Once you are wealthy an income tax doesn't matter. It's only a problem while you are trying to become wealthy. Income tax helps prevent more people from being wealthy which is why the elite wealthy like it. It's like getting the state to declare the area around your country club a state park so that nobody can build there.
I took a look at the actual proposal. The launch speed off the rails is about Mach 0.5-1.5. The purpose of this test is to try different speeds. The rail is the "first stage". If the Mach 1.5 can be achieved than the second stage would only need a ram(Mach 1.5-4)/scram(Mach 4-10) jet for the second stage. Lower than Mach 1.5 the ram jet isn't as efficient and they might need high speed turbines or rockets to get get to 1.5 at least for testing. Mach 1.5+ would be required for an operational vehicle This would be reusable. The third stage would be capable of orbital insertion. What this system allows is the use of an air breathing second stage without having to have a rocket to get it up to the speed that a Ramjet needs to operate.
You don't actually need maglev. Rocket Sleds use greased steel on steel and they got them above Mach 8. The maglev is great if you can do it because it reduces friction and cushions the ride so it might be better for an operational launcher.
I took a look at the actual proposal. The launch speed off the rails is about Mach 0.5-1.5. The purpose of this test is to try different speeds. The rail is the "first stage". If the Mach 1.5 can be achieved than the second stage would only need a ram(Mach 1.5-4)/scram(Mach 4-10) jet for the second stage. This would be reusable. The third stage would be capable of orbital insertion. What this system allows is the use of an air breathing second stage without having to have a rocket to get it up to the speed that a Ramjet needs to operate.
I can only speak about the Catholic Church which I belong to. The view is that God created the universe. Therefore there can be no conflict between God and science. The laws of the universe were created by God and as we discover them we are learning more about creation. If there is a conflict between new discoveries and the interpretation of scripture than the interpretation was incorrect.
While the Galileo fiasco was not one of the Catholic Church's finest hours it was note because the Church was anti-science. For all of the Dark Ages the Church's monasteries is where all of the scientific learning was happening in Europe. They rediscovered the ancient writings of the Greeks which were preserved in the Islamic world. The study of Heliocentric was encouraged by the Vatican. The rub with Galileo was instead of just making scientific theories he then moved to try to interpret the scripture which is what got him into trouble.
The whole reason science started when it did in all of human history is because of the was Christians looked at the world. Other faiths had active Gods where if you didn't do certain things the sun wouldn't rise or the spring wouldn't come. For the first time with Christians you had an idea of a hands off God. He created the universe and pretty much lets it run according to the set of rules he made. What this did was allow people to try to discover the rules that God set up to run the universe. This was the birth of science. The Church all during the dark ages said that when empirical scientific results conflict with the interpretation of the scripture that it is the interpretation that must be changed because reality is what it is.
I worked for Philips Lighting for many years. The reason the US can't compete in making CFL's is because of the mercury required to make them. In one plant that maked the florescent tubes in Fairmont West Virginia you could see mercury drops on the floor. It would be very expensive to make the lights here because of all of the environmental regulations required to safely handle mercury. Now I'm not against those regulations. China decided it wanted the manufacturing more than the health of their people. Ahhhh. Communism.
I have a BS in mechanical engineering. There are some simple problems any ME should be able to do because you will do them for the rest of your career. The ones you should know off the top of your head is how to calculate moments and deflections in simple beams. You should be able to find loads in static structures. You should be able to figure out simple dynamic problems. You should know how to figure out stresses in tension members, beams, and welds. When I interview for new hires these are the problems I give them. They should know these things. It isn't a matter of "Oh I could just look that up in a book". You spend 4 years studying you better know it.
I was reading about the history of Universities starting in the Mid East. It was only one book but it was interesting. The Universities sounded like a mall where each professor would buy a shop and just start talking about the subject they taught. People could come and go and listen to them freely, kind of like auditing a course. Then if you were interested in that particular teacher you would sit down and tell them what you were interested in an negotiate the fee. You then became their student where they would actually interested with you in class and have private tutoring time, ect. Back then you were only learned what you were interested in and there were no degrees.
I graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering and computer science. After my degrees I decide to just randomly take masters level courses that interested me. I didn't care about the degree since my job wouldn't even pay me more if I had one. But I've found I am enjoying the work more than I ever did as an undergrad.
What they should of done is make the buttons clear but have the ability to backlight them with the appropriate color LED. That way if you don't know your colors by muscle memory yet you could use it as training wheels.
