For one thing, you fail to realize those ships are taken out of service because they're worn out and because it would be too expensive to overhaul them and make them safe and reliable to continue operations.
My friend who works at Puget Sound did tell me, after I wrote what you read, that the Kitty Hawk was in rather poor shape. The link about the Enterprise's recent maintenance period gave a number of reasons why it cost 50% more than planned - completely rusted pipes, only ship of it's class, etc. But all that stuff's been taken care of now... I do wonder when the reactors were last replaced. How many trips around the world could it take on the remaining fuel?
Last night I discovered that the USS Nassau is being decommissioned in about 2 weeks. I think it'd be ideal for this kind of conversion. Depending on its condition, of course, but certainly better than the JFK, Kitty Hawk, Ranger, etc.
For another, your friend talks of sailors being 'parked'. Nothing could be further from the truth, sailors on shore duty aren't 'parked' - they're assigned to a job (teaching school, working at a shoreside maintenance facility, whatever).
I understand that there's a Navy Reserve - I'd staff my disaster relief ship with semi-retired sailors first.
Even accepting the massive disruptions of pulling them from those jobs - they aren't qualified to go to sea. Their qualifications are expired and their skills rusty. Figure on weeks or months to spin up a crew to reasonable proficiency
While you're quite correct that I don't have much practical experience with the Navy, I don't think most of the jobs on the repurposed Enterprise would compare to the USS Enterprise that needs to be ready to launch fighters and bomb shit 24/7. Catapulting and catching airplanes is a big deal. Loading and launching Helicopters, not so much.
One of the things I said in my post from Sunday (linked above, somewhere) was that 'someone' should at least do a proper study to figure out what they'd need to do to dedicate a retired ship to disaster relief. I've heard from a couple of Enterprise veterans who like the idea. The pilot-veteran wasn't especially enthusiastic, but his concerns were mostly about 'cost' and manpower.
Someone else had the same idea today: A Great White Fleet for the 21st Century. I'd like to think that he found my website sometime over the past 7 months, but....Sometimes good ideas emerge in multiple locations spontaneously.
Ye gods is that site full of errors and ignorance, the author of which knows roughly nothing about supercarriers...
Specific criticisms would be helpful. Your email address - 'fairwater' - leads me to believe that you know something about submarines. Veteran? Active duty?
If you don't have a tool you can't use it for anything.
It took most of a week to get new backup generators to those power plants. Shouldn't the Navy have some portable power plants, to help with disaster response? I suppose these shouldn't all be attached to the large ships, as they wouldn't want to tie up the Ronald Reagan next to the leaking nuclear power plant...
If the USS Ronald Reagan had a couple Mighty Pumps in its inventory, these could be attached to the catapult steam lines. An electrical generator could be attached to the pump's drive shaft, generating power. Then they'd just run a cable to the shore to power the cities affected by the disaster.
The USS Enterprise has 310 megawatts of thermal power. I don't know how much of this could be sent to the catapult lines... Nimitz-class carriers have 2 reactors instead of 8, and generate ~190 MW of thermal power.
There is some historical legacy for using an aircraft carrier to power a city:
... Each of Lexington’s four electrical generators could produce 35,200 kilowatts. All together, the generators were powerful enough to fulfill the electricity requirements of a decent sized city. And, for 30 days that is exactly what she did....
Lots of people have found my site this week (/. post on Sunday, google, etc), and the link about the MYT engine was one of the more-commonly followed links. This page has better information about the MYT pump/engine:
The MYT [Massive Yet Tiny] Engine as a pump/compressor purportedly exceeds existing pumps/compressors in providing massive pressure, volume, and flow -- all in one unit. This attribute makes it ideal for geothermal energy, among many other such applications.
... They need food, water, and supplies delivered to areas suddenly unreachable through normal means. They need crews to rip apart buildings to rescue those trapped inside.
What rescuers really need are tools, like helicopters, ships to launch them from, water purification equipment, etc.
... Right now, helicopters are needed most. With roads, airports, and ports washed away or clogged with debris, the only way to reach many of the affected areas is by helicopter. Yet Japan now has barely 100 military helicopters engaged in relief efforts. The United States should start sending all of its heavy-lift helicopters in Japan and South Korea to northern Japan. Similarly, the Air Force should dramatically ramp up the number of C-17s bringing in supplies to Misawa Air Base, so that supplies are on the ground when transportation to affected areas can be undertaken....
