Another piece of cloth that was made from material that was grown on the same field as the one that produced the material for the flag! Bid starts at $10000
A full roundabout which is constantly moving, but where nobody can get in because the cars are bumper to bumper, seems to me to violate the laws of physics. Unless all the cars on the roundabout keep going around in circles. Surely, if cars leave the intersection, others must be able to enter? Where else does this bumper-to-bumper traffic come from?
I personally rather like roundabouts, except if one of the exits gets clogged. Which is usually due to a traffic light further on. In that case, indeed, the one jammed exit jams all directions which is not a good thing. But as long as traffic can get away (which usually is the case if there are more roundabouts and no traffic lights in the other directions), they work really well.
I especially like the really busy multi-lane roundabouts, but they do require drivers to get used to them. In the beginning, with inexperienced drivers, they are a total mess. But once people understand how they work, they're brilliant. All you need to do is yield to anyone who is in your field of vision. People behind you will yield to you. It works!
Yes, I think that comparison is way off. An orchestra submerged on the bottom of a river would likely not produce any sound hearable from the river bank. And neither would a freight train.
And you missed the point, in which the GP was pointing out the exaggerated degree of pretention in the GGP post. Somebody accusing others of making wrong statements and telling them they should read more, in a very condescending tone, should take care not to make mistakes against the very reading material he was refering to (wikipedia, "contrail"). Of course the part about cloud seeding being a different phenomenon was correct, but that does not mean you can't react on any other part of his post.
This is actually not about contrails, but quite the opposite. A contrail is a cloud created by the passage of an airplane (due to the vapor from the engine or simply the dynamic effect of stirring up oversaturated air). This study is about airplanes flying through clouds and causing those clouds to start raining. In a way, they are erasing clouds ("punching holes" in them)
They can find a particular kind of algae in sedimentary core samples, among all the other algae? Those are some pretty precise sampling techniques then. But what if the algae only appear for a few years and then go away again? Would that show up?
Well, they could fix this problem in a really easy and customer friendlly way: free diaper changing stations for the elderly, assisted by TSA-trained nurses! Oh, wait, that would cost money. I'm just being stupid again.
Obviously. Intelligence has determined that all the younger terrorists must have blown themselves up already. This means the likelihood of elderly suicide bombers has increased tremendously. It's only logical. Keep up the good work, TSA!
The water level around Fukushima was not expected to rise higher than the level the plant was designed to handle either. And according to some reports, the Fukushima plant was not even able to handle the earthquake itself even though it was designed to handle it.
Now I'm all for modern nuclear plants, we should be building a lot more of them, but I've learned to take official reports on nuclear incidents with a grain of salt
Really, roaming the Atlantic for 800,000 years looking for a specific kind of algae? I mean, if they say it hasn't been there during all that time, somebody must have been checking, right? Boy, some people have waay too much time on their hands.
The object has to be significantly larger to even form a crater of any kind. All you'll end up with are small fragments that hit all over an area.
The asteroid that caused Meteor Crater in Arizona was about 50 meters across, according to Wikipedia. Looked pretty impressive to me. I don't know how fast this newly discovered asteroid is flying, but if it's ten times as fast the energy would be similar.
Anywhere in your neighbourhood would probably be bad enough already. Energy is proportional to the square of the speed, which is an awful lot for an asteroid. The meteor crater in Arizona was created by something 50 meters across. OK, so that's a bit bigger than this one, but have you seen the size of the crater it left, and can you imagine the noise it made when it hit? 8 to 18 meters is plenty to make a huge amount of damage. And if it flies about ten times as fast as the arizona one, which is perfectly possible, it would make the same amount of damage.
Mod parent +1 interesting. I had no idea Iguanas could respond to words, and I was even led to believe they lack high level emotions. You know, with reptilian brains being kind of the 1.0 versions from which the brains of birds and mammals evolved, adding more sophisticated emotions and intelligence wich were lacking before? Apparently that was way off the mark, then, and reptiles evolved just as much as the others.
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Yes, it makes a perfect combination with spaghetti, alternating between the two.
Another piece of cloth that was made from material that was grown on the same field as the one that produced the material for the flag! Bid starts at $10000
A full roundabout which is constantly moving, but where nobody can get in because the cars are bumper to bumper, seems to me to violate the laws of physics. Unless all the cars on the roundabout keep going around in circles. Surely, if cars leave the intersection, others must be able to enter? Where else does this bumper-to-bumper traffic come from?
