LordFerret

Without which, you'd be walking your sorry butt all over the place rather than riding in a car or bus or whatever... not to mention the wonders of plastics, pharmaceuticals, and let's not forget computers..... you wouldn't even be here in these forums. Foolishness.

Well wait a minute now... the screwball environmentalists around here want windmills - but don't want windmills, because they kill birds. Then again, this is the same screwball group who don't want to fire up the 'clean' nuke plant again because of (OMG!) radioactive waste and resulting warming of the bay waters (which actually brought more life to the previously chemically polluted bay), but they'd prefer a 'clean' smoke belching coal fired power plant to recharge their electric cars.

Oh my. Well, this place should be right up your alley... Rutt's Hut I can feel my belly swell just thinking about them.

Good luck.

Good for her! Now add this to it... and if you don't dance with her, shame on you!

Kids in high school with a job are not likely earning enough to file. College students are a different story, but managed smartly (being students) most all of their earnings can be written off as school / educational expenses. I don't know what state you're from, but in NJ 'sales tax' goes into the state's general fund and is not used for school funding... supposedly. Some might argue that because, after all, the dollar is fungible. In NJ, public school funding has various contributing sources, including the Fed (whole set of rules for that), specific State ventures (such as gambling, the lottery, etc... ideally, originally, the reason for Atlantic City's casinos existence - to pick up that school funding burden), and primarily property taxes. There is a whole big legal whoop-de-do over school funding here in NJ, the Abbott vs. Burke decision, a thing which I am very familiar with. Study that for a while and you'll see where the money is coming from, and whom it is going to. The level of graft and corruption is absolutely mind boggling. As for the penalties I'd bring upon myself for attempting to withhold my share of funding?... Of course, but you get the point. Edit: Oh, and as far as theft - as has been stated and demonstrated here in this thread, it's not sanctioned activity... so there is no defense for it.

I've posted this link before. Used to go here all the time. Landmark for sure. Mamoun's Falafel... http://mamouns.com/ Was on the road, had the craving, passed it and saw it and couldn't resist. Twice in two months now. White Castle !

Just out of curiosity, humor me, and don't take it personally... allow me to make a point. Do you live in the USA? Do you attend a public school? If the answer is yes; Then stop wasting my tax dollars screwing around and playing games and hanging out in forums... or I'll pull my funding. Using school supplied computers / tablets / internet access / etc for anything other than sanctioned activities is tantamount to "theft of public services" and is punishable by law (fines)... you being a minor, it's your parents who could take that hit. I wonder how they'd feel about that. It's probably not a bad idea. Any lawyers here on the forums care to tackle that one?

[snip] A student in school, sitting in class, is there to learn and gain an education... not to 'escape from reality'. There's plenty of time after school to have fun and escape reality. Focus on the task at hand - school. It's your life and your future that you're gambling with here.

Today, rewinding it... Medieval period. P. des Molins (who is likely 'Pierre de Molins'). Two pieces; Amis tout dous (Friends all) and, De ce fol pensé (From this crazy thought) Why? Only because his name came up in a conversation, sparking interest. Why not.

Good idea ^ RIP Mr. Wolfe

I have to walk away. I'm getting a headache.

Time for some Biber! No, not that Biber. Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Passacaglia for solo violin (1676) @tater, Previous comments about excessive vibrato in Baroque?... listen to this gal (Elicia Silverstein)!

First reasonable reply I've seen on this yet.

Again, you're missing it. If the plane is held stationary, wheels spinning, engine roaring, without air passing over the wings there will be no lift - no flight. Read the link damnit.

@razark The MythBusters video is misleading. If truly a conveyor varied its speed to a point to hold a real airplane steady in one place, which is the concept/question asked in the OP, it would not fly. For a plane to fly, the engines must pull it forward... the forward motion causes air to pass over the wings, which generates lift.

The treadmill. Good gads, I can't believe you people are actually discussing this. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/howplaneswork.html

That video is BS. What generates lift on a wing gentlemen? KSP doesn't count, it's not real world physics - and you know that.

No. You need air passing over the wings to generate lift.

The content is not the issue; The matter of it being a distraction is. Schools allow the phones and tablets with the idea they'll be used as learning aids, referencing online resources, a dictionary / encyclopedia / library resource at your fingertips. Playing games or posting in forums, these or any other, are not why they're permitted. Banning and blocking certain sites should serve as a message to the student; You're being monitored, as such a teacher / instructor would and should do normally, and this hint is to redirect your attention and focus... otherwise they could just outright ban the use altogether, which I believe is prudent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_(unit) You know, you could always write to NASA and ask them "why". https://science.nasa.gov/ask-a-scientist https://www.nasa.gov/content/submit-a-question-for-nasa https://www.nasa.gov/about/contact/ask_nasa_form.html Take your pick.

This pretty much is my point from the start (again, refer to that other discussion in the link I posted). As for slack off time, it used to be called "study hall"... its purpose was to give you additional time to study. I would think that's a determination best left to the school administrator to answer, as to why. Perhaps @The_Cat_In_Spacewill make an inquiry and share the reply they get on the issue. For administration to single out one student and one site?... that sounds a bit far fetched.

I have to disagree. If a student is playing KSP or here browsing and posting in the forums whilst sitting in a class that pertains to anything not STEM related and/or is not paying any attention to the teacher/instructor, then there definitely is a point. There's a similar debate that was previously going on about this related subject elsewhere in the lounge just last week. Same argument. https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/174325-a-whole-family-in-the-living-room-watching-tv/

This might be a great STEM site, and it might be very educational, but while you're in school - you're there to learn a number of different things, not just STEM oriented stuff. Discipline yourself. Focus. Learn to do that and you'll be one step ahead come college.

Yes. And when you turn SAS off you can also use the left-mouse-button to grab the Kerbal and drag it around to any orientation you want.