Population Change and Demography - the malthusian rate.

GasGuzzler wrote:

James___ wrote:

Into the Night wrote:

keepit wrote:
ITN,
I'd rather ignore you but what about an aviation weather report? Would you believe the temp on that?

Yes. That sensor is mounted right on the runway, usually somewhere near the center of the airport. It's good enough to indicate likely temperatures at either approach end of that runway. The conditions that would cause a steep temperature gradient are visible to the pilot anyway. In that case, temperature is not the problem. Shifting winds and violent weather is.

keepit wrote:
I bet your answer won't be a straight forward yes or no.

A qualified yes. Assuming the sensor of an automated station isn't screwed up, and assuming generally benign weather, they work just fine. If a meteorologist is at the field (such as fields with many commercial flights), then the system is not automated, and the observer can also report other weather conditions more accurately.

Temperatures at airports are not particularly important. What pilots are looking for is possible icing conditions on the runway, or a narrow spread between temperature and dewpoint (causing fog and low clouds, making landing there either difficult or impossible).

They are completely useless sensors for describing the temperature of anything even as close as just off the airport property, or even the temperature at the threshold of a runway under certain conditions.

I need a big shovel for this. Doppler radar works quite well. It helps to predict conditions in advance. I've seen the local airport grounded and the weather reports were extremely accurate. People knew what to expect. They could prepare for it.
The weather that wasn't at the airport came from somewhere. Your observations do not allow for weather patterns.
It's funny how much you remind me of my American half brother.

I will call word salad. Can anyone else make sense of this?

spot wrote:

Into the Night wrote:

GasGuzzler wrote:

Into the Night wrote:

keepit wrote:
ITN,
Thanks for a good answer although i don't particularly need flying lessons, not at my age 77.

Heh. What I just described is not a flying lesson!
You specifically asked about airport weather stations.

I happen to appreciate flight details. Although I'll never be a pilot, I find flight and air traffic fascinating. I always enjoy it when the topic swerves in that direction. Also a huge asset to this forum is ITN with not only his flight knowledge but cockpit experience....some of which sounds more like a thriller flick than just some dude from the Pacific NW farting around in a Cesna.

Thanks ITN!

Anytime. Though much of the time I'm just some dude farting around in a Cessna.

I like my little Cessna 150. It's cheap to fly land the Puget Sound region can be quite beautiful to fly around in. I've got it rigged for instrument flight (it's cloudy here much of the time!). I have taken it as far as Colorado and Arizona (it won an award at the Copperstate airshow there!).

I hope this is another of your Walter Mitty fantasies for the sake of people on the ground.

Amanbir Grewal wrote:
if you put solar cells in the desert

Amanbir Grewal wrote:
if you put solar cells in the desert you can make a lot of electricity.

Amanbir Grewal wrote:
the usa does got a lot of desert land, lol, like nevada, wouldn't that just take care of all our energy needs.

Amanbir Grewal wrote:
lolol. that'll make the arabs richer than us again just like they had oil coz it seems they have more deserts than us too. hahahahahahha !!!!!!

Amanbir Grewal wrote:
hey hey hey slow down there, australia got deserts too. now the aussie got into that game he didn't want too billy, that the aussie done there, hella inehh!!

the winds blow very very hard in themountains of korea, don;t they Jung Sin, don't they now, "twists his collar and makes him squirm*.

'nice coffee, emil, german bloody market for this good, yeah , yeah'.

Emil looks away coz he not too interested in this anymore.

Now let's get back into class, ye, ye!

Amanbir Grewal wrote:
https://www.ft.com/content/a05d1dd4-dddd-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc

uk shut down all its coal and will be coal free by 2020.

Amanbir Grewal wrote:
https://www.toyota.co.uk/new-cars/prius/

engineering brits love their machinery work and are always working on their real mechanical projects, like british horsepower!!!

brits do well in machines.

Into the Night wrote:

Amanbir Grewal wrote:
https://www.toyota.co.uk/new-cars/prius/

engineering brits love their machinery work and are always working on their real mechanical projects, like british horsepower!!!

brits do well in machines.

Is that why the German metallurgy and chemical industries became the strongest in Europe?
Is that why the best guns are made in America?
Is that why the computer industry started in America and grew to the size it did in America?
Is that why we buy Japanese, American, and German cars?
Is that why locomotives built in America are the most powerful in the world?

Sorry to slap your pride around a little, but the UK has a ways to go.

IBdaMann wrote:

Into the Night wrote:

Amanbir Grewal wrote:
https://www.toyota.co.uk/new-cars/prius/

engineering brits love their machinery work and are always working on their real mechanical projects, like british horsepower!!!

brits do well in machines.

Is that why the German metallurgy and chemical industries became the strongest in Europe?
Is that why the best guns are made in America?
Is that why the computer industry started in America and grew to the size it did in America?
Is that why we buy Japanese, American, and German cars?
Is that why locomotives built in America are the most powerful in the world?

Sorry to slap your pride around a little, but the UK has a ways to go.

Brits have machines?

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Into the Night wrote:

IBdaMann wrote: Brits have machines?

Ja. They get them from Germany.