Science Abuse

With the hippies in Gaza, The Wing of Eagles organization, and "we'll help Jews and maybe some one else" humanitarian aid, I'm beginning to see where antisematism came from. Does the red cross take paypal?

That's all nice and heartwarming, but who we realy need help from is Holland, they've been doing this shit for centuries.

I'm not going to berate you,I'm just going to call you Wrongy McWrongface. 4 words, Cee Aye Eff Eee. Alternative fuels? Nope, yo indeed are correct there. Did he work with honda? No, he worked with all of the automakers by raising the CAFE to 45 mpg by 2015......of course, that's pretty much been ignored. The fact of the matter is, Clinton couldn't do much during his terms because he met partisan opposition every time he tried to get anything done. He was even accused of wasting taxpayer dollars and munitions by attempting to pursue alquaida and Bin Laden. He sends a couple cruise missles to a Pharmy plant thought to be making chemical weapons, and is berated by the right when it turns out the intel was wrong...but bush invades and entire country and burns thousands of American lives based on made up shit....and they think he's the greatest ever. Clinton left the country in much better shape then he found it...but got head an lied about it, OMFG Noez!!11!!1 I'm not saying he isn't a douschebag, but he did his job well. Look at it this way; Now, in 2005, what are you worried about? In 1999, what were you worried about? One list is much much longer then the other. (that's a question geared more toward people who weren't highschool kids in 99, but you get the point.)

wow it's getting thick in here, and your trying to spread your ignor'propaganda'ance. Read some news, as apposed to blind partisan lit. Read up on Bushs propsed changes to the clean air act. Republican want so much to convince eeryone that Bush is awsome and Clinto was the devil. Truth of the matter is, things are shitty now, ut they were good under Clinton. The proof is in the pudding sucka dog, I dont care if he got head, America was more secure and had more money.

wrong, much less. As much as I'd like to, I cant blame bush specificaly. Blame his buddies, domestic oil producers. Throughout the last decade, oil companies around the world have been looking for excuses to cut production. Why? Cutting production lowers overhead, obviously, because your refienries are doing less. It also raises prices...alot. So you're making more and saving more. Opec et al has realized that we will pay, oh will we pay, because we need it. They'd love to just ream our asses outright, but cant, so they look for every little excuse there is to raise prices. 16% of the nations domestic oil comes from the effected area. Only 2-3 of the 17 refineries are actualy damaged, and both pipelines are unscathed, though one is claiming power problems, and is pumping less. So, combined with foreign oil supplies, we're looking at about a 1-2% loss in gasoline production capabilities....yet prices have gone up 20-30%, more in some places. Gasoline began being used in private vehicles in the 1890's, it took over 100 years to rise to a dollarIn the past 10 years gas prices have risen 400%. At that rate, a gallon of gas will soon surpas minimum wage. When did the big climb begin? Desert Storm. OPEC got their shit together and stopped competing with each other, and began working with each other, slowly raising it about 10-20% every year. in 1992, 10-20% = about 8-15 cents, now its a dollar. This is that capitalism that everyone seems to like so much. Oil companies are gutting the country to fatten thier pockets. Since they cant afford it, people are buying less gas, but since the prices are so high, proffits are still the same, if not better. On top of that, overhead is actualy down. When will gass prices stop going up? When they stop making more money. When we're brok ass enough that we simply cant pay anymore, and sales go down, then they will stop raising prices. They're seeing just how high they can go, and will untill they cant go higher and make a profit. And we the people suffer. As far as the disaster, Bush can only be faulted for the effected states being shorted tens of thousands of National Guard troops. The idea of the Guard is to have troops always here to defend us, even if our armies are deployed elsewhere. They never should have been sent overseas. "Oh, be we couldn't have seen this coming", shut up, yes some one DID see this coming. They saw it coming 300+years ago when the colonial national guard was founded. "hmm, what if someting happens when the army isn't here? Lets have some soldiers that stay here to protect us." This is a reminder of how thin our forces are spread.

Should we make any effort to park together or meet before.....or just show up and hunt?

time to bust out hte bike. I bet I can keep the bird under 20 mi a week if I realy try.

sweet, how about next week some time, between 5-7pm?

Going to have the cougar out, sporting its best mod yet....legal tags. Anyone else going to be there?

so, since this is obviously the place to ask, back to my origional question: how do you control the throttle of a pulsejet, simple fuel metering? I'd think there would only be a very narrow window in which you could play....?

people find food, they loot goods.

before anyone says "Well now were just paying as much as the rest of the world", STFU, dats ignent. Brittain doesn't have local oil supplies, they import 100%, we should not have to pay as much as them.

research; Louisiana has 17 refineries feeding 2 pipelines, accounting for 16% of the US's domestic oil supply. Both pipe lines are undamaged, though one has no power. 80% of the refineries are able to operate, even if at deminished capacity. The spars are fine, they weather storms better then almost anything else. So we still have all of our foreign oil sources, and an operational pipeline. Gas should not go up more then 5-10%...but they are predicting over $4, about 60-80% (from monday). From the time gasoline began being sold to the public, it took almost 80 years for it to rise it's first 50 cents, yesterday it took an afternoon. Opportunists, some one needs to burn some mansions to make a point.

willing to pay very little. Ebay can provide a steady stream of $20 converters, figure it'd be easier to get'm localy, and free up some shop space for you guys.

