Please explain hermaphrodites and people with XXY, or other genetic differences.
Such as trisomy-21, also known as Down Syndrome ; triplication of the 21st chromsome rather than the normal diploid (duplicated) state.
I would infer from the tone that the ACPeds take that they don't consider such organisms to be human. Which is problematic as there is a good chance for some of them at least to produce fertile offspring with others who are accepted member of the human species.
The definition and meaning of "species" gets a bit awkward at the edges.
Does your head hurt often when you think about what sexual activities other people have which don't involve you? That would be a pretty serious symptom if true. I'd get professionally tested if I were you - there could be all sorts of things wrong to cause that. A tumour, for starters.
But unless you've got a large supply of unobtanium drill pipe, you won't be able to get within a kilometre of the magma itself. Highest temperature manageable with modern Real World (TM) drill pipe is around 300degC, and for magma you're up in the 550+degC (depending on chemistry) So you'd cool the rocks around the magma, making it more brittle and prone to fracture.
I'd get your liability insurance sourced from somewhere the far side of Sirius. I doubt the terrestrial insurance market could handle the hit if you triggered a Yellowstone eruption.
Geothermal is a perfectly good thing to try ; but it's ameleorating effect on even small volcanoes is going to be trivial as well as... fraught.
Many of the combatants from locations hundreds of miles away(Mediterranean)
The stable isotope data that was reported gives regional (a couple of hundred miles across) accuracy. If there had been a concentration of people from one particular set of regions - such as the Mediterranean - then it would have shown clearly in the stable-isotope data and been commented upon. In fact, an concentration of people who had sea-fish as a major component of their diet would also have stood out (due to the large, fairly well-mixed oceanic isotope buffer). It is unlikely that such an obvious grouping would have avoided comment.
Nice idea. Not supported by the data AFAICT.
(Incidentally, similar data from a similar time period was recently used to show that not only did the human bodies in the Stonehenge area come from all over Southern England and even NW Europe, but the pigs they ate at their feasting were not so widely sourced. It is a well-established suite of techniques.)
The nearest active volcano was probably... Vesuvius. Though there has been some very minor explosive volcanism from time to time in Eifel region of Germany, that was probably over some thousands of years before this event.
Actually, I'm just wondering if the termination (or recent pause) of Eifel volcanism might be related to the crustal stress changes from deglaciation.
Sorry, were you being funny, or seeking abuse? Next office along.
Extrapolating that to "Lads, these newcomers are raping our women (or whatever), all the other villages are affected too, and we need to get rid of them.
TFA, citing both skeletal marks on the bodies, and the artefacts found on the site, suggest that most of the bodies and tools were to a considerable degree specialised for fighting, and the bodies had often healed wounds. The archaeologists used the word "warriors" not "militia" or "band of farmers" after due consideration of their evidence.
Because there was an actual place like that in World War I.
And to close the connection, most people don't know that JRRT was an officer on the Western Front.
Though he didn't refer to it much in his professional work or his "for entertainment" literature, it's likely that some of the horrors he waded through in WW1 informed his writing about the Second and Third Ages.
It does put a slightly different complexion on things, doesn't it?
and you believed it? The location is known and has been excavated.
Slightly more to the point, the Hellenistic and Roman civilisations of the area some 2000 years closer to the "Trojan War" events knew where the sites were and knew that their locations had never been lost.
Schliemann brought access to the land from local a researcher (a British diplomat, IIRC) who had done the Classical Studies leg-work and relocated the site.
That does surprise me as a possibility, as fitting bursting discs and such-like venting systems is pretty common in ground systems. But I guess that may increase the number of possible points of failure, which would change the calculus of risk.
It failed to connect to any putative common ground of information. I've caved with people named Johnson (both given name and family name), but I'm not familiar with the game (series?) named as including that character. Most jokes rely on a common knowledge base, if not shared attitudes.
That's the link that comes from Google, sure enough. Looks like their site is down at the moment though. From this associated link I see that the installation list is one system in 1978 ; the one in 1992 (which took nearly two years just to manufacture the salt cavern) which you mention, and where they have to inject and burn gas in the air stream, to counteract the pressure loss due to cooling of the air ; one project at Larne (Northern Ireland) which is proposed for commissioning in 2018, and one in Wyoming USA proposed for commissioning in 2023. I know damned-all about the Wyoming one, but I really wonder where near Larne they've found a suitably coherent salt dome.
The use of specially-mined salt-caverns (it took 2 years, and they say nothing about where they dumped the salt extracted ; if the mining were profitable, surely they'd have continued doing it?) is a serious limitation to the wide applicability of this method. The need for burning gas to re-heat the gas after expansion puts a severe crimp on the energy efficiency. That really doesn't sound like a terribly helpful solution to me. In some rare circumstances - like pumped storage - it may well have a place. But it's not going to save the world.
