Why? what is wrong against stopping someone who is going to do harm to Americans? Are you saying that if I was shooting up a mall, the police should kill me if they can't reasonably stop me?
The Police and/or military should at least go through the motions of trying to take a prisoner alive and unharmed; it's pretty hard to surrender to a hellfire missile fired from an unseen drone. This type of activity pushes due process past any reasonable limits.
That's against the Law of Land Warfare, landmines have to be either marked or under direct observation. The number and location of each landmine has to be recorded so that the landmines can be acurately removed when the installing unit leaves or responsibility transfered to the relieving unit.
Actualy pigeons have a long military history, the Taliban still forbids their possesion or use in Afghanistan. 34 pigeons were decorated with the Dickin Medal for "conspicuous gallantry or devotion to duty while serving or associated with any branch of the Armed Forces or Civil Defence Units".
I'm sure the sun still counts, I'd expect that frequently the Moon counts and of course the Earth counts. The point is if something is on a trajectory to hit the Earth, it doesn't take much to perturb that trajectory enoungh to miss.
The problem with what your thinking is your thinking in 2 dimensional trigonometry and the problem is about 4 dimensional geodesics with a good dose of multiple body orbital dynamics thrown in for good measure. In short it's so complicated that we can't solve the problem, only arrive at approximations. The closest physical analogy we're familiar with is predicting where a rock will go when it's skipped off water with waves; the smallest changes will result in large changes of trajectory on the rock.
If the weakest force in the universe is pulling an asteroid towards the earth, we needn't use the weakest force in the universe to steer it away. The electromagnetic force is 10^36 times more powerful.
Why not just detonate a nuclear device at an appropriate stand-off distance and let the resulting gamma rays (elecrto-magnetic waves) evaporate the surface of the offending potential meteor. This would provide the energenic reaction mass to nudge the meteor into a safe trajectory. In space nuclear devices have little of what we think of as an explosion, most of the blast in a nuclear detonation is caused by air heated by the gamma radiation.
I remember seeing a picture with Alaska superimposed over the lower 48, and it is hard to wrap your head arround how big Alaska really is. Alaska is not only 1/5 the surface of the contiguous US, but it would stretch from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian boarder at the same time. I'd had always assumed that the size was distorted by projection distortion, but Alaska really is as big as Western Europe.
I'd challenge you to find any legal basis for that claim regarding airspace.
This should do it.
Air rights are a type of development right in real estate, referring to the empty space above a property. Generally speaking, owning or renting land or a building gives one the right to use and develop the air rights.
This legal concept is encoded in the Latin phrase Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad caelum et ad inferos ("For whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell."), which appears in medieval Roman law and is credited to 13th century glossator Accursius; it was notably popularized in common law in Commentaries on the Laws of England (1766) by William Blackstone; see origins of phrase for details.d air rights existed when people began owning real estate. It was not something that anyone really concerned themselves with before the 20th century. The first legal limits placed on air rights came about because of the airplane. Eventually, owners only had rights to airspace that they could reasonably use. It would be impractical for the development of air travel for individual landowners to own all the air above them, because airplanes would be constantly trespassing. Air rights
Specifically, the Federal Aviation Act provides that: "The United States Government has exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the United States."[1] The act defines navigable airspace as "airspace above the minimum altitudes of flightincluding airspace needed to ensure the safety in the takeoff and landing of aircraft."[2] Air rights
I don't see where Texas has jurisdiction in this matter.
Texas is an unusual case because they desended from Spanish Common Law rather than English Common Law, but where I'm from a navigatable waterway is public property. The federal government governs the opperation of aircraft via the FAA, under the interstate commerce clause. Basically civilian remotely piloted vehicles have to remain below 400 Ft. altitude and stay within visual control of the vehicle, and there is a long history of using such platforms for aerial photography; I doubt this law will stand up to appeal if enforced.
Defendants routinely waive their right to a speed trail to ensure the laywers have suficient time to mount an effective defense; imagine being arranged and facing 22 charges, with penalties as high as death and the court telling you your trial will begin nest weeks.
