People driving while texting/updating their FB/watching movies etc crash and are injured or killed and therefore not driving anymore, therefore less drivers and less traffic. Takes a while though, and not reccomended to be on the road in the meantime'
On a strictly physics basis Hawaii would be the best State. Closer to the equator to get maximum boost from the spin of the earth, and you can get some altitude if you use one of the mountains. Less hurricanes too.
Is there any mountain that doesn't have 4g wireless these days? (There was a story not so long ago that Mt Everest also had 4g wireless (Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norkay are turning in thier graves)
A short story by Arthur C Clarke , when the Venusians get here a few millenia after the demise of humanity, they find a flat cylinder containing a series of images which when moved rapidly past a light source reveals a 2d animation. They try to understand it, but they cannot fathom the last image which reads A Walt Disney Production.
"The police kill far more civilians with guns than any other single group"
Maybe its better not to have a gun then if you are a civilian
" other than the military."
The US A military tends to mostly kill non-US civilians. (Although many of them are shooting at the US military, so I think those should be fair game)
One answer to that is to not have the US military in foreign countries , and at least Obama is doing that...
Not sure if anyone on slashdot would get the reference to the Legend of Maui fishing up The North Island (his canoe is the South Island)
But anyway I have seen a documentar (on either H2 or the Science channel)y that said that the islands of NZ are just the visible part of a sunken coninent called Zealandia, which explained how some of the unique native fauna like tuatara got there.
While they killed them off at 30 in the movie (Michael York) of Logans Run it was 21 in the book.
I remember going to that film in Napier, and there was a power failure half way through. We were sitting outside for at least half an hour. (I was chatting to my chemistry 101 lexcturer about Sci_Fi
Still the movie wasn't as bad as the TV series that was made a couple years later which included a solar powered hovercraft, and an android called Rem (Donald Moffat)
"Don't forget about the landing fuel you have to tote with you along your whole trip. That is not trivial weight."
Which is why a VTOL rocket works better in lower gravity.
It would be useful on a planet with say 1/6th the gravity of earth.
Alternatively maybe we can get Congress to lower the force of gravity. (There is probably more chance that would get passed through the house than say Immigration Reform, gun control, or a balanced budget.)
" "If legislators truly wish to reduce fossil-fuel dependence, they could prioritize the transition to pedestrian- and bike-friendly neighborhoods. That won’t be easy everywhere"
pedestrian- and bike-friendly neighborhoods.would require pedestrian- and bike-friendly weather which is not the case in many areas of this continent. (Although some of the effects of weather can be offset by building tunnels and covered walk/bike ways, the costs would be astronomical.
(and many people live further from their workplace than would be possible to effectively use human powered transport. I am lucky in that it is only 20 minutes walk for me in good weahttp://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/02/010230/electric-vehicles-might-not-benefit-the-environment-after-all#ther.
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There is no Dark Side of the Moon really...
Matter of fact its all dark...
Did Congress repeal the Laws of Thermodynamics?
Mostly Harmless
thats only two words howevere
"In the United States, a case of twenty-four 355 ml aluminum containers of Coke costs $6.99."
When its on special you can get 2 litre bottles 4 for $5
But I think this weeks specials are Pepsi/Mt Dew
( I don't drink coke or Pepsi - I drink Mt Dew, Mello Yello or Sun Drop (A&W's citrus flavoured caffinated pop)
People driving while texting/updating their FB/watching movies etc crash and are injured or killed and therefore not driving anymore, therefore less drivers and less traffic.
Takes a while though, and not reccomended to be on the road in the meantime'
On a strictly physics basis Hawaii would be the best State. Closer to the equator to get maximum boost from the spin of the earth, and you can get some altitude if you use one of the mountains. Less hurricanes too.
Wait for Linux 98 SE
Is there any mountain that doesn't have 4g wireless these days?
(There was a story not so long ago that Mt Everest also had 4g wireless (Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norkay are turning in thier graves)
A short story by Arthur C Clarke , when the Venusians get here a few millenia after the demise of humanity, they find a flat cylinder containing a series of images which when moved rapidly past a light source reveals a 2d animation. They try to understand it, but they cannot fathom the last image which reads
A Walt Disney Production.
"It *could* be done safe"
But not 100% safe on the coast of Japan which is subject to large earthquakes and tsunamis
The UScongress does not have jurisdiction on the moon
neither does the UN
But it might be a good idea to send them (both houses ) there (on the B-Arc)
"The police kill far more civilians with guns than any other single group"
Maybe its better not to have a gun then if you are a civilian
" other than the military."
The US A military tends to mostly kill non-US civilians. (Although many of them are shooting at the US military, so I think those should be fair game)
One answer to that is to not have the US military in foreign countries , and at least Obama is doing that...
Not sure if anyone on slashdot would get the reference to the Legend of Maui fishing up The North Island (his canoe is the South Island)
But anyway I have seen a documentar (on either H2 or the Science channel)y that said that the islands of NZ are just the visible part of a sunken coninent called Zealandia, which explained how some of the unique native fauna like tuatara got there.
While they killed them off at 30 in the movie (Michael York) of Logans Run it was 21 in the book.
I remember going to that film in Napier, and there was a power failure half way through. We were sitting outside for at least half an hour. (I was chatting to my chemistry 101 lexcturer about Sci_Fi
Still the movie wasn't as bad as the TV series that was made a couple years later which included a solar powered hovercraft, and an android called Rem (Donald Moffat)
"Don't forget about the landing fuel you have to tote with you along your whole trip. That is not trivial weight."
Which is why a VTOL rocket works better in lower gravity.
It would be useful on a planet with say 1/6th the gravity of earth.
Alternatively maybe we can get Congress to lower the force of gravity. (There is probably more chance that would get passed through the house than say Immigration Reform, gun control, or a balanced budget.)
aren't weapons that blind people banned by the Geneva Convention?
no asteroids are going to come as close to the earth as the ISS orbit.
Does San Marino.still exist? Its not on the calendar this year. Bernie wants to spend more time outside of Europe.
"I could see for fear of trademark issues."
Seriously? I mean the Roman empire has prior art on Vulcan, so i don't think Paramount has any claim on that name.
" "If legislators truly wish to reduce fossil-fuel dependence, they could prioritize the transition to pedestrian- and bike-friendly neighborhoods. That won’t be easy everywhere"
pedestrian- and bike-friendly neighborhoods.would require pedestrian- and bike-friendly weather which is not the case in many areas of this continent.
(Although some of the effects of weather can be offset by building tunnels and covered walk/bike ways, the costs would be astronomical.
(and many people live further from their workplace than would be possible to effectively use human powered transport. I am lucky in that it is only 20 minutes walk for me in good weahttp://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/02/010230/electric-vehicles-might-not-benefit-the-environment-after-all#ther.
I'll save them some time
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I didnt realize that AMD was a disease - I guess i should of bought a machine with Intel Inside(TM)
I don't see the point of a remotely piloted passenger plane.
UAFVG's are useful in military situations, but not for civilian use.
(OK maybe remotely piloted C130 for chasing hurricanes, or other dangerous weather, or dropping supplies to Antarctic stations.)
"when you raise your children as vegans"
Well TFS says "or the cause of a mysterious constellation of clinical features in his daugther Bea:"
constellation sounds like its as valid as astrology. The star Vega (where Vegans come from) is in the contellation Lyra
We should sue the Japanese for changing their codes just before Pearl Harbor