The U.S. Navy has sent the USS Ronald Reagan and other "helicopter capable" ships. But the Ronald Reagan only has a couple small helicopters... Amphibious assault ships are designed for helicopters & V-22 Ospreys.. And the Tortuga can service two helicopters itself:
... The USS Tortuga embarked landing craft units and departed Sasebo Friday evening, he added. The ship is headed toward Pohang, South Korea, where it will pick up MH-53 heavy lift helicopters.
âoeWe have directed most helicopter capable ships to be ready to sail within 24 hours,â Davis said....
The USS Tortuga was in Japan, but had to go to South Korea to pick up a pair of helicopters first. Like all the other relief efforts in recent memory, this one is being thrown together too.
If the re-purposed USS Enterprise had been in Hawaii (pre-loaded with disaster supplies and heavy-lift helicopters), it could have arrived by... yesterday, probably.
When I was still formulating my proposal, Win Wenger suggested that there should actually be three disaster-response ships: one in Hawaii, one in Australian, and one in the Atlantic somewhere. How far is the boat ride from Australia to Japan? At least two responders from the last time I posted this suggested retired amphibious assault ships might be more appropriate than the Enterprise (due to the expense?). We can use those too.
i mean, they can make measurements & all that, but they really have no idea what causes the earth to shake, beyond their primitive understanding of 'plate techtonics'.
... The Japanese quake comes just weeks after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch on February 22, toppling historic buildings and killing more than 150 people. The timeframe of the two quakes have raised questions whether the two incidents are related, but experts say the distance between the two incidents makes that unlikely.
Said as if the whole earth isn't connected to itself, and the gravitational vectors of the whole solar system don't matter either. Big earthquakes have a tendency to happen in the months around the solstice, November -> March. All the big quakes in recent memory have been in this time frame:
Haiti Earthquake: 12 January 2010 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: December 26, 2004 2010 Chile Earthquake: February 27, 2010 2011 Japan Earthquake: March 11, 2011
From that wikipedia list: 12 of the largest quakes on record occurred between December and March, 4 in November, and only 8 were between May and October. So... What's so important about the winter months?
Well, the earth's Perihelion (closest approach to the sun) is about on January 4th. In the winter months the sun is putting a little bit more of a 'tug' on the earth's crust.
I'm on an email list of a guy that watches worldwide earthquake reports. He commented on the New Zealand quake, and gave a 'heads up' for the Ring of Fire. When this quake hit, he noted that the moon's perigee is coming up on March 19th, and that the earth would keep shaking until that influence passed.
The crust of the earth is sorta like a fragile eggshell - all it takes to crack is the right combination of spin axis/wobble and gravitational vectors in the solar system (gotta watch out for when Jupiter aligns with Mars, you know?:).
Interesting... Thanks for the analysis. I knew there's a lot that I haven't considered, which is why I proposed that a study should be done before the ship is disposed of.
Do you happen to know when it was last refueled? Probably classified...
The US Navy's aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships are an important part of relief efforts because they're mobile helicopter launching platforms. In a disaster, helicopters (and V-22 Ospreys) are the only good way to get around.
When President Obama said something in response to the earthquake, the first thing he said was that aircraft carriers were on their way:
“We currently have an aircraft carrier in Japan and another is on its way,” he said at the news conference. “We also have a ship en route to the Marianas Islands to assist as needed.” ...
On his Twitter feed this morning, Noriyuki Shikata, deputy cabinet secretary for public relations and director of global communications at the Japanese prime minister's office, said the Japanese government requested U.S. forces in Japan to support efforts to rescue people and to provide oil and medical aid via the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, adding his thanks to the U.S. government.
... The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is now off the coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu and the USS Tortuga is expected to arrive today.
According to reports, the Reagan is serving as place for Japanese helicopters to land and refuel. There are two escort ships with the Reagan and four more destroyers on the way to conduct search and rescue, according to reports.
The Tortuga is loaded with two heavy lift MH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters. The USS Essex, an amphibious ship carrying a 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is still a couple days away.
The USS Blue Ridge, a command ship loaded with relief supplies, has left Singapore but it will get to Japan after Essex.
The Navy just spent $662-million renovating the USS Enterprise. They're going to "throw it away" in 2 years, because it's an expensive ship to operate. I propose dedicating this ship to disaster relief. They can keep it in Hawaii, remove the fighter jets, and load it with heavy lift helicopters and everything that could possibly be needed in any type of disaster. Japan needs a lot of tents right now, but there probably aren't many in the Ronald Reagan's inventory.
This is an evolution of my posts here last summer, "To Save the Gulf, Send the Enterprise" - thank you all for visiting, the feedback, and the +1's.:)
Its nice, yea, but really, the only way to save our butt from peak oil/global warming is to decrease energy consumption dramaticaly. Like live next to work, use bicycles, etc...
