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  1. Re:NIMBY strikes again on Amid Controversy, Construction of Telescope In Hawaii Halted · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he meant they took the land from one Nation of Indians to set up reservations for Indians moved in from other places.

  2. Re:NIMBY strikes again on Amid Controversy, Construction of Telescope In Hawaii Halted · · Score: 1

    I've been to Hawaii, and to this day there are "homeless" people who literally live under a bush and forage for food and to be honest, I could see how a person could do this. If you can sit on your ass at the beach all day and not worry about a job, why not?.

  3. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the Cascadia subduction zone, an earthquake there would drop a lot of buildings in Oregon and N. California too.

  4. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade
    March temperatures (preliminary)
    Global composite temp.: +0.26 C (about 0.47 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.
    Northern Hemisphere: +0.41 C (about 0.74 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.
    Southern Hemisphere: +0.10 C (about 0.18 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.
    Tropics: +0.08 C (about 0.06 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.
    February temperatures (revised):
    Global Composite: +0.30 C above 30-year average
    Northern Hemisphere: +0.43 C above 30-year average
    Southern Hemisphere: +0.16 C above 30-year average
    Tropics: +0.01 C above 30-year average
    (All temperature anomalies are based on a 30-year average (1981-2010) for the month reported.) ....
    Neither Christy nor Spencer receives any research support or funding from oil, coal or industrial companies or organizations, or from any private or special interest groups. All of their climate research funding comes from federal and state grants or contracts.
    UAH Global Temperature Report: March 2015 – down slightly

    And just what do you suppose is driving this Climate change, it's hard to accept that it's temperature when there is so little difference in it.

  5. Re:Technology can indeed fail on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    It really shouldn't have been a surprise either, events like this tend to cluster. Not only does an event like MH370 trigger others like Germanwings 9525, but a lot of other suicides and even apparent accidents go up.

  6. Re:Why not both? on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    Well one thing about a remote piloting facility would be there would be more opportunity for direct supervision of the Pilots unlike pilots aboard the aircraft. The Aircraft would have to have a continuous satellite connection for the remote facility so any signal coming from below the horizon would be invisible so something like what the military uses to pilot drone or perhaps a VPN over the planes internet connection would work well enough. Any hijackers would have to hack into the system at the uplink side of the satellite connection which is physically challenging and break the encryption of the satellite link and the encryption of the aircraft connection inside the satellite link, I'd see that as a very difficult series of challenges for the terrorists.
    Perhaps a better method would be to have video cameras on the flight deck, outside the flight deck door and a way for the ground to absolutely over-ride the door lock. Seems that it's much more difficult to crash a plane when there is two pilots at the controls.

  7. Re:Sensors wrong on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    But it takes more than an avid Boeing fan to actually read the AF447 report.

    It more a matter of the differences between the American and the European psyche, Americans are much more individualistic and more likely to demand to be the masters of their own fate; they poorly tolerate machines that don't follow commands.

  8. Re:Sensors wrong on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    You would think that sensor failure (especially an iced pitot tube) would be such a common training scenario, that an Airline Pilot would be able to react properly by reflex. An Airbus should have GPS, inertial and radar altimeter, that would be more that enough redundancy to fly without pitot tubes.

  9. Re:call the library ? on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 1

    Your right, I had a reading comprehension failure, apologies.

  10. Re:Privacy battle on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 1

    Actually I think a shorter sentence and a very blatant and publicly announced requirement to reimburse the people for the cost of the SWAT response, the local business to be reimbursed for lost revenue, the Public to be reimbursed for the cost of the prisoner's room and board costs, the public to be reimbursed for the costs of the Perpetrator’s Parole/Probation . Also it goes without saying that SWATTING is terrorist act, so you'll be on the no-fly list and banned from having a cell phone and any internet connection.

  11. Re:call the library ? on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 1

    My college decided to switch over to the Library of Congress indexing system as a demonstration for Library Month and quickly found that changing back was to much work so it stuck; so sometimes Dewey isn't here, even at the library.

  12. Re:call the library ? on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 1

    I'm having a hard time coming up with any scenario where the perpetrators would hole up in a public building and NOT want police and media attention.

