who could be elected president. His fan base are white racists - they have no other options.
It's clear there is a section of his support base for whom this is true, but if that were all he had, or even most of what he had, he'd have no chance. No, much more of his support comes from people who deeply oppose globalization and people who are just mad at the establishment and want anything else.
I have to admit that the clearly racist part of his base is, sadly, much larger than I thought it could be.
A simpler theory is simply that "leaned Republicans" (in Pew Polling terminology, self identifying Republicans plus Republican leaning "independents") will vote as they always have, pulling the lever for the "R" regardless of how qualified or unqualified that person might be. 85% of all "leaned Republicans" plan on voting for Trump. Evangelical Republicans support Trump at a rate of 94%, they constituted nearly half of all the votes Romney got.
In context, with Trump denying the DNC hack was Russia trying to help Trump out, yes, this one can be seen as a very obvious joke. Just because he frequently makes horrific statements doesn't mean he doesn't occasionally also make jokes.
"Obvious"? How can you possibly tell the difference? Please let us know - what's the tell here? When you layer on the fact that Trump frequently contradicts what he has said (sometimes in the same sentence), and frequently denies saying things that are thoroughly documented that he said (video recordings are a thing he seems unaware of) how can one tell he means anything he says? Maybe his whole campaign is a joke?
Right, a theory. But if you can't count it, can't measure it, does it really exist?
But we can measure it. Its gravity reveals its existence, its quantity, and its location. So yes it exists. We just don't know what it is, and the detector experiments are testing theories about what it may be.
We also have pretty good estimates of the density of dark matter in the solar neighborhood. It amounts to 0.49 ± 0.13 GeV cm3. This means, if you weight 70 kg, your body contains about 34 trillion electron-volts of dark matter (or 6*10^-20 grams).
results didn't rule out WIMPS, only certain kinds of WIMPS. A new detector the LUX-ZEPLIN will be 100 times as sensitive and continue the search
True, but this is getting quite interesting. The constraints are squeezing the WIMP theory into a corner now. People who had been betting that dark matter would have been detected by now and beginning to suspect that the new detectors will also fail to find it.
The mass distribution in the galaxy can be determined by measuring the orbital velocity of stars at different distances and positions, which includes not only stars in the galactic disk but a spherical halo that surrounds the entire disk. It turns out that most of the mass of the galaxy is in that apparently nearly empty halo. We can rule out invisible gas, black holes, and any form of solid matter or known particles as the source of this mass, because we could detect them with other means at our disposal. Whatever is contributing all that mass hardly interacts with anything at all, except by gravity. It is not normal matter or anything we currently understand in physics.
At the time, Apple noted that it didn't actually know what was causing this... Previously Apple was using a less accurate metadata version of iTunes Match on Apple Music...
This is astonishing. Anyone, and I mean anyone, trying to manage a music collection is terribly aware that "metadata" for music is extremely unreliable, often not even able to correctly assign a track to the correct artist or album, and is entirely unable to determine the actual version of any track. It is basically just a slightly more complex version of deleting files by file name, rather than calculating a hash to determine whether it is the same file! (Gee aren't all files in the world with the name 1.mpg the very same song?)
The idea that Apple "didn't actually know" what the problem was, or how useless and dangerous there "match" approach was is not believable in the slightest, unless we assume extreme incompetence at every level of their music content business... (oh, wait...).
It's slightly worse than that. ISIS are actively trying to usher in the apocalypse. They believe they are the/a key component in the end of the world.
Hopefully the desire to usher in the apocalypse is not shared by mainstream Republicans.
The central distinguishing characteristic of Evangelicals, compared to other Christians, is the belief that the Apocalypse is near at hand, and that is a wonderful, wonderful, thing! It is God's ultimate plan for the entire world! The wicked will be smitten and the righteous (themselves, that is) will be rewarded!
Evangelicals constituted more than 40% of all votes that Romney got in the last election.
So, nearly half of Republicans do ardently hope for the Apocalypse.