There are many who have no vision. I suggest that you read Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The western world has a tendency to have entire industries disappear when new technology comes along.
There are a number of significant innovations under development that will make the oil industry (as we know it) obsolete.
Tesla also investigated harvesting energy that is present throughout space. He believed that it was merely a question of time when men would succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature, stating: "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe."#56)
This is light-years beyond what's offered by the pretenders to Tesla's legacy.
Who really knows what's going on? I think it's safe to assume that there is "state of the art" technology that is not commonly known to exist.
For example, suppose one of those government secret labs figured out the secrets of gravity decades ago. Would the powers-that-be let the public know that the most-sacred "Law of Gravity" has an off-switch?
Plus trying to hide such programs entirely is damn near impossible, or would cost more to hide than the entire program itself.
Little secrets are difficult to hide. Big, impossible secrets? Those would be much easier to keep under wraps, because it's easy to laugh advocates of "the impossible" out of the room.
And I'm sure they would know how to keep quiet the workers who'd retire from a project that was 'beyond top secret' anyways.
The Norwegian Spiral is suggestive of secret technology. Someone suggested that the HAARP array (or something like it) was used to reach out and "crush" the Russian's test rocket in mid flight. Status-quo defenders will snicker and laugh at such a proposition, but.... I do have to wonder if they've got a point. ?
I have an HP laptop ca. 2007. It's perfectly capable of handling pretty much any task a home user would need, and it makes justifying the cost of a replacement much more difficult.
My father still uses my old IBM Thinkpad T22 (ca 2001). It's perfectly functional for his purposes, and even plays his favorite internet radio station while he does his Quickbooks 2008 tasks. Best of all, it has a 4:3 1400x1050 screen. Can you even buy a new laptop with a 4:3 screen?
The hard drive died a year ago. He thought about upgrading to a newer laptop. But I ended up just replacing the drive for $20 or $40, and installed a fresh copy of Win2k.
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I accidentally dropped my own ca 2001 dell laptop an inch or so to the table a few months back. It never booted again. "crap". I took the hard drive out and put it into my sister-in-laws' 2005-or-so Dell Inspiron 8600 (they gave it to me for disposal after removing the hard drive - the XP install must've become corrupted, 'cause there's nothing wrong with it). Found a power adapter on teh craigslist. The Lubuntu install from the old dell booted without a complaint on the 'new' one too. It's a little pokey, what with 512MB memory, but that's about to be fixed.
I'm also about to buy a 20-year old aluminum sports car. Drove it the other day, and there's nothing better on the road today.
All matter is subject to quantum field effects. Human bodies are composed of matter. Is it really such a stretch to wonder if humans really do experience entanglement all the time, such as when you think about someone just before they do call?
Under 1000ft, seawater is usually under 4C. All the processes and critters that break down the oil work much slower in the cold.
My blog post on Cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico calls for pumping oxygenated surface water to the oil plumes (... it was actually a slashdot reader's idea - I originally said to pump air). Specific locations on the ocean floor would probably be easier to target than moving plumes.
It'd be quite an engineering effort (and who knows if the Navy would be willing to share any of their portable nuclear reactors), but... I don't see any other cleanup ideas being discussed.
the goverment bank with its billion dollars is getting a terrible rate of return on its investment.
Governments currently get terrible rates of return on their slush-fund deposits with the commercial banks:
... the investments of government entities can be found in official annual reports (CAFRs), which must be filed with the federal government by local, county and state governments. These annual reports show that virtually every U.S. city, county, and state has vast amounts of money stashed away in surplus funds....
I got a chance to ask [about the slush funds] in April [2010], when I was invited to speak at a conference of Government Finance Officers in Missouri. The friendly public servants at the conference explained that maintaining large âoerainy dayâ funds is simply how local governments must operate. Unlike private businesses, which have bank credit lines they can draw on if they miscalculate their expenses, local governments are required by law to balance their budgets; and if they come up short, public services and government payrolls may be frozen until the voters get around to approving a new bond issue. This has actually happened, bringing local government to a standstill. In emergencies, government officials can try to borrow short-term through âoecertificates of participationâ or tax participation loans, but the interest rates are prohibitively high; and in todayâ(TM)s tight credit market, finding willing lenders is difficult.
To avoid those unpredictable contingencies, municipal governments will keep a cushion of from 20% to 75% more than their budgets actually require. This money is invested, but not necessarily lucratively. One finance officer, for example, said that her city had just bid out $2 million as a 30-day certificate of deposit (CD) to two large banks at a meager annual interest of 0.11%. It was a nice spread for the banks, which could leverage the money into loans at 6% or so; but it was a pretty sparse deal for the city.
