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  <title>еще не все</title>
  <subtitle>тонкими ломтиками</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>Yuliy Gerchikov</name>
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  <updated>2008-07-18T00:40:24Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:69932</id>
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    <title>Solved</title>
    <published>2008-07-18T00:40:24Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-18T00:40:24Z</updated>
    <content type="html">"The thing is, &lt;cite&gt;Sunshine&lt;/cite&gt; really was a crate. It was patched up and lashed together and, worse, during the California-New York flight had &lt;a href="http://www.historynet.com/the-adventures-of-wrong-way-corrigan.htm/4"&gt;developed a gas leak&lt;/a&gt; that Corrigan decided he didn't have time to repair. Gasoline actually leaked into the cockpit while the plane was over the Atlantic. Corrigan solved that problem by using a screwdriver to punch a hole in the cockpit floor." (&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/07/dayintech_0717"&gt;http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/07/dayintech_0717&lt;/a&gt;)</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:69657</id>
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    <title>Вне аспекта боевого применения? (Часть 2)</title>
    <published>2008-07-15T07:03:02Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-15T07:03:02Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;i&gt;"...то, что именно государство (подразумевается разумное) заинтересовано в развитии такого военно-прикладного вида спорта, как планерный, мне кажется очевидным."&lt;/i&gt; -- В.Ш. на своей доске.</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:69568</id>
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    <title>...Fugawi?</title>
    <published>2008-06-18T04:58:31Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-19T02:56:30Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;img src="http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/g/e/gerchikov/GMapsBug.jpg" width="849" height="713" alt="77,59 КБ"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Oh, yes, and there are two of everything -- and they are different, too!)</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:69263</id>
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    <title>Thoughts</title>
    <published>2008-06-07T22:29:13Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-07T22:29:13Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/exclusivevids/ExclusiveVideo_B2Spirit_StealthBomber_CrashReport_198060-1.html?type=pf"&gt;http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/exclusivevids/ExclusiveVideo_B2Spirit_StealthBomber_CrashReport_198060-1.html?type=pf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. What a stupid piece of hardware!&lt;br /&gt;2. Wait... (All the "intelligent" shit between stick and control surfaces notwithstanding,) if *my* ASI reads high at rotation, will *I* not pull right through the stall?...</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:68884</id>
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    <title>Veni, vidi...</title>
    <published>2008-05-31T06:49:21Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-31T06:49:21Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Мелочь, а приятно. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;----- Original Message ----- &lt;br /&gt;From: Ramy &lt;br /&gt;To: hgcgroup@yahoogroups.com &lt;br /&gt;Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 4:37 PM &lt;br /&gt;Subject: [hgcgroup] HGC League update &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following are the league results from Monday 5/26 (Memorial Day):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 - Yuliy (DG800) - 393 km (to Santa Margarita near San Luis Obispo) - 102.36 kmh - 85 kmh handicapped &lt;br /&gt;2 - Ramy (ASW27) - 376 km (to Santa Margarita near San Luis Obispo) - 83.10 kmh - 73 kmh handicapped &lt;br /&gt;3 - Darren (DG800) - 415km (to Paso Robles area and Loas Banos area) - 84.02kmh - 70 kmh handicapped &lt;br /&gt;4 - Buzz (DG800) - 427km (to New Idria, Byron area and Turlock area) - 82.26kmh - 69 kmh handicapped &lt;br /&gt;5 - David (DG300) - 295km (to Paso Robles area) - 73.24 kmh - 69 kmh handicapped &lt;br /&gt;6 - Tom (Discuss 2) - 321km (to Paso Robles area) - 70.34 kmh - 65kmh handicapped &lt;br /&gt;7 - Eric (DG300) - 353km (to Paso Robles area) - 64.51kmh - 61 kmh handicapped &lt;br /&gt;8 - Harry (Pegasus) - Task not completed &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All traces are available on OLC: http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/getScoring.html?scoringId=202&amp;amp;placeOfStartId=HOLLC1&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:68848</id>
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    <title>XC fun</title>
    <published>2008-05-28T18:23:53Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-28T18:23:53Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=686843915"&gt;http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=686843915&lt;/a&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:68483</id>
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    <title>Never say never</title>
    <published>2008-05-28T06:36:09Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-28T18:07:01Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;img src="http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/g/e/gerchikov/PRISM.gif" width="600" height="119" alt="9,86 КБ"&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:68245</id>
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    <title>Local fun</title>
    <published>2008-05-28T06:33:55Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-28T06:33:55Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;img height="800" alt="89,20 КБ" width="800" src="http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/g/e/gerchikov/sfcwind.curr.1600lst.w2.png" /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since Pacheco Pass crossing looked iffy in 5/17 forecast, and since 
it was not easy even the day before with much stronger forecast, I decided 
to save a high launch and did an equivalent of a local tow. It quickly 
turned out that the only game in town was the "usual" Byron 
convergence building up in the early afternoon. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But what a convergence it was! Later in the afternoon it drifted on 
over Clifton Forebay and revealed two things I haven't experienced 
before. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
First of them I can only describe as dust devils on water. I was 
working a late (tm) quiet lazy thermal that started over Byron highway 
and drifted all the way across the Forebay. From the vantage point 
just east of the Forebay one could clearly see the wind on the water 
