the Gulf Stream will cease and England will get mighty chilly.... I did some post-doc modeling research on deep convection in the Greenland Sea.
Did you do any research on air currents? Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters?
Europe is warm because of southwesterly winds from the warm Atlantic. These winds are caused by the Rocky Mountains, which divert warm air flow to the southern U.S. and the air then flows northeast toward Europe. Cold polar air also tends to spill south across central North America.
Maybe Weight Gain and Less Sleep Have Same Cause
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A possibility is that something is both causing weight gain and reducing the need for sleep.
There is a theory that the bloodstream can not supply enough energy to a functioning brain. So the brain runs partially on stored energy, and must sleep to allow more energy to be stored. So it is a basic physiological requirement which is hard for evolution to alter.
Things which deliver more energy to the brain might reduce the need for sleep. Things which improve the brain's energy storage ability might also reduce the need for sleep. If such things also tend to increase weight then the reported correlation may result.
The glial cells are suspected to be involved. Searching for "sleep glial" finds assorted information.
The biggest advantage of the existing charities is that some of them are already set up for this type of relief effort, and some were already active in the affected areas. Even if an organization did not have stocked warehouses in the right places, some organizations have people with experience at dealing with emergency situations and can get things moving in the right direction quickly. Those organizations who know how to deal with the political and physical infrastructures also have an advantage over new groups.
Nevertheless, despite the risk of money being diverted, money is the best contribution. It can be sent around the world quickly, and aid organizations can buy appropriate supplies from the best locations. You might want to donate cans of baked beans and blankets, but it costs a lot of money and time to get such material to the other side of the world and baked beans and blankets might not be appropriate.
How does Greenland's ice cap compare to the recent tsunami-causing event?
Greenland ice cap: around 2,750,000 Km^3
Recent 9.0 quake off Sumatra: about 1,200 Km slipped, with a width of about 100 Km affected. That's about 120,000 Km^2 of ocean floor which was "uplifted by several meters". If there was an average of 10 meters of uplift (a value not yet measured), 1,200,000 Km^3 of water has now shifted around the world's oceans.
Perhaps the "100 Km affected" which the USGS refers to is 100 Km DOWN along the fault line; the phrasing is ambiguous whether it refers to the surface.
The Inuit were among the first to notice it and they do not even have words for what they were seeing. Many indigenous languages have no vocabulary for the legions of animals, insects and plants that have advanced north as global warming melts the polar ice and invites forest to creep over the thawed tundra.
My system could deliver data at close to one gigabit per second over barbed wire in ideal conditions, with speeds of hundreds of megabits per second available to home users. My system requires barbed wire to have been modified to reduce interference with the data signals.
The only thing you lose is the ability to "offroad", but that simply means that offroading would become like boating is today.
Ever been between cities? See them "farm" things? They need many odd deliveries and now need to pay for two miles of wired steel and concrete instead of gravel?
Any idea how many car-sized loads of groceries fit in a single one of those big trucks which unload into the back of your supermarket? (Why car-sized? The track has to be designed with tight bends for metropolitan areas, so maximum vehicle length is limited.)
Sending the cattle from the farm to the stockyard one at a time in car-sized pods would be interesting.
Oh, and most "Personal Rapid Transit" designs are for vehicles which can go 45 MPH. That's fine for automated travel in an urban area where you can't average 45 MPH during rush hour, but not your 100-200 MPH for intercity. (There are other ways for intercity use of such tech)
At a few hundred per city... that is a lot of kites..
Then you have to find the places to put them...
Put them up in the air?
"The Laddermill would only be flown where aircraft are banned. One such area is the zone along the US-Mexican border, where high-flying balloons fitted with radar are used to combat drug traffickers."
Rescue workers should be able to figure out that their destination is thirty steps over from where their GPS is telling them it is.
A 100 foot shift is only a problem if they're trying to get through a 100-foot-wide gap in a reef...and they think their GPS is accurate enough that this matters.
Maybe because the NEIC hasn't studied Indian Ocean Tsunamis and didn't know what was likely to happen? Maybe because the countries in the area haven't installed any equipment to tell NEIC or anyone else what was happening? Maybe because it isn't the NEIC's job to issue such warnings? (The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center knows more, but the Indian Ocean countries are not participants.)
the quake moved undersea tectonic plates by up to 98 feet, shifting islands near Sumatra out to sea an unknown distance.
OK, so all you tourists in the area with GPS units should take some readings so rescue workers can make adjustments. Post them in the Discuss page on Wikipedia for the earthquake.
a 5m rock isn't going to qualify as a WMD anytime soon
Not if you let it hit the atmosphere at various angles at interplanetary velocities. Then it probably will be incinerated or explode due to the heating.
If it's solid iron or slightly denser, it's in the range of the Sikhote-Alin 1947 meteorite. That one exploded and left multiple craters.
If you push it in at 20 km/sec and perhaps 60 degrees, then you could be talking about the 1-5 kiloton range. Most of the force would be at the point of impact, but the splash would be interesting and nearby humans wouldn't like the sonic boom. At what point is it a WMD weapon?