-The Mysterious CAFRS: How Stagnant Pools of Government Money Could Help Save the Economy (emphasis added)
Or is there something i'm missing, like the bank can print its own money?
That's what banks do, you know. They take money in on deposit, and loan it out the same day. Their books say "Bazar has $20k on deposit with us, nido owes us $18,000 (paid back over 4+ years). Hopefully Bazar doesn't want all his money back tomorrow, 'cause we'd have to go borrow it from the inter-bank market or the Federal Reserve if he did..."
Meanwhile, I've taken my $18,000 loan and purchased a sweet-ass 20-year-old NSX on the used car market. The recipient of the funds goes and deposits that money at his bank, which promptly makes a new loan for $16,200.
If the states owned banks, they'd profit from the shell game too. The plutocracy wouldn't be happy, of course, but they can go fuck themselves.
The only state that's NOT having budget problems is North Dakota. Ellen Brown says North Dakota is sitting pretty because they own the Bank of North Dakota.
All the other states are slaves to their financiers on Wall Street. For example, the City of Phoenix (Arizona) borrowed a billion dollars over the past 5 years to build out the water system. Now the water department wants to raise an extra $24million a year by raising water fees... 'Cause the usury always gets paid first.
I calculate that the interest charge on a billion dollars a year (at 5%) is $50million. If Arizona owned a bank like North Dakota, the Bank of Arizona would have financed the Phoenix water expansion (at, say, 3%). Most of the $50million the city is now bleeding out to Wall Street would instead be flowing into the state's treasury.
The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, often children or students and employees, the better they perform....
The Pygmalion effect is a form of self-fulfilling prophecy, and, in this respect, people with poor expectations internalize their negative label, and those with positive labels succeed accordingly.
My mother works as a substitute teacher. She takes troubled kids that every else badmouths, treats them with respect, and gets them to open up, stop being disruptive, and actually start learning. If a teacher is having problems with kids, it is as much an indictment of the teacher as it is of the kids.
That's cool. I think this story is an indictment of the compulsory nature of the system. Children find it hard to care when their so-called "education" is done to them under threat. John Gatto experimentally found a way to help cultivate his student's diverse interests. I highly recommend his books, or search for "the paradox of extended childhood" (mp3) at archive.org.
I think these findings means that ancient anatomists were on the right track. Chinese, indian, celtic - every culture had a unique, take on that which exists beyond the physical world.
In Chinese medicine, the body has several distinct networks of "subtle energy" which serve as blueprints for the physical systems. Some of these systems are the chakras, the aura, and the meridians. Disruptions in the energy systems will eventually result in problems in the physical systems.
Practically speaking, these findings should erase resistance to energy-based approaches to PTSD. But conventional wisdom changes slowly, even when it's wrong.
p.s. if you're really interested in a conversation about telepathy, I suggest emailing me (either through the above address or through my website), as the/. reality does not allow for the possibility of telepathy...
but Cayce had a strategy to flush out the gall bladder every so often. It involved eating raw apples and only raw apples for up to three days. On the last day of the apple diet, you'd take 3 tablespoons to 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
When the body subsists on a fat-free diet for long enough, the gall bladder stocks up on bile. When a large quantity of oil suddenly appears in the small intestine, the gallbladder's contents are dumped out to help break down the oil. If one has any stones,
Even though you don't have the gall bladder anymore, you'd probably still benefit from the pectin (fiber) and malic acid in the raw apples. With that said, some people don't do well with large quantities of apples, so talk to your doctor to see if this would be appropriate...
Then people will get exactly as much end of life care as they can afford and no more.
One of the most stupidly cruel and inhuman sentences I've ever read.
When my grandmother got teh cancer (multiple myeloma, a form of bone cancer iirc), she went along with her Mayo Clinic doctor's treatment program not because she wanted to live, but for the benefit of her family.
But when it came to paying for something herself, she put her foot down. I clearly remember going to the pharmacy to pick up the latest new prescription, for Thalidomide. They told me it'd be $2,000 for a month's supply. Grandma could have easily afforded it, but she wasn't that interested in living.
News flash: people die, because dying is a part of living. We should use the technology we have to prolong life as appropriate (gunshot wound to the head are survivable, for example). But it's stupid to give dying people a blank check for whatever type of care the medical-industrial complex thinks is appropriate.
While may Dr.s are not scientists, they still prefer to cure someone.