-- and what a sight it was! 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Over the western -- closest to the airport -- shore the wind was 
blowing quite strongly from the west, dragging streaks and tossing 
occasional "crow's feet" across the water. This was consistent with 
Byron AWOS reporting 230@14G18. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
At the same time over the northern shore the wind blew equally 
strongly from the north, also drawing its clear signature on the 
water. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
And sure enough, in the middle of the Forebay they collided. Clearly 
visible on the water surface, the late afternoon sea breeze was 
fighting with itself -- the Altamont Pass arm was wrestling with the 
San Joaquin Delta arm along an amazingly sharp line right over water. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Where the two winds touched, the air had no way to go but up, and up 
it went -- with a flare. Clearly visible on the water there were 
several mini-tornadoes, small but vigorous swirls that were appearing, 
waltzing around the surface for a while and disappearing only to 
reappear next minute a short distance away. If it was over dry land I 
guess there would be a line of dust devils dancing across the ground 
-- but the two winds that created them would not be so amasingly 
palpably visible. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Anyway, the sight was so powerfully mesmerizing that I stayed in lift 
over it and watched... and watched. And that led to another 
interesting experience. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Now I think that it must have happened to me before, but I could not 
interpret it as clearly as with today's visual signs. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After a while I noticed that the air was not the typical convergence 
air anymore. It was no longer bumpy and lumpy -- it had no texture. 
The flow was completely laminar in that unreal and almost eerie way 
that is characteristic of mountain wave. Except, of course, there 
wasn't enough wind for wave, nor nearby triggers, and no typical wave 
crosswind bars. The air was just uniformly going up for miles and 
miles, both upwind and downwind -- I traced the line half way to 
Stockton before turning back, all while staying close to 4000 and not 
loosing any altitude. I must have been above -- and clear of -- the 
collapsing late afternoon boundary layer, in smooth undisturbed flow 
that was only gently bulging up supported by the convergence line 
below. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I wanted to see how high this lift went, but it was getting late. So 
instead, to lose altitude, I checked how wide it was. It turned out to 
stretch from not quite up to Mountain House to not quite up to 
Discovery Bay. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
And then I landed on 30 and bounced three times. At least when it's 
late no one is watching. 
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  <entry>
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    <title>Москва-Toronto-Москва</title>
    <published>2008-05-25T06:00:55Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-25T06:00:55Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;img src="http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/g/e/gerchikov/CMETAHA_KAH.jpg" width="326" height="320" alt="20,24 КБ"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://gerchikov.livejournal.com/59170.html"&gt;Найди десять отличий&lt;/a&gt;.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:67827</id>
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    <title>gerchikov @ 2008-05-24T22:49:00</title>
    <published>2008-05-25T05:52:10Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-25T05:52:10Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;img src="http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/g/e/gerchikov/delta.jpg" width="383" height="406" alt="38,34 КБ"&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:67356</id>
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    <title>1001st way of having simple, innocent fun in a glider</title>
    <published>2008-05-13T08:14:00Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-13T08:14:51Z</updated>
    <content type="html">"&lt;em&gt;...pretty good day, indeed. Climbing the staircase to Diablo range was great fun, and watching the well-defined late afternoon convergence evolve near Byron was interesting and educational.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the real highlight of the day for me was when I spotted a mylar balloon over Byron highway, maybe 500 below me, apparently escaping from Mountain House. Good thing it was no longer "over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement", as per the FAA definition what followed would duly qualify as maneuvers "involving an abrupt change in an aircraft's attitude, an abnormal attitude, or abnormal acceleration, not necessary for normal flight."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think I ever had this much fun with a mylar balloon in my life. We played for about 13 minutes, going together from 4500 down to 3000, back up to 4000 and down to 2800 again. I do not recall if I ever did so much turning, diving and zooming in any flying machine, let alone in a glider. In the end, the balloon ended up on my left wing's leading edge, about four feet out (NB:&amp;nbsp;I did not want it over my Pitot or TE), and came with me for landing at Byron. Oh, the troubles we'll go into just to keep our air neat and clean! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So... if you hold a party and happen to have a balloon or two left over, please let me know -- I think I know somebody who might enjoy it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seriously, if you did not fly this past Saturday at Byron, you missed out.&lt;/em&gt;"</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:67260</id>
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    <title>Невероятно</title>
    <published>2008-04-26T05:41:16Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-26T05:41:16Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Уж сколько раз твердили миру -- нельзя полагаться на интуицию при оценке вероятностей.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:66899</id>
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    <title>Умопомрачительно</title>
    <published>2008-04-26T05:28:09Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-26T05:28:09Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Факт наблюдения события в будущем меняет исход события в прошлом.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:66768</id>
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    <title>May the power be with you</title>
    <published>2008-04-25T07:31:53Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-25T07:31:53Z</updated>
