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Fri Aug 12 03:01:04 1994
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 03:00:22 -0400
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damartin (David A. Martin):
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the
sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
-Ayn Rand
What else is there more important than one person's life? That
is all he is ever going to have. All that any of us will ever
have. One single shot at existence, with nothing before and
nothing to come . . . Only the very self-assured political
and religious zealots kill people in order to save them. Live
and let live, I say.
-The Stainless Steel Rat
What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!
-Lazarus Long
Life is short, Live it up.
-Krushchev
In these situations it is difficult to know what to do;
whether to rip one's clothes off or just smile mysteriously.
-Heidi
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 19:30:03 EDT
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: Inertial Guidance System for dummies!!!
From: morteza@innovus.com (Morteza Ansari)
Keywords: chuckle, aerospace
The following article is from the Canadian "Airspace Newsletter", issue 1/94
printed by the Transport Canada. I hope this article will be able to help you
as much as it helped me to understand IGS!!!
Articles printed in Airspace Newsletter is a collection of letters from pilots
and distribution of the articles from the newsletter is encouraged, as long as
references made to the newsletter.
morteza@innovus.com
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INERTIAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM SIMPLIFIED
We are not sure who the author of the following article is, however we feel
that the article is one of the best, clearly defined descriptions of the magic
that resides withing the aircraft's black boxes.
The aircraft knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows
where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it
isn't from where it is (whichever is the greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.
The Inertial Guidance System uses deviations to generate error signal commands
which instruct the aircraft to move from a position where it is to a position
where it isn't, arriving at a position where it wasn't, or now is.
Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position where it wasn't;
thus, it follows logically that the position where it was is the position where it isn't.
In the event that the position where the aircraft now is, is not the position
where it wasn't, the Inertial Guidance System has acquired a variation.
Variations are caused by external factors, the discussions of which are beyond
the scope of this report.
A variation is the difference between where the aircraft is and where the
aircraft wasn't. If the variation is considered to be a factor of significant
magnitude, a correction may be applied by the use of the autopilot system.
However, use of this correction requires that the aircraft now knows where it
was because the variation has modified some of the information which the
aircraft has, so it is sure where it isn't.
Nevertheless, the aircraft is sure where it isn't (within reason) and it knows
where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it isn't, where
it ought to be from where it wasn't (or vice versa) and intergrates the
difference with the product of where it shouldn't be and where it was; thus
obtaining the difference between its deviation and its variation, which is
variable constant called "error".
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yandros (Chad Phillip Brown):
So, here we are again... I've spent the past long while alternating
between slightly sick and mostly sick, sleeping 12+ hours a day, at
all hours of the day, and still managed to get some work done,
somehow. I'm working on a few amorphous projects right now, and I
am actually managing to get work done, in spite of a severely
screwed up schedule.. ..at least until now.
It seems that my password is not what I think it should be. Either
I changed it and forgot, or I've been mistyping my password
more-or-less the same way for multiple months (I've been meaning to
change it for a whlie), or it somehow ``got changed''. I could have
been sniffed or something in a very very few places (mostly phone
lines to the dialups), which is why I was planning on changing it,
but I'm skeptical. Anyway, because of this, there's a bunch of work
I can't do, I can't read my mail or certain discuss meetings, sub to
zephyr as myself, etc. This is very annoying, as you might guess.
Anyway, the point is ``if you sent me mail or discuss, I'll be
pretty slow in responding. Sorry.''.
Sigh. Maybe I should have just stayed in bed...
--
_Precious Things_, Tori Amos
So I ran faster
But it caught me here
Yes my loyalties turned
Like my ankle
In the seventh grade
Running after BILLY
Running after the rain
These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break their hold over me
He said you're really an ugly girl
But I like the way you play
And I died
But I thanked him
Can you believe that sick sick
holding on to his picture
Dressing up every day
I wanna smash the faces
Of those beautiful BOYS
Those christian boys
So you can make me cum that doesn't make you JESUS
These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break their hold over me
I remember
Yes in my peach party dress
No one dared
No one cared
To tell me where the pretty girls are
Those demigods
With their NINE-INCH nails and little fascist panties tucked inside the heart
of every nice girl
These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break
Let them wash away
These these precious things
Let them bleed now
Let them wash away
These these precious things
Let them break their hold over me
Precious
Precious
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<a href="http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/yandros/home.html">chad</a>
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