It's probably impossible to launch enough people off the Earth fast enough to keep up with the current birth rate. Maybe with something like the Star Trek transporters but not with rocket launches or even space elevators.
GW Bush famously said the terrorists attacked us because the hate our freedoms so what did we do but turn around and reduce our freedom. Terrorists win. While rather spectacular the events of 9/11 were like most terrorist attacks more of a nuisance* than any big blow against the US. If we'd really wanted to piss OBL off we should have just ignored it.
* I'm not minimizing the pain and suffering of those who were directly affected by the events of that day and I grieve for your losses but in the grand scheme of things more children die of starvation around the world every day than died from those events.
To that I'd add what about mothers who don't smoke themselves but are exposed to secondhand smoke* either because their partner/roommate smokes or there is smoking in places they hang out?
*Before anyone gets all huffy about secondhand smoke being a problem I have experience with it. I was a non-smoker who roomed for a couple of years at college with a pack a day smoker. When I moved out I found I'd become addicted and started smoking (stupid, I know).
All I can say is that if I felt the need to pull the meter for safety reasons I wouldn't hesitate regardless of the law. Let the chips fall where they may.
Meter tampering refers to bypassing the meter to get electricity without paying for it. Simply pulling the meter out is not tampering unless you replace it with a bypass mechanism. In the case of a solar storm I doubt they'd enforce the law against those who pulled the meter without evidence of nefarious intent as a preventative measure.
Sheesh, the cost of putting a meter back in is practically zero. A meter has spade lugs just like the cord you plug into a wall socket. You just plug it back in place to reconnect to the grid. You probably want to call the electric company to replace the seal but I doubt they'd charge you for that, especially if you had good reason to pull it in the first place.
You're right though that you don't have to be a home owner to do that.
The meter may be owned by the utility but they can't stop me from breaking the sealing wire and yanking the thing out. I've installed the things before in new buildings so I know how it works. I even doubt they'd give me much trouble over it in the event of a large solar storm.
Around the year 2000 Nike lost something like $100 million in sales because of a failed SAP installation that cost them $400 million. How much did you hear about that?
I seriously doubt those areas were under sea level during the last ice age. Sea level was several hundred feet lower at the time. But glacial deposits + rain is a good enough reason for the slide to have occurred.
I was 17 at the time. I remember watching Armstrong get out of the capsule and walking around then later that afternoon looking up at the Moon in the sky in awe to thing that human beings were up there.
The 1964 Alaska earthquake was magnitude 9.2. I remember when it happened because the resulting tsunami killed 4 kids on the Oregon coast and 12 people in Crescent City, CA.
Overrated, eh? If you don't like the source here's the HADCRUT3 unadjusted vs. adjusted data from Wood For Trees: http://woodfortrees.org/plot/h... Not a lot of difference there either.
California has some pretty big earthquakes but for the really big quakes you need a subduction zone like the Cascadia that covers from just south of the Oregon border up to southern British Columbia or the Aleutian Megathrust zone off of southern Alaska. Those produce magnitude 9+ quakes like the one off of Indonesia a few years ago. Fortunately they don't happen that often.
Snowden didn't plan to stay in Russia, he was just passing through (on his way to Ecuador I think) when his passport was revoked. Then he was stuck in Russia.
To me it appears likely that Ukrainian separatists were responsible for shooting down the airplane. Is it possible the missile was from some captured Ukrainian military installation rather than supplied recently by the Russians?
Not as many as you might think. World population only hit 1 billion around 1804 and didn't get to 2 billion until around 1927. It was still under 3 billion when I was born in 1952.
I still didn't find any direct assertion that supports your claim there. But in the short run of the next 10-20 years the problem isn't acute and if that's all you care about SLR wouldn't be that big an impediment to buying such property. Personally I wouldn't think of buying any property that's less than around 50 feet above sea level on the west coast (where I live), as much for the potential tsunami danger as for sea level rise.
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It's probably impossible to launch enough people off the Earth fast enough to keep up with the current birth rate. Maybe with something like the Star Trek transporters but not with rocket launches or even space elevators.
GW Bush famously said the terrorists attacked us because the hate our freedoms so what did we do but turn around and reduce our freedom. Terrorists win. While rather spectacular the events of 9/11 were like most terrorist attacks more of a nuisance* than any big blow against the US. If we'd really wanted to piss OBL off we should have just ignored it.