No, she broke the law, but not badly, and not deliberately. The law was vague, and she broke none of the rules, as she was "allowed" to do what she did at the time she did it, like everyone before her. The rules changed after, and she was grandfathered. She didn't leak anything, and the FBI guidelines from previous similar cases is to not prosecute if there was no verifiable breach. There was a theoretical possibility that there was a breach, but no evidence to support that possibility. So with no actual breach, and basic attempts to meet the guidelines at the time it was done, there's no criminal intent, nor actual loss to bother prosecuting.
Your development of the topic refutes your lead-in sentence. If the law is vague, and she broke none of the rules used to implement the law (which is in practice how vague laws are defined), and what she was doing was established practice, and - as you say - actually allowed (no scare quotes) how can she be said to have "broken the law"? This definite conclusion has no support based on your (correct) review of the situation. It is a perilous situation if one can obey all of the rules and yet be declared guilty of "breaking the law".
That was my question. Where did the cops get a bomb? Do American cops stock grenades now? Or did some clever officer mix together some common household products he found around the station?
Major cities have bomb squads with bomb disposal robots that use bombs to blow up suspicious packages. Happens all the time. It happened in Los Angeles yesterday and attracted negligible news attention.
Apparently the shooter claimed to have planted bombs. Sending in a bomb disposal robot is the obvious way to deal with that situation. Deciding to use it to blow up the suspect directly is unusual though.
This is a tremendous shift. They didn't just detonate a bomb nearby the subject, the PLACED a bomb near the subject and detonated it. In my opinion that is not law enforcement, that's assassination.
Opinions aside there are a few questions raised: does the bomb squad keep a stock of bombs around? Are they fragmentary devices? Undirected charges or directional? Did they fabricate this bomb themselves or repurpose an existing explosive? Is this something they train for or were they improvising on scene (potentially risking even more lives)? Who made the risk/benefit determination? Similarly, who approved this action? The police chief? The Mayor? Governor? FBI? Justice department? Was compliance with the posse comitatus act waived? By whom?
I think I can answer all of these questions (though of course this is contingent on the information currently available).
Apparently the assailant claimed that he had planted "bombs all around" or some-such. To deal with the situation of a suspected bomb large cities have bomb squads with robots that - yes - carry bombs to blow up other bombs. I am sure you have heard of suspicious packages - that are not bombs - being blown-up. Happens with some regularity. It happened in Los Angeles yesterday and got almost no news coverage, the event is so common.
So they have the bomb disposal robot in the parking structure to blow up bombs, and as an impromptu decision by the commander on the scene most likely, he decided to blow up the suspect instead when he refused to surrender. In such a situation the commander usually has the authority to order a sniper to shoot. Presumably he regarded this as an equivalent action.
I have not installed a Symantec product, or permitted a pre-installed Symantec product to remain, on any machine I control in a decade. In the five or six years before that I made several attempts to use Symantec security or utility products. They were never usable, in some cases they never worked at all. Antivirus programs that insisted on running at 95% CPU all the time if they were installed, but proved very difficult to uninstall. A backup program that did all their backups as uncompressed full image proprietary binary files, wasting huge amounts of storage (when it was not dirt cheap). Fortunately I tested the restore function before I had a need to actually restore, and it did not work on a stable system with no errors. Security products that only reported cryptic, undocumented codes, that even Googling could not explain. Embedded advertising for Symantec products making the thing you purchased into malware. The uninstallation problems also had many malware traits, one actually reinstalled itself and then demanded payment in pop-ups since I did not have an active subscription.
Eventually I said "enough!". I do not know how Symantec got its huge name and status. Not from shipping decent products.
Pumped hydro (your "giant batteries") serve only a single purpose, which makes them much more expensive.
Than what? Other forms of power storage? The natural gas peaking plant alternative? Those are the only relevant points of comparison.
In the U.S., due to the low cost of gas, they are more expensive than gas peaking plants, but not "much more expensive". In the rest of the world they may be competitive with gas. If the cost of gas increases (due to the environmental damage of fracking perhaps, or the imposition of a carbon tax so that it does not get a free ride) then pumped hydro is likely going to be competitive.
