Comment Re:That's going to be tricky to wiggle out of... (Score 3, Funny) 233
Simple fix: Play football with the feet. There are countries where they do this.
Simple fix: Play football with the feet. There are countries where they do this.
The boxing glove did much the same thing. The human head is several pounds of thick bone, and the human hand is basically chicken drumsticks; a bare-knuckle boxer couldn't hit a man in the head very hard without breaking his fingers. The object was to hit the supraorbital ridges, opening cuts. The plentiful blood flow in the head assured that the opponent would be blinded by blood, and the fight was over. It also left him looking like the second-place winner in a knife fight, and public revulsion caused boxing bans in many jurisdictions.
The industry headed that off by inventing the boxing glove, which cut down on the lacerations. It also hardened the fist enough that a powerful man can deliver a maximum-effort blow. Result: boxing changed from a face-rearranging sport to a brain-damaging sport.
And do pilots also report to the FAA everytime they pass "within a few feet" of a bird?
Yes, if it's the kind of bird that can come through the windshield and kill you, like a goose...or the big flock of small birds that put Capt. Sullenberger's airplane in the Hudson River. Your FAA is very interested in where those birds are.
Point is, the simple presence of the drone in front of an airplane pretty well settles the issue of being "controlled"...
The Sunday sales thing is a religious law.
Was, not is. Jesus got the law on the books, but business owners took charge of it long ago. Most of them paid their legislators to overthrow it -- but there's a special class of retailers whose demand is inelastic enough that they don't need 7-day availability.
We rarely buy a bottle of liquor on impulse. It's an anticipated purchase, and we plan ahead; once in a while, if we're in a 6-day jurisdiction, we get caught without booze and we remember it next time. Sunday closing may reduce sales a little, but it reduces overhead much more, especially for a small merchant. So, at least here in Colorado, you could drink in a bar on Sunday but not buy package liquor, until we forced a change a few years back.
The same effect is even stronger with cars: we never forgo a car purchase because we can't buy it on Sunday, and Colorado still doesn't have Sunday car sales.
Do the pilots fully comprehend the fact that even though there's nobody inside the thing that it's still being controlled.
Yes, controlled into a close approach with an aircraft.
The skies are open, they are owned by nobody.
The Air Commerce Act of 1926 takes issue.
I don't mind when people state clearly that they don't really understand the absorption & radiation equations, but it does kinda piss me off when these same people pontificate as though they did.
We definitely share that hot button. Good analysis.
a radiator that reflects sunlight sounds promising for other applications, like heatsinks for space probes.
Sounds more like an oxymoron: radiation and reflection are two related but different processes. A perfect radiator reflects nothing, and a perfect reflector radiates nothing.
Parts of spacecraft that need to be cold (like infrared telescopes) are cooled by radiators that are kept pointed at dark space, with reflective shrouds that keep sunlight off them.
Gee, here we have a new industry that is growing and prosperous, with many people coming up with creative ideas for using drones that none of its inventors ever dreamed of, and the government wants to step in and control it, regulating it to a point where it can’t even exist legally. Isn’t that nice of them?
Your faith in the Invisible Hand working its magic and eliminating the emerging public safety problem of drones is without regulation is touching...I take it the Civil Aviation Act of 1938 is why we don't have flying cars.
For all you Republicans out there, there will NEVER be another Ronald Reagan.
If there were, they'd denounce him as a liberal for not conforming to their redefined image of him.
Substitute Jesus for Reagan -- same deal.
7 witnesses (black) collaborated cop's story.
I love it when a diction error reverses the meaning of a sentence...
Mod this hummer up...
No one called toy helicopters drones 8 years ago.
No, but there was an R/C model airplane club years ago (still is, as far as I know) called the Long Island Drone Society (LIDS).
I'm perfectly aware of that, but if a camelback weighs 4 pounds with a liter of water in it, it's made of 1.8 pounds of nylon.
Modeling paged and segmented memories is tricky business. -- P.J. Denning
