The "Arctic climate is now warming rapidly and much larger changes are projected," according to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), which was commissioned by the Arctic Council and funded by the United States, Canada, Russia, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
The report projects that temperatures in the Arctic will rise by 8 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 100 years. If temperatures then stayed stable, the Greenland icecap would melt altogether in 1,000 years and raise global sea levels by about 23 feet.
Possible benefits like more productive fisheries, easier access to oil and gas deposits or trans-Arctic shipping routes would be outweighed by threats to indigenous peoples and the habitats of animals and plants.
depends. Is the shooter sitting on the victim's chest with the muzzle screwed into the poor bastard's ear?
bit of slippery gel on the fingers while the victim struggles and begs might mean the difference between hitting the brain stem or just blowing the entire motor cortex out of his head.
An AC wrote: The worst tragedy here is that the victims should've been safe behind Australia's gun control laws. All the law did was render them defenseless.:-(
Too few details to say conclusively... but I'm inclined to agree.
The ranger series of missions were pretty crude. they were cameras on legs which were mostly designed to test the radio controlled retro rocket system for a safe landing... heck the earliest rangers were actually tasked with hitting the moon at any speed to see if it could be done.
The future robots are many, many orders of magnitude more sophisticated, and will work to establishing an infrastructure (better maps, other needful things) for future astronauts, rather than just seeing if it is possible to go there.
Hmm, rotating ring system for artificial gravity, hybernating astronauts... all we need now is a hyper intelligent computer that can't lie to run the ship and we can go to saturn!
how would you accelerate the aging of a warhead? make the plutonium pit out of plutonium mixed with plutonium decay products, layered to match the cross-section of a genuine old warhead pit?
make the explosive pannels that are supposed to all go off perfectly semmetrically out of aging, unstable, unreliable explosives?
make the wiring exclusively out of decaying cables, which have the insulation falling off?
Hmm. better dismantle and scrap these guys as soon as any one part begins to go.
All the real life testing on even slightly aged warheads was done in the 1970s, and by the french in the 1990s. They now keep the models in sillico, and don't let the warheads age past the point where the model has been shown to hold by recycling them for components.
I really don't want to be anywhere near an artificially aged warhead.
yeah. From what I'm reading about it it looks like it's feat that the cells are growing on the grid at all. and a bigger feat to make them talk to the electrodes instead of just curling up and dying.
I'd hate to think of how much it would cost to replace some of the heavily fatigued major components that have been compressed and decompressed so many times.
And who is willing to make another alvin hull?
Might be better to build 2 of the next generation once it is proven, or build 20 of the original alvins from scratch, than to try and extend the service life of a sub that's given more than its due.
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does sco know about this?
according to this article on how the arctic is already warming at 2x the rate of the rest of the world
The "Arctic climate is now warming rapidly and much larger changes are projected," according to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), which was commissioned by the Arctic Council and funded by the United States, Canada, Russia, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
The report projects that temperatures in the Arctic will rise by 8 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 100 years. If temperatures then stayed stable, the Greenland icecap would melt altogether in 1,000 years and raise global sea levels by about 23 feet.
Possible benefits like more productive fisheries, easier access to oil and gas deposits or trans-Arctic shipping routes would be outweighed by threats to indigenous peoples and the habitats of animals and plants.
No ice, no bears... just oil.
depends. Is the shooter sitting on the victim's chest with the muzzle screwed into the poor bastard's ear?
bit of slippery gel on the fingers while the victim struggles and begs might mean the difference between hitting the brain stem or just blowing the entire motor cortex out of his head.
same difference.
No way! SCO had the patent on tinfoil hats way before 1991.
I guess this means we're going to breed crack adapted humans who can suck it down and then get up in the morning and go to work.
Ever heard of Australia's Banksia tree? some species need fire to open their seed pods so they can re-produce
An AC wrote: The worst tragedy here is that the victims should've been safe behind Australia's gun control laws. All the law did was render them defenseless. :-(
Too few details to say conclusively... but I'm inclined to agree.
For a second I read that as
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as in "remove france"
The ranger series of robots paved the way for Neil and Buzz.
they flew between 1961 and 1965
The ranger series of missions were pretty crude. they were cameras on legs which were mostly designed to test the radio controlled retro rocket system for a safe landing... heck the earliest rangers were actually tasked with hitting the moon at any speed to see if it could be done.
The future robots are many, many orders of magnitude more sophisticated, and will work to establishing an infrastructure (better maps, other needful things) for future astronauts, rather than just seeing if it is possible to go there.
BUSH KERRY 2004!!!!!ONE!!!
Now that's a show I'd watch.
They should mark voters thumb nails with a marker pen once they've voted. That'll fix it.
Imagine what would happen if you got exploited and your nav computer started executing arbitary malicious code.
mmmmm.... malicious....
Hmm, rotating ring system for artificial gravity, hybernating astronauts... all we need now is a hyper intelligent computer that can't lie to run the ship and we can go to saturn!
How many libraries of congress per second is that stationwagon?
With all the orbiting equipment we've shot up there over the years, why not a powerful radio antenna, with huge memory storage.
It doesn't have to go very far from earth's surface, so the fuel costs will be lower than sending rad-shielded hard drives to saturn.
2:14am EDT August 29, 1997...
Researcher: "Go to your machine room! And no Command and Conquer until you do your homework!"
Joshua:"Oh yeah? Would you LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?"
how would you accelerate the aging of a warhead?
make the plutonium pit out of plutonium mixed with plutonium decay products, layered to match the cross-section of a genuine old warhead pit?
make the explosive pannels that are supposed to all go off perfectly semmetrically out of aging, unstable, unreliable explosives?
make the wiring exclusively out of decaying cables, which have the insulation falling off?
Hmm. better dismantle and scrap these guys as soon as any one part begins to go.
All the real life testing on even slightly aged warheads was done in the 1970s, and by the french in the 1990s. They now keep the models in sillico, and don't let the warheads age past the point where the model has been shown to hold by recycling them for components.
I really don't want to be anywhere near an artificially aged warhead.
That's only true for horse shoes, hand grenades and 1950s chemotherapy.
But isn't he a proponant of Queer science theory forced on children? You one corner!
yeah. From what I'm reading about it it looks like it's feat that the cells are growing on the grid at all. and a bigger feat to make them talk to the electrodes instead of just curling up and dying.
I don't know. I've been educated, so I'm pretty one cornered. Maybe a more four cornered person could do it.
Next, we need to create The Cube out of lego and abduct people to put into it.
good point about the museum. Is there a "wet smythsonian"?
I'd hate to think of how much it would cost to replace some of the heavily fatigued major components that have been compressed and decompressed so many times.
And who is willing to make another alvin hull?
Might be better to build 2 of the next generation once it is proven, or build 20 of the original alvins from scratch, than to try and extend the service life of a sub that's given more than its due.
ouch