Simviation Forum - A380 will save the planet

Reply #15 - Jul 31^st, 2007 at 10:30pm

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Spartan, if one of our nuclear subs or carriers goes down, theres a few trillion gallons of water just waiting to soak up the heat and absorb the neutrons, effectively killing the reaction. Water is very effective at dealing with radioactive materials because of its density and it's high specific heat coefficient.

If a nuclear reactor were to be breached on land, it would very likely become uncontrollable and melt down. Granted, a nuclear meltdown is nowhere near as catastrophic as newsies would have you believe, but it most definitely wouldn't be good for anyone in the immediate area or downwind of the crash site.

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Reply #16 - Aug 2^nd, 2007 at 3:25pm

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Very, very impressive!!!!!

But one wonders what will the ticket cost be on the A380 compared to the 747 for a comparable route?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/a380-super-jumbo-simply-the-best/2007/07/27/1...

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Reply #17 - Aug 2^nd, 2007 at 6:13pm

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dcunning30 wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2007 at 3:25pm:

Very, very impressive!!!!!

But one wonders what will the ticket cost be on the A380 compared to the 747 for a comparable route?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/a380-super-jumbo-simply-the-best/2007/07/27/1...

Read page 2. It says the same price. Tongue

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Reply #18 - Aug 3^rd, 2007 at 10:59pm

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Im still wondering what the hell are we gonna travel on when we dont have any more plane fuel! xD
Anyway, I dont think the A380 will stop world hunger, wars, and everything out there to actually save the world, but it'll be nice to see it fly Tongue

On a totally unrelated note, i hate this so popular way of writing the journalists have, specially north american, of putting the phrase first and then "someone says". Pisses me off. Police says, judge says, chairman says... What about "Airbus states their superjumbo will save the world", whats wrong with that?

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Reply #19 - Aug 4^th, 2007 at 3:29am

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It would make them appear to have more mastery of the English language than a 5 year old? Lips Sealed

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Reply #20 - Aug 4^th, 2007 at 10:23pm

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mpicco wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2007 at 10:59pm:

Im still wondering what the hell are we gonna travel on when we dont have any more plane fuel! xD

i woke up this morning and thought the same thing.

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Reply #21 - Aug 7^th, 2007 at 10:17am

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Spartan03 wrote on Aug 4^th, 2007 at 10:23pm:

mpicco wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2007 at 10:59pm:

Im still wondering what the hell are we gonna travel on when we dont have any more plane fuel! xD

i woke up this morning and thought the same thing.

You think that's going to happen in the forseeable future? Ignore the "sky is falling" crowd. Necessity is the mother of inventions. There will be alternative fuels, and there will be vehicles of various forms that will make use of those alternative fuels.

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Reply #22 - Aug 7^th, 2007 at 11:27am

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Aye, we aren't going to run out of gas any time soon. Even when we do run out of oil to refine in AvGas and jet fuel, we still won't be out of fuel. Either some chemist will create a fuel that mimics AvGas, or some engineer will invent an engine that runs on some other fuel. As for the jets... well they can run on any liquid that burns, so no problem finding fuel there, it would just need to be refined and cleaned.

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Reply #23 - Aug 7^th, 2007 at 11:40am

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Anyone over 30 may remember when they used to call oil fossil fuel. That's when they thought oil was created by decaying dinosaurs. Now they know better. Just as they learned to manufacture diamonds, they'll learn to synthesize or harness some sort of fuel as well.

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Reply #24 - Aug 7^th, 2007 at 12:17pm

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Whenever an Airbus A340 or Boeing 747-400 is at 13- pitch up, there is nothing belching out from its engines...

Do some research. As part of my "real job" I ended up looking into the emissions from the engines of a 747 for a national level presentation I did out in Portland, OR about a year and a half ago. (I used it for a comparison to some other pollution osurces). Visible smoke is not the only nor the best measure of pollutants. There are tons of things that are pollutiong that are not "smoke", per se.

Seeing smoke certainly tells you there is plenty of particulate at the least ... and of a large particle size. And can be a "marker" for the generation of other pollutants that are formed during incomplete / quenched combustion reactions. But remember that stuff like the particulates covered in the US PM 2.5 standard...can't even be seen. 2.5 microns in size and down. Bad stuff.... goes into the lungs and never comes out.

Much as we all love aviation....... it consumes a bunch of fossil (there's that word! Wink

) fuel and produces a lot of crap in the air.

Even most of our simulated aircraft do this if you think about it. Most of our computers are powered by coal, gas, oil or wood fired power plants. Wink

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Reply #25 - Aug 11^th, 2007 at 8:28am

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elite marksman wrote on Aug 4^th, 2007 at 3:29am:

It would make them appear to have more mastery of the English language than a 5 year old? Lips Sealed

LOL
It's still annoying though Tongue

These little phrases with "someone says" are annoying, mpicco says.

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Reply #26 - Aug 11^th, 2007 at 11:29pm

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Aye, "someone says," "at the present time," (and variations thereof) and "allegedly" get really, really annoying. (yes I know they include "allegedly" for legal protection, though winning a lawsuit for damages/defamation of character by the media happens with about the same frequency that we discover new planets in our solar system.)

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