IMO that’s exactly the point.
I assume the resemblance between “OOH” and “.001” is coincidental…
No, launching during a hurricane would work. It’d start off with a ground speed of zero, and it would take some nonzero amount of time to accelerate to match the wind. So for the moment right after launch, you’d have an airspeed of 200 MPH.
Something mutatis mutandis like this kitesurfer? (Triggerwarning: Blurry alleged youtube death on camera far away)
Qualifier was level flight …
Even with that, a hurricane is where a record could be set. Hurricanes have sustained winds, but gusts of many mph higher. So either at the beginning of a gust or when a gust quickly slacks off, the balloon will have a very high airspeed.
My uninformed image is a quick vertical up down done. If the balloon lasts the up gust. I don’t imagine it surviving long enough to have any level flight.
“Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this ‘volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft’ thing seems like it can’t possibly be right, but…"”
Maybe there was a category 6 hypercane that day?
More, or as much as you want to know, about Heart Mountain.
"For over a century geologists have been trying to understand the emplacement mechanism for the HMD that allowed it to move on such a flat surface. Recent work has focused on release of gas (CO2) along the detachment surface that allowed it to move like a hovercraft."
Munroe sends me down a history rathole yet again.
From that article:
The white carbonate rocks on the top are blocks of Paleozoic Madison and Bighorn formations. They were originally deposited in a shallow sea about 350 and 450 million years ago, respectfully, about 30 miles away near the northeastern corner of Yellowstone National Park.
It is nice to know that geological processes once had an ingrained sense of respect. Seems to be lost on today’s young volcanoes and earthquakes, which just go off with no respect for their surroundings or their elders. Looking at you, Mount St Helens!
Never mind.
“The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.”
While many such videos are genuinely helpful, there’s a distressing tendency for two minutes of useful information to get padded out to ten minutes. Worse, the information necessary for me to determine if the advice offered is actually useful tends to be buried several minutes in. IOW, actual utility is a secondary consideration to getting clicks. If they could post ten minutes of footage of dogs defecating and somehow get clicks, that would supersede genuine guidance.
running YT at 1.5 times the orig. speed and checking the “eyeballs histogram ™” on the slider saves me a great deal of time …
My biggest headache is usually that they are talking about a slightly different version of the device in question, most common when we are talking about computers. " ‘Step 5: Select the Accessibility menu’–‘WHAT Accessibility menu?!’ "
Today I learned. Thanks!
A lot of YouTube tutorials are pretty good. Every once in a while, you get one like a tutorial like the one I found for changing a spark plug on a generator. We had several small generators for the marching band that had not been maintained for a number of years. It seems that quite a number of band dads believe that owners’ manuals are for wimps. Honorary band dad, Mrs Magill thought that immediately throwing out the manuals (and the assorted tools that are included with the generators) was a Really Stupid IdeaTM, so she kept a set. After a couple of years (without being maintained… at all), the generators ran like shit. At this time, she was the leader of the band dads. She brought home six generators, set them on the back porch, gave me the manuals and tools, and told me to get them working.
I did the easy things first, like changing the oil and cleaning the air filters. I then went to tackle the plugs. Knowing that not doing the plugs correctly can totally fsck up an engine, I decided to watch a tutorial.
This guy, after spending five minutes talking about how the plastic body of this model always breaks, then proceeded to pry off the access panel with a screwdriver, rather than unscrewing the handy-dandy knob that was right there. At this point, i realized this tutorial was going to be an object lesson. He then drilled a massive hole in the top of the generator, so he could use his drill to unscrew the spark plug. Of course, he could have used the nice, little tool that came with the generator, but then he wouldn’t be able to use a power tool. He did show a shining example of a craptastic, dirty plug, but then re-earned my contempt by immediately putting a new plug in without checking the gap. To top it all off, he used his drill to tighten it.
I wonder why his generators don’t run well.
“The package weighs 7 kg 9 oz.”
Perhaps something analogous to when the common usage of the weight unit “stone” got phased out?