^^ Yeah. We copied the plans for an intergalactic space ship to make an airplane. Are you people always this retarded?
That post was not entirely serious, but look at it this way.
It you were to travel into the distant past with an airplane, the people of that time would not be able to create one, but might still try to construct something that resembled an airplane out of other materials such as wood. Similarly if the people of the present discovered an intergalactic space ship they would not have the technology to replicate it, but would not discard it either. They could still apply aspects of it to improve airplanes such as lighter metal alloys, etc.
You almost sound surprised..
I mean the chinese more or less copy everything so why not military tech.. I mean what can you do about it? Have argument with china where they just stop understanding english conveniently and look at you weirdly..
That post was not entirely serious, but look at it this way.
It you were to travel into the distant past with an airplane, the people of that time would not be able to create one, but might still try to construct something that resembled an airplane out of other materials such as wood. Similarly if the people of the present discovered an intergalactic space ship they would not have the technology to replicate it, but would not discard it either. They could still apply aspects of it to improve airplanes such as lighter metal alloys, etc.
Oh, I wasn't being serious either. I don't doubt aliens have and still are visiting Earth, but I think people put a little too much faith in alien technology being around us. The ALIENS came up with space ships, beams that can pick people up, all kinda of things. What's so hard to believe about humans inventing PS3?
Ununpentium's most stable isotope has a half life of 220 milliseconds. Radioactive decay cannot be halted unless the mass is sped up to 100% the speed of light. That takes infinite energy. Why? As a mass speeds up time slows down for it, and it becomes heavier. Heaver objects have more inertia, and the closer you get an object to the speed of light, the heavier it gets, the amount of energy needed to get the object at the speed of light becomes infinite.
Assuming you did manage to get ununpentium to the speed of light, since time has stopped for it, information processing has halted and ununpentium becomes "frozen." It cannot affect anything, nothing can affect it. It might as well not exist.
Also, 224 grams of ununpentium would be so massively radioactive its decay heat would melt anything. Even tungsten. It'd melt right through the supposed thermoelectric generator. Not only that, In one second it is no longer ununpentium.
Elements can't fuse by proton bombardment. Protons are positively charged and the nucleus repels them. If protons could fuse by bombardment, the universe would quickly become one big atom.
So you managed to fuse the atom and proton? Good job. Now it decays via alpha decay, and releases helium. Element 116 becomes element 114, and helium with an energy of about 5million electron volts is released. About the amount of energy required to let it move through a few cm of air. No antimatter brah.
Okay so suppose it decays via beta+ or positron emission. Good job, an anti-electron is released. It soon annihilates with an electron, and releases a gamma ray with an energy of about 1geV. Nowhere near the amount of energy required to fuse the atom in the first place. You have successfully lost about 99.9% of the energy you tried to "claim."
Ununpentium's most stable isotope has a half life of 220 milliseconds. Radioactive decay cannot be halted unless the mass is sped up to 100% the speed of light. That takes infinite energy. Why? As a mass speeds up time slows down for it, and it becomes heavier. Heaver objects have more inertia, and the closer you get an object to the speed of light, the heavier it gets, the amount of energy needed to get the object at the speed of light becomes infinite.
Assuming you did manage to get ununpentium to the speed of light, since time has stopped for it, information processing has halted and ununpentium becomes "frozen." It cannot affect anything, nothing can affect it. It might as well not exist.
Also, 224 grams of ununpentium would be so massively radioactive, it's decay heat would melt anything. Even tungsten. It'd melt right through the supposed thermoelectric generator. Not only that, In one second it is no longer ununpentium.
Elements can't fuse by proton bombardment. Protons are positively charged and the nucleus repels them. If protons could fuse by bombardment, the universe would quickly become one big atom.
So you managed to fuse the atom and proton? Good job. Now it decays via alpha decay, and releases helium. Element 116 becomes element 114, and helium with an energy of about 5million electron volts is released. About the amount of energy required to let it move through a few cm of air. No antimatter brah.