Hmmm, I was actually alive in 1982 - just completing my secondary education and preparing to go to university.
If Wikipedia is saying that there were daily reminders of 3 Mile Island, then their editor is speaking shit. Sure we knew that there was a clean-up going on at the plant, but it wasn't any big deal. There probably were hysterics screaming about it there probably still are today. But we had bigger things to worry about like being in the overlapping blast zones from two foreign nuclear bases.
The premise: "You put your card in the cash machine but nothing comes out. The bank's IT systems have crashed again. But you need money fast, so what do you do?
You go to the stash of cash that you have, which is twice your anticipated daily requirement and start to use that.
What's that, Lassie? Someone doesn't think ahead? Do they have a Darwin Award, yet?
All users will be assigned Social Security Numbers for standardized interaction with all systems.
That would be [A-Z][A-Z] [1-9][1-9] [1-9][1-9] [1-9][1-9] [A-Z] then. Spaces may or may not be important.
What? You assumed because I'm interacting with your government's systems, that your government has issued me with a SSN in your system, and that I'm aware of this assignment, and that I know what number has been assigned to me.
Don't forget the methane release from rotting organic matter in the bottom of the hydro schemes. Hydro isn't as high-emission as coal, but it's not zero emission.
There is no reason "base load" sources cannot be replaced by variable sources using the same "fast switching" hydro/gas infrastructure that was built for coal plants.
Actually, there is a reason to not build such things. You need a good site. Britain has two sites which are in use, and no others have been determined to be energetically feasible. The few other sites are too small (in terms of upper reservoir volume multiplied by height differential, which equates to the energy-storage potential) to be worth the energy losses of moving the energy to and from the site. (If we had room temperature superconducting cables at reasonable cost, that might change the energy economics noticeably. We don't have that, and while we don't know that it's impossible, we also don't know that it is possible.)
People have proposed storage of energy by compression of air into "underground storage chambers" followed by it's release. Energetically that is feasible. Geologically, you're going to struggle to find sites that could (temporarily) contain more than a thousand psi, and again you'll have hysterisis losses due to the friction of the gases moving into and through the reservoirs. I haven't heard (yet) of a working industrial scale system, though as a geologist who has been working underground pressures for nearly 30 years, I'd be interested to hear of one. And it's actual storage, release and degradation performance. I'd be even more interested to hear of the next 10 operating examples.
Hydroelectric, problem is there are few good untaped spots for it.
We're at 80 to 90% of utilisation for our hydroelectric sites too. Do you know what we call a hydroelectric plan without a "good untaped site"? We call it a "non-existent plan" which translates to English as "a non-existent plan". I'm not sure how that translates into Canadian English - possibly something like "a non-existent plan"?
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Such as trisomy-21, also known as Down Syndrome ; triplication of the 21st chromsome rather than the normal diploid (duplicated) state.
I would infer from the tone that the ACPeds take that they don't consider such organisms to be human. Which is problematic as there is a good chance for some of them at least to produce fertile offspring with others who are accepted member of the human species.
The definition and meaning of "species" gets a bit awkward at the edges.
Errrr, why?
Does your head hurt often when you think about what sexual activities other people have which don't involve you? That would be a pretty serious symptom if true. I'd get professionally tested if I were you - there could be all sorts of things wrong to cause that. A tumour, for starters.
But unless you've got a large supply of unobtanium drill pipe, you won't be able to get within a kilometre of the magma itself. Highest temperature manageable with modern Real World (TM) drill pipe is around 300degC, and for magma you're up in the 550+degC (depending on chemistry) So you'd cool the rocks around the magma, making it more brittle and prone to fracture.
I'd get your liability insurance sourced from somewhere the far side of Sirius. I doubt the terrestrial insurance market could handle the hit if you triggered a Yellowstone eruption.
Geothermal is a perfectly good thing to try ; but it's ameleorating effect on even small volcanoes is going to be trivial as well as ... fraught.
Depressingly large numbers of people dress up their stupidity and claim it's them being political.
FTFY.
I know it's a line from some sunglass company, but having never felt the need to buy a pair of sunglasses for anything, I forget whose line it was.
I was close to making the same comment about 10 minutes ago. I'm HTTPS'd with an RSA AES CBC 256bit key.
The stable isotope data that was reported gives regional (a couple of hundred miles across) accuracy. If there had been a concentration of people from one particular set of regions - such as the Mediterranean - then it would have shown clearly in the stable-isotope data and been commented upon. In fact, an concentration of people who had sea-fish as a major component of their diet would also have stood out (due to the large, fairly well-mixed oceanic isotope buffer). It is unlikely that such an obvious grouping would have avoided comment.
Nice idea. Not supported by the data AFAICT.