They are also only practical for short term generation - generally to shift peak generation to meet peak demand within a single day. They don't work well at all to supply generation capacity over a longer time period - even a few days of low wind or overcast would require a huge pumped reservoir sitting idle for most of the time.
So its great that power storage is not our only option, it is not even a likely option. Long distance power transmission makes these "few days of low wind or overcast" a non-issue it is never the case that the entire continent has low wind, or overcast, much less both. Shipping power back and forth between coasts also pretty much takes care of even the peak demand shifting since the peak is not felt everywhere at the same time. And such a system even makes pumped storage cheaper since it can provide service to the entire grid and thus have a high utilization rate (and can thus invalidate the costs I cite above).
How's that supposed to work in a country like the USA? Grab power from Mexico when needed?
By starting with building a nation wide grid? So Texas can use power from Nevada or Florida instead of running ist own isolated grid?
Obviously the "German" or "European" way is portable, see India, Australia, Africa, China...
In the US, we basically only have 3 grids. Eastern Interconnection, Western Interconnection and the smaller Texas Interconnection. Because of losses over current transmission lines, it doesn't make sense to ship power from Nevada to Florida, but in times of emergency...
FWIW, the Tres Amigas SuperStation project is currently planned to be built to provide a more economical way to transfer power between the 3 interconnections (using DC superconductor technology) in anticipation of the surge in renewable energy plants coming on line in the next decade.
Yes, we certainly have the time needed to build a long distance power transmission solution to make a unified North American electricity market, and fairly exotic superconductor technology is not required. High voltage DC lines have been used to move electricity long distances since the 1930s, and a 800 KV line (such as have been in operation for 50+ years) can ship electricity from San Diego to Portland, Maine with only an 11% loss.
When you have a continent wide grid most of the problems claimed by the persistent nay-sayers disappear (why do they hate new technology so much?). Sunlight in the west can power the evening power slump in the East, and the late night power excess from the East can do the same for the West. The wind is blowing somewhere all the time, etc. Demands for gas peak plants is drastically reduced, and the capacity can be distributed across the continent, and so forth.
Mars, you'll be unconscious in 12 seconds if you space suit springs a leak and dead in 4 minutes.
You are likely not even unconscious after 4 minutes. Why would you?
A normal person without any training easy holds the breath 90 to 120 seconds.
And after exhaling and not being able to inhale you don't drop unconcious imediatly, why would you?
If you prepare for it like a diver, you easy can live in complete vacuum, naked for minutes. You would probably bleed throuh nose and ears etc...
Why would you? Because in a vacuum your respiratory and circulatory system work in reverse. Your blood delivers partly oxygenated hemoglobin to your lungs, where the zero partial pressure of oxygen there strips it out and you exhale the oxygen.
Your skepticism on this is bizarre since this is a very well studied and understood situation that, believe it or not, is very important here on Earth. You see decompression of aircraft at high altitude is the same thing and happens accidentally with some regularity. In fact "12 seconds of consciousness" is really unrealistically long it is actually 6 to 9 seconds of useful consciousness.
... And Mars has no vacuum. Air presure is a little bit lower than on the tip of Mount Everest. In the deep chasms it should be close or above 1/3rd of earths. Unfortunately the air is mostly CO2, though.
The facts are weak with this one. No wonder he is so confused. The densest atmosphere on Mars is 11.5 millibars at Hellas Planetia (a deep canyon). This is the same pressure as Earth at 99,000 feet. The air pressure at the top of Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) is 337 millibars, thirty times higher.
Although the government knew that the charges were bogus, that is to say filed under false pretenses, they charged Drake with crimes that would have resulted in 35 years in prison, and large fines, and tried to get him to plea to lesser, but still false, felonies.
End result: work-within-the-system whistle blower lost his job, his entire pension, was saddled with $100,000 in legal bills, and endured 4 years of meritless prosecution and harassment by the government (oh, and he lost all of his computers, documents, and books).
This is the system working properly? This is a story of abuse of power from beginning to end.
I guess stuff "proceeds normally" if the matter is not of much consequence. If it is, well then, the hammer of god falls on you and tries to smash you flat.
