You're not really going to humiliate yourself by continuing this, are you?

Bill Burr says it best :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Of course they're going to be terrible at sports. They don't have any black people on their team!

Dude, you're the worst sort of person to argue with. You've demonstrated poor reading comprehension and a willingness to hand-wave away the distinction between similar words if you don't think they are relevant to you or serve your position. You seriously make me wonder why I even bother trying to express myself precisely

I never used the word explosion. I used the word detonation. I contrasted it with the deflagration that occurs in internal combustion engines like we see in cars.

A detonation occurs when the shock wave expanding out of the reaction zone compresses the unburnt fuel ahead of the wave, and the compressive heating raises the temperature in the unburnt fuel above it's autoignition temperature.

10 m/s is well below the threshold. Try 2000 m/s.

Detonation produces a more efficient combustion than deflagration, gives higher yields, and generates more kinetic force relative to the thermal energy released. It's a whole different kettle of fish.

Smart engineering thinking. These are the details that make for verisimilitude.

Sad. A future that could never, ever be. Remember when the situation of Kubrick's 2001 seemed not only plausible, but likely?

Was that an ironic comment? It's SO hard to tell these days. ;-)

Hey! Look! We're all meta!

That's a fact.

Nobody dealin' with that winter, for rent.

I assume that picture was meant to be a German V-1 flying bomb? Those were pulse jet engines, but not pulse detonation engines. They used the expanding gas of repeated combustion reactions, they didn't cause fuel to detonate.

Do you have any more information? I can't find any references to a successful PDE powered flight outside of the work being done by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc.

Sorry, I'm not an engineer. I've worked in a fireworks factory and made my own model rockets, but I'm not a professional.

And no, I was thinking something like Galinstan, and not for propulsion, but for a power station.

One benefit to having an OpenEULA.org with a card is that all the aggregated purchase info that normally goes to card owners (not cardholders) would go to OpenEULA.org -- who could then use it to police companies abiding by the EULA and automatically cut them off from all purchases should they void the contract.

It's perfect! Unsinkable? Unthinkable!
No Homer will ever be allowed, and all the regulators will be objective and unbowed!

How would you feel about the sentence: "Your brain surgeon does not suck that bad anymore."

This is actually a really good idea -- someone should create the OpenEULA -- a license agreement that individuals can sign on to, that indicates what conditions apply when a vendor accepts their payment. An organization that hosts the OpenEULA could even do things like get a credit card with the logo and references to the agreement on it, to make it completely legit (if the vendor accepts the card, they accept the liability should they breach the card's contract).

Anyone up for kicking this off?

These days the big players know about Ghandi's saying, and attempt to do an end run around it:

First they ignore you in public, fight you in private, and spend millions on lobbyists to prevent you from getting off the ground.
Then they start suing for patent infringement/Trade infringement/whatever and possibly attempt to buy you out and bury your technology.
If you survive, then you win. For the past 60 years, nobody's really got this far in the US, other than Japanese and Korean automakers, who played by the rules and became just like the US automakers.