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...Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you cannot know a subatomic particle's exact position and its exact direction and velocity at the same time. To transport people you have to know all those things, so the Heisenberg compensator was devised to overcome that problem. It's an attempt by the Trek writers to signal that they are at least aware of the issue. And how does the Heisenberg compensator work? "It works very well, thank you," says Okuda...
...control while on autopilot in just such conditions. The FAA has already barred crews of the ATR-72 -- the model of the American Eagle plane -- and of the similar ATR-42 from using the automatic pilot in icing conditions. But in a letter yesterday the government's National Transportation Safety Board urged the FAA to take the planes out of service until further analysis is done. About 30 of the ATR planes are in the air in the U.S and a total of 130 planes, manufactured by the French-Italian consortium Avions de Transport Regional, are in service worldwide.Post your...
...meeting this August, the PBHA board charged Nero with driving a PBHA van while uninsured, authorizing an uncertified driver to transport PBHA campers, and changing the association's policy on insurance deductibles without authorization. Nero, meanwhile, maintains that she was merely a scapegoat for countless vehicular indiscretions on the part of other PBHA drivers...
...centered society. And by about 200 B.C., a warlike people called the Xiongnu had overrun a large part of the region. As part of a peace agreement with China's Han dynasty, the Xiongnu demanded annual tributes of silk, wine, rice, concubines and other luxuries. According to Kessler, the transport of these goods to central Asia marked the earliest full-scale use of the Silk Road, the fabled network of trade routes that ultimately stretched to the Mediterranean Sea; on the Silk Road, bolts of Chinese silk were carried all the way to the Roman Empire...
...Department scrambled all week to position the military for action. In Puerto Rico, troops began warm-up maneuvers. Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch ordered seven huge cargo ships out of mothballs; a day later, he activated five more supply vessels. They are expected to set sail this week to transport weapons and materiel for the Army's 10th Mountain Division, which will play a key part in the postinvasion peacekeeping force. On Friday, Pentagon officials said that the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower will pull into its berth in Norfolk, Virginia, this week and begin replacing its planes with...