Ships are getting bigger and bigger not because of "globalization", it is all down to physics and fuel costs.
Imagine a ship with length L. The hold volume ~ L^3, the drag area of the hull goes with L^2. Double the ship size, holding everything else constant, you move twice as much cargo volume for the same fuel.
Things get even better if you go for really, really big ships going at slow speed. Fuel burn goes with velocity cubed V^3, so for a given ship, if you half the velocity, your fuel burn per unit volume of cargo is reduced to 1/8th of that at the original velocity.
Physics and fuel economics is pushing the industry to use massive, slow container ships. Another cost benefit is that having fewer, bigger ships means paying less crew for the entire fleet.
These savings will have to be balanced with the insurance and security costs associated with a single vessel containing such a massive quantity of valuable goods, but "globalization" isn't the prime motivator.
As others have pointed out the idea is flawed as it would require death to occur before childbearing.
But would it not be evolutionarily advantageous to have a 'self-destruct' mechanism that deploys after having children when food and other resources might be scarce? Live just long enough to bear and raise children, but then die and cease consuming resources, leaving more for your offspring?
If resources are rich, stress on the individual is low and cancer may be avoided. If resources are low and stress on the individual is high, cancer kicks in and removes consumers, leaving more resources and lessening stress on the next generation.
The human pain threshold for temperature is 106-108F (41-42C). Unless you're a masochist who likes to shotgun boiling hot liquids, so long as you don't get a painful sensation, you're fine.
Realize that even if the liquid is much higher than this temperature, so long as you sip small quantities of it, it will rapidly cool to something closer to your body temperature when it enters your mouth. Most folks instinctively do this, because pain sucks.
This is not intuitively obvious to people who memorized PV = nRT in grade school *HOW*?!?
Who was this exactly a mystery *from*?
Because it has nothing to do with the ideal gas law.
They are talking about the saturation or vaporization curve of water which is a function of pressure and temperature. At 1 atm water boils at 212F. On Mars where the pressure is lower, it boils at a much lower temperature.
This boiling behavior is not new or unexpected. What is new is the understanding about how this vaporization process can move sediments on Mars. That's the new science.
...they've already identified a 27-foot-long shipwreck and disproved rumors of a 27-foot-long "Nessie trench" where the cryptid creature could be hiding...
Did they check underneath the 27-foot-long shipwreck to see if the 27-foot-long Nessie trench (and Nessie) was underneath? Ha! I didn't think so! It can't be a coincidence.
He's absolutely this stupid. Public failure of a technology demonstration in North Korea, on Kim Jon Il's birthday? Some rocket scientists are getting tossed into Kim Jon Un's Sarlacc pit as we write.
So, say theoretically I could pick the science teacher for my kids' school. The science teacher can be:
A) Bill Nye Science Guy, or
B) Sarah Palin.
Hmmm.. which to pick, which to pick....
Yeah, except there are a whole lot of people who would pick B, so long as she brings her Bible to every class, because that's all they need, not that godless commie pinko LGBT science stuff.
There are such things as gender-neutral and unisex bathrooms; eliminates need for separate gender restrooms, provides appropriate privacy and is even being done by the US navy on aircraft carriers. Some minor modifications to existing bathrooms can get most to this standard. They are not expensive and actually can reduce the overall restroom footprint and maintenance requirements for separate bathrooms.
But this would get in the way of someone's old fashioned hate, so it probably is a bad idea.
1st Bob: What you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers?
Tom: Yes, yes that's right.
2nd Bob: Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the software people?
Tom: Well, I'll tell you why... because... engineers are not good at dealing with customers...
1st Bob: So you physically take the specs from the customer?
Tom: Well... No. My secretary does that... or they're faxed.
2nd Bob: So then you must physically bring them to the software people?
Tom: Well... No. ah sometimes.
1st Bob: What would you say you do here?
Tom: Look I already told you, I deal with the @#$% customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
That's funny. Your President is coming to the UK soon to strike fear into the UK population about voting to leave the European Union in our June referendum. Before you get all high and mighty about other people interfering in your elections please stop interfering in other country's business yourselves.
I do believe our President was invited to go to the UK. It's not a one-manned invasion.