By the way, did you notice that the Snowden disclosures has already resorted in important reform of NSA operations, and that none other than Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a "public service"?
You instructor, and her flashing teeth, were pulling your leg, big time.
The Molly McGuires did exist in Ireland, but whether they ever existed in the United States is seriously open to question.
Essentially everything reported about the McGuires in the U.S. is the uncorroborated testimony of one man, James McParland, who was a Pinkerton detective, a publicity hound, and an admitted perjurer (never tried for it though). It was not foreman and managers getting murdered, it was ordinary miners, and they violence started after the Pinkertons showed up. Along with McParland's say-so, inmates reporting "jail house confessions" or men getting freed for their testimony constituted the 'evidence' under which the men arrested as McGuires were tried and hanged. It is entirely possible that McParland, a native of County Armagh, Ireland, used his knowledge of the real McGuires to fabricate a fake plot to assist in the successful crushing on coal field labor resistance.
Here is what we currently know about Musks's plans for going to Mars:
"He intends to send SpaceX's Dragon Version 2 spacecraft to Mars in 2018."
"It has the interior volume of a large SUV"
The trip takes six months.
There is no way to ever return.
Survival depends on a never-ending stream of resupply missions.
This is pretty grim stuff. It is Matt Damon all alone in a a container the size of an SUV, with no chance of ever returning to Earth, for the rest of his life.
But it won't be a very long life in all likelihood. No medical care, beyond what he has in his first aid kit. No back-up if he falls ill, gets injured, or needs help doing something. The first serious mechanical failure will be the end.
BTW, did you know that ISS station astronauts spend 80% of their waking time in orbit just doing maintenance on the ISS? One guy all alone, sooner or later he forgets some bit of maintenance...
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In a standards-based world shouldn't we have an icon for the most numerous gun-type on the planet?
There is a reason that all of this Trump campaign propaganda is being published by an AC.
who could be elected president. His fan base are white racists - they have no other options.
It's clear there is a section of his support base for whom this is true, but if that were all he had, or even most of what he had, he'd have no chance. No, much more of his support comes from people who deeply oppose globalization and people who are just mad at the establishment and want anything else.
I have to admit that the clearly racist part of his base is, sadly, much larger than I thought it could be.
A simpler theory is simply that "leaned Republicans" (in Pew Polling terminology, self identifying Republicans plus Republican leaning "independents") will vote as they always have, pulling the lever for the "R" regardless of how qualified or unqualified that person might be. 85% of all "leaned Republicans" plan on voting for Trump. Evangelical Republicans support Trump at a rate of 94%, they constituted nearly half of all the votes Romney got.
He has to be careful. If the democrats get a super-majority in congress, who will they blame for failure to keep their promises?
Let's conduct this experiment and see. Lets all vote for a Democratic super-majority in both houses and the Presidency.
I'm up for it.
In context, with Trump denying the DNC hack was Russia trying to help Trump out, yes, this one can be seen as a very obvious joke. Just because he frequently makes horrific statements doesn't mean he doesn't occasionally also make jokes.
"Obvious"? How can you possibly tell the difference? Please let us know - what's the tell here? When you layer on the fact that Trump frequently contradicts what he has said (sometimes in the same sentence), and frequently denies saying things that are thoroughly documented that he said (video recordings are a thing he seems unaware of) how can one tell he means anything he says? Maybe his whole campaign is a joke?
Windows 10 doesn't spy on you.
Prove it.
Right, a theory. But if you can't count it, can't measure it, does it really exist?
But we can measure it. Its gravity reveals its existence, its quantity, and its location. So yes it exists. We just don't know what it is, and the detector experiments are testing theories about what it may be.
We also have pretty good estimates of the density of dark matter in the solar neighborhood. It amounts to 0.49 ± 0.13 GeV cm3. This means, if you weight 70 kg, your body contains about 34 trillion electron-volts of dark matter (or 6*10^-20 grams).
results didn't rule out WIMPS, only certain kinds of WIMPS. A new detector the LUX-ZEPLIN will be 100 times as sensitive and continue the search
True, but this is getting quite interesting. The constraints are squeezing the WIMP theory into a corner now. People who had been betting that dark matter would have been detected by now and beginning to suspect that the new detectors will also fail to find it.