Of course, but their training is deficient. If you spend years learning the minutia of pharmacology and surgery, it's easy to "miss the forest for the trees". If your doctor's training only gives a cursory overview of the role of nutrition, AND the conventional wisdom about certain nutritional concepts is wrong (e.g. saturated fats were vilified so A.D.M. can make billions selling seed oils), your doctor is going to be biased for the things that he spent the majority of his training learning about.
The Lipid Peroxidation [wikipedia.org] chain reaction is a large part of what causes the diabetes, hypertension and [oxidized] cholesterol problems.
That is complete nonsense.
Are you defending the mass consumption of rancid oils? I think you are. All "vegetable" oils are deodorized as a part of the production process.
Oxidative rancidity is associated with the degradation by oxygen in the air. Via a free radical process, the double bonds of an unsaturated fatty acid can undergo cleavage, releasing volatile aldehydes and ketones. This process can be suppressed by the exclusion of oxygen or by the addition of antioxidants. Oxidation primarily occurs with unsaturated fats. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancidification
It's hard to exclude oxygen from a biological system. Which leaves antioxidants, and it takes a lot of antioxidants to deal with the massive quantities of polyunsaturated oils in a person's weekly servings of A.D.M. soybean-oil-based Kraft salad dressing.
Your tone was pretty rude, so I'm going to have to refer you to my response to the anonymous poster, who politely asked for a substantiating link for the health claims.
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For one thing, you fail to realize those ships are taken out of service because they're worn out and because it would be too expensive to overhaul them and make them safe and reliable to continue operations.
My friend who works at Puget Sound did tell me, after I wrote what you read, that the Kitty Hawk was in rather poor shape. The link about the Enterprise's recent maintenance period gave a number of reasons why it cost 50% more than planned - completely rusted pipes, only ship of it's class, etc. But all that stuff's been taken care of now... I do wonder when the reactors were last replaced. How many trips around the world could it take on the remaining fuel?
Last night I discovered that the USS Nassau is being decommissioned in about 2 weeks. I think it'd be ideal for this kind of conversion. Depending on its condition, of course, but certainly better than the JFK, Kitty Hawk, Ranger, etc.
For another, your friend talks of sailors being 'parked'. Nothing could be further from the truth, sailors on shore duty aren't 'parked' - they're assigned to a job (teaching school, working at a shoreside maintenance facility, whatever).
I understand that there's a Navy Reserve - I'd staff my disaster relief ship with semi-retired sailors first.
Even accepting the massive disruptions of pulling them from those jobs - they aren't qualified to go to sea. Their qualifications are expired and their skills rusty. Figure on weeks or months to spin up a crew to reasonable proficiency
While you're quite correct that I don't have much practical experience with the Navy, I don't think most of the jobs on the repurposed Enterprise would compare to the USS Enterprise that needs to be ready to launch fighters and bomb shit 24/7. Catapulting and catching airplanes is a big deal. Loading and launching Helicopters, not so much.
One of the things I said in my post from Sunday (linked above, somewhere) was that 'someone' should at least do a proper study to figure out what they'd need to do to dedicate a retired ship to disaster relief. I've heard from a couple of Enterprise veterans who like the idea. The pilot-veteran wasn't especially enthusiastic, but his concerns were mostly about 'cost' and manpower.
Someone else had the same idea today: A Great White Fleet for the 21st Century. I'd like to think that he found my website sometime over the past 7 months, but... .Sometimes good ideas emerge in multiple locations spontaneously.
The main thing is to do a proper study.
Ye gods is that site full of errors and ignorance, the author of which knows roughly nothing about supercarriers...
Specific criticisms would be helpful. Your email address - 'fairwater' - leads me to believe that you know something about submarines. Veteran? Active duty?
If you don't have a tool you can't use it for anything.
It took most of a week to get new backup generators to those power plants. Shouldn't the Navy have some portable power plants, to help with disaster response? I suppose these shouldn't all be attached to the large ships, as they wouldn't want to tie up the Ronald Reagan next to the leaking nuclear power plant...
If the USS Ronald Reagan had a couple Mighty Pumps in its inventory, these could be attached to the catapult steam lines. An electrical generator could be attached to the pump's drive shaft, generating power. Then they'd just run a cable to the shore to power the cities affected by the disaster.
The USS Enterprise has 310 megawatts of thermal power. I don't know how much of this could be sent to the catapult lines... Nimitz-class carriers have 2 reactors instead of 8, and generate ~190 MW of thermal power.
There is some historical legacy for using an aircraft carrier to power a city:
Lots of people have found my site this week (/. post on Sunday, google, etc), and the link about the MYT engine was one of the more-commonly followed links. This page has better information about the MYT pump/engine:
When Disaster Strikes, Send the Enterprise. I just did my first newspaper interview this morning. :)
... They need food, water, and supplies delivered to areas suddenly unreachable through normal means. They need crews to rip apart buildings to rescue those trapped inside.
