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Yes. This is explained in this Quora answer.

The Imperial Japanese government, in league with NAZI Germany, was waging total war against the US, using American POWs as test subjects in biological and chemical weapons tests, working British POWs to death, EATING allied POWs, etc. and as Germany collapsed, Hitler sent a U-Boot to Japan with plans for NAZI jets and rockets and a supply of uranium to assist the Japanese nuclear bomb development program. Japan was meant to be Hitler's revenge from the grave. The Americans captured the Japan-bound U-Boot and transferred the fissionable material to the Manhattan project. Google: U-234

It's funnier no advertiser enemy of us all like you https://www.quora.com/profile/... gets the better of him technically https://slashdot.org/comments....

See subject, you pitiful fucking DOUCHE, & this https://www.quora.com/profile/... you pitiful fuck!

APK

P.S.=> I am MORE THAN HAPPY to squash the life out of pigs like you, get it? Good... apk

I mean, 8 years and your battery is almost a brick right?

No. It will have reduced capacity, but it will still be functional. The quoted estimate is around a 30% reduction in capacity after 8 years.

If the reduced capacity is great enough to be covered by the warranty, then Tesla will replace the battery for you. If not, you will have the option of either using the battery as-is, or purchasing a better replacement yourself (which will probably be expensive, but less expensive in 8 years than it is now since battery prices keep decreasing).

A gas car you can keep going for 15 to 20 years.

Modulo maintenance, gas, and the various parts you will have to repair or replace, or course.

Advertiser scum trying to further HIS crooked personal full of lies agenda https://www.quora.com/profile/... who tells apk to shut up https://slashdot.org/comments.... as you're terrified of his hosts program that shuts YOU up advertiser. You're the small minded loser this post refers to https://slashdot.org/comments.... because you're too technically inept to validly technically shut him up since he's totally right.

Yet somehow I fail to see how you are tyrannized by:

• basic scientific research
• roads and infrastructure
• NASA
• people not dying in the streets of poverty

Whoever wishes to pay for these things, is welcome to do so. Using the government's monopoly on violence to pay for them is bona fide tyranny.

No. you are a sad sad little man

Love and kisses to you too, hater.

yet oddly, you still prefer to live HERE, rather than in Somalia

The stupid meme is so old, articles have been written to debunk it. Somalia was destroyed by an authoritarian (Socialist — hi, Senator Sanders) government , and is now slowly climbing back to life. The recovery does benefit from weak central government, but it still remains too unpleasant a place to move to.

Now, why wouldn't you move to (no, not North Korea) Venezuela?

Can the police lawfully commandeer a car that's not itself evidence or is that something we only see on TV?

Generally, no: Under what circumstances may a police officer commandeer your vehicle?

I wonder if this or something similar is happening inside Mozilla: https://www.quora.com/CEOs-1/A...

Wow that is an awfully obnoxious way to show your ignorance. Please review your basic economics about Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the relationship between GDP, total income of everybody, and inflation. You can't have inflation without income going up.

Some people will not see increases in wages but that doesn't mean that overall income is flat, just like if the cost of 1 TB external hard drives doesn't go up it doesn't mean that inflation is zero.

NB "sticky" wages mean that they don't go below zero; rather, people get laid off. It does not mean, as you seem to think, that wages like to stay at zero.

stupid laws that do not protect anyone from anything

Of course, they do protect — encryption is a weapon and you try to limit access to your best stuff. Yes, the enemies may still be able to get some of it, but your efforts make it harder for them.

Cryptography advances outside of the US made the point moot by early nineties, and the export-restrictions were dropped. But they weren't "stupid" — except, maybe, for the very last year or two.

The article's emphasis is all wrong — the vulnerabilities are due to poor design of SSL2 and the coding practices of OpenSSL developers leading to poor implementation of the rest. Neither of these problems is due to the government's export-restrictions.

It would be an extension of this principle, https://www.quora.com/Why-are-...

https://www.quora.com/Do-femin...

If there is a draft, most feminists agree that it should apply equally to men and women.

Most however object to anyone being drafted.

So perhaps it's not about you respecting feminism, but about you being intentionally ignorant of what actual feminists believe because you want to believe that they are somehow advocating double standards when they are not.