I personally rather like roundabouts, except if one of the exits gets clogged. Which is usually due to a traffic light further on. In that case, indeed, the one jammed exit jams all directions which is not a good thing. But as long as traffic can get away (which usually is the case if there are more roundabouts and no traffic lights in the other directions), they work really well.
I especially like the really busy multi-lane roundabouts, but they do require drivers to get used to them. In the beginning, with inexperienced drivers, they are a total mess. But once people understand how they work, they're brilliant. All you need to do is yield to anyone who is in your field of vision. People behind you will yield to you. It works!
First page of piracy site: are you a citizen of the UK? Yes/No. If you click "yes", you will not get access. Wink wink...
Well, there's this one.
Or fart apps!
Yes, I think that comparison is way off. An orchestra submerged on the bottom of a river would likely not produce any sound hearable from the river bank. And neither would a freight train.
And you missed the point, in which the GP was pointing out the exaggerated degree of pretention in the GGP post. Somebody accusing others of making wrong statements and telling them they should read more, in a very condescending tone, should take care not to make mistakes against the very reading material he was refering to (wikipedia, "contrail"). Of course the part about cloud seeding being a different phenomenon was correct, but that does not mean you can't react on any other part of his post.
This is actually not about contrails, but quite the opposite. A contrail is a cloud created by the passage of an airplane (due to the vapor from the engine or simply the dynamic effect of stirring up oversaturated air). This study is about airplanes flying through clouds and causing those clouds to start raining. In a way, they are erasing clouds ("punching holes" in them)
They can find a particular kind of algae in sedimentary core samples, among all the other algae? Those are some pretty precise sampling techniques then. But what if the algae only appear for a few years and then go away again? Would that show up?
Well, they could fix this problem in a really easy and customer friendlly way: free diaper changing stations for the elderly, assisted by TSA-trained nurses! Oh, wait, that would cost money. I'm just being stupid again.
OK, where can we contact you to make an appointment?
Obviously. Intelligence has determined that all the younger terrorists must have blown themselves up already. This means the likelihood of elderly suicide bombers has increased tremendously. It's only logical. Keep up the good work, TSA!
The water level around Fukushima was not expected to rise higher than the level the plant was designed to handle either. And according to some reports, the Fukushima plant was not even able to handle the earthquake itself even though it was designed to handle it.
Now I'm all for modern nuclear plants, we should be building a lot more of them, but I've learned to take official reports on nuclear incidents with a grain of salt
Really, roaming the Atlantic for 800,000 years looking for a specific kind of algae? I mean, if they say it hasn't been there during all that time, somebody must have been checking, right? Boy, some people have waay too much time on their hands.
The object has to be significantly larger to even form a crater of any kind. All you'll end up with are small fragments that hit all over an area.
The asteroid that caused Meteor Crater in Arizona was about 50 meters across, according to Wikipedia. Looked pretty impressive to me. I don't know how fast this newly discovered asteroid is flying, but if it's ten times as fast the energy would be similar.
Anywhere in your neighbourhood would probably be bad enough already. Energy is proportional to the square of the speed, which is an awful lot for an asteroid. The meteor crater in Arizona was created by something 50 meters across. OK, so that's a bit bigger than this one, but have you seen the size of the crater it left, and can you imagine the noise it made when it hit? 8 to 18 meters is plenty to make a huge amount of damage. And if it flies about ten times as fast as the arizona one, which is perfectly possible, it would make the same amount of damage.
The good thing is that these small ones only take one hit to destroy.
Maybe they should call it an asteroidoid.
Mod parent +1 interesting. I had no idea Iguanas could respond to words, and I was even led to believe they lack high level emotions. You know, with reptilian brains being kind of the 1.0 versions from which the brains of birds and mammals evolved, adding more sophisticated emotions and intelligence wich were lacking before? Apparently that was way off the mark, then, and reptiles evolved just as much as the others.
Exactly. After all, they are called "meal"worms, right?
He probably did not mean the literal version of "literally". He's literally not the first person to make that mistake.
I imagine animal protection groups will be all over this in no time. They are probably planning bomb attacks as we speak.
That might work if the trolls actually made any products...
I bet Hillary Clinton has provided Obama with a definition of "hostility" from the Clinton Family Dictionary.