What rescuers really need are tools, like helicopters, ships to launch them from, water purification equipment, etc.
The U.S. Navy has sent the USS Ronald Reagan and other "helicopter capable" ships. But the Ronald Reagan only has a couple small helicopters... Amphibious assault ships are designed for helicopters & V-22 Ospreys.. And the Tortuga can service two helicopters itself:
The USS Tortuga was in Japan, but had to go to South Korea to pick up a pair of helicopters first. Like all the other relief efforts in recent memory, this one is being thrown together too.
If the re-purposed USS Enterprise had been in Hawaii (pre-loaded with disaster supplies and heavy-lift helicopters), it could have arrived by ... yesterday, probably.
When I was still formulating my proposal, Win Wenger suggested that there should actually be three disaster-response ships: one in Hawaii, one in Australian, and one in the Atlantic somewhere. How far is the boat ride from Australia to Japan? At least two responders from the last time I posted this suggested retired amphibious assault ships might be more appropriate than the Enterprise (due to the expense?). We can use those too.
When Disaster Strikes, Send The Enterprise. It's a good idea, and everyone knows it. :)
i mean, they can make measurements & all that, but they really have no idea what causes the earth to shake, beyond their primitive understanding of 'plate techtonics'.
Said as if the whole earth isn't connected to itself, and the gravitational vectors of the whole solar system don't matter either. Big earthquakes have a tendency to happen in the months around the solstice, November -> March. All the big quakes in recent memory have been in this time frame:
Haiti Earthquake: 12 January 2010
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: December 26, 2004
2010 Chile Earthquake: February 27, 2010
2011 Japan Earthquake: March 11, 2011
From that wikipedia list: 12 of the largest quakes on record occurred between December and March, 4 in November, and only 8 were between May and October. So... What's so important about the winter months?
Well, the earth's Perihelion (closest approach to the sun) is about on January 4th. In the winter months the sun is putting a little bit more of a 'tug' on the earth's crust.
I'm on an email list of a guy that watches worldwide earthquake reports. He commented on the New Zealand quake, and gave a 'heads up' for the Ring of Fire. When this quake hit, he noted that the moon's perigee is coming up on March 19th, and that the earth would keep shaking until that influence passed.
The crust of the earth is sorta like a fragile eggshell - all it takes to crack is the right combination of spin axis/wobble and gravitational vectors in the solar system (gotta watch out for when Jupiter aligns with Mars, you know? :).
Interesting... Thanks for the analysis. I knew there's a lot that I haven't considered, which is why I proposed that a study should be done before the ship is disposed of.
Do you happen to know when it was last refueled? Probably classified...
The US Navy's aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships are an important part of relief efforts because they're mobile helicopter launching platforms. In a disaster, helicopters (and V-22 Ospreys) are the only good way to get around.
When President Obama said something in response to the earthquake, the first thing he said was that aircraft carriers were on their way:
Here's a report from today on defense.gov:
The Navy just spent $662-million renovating the USS Enterprise. They're going to "throw it away" in 2 years, because it's an expensive ship to operate. I propose dedicating this ship to disaster relief. They can keep it in Hawaii, remove the fighter jets, and load it with heavy lift helicopters and everything that could possibly be needed in any type of disaster. Japan needs a lot of tents right now, but there probably aren't many in the Ronald Reagan's inventory.
This is an evolution of my posts here last summer, "To Save the Gulf, Send the Enterprise" - thank you all for visiting, the feedback, and the +1's. :)
When Disaster Strikes, Send the Enterprise. Or at least do a proper study, before throwing the ship away.
Its nice, yea, but really, the only way to save our butt from peak oil/global warming is to decrease energy consumption dramaticaly.
Like live next to work, use bicycles, etc...
There are many who have no vision. I suggest that you read Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The western world has a tendency to have entire industries disappear when new technology comes along.
There are a number of significant innovations under development that will make the oil industry (as we know it) obsolete.
I personally am expecting a Tesla-powered car:
This is light-years beyond what's offered by the pretenders to Tesla's legacy.
If one's 'fight-or-flight' response is being constantly activated, it'd be hard to sleep.
Do you meditate or relax your body daily?
I used to have a ton of trouble falling asleep, but now I'm a consistent 12am->7:30am sleeper.
Who really knows what's going on? I think it's safe to assume that there is "state of the art" technology that is not commonly known to exist.
For example, suppose one of those government secret labs figured out the secrets of gravity decades ago. Would the powers-that-be let the public know that the most-sacred "Law of Gravity" has an off-switch?
