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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:53:29 -0500, (Peter
Stickney) wrote: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/resea...hter/f107a.htm The North American F-107A. One of the best airplanes we never bought. ....Second only to the F-23, which was passed over for the F-22 as part of Dickhead Cheney's stupid DOD tricks. Of course, there is the question of whether we were better off with the Thuds or not. Sled drivers will still swear by them, but quite a number of people think the opposite. Of course, that top-feed intake still takes quite a bit of getting used to... OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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Scott Hedrick wrote:
"Peter Stickney" wrote: Zeta Reticulan Flying Disks. They were scheduled to land months ago- why don't we ask them about their safety records? I am shocked, and dismayed, and shocked that nobody else has bothered to point out that Dwayne Day was involved in the Columbia AIB. -george william herbert |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:09:06 -0500, (Peter
Stickney) wrote: Loss rates for early jet fighters were very high, Generally at levels that would give Bob Haller an aneurysm. ....If only the sacrifice of so many would have accomplished this. Then again, for all we know it *did* happen, he survived it, and that's why he kant spel wurth a fuq. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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"Derek Lyons" wrote in message ... Kevin Willoughby wrote: I suspect it has more to do with the extreme conservatism of submarine designers and operators. With damn good reason. |
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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org writes:
Of course, that top-feed intake still takes quite a bit of getting used to... Wouldn't you have less of a chance of injesting FOD into the engine during wartime with that intake? Jeff -- Remove "no" and "spam" from email address to reply. If it says "This is not spam!", it's surely a lie. |
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Derek Lyons wrote: software tools are in error (which is not infrequent, it's all proprietary code that you are not allowed to see, examine, and verify). I'm not certain that Open Source code would change the situation any. I don't think an engineer is going to open the code to verify... You might be surprised. Not every engineer using it, certainly, and not a complete audit, but it's not unlikely that occasionally somebody would spend a while digging into the code on some specific issue. so who does the verification? Don't overlook the possibility of having audits done by researchers or industry consortia. Certainly some efforts at verification would seem in order. Les Hatton's experiments about a decade ago, comparing the outputs of "production" software packages used for seismic data processing, revealed barely one digit of agreement between packages (supposedly implementing the same well-known algorithms) whose outputs were routinely trusted to three or four digits in choosing oil-drilling sites. -- MOST launched 30 June; science observations running | Henry Spencer since Oct; first surprises seen; papers pending. | |
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Kevin Willoughby wrote: I don't know that it is necessary, however. Canada, e.g., seems to do quite well with paper ballots. Mind you, a key feature of our hand-counted elections is very simple ballots. If the US is going to insist on putting a dozen offices and issues on the same ballot, some form of mechanized counting is pretty much inevitable. (You can still have paper ballots, mind you, and the option of doing a hand count for verification, by using something like mark-sense ballots.) Kevin Willoughby lid Imagine that, a FROG ON-OFF switch, hardly the work for test pilots. -- Mike Collins Collins would be on stronger ground there if astronauts weren't notorious for a significant error rate on switch-flipping for experiments... :-) -- MOST launched 30 June; science observations running | Henry Spencer since Oct; first surprises seen; papers pending. | |
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On 18 Feb 2004 00:45:32 -0800, (George William
Herbert) wrote: I am shocked, and dismayed, and shocked that nobody else has bothered to point out that Dwayne Day was involved in the Columbia AIB. ....Was he? Most people would have ignored the fact, considering how he departed the group on a very high horse with a very long, thick corncob in the saddle holding him firmly in place. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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