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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Dust Bowl was from 1935 - 1940 and was primarily in Kansas but also Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Kansas is where it was most famous but Oklahoma had the mass exodus that resulted in the "Okies in California" of which one of my Linux friends is a descendent and about which the "Grapes of Wrath" was written.
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Thanks for that!
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
I was also under the impression that a nuclear reactor was self-sustaining to a degree?
Yes, that's the idea of course.
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@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
^ That.
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
The dust bowl area is populated farm land, not a dusty area today though
It was only dusty until 1940 from a combination of bad farming and a drought. It was the secondary trigger of the Great Depression - the stock market crashed in 1929 and more or less simultaneously the American midwest faced an epic drought that caused US food production to completely collapse so food prices skyrocketed while incomes and jobs disappeared. It left something like 20% of American farmers without working farms and those that remained with very little food production. -
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
The dust bowl area is populated farm land, not a dusty area today though
It was only dusty until 1940 from a combination of bad farming and a drought. It was the secondary trigger of the Great Depression - the stock market crashed in 1929 and more or less simultaneously the American midwest faced an epic drought that caused US food production to completely collapse so food prices skyrocketed while incomes and jobs disappeared. It left something like 20% of American farmers without working farms and those that remained with very little food production.Does this guy know how to party or what?!
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
And the ocean is empty completely, aside from Kevin Costner and those damn Smokers.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
Agreed, I feel like the salt flats in Utah or the desert in Nevada/New Mexico would be a much better place then the dust bowl states.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
Agreed, I feel like the salt flats in Utah or the desert in Nevada/New Mexico would be a much better place then the dust bowl states.
The best place is closer to the equator, the more north you go, the worse it is for launching. There's less people in parts of Siberia, but Russia launches from Kazakhstan primarily because it's further south.
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
And the ocean is empty completely, aside from Kevin Costner and those damn Smokers.
Yep, I think Cape Canaveral is probably one of the best spots for it. That or a small island in the Caribbean or Pacific. Although getting the supplies and rockets there would be a chore.
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
Agreed, I feel like the salt flats in Utah or the desert in Nevada/New Mexico would be a much better place then the dust bowl states.
The best place is closer to the equator, the more north you go, the worse it is for launching. There's less people in parts of Siberia, but Russia launches from Kazakhstan primarily because it's further south.
Yeah, because at the equator the spinning is so fast that the ships practically just fly off of the surface on their own!
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
And the ocean is empty completely, aside from Kevin Costner and those damn Smokers.
Yep, I think Cape Canaveral is probably one of the best spots for it. That or a small island in the Caribbean or Pacific. Although getting the supplies and rockets there would be a chore.
EU launches from the islands.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
And the ocean is empty completely, aside from Kevin Costner and those damn Smokers.
Yep, I think Cape Canaveral is probably one of the best spots for it. That or a small island in the Caribbean or Pacific. Although getting the supplies and rockets there would be a chore.
EU launches from the islands.
Yeah, but they're so smug.
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
Agreed, I feel like the salt flats in Utah or the desert in Nevada/New Mexico would be a much better place then the dust bowl states.
The best place is closer to the equator, the more north you go, the worse it is for launching. There's less people in parts of Siberia, but Russia launches from Kazakhstan primarily because it's further south.
Yep, linear velocity is much faster the closer you get to the equator right?
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller I knew about that, which is why I was confused that "launching from the Dust Bowl" being an event in history.
I didn't say it was history... I was suggesting it might be a good idea to launch a nuclear powered space ship from there. Geography is not one of my strong suits, lol.
I know you didn't say that, but my knowledge of "Dust Bowl" is "an event in history" so I as confused as to why you used it as a location.
I've heard it used as a location only in reference to the "Dust Bowl states" I think that's what @dafyre was going for.
Wouldn't the unpopulated desert area be more useful than America's prime farmland, though? Farmland isn't heavily populated, but it is populated. Our desert is basically empty.
Agreed, I feel like the salt flats in Utah or the desert in Nevada/New Mexico would be a much better place then the dust bowl states.
The best place is closer to the equator, the more north you go, the worse it is for launching. There's less people in parts of Siberia, but Russia launches from Kazakhstan primarily because it's further south.
Yep, linear velocity is much faster the closer you get to the equator right?
The angular velocity of the Earth's rotation helps with the rocket's linear velocity caused by the rocket engine itself, and it's best directly at the equator though yes, you get an added boost.
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
While rare, a nuclear explosion anywhere would be a catastrophe, though you do raise a good point about the system not having as much radioactive materials as a nuclear power plant...
Say what? Do you have any actual understanding of radiation facts? This statement right here is exactly why we are not allowed to use nuclear in space.