* I'm not minimizing the pain and suffering of those who were directly affected by the events of that day and I grieve for your losses but in the grand scheme of things more children die of starvation around the world every day than died from those events.
Actually Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.
To that I'd add what about mothers who don't smoke themselves but are exposed to secondhand smoke* either because their partner/roommate smokes or there is smoking in places they hang out?
*Before anyone gets all huffy about secondhand smoke being a problem I have experience with it. I was a non-smoker who roomed for a couple of years at college with a pack a day smoker. When I moved out I found I'd become addicted and started smoking (stupid, I know).
All I can say is that if I felt the need to pull the meter for safety reasons I wouldn't hesitate regardless of the law. Let the chips fall where they may.
Meter tampering refers to bypassing the meter to get electricity without paying for it. Simply pulling the meter out is not tampering unless you replace it with a bypass mechanism. In the case of a solar storm I doubt they'd enforce the law against those who pulled the meter without evidence of nefarious intent as a preventative measure.
I've never heard of a fine for that.
Sheesh, the cost of putting a meter back in is practically zero. A meter has spade lugs just like the cord you plug into a wall socket. You just plug it back in place to reconnect to the grid. You probably want to call the electric company to replace the seal but I doubt they'd charge you for that, especially if you had good reason to pull it in the first place.
You're right though that you don't have to be a home owner to do that.
The meter may be owned by the utility but they can't stop me from breaking the sealing wire and yanking the thing out. I've installed the things before in new buildings so I know how it works. I even doubt they'd give me much trouble over it in the event of a large solar storm.
Quite to the contrary - a lot of things are obvious to The Uninformed, though a lot of those things are wrong...
IOW they are oblivious to the things they think are obvious that are wrong.
Or if you own your own home just go out and pull the meter.
And, now they'll say it was all the fault of the contractor.
And there are people who will always automatically say it was the fault of the government.
The truth is there's probably plenty of blame to spread around to nearly everyone involved.
Around the year 2000 Nike lost something like $100 million in sales because of a failed SAP installation that cost them $400 million. How much did you hear about that?
I seriously doubt those areas were under sea level during the last ice age. Sea level was several hundred feet lower at the time. But glacial deposits + rain is a good enough reason for the slide to have occurred.
I was 17 at the time. I remember watching Armstrong get out of the capsule and walking around then later that afternoon looking up at the Moon in the sky in awe to thing that human beings were up there.
I think the mods fell victim to a Poe there.
The 1964 Alaska earthquake was magnitude 9.2. I remember when it happened because the resulting tsunami killed 4 kids on the Oregon coast and 12 people in Crescent City, CA.
Overrated, eh? If you don't like the source here's the HADCRUT3 unadjusted vs. adjusted data from Wood For Trees: http://woodfortrees.org/plot/h... Not a lot of difference there either.
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California has some pretty big earthquakes but for the really big quakes you need a subduction zone like the Cascadia that covers from just south of the Oregon border up to southern British Columbia or the Aleutian Megathrust zone off of southern Alaska. Those produce magnitude 9+ quakes like the one off of Indonesia a few years ago. Fortunately they don't happen that often.
Snowden didn't plan to stay in Russia, he was just passing through (on his way to Ecuador I think) when his passport was revoked. Then he was stuck in Russia.
If McCain/Palin had been elected we'd be at war with Iran right now. McCain is a warmonger.
To me it appears likely that Ukrainian separatists were responsible for shooting down the airplane. Is it possible the missile was from some captured Ukrainian military installation rather than supplied recently by the Russians?
There were people from a number of countries on the airplane. According to NPR the State Department reported there were 23 US citizens on board.
Not as many as you might think. World population only hit 1 billion around 1804 and didn't get to 2 billion until around 1927. It was still under 3 billion when I was born in 1952.
I still didn't find any direct assertion that supports your claim there. But in the short run of the next 10-20 years the problem isn't acute and if that's all you care about SLR wouldn't be that big an impediment to buying such property. Personally I wouldn't think of buying any property that's less than around 50 feet above sea level on the west coast (where I live), as much for the potential tsunami danger as for sea level rise.