Green Baron

Yeah, adaptive optics use lasers to paint artificial stars ("guide stars") in the sky ("on the other end"). One wants a guide star close to the object that's being watched, and such guides aren't always there when needed. That's why :-) The flickering of this guide star is used to adjust the optics mirrors in almost real time to account for the distortions, assuming that real stars would experience the same distortions. This is mainly to correct effects of the lower atmosphere where the weather takes place. The technology though is still partially experimental, especially for the planned super large multi mirror telescopes TMT and E-ELT. Without such a thing they would be virtually useless. Edit: how can this serve a fantastic laser driven spaceship ?

Guys, are you sure it is a good idea to disclose your sanity on the internet in detail ? One day somebody might hold that in front of you and ask whether this is you. I mean, the doctor shall not talk about it to the firm but you shout it out in a game forum. If i were you, i would delete it and walk away whistling "Always look on the broight soide of loif ..." :-)

To bring this down to science - which may sound heartless to the affected but i think there is nothing in here that the community doesn't already know - i cite from a site that describe asperger syndromes: I am absolutely content if doctors decide not to issue the medical necessary for an aeronautical license to a person that shows one or several of these symptoms because they would disable the person to act appropriately in a situation that is out of the normal routine. That could be, if i understand it right, as easy a thing as a sudden crosswind short before touchdown instead of the announced "wind variable, 3knots", or the request to go around or divert because of animals on the airstrip or the encounter of marginal conditions on a VFR flight, the sudden appearance of crossing traffic that apparently hasn't noticed you and requires immediate action to avoid. Or the observation that you aren't quite where you thought you would be and now have to find your position with the map and maybe "electric" helpers, or ask ATC to give you a position, and still watch for traffic and speak with the guests on board if present. That is stress that should not keep you from felling the right decisions. And that is only PPL and VFR. "Electric" flight and jet handling/complex aircrafts are much more complicated. There are so many thing that can happen that need a certain mental flexibility and repertoire, and the above list doesn't make me confident that a person with Asperger can handle these situations appropriately. OP, you can answer your question yourself. If you have been to the doctor and he expressed his doubts then do something else as many others have to. That's all :-)

Welcome ! Well, miracle sounds somewhat ... miraculous. It is all about catching photons and bringing them in the right order. Everybody can do that, maybe not right away from the start with the quality Epox75 shows here :-) Ingredients are time, some equipment, the will to learn and experiment and patience.

Welcome :-) I personally think different. I do remember times when sonic booms were to be heard several times a day, including shattered windows and tense nerves (booms from airplanes i mean). I am happy that these times are over. A NGMM (new great manned mission) needs a program to justify it. Just sending people to Moon or Mars for the lulz of it might please a billionaires heart or boost "we did it" feelings but is of little scientific use if it is not made clear what to do there. Also, and that is probably the biggest hindrance right now, there is not the technology nor the money to do so. Tech is in development, money elsewhere, being printed at the central banks and ... stop .. politics :-) And a little fundamental research for the impact of such journeys on the human mind and body wouldn't harm as well. Also, i think, the times of the shuttle are over. The concept hasn't really proved to be viable, in all respects, safety, money, manageable tech. .... but i will probably soon be corrected.

"Le coq est mort le coq est mort ..." humdidum Nothing political of course :-)

http://astronomyonline.org/Science/TidalForces.asp I assume you want to keep it simple and not take into account for the influence of different bodies. Looking at the formula, just keep the distances large. You can't do much about the masses and radii since density is a feature of the the material which is rock (2.5 to 3.5 g/cm³) or iron (around 8g/cm³) or a combination. Don't use KSP as a guideline. Bodies are far too small and far too close together, just keep the distances large like irl and you're fine with your fantasy world :-) Edit: here is a better version of the formula, since i feel the first link doesn't make clear that there is a difference in forces between near and far on the bodies.

I don't understand what it is that you want from us. All these "buts" and "what ifs" don't solve your question. If the disorder you are talking of means a no-go for an aviation license then any further discussion is futile. Go do something else. Many people have to and the world keeps on turning. If you are unsure then by all means make an appointment for a medical class 3 (PPL), speak with the doctor about your thoughts and see what the answer is. They are no enemies, they do their job and will happily answer any question if they can and tell you about the limits the disorder imposes on you. Perhaps he can even help you with an address of an expert who might further evaluate if you are fit or partially fit or unfit.