    <content type="html">~2,5 кВт -- мощность, потребляемая (рассеиваемая) планером в крейсерском полете на режиме максимального качества (~100 км/ч).&lt;br /&gt;~25 кВт -- мощность,&amp;nbsp;развиваемая легковым автомобилем на той же скорости.&lt;br /&gt;~25 кВт -- мощность, извлекаемая планером из хорошего термика.&lt;br /&gt;~40 кВт -- мощность, рассеиваемая парашютистом в свободном падении.&lt;br /&gt;~0,75 кВт -- "спринтерская" мощность, которую физически крепкий человек способен развивать в течение короткого (&amp;lt;1 мин) времени.</content>
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    <title>Круговерть</title>
    <published>2008-04-22T18:32:49Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-22T18:32:49Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;...вертит тобой, как тряпичной куклой, а ты думаешь, что это весь мир вертится вокруг тебя.</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:66213</id>
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    <title>gerchikov @ 2008-04-18T00:48:00</title>
    <published>2008-04-18T07:52:54Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-18T07:52:54Z</updated>
    <content type="html">-- Sorry, I was imprecise...&lt;br /&gt;-- No, you were precise alright -- just not accurate.</content>
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    <title>gerchikov @ 2008-04-11T09:49:00</title>
    <published>2008-04-11T05:49:15Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-11T05:49:15Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;img src="http://ljplus.ru/img4/g/e/gerchikov/Energy.png" width="772" height="685" border="0" alt="44,06 КБ"&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:65747</id>
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    <title>gerchikov @ 2008-04-04T22:47:00</title>
    <published>2008-04-05T05:48:04Z</published>
    <updated>2008-04-05T05:48:04Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;font color="#000080" size="2"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...after 40 years of screwing with the things, I just plain hate carburetors." -- &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;Bob Zahradnik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:65095</id>
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    <title>А еще я крестиком вышивать умею</title>
    <published>2008-03-08T08:26:51Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-08T08:26:51Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;А что, я последний, кто сваркой пользоваться не умеет?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Пошел на прошлых выходных в &lt;a href="http://techshop.ws"&gt;TechShop&lt;/a&gt; и взял два класса. На первом нас учили (~, насколько это возможно за один короткий день)&amp;nbsp;варить электросваркой, на втором -- варить и резать ацетиленом. Положил свой первый в жизни сварной шов. И второй. И сколько-то резов.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Неожиданно медитативное занятие, между прочим. Есть что-то метафизическое в том, как металл плавится, течет и даже горит -- вещи, интуитивно металлу не свойственные, и в повседневной его, металла,&amp;nbsp;жизни с ним не случающиеся. Если, конечно, не считать всякой экзотики вроде ртути. Которая, впрочем, в свободном объеме тоже явление необычное, и зрелище завораживающее.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Но карьеры, пожалуй, пока из этого делать не буду. Пока совсем не припрет :) .&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Surprise, surprise!</title>
    <published>2008-02-29T09:15:42Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-29T09:15:42Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;em&gt;"[Roald] Dahl was rescued and taken to a first-aid post in Mersa Matruh, where he regained consciousness, but not his sight, and was then taken by train to the Royal Navy hospital in Alexandria. There he fell in and out of love with a nurse, Mary Welland. Dahl had fallen in love with her voice while he was blind, but once he regained his sight, decided that he no longer loved her.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since February 2008" style="WHITE-SPACE: nowrap"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;[&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"&gt;&lt;em&gt;citation needed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;For a story like this, who needs a citation? :) Взято &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;с&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:64525</id>
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    <title>Gmail продолжает восхищать</title>
    <published>2008-02-29T08:24:37Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-29T08:24:37Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;img src="http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/g/e/gerchikov/Gmail1.png" width="820" height="290" alt="30,94 КБ"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Что же касается собственно &lt;a href="http://gerchikov.livejournal.com/1536.html"&gt;World Distance Award...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:64333</id>
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    <title>ONN иногда умеет порадовать</title>
    <published>2008-02-27T10:03:07Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-27T10:29:44Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;lj-embed id="5" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-2"&gt;Via &lt;span class='ljuser' lj:user='monomyth' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://monomyth.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://monomyth.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;monomyth&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:64103</id>
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    <title>Их нужно знать в лицо</title>
    <published>2008-02-13T03:29:33Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-14T03:22:53Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.soaringnet.com/bc/images/virga_micro.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.soaringnet.com/bc/images/virga_micro_sm.JPG" width="268" height="201" alt="10,5КБ"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.soaringnet.com/bc/images/down_burst_1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.soaringnet.com/bc/images/down_burst_1_sm.JPG" width="268" height="201" alt="7,7КБ"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.soaringnet.com/bc/images/down_burst_2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.soaringnet.com/bc/images/down_burst_2_sm.JPG" width="268" height="201" alt="9,6КБ"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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Космы, свисающие с нижней кромки облаков -- это вирга, или попросту дождь, который испаряется, не долетев до поверхности. Испаряясь, он сильно охлаждает воздух, через который падает. В итоге получается термик наоборот -- столб холодного воздуха, увлекаемого вниз за счет собственной отрицательной плавучести в дополнение к чисто механическому взаимодействию с осадками.
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В таком столбике вертикальная скорость потока может превышать 60 м/с -- вниз, разумеется. Что происходит, когда компактный пакет в десятки тысяч тонн падающего воздуха расшибается о землю, как раз и поймано на фотографиях: впору считать тротиловый эквивалент...
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&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Взято &lt;a href="http://www.soaringnet.com/bc/930km.htm"&gt;с&lt;/a&gt;. (Nice flight, Brian!)&lt;/font&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:63885</id>
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    <title>Ну позавидуйте же мне, черти!</title>
    <published>2008-02-10T10:35:02Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-11T04:38:46Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.wingrigger.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ljplus.ru/img4/g/e/gerchikov/_IMG_2648.jpg" width="800" height="600" alt="60,94 КБ"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upd: А теперь? :)</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:gerchikov:63523</id>
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    <title>1e12</title>
    <published>2008-02-09T09:28:29Z</published>
    <updated>2008-02-09T09:33:58Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Иду давеча из Фрайза, несу домой добычу: пол-терабайта под одной мышкой, пол-терабайта под другой. Решил, наконец, диски дома проапгрейдить.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;А из головы не идет наш Изот в Техноложке. С новенькими дисководами невиданной по тем временам ёмкости -- 200 МБ каждый. Это на высокой плотности. На стандартной -- всего 100. Но кто же будет на стандартной, когда можно на высокой. И это при том, что даже в госкомстате на Измайловском об тую пору больше 29-мегабайтных ЕСовских пакетов никто ни сном, ни духом... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;А к Изоту их, между прочим, прилагалось целых два. Здоровенные такие агрегаты, каждый со стиральную машину. Крышка у каждого стеклянная, сдвижная, под ней пакет съемный -- коричневый и весь такой ребристый. К пакету колпак прозрачный, тонированный, для хранения, значит. А на дисководе сверху консоль, на консоли лампочки мигают, целых десять битов адреса цилиндра показывают. Ну, словом, круть почти невозможная. Процесс снятия и установки пакета неизменно повергал меня в благоговейный трепет и переполнял чувством причастности к великому таинству. С трудом верилось, что вот я, неумытый -- и допущен прикоснуться. Как такая роскошь в Техноложке очутилась -- ума не приложу, но дело не в этом.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;А в том, что я из Фрайза иду, терабайт под мышкой несу (в одну руку перехватил, а в другой ключи от машины), и представить себе пытаюсь, сколько бы это было бы, если тех накопителей Изотовских пять тысяч штук вместе составить. Например, так: 30 рядов, по 35 в ряд, и такого добра -- пять этажей. 1000 дисков на каждом этаже работают, а еще 50 -- на профилактике. И взвод электронщиков на каждом этаже пакеты моет спиртом, таская его ведрами от припаркованной внизу автоцистерны.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;В общем, ерунда всякая в голову лезет. И никакого трепета. Вот, собственно, и все.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Действующие лица и исполнители:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Накопитель информации на жестком магнитном диске Изот:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3330.html"&gt;IBM 3330&lt;/a&gt; direct access storage subsystem, Model 11 with IBM 3336 Disk Pack, 1970 года рождения, уроженец г. Сан-Хозе Калифорнийской Народной Республики (КНР), он же "Мерлин". $74,000-$87,000 за штучку (в долларах 1970 г.), или $370,000-$435,000 за гигабайт.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Накопитель информации на жестком магнитном диске Из-о-подмышки:&lt;/b&gt; Seagate Technology ST3500630AS, он же Barracuda 7200.10, производство Тайвань, $0.20 за гигабайт (или в ~два миллиона раз меньше, до поправки на инфляцию).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upd: Сдал Seagate, взял WD. Good to have choices...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upd&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;: Google не знает слова "терабайт". Мегабайт знает, гигабайт знает, а дальше -- не знает. Отстаете от жизни, уважаемые!</content>
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