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by chipsa 6y ago
Probably not enough draft under the keel for the ship to actually submerge. Also, expensive for having to replace a bunch of equipment that is now dunked in seawater. Let alone raising the ship afterward.
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by chipsa 6y ago
> A stealth fighter using its radar is the same as a man in a camouflage at night turning on his search light. Everybody will know where you are. Every American stealth aircraft equipped with a radar is designed to be able to use it. The
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by chipsa 6y ago
Boeing would have preferred to have introduced a new narrow body aircraft, on their own schedule. But the new version of the 737 was announced before they got there, by American Airlines. At that point it's either repudiate AA's a
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by chipsa 6y ago
Radar directed AA guns were totally a thing in the 1940s. The US developed the Mk37 director (using the Mk4 radar), and had it in service before Pearl Harbor. Carriers were invented well before this. And would have been invented regardless,
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by chipsa 6y ago
SpaceX leases the launch pad and Eastern Range, but those are paid either on a yearly basis, or per use. The NASA/DoD personnel that support the launch are getting paid whether there's a launch or not, because they're needed
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by chipsa 6y ago
Crew Dragon carries 3 klbs, or 1.4 tons of hypergols. It doesn't just use those tanks for RCS, but also for the abort system. Also, Crew Dragon is closer to 14 tons at landing.
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by chipsa 6y ago
The abort system is like ejection seats: the greater the part of the flight envelope it works in, the better, because you have smaller portions of the flight that problems are unsurvivable. The abort system tests were for the most difficult
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by chipsa 6y ago
Paper spacecraft can do anything. Buran was designed for the same mission lengths as the Shuttle, on the order of a few weeks at most, not half a year or more. For long mission durations, storable hypergolics are the way to go for now. We d
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by chipsa 6y ago
To clean the exhaust of an existing stove, not really. But if you replace your stove with a more efficient one, possibly. The problem with most wood stoves is incomplete combustion, which results in smoky, sooty exhaust. Rocket stoves are a
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by chipsa 6y ago
A sufficiently large antenna would reduce the power requirements significantly.
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by chipsa 6y ago
First and last work for me on mobile Safari, but not the middle two.
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by chipsa 6y ago
TIBCO = ?
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by chipsa 6y ago
Can you setup google voice?
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by chipsa 6y ago
The car is more than 90 degrees of from the bikes line of travel. The cyclist can't see him because he literally can't see the car.
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by chipsa 6y ago
Momentum exchange between the spacecraft and the planet. Spacecraft weighs next to nothing compared to the planet, so the planet's velocity change is imperceptible.
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by chipsa 6y ago
Suspicious activity. Suddenly using your card in the UK, when you're in the US. "Swipes" several hundred miles from your normal location, but also occurring in your normal location on the same day.
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by chipsa 6y ago
There's usually an internal and an external shutoff valve. Inside is easier when you're working on things inside, but the water company may need to turn off your water, and they can't depend on being able to get inside. So va
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by chipsa 7y ago
No, the Navy didn't [0]. The Air Force did carry them. They Navy got better at avoiding the weaknesses. 0. https://combatace.com/forums/topic/91818-the-f-4-phantom-and...
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by chipsa 7y ago
They're primary batteries. Which is to say: not rechargable.
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by chipsa 7y ago
The no gun thing is over hyped. The Navy never did install guns in their fighters in Vietnam, and still ended up reversing the kill ratio.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Mine can replace the reservoir with what's effectively a bypass plug. I assume this also disables the heater.
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by chipsa 7y ago
PWSH runs on top of the .NET runtime. So you can use any CLI language to write your code: C++, C#, VB, F#, Python, as well as PWSH.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Because they clog up slots that could be used by someone ambitious. If you've got 500 Major slots, but 400 of them are occupied by people who don't want to get promoted, then you only have 100 Majors who can get promoted. So they
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by chipsa 7y ago
VoIP fax services. Webpage allows upload, sends the fax over voip, which ends up at another voip server, decodes back into a fax. Never turns analog.
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by chipsa 7y ago
If you use Firefox, there's a temporary container extension. It's more powerful than private mode, because it looks like a regular session, so they can't detect it's in use. It just gets wiped at the end of the session.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Pretty sure you can keep your old keys in there. You just don't use the old key for signing.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Can't go below a threshold. Cool. So threshold is $12k or whatever. Person could work, and get $200 a week. So they get $50 a week in benefits. Or they could not work, and get $250 a week in benefits. So why work? Working more or less
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by chipsa 7y ago
What about a scuba supply? That's breathing safe.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Qatar is more humid than people think for being a desert country, because it is a peninsula in the gulf. As I write this, it's about 70% relative humidity.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Atlas evolved quite a bit over the years. They added Centaur to the top. They changed from the stage and a half staging. They added solid rocket boosters. They went from balloon tanks to iso grid based rigid tanks.

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