SOCGE maps aren’t updated and when they are, its about six months behind actual time at least.
Google Earth was updated this week with imagery of Beijing from late May 2008, to show the Olympic structures.
Google Earth has photos of the SAM sites in Bei Jing yet?
So far I found an HQ-9, an FM-90, two S-300PMUs, and a few S-300PMU-1s around Beijing if I remember right. The FM-90s in Beijing for the Olympics aren’t visible yet. Go to my blog in my signature, look for the Worldwide SAM Site Overview file to download. It has over 2,000 SAM sites, and there are a lot of them in China.
SOC[color=red]What is wrong with the two of you? Here’s a nice two points each for being a massive disruption around here, taking these petty arguments into way too many threads and corrupting the forum.[/color]
SOCThe problem with the Weber, or any of those kettle barbecues, is that they are too small for a proper braai….. the type where you have a few good friends over. I like to time it all so that everything comes off at the same time. The Kettle Braai is just too small for that…
I don’t know, if I cook strips I can do four good sized ones at once, with room for shrimp skewers once they move to indirect heat. But most of the time it’s just me and the wife, so the grill is more than big enough.
Has anybody got any unusual barbecue recipe’s like “wot SOC sed”?
Not unusual, but here’s how I make steak. Start with a porterhouse around an inch and a half thick. Cook it for two minutes on each side over direct heat, then cook it for six minutes per side over indirect heat. It’ll come out done medium, you can mess with the six minutes per side bit a little to get it more towards either rare or well done if you like. I use dry seasoning applied right before cooking, I’m not a big fan of the marinades. A lot of the time I use a simple Montreal steak seasoning, but more often I’ve been messing about with my own ideas. One that was pretty good was garlic powder, sea salt, black pepper, and seasoned salt. There’s also this Hungarian stuff I find around here that works well when combined with one or two other things as well. Also, the Montreal steak seasoning, when combined in a skillet with butter, makes for cooking up some great mushrooms to go with your steak.
SOCThe problem with the Weber, or any of those kettle barbecues, is that they are too small for a proper braai….. the type where you have a few good friends over. I like to time it all so that everything comes off at the same time. The Kettle Braai is just too small for that…
I don’t know, if I cook strips I can do four good sized ones at once, with room for shrimp skewers once they move to indirect heat. But most of the time it’s just me and the wife, so the grill is more than big enough.
Has anybody got any unusual barbecue recipe’s like “wot SOC sed”?
Not unusual, but here’s how I make steak. Start with a porterhouse around an inch and a half thick. Cook it for two minutes on each side over direct heat, then cook it for six minutes per side over indirect heat. It’ll come out done medium, you can mess with the six minutes per side bit a little to get it more towards either rare or well done if you like. I use dry seasoning applied right before cooking, I’m not a big fan of the marinades. A lot of the time I use a simple Montreal steak seasoning, but more often I’ve been messing about with my own ideas. One that was pretty good was garlic powder, sea salt, black pepper, and seasoned salt. There’s also this Hungarian stuff I find around here that works well when combined with one or two other things as well. Also, the Montreal steak seasoning, when combined in a skillet with butter, makes for cooking up some great mushrooms to go with your steak.
SOCNevermind, I found it and the J-10 isn’t visible.
SOCYet without HAVE BLUE to prove that yes, their weird shaped jet could in fact fly, there would have been no F-117A. Why people think an aircraft has to be an operational platform to be groung breaking is beyond me. I guess only operational aircraft have ever broken new ground in aviation history. How backwards does that statement sound?
SOCWho can point out the AVIC building in Google Earth? The imagery was just updated of Beijing to show the Olympic facilities, and the J-10 may be visible there.
SOCThe American SST proposal may have had better luck economically given that it carried three times the passengers (300+)!
My point was that test aircraft can be ground breaking. Not that they all are, but that they can be, like the HAVE BLUE especially. It validated the faceting concept employed by the F-117, and F-22/F-35 to a degree.
SOCNever seen American Psycho.
Oh yeah, something else about The Dark Knight that bothered me. This is clearly not the movie it should have been. Watch it. Witness just how intense it COULD have been. This is the latest effort by Hollywood morons to pander to the MPAA for a PG-13 rating to boost ticket sales. Cloverfield suffered because of it. This one suffered because of it. The first AVP suffered because of it. This is getting old. Stop toning stuff like this down.
SOCNever seen American Psycho.
Oh yeah, something else about The Dark Knight that bothered me. This is clearly not the movie it should have been. Watch it. Witness just how intense it COULD have been. This is the latest effort by Hollywood morons to pander to the MPAA for a PG-13 rating to boost ticket sales. Cloverfield suffered because of it. This one suffered because of it. The first AVP suffered because of it. This is getting old. Stop toning stuff like this down.
