In Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Porkins is killed during the attack on the first Death Star.  Just before his X-Wing is destroyed, the following exchange takes place:     PORKINS:  "I've got a problem here."   BIGGS:  "Eject."   PORKINS:  "I can hold it."   BIGGS:  "Pull up!"   PORKINS:  "No, I'm all - Aargh!"                                     I don't understand how ejecting would be preferable to being killed outright.     They are in the near-vacuum of space They are not wearing spacesuits that would support life outside their fighters They are skimming the surface of a giant battle station that they are trying to blow up.   As such, the only way a pilot could survive ejection, even in the extremely short-term, would be .  However, even if this were the case, the ejected pilot would only survive until the mission was completed, because he'd still be standing on the Death Star when it exploded.  If the mission failed, the rebel attack fleet would presumably be routed or entirely destroyed, and the ejected pilot would be left to wait around until he was spotted by the Imperial forces and, I assume, killed on the spot.    Wookieepedia's stub on ejector seats does little to dispel these apparent problems:     [T]he pilot was left vulnerable to the vacuum of space with little protection other than a flight suit, whereas in an escape pod, ample supplies of food, water, and air were all available. It was important to have rescue and recovery vehicles nearby to retrieve ejected pilots, who could often become lost in the vastness of space.   -     A rescue seems totally out of the question - before the photon torpedoes enter the exhaust port, all resources have to be directed at getting a torpedo into the port, not rescuing stranded pilots.  Once the torpedo enters the exhaust port, there simply isn't time for a rescue.  Luke fires the torpedo, sees it go in, and immediately pulls up and tries to put as much distance as possible between himself and the Death Star before it blows up, and even then, he barely makes it out alive.  This being the case, why would anyone suggest ejecting?
Rebel flight suits include an ejection harness, Biggs tells Porkins to eject. This seems to suggest that Rebel fighters have an ejection system.  How would they operate for different fighters? Does the whole cockpit separate? Do they function like current aircraft ejection systems - if so what protects the pilot from the vacuum of space?
Start modal operator from a click in panel I want to start a modal operator by clicking a button in a panel in the properties region. It should then stop when I click somewhere in the 3D viewport. I want to execute some code when I start and finish the operator (see the code below). I tried modifiyng the modal operator template with an execute method to start the modal operator. But the now the context.space_data.type is always &quot;PROPERTIES&quot; because that's where the panel is located, I guess. Is this a bad way of doing what I want? class MY_OPERATOR_OT_click_on_3dview(bpy.types.Operator):          bl_idname = &quot;mesh.click_on_3dview&quot;     bl_label = &quot;Click on 3D&quot;      def modal(self, context, event):                  if context.space_data.type != 'VIEW_3D':             return {'PASS_THROUGH'}                  if event.type in {'MIDDLEMOUSE', 'WHEELUPMOUSE', 'WHEELDOWNMOUSE'}:             # allow navigation             return {'PASS_THROUGH'}         elif event.type == 'LEFTMOUSE':             # DO ALL THE POST-SELECT STUFF             return {'FINISHED'}         elif event.type in {'RIGHTMOUSE', 'ESC'}:             return {'CANCELLED'}          return {'RUNNING_MODAL'}      def execute(self, context):         # DO ALL THE SETUP STUFF           context.window_manager.modal_handler_add(self)              return {'RUNNING_MODAL'}            def cancel(self, context):         print(&quot;CANCEL???&quot;) Are there any rules on the positioning adverbs should take in a sentence? For example:     Ever wish you could share information broadly   Could it be rewritten to:     Ever wish you could broadly share information   Are there any rules for the position of the adverbs. Low Voltage AC Smoothing Capacitor Calculation I have a 9V AC source which will have a max load of 100mA.  I'm trying to figure the value of a smoothing capacitor with less than a 10% ripple.  I don't have a scope or else I'd just try a bunch out.  I'm just a hobbyist, but I'm trying to understand this.  Since I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, I'll just step through what I've done so far.  First I found this formula: $$V_{ripple}={V_p \over R_LC} \times \Delta T$$  I'm using 60Hz 9VAC that is full wave rectified and I want a 10% ripple so:  $$(9V \times .1)={9V \over R_LC} \times {1 \over 60Hz}$$  I'm calculating my resistive load with Ohm's law. $$R = {9V \over .1A} \quad R = 90 \Omega$$  So plugging that in I get: $$.9V={9V \over 90\Omega \; C} \times {1 \over 60Hz}$$  If I solve for C (admittedly using wolfram alpha), I get: $$C={1\over 540}F \quad C=1851 \mu f$$  1850µf seems pretty high to me...  And if I lower the ripple percent it get crazy high.  Is this the right way to find this?  Or did I screw up somewhere?  Also, my circuit has the capacitor between the full bridge rectifier's positive and negative outputs.  I've only seen this type of smoothing circuit, but maybe my circuit needs to change? When I login to my ubuntu system, it show me this this message, How can I see it any time? I tried to run . .bashrc but it didn't worked.   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In the sense that the minimal polynomials, of the adjoined elements, are different (in this case the computation of the galois group is very simple).  For example one easy case, it's when $a&gt;0$, then $(a)^{\frac{1}{n}} \in \mathbb{R}$ , so clearly the minimal polynomial of $(a)^{\frac{1}{n}} , \zeta_n$ are distincs, and I'm done. If $n$ is odd then , it's also easy, since one root it's also real, for example $x^3-3 $, the real root is $ \root 3 \of { - 3}  =  - \root 3 \of 3  $ , so I can consider the splitting field as $\mathbb{Q}(-\root 3 \of 3 , \zeta_3 )=\mathbb{Q}(\root 3 \of 3 , \zeta_3 )$. The difficult case is when $n$ is even and $a&lt;0$ , for example  $x^8+20$ or $x^4+20$ in some cases as in the second, there are particular cases since there exist algorithms for the Galois group of quartics, but in general. It can be done?  $\underline{Remark}$ I'm searching a $\underline{"good basis"}$ for the splitting field. 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