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC’s climate science panel has acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises, confirmed recently by Britain's Met Office, 'Nothing off-limits' in climate debate
For RSS the warming is not significant for over 23 years. For RSS: +0.127 +/-0.136 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1990 For UAH, the warming is not significant for over 19 years. For UAH: 0.143 +/- 0.173 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994 For Hacrut3, the warming is not significant for over 19 years. For Hadcrut3: 0.098 +/- 0.113 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994 For Hacrut4, the warming is not significant for over 18 years. For Hadcrut4: 0.095 +/- 0.111 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1995 For GISS, the warming is not significant for over 17 years. For GISS: 0.116 +/- 0.122 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1996 Has Global Warming Stalled?
Tw = Natural wet-bulb temperature (combined with dry-bulb temperature indicates humidity)
Tg = Globe thermometer temperature (measured with a globe thermometer, also known as a black globe thermometer)
Td = Dry-bulb temperature (actual air temperature)
Temperatures may be in either Celsius or Fahrenheit
WBGT takes into consideration air temperature, humidity and radiant heat, a WBGT F of 90 or more is seriously hot weather and dangerous for unacclimatized workers. In the Army durring training we would work 30, rest 30 and drink 2 liters of water per hour under those conditions.
One possible downside: a culture that uses war casually will retard its own technological innovation; why learn to produce useful widgets when you could just take them from your neighbors? But eventually you run out of people to plunder, or you piss off enough people that they ally against you and outfight you - and then what do you have?
War has always been a primary driver of technology, even civilian programs like the space program was primarily a proxy for the military. Given that, there is little reason to assume that military conquest is an economicaly feasable way to aquire thechnology or resources, at least over the long term.
One simple law could solve the long term finical issues. The base amount the government can spend is equal to the previous years tax revenue. Anything beyond that must be in the form of a loan, war bond etc, that needs to be paid back.
Then they sell more bonds to pay the bonds that are coming due ad infintum; in short that's what we are doing now. Something like 47% of what are being paid in Federal taxes is going toward interest on those bonds right now.
It doesn't always, if there is low demand for something, it doesn't matter if it is scarce or plentifull. For a currency, the amount of currency should track the amount of value reasonably closely to avoid undesirable effects like inflation and deflation. When a currency is deflating it is a sign that there is insufficient amount of curency in circulation, basically the money is too valuable to spend; the money is both scarce and in high demand. When the currency is inflating it's a sign that there is too much in circulation, basically the money is too worthless to bother to save; the money is plentyfull and in low demand.
The Air Force hates the A10, because it's ugly, it's slow and it doesn't have the sexy air superiority role. The Infantry loves the A10, it's has hellacious firepower, it's quiet and has long on-station time, in short it's the apex preditor of the battlefield. Now I know these blue-shirts really thing that this new sexy AKC registered pure-bred is up to the job as the alpha-dog, but I really don't thing our beloved junkyard dog is going to give up the role quietly.
Most people have no clue whether they have a mild flu or a bad cold, hell most MD's have no clue either; when was the last time your GP took a blood sample and sent it to the lab to identify whether it really was the flu? Since I started getting my flu shot regularly I just don't seem to get the viral URIs as often or as bad when I do, but by the time I realize that I have some viral thingy going on rather than an allergy flair-up, I've been shedding viruses for several days anyway.
The last war where the United States was significantly foriegn invade was The War of 1812, unless you count the Union's invation of the Confederate States as a foriegn invation where Sherman's March to the Sea decimated the confederacies will and ability to resist. The next invation was an invasion of Numerous Aleutian Islands by Japanese forces during WWII. The whole point is we have learned to never fight a war on our own soil; the stupidest thing a Country could do is to invade the United States, Russia or Israel.
Nothing physical was stolen. What I find alarming is seeds fall out of hoppers in transit, pollen blows across property lines, Monsanto has a product that not only competes with other seed lines, it has the power to literaly take over seed lines especially from smaller operations.
Actually it does work that way, under the uniform commercial code if you buy something that was stolen, from a business that normally sells those good, the seller is liable not the purchaser. I learned that by watching a case being argued in court; a marina traded a boat to a sign company in exchange for services rendered, the marina failed to inform the bank of the sale of the boat to have it removed from their floor-plan loan, the bank then sued the sign company for the boat and lost because the sign company had no reason to believe that a profession boat seller was selling stolen boats. Likewise why would a farmer assume that an elevator whose business is selling seeds and feed be seller stolen seed?
