If deadmanwalking != skitchen8 I apologize, but the verbiage smells the same.

He was responding to someone talking about the efficiency of non-pitch-shifting rotors. He commented on how efficiency doesn't improve much once you introduce blade pitch-control. He used fixed-wing aircraft as a contrast.

That's all.

You were the one who chose this subthread as your Nteenth location for saying the same thing, ignoring relevance to the specific discussion at hand.

Sure this overall story is about QCs and rescue. But the subthread you chose to lose your mind in isn't.

As I said. A nit which wasn't offered. GPP mentioned the efficiency but in no way suggested that made them unfit for the job at hand. The only person running with that claim is you.

You appear to be picking a nit which wasn't offered.

Bah! Forgot link.

http://www.sensorgen.info/

Quite aside from that, I don't think we're anywhere near the point where we can detect every single incoming photon, so there's still room for improvement regardless.

We're a lot closer than most people think. A hell of a lot closer than we are with solar panels.

And when is the last time you've heard of that happening to a commercially produced firearm? The only failures I hear of are cases where the firearm jams or accidentally discharges. Having the entire firearm blow up in your hand or have projectiles coming out of places other than the barrel is not something that gets any attention. And the accidental discharges are pretty much always the result of somebody handling the firearm in a way that's not safe.

Which suggests that it likely doesn't happen or is so common that it's no longer noteworthy. I suspect that it's the former as I've never heard of it happening in real life.

If you're not familiar with the Beretta 92F's (aka M9) habit of throwing slides into shooter's faces you haven't been paying attention to guns for very long. This isn't some Saturday night special failing in a catastrophic manner, this was a premium-priced weapon chosen to replace the 1911 as the US Army standard sidearm.

Despite Beretta's continual claim that the failures were due to military use of +P rounds, many prominent LE armorers have reported failures with standard pressure loads.

Happy Wheels requires Flash.

http://www.totaljerkface.com/happy_wheels.php

If you're a top act, like the ones signing that ad, your label really does take good care of you... It's the rest of the musicians, the majority, that get shafted by the RIAA business model.

If I'm hearing you right RIAA = Scientology?

Yea, because relays all can handle unlimited current.

Setup EMP charge. Bulldozers wait outside 'blast range'. Clean area. Move bulldozers in. Profit.

This isn't an attempt to stop industrial-scale illegal logging. There are much easier ways to track and trace activity on that scale.

This is an attempt to stop "sustinance" logging. Literally poor individuals poaching timber.

We can prevent NK from bombing Seoul or marching 35 miles, if we strike hard enough in the first strike. It would help if China was on board, but it's not necessary.

We possibly could but that's not the real threat to the South.

NK is believed to have at least thirteen thousand artillery tubes pointed at Seoul. Most of them are embedded. We don't have that many bunker-buster bombs in inventory. We can't deliver that many precision munitions in an hour even if we did, and we don't know where most of the tubes are. Even the most conservative estimates (such as the recent one by Roger Cavazos) put the death toll at 30,000 Seoul civilians where the high end one count in the millions. And that's just the first hours.

Martian Scientists Breed Big-Brained Apes To Demonstrate Evolution's Trade-Offs

Ok, so we've isolated the compound. Why do we need the Pandas now?

can you not otherwise impart enough heat to flash boil the water? Why not a big metallic thermal load, made out of recycled popcans?

I believe the trick here is that because you're injecting the "fuel" (liquid water) and injecting the heat source you are able to very precisely control the timing of the engine as well as control the steam's wave front. If you had a static heat source inside the engine there's not only the question of how you deliver heat to that, but also how you control triggering of the phase change.