All the commentary about a specific asteroid and what to do with it seems to be from the author of the Slashdot article. There is nothing on the B612 Foundation web site which refers to any specific target nor mission plan. They have one favorite technology but no mention of construction or delivery schedules.
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You answered "pollution...masks...warming" with "carbon dioxide". Do you have an "aerosol" answer?
Better check the question. "particulate matter"
Did you do any research on air currents?
Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters?
Europe is warm because of southwesterly winds from the warm Atlantic. These winds are caused by the Rocky Mountains, which divert warm air flow to the southern U.S. and the air then flows northeast toward Europe. Cold polar air also tends to spill south across central North America.
There is a theory that the bloodstream can not supply enough energy to a functioning brain. So the brain runs partially on stored energy, and must sleep to allow more energy to be stored. So it is a basic physiological requirement which is hard for evolution to alter.
Things which deliver more energy to the brain might reduce the need for sleep. Things which improve the brain's energy storage ability might also reduce the need for sleep. If such things also tend to increase weight then the reported correlation may result.
The glial cells are suspected to be involved. Searching for "sleep glial" finds assorted information.
Nevertheless, despite the risk of money being diverted, money is the best contribution. It can be sent around the world quickly, and aid organizations can buy appropriate supplies from the best locations. You might want to donate cans of baked beans and blankets, but it costs a lot of money and time to get such material to the other side of the world and baked beans and blankets might not be appropriate.
Oops. I used mixed units, multiplying 10 m as if it were 10 Km. I think we would have noticed an uplift of 10 Km.
Greenland ice cap: around 2,750,000 Km^3
Recent 9.0 quake off Sumatra: about 1,200 Km slipped, with a width of about 100 Km affected. That's about 120,000 Km^2 of ocean floor which was "uplifted by several meters". If there was an average of 10 meters of uplift (a value not yet measured), 1,200,000 Km^3 of water has now shifted around the world's oceans.
Perhaps the "100 Km affected" which the USGS refers to is 100 Km DOWN along the fault line; the phrasing is ambiguous whether it refers to the surface.
Oddly, the Inuit ancestors invaded and conquered Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period...so the Inuit were doing what they don't have words for.
Where earthquakes the triggers which caused the avalanches on Pompeii before the final burial?
My system could deliver data at close to one gigabit per second over barbed wire in ideal conditions, with speeds of hundreds of megabits per second available to home users. My system requires barbed wire to have been modified to reduce interference with the data signals.
So now only the amateurs are manufacturing analog audio tape.
Saddam has said he is being persecuted because of his past involvement in weapons of mass destruction.
Prove it.
The issue is whether the less-than-one-percent of greenhouse effect due to burning of fossil fuels may have a significant effect upon the climate.
Ever been between cities? See them "farm" things? They need many odd deliveries and now need to pay for two miles of wired steel and concrete instead of gravel?
Any idea how many car-sized loads of groceries fit in a single one of those big trucks which unload into the back of your supermarket? (Why car-sized? The track has to be designed with tight bends for metropolitan areas, so maximum vehicle length is limited.)
Sending the cattle from the farm to the stockyard one at a time in car-sized pods would be interesting.
Oh, and most "Personal Rapid Transit" designs are for vehicles which can go 45 MPH. That's fine for automated travel in an urban area where you can't average 45 MPH during rush hour, but not your 100-200 MPH for intercity. (There are other ways for intercity use of such tech)
Then you have to find the places to put them...
Put them up in the air?
"The Laddermill would only be flown where aircraft are banned. One such area is the zone along the US-Mexican border, where high-flying balloons fitted with radar are used to combat drug traffickers."
Tallest border fence in the world...
Who doesn't use kites to support their space elevator?
Hey, don't socialize with him!
A 100 foot shift is only a problem if they're trying to get through a 100-foot-wide gap in a reef...and they think their GPS is accurate enough that this matters.
You have to give him the answer rather than a question.
Look for torrents on isoHunt. Search for tsunami.
Maybe because the NEIC hasn't studied Indian Ocean Tsunamis and didn't know what was likely to happen? Maybe because the countries in the area haven't installed any equipment to tell NEIC or anyone else what was happening? Maybe because it isn't the NEIC's job to issue such warnings? (The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center knows more, but the Indian Ocean countries are not participants.)
OK, so all you tourists in the area with GPS units should take some readings so rescue workers can make adjustments. Post them in the Discuss page on Wikipedia for the earthquake.
Not if you let it hit the atmosphere at various angles at interplanetary velocities. Then it probably will be incinerated or explode due to the heating.
If it's solid iron or slightly denser, it's in the range of the Sikhote-Alin 1947 meteorite. That one exploded and left multiple craters.
If you push it in at 20 km/sec and perhaps 60 degrees, then you could be talking about the 1-5 kiloton range. Most of the force would be at the point of impact, but the splash would be interesting and nearby humans wouldn't like the sonic boom. At what point is it a WMD weapon?
All the commentary about a specific asteroid and what to do with it seems to be from the author of the Slashdot article. There is nothing on the B612 Foundation web site which refers to any specific target nor mission plan. They have one favorite technology but no mention of construction or delivery schedules.