So we can expect to have to identify wood species by grain color and pattern?
To continue push (maple).
Or crap I didn't mean to hit (oak).
Where the f&ck is (maple).
You forgot the most scares resource in today's world. Time. I don't have any experience in any language besides English. But to me the best language would be the one that get the ideas across the fastest combined with being easy to learn.
I have a question for someone that reads proficiently in multiple languages which ones are the fastest to convey the same idea?
As an engineer I create models and drawings for the parts I am designing. It is an unambiguous language. Can you image having to describe the part entirely using just English words and no drawing? I can do it but it would take a person a long to to write and read.
Why isn't there easy access to landfills? This whole recycling thing has always bothered me. Take the trash and either incinerate or bury it. What is the big deal? It's not like we are running out of land to bury stuff. Now I can see outlawing dumping garbage at sea or in the water but a landfill is pretty benign.
Wow I got a lot of flak there. All I was doing was giving some of the reasons people I know plan to stick around to the end of the program. I personally think NASA should get out of the launch vehicle business completely. We should design the missions around what LV's exist. This would leverage all of the money DOD spends on developing it's rockets. When DOD upgrades we can use them as well. And for some reason what DOD wants DOD gets.
Since I work at KSC I guess I can provide some insight. The purpose of these new space plans is to reduce the cost of launches. The way you do that is by using a simpler vehicle and less people. So there is no way all or most of the people here will get new jobs in private space. Also Brevard County has a few other employees but most of it relies on KSC. So as people need to start moving to find other jobs housing prices will continue to plummet so expect lots of foreclosures and a total decimation of the local economy. The article is correct. Even facing these prospects most of the employees continue to do their job perfectly day in day out because of the love of the program and their country. When you see the orbiters they look like they just rolled out of the factory. Anything you read about orbiters deteriorating is a lie. They are pristine. Many people are still in denial that this county would be so stupid as to throw away such magnificent machines and they want to be there to keep them flying when we come to our senses.
I find lawyers charge way to much. We should allow visas for lawyers that will work for $20/hr. I wonder what the odds of getting that through congress would be?
Depends on your politics but I subscribe to the homesteading principle which basically states how some unowned resource becomes property. It isn't a settled matter mind you but offers a good start. So say you land on Mars with a rover capable of traveling a 10 mile radius from your base. The land you traveled to would now be your property for you to do with what you wish. Sell chunks of to people on earth, ect. So using this theory the US wouldn't own the moon because we did not travel everywhere. We would own just the outline of where the astronauts walked/drove.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle
You are exactly right but you are missing the point. There are no government regulations on WoW. It's operates completely to make money by pleasing it's paying customers. If they don't self regulate the game and the players don't consider it fun anymore they stop paying. The difference is the Exchanges are regulated by the government. So they only people they have to please is the SEC. Without government oversight they would have to operate more like WoW and pay attention as people abandon their markets that they consider rigged.
Also the government almost forces people into the stock market through tax laws. If the government didn't continually devaluate the dollar you could just save your money in a bank and you wouldn't lose purchasing power. If you keep your money in the market in a brokerage account they tax every dividend and profit you make. So they set up IRA's and 401k's to lock you into the stock markets. All so their powerful friends can leech off the hard work of millions of people.
Here is one of those "when I was a kid" stories. Back in the old days when you wanted to safely control a machine you used pneumatic logic. You had the same logic operators like and/or delays,ect. So your sensor would be a little valve that when pressed would cause air to flow and activate the circuit. Then relay logic took over which was much faster and allowed the addition of electronic sensors like micro switches. Then we had Programmable Logic Controllers. These were computers but not general purpose. Their only purpose in life was to read the inputs, run the logic, set the outputs, and repeat. What was great about them is they didn't do anything else and the cycle time was fixed. They would run forever. What was neat is the programming language was called ladder logic and looked like a relay logic schematic so replacing a relay system with a PLC was pretty easy. You would store the program on an EEPROM. For fail safe systems we would write the requirements for the program and have two different engineers write the code to implement it and the two PLC's would read in and if there was a difference in the output than the system would shut down in a safe mode. If you needed fail operational you could use 3 PLC's or more PLC's and have them vote.
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Once you are wealthy an income tax doesn't matter. It's only a problem while you are trying to become wealthy. Income tax helps prevent more people from being wealthy which is why the elite wealthy like it. It's like getting the state to declare the area around your country club a state park so that nobody can build there.