Okay so suppose it decays via beta+ or positron emission. Good job, an anti-electron is released. It soon annihilates with an electron, and releases a gamma ray with an energy of about 1geV. Nowhere near the amount of energy required to fuse the atom in the first place. You have successfully lost about 99.9% of the energy you tried to "claim."
*mumbles something vague about advanced alien technology,etc,etc*
A combat fighter doesn't rely on it's aero. lifting force to fly, it relies on thrust propulsion.
Elaborate please, I'm interested in the distinction between the two. My current understanding is that airplanes have fixed wings and is a type of aircraft, and aircraft without fixed wings such as helicopters are not airplanes.
Elaborate please, I'm interested in the distinction between the two. My current understanding is that airplanes have fixed wings and is a type of aircraft, and aircraft without fixed wings such as helicopters are not airplanes.
Yes. That is the general definition.
But if you deeper into it, (rather than wiki), you'll find out that airplanes rely heavily on the lifting force their wings produce in take off, along with the thrust created by the turbine engines of course.
Aircrafts on the other hand might have things that resemble the aerodynamical curvature of wings, ex: propellers for helicopters. These are flying machines that heavily depend solely on the generated thrust. Jets take off because of the blazing thrust produced by their GTEs. Helicopters fly because of their moving "wings," not stationary wings.
Not to mention, airplanes can glide for a large quantities of in air with all four main engines shut off. Heck, they can even stall the ignition sequence and remain in air for a good time. Try doing that with a non-maneuver combat fighter or a helicopter. Once that thrust is gone, so will the a/c.
Source: Some old tool chief guy in the hanger taught me this. Seriously.
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That post was not entirely serious, but look at it this way.
It you were to travel into the distant past with an airplane, the people of that time would not be able to create one, but might still try to construct something that resembled an airplane out of other materials such as wood. Similarly if the people of the present discovered an intergalactic space ship they would not have the technology to replicate it, but would not discard it either. They could still apply aspects of it to improve airplanes such as lighter metal alloys, etc.
Inb4darkrodentcomestodefendlazzar
I believe in aliens but Bob lazzar is full of shit.
You can buy figher jets, mang.
and money grows on trees
get a good airplane instead.
I mean the chinese more or less copy everything so why not military tech.. I mean what can you do about it? Have argument with china where they just stop understanding english conveniently and look at you weirdly..
Oh, I wasn't being serious either. I don't doubt aliens have and still are visiting Earth, but I think people put a little too much faith in alien technology being around us. The ALIENS came up with space ships, beams that can pick people up, all kinda of things. What's so hard to believe about humans inventing PS3?
What if the Aliens are really DOPPLEGANGERS!?:eek::eek::eek:
Actually we have found "aliens", and we're a little smarter than them. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-arsenic-life-form/
Fixed.
I drank with him more than once when I lived in Vegas. I believe him...
I'm going to give you the same reply I did last time since you didn't have the balls to respond to it.
*mumbles something vague about advanced alien technology,etc,etc*
A combat fighter doesn't rely on it's aero. lifting force to fly, it relies on thrust propulsion.
Elaborate please, I'm interested in the distinction between the two. My current understanding is that airplanes have fixed wings and is a type of aircraft, and aircraft without fixed wings such as helicopters are not airplanes.
But if you deeper into it, (rather than wiki), you'll find out that airplanes rely heavily on the lifting force their wings produce in take off, along with the thrust created by the turbine engines of course.
Aircrafts on the other hand might have things that resemble the aerodynamical curvature of wings, ex: propellers for helicopters. These are flying machines that heavily depend solely on the generated thrust. Jets take off because of the blazing thrust produced by their GTEs. Helicopters fly because of their moving "wings," not stationary wings.
Not to mention, airplanes can glide for a large quantities of in air with all four main engines shut off. Heck, they can even stall the ignition sequence and remain in air for a good time. Try doing that with a non-maneuver combat fighter or a helicopter. Once that thrust is gone, so will the a/c.
Source: Some old tool chief guy in the hanger taught me this. Seriously.
That. :thumbsup: