hawkeye18
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Angry thread got angry.
I'm still waiting for my right to paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarty.
I'm still waiting for my right to paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarty.
Ford shows off Police Interceptor Stealth concept ahead of SEMA debut
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NEp8ntballer
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SterlingGraySHO
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back to the Taurus story. . .
http://wot.motortrend.com/6699319/a...nterceptor-stealth-concept-at-sema/index.html
http://wot.motortrend.com/6699319/a...nterceptor-stealth-concept-at-sema/index.html
NEp8ntballer
cyber ninja
I see your plea to get back on topic and raise you a random wikipedia article
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma (a thin, fuzzy, temporary atmosphere) and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet. Comet nuclei are themselves loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles, ranging from a few hundred meters to tens of kilometers across. Comets have been observed since ancient times and have historically been considered bad omens.
Comets have a wide range of orbital periods, ranging from a few years to hundreds of thousands of years. Short-period comets originate in the Kuiper Belt, or its associated scattered disc,[1] which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune. Longer-period comets are thought to originate in the Oort Cloud, a spherical cloud of icy bodies in the outer Solar System. Long-period comets plunge towards the Sun from the Oort Cloud because of gravitational perturbations caused by either the massive outer planets of the Solar System (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), or passing stars. Rare hyperbolic comets pass once through the inner Solar System before being thrown out into interstellar space along hyperbolic trajectories.
Comets are distinguished from asteroids by the presence of a coma or a tail. However, extinct comets that have passed close to the Sun many times have lost nearly all of their volatile ices and dust and may come to resemble small asteroids.[2] Asteroids are thought to have a different origin from comets, having formed inside the orbit of Jupiter rather than in the outer Solar System.[3][4] These have somewhat blurred the distinction between asteroids and comets (see centaurs and asteroid terminology).
As of May 2010[update] there are a reported 3,976 known comets[5] of which about 1,500 are Kreutz Sungrazers and about 484 are short-period.[6] This number is steadily increasing. However, this represents only a tiny fraction of the total potential comet population: the reservoir of comet-like bodies in the outer solar system may number one trillion.[7] The number visible to the ***** eye averages roughly one per year, though many of these are faint and unspectacular.[8] Particularly bright or notable examples are called "Great Comets".
Etymology
The word comet came to English by way of the Latin word cometes. This word, in turn, came from the Greek word κόμη, which means "hair of the head". The Greek scientist and philosopher Aristotle first used the derived form of κόμη, κομήτης, to describe what he saw as "stars with hair." The astronomical symbol for comets is (☄), consisting of a small disc with three hairlike extensions.
Nucleus
Nucleus of comet Tempel 1 imaged by the Deep Impact impactor. The nucleus measures about 6 kilometres across.
Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes) in 2007 showing blue ion tail on right
Main article: Comet nucleus
Comet nuclei are known to range from about 100 meters to more than 40 kilometres across. They are composed of rock, dust, water ice, and frozen gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia.[9] Because of their low mass, comet nuclei do not become spherical under their own gravity, and thus have irregular shapes. Officially, according to NASA guidelines, a comet has to be at least 85% ice in order to be considered an actual comet.
They are often popularly described as "dirty snowballs", though recent observations have revealed dry dusty or rocky surfaces, suggesting that the ices are hidden beneath the crust. Comets also contain a variety of organic compounds; in addition to the gases already mentioned, these may include methanol, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, ethanol and ethane, and perhaps more complex molecules such as long-chain hydrocarbons and amino acids.[10][11][12] In 2009, it was confirmed that the amino acid glycine had been found in the comet dust recovered by NASA's Stardust mission.[13]
Surprisingly, cometary nuclei are among the least reflective objects found in our solar system. The Giotto space probe found that the nucleus of Halley's Comet reflects about four percent of the light that falls on it,[14] and Deep Space 1 discovered that Comet Borrelly's surface reflects just 2.4% to 3.0% of the light that falls on it;[14] by comparison, asphalt reflects seven percent of the light that falls on it. It is thought that complex organic compounds are the dark surface material. Solar heating drives off volatile compounds leaving behind heavy long-chain organics[clarification needed] that tend to be very dark, like tar or crude oil. The very darkness of cometary surfaces enables them to absorb the heat necessary to drive their outgassing processes.
[edit] Coma and tail
Main articles: Coma (cometary) and Comet tail
In the outer solar system, comets remain frozen and are extremely difficult or impossible to detect from Earth due to their small size. Statistical detections of inactive comet nuclei in the Kuiper belt have been reported from the Hubble Space Telescope observations,[15][16] but these detections have been questioned,[17][18] and have not yet been independently confirmed. As a comet approaches the inner solar system, solar radiation causes the volatile materials within the comet to vaporize and stream out of the nucleus, carrying dust away with them. The streams of dust and gas thus released form a huge, extremely tenuous atmosphere around the comet called the coma, and the force exerted on the coma by the Sun's radiation pressure and solar wind cause an enormous tail to form, which points away from the sun.
Both the coma and tail are illuminated by the Sun and may become visible from Earth when a comet passes through the inner solar system, the dust reflecting sunlight directly and the gases glowing from ionisation. Most comets are too faint to be visible without the aid of a telescope, but a few each decade become bright enough to be visible to the ***** eye. Occasionally a comet may experience a huge and sudden outburst of gas and dust, during which the size of the coma temporarily greatly increases. This happened in 2007 to Comet Holmes.[citation needed]
The streams of dust and gas each form their own distinct tail, pointing in slightly different directions. The tail of dust is left behind in the comet's orbit in such a manner that it often forms a curved[citation needed] tail called the type II or dust tail. At the same time, the ion or type I tail, made of gases, always points directly away from the Sun, as this gas is more strongly affected by the solar wind than is dust, following magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. On occasions a short tail pointing in the opposite direction to the ion and dust tails may be seen – the antitail. These were once thought to be somewhat mysterious, but are merely the end of the dust tail apparently projecting ahead of the comet due to our viewing angle.[19]
While the solid nucleus of comets is generally less than 50 km (31 mi) across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and ion tails have been observed to extend one astronomical unit (150 million km) or more.[9] The observation of antitails contributed significantly to the discovery of solar wind.[20] The ion tail is formed as a result of the photoelectric effect[dubious – discuss] of solar ultra-violet radiation acting on particles in the coma. Once the particles have been ionized, they attain a net positive electrical charge which in turn gives rise to an "induced magnetosphere" around the comet. The comet and its induced magnetic field form an obstacle to outward flowing solar wind particles. As the relative orbital speed of the comet and the solar wind is supersonic, a bow shock is formed upstream of the comet, in the flow direction of the solar wind. In this bow shock, large concentrations of cometary ions (called "pick-up ions") congregate and act to "load" the solar magnetic field with plasma, such that the field lines "drape" around the comet forming the ion tail.[21]
Encke tail rip off.ogg
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Encke's Comet loses its tail
If the ion tail loading is sufficient, then the magnetic field lines are squeezed together to the point where, at some distance along the ion tail, magnetic reconnection occurs. This leads to a "tail disconnection event".[21] This has been observed on a number of occasions, one notable event recorded on April 20, 2007, when the ion tail of Encke's Comet was completely severed while the comet passed through a coronal mass ejection. This event was observed by the STEREO space probe.[22]
Comets were found to emit X-rays in 1996.[23] This surprised researchers, because X-ray emission is usually associated with very high-temperature bodies. The X-rays are thought to be generated by the interaction between comets and the solar wind: when highly charged ions fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and molecules, "ripping off" one or more electrons from the comet. This ripping off leads to the emission of X-rays and far ultraviolet photons.[24]
[edit] Connection to meteor showers
As a result of outgassing, comets leave a trail of solid debris. If the comet's path crosses Earth's path, then at that point there will likely be meteor showers as Earth passes through the trail of debris. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year between August 9 and August 13, when Earth passes through the orbit of the Swift–Tuttle comet.[25] Halley's comet is the source of the Orionid shower in October.[25]
EDIT: if this thing really was inspired by the blackbird it needs Titanium wheels...
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma (a thin, fuzzy, temporary atmosphere) and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet. Comet nuclei are themselves loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles, ranging from a few hundred meters to tens of kilometers across. Comets have been observed since ancient times and have historically been considered bad omens.
Comets have a wide range of orbital periods, ranging from a few years to hundreds of thousands of years. Short-period comets originate in the Kuiper Belt, or its associated scattered disc,[1] which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune. Longer-period comets are thought to originate in the Oort Cloud, a spherical cloud of icy bodies in the outer Solar System. Long-period comets plunge towards the Sun from the Oort Cloud because of gravitational perturbations caused by either the massive outer planets of the Solar System (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), or passing stars. Rare hyperbolic comets pass once through the inner Solar System before being thrown out into interstellar space along hyperbolic trajectories.
Comets are distinguished from asteroids by the presence of a coma or a tail. However, extinct comets that have passed close to the Sun many times have lost nearly all of their volatile ices and dust and may come to resemble small asteroids.[2] Asteroids are thought to have a different origin from comets, having formed inside the orbit of Jupiter rather than in the outer Solar System.[3][4] These have somewhat blurred the distinction between asteroids and comets (see centaurs and asteroid terminology).
As of May 2010[update] there are a reported 3,976 known comets[5] of which about 1,500 are Kreutz Sungrazers and about 484 are short-period.[6] This number is steadily increasing. However, this represents only a tiny fraction of the total potential comet population: the reservoir of comet-like bodies in the outer solar system may number one trillion.[7] The number visible to the ***** eye averages roughly one per year, though many of these are faint and unspectacular.[8] Particularly bright or notable examples are called "Great Comets".
Etymology
The word comet came to English by way of the Latin word cometes. This word, in turn, came from the Greek word κόμη, which means "hair of the head". The Greek scientist and philosopher Aristotle first used the derived form of κόμη, κομήτης, to describe what he saw as "stars with hair." The astronomical symbol for comets is (☄), consisting of a small disc with three hairlike extensions.
Nucleus
Nucleus of comet Tempel 1 imaged by the Deep Impact impactor. The nucleus measures about 6 kilometres across.
Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes) in 2007 showing blue ion tail on right
Main article: Comet nucleus
Comet nuclei are known to range from about 100 meters to more than 40 kilometres across. They are composed of rock, dust, water ice, and frozen gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia.[9] Because of their low mass, comet nuclei do not become spherical under their own gravity, and thus have irregular shapes. Officially, according to NASA guidelines, a comet has to be at least 85% ice in order to be considered an actual comet.
They are often popularly described as "dirty snowballs", though recent observations have revealed dry dusty or rocky surfaces, suggesting that the ices are hidden beneath the crust. Comets also contain a variety of organic compounds; in addition to the gases already mentioned, these may include methanol, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, ethanol and ethane, and perhaps more complex molecules such as long-chain hydrocarbons and amino acids.[10][11][12] In 2009, it was confirmed that the amino acid glycine had been found in the comet dust recovered by NASA's Stardust mission.[13]
Surprisingly, cometary nuclei are among the least reflective objects found in our solar system. The Giotto space probe found that the nucleus of Halley's Comet reflects about four percent of the light that falls on it,[14] and Deep Space 1 discovered that Comet Borrelly's surface reflects just 2.4% to 3.0% of the light that falls on it;[14] by comparison, asphalt reflects seven percent of the light that falls on it. It is thought that complex organic compounds are the dark surface material. Solar heating drives off volatile compounds leaving behind heavy long-chain organics[clarification needed] that tend to be very dark, like tar or crude oil. The very darkness of cometary surfaces enables them to absorb the heat necessary to drive their outgassing processes.
[edit] Coma and tail
Main articles: Coma (cometary) and Comet tail
In the outer solar system, comets remain frozen and are extremely difficult or impossible to detect from Earth due to their small size. Statistical detections of inactive comet nuclei in the Kuiper belt have been reported from the Hubble Space Telescope observations,[15][16] but these detections have been questioned,[17][18] and have not yet been independently confirmed. As a comet approaches the inner solar system, solar radiation causes the volatile materials within the comet to vaporize and stream out of the nucleus, carrying dust away with them. The streams of dust and gas thus released form a huge, extremely tenuous atmosphere around the comet called the coma, and the force exerted on the coma by the Sun's radiation pressure and solar wind cause an enormous tail to form, which points away from the sun.
Both the coma and tail are illuminated by the Sun and may become visible from Earth when a comet passes through the inner solar system, the dust reflecting sunlight directly and the gases glowing from ionisation. Most comets are too faint to be visible without the aid of a telescope, but a few each decade become bright enough to be visible to the ***** eye. Occasionally a comet may experience a huge and sudden outburst of gas and dust, during which the size of the coma temporarily greatly increases. This happened in 2007 to Comet Holmes.[citation needed]
The streams of dust and gas each form their own distinct tail, pointing in slightly different directions. The tail of dust is left behind in the comet's orbit in such a manner that it often forms a curved[citation needed] tail called the type II or dust tail. At the same time, the ion or type I tail, made of gases, always points directly away from the Sun, as this gas is more strongly affected by the solar wind than is dust, following magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. On occasions a short tail pointing in the opposite direction to the ion and dust tails may be seen – the antitail. These were once thought to be somewhat mysterious, but are merely the end of the dust tail apparently projecting ahead of the comet due to our viewing angle.[19]
While the solid nucleus of comets is generally less than 50 km (31 mi) across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and ion tails have been observed to extend one astronomical unit (150 million km) or more.[9] The observation of antitails contributed significantly to the discovery of solar wind.[20] The ion tail is formed as a result of the photoelectric effect[dubious – discuss] of solar ultra-violet radiation acting on particles in the coma. Once the particles have been ionized, they attain a net positive electrical charge which in turn gives rise to an "induced magnetosphere" around the comet. The comet and its induced magnetic field form an obstacle to outward flowing solar wind particles. As the relative orbital speed of the comet and the solar wind is supersonic, a bow shock is formed upstream of the comet, in the flow direction of the solar wind. In this bow shock, large concentrations of cometary ions (called "pick-up ions") congregate and act to "load" the solar magnetic field with plasma, such that the field lines "drape" around the comet forming the ion tail.[21]
Encke tail rip off.ogg
Play video
Encke's Comet loses its tail
If the ion tail loading is sufficient, then the magnetic field lines are squeezed together to the point where, at some distance along the ion tail, magnetic reconnection occurs. This leads to a "tail disconnection event".[21] This has been observed on a number of occasions, one notable event recorded on April 20, 2007, when the ion tail of Encke's Comet was completely severed while the comet passed through a coronal mass ejection. This event was observed by the STEREO space probe.[22]
Comets were found to emit X-rays in 1996.[23] This surprised researchers, because X-ray emission is usually associated with very high-temperature bodies. The X-rays are thought to be generated by the interaction between comets and the solar wind: when highly charged ions fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and molecules, "ripping off" one or more electrons from the comet. This ripping off leads to the emission of X-rays and far ultraviolet photons.[24]
[edit] Connection to meteor showers
As a result of outgassing, comets leave a trail of solid debris. If the comet's path crosses Earth's path, then at that point there will likely be meteor showers as Earth passes through the trail of debris. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year between August 9 and August 13, when Earth passes through the orbit of the Swift–Tuttle comet.[25] Halley's comet is the source of the Orionid shower in October.[25]
EDIT: if this thing really was inspired by the blackbird it needs Titanium wheels...
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NEp8ntballer
cyber ninja
Racer X
SHO Pilot, Retired
Jason, calm down. We all know and appreciate the sacrifices that our brothers and sisters in the armed forces make for the freedoms we enjoy. You don't need to take this discussion there.
Honestly, all this started with your comment about wasting your tax dollars, to be honest. And in staying true to form, you chose not to back down even though you were in the wrong, and now another thread has become a shit show.
Thanks for that.
You of all people should know that local public safety spending does not come out of, or affect in any way the national defense budget. Period. That said, if you really have that much of a ******* about how your tax dollars are spent on public safety, I'm sure your local elected officials would be more than happy to grant you an audience and hear your concerns.
Don't think they're listening? Take their job, and make a change!
But in the meantime, please, please stop sending threads down the crapper on here. Enough was enough like 3 years ago, now it's just irritating.
NEp8ntballer
cyber ninja
technically national defense and local public safety both come out of my paycheck...
I'll bite... How in earth am I in the wrong? Please, explain this to me? It takes more than one to turn a thread into what it has become, but everyone thinks they're in the right, right?
You're right, that's why I stick by my comment. Believe it or not, we run out of money. Period.
As I said before, I didn't do this all by myself. You could have chosen to ignore it, but you didn't. YOU ALSO had to say your piece, but I suppose that's my fault. Pull your head out. You don't agree, great, but don't complain about something I'm doing when you're taking part. You're still getting involved after 3 years, blame that on me too.
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OK...back to the topic...I HAVE to have that grille if they produce it..... I will just have to match that edge with White Platinum....and wala!!!! The front end Ford should have put on the SHO. A really cool Italic SHO emblem would be nice too....(without the Ecoboost rider)
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hawkeye18
Sorta cares
[offtopic]
I'd just like to point out that my total tax bill for this year is $0. Yeah!
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I'd just like to point out that my total tax bill for this year is $0. Yeah!
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luigisho
SHO Member
That car is dechromed exactly as it should have been. Great inside and out. I coould totally use that extra dash storage. Awesome job.
DJSHO91
SHO Member
Instead of this being an example of an unmarked(undercover) model, I can imagine that we might be seeing some ideas for future SHO models. And I like what I see.
LJRuddy
Pop lock n drop
typhoon5000
Ferd Enganear
Well I've been busy all weekend, pre-occupied with my new truck that I forgot to check the SEMA coverage. I just saw this thing on Autoblog and figured it would be posted here already.
I love this thing. IMO this is how the new SHO should have looked from the start, or at least the SHO with the 12S PP.
The glovebox and center counsel storage solutions are awesome too. The column shift looks weird in the new Taurus, but I would gladly take it, if I gained all of that storage space over the counsel shifter.
I prefer this clean pic w/o the lights on. I might just be shopping for an ex-detective's SHO Interceptor in 5 years if I need a car
I agree with you that the new Taurus Interceptor is a much more advanced than the CV, but as a P71 owner, I wouldn't say it had poor mpgs if you compared it to the new SHO. Both of their EPA ratings are about identical with about 25hwy and I've gotten that in my P71 before. The new SHO also has over 100 more hp than the CVPI along with AWD, but it really doesn't improve on overall FE. You just get more bang per gallon I would say. Now the FWD NA 3.5L Taurus PI should be able to approach 30mpg hwy, while still giving 15 more hp over the CVPI, that is the real improvement.
I also don't know what more you expect out of the frame? I find it to be very durable for a car and have not had any issues with it. It's not an F-150 you know, it doesn't need to tow 10k lbs.
I love this thing. IMO this is how the new SHO should have looked from the start, or at least the SHO with the 12S PP.
The glovebox and center counsel storage solutions are awesome too. The column shift looks weird in the new Taurus, but I would gladly take it, if I gained all of that storage space over the counsel shifter.
I prefer this clean pic w/o the lights on. I might just be shopping for an ex-detective's SHO Interceptor in 5 years if I need a car
I agree with you that the new Taurus Interceptor is a much more advanced than the CV, but as a P71 owner, I wouldn't say it had poor mpgs if you compared it to the new SHO. Both of their EPA ratings are about identical with about 25hwy and I've gotten that in my P71 before. The new SHO also has over 100 more hp than the CVPI along with AWD, but it really doesn't improve on overall FE. You just get more bang per gallon I would say. Now the FWD NA 3.5L Taurus PI should be able to approach 30mpg hwy, while still giving 15 more hp over the CVPI, that is the real improvement.
I also don't know what more you expect out of the frame? I find it to be very durable for a car and have not had any issues with it. It's not an F-150 you know, it doesn't need to tow 10k lbs.
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