The mass distribution in the galaxy can be determined by measuring the orbital velocity of stars at different distances and positions, which includes not only stars in the galactic disk but a spherical halo that surrounds the entire disk. It turns out that most of the mass of the galaxy is in that apparently nearly empty halo. We can rule out invisible gas, black holes, and any form of solid matter or known particles as the source of this mass, because we could detect them with other means at our disposal. Whatever is contributing all that mass hardly interacts with anything at all, except by gravity. It is not normal matter or anything we currently understand in physics.
Funny how ACs who are entirely ignorant of a subject imagine themselves to be experts with great insights.
Empty space is actually made up of vacuum energy which can be directly observed.
At the time, Apple noted that it didn't actually know what was causing this ... Previously Apple was using a less accurate metadata version of iTunes Match on Apple Music...
This is astonishing. Anyone, and I mean anyone, trying to manage a music collection is terribly aware that "metadata" for music is extremely unreliable, often not even able to correctly assign a track to the correct artist or album, and is entirely unable to determine the actual version of any track. It is basically just a slightly more complex version of deleting files by file name, rather than calculating a hash to determine whether it is the same file! (Gee aren't all files in the world with the name 1.mpg the very same song?)
The idea that Apple "didn't actually know" what the problem was, or how useless and dangerous there "match" approach was is not believable in the slightest, unless we assume extreme incompetence at every level of their music content business... (oh, wait...).
It's slightly worse than that. ISIS are actively trying to usher in the apocalypse. They believe they are the/a key component in the end of the world. Hopefully the desire to usher in the apocalypse is not shared by mainstream Republicans.
The central distinguishing characteristic of Evangelicals, compared to other Christians, is the belief that the Apocalypse is near at hand, and that is a wonderful, wonderful, thing! It is God's ultimate plan for the entire world! The wicked will be smitten and the righteous (themselves, that is) will be rewarded!
Evangelicals constituted more than 40% of all votes that Romney got in the last election.
So, nearly half of Republicans do ardently hope for the Apocalypse.
At least Benito Mussolini made the trains run on time.
No, he didn't.
No, she broke the law, but not badly, and not deliberately. The law was vague, and she broke none of the rules, as she was "allowed" to do what she did at the time she did it, like everyone before her. The rules changed after, and she was grandfathered. She didn't leak anything, and the FBI guidelines from previous similar cases is to not prosecute if there was no verifiable breach. There was a theoretical possibility that there was a breach, but no evidence to support that possibility. So with no actual breach, and basic attempts to meet the guidelines at the time it was done, there's no criminal intent, nor actual loss to bother prosecuting.
Your development of the topic refutes your lead-in sentence. If the law is vague, and she broke none of the rules used to implement the law (which is in practice how vague laws are defined), and what she was doing was established practice, and - as you say - actually allowed (no scare quotes) how can she be said to have "broken the law"? This definite conclusion has no support based on your (correct) review of the situation. It is a perilous situation if one can obey all of the rules and yet be declared guilty of "breaking the law".
That was my question. Where did the cops get a bomb? Do American cops stock grenades now? Or did some clever officer mix together some common household products he found around the station?
Major cities have bomb squads with bomb disposal robots that use bombs to blow up suspicious packages. Happens all the time. It happened in Los Angeles yesterday and attracted negligible news attention.
Apparently the shooter claimed to have planted bombs. Sending in a bomb disposal robot is the obvious way to deal with that situation. Deciding to use it to blow up the suspect directly is unusual though.
This is a tremendous shift. They didn't just detonate a bomb nearby the subject, the PLACED a bomb near the subject and detonated it. In my opinion that is not law enforcement, that's assassination.