Looks like Harvey is filling up. I hope everybody is alright. Astonishingly for me no hurricanes, not even tropical storms have formed on and crossed the Atlantic ocean this season so far. They all formed either in the golf or relatively short off the Atlantic west coast / island arcs. But the season has just begun ...

I don't know the movie Scully, but it seems to me as if several situations were showily exaggerated (American style :-)). Yes, bird strikes aren't uncommon and a pilot has a water landing in mind, it is not ingenious to come up with the idea, it is (was ?) even discussed in PPL courses in the 90s. But it would probably be difficult to tell an autopilot "You are in the initial climb phase, stall speed is so close, the power plants have both gone on strike, you must maintain control over the flight path no matter what, the airfield is out of reach or the margin is too small if only the slightest incident happens. So look for next free area including water bodies and golf ranges and touchdown the plane there with minimum speed. Leave the rest to physics." If a plane has the necessary sensors (thinking of ground radar or so to judge the last 20 meters) that might work but i can imagine that a well trained pilot has the better repertoire of courses of action to deal with unforeseen tiny things. OTOH the situation with the smoke in the cockpit is different, it is much easier: simply land the plane on the next airport that allows an automatic landing. There have been accidents where very experienced pilots flew the plane until nothing could be seen from the cockpit due to smoke. The was a Swiss air flight that crashed near Newfoundland/Greenland because of this. There an autopilot would have been the better choice.

Thanks, and may i add http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/. I hope it goes out well.

Man am i glad i don't have any heart disease. But i can't fly either, i step on things in the dark if they don't shout out loud or get out the way. :-) OP, no i don't think doctors have too many powers. I only visit one if i need one. Also, after the case of that Germn pilot who flew his airbus into a mountain in France, i find it absolutely right that doctors can be released from the medical confidenciality in certain cases.

You live on the slope of a mountain ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W93V0YTDUQ4 Debris flow Piz Cengalo (Bondo), Switzerland 3 days ago, probably caused by thawing of former permafrost. 8 People missing, they entered a trail despite of it being barred because avalanche danger. The village was evacuated because something was expected. More to come with the thawing of the glaciers. Modern mountains don't call nymore, they come visiting themselves ...

Why don't you speak with the doctor ? He is the right person to tell you if you can fly or not, not the guys in a computer game forum. (Sorry guys in the computer game forum :-))

Interesting ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome#Diagnosis Might be an idea to broaden the search on Autism, idk.

Man, just fill out the papers and be honest to the doctor. It is a criminal offense not to. If your disorder shows in your daily interactions with others then nobody will rent you a plane or give you an education anyway, because then the school would commit an offense. It doesn't help nobody if the accident report contains something like "The pilot had a psychic disorder that he didn't disclose, which could have led to him misjudging the situation." If you're after more than a PPL then sooner or later you'll be disguised anyway ;-)

Good idea. No, it is not easy and leads to its own problems. Like connecting aquifers and and clay layers on the way down, causing heaving what makes the above house owners angry and lawyers happy :-) Using a geothermal gradient for energy production is being worked on. It is done but not in great industrial style. And nobody wants it under his own house ...

@cratercracker got a good point. And i have too much time :-) Consider the following highly abstract thought: the forces right now are in an equilibrium. That includes the pressure from the plume below the chamber, resulting from up-flow, densities, fluid contents (gases or water), temperature etc., the composition and state of differentiation in the chamber, with its liquid or more or less viscous parts and the solved gases and fluids, and the weight of the cover over it. As long as nothing changes that may stay so until the chamber has solidified (10s of millions of years) and/or the supply from the plume decreases. Now, if we poke into the chamber to release the pressure solved fluids might start to bubble out like a soda bottle that is opened. Also, a partial release of pressure might result in spontaneous melting of formerly low viscous or even solid phases, leading to more bubbling out of gases. That could and will open cracks, allowing the abundant ground water to come in. You might (and probably will actually in the case of Yellowstone) end up with a disastrous outcome, destroying part of a continent instead of trying to save the world. I do not pretend that the above is correct, but i ask to take into consideration the work others have done on volcanism and the uncertainties some fields of geoscience have to deal with. I just hope i can further awake your interest in volcanism :-) Edit: there are examples where a small pressure release from a single eruption lead to cataclysmic reactions due to fluid releases or inflow, i think of plinian Vesuv and Santorini (Thera) eruptions, Mt. St. Helens ... not sure if Krakatoa ...