I took a look at the actual proposal. The launch speed off the rails is about Mach 0.5-1.5. The purpose of this test is to try different speeds. The rail is the "first stage". If the Mach 1.5 can be achieved than the second stage would only need a ram(Mach 1.5-4) /scram(Mach 4-10) jet for the second stage. Lower than Mach 1.5 the ram jet isn't as efficient and they might need high speed turbines or rockets to get get to 1.5 at least for testing. Mach 1.5+ would be required for an operational vehicle This would be reusable. The third stage would be capable of orbital insertion. What this system allows is the use of an air breathing second stage without having to have a rocket to get it up to the speed that a Ramjet needs to operate.
You don't actually need maglev. Rocket Sleds use greased steel on steel and they got them above Mach 8. The maglev is great if you can do it because it reduces friction and cushions the ride so it might be better for an operational launcher.
I took a look at the actual proposal. The launch speed off the rails is about Mach 0.5-1.5. The purpose of this test is to try different speeds. The rail is the "first stage". If the Mach 1.5 can be achieved than the second stage would only need a ram(Mach 1.5-4) /scram(Mach 4-10) jet for the second stage. This would be reusable. The third stage would be capable of orbital insertion. What this system allows is the use of an air breathing second stage without having to have a rocket to get it up to the speed that a Ramjet needs to operate.
I can only speak about the Catholic Church which I belong to. The view is that God created the universe. Therefore there can be no conflict between God and science. The laws of the universe were created by God and as we discover them we are learning more about creation. If there is a conflict between new discoveries and the interpretation of scripture than the interpretation was incorrect.
While the Galileo fiasco was not one of the Catholic Church's finest hours it was note because the Church was anti-science. For all of the Dark Ages the Church's monasteries is where all of the scientific learning was happening in Europe. They rediscovered the ancient writings of the Greeks which were preserved in the Islamic world. The study of Heliocentric was encouraged by the Vatican. The rub with Galileo was instead of just making scientific theories he then moved to try to interpret the scripture which is what got him into trouble.
The whole reason science started when it did in all of human history is because of the was Christians looked at the world. Other faiths had active Gods where if you didn't do certain things the sun wouldn't rise or the spring wouldn't come. For the first time with Christians you had an idea of a hands off God. He created the universe and pretty much lets it run according to the set of rules he made. What this did was allow people to try to discover the rules that God set up to run the universe. This was the birth of science. The Church all during the dark ages said that when empirical scientific results conflict with the interpretation of the scripture that it is the interpretation that must be changed because reality is what it is.
I worked for Philips Lighting for many years. The reason the US can't compete in making CFL's is because of the mercury required to make them. In one plant that maked the florescent tubes in Fairmont West Virginia you could see mercury drops on the floor. It would be very expensive to make the lights here because of all of the environmental regulations required to safely handle mercury. Now I'm not against those regulations. China decided it wanted the manufacturing more than the health of their people. Ahhhh. Communism.
I have a BS in mechanical engineering. There are some simple problems any ME should be able to do because you will do them for the rest of your career. The ones you should know off the top of your head is how to calculate moments and deflections in simple beams. You should be able to find loads in static structures. You should be able to figure out simple dynamic problems. You should know how to figure out stresses in tension members, beams, and welds. When I interview for new hires these are the problems I give them. They should know these things. It isn't a matter of "Oh I could just look that up in a book". You spend 4 years studying you better know it.
I was reading about the history of Universities starting in the Mid East. It was only one book but it was interesting. The Universities sounded like a mall where each professor would buy a shop and just start talking about the subject they taught. People could come and go and listen to them freely, kind of like auditing a course. Then if you were interested in that particular teacher you would sit down and tell them what you were interested in an negotiate the fee. You then became their student where they would actually interested with you in class and have private tutoring time, ect. Back then you were only learned what you were interested in and there were no degrees. I graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering and computer science. After my degrees I decide to just randomly take masters level courses that interested me. I didn't care about the degree since my job wouldn't even pay me more if I had one. But I've found I am enjoying the work more than I ever did as an undergrad.
What they should of done is make the buttons clear but have the ability to backlight them with the appropriate color LED. That way if you don't know your colors by muscle memory yet you could use it as training wheels.
So we can expect to have to identify wood species by grain color and pattern? To continue push (maple). Or crap I didn't mean to hit (oak). Where the f&ck is (maple).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Max
I meant scarce not scares. Friggin English.
