There's a road in town that goes for a couple of miles with lights at every intersection, and a light-rail line that runs along side. The lights are timed such that it is impossible to travel down the road faster than the light-rail, even though the light-rail stops at every other intersection. Tell me that isn't intentional.
I find this "feature" rather annoying. The only times its ever kicked in it's caught me by surprise and I have to quickly lift my foot from the pedal. Even when I have to brake suddenly i do it in a controlled fashion. It isn't just about stopping before you rear-end the car in front of you, it's also about not getting rear ended. If the car is braking harder than requested, then it could actually cause an accident rather than prevent one.
Try a big neodymium magnet. From what I understand, the sensors in the road work based on sensing distortions in a magnetic field. A big magnet makes your bike look much bigger to the sensor than it really is.
Well, they did successfully pass you. To be fair, they know that waiting behind you will likely lead to cars in the other lane passing in front of you, thus causing themselves to be delayed somewhat by remaining behind you. I learned quite a while ago that gaps in traffic will be used by someone, so if you don't want anyone to pass in front of you, then don't leave the gap. That may not go hand in hand with fuel economy, but unfortunately you can't have it both ways.
That is correct for "Income", but the wealthy are better able to hide income in investments which are taxed at a much lower capital gains rate. If you include those investments as income, then they actually aren't paying their fair share, as famously mentioned by Warren Buffet: comparing his own effective tax rate to that of his secretary.
I'm in Minnesota, and have a similar experience. For me opening up the house at night is a non-starter because my wife has allergies/asthma. So we keep it closed, run AC, and it's expensive. But I'd rather be comfortable than have the extra cash.
I get what you mean about heat/humidity though. Right now we're having a heat wave (a week or so of mid 90s and high humidity) but that would be pretty normal farther south. It is something you get used to if you're in it a lot.
Minnesotan here, and I see plenty of ice dams around here as well, although it appears that many may be due to inadequate insulation. My roof does it too, though, on the south-facing part. Having it white (or maybe light gray?), rather than the current dark gray would probably help quite a bit.
If you're far enough north(or south) then you get snow, so even a black roof is effectively white. White might actually be better for areas that get snow, because the mid-day sun would be less likely to warm up the shingles and cause some of the snow to melt, which would normally lead to ice-dams.
True, but in reality something like a broken tail-light would be so minor that the citing officer probably wouldn't show up for the hearing. If that's the case, and you have any sort of semi convincing evidence, then most likely you'ld get out of the fine.
If you RTFA, the software only presents potential matches, and an actual human looks at the records of each individual and decides whether or not they are a legitimate match. Or at least that's the claim. I could easily see them getting lazy and mostly just rubber stamping the machine generated matches.
I'd think that an interstellar ship would likely be moving so fast at the point that it would be passing near the brown dwarf that any speed gained from a sling-shot would relatively minor, particularly so in comparison to the risk of hitting debris. Unless it's your planned destination or an objective of a fly-by study, I'm pretty sure that the risk of hitting something isn't worth the extra speed.
Even on a successful star, no fusion occurs in the outer layers. So If I had to venture a guess, I'd say the the "surface" of a brown dwarf would be far too diffuse to support a fusion chain reaction even with an ultra powerful fusion bomb as an "spark". So to have any chance, you would need to get your big fusion bomb much closer to the core, which would be an impressive feat given the intense pressures that it would have to withstand. I'm not saying it would be impossible, but we'd be talking about pressures several orders of magnitude higher than what we have at the floor of the deepest ocean trench.
Your argument is basically "The sun can influence climate, therefor nothing else influences climate" If you can't see the logical fallacy in that, then perhaps you should go back to school.
Well, what happened at Chernobyl would be a good example....minus the whole cover-up portion of it that lead to thousands of people being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation before they decided to try to evacuate.
Well the mining processes for copper and aluminum can lead to quite a lot of heavy metal pollution in lakes and streams if sufficient precautions are not taken. The refining process for aluminum and silicon is VERY energy intensive. Most of that energy comes from coal fueled power plants, which pump out more heavy metals (these ones going into the air), as well as nitrogen compounds that lead to acid rain. There are also a number of chemicals used in the manufacturing process for semiconductors that are highly toxic, though I don't have any specific information on those used for solar cell manufacture.
For one electrical plant 8000MW is a lot of electricity. It wouldn't be the largest in the world, but it would be roughly the sixth largest. And all of the larger ones are hydro.
The cost of laying thinner roads and maintaining them is much higher then the cost of laying thicker roads and their maintenance
Citation needed. It's not obvious that the economics are that clear cut. Also, there are other aspects that need to be included, such as the length of time that traffic is disrupted while the road surface is being constructed. Also the work necessary to replace the chosen road surface when it wears out. Asphalt is both easy to lay and easy to remove but only lasts 10-15 years here in MN. Concrete lasts significantly longer but requires significantly more time and labor on both ends, and more so the thicker the surface is.
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There's a road in town that goes for a couple of miles with lights at every intersection, and a light-rail line that runs along side. The lights are timed such that it is impossible to travel down the road faster than the light-rail, even though the light-rail stops at every other intersection. Tell me that isn't intentional.