Quantum Mechanics is primarily a statistical pursuit, so saying the universe is going to end in 10 billions years, what they really mean is the universe is most likely to end then, it could actually happen anywhere from 10 seconds to 10 billion billion years; the real question is how much more likely.
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Why? what is wrong against stopping someone who is going to do harm to Americans? Are you saying that if I was shooting up a mall, the police should kill me if they can't reasonably stop me?
The Police and/or military should at least go through the motions of trying to take a prisoner alive and unharmed; it's pretty hard to surrender to a hellfire missile fired from an unseen drone. This type of activity pushes due process past any reasonable limits.
That's against the Law of Land Warfare, landmines have to be either marked or under direct observation. The number and location of each landmine has to be recorded so that the landmines can be acurately removed when the installing unit leaves or responsibility transfered to the relieving unit.
Actualy pigeons have a long military history, the Taliban still forbids their possesion or use in Afghanistan. 34 pigeons were decorated with the Dickin Medal for "conspicuous gallantry or devotion to duty while serving or associated with any branch of the Armed Forces or Civil Defence Units".
I'm sure the sun still counts, I'd expect that frequently the Moon counts and of course the Earth counts. The point is if something is on a trajectory to hit the Earth, it doesn't take much to perturb that trajectory enoungh to miss.
The problem with what your thinking is your thinking in 2 dimensional trigonometry and the problem is about 4 dimensional geodesics with a good dose of multiple body orbital dynamics thrown in for good measure. In short it's so complicated that we can't solve the problem, only arrive at approximations. The closest physical analogy we're familiar with is predicting where a rock will go when it's skipped off water with waves; the smallest changes will result in large changes of trajectory on the rock.
If the weakest force in the universe is pulling an asteroid towards the earth, we needn't use the weakest force in the universe to steer it away. The electromagnetic force is 10^36 times more powerful.
Why not just detonate a nuclear device at an appropriate stand-off distance and let the resulting gamma rays (elecrto-magnetic waves) evaporate the surface of the offending potential meteor. This would provide the energenic reaction mass to nudge the meteor into a safe trajectory. In space nuclear devices have little of what we think of as an explosion, most of the blast in a nuclear detonation is caused by air heated by the gamma radiation.
I remember seeing a picture with Alaska superimposed over the lower 48, and it is hard to wrap your head arround how big Alaska really is. Alaska is not only 1/5 the surface of the contiguous US, but it would stretch from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian boarder at the same time. I'd had always assumed that the size was distorted by projection distortion, but Alaska really is as big as Western Europe.
I'd challenge you to find any legal basis for that claim regarding airspace.
This should do it.
I don't see where Texas has jurisdiction in this matter.
Texas is an unusual case because they desended from Spanish Common Law rather than English Common Law, but where I'm from a navigatable waterway is public property. The federal government governs the opperation of aircraft via the FAA, under the interstate commerce clause. Basically civilian remotely piloted vehicles have to remain below 400 Ft. altitude and stay within visual control of the vehicle, and there is a long history of using such platforms for aerial photography; I doubt this law will stand up to appeal if enforced.
Defendants routinely waive their right to a speed trail to ensure the laywers have suficient time to mount an effective defense; imagine being arranged and facing 22 charges, with penalties as high as death and the court telling you your trial will begin nest weeks.
They can't, constitutionally guaranteed rights can not be legally superceded by any law.
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC’s climate science panel has acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises, confirmed recently by Britain's Met Office, 'Nothing off-limits' in climate debate
For RSS the warming is not significant for over 23 years.
For RSS: +0.127 +/-0.136 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1990
For UAH, the warming is not significant for over 19 years.
For UAH: 0.143 +/- 0.173 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994
For Hacrut3, the warming is not significant for over 19 years.
For Hadcrut3: 0.098 +/- 0.113 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1994
For Hacrut4, the warming is not significant for over 18 years.
