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originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: tanka418
Haha, thanks for the reply!
Game Changer
In theory, maglev train technology could redefine city-to-city travel in dramatic ways. The 4,200-kilometer journey from New York to San Francisco, with no stops, could be covered in seven hours at this speed. A London-Paris journey via the Channel Tunnel, one of the most popular high-speed routes, would take 50 minutes, about one-third of the current time.
www.bloomberg.com...
Now, just hypothetically, consider this train in an environment with atmospheric pressures at 67 Pa underground instead of roughly 101325 Pa at mean sea level on the surface. Your estimated speed-record underground would be how high?
originally posted by: midlandghost
a reply to: tigertatzen
Call us crazy but my entire family had been getting prepared for awhile. Some of my family is part of the Texas militia at the border right now. They called my dad and said that something fishy was going on down there too. Keep your eyes out and be open to many explanations. You don't think something crazy might happen and then bam they hit and your not prepared. Things are getting ugly. What I want to know is why only local news and underground news sites are reporting on this. Where are the major news stations in reporting on this? Too focused on what Hilary eats.
originally posted by: thorfourwinds
Jade Helm-WalMart-DHS: Does this foretell of Martial Law and FEMA Camps? (my title) on Alex "and those nuts on the Internet."
originally posted by: badgerprints
I've been in the Midland store several times over the last year. They stay real busy. There's no reason to lose a half years income over plumbing in that store.
As much cash as they bring in they could have miners re-pipe the place from under the slab and still pull a profit.
originally posted by: tanka418
originally posted by: Crowdpsychology
Does it stop there? No, unfortunately not. Another growing approach to monitor ”potential terrorists” are the use of RFID chips. This chip enables wireless use of electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for the purposes of automatically identifying and tracking objects. Antennas/readers are all over cities and the reading-distance of some of these are above 100m. RFID chips is a vital part of Walmart’s streamlining operation and the company uses them to increase the responsiveness of their logistic network.
Sorry man, but a 100 meter range for a RFID transponder is not possible with todays technology. The activating field must always be above a fixed level, and a level that would permit that range would be dangerous to public health.
No, those things only work over a few feet at very best.
originally posted by: thorfourwinds
Greetings Mr Scientist tanka418:
Now, for the two-point toss-up question that might help us non-scientists validate your scientific credentials:
How far are the USGOV/EPA radiation monitors good for? (When they are not 'offline for maintenance issues'.)
As in, how far away from the monitor can radiation be detected?
And, if you are somewhat up on the subject (as most scientists claim to be), what kinds of radiation are being detected?
originally posted by: thorfourwinds
originally posted by: midlandghost
a reply to: tigertatzen
Call us crazy but my entire family had been getting prepared for awhile. Some of my family is part of the Texas militia at the border right now. They called my dad and said that something fishy was going on down there too. Keep your eyes out and be open to many explanations. You don't think something crazy might happen and then bam they hit and your not prepared. Things are getting ugly. What I want to know is why only local news and underground news sites are reporting on this. Where are the major news stations in reporting on this? Too focused on what Hilary eats.
Greetings:
A couple of nights ago, FOX NEWS did a 'hit piece' on Alex Jones and pinned the entire conspiracy concerning Jade Helm-WalMart-DHS: Does this foretell of Martial Law and FEMA Camps? (my title) on Alex "and those nuts on the Internet."
(snip)
Are you finished yet?
The freedom to case harm... what are you talking about?
Weapons of mass keyboarding?
Weapons of mass keyboarding?
"Pa?" You should use standard metrics.
Also, the maglev system that would also have to be there would require alignments that would be difficult to maintain in a geologically active place like Earth.
They are good for a few cycles then MUST be replaced. So the system doesn't really work very well yet...it's advantage is that it will fire a 60mm round at Mach 5.
While high-speed maglev infrastructure is relatively expensive to build, maglev trains are less expensive to operate and maintain than traditional high-speed trains, planes or intercity buses. Most of the power needed is used to overcome air drag, as with any other high speed train.
Maglev systems can operate at very high speeds almost without deterioration and are therefore more economical to operate than wheel/rail rapid transit systems that require regular intensive maintenance and experience exponentially increasing erosion with increasing speed. The fundamental freedom from mechanical erosion is one of the main advantages of maglev high-speed systems.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: tanka418
And you could have answered the question but decided to stick to the paper instead. Well played.