(Incidentally, similar data from a similar time period was recently used to show that not only did the human bodies in the Stonehenge area come from all over Southern England and even NW Europe, but the pigs they ate at their feasting were not so widely sourced. It is a well-established suite of techniques.)
Actually, I'm just wondering if the termination (or recent pause) of Eifel volcanism might be related to the crustal stress changes from deglaciation.
Sorry, were you being funny, or seeking abuse? Next office along.
TFA, citing both skeletal marks on the bodies, and the artefacts found on the site, suggest that most of the bodies and tools were to a considerable degree specialised for fighting, and the bodies had often healed wounds. The archaeologists used the word "warriors" not "militia" or "band of farmers" after due consideration of their evidence.
And to close the connection, most people don't know that JRRT was an officer on the Western Front.
Though he didn't refer to it much in his professional work or his "for entertainment" literature, it's likely that some of the horrors he waded through in WW1 informed his writing about the Second and Third Ages.
It does put a slightly different complexion on things, doesn't it?
Shhhhh!, You'll upset Donald, the Immigrant.
Slightly more to the point, the Hellenistic and Roman civilisations of the area some 2000 years closer to the "Trojan War" events knew where the sites were and knew that their locations had never been lost.
Schliemann brought access to the land from local a researcher (a British diplomat, IIRC) who had done the Classical Studies leg-work and relocated the site.
That does surprise me as a possibility, as fitting bursting discs and such-like venting systems is pretty common in ground systems. But I guess that may increase the number of possible points of failure, which would change the calculus of risk.
Anyone would think it was rocket science!
It failed to connect to any putative common ground of information. I've caved with people named Johnson (both given name and family name), but I'm not familiar with the game (series?) named as including that character. Most jokes rely on a common knowledge base, if not shared attitudes.
Damned good reason for not having a car. Stops it getting towed.
The use of specially-mined salt-caverns (it took 2 years, and they say nothing about where they dumped the salt extracted ; if the mining were profitable, surely they'd have continued doing it?) is a serious limitation to the wide applicability of this method. The need for burning gas to re-heat the gas after expansion puts a severe crimp on the energy efficiency. That really doesn't sound like a terribly helpful solution to me. In some rare circumstances - like pumped storage - it may well have a place. But it's not going to save the world.
So, I take it you live in a world of fiction, unconnected to reality.
If Wikipedia is saying that there were daily reminders of 3 Mile Island, then their editor is speaking shit. Sure we knew that there was a clean-up going on at the plant, but it wasn't any big deal. There probably were hysterics screaming about it there probably still are today. But we had bigger things to worry about like being in the overlapping blast zones from two foreign nuclear bases.
You go to the stash of cash that you have, which is twice your anticipated daily requirement and start to use that.
What's that, Lassie? Someone doesn't think ahead? Do they have a Darwin Award, yet?
One of the explicit entries on the "these assumptions are known to be wrong" list is "A person has a name".
How exactly do you render "this person has not got a name" in UNICODE?
That would be [A-Z][A-Z] [1-9][1-9] [1-9][1-9] [1-9][1-9] [A-Z] then. Spaces may or may not be important.
What? You assumed because I'm interacting with your government's systems, that your government has issued me with a SSN in your system, and that I'm aware of this assignment, and that I know what number has been assigned to me.
"Assume". It's a big word for just 6 characters.
Don't forget the methane release from rotting organic matter in the bottom of the hydro schemes. Hydro isn't as high-emission as coal, but it's not zero emission.
Actually, there is a reason to not build such things. You need a good site. Britain has two sites which are in use, and no others have been determined to be energetically feasible. The few other sites are too small (in terms of upper reservoir volume multiplied by height differential, which equates to the energy-storage potential) to be worth the energy losses of moving the energy to and from the site. (If we had room temperature superconducting cables at reasonable cost, that might change the energy economics noticeably. We don't have that, and while we don't know that it's impossible, we also don't know that it is possible.)
People have proposed storage of energy by compression of air into "underground storage chambers" followed by it's release. Energetically that is feasible. Geologically, you're going to struggle to find sites that could (temporarily) contain more than a thousand psi, and again you'll have hysterisis losses due to the friction of the gases moving into and through the reservoirs. I haven't heard (yet) of a working industrial scale system, though as a geologist who has been working underground pressures for nearly 30 years, I'd be interested to hear of one. And it's actual storage, release and degradation performance. I'd be even more interested to hear of the next 10 operating examples.
We're at 80 to 90% of utilisation for our hydroelectric sites too. Do you know what we call a hydroelectric plan without a "good untaped site"? We call it a "non-existent plan" which translates to English as "a non-existent plan". I'm not sure how that translates into Canadian English - possibly something like "a non-existent plan"?
When was that?
It's your claim : defend it or retract it.