    How about the some dickwad wants to cream his jeans watching the SWAT drama unfold from the building across the street scenario; or even some wanabe perp reconnoitering the police response to fine-tune an intended future attack scenario?

  13. Re:Why do people like you hate people in Indiana a on W. Virginia Bans Direct Tesla Sales, With Urging of Car-Dealer Senate President · · Score: 1

    That would be a business providing goods and services to the general public.

  14. Re:The future is here on W. Virginia Bans Direct Tesla Sales, With Urging of Car-Dealer Senate President · · Score: 1

    Cole is in the West Virginia Senate, Cole's dealership is in Kentucky, so technically it's not a conflict of interest. Some might say that he's a subject matter expert.

  15. Re:The future is here on W. Virginia Bans Direct Tesla Sales, With Urging of Car-Dealer Senate President · · Score: 1

    In reality, the difference between a privately owned and operated franchised dealership and a company owned dealership is minuscule. The franchisee buys from the manufacturer, finances through the manufacturer, the franchise, the floor-plan, the parts, the tools and provides all of the mandatory employee training. Any time the Franchisee does anything the Manufacturer doesn't like they can shut the franchise down.

  16. Re:Not so fast on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    The Hawk missile MIM-23 had a 54 Kg warhead that produced approximately 4,000 8-gram (0.28 oz) fragments that move at approximately 2,000 meters per second (6,600 ft/s) in an 18 degree arc; the MIM-23B 74 kg (163 lb) blast-fragmentation warhead produces approximately 14,000 2-gram (0.071 oz) fragments that cover a much larger 70 degree arc.
    The MIM-104 Patriot M248 Composition B HE blast/fragmentation with two layers of pre-formed fragments and Octol 75/25 HE blast/fragmentation, weighes in at 200 lb (90 kg).
    Any of those warhead would be pretty devastating to an Airship.

  17. Re:Not so fast on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    80kn is about 92mph or 148km/h, so it would be more in line with fast trains in the US; and not constrained by tracks.

  18. Re:oh jeez. on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    Actualy He2 is a very small molecule and like H2, it tends to difuse through most practical materials; so it is consumed as a part of normal operations.

  19. Re:Hindenburg? on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that this Airship is in fact bouyant where

    The airship was a hybrid air vehicle (HAV) and had a number of advantages over fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A HAV uses aerodynamic lift like a conventional airplane to take off before using helium to keep it in the sky once it is airborne. Engines on board are then used to move while it monitors events on the ground.[15] The LEMV’s skin - a blend of Vectran, Kevlar, and Mylar - would have been able to cope with a “reasonable amount of small arms fire.”[15] Northrop estimated that the biggest threat to the craft was weather, where high winds or thunderstorms could buffet the craft. Hybrid Air Vehicles HAV-3

    that is not the case. The design isn't even that radical, Mc Phee envisioned hybrid airships 3 times the size of the Airlander back in the late '70s.

  20. Re:The real question is... on X-37B To Fly Again · · Score: 1

    It's not doing anything, it can't, it goes goes up and comes down a few months later, but nobody will believe it so they watch it like a hawk while it just floats around in space.

  21. Re:Can be any goal you want on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 0

    Oh BS, since the equilibrium climate sensitivity is in the neighbourhood of 2.5, we're going to have to get up to around 650 ppm CO2 to get that last degree needed for "catastrophe".

  22. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Actually he assaulted his Boss or at least one of several Bosses, and He's also publically stated that people should lay off the Producers, because he punched his Boss in the face.

  23. Re:Let them know on New Bill Would Repeal Patriot Act · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Emails are pretty useless, if you actually go through the effort to compose a real letter and send it through the mail with a stamp that costs real-world money, now that gets some attention! Also Congress-Critter's brains are hard-wired for reciprocity so be sure to inform them of your past support and that their support on this matter will make future support of them easier for you.

  24. Re:What global warming? on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    RSS data looks far different.

  25. Re:Climate Engineering on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    However, at our stage of understanding the system, climate engineering is probably not such a good thing to be doing.

    Really, and everyone keeps saying that the science is settled, who would have thought.