Plus trying to hide such programs entirely is damn near impossible, or would cost more to hide than the entire program itself.
Little secrets are difficult to hide. Big, impossible secrets? Those would be much easier to keep under wraps, because it's easy to laugh advocates of "the impossible" out of the room.
And I'm sure they would know how to keep quiet the workers who'd retire from a project that was 'beyond top secret' anyways.
The Norwegian Spiral is suggestive of secret technology. Someone suggested that the HAARP array (or something like it) was used to reach out and "crush" the Russian's test rocket in mid flight. Status-quo defenders will snicker and laugh at such a proposition, but .... I do have to wonder if they've got a point. ?
Yea, the whole batch of self-sealing stem bolts is probably bad.
but honestly where do the explosive bolts or the explosive inside the bolts come from?
"self-sealing stem bolts" is a Star Trek reference, I think. http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Self-sealing_stem_bolt
If this doesn't shut the moon landing conspiracists up, nothing will.
All the interesting stuff is on the far side of the moon. Wonder when they'll release those high-resolution photos...
I have an HP laptop ca. 2007. It's perfectly capable of handling pretty much any task a home user would need, and it makes justifying the cost of a replacement much more difficult.
My father still uses my old IBM Thinkpad T22 (ca 2001). It's perfectly functional for his purposes, and even plays his favorite internet radio station while he does his Quickbooks 2008 tasks. Best of all, it has a 4:3 1400x1050 screen. Can you even buy a new laptop with a 4:3 screen?
The hard drive died a year ago. He thought about upgrading to a newer laptop. But I ended up just replacing the drive for $20 or $40, and installed a fresh copy of Win2k.
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I accidentally dropped my own ca 2001 dell laptop an inch or so to the table a few months back. It never booted again. "crap". I took the hard drive out and put it into my sister-in-laws' 2005-or-so Dell Inspiron 8600 (they gave it to me for disposal after removing the hard drive - the XP install must've become corrupted, 'cause there's nothing wrong with it). Found a power adapter on teh craigslist. The Lubuntu install from the old dell booted without a complaint on the 'new' one too. It's a little pokey, what with 512MB memory, but that's about to be fixed.
I'm also about to buy a 20-year old aluminum sports car. Drove it the other day, and there's nothing better on the road today.
Quantum Entanglement.
Slashdot featured a related story a few weeks back: Research Finds That Electric Fields Help Neurons Fire.
All matter is subject to quantum field effects. Human bodies are composed of matter. Is it really such a stretch to wonder if humans really do experience entanglement all the time, such as when you think about someone just before they do call?
Under 1000ft, seawater is usually under 4C. All the processes and critters that break down the oil work much slower in the cold.
My blog post on Cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico calls for pumping oxygenated surface water to the oil plumes (... it was actually a slashdot reader's idea - I originally said to pump air). Specific locations on the ocean floor would probably be easier to target than moving plumes.
It'd be quite an engineering effort (and who knows if the Navy would be willing to share any of their portable nuclear reactors), but ... I don't see any other cleanup ideas being discussed.
the goverment bank with its billion dollars is getting a terrible rate of return on its investment.
Governments currently get terrible rates of return on their slush-fund deposits with the commercial banks:
Or is there something i'm missing, like the bank can print its own money?
That's what banks do, you know. They take money in on deposit, and loan it out the same day. Their books say "Bazar has $20k on deposit with us, nido owes us $18,000 (paid back over 4+ years). Hopefully Bazar doesn't want all his money back tomorrow, 'cause we'd have to go borrow it from the inter-bank market or the Federal Reserve if he did..."
Meanwhile, I've taken my $18,000 loan and purchased a sweet-ass 20-year-old NSX on the used car market. The recipient of the funds goes and deposits that money at his bank, which promptly makes a new loan for $16,200.
If the states owned banks, they'd profit from the shell game too. The plutocracy wouldn't be happy, of course, but they can go fuck themselves.
The only state that's NOT having budget problems is North Dakota. Ellen Brown says North Dakota is sitting pretty because they own the Bank of North Dakota.
See How the Nation’s Only State-Owned Bank Became the Envy of Wall Street.
All the other states are slaves to their financiers on Wall Street. For example, the City of Phoenix (Arizona) borrowed a billion dollars over the past 5 years to build out the water system. Now the water department wants to raise an extra $24million a year by raising water fees... 'Cause the usury always gets paid first.
I calculate that the interest charge on a billion dollars a year (at 5%) is $50million. If Arizona owned a bank like North Dakota, the Bank of Arizona would have financed the Phoenix water expansion (at, say, 3%). Most of the $50million the city is now bleeding out to Wall Street would instead be flowing into the state's treasury.
