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Religions > Atheism |
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"HVAC" |
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06 Sep 2006 02:38:41 PM |
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Shape-Shifting |
For the usual suspects of kooks this will be a disapointment-
From Popular Science
For years, the U.S. military has wanted a plane that could loiter just
outside enemy territory for more than a dozen hours and, on command,
hurtle toward a target faster than the speed of sound. And then level
it. But aircraft that excel at subsonic flight are inefficient at Mach
speeds, and vice versa. The answer is Switchblade, an unmanned,
shape-changing plane concept under development by Northrop Grumman.
When completed (target date: 2020), it will cruise with its
200-foot-long wing perpendicular to its engines like a normal airplane.
But just before the craft breaks the sound barrier, its single wing
will swivel around 60 degrees (hence the name) so that one end points
forward and the other back. This oblique configuration redistributes
the shock waves that pile up in front of a plane at Mach speeds and
cause drag. When the Switchblade returns to subsonic speeds, the wing
will rotate back to perpendicular.
Smart plan. Now for the hard part: designing the thing. Darpa, the
Pentagon's way-out research arm, has coughed up $10.3 million to
Northrop Grumman to produce a detailed blueprint by November 2007. A
flying test vehicle is due about four years later. The initial concept
calls for a single wing with engines situated in a pod underneath,
along with munitions and surveillance equipment. This setup will enable
the wing to pivot while the engines remain pointed in the direction the
craft is traveling.
This is not the first attempt at an oblique-wing aircraft. SpaceShipOne
creator Burt Rutan designed a switch-wing plane with NASA in 1979. But
the slanted wings made the craft hard to fly-when the pilot pulled
the nose up, the plane would roll to one side.
The Switchblade, however, is a good candidate to be an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV). The artificial intelligence used to control UAVs can
handle the tricky flight dynamics, and a computer pilot doesn't need
to eat, rest, or go to the bathroom-useful for those 15-plus-hour
missions.
If all goes well, Darpa says, a 40-foot-wingspan demonstration model
could be ready by 2010, and a full-size Switchblade should be all set
for a brawl by 2020.
What a great country!
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| User: "Angel of HaShem/Messenger" |
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| Title: Re: Shape-Shifting |
07 Sep 2006 03:48:06 AM |
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"HVAC" <MR.HVAC@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1157571521.290087.27000@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
For the usual suspects of kooks this will be a disapointment-
From Popular Science
For years, the U.S. military has wanted a plane that could loiter just
outside enemy territory for more than a dozen hours and, on command,
hurtle toward a target faster than the speed of sound. And then level
it. But aircraft that excel at subsonic flight are inefficient at Mach
speeds, and vice versa. The answer is Switchblade, an unmanned,
shape-changing plane concept under development by Northrop Grumman.
When completed (target date: 2020), it will cruise with its
200-foot-long wing perpendicular to its engines like a normal airplane.
But just before the craft breaks the sound barrier, its single wing
will swivel around 60 degrees (hence the name) so that one end points
forward and the other back. This oblique configuration redistributes
the shock waves that pile up in front of a plane at Mach speeds and
cause drag. When the Switchblade returns to subsonic speeds, the wing
will rotate back to perpendicular.
Smart plan. Now for the hard part: designing the thing. Darpa, the
Pentagon's way-out research arm, has coughed up $10.3 million to
Northrop Grumman to produce a detailed blueprint by November 2007. A
flying test vehicle is due about four years later. The initial concept
calls for a single wing with engines situated in a pod underneath,
along with munitions and surveillance equipment. This setup will enable
the wing to pivot while the engines remain pointed in the direction the
craft is traveling.
This is not the first attempt at an oblique-wing aircraft. SpaceShipOne
creator Burt Rutan designed a switch-wing plane with NASA in 1979. But
the slanted wings made the craft hard to fly-when the pilot pulled
the nose up, the plane would roll to one side.
The Switchblade, however, is a good candidate to be an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV). The artificial intelligence used to control UAVs can
handle the tricky flight dynamics, and a computer pilot doesn't need
to eat, rest, or go to the bathroom-useful for those 15-plus-hour
missions.
If all goes well, Darpa says, a 40-foot-wingspan demonstration model
could be ready by 2010, and a full-size Switchblade should be all set
for a brawl by 2020.
How much time did it take to compose that.....?
What a great country!
Or is that all you contributed....?
Going to be a 'turd world' country by 2010....
It uses 'jet' engines, obviously. So I'll probably be working on the
high speed rotating engine parts. At the plant....
Unless 'Pratt & Whitney' get the contract.....
Why doesn't it use 'anti-gravity' engines....?
Humans don't have the intelligence to do that, I guess.
There are some non-humans who do.....
And here's what they can do with it......
With anti-grav, shape shifting BoLs of energy, from their
crafts that use, anti-gravity propulsion.....
~>
Twonky.....
There is an additional cause for markings forming....after all...
hoaxers in England are limited to wheat, and tramlines. Who
does all the other fields on the rest of the globe? The ones
without tramlines....
Nobody....so far.....
So, HaShem will take all the fields without tramlines....
There....you have your markings, and HaShem has His 10%.
Through His angels.....who do no evil.....
Yours are stomped. His aren't.....
