termain

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by termain 4y ago
That's specific power, not specific energy. Do you mean 1 kW*r/kg?
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by termain 4y ago
I thought the same thing.
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by termain 6y ago
They broke split screen on the switch.
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by termain 6y ago
That's very similar to my experience.
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by termain 6y ago
That's generally what you should do with a scientific model: state your assumptions and methodology clearly. And most if not all scientific and engineering models spread properties across a group of objects and use averages. R_0 is a
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by termain 9y ago
You're supposed to say "kriging" at least once in this post. :P
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by termain 9y ago
I created this entry. It's evolved considerably. I do still recommend the original source I used: The Concise Guide to American Aircraft of World War II by David Mondey. It's great.
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by termain 9y ago
The terms are gas giant and terrestrial (or rocky) planet. They're already there.
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by termain 10y ago
Yes to pressure part and no to the venturi part. Well, it's not enough. You still have to generate a downdraft to conserve momentum and the venturi idea doesn't explain that.
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by termain 10y ago
Seconded. Masters in ASE, written my own vortex lattice code from scratch. "Wings generate lift by changing the velocity of the flow around them" seems general and correct but the why part is pretty tricky without notions of conti
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by termain 10y ago
In an absolute sense you're not going to prevent any deaths unless you're preventing lives. Everybody alive is going to die. One less death relative to what?
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by termain 10y ago
It's quadratic. Polynomial would also have been acceptable. But what they meant to say is "superlinear". Like aetherson, this drives me nuts.
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by termain 10y ago
Including those at NASA.
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by termain 10y ago
And as far as I can tell, organizations struggle with doing multilevel and multidisciplinary optimization.
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by termain 10y ago
That seems incompleat. Could you continue?
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by termain 10y ago
His father Dell is an inch taller with the same listed weight and played from '86 to '02. He's probably a good initial comparison.
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by termain 11y ago
"Third, like I said, not modern air force is ignoring IRST." Right? I mean, just consider the B-2 and F-117 exhausts and the amount of work done to reduce their thermal signatures.
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by termain 11y ago
Yep. Edit: To be clear, I wasn't saying it was lower.
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by termain 11y ago
Presumably, those estimates are just for the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME/RS-25), give that's what Rocketdyne was manufacturing and propulsion is one of Marshall Spaceflight Center's fortes.
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by termain 11y ago
In the context that it's required to get certain jobs? So we -- society -- have screwed up in conflating education and job training?
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by termain 11y ago
"Yes. I'll also add the 4-year education is incredibly inefficient, in terms of skills added over time" I'm uncomfortable with the idea that a university degree is entirely about workforce skills.
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by termain 11y ago
It was the perfect comment.
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by termain 11y ago
Err.... NASA software, yes. No Mars probes yet. Yeah, I know, I know.
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by termain 11y ago
Edit: Ok, ok, I totally screwed that up. Damnit. Sorry, everyone. Grams aren't kilograms. The freaking base unit shouldn't have a prefix. 2000mg/kg = 2, right? Like 2kg of medicine for every one kg of body mass? That seems im
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by termain 11y ago
How is 1+1=1 easy to achieve?
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by termain 11y ago
So could the holographic principle be stated as "the number of bits in a volume is bound by the enclosing area and reaching that bound converts the volume into a black hole"?
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by termain 11y ago
Well, he did say "Why do we keep them alive as zombies rather than just help the humans and let the municipalities die?" Is it reasonable to simply pick everyone up and move them? That seems at least plausible, though I'd exp
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by termain 11y ago
Methane is lighter than air.
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by termain 11y ago
100,000 per... month I'm guessing?
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by termain 11y ago
It does, it's just kind of wrong. Things are more interesting than that. Dash 80 was a nickname for that particular plane , it's model number is 367-80. The 707 is a slightly different aircraft that generally isn't referred

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