SOC…
Actually, on second thought, let’s try this:
[color=red]Stop being a constant disruption on this forum. Page after page of massive, unoriginal, and plagiarized cut-and-paste jobs are very irritating to have to read through to find what remains of any intelligent discussion. If someone doesn’t agree with you, waging verbal warfare through oversaturation with questionable data is not that far removed from spamming, and you’re lucky it isn’t treated as such. Others can have sensible debates on a variety of topics. You have 30 days to master that skill.[/color]
SOCWhat is really hilarious is that some of these, like the “Chinese MiG-29” get published and passed off as real. Where’s the quality control? Oh that’s right, he doesn’t need any, he just copies images from the interweb!
And no, before anyone asks, we will not be “merging the two photoshopped aircraft threads”.
😀
SOCIt weights 720 kg and flies at twice the speed of sound, or Mach 2.
Wow I hope they severely underestimated the speed of that thing. What form of guidance does it use?
SOCFor an aircraft to be the epitomy of high tech and show the way to follow and become a trend setter, needs to become operational, why? an operational technology means the technology has reached maturity, has been debugged, it`s reliable and its mass production is feasible without major glitches and in an economically efficient way
The AJ-37 and F-16 have those features, they became trend setters by becoming highly produced, the rest were not ready and were too expensive with a lot of design malfunctions to be solve.
A fighter has a good technology when it passes the state of mass production since it has a level of maturity to assure easy of production.
First off, the AJ-37 was not “highly produced”. It was made in decent numbers for Sweden, and that’s all. Comparing it with the production run of the F-16 is completely hilarious.
Secondly, ground breaking aircraft do not have to be operational examples simply because in a lot of cases new technology is tested on dedicated test aircraft of test variants of existing platforms. Ground breaking and operational are simply not the same thing. If we applied your logic to aviation histlry then Burt Rutan’s SpaceShip One would not be considered ground breaking as it will not be entering service with Virgin Galactic; it’s being replaced by a new design. See how stupid that sounds? Here’s another one: Bell X-1, first supersonic aircraft: not groundbreaking because it didn’t produce a production model. :rolleyes: HAVE BLUE XST testbed: not groundbreaking because it did not become operational.
SOCThe Dark Knight
An absolute must see. It does live up to the hype. Way, way up, above and beyond your expected summertime superhero blockbuster sequel.
It was far better than the Batman Begins, but that didn’t take much if you ask me. I don’t buy Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne. Batman yes, but not Wayne for some reason. The rest of it was very well cast for once (no Katie Holmes errors of casting judgement, or the guy from Lord Of The Rings whose name I forget), including Ledger as the Joker. No Oscar for him though. He was nearly as good as Johnny Depp in the first Pirates movie (ok all three of them), one of the best acted roles of all time if you ask me, and if Depp can’t win one then Ledger doesn’t deserve one either.
Still prefer Tim Burton’s Batman to this though.
The Director’s Cut only added the “Mumsy” side to Ripley.
Oh no it doesn’t! The scenes testing the smart guns in the corridors, the scene with Hudson’s “We got knives” speech, the bit with all of the colonists on LV-426 pre-Alienization, the bit with Newt’s family finding the derelict ship from the first movie…all of that was re-inserted into the Director’s Cut. The Director’s Cut is FAR superior to the theatrical version if you ask me, if only because it fleshes out a lot more of the backstory.
I think Alien3 finished up the saga nicely, although the film is still vastly underrated in my opinion. It’s a fine second sequel, but adds a much darker tone to the franchise.
This is one where you have to get the extended version to really appreciate the film. They add around an hour of footage and change the beginning a bit and end up with a much more interesting and different film than what was released in theaters. Hell, this one might be the best of the four. It certainly had the best soundtrack, it’s my favorite movie soundtrack.
Resurrection, however, was just another attempt to squeeze some money out of the popular franchise. Really, it was unnecessary, and rather a daft premise. They should have left Lt. Ellen Ripley in the vast depths of the molten lead at the end of No.3. In fact, they could quite easily have made this an Alien movie without Ripley. Adding the character simply did nothing to elevate the film beyond B-grade sci-fi…
Resurrection was alright. It is my least favorite of the four, but it’s not too bad. The effects are great and the visual style really suited the franchise. Plus it has Ron Perlman, who is awesome 😀
…and yet there are rumours of a fifth film in the running!
More like seventh, with the two AVP movies sort of interjecting themselves as Alien Zero parts one and two.
Anyway they need to release the four Alien movies on Blu-Ray so I can buy a sixth box set of the films :rolleyes: 😀
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