he's a Meerkatcat.

"I'm here, I'm here, on the other side of the meer"

^everyone touch him in his no-no area!
*Lann made me spit milk out my nose! Wait...that wasn't bilk, it was Meer!

Even if the events unfolded just the way Candelaria reported them, there's one small detail missing from this video: his enemies, the Bf 109s, were "Schulungslehrgang Elbe", a suicide ramming squad with pilots who barely knew how to keep the airplanes airborne and planes without radios, armor or armament except for a single MG131 with very limited ammo. The squad might have been led by Oberst Hajo Herrman, a bomber pilot and night fighter pilot - not a proper fighter pilot for single seater like the 109.

You'll notice how they are basically climbing straight up to the bombers. That's either inexperience or they had no time to set up for a proper attack. Normally, you need to gain the altitude advantage in a 109, so you can dominate the fight without resorting to turnfights. As for the Me 262s: they could have easily outclimbed the Mustang, despite his initial altitude advantage. They played his game instead of forcing theirs upon him.

The defensive formation described as the circle was practiced by Bf 110s when they were used as escort fighters, because they were not nearly maneuverable enough to engage Hurricanes or Spitfires. Thus they resorted to a defensive formation, rendering them utterly useless for bomber protection. If 109 pilots employ this "tactic", you know they are as green as they get.

By the way: the fight between Sonderkommando Elbe and the bombers took place over the "Steinhuder Meer", a lake not even 20km from where I'm writing these very words. A memorial can be found in Celle, about 30km from here.

A survivor of the unit, who didn't take part in this sortie though, is Dr. Fritz Marktscheffel, who was active every now and then on Luftwaffe-Forum.de while it was still online.

>> ^Engels:
Kudos where kudos are due...but the 109 was no match for the P-51D and it was very easy to outmanouver those ME-262s. They were very primitive jets with only speed in a straight line on their side.

Can't leave this uncommented, sorry.

The Bf 109K4, deployed at the time of the engagement, outclimbs and outaccelerates the P51D at almost any altitude and has a similar top speed at high altitude. If used correctly - only BnZ, no TnB -, it can dominate the Mustangs. G6, G10 and G14 could hold their own as well. Even though they were inferior, to say they were "no match" is oversimplifying and/or exaggerating. Most Luftwaffe fighters simply had a different flight profile than the others.

Same for the Me 262 - keep to BnZ and no piston engine fighter will stand a chance. Unfortunatly, it's a luxury you can't quite afford if you have to shoot down bombers as quickly as possible, because they are already over your territory. Mustangs could easily outturn them, but they couldn't catch them either unless they started with a significant altitude advantage.

Hm, I thought about submitting "MFG", "Sie ist weg" and "Tag am Meer", but so far, all non-classic clips of mine ended up with ~3 votes.

I'll keep an eye on this one, maybe you have more luck.

Lyrics:

Had we never come across the vastness of pavement
The barrenness of waves and the grayness of the sea
Never lost or ne'er been misguided
We'd have ne'er reached seas so shining

Or come from out of a hansom in Camden
To a bar in the basement
While all the while it rained
Or come around to the friendliest of faces
Handsomest in ugly places

Or come from out of the tunnels we dig in
To see that tunneling's not living
And working doesn't work
Or come to find that loving is labor
Labor's life and life's forever

Or come to see that keeping's not giving
You get what you've given
You get what you deserve
And in the midst of all of the action
Maybe only there found satisfaction

Chasing sea-foam dreams
Around another dirty old town
Parallel run streams
Toward the gray ocean from the green ground
'Oed und leer, das meer
But look beneath the glassy surface
All the songs you hear
Down there they have a purpose

All in all we cannot stop singing
we cannot start sinking
We swim until it ends
They may kill and we may be parted
But we will ne'er be broken hearted

The space station has helped us to understand and verify in far greater detail all those observations of newtonian physics, in micro-gravity. Sure, showing how things move and interact in air without gravity to effect it doesnt really give much immediate benefit, but if you were to think that way about all scienctific advance, then you would simply not have the internet.