... you could still grab the opportunity and widen your horizon ;-) The link i posted links to an outdated edition. You should look for the lates edition (2015 i think) if interested, because it IS an interesting field. Goes to book shelf ... hmm 2010 ... might update as well ... A pity if you just left frustrated ... it wasn't the best of all starts in this forum, was it ?

OP, if you are interested in volcanology, here's THE standard book on it. It is sciency but not too much with a lot of informative illustrations, even touching briefly other connecting geoscience fields. I could imagine you will like it, and it contains MUCH more information as you will ever get out of the internet. And it could prepare you to actually understand scientific publications on that.

It is not that easy. Some people here have actually studied something or even do something in those fields. I understand you are neither a geoscientist spp. (here: volcanologist) nor a programmer. I am not a volcanologist but know a little about geoscience, my computer knowledge i more limited. A simulation program can only work with those parameters that are already known, the others must be guessed. A real time real life simuation is fantasy, as we are not even sure how the chamber under yellowstone is actually fed (see below). A 3 dimensional idea of how the magma chamber under the caldera looks like actually exist from seismics. There is a controversy if the chamber is fed by a deep (core/mantle border) mantle plume or just a shallow one. I am not specially informed about Yellowstone but some hotspot-feeding plumes actually do go that deep (according to models, which may change as new details come in). You'd have to release a good portion of that plume which might last 20 million years and could cover north America with a trapp basalt :-). Also you'd only doctor on the symptoms, the overall driving force (plate tectonics and mantle circulation) can't be stopped. Well, when the sun comes here one far day it will :-) The ocean is too far away for a tunnel, that is not feasible. Digging a tunnel system at the side of the plume sounds a silly idea to me, but again, the specific conditions in that area are not known to me. Differentiation of magma in a chamber leads to changes in chemical composition and viscosity. Changing chemical properties of the lava and collapses will probably plumb the tunnels before much pressure is released. And when the pressure is released, what do you do with the hole from the resulting collapse ? Publication by the AGU, Nature Geoscience, etc. could shed some light on the conditions around and under Yellowstone. Anyway, no measures we can take now and during the course of a human life would actually solve your problem of releasing the lava from the chamber under Yellowstone. It'll probably just slowly fill up again. How pressing is the problem at all ? Is an eruption imminent or to be expected in foreseeable future ? Edit: i missed the dome thing. Here i really think that the forces involved are underestimated. An explosion that blows out km³s of molten rock will handwavy do away with an artificial structure that doesn't collapse under its own weight. Or else the crust is just lifted until the cracks are big enough to release the stuff at the sides. A dome is not a good idea. I'd rather suggest to keep the nature reserve and national park for future generations to visit ;-) Because it is beautiful.

Yeah, right. Also aeronautical navigation systems aren't stand-alone systems like a simple 2-axis autopilot. They are integrated in communication between aircrafts (like TCAS, Transponders, ...) and between aircraft and ground (like navigation aids, automated landings). Crew that handles these systems need special training more extensive than mere flying before they are allowed to push the respective buttons. If they fail to respect the procedures things can go terribly wrong, despite of computers and traned crews. I recall the case of two airplanes crashing mid flight because one relied on TCAS and the other on the (distracted by other tasks) controller. Very sad that was. Report

Not comparable to human intelligence. The ability and will to learn just for the cause of learning lacks. At the moment when a machine is able to decide to learn something it has not been programmed for i will revoke and admit artificial intelligence exists. Programmers of certain companies will probably object and call their respective creations "intelligent" but that's only possible because there is no common definition of "intelligence".

Only in the greatest of needs i'd eat at McDonalds. And these do not occur in our world :-) In Germany there exists a syrup from sugar beet called "Rübenkraut". It is dark and thick and the only ingredients is sugar beet (and energy for extracting and boiling). It is exported, i have even have encountered it in Spain. Edit: the Belgians do a similar thing to apples, i recall faintly ...