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What you are describing seems outside the scope of this particular aircraft model.These are meant to land on existing helipads in NYC. From the article, the business model is to cut down 1-2 hour commutes to and from the JFK airport to seven-minute flights. Never mind the helipad space, just boarding hundreds of passengers and their luggage would cut severely into that time saving.

The order seems fine to me.

Thermodynamics/statistical mechanics was taught as a junior level class at my undergraduate alma mater. During that year, students would take electrodynamics, classical mechanics, and statistical mechanics as separate classes in some loose order, although of course simpler versions of these topics would have been introduced in first year physics.

The lack of fluid mechanics also, unfortunately, tracks with my experience.

Your experience matches mine, except for the libraries. In my experience at 3 private eastern US universities (two ivy leagues and one liberal arts), all libraries required university IDs or a pass to enter beyond the lobby. I do not know what was required for a non-university person to obtain a pass.

I doubt it. The bullet movement may be chaotic, which means that tiny changes in initial conditions will drastically affect the trajectory, but it is theoretically possible to predict the trajectory. However, it is likely that quantum effects such as the movement of an electron through slits is actually non-deterministic, so we can only predict it in a statistical way even in principle.

I suppose this is as an appropriate time as any to ask for advice: I am a multimillionaire from inheritance, and am about to complete my masters in physics. I wish to work on long term theoretical physics problems that do not seem to be possible under the current publish-or-perish academic system. The plan was to complete a PhD, then leave academia, but lately I have been having severe doubts about continuing onto a PhD, partly due to the cruft that comes with academia. Obviously, future employability due to financial reasons is completely irrelevant to me.

I would greatly appreciate any advice.

In British Columbia, the speed limit is defined as the maximum speed limit when the road is bare and dry and visibility is good. From the driver's guidebook[1]: >Aim for a speed that’s appropriate for the conditions in which you are driving. The posted speed is the maximum for ideal conditions only. Choose a slower speed if the conditions are not ideal — for instance, if the roads are slippery or visibility is limited.

If a driver was driving too fast to react and stop without hitting that deer, then that driver was driving too quickly.

[1] http://www.icbc.com/driver-licensing/driving-guides/Pages/Le...

The Chinese word shi3 has a different tone than し, which in Mandarin would be shi1 or shi4. Chinese speakers are not going to confuse every use of し with shi3.

This r/askhistorians comment makes what I think is a very good rebuttal of this claim (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/75sbk8/kenne...)

Specifically these two paragraphs:

So there were ten people in/on the car. Each and everyone of them has significant experience with firearms, which includes WWII and/or Korea war experience for most.

You are going to tell me that these ten guys are going to have a rifle fire right next to their ears, see the President is shot and NOT disarm the man? Not even react? Not grab your ears, because that would hurt like crazy.

It was restricted to one very artificial game mode (1 vs 1 mid, Shadow Fiend mirror matchup) that is not representative of real games, but is good for practicing one aspect of Dota. Some items in this game mode are banned in order to make it less safe for both sides, and so that there is a better chance of one side dying before ten minutes. People have beaten the bot by both "breaking" it and by just outplaying it (but the latter very, very rarely).

I disagree with this (I used to play Warcraft 3, and currently play Dota 2), but that's beside the point. The Dota 2 OpenAI is only set up for one mirror matchup (impossible in real games) involving one hero on each side, in one lane, and only for the first 10-ish minutes. This is maybe 1% of a real Dota game.