CaptainPanic

This thread is ancient (it started in 2008), but it appears this is the first actual Air trecks built... even though their name is Razerblades, rather than airtrecks. Congrats to the creator (named Charles). Check out that website, it is worth it.

It would be a pretty low-maintenance defensive line. imatfaal, thanks for the link. It is the best explanation (and the only one with a link) so far.

As I was taking a little summer holiday in Russia by browsing on google maps, I found some weird features in the Russian landscape that I cannot explain. There are triple or quadruple rows of trees (or other types of green), which extend for hundreds of kilometers through the landscape. Here's an example of a triple line. Here's an example of a quadruple line. Here's one that crosses through a town, to give a sense of scale. Finally, here's one just outside of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), which seems to give a possible hint about what this is... These lines seem to have little to do with the borders of the oblasts or other governmental regions. The line just outside Volgograd suggests to me that this is a line that indicates the furthest advance that the German forces made in WWII (even though it is outside the city, and I thought that the battle took place inside the city)? The scale of these lines (hundreds of meters wide, stretching hundreds of kilometers) is quite mindboggling. I've searched the internet for quite a while now, but I haven't been able to find a single reference to what these are. Guesses are welcome, but links and sources are what I am really looking for!

Last Saturday at about 2:00 AM, I swear I saw it. I was walking home from the pub... in a very straight line too, I may add.

This made me chuckle...

cixe has been suspended for 1 week because of continuous personal attacks despite several warnings. Focus on the contents, not the people.

(Funny all 10 minutes, but my favorite bit is after 3 minutes until the end).

You must have overlooked The Official "Introduce Yourself" Thread, which is a pinned thread in The Lounge. I moved your post and its reply into it. Also, welcome to the forum!

spacevudo was banned for spamming. The rules say: We don't mind if you put a link to your noncommercial site (e.g. a blog) in your signature and/or profile, but don't go around making threads to advertise it. When you do the exact opposite, and make threads with the sole purpose of advertising your site, you get yourself banned.

wlad was banned for posting discussions from elsewhere on our forum, for continuing such discussions in absence of the other participants of that those discussions, for repeatedly ignoring warnings about that, for not learning from his suspension less than 2 weeks ago, and for soapboxing.

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md2 was suspended for 3 days for failing to engage in a two-way discussion and for writing incomprehensible or incomplete posts. Failure to engage in a two-way conversation will trigger a one-way response from the moderators, as happened right here.

Apologies for a serious remark in the jokes thread, but I would just like to state that chefs are indeed chemists, and cooking is a form of (organic) chemistry. To compensate for being so serious, here's a lolcat: Have a good weekend!

Right, so the velocity has no direct relation to any process going on inside the rocket. Rather, the relative differences between the velocities of these propellants is what is interesting.

I'm not much of an expert in rocketry, so can you explain some of the jargon here? What do you mean when you say that a particular fuel (or rather probably its combustion) "gives a certain temperature and velocity"? I thought I understood that the temperature is the temperature you reach in the turbine due to the decomposition of the fuel (a temperature which is limited, so you don't break the turbine)? But what then do you mean with that velocity? What is going that fast, and where? And wouldn't that velocity depend on some more design parameters that you did or did not introduce here?