many shapes you can make. just like when you design a giant bomb. or a reusable space launch platform. soviet's did copy/steal a lot of stuff from us (good for them, it was a good use of their money), but not everything they do should be automatically ridiculed for being a 'cheap knockoff'.
a bunch of chemical warheads airburst over a city. tell me if its not a WMD then. just because no one has pulled off a 'hiroshima' with chemical/biological weapons doesn't mean it can't cause mass destruction. cause if you have a hundred nukes aimed at someone, and they have a hundred chemical warheads pointed right back at you, your still going to think twice about nuking them.
most bombs are indiscriminate to anything in the blast zone. just these bombs have a really big blast zone.
the 350 vs 600 degree figure comes from the NASA site linked to from TFA.
diseal-electric boats will always be more silent than nuclear powered ones. until you have to surface and recharge that is. and i'm sure the us navy came up with something better since the 80s. then again, it might be something that you can't figure out at given resolution/angle of the shot. maybe the military took one look and went "heh".
while searching for another version of the slashdotted article, i found this http://www.designnews.com/blog/320000232/post/2900 08429.html/. its dated april 2006 and appears to be about the same product, running the same demo. dunno if its just an incorrect timestamp, or if this is just really old news.
gp was a joke. 2.4Ghz being your microwave oven.
how about for the people injured in car accidents, work place injuries, and what not? there's a whole host of reasons people may loose their limbs before you even begin comtemplating military service. i'm sure they all would like an effective prosthetic arm too.
not entirely true. battleships were great at shelling enemy beaches (you try mounting 18 inch guns on a destroyer), and there were a couple instants where battleships and other surface ships managed to catch carriers with their pants down, and completely beat the shit out of them. today the role of a massive gun ship would be pretty much limited to shore bombardment in support of amphib assualt. giant shells are cheaper than bombs and the fuel it takes to put them there.
kinetic energy penatrators (anti tank guns) have to be made with very dense materials. before the use of DU, most KE shells used a tungsten alloy of somesort (lead was way too soft or something). DU had the advantage of being denser, as well as being self sharpening (the tip shears while traveling through armor, continously forming a new tip), as well as being extremly flamable under high temperature (once it penetrates, the interior of the tank goes up in flames). for 'normal' bullets, pretty much nothing can beat lead. you need something that's dense, easy to work with, and cheap.
i think kids get safety lectures about stuff like that. countless cartoon/comic spoofs aside, i remember when i was in grade school (kindergarden to grade 6 or whatever), we would have police officers show up and teach us about street safety and stuff like that. overall, i don't think this is a bad idea. im just worried about the actual execution.
i thought china and india could do it cause they have 3-4x the population of america, and at least in china has a culture that places a much higher emphasis on education (by proxy of other cultural factors). my understanding of china's current university/college situation, is that they actually dont have enough, so in order to get into university you have to get like 98% or higher on your entrance exam. seems like an environment that would produce a lot of well studied students.
not even half a year. for example, towards the end of my school year, i got seriously overloaded by work (along with my own hopeless time management). at the start i could stay up with just 80mg per day. at the end (about one month), i was at 240-320mg a day and still barely being able to stay up till midnight. then school finished. none, or nearly none caffeine for like 3 weeks. the first week was hell (caffeine withdraw is not fun). then i drank one energy drink (80mg), and i was bouncing off walls for the next 8 hours.
you can't bump medeco's. the pins are all placed on angles (like 15 degrees or something). that's was the whole point of medeco's to start with, they're impossible to bump, and a headache to pick traditionally.