AliAdams
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I'm Ali. You can find out a more about me and what I do at http://aliadams.me
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Comment · 6 years ago
That would be a better link, but that isn't the one that is opened automatically in a new tab when you open Firefox after an update.
Comment · 6 years ago
What about ferromagnetic fluid? You can still spin it if you are aiming to push it 'centrifugally' into the features of the vacuum boundary, but you shouldn't lose a lot during the detachment.
(Plus it looks much more sci-fi.)
Comment · 6 years ago
Oh dear - I didn't realise it was posting.
I was getting a 500 error on attempting submission and assumed I was falling foul of some ban / filter.
Will see if I can prune the duplicates.
Thanks for letting me know!
Comment · 7 years ago
For those wondering what this is about before jumping into the PDF. It is an article from the captain's perspective of a flight in 1977, where a Lockheed L-1011's left elevator jammed (corrosion) during take-off forcing the plane to pitch up.
The captain, Capt. Jack McMahan, was awarded the FAA's Distinguished Service Award for successfully landing the plane by using a thrust differential between the wing engines and tail engine to counteract the upward pitch, preventing a stall.
The (short) Wikipedia article can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1080
Comment · 7 years ago
Apologies for the tangent, but I'm interested; Are there problems with over-doing insulation?
Comment · 7 years ago
Maybe "Trusted" could be be a better alternative to "Verified".
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm not sure if the US is the same as the UK, but here there are tax incentives [1] to classify, or interpret as much engineering time as possible as R&D.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-research-and-dev...
Comment · 7 years ago
What is your proposal for an alternative to Facebook, Twitter, etc? Thousands of small independently-owned networks? How would that work when you need to send data from/to arbitrary locations in the entire US/world?