get a big enough amp to make a sound like one of these F1s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It seems ***every*** piece of footage whether it be fiction, reality show, news cast, whatever of any kind of car stuff there is ***always*** some kind of dubbing. Even footage from helicopters that capture a crash, they add sound to it (I know the copter camera does not have a microphone pointed at the ground, and the sound does not travel at speed of light). Another common practice is dubbing 16mm combat war footage (all footage has been dubbed). Those cameras had no soundtrack including footage from Vietnam War with exception of a news crew that included a soundman lugging a audio tape recorder alongside cameraman.

Obviously the "General Lee" always has tires screeching on pavement sounds when accelerating, it's tradition like the ST Enterprise whoosh sound as it travels superluminal speeds.

a human being. so far other animals not considered yet.

I dabbled a little few years ago but there really not much interests me. Taking a look at Galaxy 19 lyngsat.com as suggested by Isao has stations of little interest to me. However, it was interesting to get some hands-on experience receiving signals from a satellite, ironically the day I first locked on to bird in the Clarke Belt was the same day Arthur died.

Also back then there were websites that you can download software and load this into one of those sat receivers and be able to watch DishTV, Direct, and other encrypted sites for free. However, these didn't offer much (I have no interest in football, soccer, hockey which all have 200 channels each). There were some premimun channels like TCM that I already have on cable, but then I may also dump cable because even TCM shows same movies over and over again (occasionally they will show something different i.e. a series of Mamie Van Doren movies). There were "local" TV stations from various towns like Bakersfield on these dish tv stations. But then almost all I have no interest so why bother.

Getting back to when I setup my satellite receiver. Someone at DeAnza Electronics flea market was selling DishTV Ku-band dishes and oddball sat receiver boxes for dirt cheap, had a whole stack of these and didn't want to crate them all to the dump. Living in a condo reduced my opportunities (all the birds were aligned away from my windows), I was not interested in mounting the dish on a awning of sorts (I was experimenting and had no long term deployment interest). I was able to just fit the dish into my skylight, borrowed a sat finder meter to help lock onto the bird, and it was exciting to see the bars all light up on the satellite receiver box (Comet I think was the brand). Go through the motions to select the frequencies and download the channels. It seemed it was more interesting technically than watching entertainment (again almost all channels were of no interest). I also referred to these sites, http://www.uksatellitehelp.co.... and http://emantechnology.com/stor.... There were some channels that were non-encrypted including NASA-TV Public channel (and this was back when Shuttle was flying). However these stations were able to do encryption far more difficult to hack, and they also encrypted all channels including "FTA" like NASA-TV.

Now there is C-band birds which NASA-TV provides non-encrypted including the Media channel but the antennas are big and hard to find. However, NASA-TV mostly has usual drivel repeated over and over. There was a time when everyone was dumping C-band dishes for free and great opportunity for experimentalists including those wanting a dish to do EME.

he will be sued into oblivion by the Star Wars Corp. for unauthorized use of costumes and trademarks.

thanks for the tutorial and come to think of it, last time I had engine failure while driving was with a 1970 Toyota (no power steering or brakes) decades ago. I have never had engine failure so I was thinking no such thing can occur but your post reminded us that, yes a car can have complete engine shutdown while driving at any speed.

few months ago watching "The Anderson Tapes" (early 1970s) and near end of movie police searching building for more robbery suspects find some equipment tapped into some of the buildings phone lines. Senior officer says, "whoever set this up better have a warrant!" Later the 'snoops' that have been tracking character played by Sean Connery erased and purged all the tapes of conversations they recorded because they could get in big trouble as none of it was authorized by the courts. Fast forward to these days, meh, that kind of storyline is totally ridiculous. There are other such movies back in the days when people did respect legalities of wiretapping and eavesdropping. Of course there were shenanigans played out by some govt agencies but they knew they were doing wrong so they had to cover it up. These days, they don't because "it's ok."

oops, kind of read that too fast. But if we do ban driver use, then the car cannot be used. If it is not used, then no crashes can occur. OK a silly remark but I'm sure there are some considering this a serious proposal (i.e. self driving cars).

this is the United States, you'd think we'd have great broadband like they have in places like Bulgaria. Maybe I'm getting factious/bitchy but Cringely wrote an article on how Silicon Valley went from the fastest to the slowest in high-speed internet (cannot find link to article right now).

and maybe also give SpaceX a boost.

Excellent description between the two. I would have posted the same. Customers are those you want to please and that is incentive to provide good products/services. Consumers are those you want them to consume regardless.

It's a matter of priorities. Right now only people that want to go to the moon are enthusiasts but they make up a very small portion of the population and almost all lack money and political power. Look at politicos, they are all lawyers and business, the kind of people that would become very bored about discussing technology. If you argue potential to mine the moon for resources that may get their attention. But you better have a very good compelling business plan along with a excellent "elevator speech" that can be delivered in 30 seconds or less.

PBS program last week about struggles of black people from 1960s through today. Near end of program it was mentioned about maybe reason why so many blacks are still living in poverty (inner cities) is because racism has been institutionalized. Also for many white people they don't see blacks except on TV where typically they are seen as sports stars, entertainers, or getting dragged off to jail. There is the President but lately his popularity is not that high. Couple months ago Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator, said he has experienced walking into a convention (where he is the only black guy) everyone looks at him like he is out of place (or is he one of the waiters?). When someone recognizes and points out he is the NASA Administrator (and former astronaut and Marine general), at an instant he becomes the most brilliant person in the room. (ok, there are many saying Bolden is not effective NASA Administrator but that's another topic for another discussion. Besides there have been white guys that were ineffective administrators).

It seems to me society should encourage math and science but lots of luck as this country is mesmerized by football. Or put resources into inner city schools will be a good start but unfortunately people will cry foul ("that's socialism!") or say we can't afford it (well we sure found plenty of money to pour into Afghanistan and Iraq). But perhaps ask those at these engineering societies, http://www.nsbe.org/ and http://www.ncalifblackengineer... for their suggestions on what they would present at HP.

I'm old enough to remember when The Day After was shown, it was scary. Of course there are some flaws/mistakes but climate at the time was quite heated. Reagan was very aggressive at building up military plus calling them the Evil Empire. I think what the film did get right, and still valid today, is if such war breaks out, it will because a few people in Washington DC and Moscow will decide to go to war. Us commoners have no say in the matter and there really isn't any place to seek refuge.

but how to grow your own food? That's a big one if industrial civilization were to collapse. Food from comes from farms, not supermarkets. And you'd be surprised how many people don't know that.