Why have one when you can have both. The project is a larf, a hobbie, but I have imposed some goals. I'd like to keep it somewhat efficient. What alot of guys seem to be doing is, essentialy, building a single can ala'can-annular, and blasting fuel through it. It makes noise, makes fire, but burns alot of fuel. They also have large dillusion areas as a result. I'd like to have a nice constant temp, relatively cool, so i can make the actuialy combustion chamber assembly small, and still be able to run it for a 10 minutes at a time without anything melting. Apart from the turbo, everything else will be 304 stainless. I'm not expecting much more then 1400 deg from the deisel burn, so EGTs should be slightly lower, well within everything elses operational limits. The turbos appear to be both water and oil cooled...I'm wondering if putting water through 1000 deg iron channels would be a bad idea.

nuts, the cougar is thirsty, too.

Keeping it safe shouldn't be a problem. Testing is my profession, afterall. By no means wil this be done inside anything. My co conspirator has access to land equipped with a firing range. Keeping the test stand 30ft away and on the other side of 1/4" lexan should do just fine. I dont think I'm going to play with homade pulsjets untill I have more machine shop access. Right now we're just playing with the gas turbine. I've never set up a burn like this, so I'm trying to find some good models or data on how to set up my deisel burn. I'm using probane to get the ball rolling, then plan to shoot deisel to get the trust pumping, but I'm at a loss for where the best place to spray it is. In the head of the diffuser, the primary, the dillusion area, or just spray the cone aft of the whole thing? I could experiment, but it'd be nice to have some reading material to go off of. It'd at least save me the gas of driving 40mins to "the site". With these wee hitachi turbos, I doubt we'll be pushing enough gas to exeed the speed of sound. I'd consider us fortunate to get 20lbs out of one.

I'd be very interested in seeing the guts of those, at least what is behind the black box. The only actual PDE plans I've been able to come by pre-date sputnik.

wow.....new Si's have like..no power whatsoever.

not even trying to pass tech, but I'll be there saturday if its night, look for the cougar in the MN12 area of the show plot.

Nope. Not even going to try and explain why. How about this example; some one drives a 4cyl Gran Prix daily and enjoys it. They test drive a GTP and it handles much better, in their opinion. Then drives Borsche boxter, complains about feeling the road too much, and cant corner w/o spinning it. So they say it handles poorly. Your ability to drive each car properly and to its extents what matters. Without that it's all up to preference based on the limited experince the individual has. Comparing the Top Gear host Base of Knowledge to your own is like comparing the library of congress to your local highschool, therefore his opinion is vastly more valuable then yours, and mine for that matter.

Pump, dont care what, just has to be electric and work. In line would rock. fpr; to use with the fuel pump. Torque converters; dont wanna pay much, I'm just going to crack them open and gank the stators out of them. anyone?

Yes it does. Of course, what is taught in public school is very very basic. Breifly touching on your specific example; Occasionaly the growth message is interrupted, and you have birth defects. We know why and how, but the when still illudes us in some cases. Dj, evolution requires faith, yes, but that doesn't make it a religion. No one worships Darwin or makes people swear on The Origin of Species. Evolution has been proven and observed. Not on "The Grand Sacle", that would require time travel, the best we have in that respect is archeology. However, we, as humans, have witnessed evolution occur before our very eyes. More often then not, it's animals adapting to our presence. The most obvious; Look at your burger and ask where it came from. Cows didn't always sport the Gateway Colors. Debating creationism vs evolution is stupid, because you will never prove the other person wrong. Relgious teachings have no place in schools. Pick up a bible and give it a read. It will tell you christians to pass it through family. WWJD? He wouldn't lobby schools to teach everyone, he'd teach christian kids his damn self. He never made anyone listen to him, he just spoke, and those who wanted to listen did. The only reason christians want it taught in schools is bacause no one wants to hear it anymore. We're seeing the true purpose of religion, getting power and holding it. Christians used to run things, and now thats slipping. Sticking the 10 commandments everywhere, putting verbal prayer in public events, and trying to get creationism taught in public schools again is all summarized in one sentence; "LOOK AT US!, We're still here, and we still run things, you should join us." That is, of course, if they win. Prayer is between you and god, not you and a crowd, it is not personal expression. The 10 commandments does not belong in courthouses, we have our own laws now, post them at your curches. You dont see Hamurabi's laws up anywhere do you? Creationism is taught at home by parents, in church, or in sunday school. Everyone who wants and needs to hear about it already has. Teaching it in public schools is nothing more then an attention getting device. It's so simple that it wouldn't even constitude a subject, it'd be completely summarized in a 9 question quiz. If your that despirate, do what my highschool did, lobby for a "Bible as litterature" class. Taugh under the guise of mythology and as an elective course. Religion has no buisness in public schools, 100% of the faithful in this world became faithful at home or on their own, no where else. The only possible reason for wanting it there is advertising, period. Christians need to stop their bitching and do what J would D.

update, now that the board lives. In the time past I have picked up a pair of FD3S turbos and done a good bit of reading. I beleive I have a good setup planned, and have even begun making an annular combustor for it, as apposed to the single can combustors most use. I've got a plan for a proper jet engine based on a turbo cartridge, but I'll get this one done and running first. I've got them in autocad if some one can host the stuff.

I beleive it's; total time air frame total time engine