Opinions aside there are a few questions raised: does the bomb squad keep a stock of bombs around? Are they fragmentary devices? Undirected charges or directional? Did they fabricate this bomb themselves or repurpose an existing explosive? Is this something they train for or were they improvising on scene (potentially risking even more lives)? Who made the risk/benefit determination? Similarly, who approved this action? The police chief? The Mayor? Governor? FBI? Justice department? Was compliance with the posse comitatus act waived? By whom?
I think I can answer all of these questions (though of course this is contingent on the information currently available).
Apparently the assailant claimed that he had planted "bombs all around" or some-such. To deal with the situation of a suspected bomb large cities have bomb squads with robots that - yes - carry bombs to blow up other bombs. I am sure you have heard of suspicious packages - that are not bombs - being blown-up. Happens with some regularity. It happened in Los Angeles yesterday and got almost no news coverage, the event is so common.
So they have the bomb disposal robot in the parking structure to blow up bombs, and as an impromptu decision by the commander on the scene most likely, he decided to blow up the suspect instead when he refused to surrender. In such a situation the commander usually has the authority to order a sniper to shoot. Presumably he regarded this as an equivalent action.
Surveillance systems are always abused in this way.
I have not installed a Symantec product, or permitted a pre-installed Symantec product to remain, on any machine I control in a decade. In the five or six years before that I made several attempts to use Symantec security or utility products. They were never usable, in some cases they never worked at all. Antivirus programs that insisted on running at 95% CPU all the time if they were installed, but proved very difficult to uninstall. A backup program that did all their backups as uncompressed full image proprietary binary files, wasting huge amounts of storage (when it was not dirt cheap). Fortunately I tested the restore function before I had a need to actually restore, and it did not work on a stable system with no errors. Security products that only reported cryptic, undocumented codes, that even Googling could not explain. Embedded advertising for Symantec products making the thing you purchased into malware. The uninstallation problems also had many malware traits, one actually reinstalled itself and then demanded payment in pop-ups since I did not have an active subscription.
Eventually I said "enough!". I do not know how Symantec got its huge name and status. Not from shipping decent products.
Pumped hydro (your "giant batteries") serve only a single purpose, which makes them much more expensive.
Than what? Other forms of power storage? The natural gas peaking plant alternative? Those are the only relevant points of comparison.
In the U.S., due to the low cost of gas, they are more expensive than gas peaking plants, but not "much more expensive". In the rest of the world they may be competitive with gas. If the cost of gas increases (due to the environmental damage of fracking perhaps, or the imposition of a carbon tax so that it does not get a free ride) then pumped hydro is likely going to be competitive.
They are also only practical for short term generation - generally to shift peak generation to meet peak demand within a single day. They don't work well at all to supply generation capacity over a longer time period - even a few days of low wind or overcast would require a huge pumped reservoir sitting idle for most of the time.
So its great that power storage is not our only option, it is not even a likely option. Long distance power transmission makes these "few days of low wind or overcast" a non-issue it is never the case that the entire continent has low wind, or overcast, much less both. Shipping power back and forth between coasts also pretty much takes care of even the peak demand shifting since the peak is not felt everywhere at the same time. And such a system even makes pumped storage cheaper since it can provide service to the entire grid and thus have a high utilization rate (and can thus invalidate the costs I cite above).
How's that supposed to work in a country like the USA? Grab power from Mexico when needed? By starting with building a nation wide grid? So Texas can use power from Nevada or Florida instead of running ist own isolated grid?
Obviously the "German" or "European" way is portable, see India, Australia, Africa, China ...
In the US, we basically only have 3 grids. Eastern Interconnection, Western Interconnection and the smaller Texas Interconnection. Because of losses over current transmission lines, it doesn't make sense to ship power from Nevada to Florida, but in times of emergency...
FWIW, the Tres Amigas SuperStation project is currently planned to be built to provide a more economical way to transfer power between the 3 interconnections (using DC superconductor technology) in anticipation of the surge in renewable energy plants coming on line in the next decade.
Yes, we certainly have the time needed to build a long distance power transmission solution to make a unified North American electricity market, and fairly exotic superconductor technology is not required. High voltage DC lines have been used to move electricity long distances since the 1930s, and a 800 KV line (such as have been in operation for 50+ years) can ship electricity from San Diego to Portland, Maine with only an 11% loss.
