Gavin Longmuir: “The missile can either be hypersonic or low observable but not both in tandem,” wrote Kaushal. Those grapes are sour, I tell you. Sour!
Harry Jones: “More visible to radar” I take it “blocks radar signals” means deflects, not absorbs. The wave front itself will show up on radar. https://www.ucsusa.org/a bout/news/new-report-hyp ersonic-weapons-offer-fe w-advantages
Ezra: Malaria in particular? Half of all humans that have ever lived [about 100 billion] have either died from malaria or from malaria complications.
bob sykes: The real point, however, is that both Russia and China have deployed operational hypersonic missiles, and Russia has used them in combat. The US is still trying to develop hypersonics, and probably won’t deploy them for several years. Thirty years of chasing down Muslim peasants cost us several thousand lives and several tens of thousands of cripples. We also spent up to $7 trillion on the project, and in the process we lost our technological leads in many area, and now trail the...
Dave: This is true, but the problem is many things are either partially, mostly, or entirely wrong. For instance, most of astronomy is based on gravity being the prime mover, when the evidence is overwhelming that it’s electricity (www.thunderbolts.info has all the receipts). These sorts of fundamental errors lead to subsequent errors, such as the need to create “dark matter”, which doesn’t exist… Except in the minds of those needing to preserve their false assumptions....
Jim: A government is merely the paramount corporation. A king of one hundred has more in common with a king of one hundred thousand than he does with his own viceroy. Once you’ve organized yourself out of a wet paper bag (your email job), be sure to let me know. I’ll congratulate you on your successful absconsion from another man’s corporate plantation to find safe harbor on your own corporate plantation, and I’ll mean it, too.
Freddo: “If you took reading seriously and read a book a week (approximately an hour or two of reading a day), that’s just 3 months of reading. Half a semester to understand much of an entire field. That is unreasonably effective.” The bureaucratic-educational complex exposed. Or he needs to update his definition of “understand” to “you can outsmart 90% of journalists at the science desk”.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: “priesthood investigates priesthood misdeeds; find merchants at fault” News at 11.
Jim: What got it started in the first place was public school. Schools are for slaves. I don’t mean this derogatorily, I mean this clinically. It is essential to understand that school by its very nature breeds (heh) the social dysfunctions characteristic of slave populations. Some varieties of school are more dissolutive than others, but all in greater or lesser inculcate the same slavish tendencies of personality. The most explicit admission of this is to be found in the General Education...
Mike in Boston: ”It spreads from one to another, healthy and infected” It has been said that the sexual revolution didn’t start with the Pill, that the Pill only kicked things up a notch, but what got it started in the first place was antibiotics.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: Well you know what they say, feds of a feather oft flock together.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: “This explanation helps us understand why Unix was successful and Multics was not. Naively, you would have expected Multics to succeed. After all, whereas Multics was developed by dozens of researchers across MIT, Bell Labs, and General Electric, Unix was created by a single person looking for something to do while his wife was out of town.” In other words, the main difference between the former cases and the latter case, is that Ken was a king in his own kingdom, however small it may...
TRX: K&R C, the original standard, was extremely barebones, and implementations varied drastically across vendors. ANSI C added a boatload of commands to the basic language, and vastly expanded the “runtime library”, which technically isn’t part of the C language, but is integral to any useful C program. Then came all the modern impedimentia, and C++.
McChuck: So, the average Pulitzer winning novel is something almost nobody has read.
Adar: “Brothels are advertised with pictures of prostitutes hung at the door, the price of one night written up with the furnishings required for revelry . . . and this is the state of even the Muslims in these parts!” Shia and the practice of temporary marriage??
Freddo: Bob, computers process assembly language, which is crazy detailed and error-prone for human programmers, so some smart people invented programming languages such as C so humans can program in a more abstract languages and then a compiler program can do the crazy detailed hard work of translating our C program into an assembly program. C and its cousin C++ are very powerful languages that allow you to stick in your fingers with the engine running. So very suitable for writing an Operating System...
Adar: Those persons able to write innovative code and operating systems no longer exist in the USA? Gone to foreign shores and for good?
Isegoria, may you have a rational yet funny Christmas! ;-)
Thank you kindly, Borepatch. In fact, I’ll try to keep things rational yet funny into the New Year.
..and that’s why I come here often.
Happy coming New Year!
Happy New Year to you, too, Tatyana. (S Novim godom!)