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March 7th, 2019 at 8:00:22 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
Its disgusting The human race has turned the oceans into a cesspool of microplastic garbage Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
March 9th, 2019 at 12:01:39 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 |
The article didn't say if they paid the bill themselves. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/unvaccinated-child-hits-his-head-gets-tetanus-two-months-and-over-dollar800k-later-he-recovers/ar-BBUwRuv?ocid=spartanntp You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
March 9th, 2019 at 6:40:50 PM permalink | |
beachbumbabs Member since: Sep 3, 2013 Threads: 6 Posts: 1600 |
Fwiw. The indicated airspeed is almost always different from the ground speed. A direct tailwind will add most, nearly all, of its speed to an airplane's progress. There will be some air that does not push, but instead slides, along the airplane from back to front, just because of its shape. A quartering tailwind will give you more ground-movement speed than a direct tailwind, depending on the angle and the shape of the aircraft. The sides of the airframe can act like the sails of a boat. You get the tailwind component plus some sidewinder pushing you. It's somewhat similar to squirting a watermelon seed out from between your fingers. You don't have to squeeze very hard for that seed to fly a long way. But with wind, that squeeze is continual. Wind is a mass of air moving at a particular speed, and the air will carry with it whatever it can lift. Gravity and drag(friction) work against the things wind carries, so while wind will boost things along, if behind them, unless the things are under power, eventually gravity and drag will bring them back down. A direct headwind will subtract nearly all its speed from an aircrafts movement. That's because airplanes fly due to the movement of wind from front to back. All its surfaces are built to maximize the useful lift from the front, and streamlined to let nonuseful surfaces pass with as little drag as possible. When the wind is strong enough, small airplanes have been known to "fly backwards": they are flying front side to the wind, but the headwind is stronger than their motor, so they are moving backwards relative to the ground. This is fun, but quite frustrating. I should mention, just to be complete, that it's not all just lift of air under the wings that makes things fly. If you look at a birds wing in flight, you'll see it's curved. That cups the air underneath, but it also provides a smooth curved surface on top for the air to slip smoothly from the leading edge over the top and off the back and outward. The leading edge creates a small vacuum because it's pushing aside air molecules, and that vacuum field (null area) extends over the top of the wing surface and helps the wing lift into it. If that vacuum is disturbed from its smooth flow, for instance by ice buildup on the leading edge, the air moving to form the vacuum will burble, disturbing the existence of the vacuum, and the wing will stop lifting well enough to keep the aircraft flying. You're right, Vectors are important to consider when figuring wind. In the case of the 767 not breaking the sound barrier, the air mass was moving at a relative speed that produced a 250 or so mph tailwind, what ever its absolute speed was. The airplane was flying its normal airspeed within that wind mass. But the total effect relative to their position over the ground was additive, so they showed a ground speed of 801kts or whatever. The most important part of headwind/tailwind consideration is landing and departing. An airplane departing with a 4kt tailwind uses 10% more runway to get airborne, on average. Landing is worse. Landing with a tailwind can spin you off the runway very quickly, because the front of the airplane is moving slower than the back the moment you touch down. Landing with the tailwind is like falling forward and having someone kick you in the pants as you're falling. In contrast, landing with a headwind is like diving into a bunch of large fluffy pillows. It helps stop you fast and let's you down easy. And that's all I have to say about that. At least for tonight. Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has |
March 10th, 2019 at 12:15:52 AM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | " Russian telephone pranksters Vovan and Lexus, posing as Swiss President Ueli Maurer, contacted Abrams on two occasions – in mid-February and early March, speaking to him for over 23 minutes about Swiss policy on the ongoing effort to freeze the Venezuelan government's assets as part of broader plans to replace President Nicolas Maduro with US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido." Shemp @ zh https://sputniknews.com/latam/201903061073002069-abrams-full-interview-audio/ The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
March 11th, 2019 at 3:04:59 AM permalink | |
YeahBaby Member since: May 24, 2016 Threads: 5 Posts: 364 |
March 12th, 2019 at 1:00:36 PM permalink | |
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
March 13th, 2019 at 11:22:57 AM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
Manafort's parking violations are looking worse and worse every day. Last Thursday he was sentenced to 47 months, and today he was sentenced to 73 months, though some of those months will occur concurrently and he'll get credit for 9 months in jail, so the bottom line is he has 81 months for his parking violations. The conventional wisdom is that Trump is planning on pardoning Manafort, though that will probably be futile and pointless since Manafort was also indicted today in NY state court on 16 counts of mortgage fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying business records. Presidential pardons only apply to federal convictions, not state convictions. Trump is correct about NY's declining population. 48,510 residents moved out of NY in 2018, which is a loss of 0.25 percent of the state's population. |
March 13th, 2019 at 11:53:44 AM permalink | |
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
March 13th, 2019 at 2:25:36 PM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 | Apparently the state prisons of New York are a bit less pleasant than the federal prison in Cumberland, (relatively speaking) so it's actually in Paul Manafort's best interest not to be pardoned by Trump, because a pardon would only hasten a departure from Cumberland. At Cumberland prisoners are allowed to send and receive mail, make outgoing phone calls, see visitors once a week and have access to emails every day. There's a gym, a softball field with a running track and televisions showing sports on every wing. There are no bars, towers, locks on rooms or barbed wire fences. Sixteen people every weekend stay in the Magdalene House. They are normally mothers, wives, daughters, partners and the occasional brother or uncle, according to prison officials. Beds are available on Friday and Saturday nights, and guests have their meals prepared for them. If Trump pardons him, is he allowed to reject the pardon? |
March 13th, 2019 at 3:12:38 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18209 |
Other things being equal the Federal system is almost always better than the state system. I've seen the inside of a few in NY, including Attica. I'd be scared to death in the medium security joint. The President is a fink. |