Either way, the paper doesn't clear up with your suggestions. We will have to speculate about details at this point and I will not present a summary of the other thread about this paper. A MagLev would be fast enough for me.
At least seven former officials, consultants, or shareholders of Northrop Grumman have held posts in the Bush administration, including Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Vice-Presidential Chief of Staff Lewis Libby, Pentagon Comptroller Dov S. Zakheim, and Sean O’Keefe, director of NASA. From 1990-2002, Northrop Grumman contributed $8.5 million to federal campaigns and the company gave $1,011,260 to federal candidates in 2005-2006 election cycle. The majority of the contributions, 63%, went to Republicans. Former Northrop Grumman Electronics Systems chief James G. Roche served as Secretary of the Air Force for two years under George W. Bush. Roche would eventually be nominated to head the Army.
In 1994, Northrop Aircraft merged with Grumman Aerospace, famous for building the Apollo Lunar Module to create Northrop Grumman (NG) Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by Northrop's 1994 purchase of Grumman. The company was the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2015. and ranks in the top ten military-friendly employers.
For the manufacturing of the B-2 Spirit, a former Ford automobile assembly plant in Pico Rivera, California, was acquired and heavily rebuilt; the plant's employees were sworn to complete secrecy regarding their work. To avoid the possibility of suspicion, components were typically purchased through front companies, military officials would visit out of uniform, and staff members were routinely subjected to polygraph examinations. The secrecy extended so far that access to nearly all information on the program by both Government Accountability Office (GAO) and virtually all members of Congress itself was severely limited until mid-1980s.
The B-2 was first publicly displayed on 22 November 1988 at United States Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California, where it was assembled. This viewing was heavily restricted, and guests were not allowed to see the rear of the B-2. However, Aviation Week editors found that there were no airspace restrictions above the presentation area and took photographs of the aircraft's then-secret planform and suppressed engine exhausts from the air, to the USAF's disappointment. The B-2's (s/n 82-1066 / AV-1) first public flight was on 17 July 1989 from Palmdale to Edwards AFB
originally posted by: verschickter
a reply to: tanka418
Pa is standard metrics. Derived from SI table it´s 1 Pa = 0.00067 bar = 1N/m²
"Gigawatt every few miles"?
" could easily use the energy required to run the country for the better part of a week."?
BS
How about some numbers? But you may be pleasantly busy designing a "remote data aquisition system for stellar data"
Yeah alright
And, I did address your question, with a relatively good explanation...But, IF you should decide to remain ignorant, that is your right.
At the end of the day; your tunnels, and any sort of transportation system in them do not exist and aren't likely to for several hundred years; mostly due to technological issues, which you seem to want to ignore...
Your understanding of the technologies involved with either the maglev or indeed any other technology is seriously lacking. Yet you continue to pretend that you are "up" on those technologies and have some understanding...unfortunately even your simplest statements belie you and your understanding.
Remember, the original guess was for a system that could send a payload from coast to coast in 21 minutes...That would require an average velocity of approximately 8500MPH.
Now, just hypothetically, consider this train in an environment with atmospheric pressures at 67 Pa underground instead of roughly 101325 Pa at mean sea level on the surface. Your estimated speed-record underground would be how high?
originally posted by: Crowdpsychology
Detailed view of the store’s floor plan, red mark where a possible entrance might be located
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: tanka418
We don't know details regardings this Rand-project.
But I do remember my question very well:
Any answers yet? Or just hypothetically clueless after all?
Well, the article you linked contained enough detail I think to render a preliminary opinion...which of course you didn't like because it was based on reality and contradicted your understanding.
By the way...those numbers I gave in another post today...work for a purely "Maglev" system as well.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: tanka418
Well, the article you linked contained enough detail I think to render a preliminary opinion...which of course you didn't like because it was based on reality and contradicted your understanding.
Actually they didn't even decide which way to go, at that point. To be precise: what are you talking about?
By the way...those numbers I gave in another post today...work for a purely "Maglev" system as well.
And now we have to guess what your estimated high speed could have been if you would have answered my question.
*sigh*
For goods sake, could anybody please sink this boat?
www.abovetopsecret.com...
How long did you indend to play this little game of torpedo-dodging?