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Tracking the Cracks
Roland Piquepaille writes "Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute have used a new approach to study how materials break. In a short news release, brilliantly titled "Breaking news", they explain their new method for analyzing the progression of a forming crack. The news release even says that it could have help engineers predict 'exactly how much pressure the levees protecting New Orleans could withstand before giving way.' This method could be used by engineers and material scientists in a vast variety of applications."
aren't much of these conflicts in response to the first world's support of Israel's displacement and encamping of the Palestinians off their indigenous lands because God said so?
No, not really. Israel wasn't formed "because god said so." In fact, many fundamentalist jews opposed it, on the grounds that jewish lore teaches Israel will not be refounded until the end of the world.
Israel was formed so that there would be one place in the world that the jews could rely on the government not kicking them out. The land seemed appropriate since it was their original homeland and was at that time in the hands of the British.
Yes, because the problem in New Orleans was the precision of measuring the inadequate levees. It couldn't possibly be that the Federal Corps of Engineers built levees that , then claimed they failed because they weren't designed to stand a category 5 hurricane.
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