The financial crisis is easily fixable, with the right solutions. Money and the Crisis of Civilization, and ... Richard Clark's A Bailout for the People are also on my recommended reading list.
Kids have a way of living up to people's expectations.
This is called the Pygmalion effect:
My mother works as a substitute teacher. She takes troubled kids that every else badmouths, treats them with respect, and gets them to open up, stop being disruptive, and actually start learning. If a teacher is having problems with kids, it is as much an indictment of the teacher as it is of the kids.
That's cool. I think this story is an indictment of the compulsory nature of the system. Children find it hard to care when their so-called "education" is done to them under threat. John Gatto experimentally found a way to help cultivate his student's diverse interests. I highly recommend his books, or search for "the paradox of extended childhood" (mp3) at archive.org.
I think these findings means that ancient anatomists were on the right track. Chinese, indian, celtic - every culture had a unique, take on that which exists beyond the physical world.
In Chinese medicine, the body has several distinct networks of "subtle energy" which serve as blueprints for the physical systems. Some of these systems are the chakras, the aura, and the meridians. Disruptions in the energy systems will eventually result in problems in the physical systems.
Practically speaking, these findings should erase resistance to energy-based approaches to PTSD. But conventional wisdom changes slowly, even when it's wrong.
p.s. if you're really interested in a conversation about telepathy, I suggest emailing me (either through the above address or through my website), as the /. reality does not allow for the possibility of telepathy...
but Cayce had a strategy to flush out the gall bladder every so often. It involved eating raw apples and only raw apples for up to three days. On the last day of the apple diet, you'd take 3 tablespoons to 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
When the body subsists on a fat-free diet for long enough, the gall bladder stocks up on bile. When a large quantity of oil suddenly appears in the small intestine, the gallbladder's contents are dumped out to help break down the oil. If one has any stones,
Even though you don't have the gall bladder anymore, you'd probably still benefit from the pectin (fiber) and malic acid in the raw apples. With that said, some people don't do well with large quantities of apples, so talk to your doctor to see if this would be appropriate...
I guess I'm a "reform hater" too, but only because I think "reform" should make the medical system more effective. See my other post in this story, the western approach to medicine is completely broken.
Then people will get exactly as much end of life care as they can afford and no more.
One of the most stupidly cruel and inhuman sentences I've ever read.
When my grandmother got teh cancer (multiple myeloma, a form of bone cancer iirc), she went along with her Mayo Clinic doctor's treatment program not because she wanted to live, but for the benefit of her family.
But when it came to paying for something herself, she put her foot down. I clearly remember going to the pharmacy to pick up the latest new prescription, for Thalidomide. They told me it'd be $2,000 for a month's supply. Grandma could have easily afforded it, but she wasn't that interested in living.
News flash: people die, because dying is a part of living. We should use the technology we have to prolong life as appropriate (gunshot wound to the head are survivable, for example). But it's stupid to give dying people a blank check for whatever type of care the medical-industrial complex thinks is appropriate.
Give me buttermilk+mayo+herbs over the 40 ingredients in this crap they provide under the branding "natural" something or other ranch dressing.
Yeah, except most mayo's are made with the same Soybean oil... I made mayo with olive oil once, but it was a little work.
Thanks for writing though. I definitely agree with your sentiment about "natural" branding for certain products. :)
While may Dr.s are not scientists, they still prefer to cure someone.
Of course, but their training is deficient. If you spend years learning the minutia of pharmacology and surgery, it's easy to "miss the forest for the trees". If your doctor's training only gives a cursory overview of the role of nutrition, AND the conventional wisdom about certain nutritional concepts is wrong (e.g. saturated fats were vilified so A.D.M. can make billions selling seed oils), your doctor is going to be biased for the things that he spent the majority of his training learning about.
That is complete nonsense.
Are you defending the mass consumption of rancid oils? I think you are. All "vegetable" oils are deodorized as a part of the production process.
It's hard to exclude oxygen from a biological system. Which leaves antioxidants, and it takes a lot of antioxidants to deal with the massive quantities of polyunsaturated oils in a person's weekly servings of A.D.M. soybean-oil-based Kraft salad dressing.
Your tone was pretty rude, so I'm going to have to refer you to my response to the anonymous poster, who politely asked for a substantiating link for the health claims.
Nice that you linked to a (semi-) reputable source for the definition of lipid peroxidation. Can you do the same for the dietary and medical claims?
Suitable Fats, Unsuitable Fats: Issues in Nutrition has a nice list of references. I'd start there.