Scientists didnt know that tinkering with electricity would eventuate into a telecommunications network where it allows ubiquitous connectivity anywhere in the civilised world, to them it was just some out-there cool thing, with no forseable advantages.

Same gos with lasers, radio's, cathode rays, penacillian...etc.

The list gos on.

To think that anything in science is not worthy of funding meerly because you cant forsee its benefits (and, devils advocate, its downsides; Manhattan Project anyone ?), and therefore should be forefit of funding, is an injustice to the scientific method of the highest order.

You take for granted the internet, your mobile phone, your television, your cars, your PDA, hell even your clothes. What you fail to realise is that without people funding seemingly useless scientific endeavours, NONE of it would exist as it does today.

Show some respect.

Every atom has a tiny tiny charge associated with it.

Actually, over 99.9% of the water particles in a bucket at 20,000 volts have a neutral net charge, because charge is quantized. If every water particle had an extra electron, it couldn't even condense to form a liquid.

flux effect of charged particles (ie. an EM field)

An electrical potential gradient is a more specific term for the kind of EM field present in this problem. The magnetic component is negligible.


Once the charge is large enough, the random distribution of the charge within the system is what creates the diffusion of the water dropping through the buckets.

You mean the positively charged water molecules repel other positively charged water molecules, etc.


Its basically a van-de-graffe machine, only in a really novel way.

A Van De Graaff machine is based entirely on surface friction, while this is based on electrostatic induction.

Zero kinetic / gravitational potential energy is converted, the meer useage of gravity is a neat way to get the water droplets to pass through the rings, but none of this energy is converted into electrostatic energy.

Even the site you linked contradicts you and agrees with me on this count. The energy for the sparks comes from the gravitational potential of the water in the source, since gravity does work to pull the positively charged water away from the negatively charged bucket and towards the positively charged bucket, etc.

Why did you downvote my comment ?
This has nothing to do with gravitational potential energy at all, its purely the interaction between positive and negatively charged water particles passing through a conductor to build up charge.

Zero kinetic / gravitational potential energy is converted, the meer useage of gravity is a neat way to get the water droplets to pass through the rings, but none of this energy is converted into electrostatic energy.


Edit: A more detailed description can be found here.
http://amasci.com/emotor/kelvin.html

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

When you remove the 70%+ of internet users whos first language in their nation is not english, and is not from an OECD nation, the percentage of internet users that would have even the slightest of effects on Ron Paul searches, skyrockets from 18% of population useage to over 50%.

How many of those external to the US in the remaining nations actually give a shit about US elections ?

I doubt very many, the majority of Ron Paul "meetups" were in the US. Over 90% of them (google map Ron Paul meetup groups), some were in Aus, the UK and Europe, but the vast majority inside the US.

So when you ask:
1) Is the Internet crowd representative of the US population, in terms of age, gender, political views, etc.?

I would say overwhelmingly, for this topic, yes. Yes it is.

As for google searches being considered an endorsement, well noone is suggesting that it is, its meerly a measure of popularity. Wether it be for infamy, or true fame, Ive no clue. Theres not enough data from search results alone to determine that. Youd need to check how people rate his video's (of those whom watch and rate them), and how many people fully watched the videos that they began etc.

However, despite the absence of that knowledge, its still blatantly clear that Ron Paul has had a massive media suppression in spite of a massive internet popularity.

Appauling, but not supprising.

she has points.. I love KFC chicken but I dont eat it meerly because of its unhealthy grease they use.. But I think they make plenty of money they can fix some of these things.. suffering needlessly is uncalled for, harming the animals needlessly post human slaughtering ought to be enforced.. while sometimes when dealing with thousands of animals, mistakes like not killing them before boiling in scalding water might be eventual, they can certainly try harder to minimize its instances..

feeding chickens chemicals is also something somewhat alarming as far as quality of the chickens life as well as human consumption of said chemical's from the chicken itself..