Batteries do not have the energy density of jet fuel. The primary thing that matters here is energy density, which has two forms, energy per mass and energy per volume. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density Both need to be much better than they are today for electric airplanes to have any chance (lifespan and and number of cycle uses also need to improve but that's in some ways less of a barrier.) Energy density of batteries by both metrics batteries has increased by 5%-10% a year depending on the exact metric and choice of examples https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-battery-energy-density-improves-5-8-per-year which is exponential growth ( but with a much slower doubling time than something like Moore's Law. One has a doubling about once every 8 or 10 years.) Jet fuel has an energy density of around 45 MJ/kg, The most efficient batteries have a little under 1 MJ/kg. So one needs at least about 5 doublings before batteries can reasonably compete which will start to occur if they have an energy density of around 32/ MJ/kg. Similar remarks apply to energy density measured by joules per volume. However, there are technical reasons to think that batteries will stop doubling before that (see theabove quora link for details which argues that we can't make batteries much than four times as efficient before we start running into serious theoretical limits). At around 20 MJ/kg, one maybe could run planes practically but they would be much less convenient and practical than today's jets and that would be at the very upper end of the plausible limits just from a straight energy density estimate.

However, the situation is even worse than that. When you use jet fuel, you use it up. Depending on the type of airplane, at take off fuel is generally 25% to 50% of the mass of the plane. So one gets serious savings that one doesn't have to move all the used fuel the entire way. That doesn't work with batteries: they are the same mass and volume whether or not they are charged, and dumping them would defeat most of the point. It might be possible to do some sort of staging approach where one uses some set of batteries to nearly empty and then have them break off in a modular plane that returns to the ground site. But that itself would lead to all sorts of additional problems.

So it is likely that we will still see fossil fuels used for jets for the next 40 or 50 years. Indeed, it is likely that they will be the very last use of fossil fuels.

Good luck with that. The precision of Lego's molding process is beyond what can be done at home.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-po...

Quote:

The moulds are permitted a tolerance of up to two micrometres...

To put that two micrometers tolerance into perspective:
- 1–10 m — diameter of a typical bacterium.
- 3–4 m — size of a typical yeast cell.

I'm sure they're all hugely inefficient relative to batteries...

Being hugely (astonishingly) inefficient relative to batteries seems to be correct:

Why not just use the gravitational potential energy of a really heavy weight as a battery?

Ayn Rand was an outspoken atheist, and similarly Atlas Shrugged was anti-religion. It seems that neither side of the left-right dichotomy wants to remember Atlas Shrugged accurately.

It's just like how the fundamentalists remember that gawd tells them to kill gays, but they forget he also tells them that women are supposed to be killed if they don't display bloody bedsheets that prove she was a virgin the day after she gets married.

That's how we have gay marriage threatening the sanctity of their second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth marriages. https://www.quora.com/How-many...

This is part of the same general trend as battery technology gets better: we don't need fossil fuels for nearly as many things as we did previously. To some extent this one is a bit of a no-brainer, because leafblowers are not technologies where one has to worry terribly about being stranded if there's no nearby recharge station or if the range isn't far enough (which helped hold back electric cars). It will be interesting to see how far this goes. Some optimists (such a Elon Musk) think that we'll eventually have boats and airplanes which use batteries, thus relegating fossil fuel use to essentially some rockets which require the very high energy density, plastic and other petrochemical derivative production (which will take a lot longer to find alternatives for), and energy in the grid. Note by the way that because large generators like power plants are more efficient than small ones, as long as one has decent batteries and doesn't have terrible power plants on the grid, that's still a net gain.

However, I'm pessimistic about this sort of trend for a few reasons. First, many countries are still producing coal power plants, and although a natural gas or oil plant is often cleaner than a car or other device burning gasoline, this is often not the case for coal plants. In some developed countries, like the US, the total percentage of power produced by coal is going down but the total amount of coal production is roughly constant and projected to remain so for at least a few decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_United_States. While newer coal plants are more efficient and cleaner, this is only by a comparatively small degree. Of course, if do eventually get cheaper nuclear (such as with more modern reactors or maybe even with thorium reactors) this situation may change- right now the fact that nuclear is held to much higher safety standards than fossil fuel plants is a large part of its very high cost.

More seriously for the very long-term hope of making batteries handle all transport technologies including ships and airplanes, it isn't clear that battery technology will improve that much over time. The primary thing that matters is energy density, which has two forms, energy per mass and energy per volume. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density Both need to be much better than they are today for electric airplanes to have any chance (lifespan and and number of cycle uses also need to improve but that's in some ways less of a barrier.) Energy density of batteries by both metrics batteries has increased by 5%-10% a year depending on the exact metric and choice of examples https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-battery-energy-density-improves-5-8-per-year which is exponential growth ( but with a much slower doubling time than something like Moore's Law. One has a doubling about once every 8 or 10 years.) Jet fuel has an energy density of around 45 MJ/kg, The most efficient batteries have a little under 1 MJ/kg. So one needs at least about 5 doublings before batteries can reasonably compete which will start to occur if they have an energy density of around 32/ MJ/kg. Similar remarks apply to energy density measured by joules per volume. However, there are technical reasons to think that batteries will stop doubling before that (see theabove quora link for details which argues that we can't make batteries much than four times as efficient before we start running into serious theoretical limits). At around 20 MJ/kg, one maybe could run planes practically but they would be much less convenient and practical than today's jets and that would be at the very upper end of the plausible limits. So it is likely that we will still see fossil fuels used for jets for the next 40 or 50 years.

I'm of two minds on this; obviously, if an engineer can solve an ege-type, logical puzzle you'll only encounter in a text book I think there's value in that. But those aren't the problems you'll encounter in the real world. I really pride myself in being ale to wrangle the technology; getting memcached to work the way I need it to on a particular issue, configuring named zone files so they're tuned to give us the highest throughput on lookups, and applying THE RIGHT design pattern to a particular coding problem. That's what I do, and I try to do it to my best ability. So when I'm confronted with the Bus Gold Ball Problem and answer with "calculate the volume of the bus, which would be easy, and start throwing gold balls in a pool until I get the same amount of water displaced" and I get back "well we wanted to see your math" I get discouraged. Archimedes was a genius. You're telling me Archimedes wouldn't have gotten the job? (If Archimedes had invented Ruby on Rails it would fit in an embedded application with no problems.)

Cremation takes a LOT of energy:

https://www.quora.com/How-much...

And it's not "clean":
http://faculty.virginia.edu/me...

I don't suppose there's any data yet about how much energy it takes to compost a corpse, but at least you're getting *something* of value at the end. I'd like to think that I'm giving something back after a lifetime of consumption.

First, it's sort of safe to say that Accounting and Lawyering are both based on extremely complicated sets of rules.

Turbo Tax effectively made reasonably complicated (up to small business filings) tax preparation accessible without directly needing an accountant.

How did Turbo Tax impact the accounting industry?

It would appear that it didn't really and that the number of accountants is predicted to rise over time into the future (faster than most other professions per the BLS link).

https://www.quora.com/How-did-...

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/busines...

So the answer is no. AI/computers will certainly augment the legal occupations, but replace lawyers? Nope.

First thousands of keys (if you are being literal) is quite small for a computer so a brute force attack would succeed really quickly.
Apart from that, is how do you transfer your encryption key so it can't be intercepted?

The reason a 1 time pad is considered perfect encryption is
1. you are guaranteed by some magical process that no one gets your key.
2. without knowing the key all messages of the same length are equally likely.

Here it says it already been cracked, and even if it wasn't it would take only 3 weeks by brute force for a desktop,
https://www.quora.com/How-long...
They would not have to brute force it or use a desktop, and brute force is very distributive.

Note you cannot brute force a 1 time pad because of point 2.

Russia as a country has pretty much self-sufficient economy.

Yeah, and so does North Korea. Russia does not grow enough food of its own, it can not make its own cars — nor computers. Their sanctions do not support "local businesses" — maybe, they are helping Chinese firms. Russians are increasingly suffering and it will get worse.

But I was not talking about sanctions specifically. Even without the sanctions they would've been overstretched fighting several wars. Too overstretched for traveling to the Moon.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-th...

Less than half of its revenues come from program fees and dues. The bulk of its revenues comes from "contributions, grants, royalty income, and advertising, much of it originating from gun industry sources."

Nope. It is true that just under 50% of the NRA's revenues come from membership dues, but another quarter comes from individual contributions. This means that nearly 3/4 of its revenues come from individuals. Another 5% comes from selling merchandise. Really, there's no reason to read half-baked slanted summaries. The NRA's income tax filings are available and break all of this down.

But if you like summaries, here's a better one, complete with a nice pie chart: https://www.quora.com/Where-do...

but abortions are in no way unavoidable.

While most are probably avoidable, saying that they are "in no way" unavoidable is somewhat over the top. Consider abortions for medical reasons, for instance (in cases where both the mother and child would die if the pregnancy came to term).

Agreed. I did not mean for my statement to be all inclusive. I should have said "the vast majority" of abortions are in no way unavoidable. Quick google: http://www.nrlc.org/archive/ne... http://www.abortionfacts.com/f... https://www.quora.com/What-per...

You don't understand just how overwhelmingly expensive it is to get to space. Suppose the Moon was made of diamonds. Just big piles of diamonds, easy to pick up and bring back home.

Large, pure, high quality diamonds are worth about $65,000/gram. Someone did the math on the total cost to get us all the moon rocks we have... the cost in today's dollars to return those rocks works out to $281,000/gram.

Your business case doesn't even come close to breaking even. You lose over $200k for every gram fictional lunar diamond you bring home. That isn't to say that there will never be a business case to be made, but if things were as easy as you claim them to be, people would have been doing this long ago.

So, if people want to ever make money in space, it needs to become cheap. The right combo to get us there might be SpaceX working to make it inexpensive, combined with NASA providing the megabucks. Governments on their own haven't made any real progress on lowering the expense of access despite multiple serious attempts.

Interesting read by Andrei Alexandrescu, D Language Architect, on: D, Go, Rust, and C, C++:
https://www.quora.com/Which-la...

it's mostly that no one feels invested in it unless it happens to them

Given the wide scope of their earlier attacks — from Sarah Palin to Tunisian government — they do "feel invested" in whole lot of locations and happenings. It is just that the ISIS — easily the most evil organisation of the 21st century so far — that avoided their wrath despite having a large collection of very juicy online targets.

Whether it is racism or whatever, that Anonymous hasn't done anything until now — despite, evidently, having the necessary capabilities — is not showing them in good light. Better late than never, of course...

Mr (and Ms!) Potato Head even bring up as-yet unaddressed issues beyond transgenderism, like trans-limberism - for instance the desire to swap your arms and legs

The slashdotter above us, hcs_$reboot, actually recognizes that the Japanese aren't very keen on planning for the future ("Don't look at the past, don't try to anticipate the future"). I supplied further evidence in how their government is more concerned with chasing after naught bits.

There's a difference between not wanting something and being unable, here due to incompetence at the societal level, to get something. That's the core distinction at the heart of the idea of sour grapes. Here, both you and hcs_$reboot assume that Japan and its citizens want the current state of affairs rather than try for something better. But from the article, the current state of affairs is pretty nasty: work long hours and get about half as much done in that time as a US worker could. Does anyone here really think the Japanese like to work about as hard as a US worker does and only get half as much done?

I don't think Japan wants this even a little bit. But they got caught in a trap of their own making with poor productivity, eye-popping debt loads both private and public, a destructive subsidized postal savings system, and a complete derailment of the strategy that made them a major industrial power in the first place. It's 25 years of slow decline.

I think this wouldn't have happened, if the grown ups who had built up the Japanese miracle were still in charge. They were used to making tough choices and rebuilding a country from rubble. But those guys died off long ago and now, it's the children in charge.

So who are these ideologically bound slashdotters you are speaking of who are calling sour grapes?

First, anyone who assumes Japan wants the current situation. Then there are people who assume that either this state of affairs won't hurt global competitiveness (which seems wrong) or global competitiveness just isn't that important (classic developed world whistling past the graveyard which has been wrong for 60 years and counting), both exhibited in the thread I linked.

I do not give one milli-micro-nano-fraction of a fuck what race you are, what gender you are or identify as, who you want to sleep with, how old you are, what your height or weight is, what if anything may be different about your body or brain, what language you speak, what country you're from, what God you pray to, where you work, how much money you have, et fucking cetera. Is your contribution any good? That's all that matters.

There is one exception to the above rule: If you're an asshole, you're banned from the project. Permanently.

If your contribution is not accepted, and you start whining about how it's "actually" because you're of some-or-other gender/race/religion/nationality/whatthefuckever, you are attempting to have the deck stacked in your favor because you're "special." That makes you an asshole. And you're gone.

This project explicitly rejects the "Open Code of Conduct" as published by the TODO Group. Anyone complaining about this is an asshole, because who the fuck are you to tell me how I should run my goddamn project? And you're gone.

I reserve the right to change this as I see fit...but anyone who tries to force me to change it in ways that are offensive to me is an asshole. And they're gone.

(Reprinted from my Quora blog)

If that is your opinion about 'government' and hence 'society', why don't you emmigrate to true third world country, like Somalia, Sudan or Nigeria?

Weren't you among those, "threatening" to emigrate to Canada, when Bush got elected? Or was it North Korea — the platonic ideal of government "taking care" of the citizenry's every need? WTF are you still doing here?

The 'governments' there certainly don't feed the poor, house the homeless and treat the sick.

Nice of you to have included Somalia — this whole meme about how Libertarians are supposed to move there is as stupid as it is infamous — the country's current troubles are due to its previous government being Socialist. Venezuela is unravelling into the same direction in front of our eyes — just ask Bernie Sanders, when you next meet him, what he would differently from Hugo Chavez...

Oh, but what about Sudan? Well, they have an ambitious social protection program called the Social Initiative Program. Nigeria does too. Time to update your talking-points card.

And you likely proclaim yourself a Christian even...

Tell me, where in the Christian (or Jewish) dogma is there anything about it being the government's (Cæsar's) responsibility to help the "less fortunate"? It is not — good people are supposed to do it themselves, government spending tax-monies on it is not benevolence.

You are very ignorant of the facts.

https://www.quora.com/How-ofte...

Autoland has great value in that it allows aircraft to land in visibility that is too low to land manually (fog, generally), and as such gets a good bit of usage at major airports on foggy mornings. ...
Most airliners that are certified for Autoland, must perform at least one successful Autoland each 30 days in order to maintain certification. So, at least once a month, most commercial and freight large aircraft must do one. ...
A guess though, if you were to ask 10 random pilots, would probably end up around one autoland per 50 manual landings. ...

And this article is almost 4 years old. Autoland is much more commonly used today- especially for planes carrying packages instead of humans.

Oh come on, even I know that nuclear subs can stay underwater without replenishing the air supply for months. You just need the CO2 scrubbers.

No, they also need a source of oxygen. Nuclear submarines get that from the ocean.

The VW engines produce less nox per mile than a gasoline engine, but more per gallon

Inaccurate. NOx is measured per mile, not per gallon, and Diesel engines produce more NOx per mile.

http://www.technology.matthey....
https://www.dieselnet.com/tech...
somewhat less technical: https://www.quora.com/Why-does...
http://www.livescience.com/522...

Just Google "Cruz dominionist" for lots of links.

https://www.quora.com/Is-Ted-C...
http://www.politicususa.com/20...

The last one might be "liberal", but it has a video from Cruz's own father. If that's not good enough for you, I don't know what is.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

Hello,

What Apple listed as one feature is actually three separate mechanisms, each playing its own part in reducing app size.

The primary mechanism – App Slicing – is the one that does most of the work. Because apps need to run on a variety of devices, from the 3.5-inch iPhone 4 to the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 (or 10-inch iPad, for universal apps), they contain separate assets for each of those devices – most of which your device doesn’t need.

With App Slices, developers tag assets by device, and when you download the app from iTunes, it will only download the assets your device needs. Apple has made this process pretty simple for developers, so it’s likely that many will support it.

On-Demand Resources (ODR) is the second way to reduce app sizes. ArsTechnica gives the example of multi-level games, where you typically only need the level you are playing plus the next few levels up. ODR means you can download the game with the first few levels included. As your play progresses, the app downloads extra levels and purges the levels already completed.

Finally, Bitcode. Instead of uploading pre-compiled binaries, developers upload what Apple calls an “intermediate representation” of the app. The App Store then automatically compiles the app just before downloading. This allows it to automatically implement part of App Slicing even if the developer hasn’t bothered to tag their code, downloading only the 32- or 64-bit code as required.

-Bin Sand

Limited nuclear attacks in a number of spots around the Earth are now assured, probably in five years or so.

I look forward to the Buzzfeed articles explaining how EMP works are why half a continent has no working electronics - or I would if SF weren't the primary target.

Good luck everyone! And don't forget to wrap at least one backup hard drive in aluminum foil.

Israel's delivering incredible quantities of aid,

Incredible only in the sense that it is incredibly inexistent.

See, for EG, http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Israel-continue-to-send-tons-of-food-aid-to-Gaza-when-under-attack

No, GrantRobertson was right. You accounted for gravitational time dilation but forgot relative velocity time dilation. The one on the ground aged longer because the ISS is moving so quickly.

A discussion of the two, and which one outweighs the other:
http://ideonexus.com/2009/02/1...

Other links:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-t...
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/t...

Indeed when the information is reconfigured it is not erased, this is the mistake Hawking made thinking it was gone for good.

Another interesting debate is Jack Semura and Todd Duncan who think information is erased in entropy (Laynes Law? definition of words problem?)
https://www.quora.com/Are-Todd...
Another article on the subject:
http://olsonb.com/articles/jac...

Time does microscopically run backwards sort of, microscopically,

"The truth of the second law is ... a statistical, not a mathematical, truth, for it depends on the fact that the bodies we deal with consist of millions of molecules... Hence the second law of thermodynamics is continually being violated, and that to a considerable extent, in any sufficiently small group of molecules belonging to a real body." -- James Clerk Maxwell
Quote is from http://olsonb.com/

However this could just be information re-configuring to temporary low entropy states, therefore when entropy decreases, it is only re-configuring information to a new low entropy state, so not technically going back in time literally:
https://www.quora.com/Does-ent...

The article says "URLs" when the Quora post, cited as the source, says LINKS. Also the article is basically devoid of any information, other than "Google did better because it used LINKS to help determine ranking." Thanks for the headline, with a summary, linking to an article that misquotes the linked source, that has a healine worth of information. No really, thanks.

It's a paid-for "article" to a ad-infested link-farm.

Here's a link to the ACTUAL story: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-...

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Altavista-search-engine-lose-ground-so-quickly-to-Google/answer/Marcia-J-Bates

The problem I have (as a layperson admittedly) with the shut-up-and-calculate notion is how will that lead to a new theory? I think that people trying to make sense of QM by interpreting what is happening is more likely to lead to new predictions or a more complete theory. For example the pilot wave interpretations lead to DeBroglie-Bohm where it includes an additional governing equation not present in other interpretations. Though according to this professor it lags behind regular QM in the prediction area thus far.

I know your ravenous hatred blinds you, but churches have had the most success in making the world a better place.

I would say exactly the opposite. Organized religion is the foundation of countless wars, conflict and suffering. Organized religion is nothing more than a cynical means of controlling people and exercising power via irrational and unproveable beliefs. The fact that they do some charitable works does not begin to excuse the harm humanity has suffered because of the tribalism that results from organized religion. I don't care at all if people want to believe in some bizarre ideas of their own but they should keep them to themselves, particularly around children. I have a huge problem with people who think we should base public policy on their religion and who think I should have to share their weird ideas sometimes literally at gunpoint.

Most hospitals and universities were started by churches.

Demonstrably not true on both counts. Certainly plenty of hospitals were started by churches but demonstrably not the majority. 20% of hospitals in the US have a religious affiliation and the majority of those are catholic institutions. And most universities have largely secular origins if you actually bother to look. Furthermore these charitable acts by churches are anything but altruistic. They are nothing more than a thinly veiled marketing effort. They have the clear ulterior motive of proselytizing in order to swell the ranks of their tribe. It is usually a soft sell but it is a sell nonetheless.

Churches care about addicts, unwed mothers and many other people that the world throws away.

So do plenty of secular organizations. And the secular organizations don't do so with the ulterior motive of trying to convert people to join their superstitious cult exactly at the time when those people are most vulnerable.

It will be much more than 1.5 drones. According to this, http://www.quora.com/How-much-... , a UPS truck will normally carry around 250 packages on a residential route. How many will that drone carry, or how many drones will it take to carry the equivalent?

A UPS truck isn't delivering 250 packages at once. 1.5 drones is probably the number of physical drones needed to replace a single UPS truck.
There is one huge difference though. Those 1.5 drones have to make 250 trips to deliver those 250 packages so to the final neighbourhood getting
the package, it's approximately the same amount of traffic but to the unfortunate neighbourhood in between the final neighbourhood and the
distribution center those 1.5 drones cross over your property 500 times.

It will be much more than 1.5 drones. According to this, http://www.quora.com/How-much-... , a UPS truck will normally carry around 250 packages on a residential route. How many will that drone carry, or how many drones will it take to carry the equivalent?

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