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Would RT keep his job if the following happened


Would RT keep his job if this happened   

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  1. 1. Would RT keep his job if this happened

    • Yes, you can’t fire a coach with his tourney record
    • No, CDC would still replace him


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I have a better chance of winning the lottery.  I would rather spend my hypothetical mental cycles dreaming about that then worrying about what would happen if Texas makes a deep tournament run.  

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I'll throw something else out there. What if the plane never came back to ground but instead kept climbing, to the point it left earth's atmosphere? I know that a space shuttle has insane amounts of thrust/force/speed to get off the ground and into space, but could a plane, already traveling at 40,000 feet doing 500+mph pull the nose up and just keep going? What if that plane was so fucking high that it just left the gravitational pull of the earth???!?

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6 hours ago, MotownHorn said:

I'll throw something else out there. What if the plane never came back to ground but instead kept climbing, to the point it left earth's atmosphere? I know that a space shuttle has insane amounts of thrust/force/speed to get off the ground and into space, but could a plane, already traveling at 40,000 feet doing 500+mph pull the nose up and just keep going? What if that plane was so fucking high that it just left the gravitational pull of the earth???!?

Plane depends on the air around it to generate lift. Assuming it has strong enough engines to just push up vertically without the need for lift, the engines still depend on the air around them for oxygen to burn the fuel for the thrust, unlike a rocket that carries both the fuel and oxygen with it. We’ll ignore the question about the plane basically being an aluminum can surviving the whole ordeal. 

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1 hour ago, AeroHorn said:

unlike a rocket that carries both the fuel and oxygen with it. 

. . . and if I recall my dynamics class correctly (always a crap shoot), the actual force equation is d(mv)/dt = m(dv/dt) + v(dm/dt).  The first term is the classic F=ma, but the second term is germane to rockets, which are losing mass as they burn fuel and thus creating thrust.  Or not.  I also don't know how the treadmill comes into play.

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Correct. Controlling the burn rate in liquid propellant rockets is easier than the solid propellant ones where they would have non-circular cross-section to keep the desired amount of surface area exposed to the burn as it gets spent. 
 

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13 hours ago, AeroHorn said:

Plane depends on the air around it to generate lift. Assuming it has strong enough engines to just push up vertically without the need for lift, the engines still depend on the air around them for oxygen to burn the fuel for the thrust, unlike a rocket that carries both the fuel and oxygen with it. We’ll ignore the question about the plane basically being an aluminum can surviving the whole ordeal. 

 

10 hours ago, AeroHorn said:

Correct. Controlling the burn rate in liquid propellant rockets is easier than the solid propellant ones where they would have non-circular cross-section to keep the desired amount of surface area exposed to the burn as it gets spent. 
 

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14 hours ago, AeroHorn said:

Plane depends on the air around it to generate lift. Assuming it has strong enough engines to just push up vertically without the need for lift, the engines still depend on the air around them for oxygen to burn the fuel for the thrust, unlike a rocket that carries both the fuel and oxygen with it. We’ll ignore the question about the plane basically being an aluminum can surviving the whole ordeal. 

lol perfect username to respond to that post!

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