You forgot the most scares resource in today's world. Time. I don't have any experience in any language besides English. But to me the best language would be the one that get the ideas across the fastest combined with being easy to learn. I have a question for someone that reads proficiently in multiple languages which ones are the fastest to convey the same idea? As an engineer I create models and drawings for the parts I am designing. It is an unambiguous language. Can you image having to describe the part entirely using just English words and no drawing? I can do it but it would take a person a long to to write and read.
Iv sumone mispels Inglish wurds u can stil undrstand em.
We will all be 010000100110100101101110011000010111001001110011 soon
I'm probably butchering this but. They think the sun is a result of a massive voltage potential and it's power is controlled from the outside by electrostatics. This could make the radioactive decay not controlled by the sun but both controlled by the electrostatic field. http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=ah63dzac http://www.plasma-universe.com/Plasma-Universe.com
Why isn't there easy access to landfills? This whole recycling thing has always bothered me. Take the trash and either incinerate or bury it. What is the big deal? It's not like we are running out of land to bury stuff. Now I can see outlawing dumping garbage at sea or in the water but a landfill is pretty benign.
Fair enough.You are correct that I meant mechanical condition.
Wow I got a lot of flak there. All I was doing was giving some of the reasons people I know plan to stick around to the end of the program. I personally think NASA should get out of the launch vehicle business completely. We should design the missions around what LV's exist. This would leverage all of the money DOD spends on developing it's rockets. When DOD upgrades we can use them as well. And for some reason what DOD wants DOD gets.
Since I work at KSC I guess I can provide some insight. The purpose of these new space plans is to reduce the cost of launches. The way you do that is by using a simpler vehicle and less people. So there is no way all or most of the people here will get new jobs in private space. Also Brevard County has a few other employees but most of it relies on KSC. So as people need to start moving to find other jobs housing prices will continue to plummet so expect lots of foreclosures and a total decimation of the local economy. The article is correct. Even facing these prospects most of the employees continue to do their job perfectly day in day out because of the love of the program and their country. When you see the orbiters they look like they just rolled out of the factory. Anything you read about orbiters deteriorating is a lie. They are pristine. Many people are still in denial that this county would be so stupid as to throw away such magnificent machines and they want to be there to keep them flying when we come to our senses.
I find lawyers charge way to much. We should allow visas for lawyers that will work for $20/hr. I wonder what the odds of getting that through congress would be?
Depends on your politics but I subscribe to the homesteading principle which basically states how some unowned resource becomes property. It isn't a settled matter mind you but offers a good start. So say you land on Mars with a rover capable of traveling a 10 mile radius from your base. The land you traveled to would now be your property for you to do with what you wish. Sell chunks of to people on earth, ect. So using this theory the US wouldn't own the moon because we did not travel everywhere. We would own just the outline of where the astronauts walked/drove. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle
You are exactly right but you are missing the point. There are no government regulations on WoW. It's operates completely to make money by pleasing it's paying customers. If they don't self regulate the game and the players don't consider it fun anymore they stop paying. The difference is the Exchanges are regulated by the government. So they only people they have to please is the SEC. Without government oversight they would have to operate more like WoW and pay attention as people abandon their markets that they consider rigged.
Also the government almost forces people into the stock market through tax laws. If the government didn't continually devaluate the dollar you could just save your money in a bank and you wouldn't lose purchasing power. If you keep your money in the market in a brokerage account they tax every dividend and profit you make. So they set up IRA's and 401k's to lock you into the stock markets. All so their powerful friends can leech off the hard work of millions of people.
Yeah there is this stupid free market thing. Pay is a price dictated by what everyone else is willing to pay and sell it for.
Here is one of those "when I was a kid" stories. Back in the old days when you wanted to safely control a machine you used pneumatic logic. You had the same logic operators like and/or delays,ect. So your sensor would be a little valve that when pressed would cause air to flow and activate the circuit. Then relay logic took over which was much faster and allowed the addition of electronic sensors like micro switches. Then we had Programmable Logic Controllers. These were computers but not general purpose. Their only purpose in life was to read the inputs, run the logic, set the outputs, and repeat. What was great about them is they didn't do anything else and the cycle time was fixed. They would run forever. What was neat is the programming language was called ladder logic and looked like a relay logic schematic so replacing a relay system with a PLC was pretty easy. You would store the program on an EEPROM. For fail safe systems we would write the requirements for the program and have two different engineers write the code to implement it and the two PLC's would read in and if there was a difference in the output than the system would shut down in a safe mode. If you needed fail operational you could use 3 PLC's or more PLC's and have them vote.