Keep your stinking feet, and rancid psyche, out of His angels
markings..
http://www.cccrn.ca/midale601a.jpg
http://www.cccrn.ca/vanderhoof98a.jpg
http://www.cccrn.ca/oromedonte00a.jpg
http://www.cccrn.ca/moosomin00a.jpg
http://www.cccrn.ca/mission202h.jpg
http://www.cccrn.ca/mission202i.jpg
http://www.cccrn.ca/photogallery.html
Now what have you got to say for yourselves....?
Nothing so...far.....
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| User: "Charles.Bohne" |
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| Title: Re: Shape-Shifting |
07 Sep 2006 09:26:30 AM |
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On 6 Sep 2006 12:38:41 -0700, "HVAC" <MR.HVAC@gmail.com> wrote:
If all goes well, Darpa says, a 40-foot-wingspan demonstration model
could be ready by 2010, and a full-size Switchblade should be all set
for a brawl by 2020.
What a great country!
I see ..
Poverty in America? One of the richest countries in the world?
Yes, poverty is a reality in America, just as it is for millions of
other human beings on the planet. According to the US Census Bureau,
35.9 million people live below the poverty line in America
(http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/002484.html),
including 12.9 million children.
This is despite abundance of food resources. Almost 100 billion pounds
of food is wasted in America each year. 700 million hungry human
beings in different parts of the world would have gladly accepted this
food.
Here are some statistics on the nature of poverty and the waste of
food and money in America.
-In 2004, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an
average of 14 percent during the year, according to a 27-city study by
the United States Conference of Mayors.
-Also in this study, it was noted that on average, 20 percent of
requests for emergency food assistance have gone unmet in 2004.
-According to the Bread for the World Institute
(http://www.bread.org/hungerbasics/domestic.html) 3.5 percent of U.S.
households experience hunger. Some people in these households
frequently skip meals or eat too little, sometimes going without food
for a whole day. 9.6 million people, including 3 million children,
live in these homes.
-America's Second Harvest (http://www.secondharvest.org/), the
nation's largest network of food banks, reports that 23.3 million
people turned to the agencies they serve in 2001, an increase of over
2 million since 1997. Forty percent were from working families.
33 million Americans continue to live in households that did not have
an adequate supply of food. Nearly one-third of these households
contain adults or children who went hungry at some point in 2000.
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, March 2002, "Household Food Security in the
United States, 2000"
Wasted food in America
-According to America’s Second Harvest, over 41 billion pounds of food
have been wasted this year (www.secondharvest.org).
-According to a 2004 study from the University of Arizona (UA) in
Tucson (http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?id=56376), on
average, American households waste 14 percent of their food purchases.
Fifteen percent of that includes products still within their
expiration date but never opened. Timothy Jones, an anthropologist at
the UA Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology who led the study,
estimates an average family of four currently tosses out $590 per
year, just in meat, fruits, vegetables and grain products.
Nationwide, Jones says, household food waste alone adds up to $43
billion, making it a serious economic problem.
- Official surveys indicate that every year more than 350 billion
pounds of edible food is available for human consumption in the United
States. Of that total, nearly 100 billion pounds - including fresh
vegetables, fruits, milk, and grain products - are lost to waste by
retailers, restaurants, and consumers.
-“U.S.-Massive Food Waste & Hunger Side by Side” by Haider Rizvi
(http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/hunger090604.cfm)
-According to a 1997 study by US Department of Agriculture's Economic
Research Service (ERS) entitled "Estimating and Addressing America's
Food Losses", about 96 billion pounds of food, or more than a quarter
of the 356 billion pounds of edible food available for human
consumption in the United States, was lost to human use by food
retailers, consumers, and foodservice establishments in 1995.
Fresh fruits and vegetables, fluid milk, grain products, and
sweeteners (mostly sugar and high-fructose corn syrup) accounted for
two-thirds of the losses. 16 billion pounds of milk and 14 billion
pounds of grain products are also included in this loss.
Food that could have gone to millions
According to the US Department of Agriculture, up to one-fifth of
America's food goes to waste each year, with an estimated 130 pounds
of food per person ending up in landfills. The annual value of this
lost food is estimated at around $31 billion But the real story is
that roughly 49 million people could have been fed by those lost
resources. (For your persona jihad against wastage, see A Citizen's
Guide to Food Recovery)
(The figures below are 1998 figures)
Proportion of Americans living below the poverty level: 12.7 percent
(34.5 million people)
The average poverty threshold for a family of four: $16,660 in annual
income
The average poverty threshold for a family of three: $13,003 in annual
income
Poverty rate for metropolitan areas: 12.3 percent
Poverty rate for those living inside central cities: 18.5 percent
Poverty rate for those living in the suburbs: 8.7 percent
Percentage and number of poor children: 18.9 percent (13.5 million)
Children make up 39 percent of the poor and 26 percent of the total
population.
The poverty rate for children is higher than for any other age group.
Child poverty:
-for children under age 6 living in families with a female householder
and no husband present: 54.8 percent
-for children under age 6 in married-couple families: 10.1 percent
Poverty rate for African Americans: 26.1 percent
Poverty rate for Asians and Pacific Islanders: 12.5 percent
Poverty rate for Hispanics of any race: 25.6 percent
Poverty rate for non-Hispanic whites: 8.2 percent
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