For Hadcrut4: 0.095 +/- 0.111 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1995
For GISS, the warming is not significant for over 17 years.
For GISS: 0.116 +/- 0.122 C/decade at the two sigma level from 1996
Has Global Warming Stalled?
It's not temperature it's WBGT, wet-bulb globe temperature
WBGT takes into consideration air temperature, humidity and radiant heat, a WBGT F of 90 or more is seriously hot weather and dangerous for unacclimatized workers. In the Army durring training we would work 30, rest 30 and drink 2 liters of water per hour under those conditions.
One possible downside: a culture that uses war casually will retard its own technological innovation; why learn to produce useful widgets when you could just take them from your neighbors? But eventually you run out of people to plunder, or you piss off enough people that they ally against you and outfight you - and then what do you have?
War has always been a primary driver of technology, even civilian programs like the space program was primarily a proxy for the military. Given that, there is little reason to assume that military conquest is an economicaly feasable way to aquire thechnology or resources, at least over the long term.
One simple law could solve the long term finical issues. The base amount the government can spend is equal to the previous years tax revenue. Anything beyond that must be in the form of a loan, war bond etc, that needs to be paid back.
Then they sell more bonds to pay the bonds that are coming due ad infintum; in short that's what we are doing now. Something like 47% of what are being paid in Federal taxes is going toward interest on those bonds right now.
It doesn't always, if there is low demand for something, it doesn't matter if it is scarce or plentifull. For a currency, the amount of currency should track the amount of value reasonably closely to avoid undesirable effects like inflation and deflation. When a currency is deflating it is a sign that there is insufficient amount of curency in circulation, basically the money is too valuable to spend; the money is both scarce and in high demand. When the currency is inflating it's a sign that there is too much in circulation, basically the money is too worthless to bother to save; the money is plentyfull and in low demand.
The Air Force hates the A10, because it's ugly, it's slow and it doesn't have the sexy air superiority role. The Infantry loves the A10, it's has hellacious firepower, it's quiet and has long on-station time, in short it's the apex preditor of the battlefield. Now I know these blue-shirts really thing that this new sexy AKC registered pure-bred is up to the job as the alpha-dog, but I really don't thing our beloved junkyard dog is going to give up the role quietly.
I'm sure that KBR wouldn't mind picking up some domestic road and bridge work.
Most people have no clue whether they have a mild flu or a bad cold, hell most MD's have no clue either; when was the last time your GP took a blood sample and sent it to the lab to identify whether it really was the flu? Since I started getting my flu shot regularly I just don't seem to get the viral URIs as often or as bad when I do, but by the time I realize that I have some viral thingy going on rather than an allergy flair-up, I've been shedding viruses for several days anyway.
Don't worry, when all is said and done, it ain't over untill there are boots on the ground.
The last war where the United States was significantly foriegn invade was The War of 1812, unless you count the Union's invation of the Confederate States as a foriegn invation where Sherman's March to the Sea decimated the confederacies will and ability to resist. The next invation was an invasion of Numerous Aleutian Islands by Japanese forces during WWII. The whole point is we have learned to never fight a war on our own soil; the stupidest thing a Country could do is to invade the United States, Russia or Israel.
Nothing physical was stolen. What I find alarming is seeds fall out of hoppers in transit, pollen blows across property lines, Monsanto has a product that not only competes with other seed lines, it has the power to literaly take over seed lines especially from smaller operations.
Actually it does work that way, under the uniform commercial code if you buy something that was stolen, from a business that normally sells those good, the seller is liable not the purchaser. I learned that by watching a case being argued in court; a marina traded a boat to a sign company in exchange for services rendered, the marina failed to inform the bank of the sale of the boat to have it removed from their floor-plan loan, the bank then sued the sign company for the boat and lost because the sign company had no reason to believe that a profession boat seller was selling stolen boats.
Likewise why would a farmer assume that an elevator whose business is selling seeds and feed be seller stolen seed?
Quantum Mechanics is primarily a statistical pursuit, so saying the universe is going to end in 10 billions years, what they really mean is the universe is most likely to end then, it could actually happen anywhere from 10 seconds to 10 billion billion years; the real question is how much more likely.