When you have a continent wide grid most of the problems claimed by the persistent nay-sayers disappear (why do they hate new technology so much?). Sunlight in the west can power the evening power slump in the East, and the late night power excess from the East can do the same for the West. The wind is blowing somewhere all the time, etc. Demands for gas peak plants is drastically reduced, and the capacity can be distributed across the continent, and so forth.
Mars, you'll be unconscious in 12 seconds if you space suit springs a leak and dead in 4 minutes. You are likely not even unconscious after 4 minutes. Why would you? A normal person without any training easy holds the breath 90 to 120 seconds. And after exhaling and not being able to inhale you don't drop unconcious imediatly, why would you? If you prepare for it like a diver, you easy can live in complete vacuum, naked for minutes. You would probably bleed throuh nose and ears etc ...
Why would you? Because in a vacuum your respiratory and circulatory system work in reverse. Your blood delivers partly oxygenated hemoglobin to your lungs, where the zero partial pressure of oxygen there strips it out and you exhale the oxygen.
Your skepticism on this is bizarre since this is a very well studied and understood situation that, believe it or not, is very important here on Earth. You see decompression of aircraft at high altitude is the same thing and happens accidentally with some regularity. In fact "12 seconds of consciousness" is really unrealistically long it is actually 6 to 9 seconds of useful consciousness.
The facts are weak with this one. No wonder he is so confused. The densest atmosphere on Mars is 11.5 millibars at Hellas Planetia (a deep canyon). This is the same pressure as Earth at 99,000 feet. The air pressure at the top of Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) is 337 millibars, thirty times higher.
Although the government knew that the charges were bogus, that is to say filed under false pretenses, they charged Drake with crimes that would have resulted in 35 years in prison, and large fines, and tried to get him to plea to lesser, but still false, felonies.
End result: work-within-the-system whistle blower lost his job, his entire pension, was saddled with $100,000 in legal bills, and endured 4 years of meritless prosecution and harassment by the government (oh, and he lost all of his computers, documents, and books).
This is the system working properly? This is a story of abuse of power from beginning to end.
I guess stuff "proceeds normally" if the matter is not of much consequence. If it is, well then, the hammer of god falls on you and tries to smash you flat.
By the way, did you notice that the Snowden disclosures has already resorted in important reform of NSA operations, and that none other than Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a "public service"?
Nah, probably not.
You instructor, and her flashing teeth, were pulling your leg, big time.
The Molly McGuires did exist in Ireland, but whether they ever existed in the United States is seriously open to question.
Essentially everything reported about the McGuires in the U.S. is the uncorroborated testimony of one man, James McParland, who was a Pinkerton detective, a publicity hound, and an admitted perjurer (never tried for it though). It was not foreman and managers getting murdered, it was ordinary miners, and they violence started after the Pinkertons showed up. Along with McParland's say-so, inmates reporting "jail house confessions" or men getting freed for their testimony constituted the 'evidence' under which the men arrested as McGuires were tried and hanged. It is entirely possible that McParland, a native of County Armagh, Ireland, used his knowledge of the real McGuires to fabricate a fake plot to assist in the successful crushing on coal field labor resistance.
Here is what we currently know about Musks's plans for going to Mars:
"He intends to send SpaceX's Dragon Version 2 spacecraft to Mars in 2018."
"It has the interior volume of a large SUV"
The trip takes six months.
There is no way to ever return.
Survival depends on a never-ending stream of resupply missions.
This is pretty grim stuff. It is Matt Damon all alone in a a container the size of an SUV, with no chance of ever returning to Earth, for the rest of his life.
But it won't be a very long life in all likelihood. No medical care, beyond what he has in his first aid kit. No back-up if he falls ill, gets injured, or needs help doing something. The first serious mechanical failure will be the end.
BTW, did you know that ISS station astronauts spend 80% of their waking time in orbit just doing maintenance on the ISS? One guy all alone, sooner or later he forgets some bit of maintenance...