- emergency brake assist
I find this "feature" rather annoying. The only times its ever kicked in it's caught me by surprise and I have to quickly lift my foot from the pedal. Even when I have to brake suddenly i do it in a controlled fashion. It isn't just about stopping before you rear-end the car in front of you, it's also about not getting rear ended. If the car is braking harder than requested, then it could actually cause an accident rather than prevent one.
Try a big neodymium magnet. From what I understand, the sensors in the road work based on sensing distortions in a magnetic field. A big magnet makes your bike look much bigger to the sensor than it really is.
Well, they did successfully pass you. To be fair, they know that waiting behind you will likely lead to cars in the other lane passing in front of you, thus causing themselves to be delayed somewhat by remaining behind you. I learned quite a while ago that gaps in traffic will be used by someone, so if you don't want anyone to pass in front of you, then don't leave the gap. That may not go hand in hand with fuel economy, but unfortunately you can't have it both ways.
That is correct for "Income", but the wealthy are better able to hide income in investments which are taxed at a much lower capital gains rate. If you include those investments as income, then they actually aren't paying their fair share, as famously mentioned by Warren Buffet: comparing his own effective tax rate to that of his secretary.
I'm in Minnesota, and have a similar experience. For me opening up the house at night is a non-starter because my wife has allergies/asthma. So we keep it closed, run AC, and it's expensive. But I'd rather be comfortable than have the extra cash.
I get what you mean about heat/humidity though. Right now we're having a heat wave (a week or so of mid 90s and high humidity) but that would be pretty normal farther south. It is something you get used to if you're in it a lot.
Actually, you don't really want the snow to melt off because that would lead to ice dams. Removing ice dams is far more work than shoveling.
Minnesotan here, and I see plenty of ice dams around here as well, although it appears that many may be due to inadequate insulation. My roof does it too, though, on the south-facing part. Having it white (or maybe light gray?), rather than the current dark gray would probably help quite a bit.
If you're far enough north(or south) then you get snow, so even a black roof is effectively white. White might actually be better for areas that get snow, because the mid-day sun would be less likely to warm up the shingles and cause some of the snow to melt, which would normally lead to ice-dams.
True, but in reality something like a broken tail-light would be so minor that the citing officer probably wouldn't show up for the hearing. If that's the case, and you have any sort of semi convincing evidence, then most likely you'ld get out of the fine.
If you RTFA, the software only presents potential matches, and an actual human looks at the records of each individual and decides whether or not they are a legitimate match. Or at least that's the claim. I could easily see them getting lazy and mostly just rubber stamping the machine generated matches.
I'd think that an interstellar ship would likely be moving so fast at the point that it would be passing near the brown dwarf that any speed gained from a sling-shot would relatively minor, particularly so in comparison to the risk of hitting debris. Unless it's your planned destination or an objective of a fly-by study, I'm pretty sure that the risk of hitting something isn't worth the extra speed.
Even on a successful star, no fusion occurs in the outer layers. So If I had to venture a guess, I'd say the the "surface" of a brown dwarf would be far too diffuse to support a fusion chain reaction even with an ultra powerful fusion bomb as an "spark". So to have any chance, you would need to get your big fusion bomb much closer to the core, which would be an impressive feat given the intense pressures that it would have to withstand. I'm not saying it would be impossible, but we'd be talking about pressures several orders of magnitude higher than what we have at the floor of the deepest ocean trench.
[sarcasm] Yeah, why make anything in the US. We don't want to be a leader in anything anyway. [/sarcasm]
Your argument is basically "The sun can influence climate, therefor nothing else influences climate" If you can't see the logical fallacy in that, then perhaps you should go back to school.
local != global
Well, what happened at Chernobyl would be a good example. ...minus the whole cover-up portion of it that lead to thousands of people being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation before they decided to try to evacuate.
Well the mining processes for copper and aluminum can lead to quite a lot of heavy metal pollution in lakes and streams if sufficient precautions are not taken. The refining process for aluminum and silicon is VERY energy intensive. Most of that energy comes from coal fueled power plants, which pump out more heavy metals (these ones going into the air), as well as nitrogen compounds that lead to acid rain. There are also a number of chemicals used in the manufacturing process for semiconductors that are highly toxic, though I don't have any specific information on those used for solar cell manufacture.
For one electrical plant 8000MW is a lot of electricity. It wouldn't be the largest in the world, but it would be roughly the sixth largest. And all of the larger ones are hydro.
"these guys" haven't achieved your example yet either.
The cost of laying thinner roads and maintaining them is much higher then the cost of laying thicker roads and their maintenance
Citation needed. It's not obvious that the economics are that clear cut. Also, there are other aspects that need to be included, such as the length of time that traffic is disrupted while the road surface is being constructed. Also the work necessary to replace the chosen road surface when it wears out. Asphalt is both easy to lay and easy to remove but only lasts 10-15 years here in MN. Concrete lasts significantly longer but requires significantly more time and labor on both ends, and more so the thicker the surface is.
Nope. Iron.
unless you enjoy the outdoors
Why would I visit a place if I can't boot up my computer and see the exact same online content that is available to me at home?
The entire point of going there is to get away and hang out in nature. Clearly the park wasn't intended for you.
Nice try, but it's an iron mine.
Yeah... well the joke doesn't really fit the reality of it being an iron mine.