"First, what's pretty definite about the Permian Extinction is that a really big meteor hit near Chicxulub, in the gullf of Mexico, at the right time to contribute to it."
The Chicxulub impact was at the end of the Cretaceous 65 million years ago
The Permian ended 252 million years ago, and the initial event that started that extinction was mass vulcanism, but the methane release added to the CO2 warming, and over 95% of species were wiped out.
If man made C02 emmissions continued at the current rate for long enough then it could happen like that again, some life will survive of course, but probably not H-Sapiens unless we go elsewhere (off of this rock) before it happens.
Some "electric Companies" are just distributors of power - they buy wholesale, and sell retail to thte customers in their area. Some of these are locally ownedcooperatives
There are other, larger companies that own generating facilities (power plants) that may include coal or gas power plants, or hydro wind or solar. These are often publicly listed on the sharemarket. The local power company in my area (OtterTail Power) has coal fired power plants and wind farms, and hydro. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of OtterTail Corporation. One of the major shareholders of that holding company is a guy called Bill Gates.
Solar collectors should be mounted as high as possible, so they can collect the suns rays for longer Prefferably 40,000KM higher, above the effects of cloud and wind.
But who is going to supervise the children and stop[ fights and bullying? I can't see a robot being very effective on typical school buses.
Or are we talking about coaches? (The long distance buses run by Greyhound and Jefferson Lines) ?
I thought the whole point of automated cars was to improve safety by taking the distracted amateur out of the drivers seat, and also permit impaired people (whether disabled, intoxicated or just tired) to have personal transportation which is necessary in most non-metropolitan USA towns.
There is a cheaper alternative. Coat the surface with small crystals of oxidane. Its very good at reflecting heat. In large quantities it is very good at absorbing heat.. I have a driveway full that you can have for free, just bring your own shovel.
We are not going to get 'net neutrality' in every country, even if it was federally regulated (or passed by congress) There are always going to be some limitations in other parts of the world, just by the distances and bottlenecks in the structure.
(well maybe we could get the new congress and senate to repeal the speed of light limit, along with the laws of thermodynamics.)
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"Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.” - Arthur Dent
"So, Christianity (or at least Catholicism) as we know it today was very much the work of Constantine"
But Jesus Christ is still the Founder, and that was a couple hundred years before Constantine.
When the generics become available, the insurance companies will say they will only pay for the generic drug, after all they are thte ones paying.
Yeah there are lots of cardboard boxes this time of year
The Aliens will never find out where to land now
Won't google just change the default news site (on chrome, chromebooks and android devices) to news.google.com and have a link there for espanol...
She's got electric boobs, and mohair pubes, you know I heard it from a Pakistani...
"First, what's pretty definite about the Permian Extinction is that a really big meteor hit near Chicxulub, in the gullf of Mexico, at the right time to contribute to it."
The Chicxulub impact was at the end of the Cretaceous 65 million years ago
The Permian ended 252 million years ago, and the initial event that started that extinction was mass vulcanism, but the methane release added to the CO2 warming, and over 95% of species were wiped out.
If man made C02 emmissions continued at the current rate for long enough then it could happen like that again, some life will survive of course, but probably not H-Sapiens unless we go elsewhere (off of this rock) before it happens.
"The Cosmos season one Episode 13 explains it quite a bit."
Hs there been more than one season of the (Neil Degrasse Tyson) Cosmos?
Or are you refering to the original (Sagan) series.
I guess at the center of a black hole there is unlimited pressure, but only god knows what goes on inside the event horizon.
Back in the day a command was pure if it could be made resident in memory and called repeatedly without having to be reloaded from disk.
Tables come in all sorts of sizes, from card tables through ones used for a state banquet.
" It suggests the Hindi/Buddhists are onto something. ;-)"
Hindu is the religion, Hindi is the language
"Sure, our spectrum is finite,"
Theoretically the electromagnetic spectrum is infinite.
Of course there are practical limits to what works in the earths atmosphere...
Some "electric Companies" are just distributors of power - they buy wholesale, and sell retail to thte customers in their area. Some of these are locally ownedcooperatives
There are other, larger companies that own generating facilities (power plants) that may include coal or gas power plants, or hydro wind or solar.
These are often publicly listed on the sharemarket.
The local power company in my area (OtterTail Power) has coal fired power plants and wind farms, and hydro.
It is a wholly owned subsidiary of OtterTail Corporation. One of the major shareholders of that holding company is a guy called Bill Gates.
Did they ever find MH370
Wasn't Orion the name of a concept spacecraft powered by throwing nukes out the back and detonating them?
(see Niven & Pounelle's Footfall)
"next year it's for enemy's of the state."
Just as well its not France, they would want a database of enemies of the language.
Fortunately for you this website is american, and freedom to mangle the language is implied in the first amendment.
Solar collectors should be mounted as high as possible, so they can collect the suns rays for longer
Prefferably 40,000KM higher, above the effects of cloud and wind.
Is it too much to ask that when updating an existing installation, it leaves all the current settings alone ?
OK now I set the default search back to Google, what else do I have to do.
BTW I don't have (or want) a webcam connected to my PC
To travel in time, you would have to raise the speed limit to c
But who is going to supervise the children and stop[ fights and bullying? I can't see a robot being very effective on typical school buses.
Or are we talking about coaches? (The long distance buses run by Greyhound and Jefferson Lines) ?
I thought the whole point of automated cars was to improve safety by taking the distracted amateur out of the drivers seat, and also permit impaired people (whether disabled, intoxicated or just tired) to have personal transportation which is necessary in most non-metropolitan USA towns.
There is a cheaper alternative. Coat the surface with small crystals of oxidane. Its very good at reflecting heat. In large quantities it is very good at absorbing heat..
I have a driveway full that you can have for free, just bring your own shovel.
They could abolish the speed of light and make the internet go much faster.
We are not going to get 'net neutrality' in every country, even if it was federally regulated (or passed by congress) There are always going to be some limitations in other parts of the world, just by the distances and bottlenecks in the structure.
(well maybe we could get the new congress and senate to repeal the speed of light limit, along with the laws of thermodynamics.)