To a certain extent I was a fan of some of Anonymous' shenanigans, but this isn't right. I am by no means a fan of Donald Trump, and the electoral system is far from perfect, but to have a third party with foreign membership fucking with our elections is a direct attack on our democratic ideals (flawed though they may be).
Anonymous - please fuck off. You aren't the Robin Hoods of the Internet any more.
This never happened. There are so many layers of bullshit here that it is hard to get started shoveling through it.
Firstly, plant cooling water intakes are protected with screens to prevent any wildlife and debris entrainment, so the "quarter mile flume ride" is bullshit. The screens are designed so tiny fish fry that might impinge on them can swim away.
Even if the intakes weren't screened (impossible), the water goes into a condenser which is separate from the steam loop that drives the turbine. Said scuba diver would not be talking to anyone as his ass would plug up the condenser, which would force the plant to shut down, and he'd probably be long dead before they unplugged him. But he'd never be there, because there is a screen system just for this reason.
Source - did contract work in a lot of plants, including nuclear, and am familiar with CE plants like St. Lucie.
The push to paperless statements has nothing to do about the customer's desires, or the "going green" hogwash they advertise on the envelopes. The companies are pushing for paperless because paying people to print them out, stuff them envelopes, and then paying postage for 100k's of customers every month is an regular expense that eats into their bottom lines. Automatically pushing out a pdf by email, or posting it on a server, costs pennies and doesn't require nearly as many employees to accomplish.
This push is analogous to the self-scan checkouts at the supermarket. They're just trying to get rid of staff and get you to provide the service yourself.
I will always get paper statements from Comcast and I will always pay the monthly bill with a nice paper check because that is the only way I can screw with the bastards.
So 42 years of the DEA, and we're still fighting "The War on Drugs". War is hell, I guess. While we're fighting, we're coming to the realization that maybe marijuana really isn't a danger, that it isn't worth the effort to chase down and prosecute stoners and weed farmers. Is what the DEA is doing to our civil liberties, here and in other countries, really better than the alternative of just letting people do drugs? It doesn't sound like the DEA is stopping anybody who really wants to smoke or shoot up. Here in S.E. Massachusetts we have rampant opioid overdose problems, and that situation exists in a lot of places in the U.S. Maybe, just maybe, it is a demand problem instead of a supply problem?
If we took a fraction of the money that goes to the DEA and actually spent it on something useful, like decriminalizing and properly treating addiction as the medical condition it really is, demand would drop, street prices would drop, and the incentive to perpetrate criminal activities associated with the drug trade would dry up. People would be healthier, not living in prisons on the taxpayers dime, and we wouldn't have to pay taxes to a TLA to butt rape our constitutional freedoms anymore.
The Falcon 9 v1.2 uses deep chilled liquid oxygen in order to increase the propellant density, so more can get loaded on, which (according to Tsiolkovsky's Rocket Equation) increases the velocity to which it can accelerate a given payload mass (or conversely, how much mass you can accelerate to a given velocity). This system has been giving SpaceX some teething troubles.
SES-9 is going to a very high Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) to allow the satellite to get to its station sooner, as this mission has been delayed for a while. SpaceX is working really hard to get this satellite out as high as they can for the customer. They are still going to attempt to recover the first stage on a barge, but concede that they are going to be at the absolute limits of their fuel for this attempt, so it is very possible that they'll run out of fuel before touchdown. They are really pushing the envelope of the Falcon 9 v1.2 with this launch.
I'd be sympathetic if it weren't for the fact that this "relationship" has turned into something similar to the "relationship" enjoyed between a serial rapist and their victim. They are trying to jam ads up our ass whether we want them or not, without lube. The "relationship" is being destroyed for a reason. "NO" means "NO".
And many people who are out on the web aren't "consumers". They're "users" - they are merely looking for certain content. Forcing ads on people who aren't even shopping is a nuisance and counter-productive.
Slashdot Mirror
Ships are getting bigger and bigger not because of "globalization", it is all down to physics and fuel costs.
Imagine a ship with length L. The hold volume ~ L^3, the drag area of the hull goes with L^2. Double the ship size, holding everything else constant, you move twice as much cargo volume for the same fuel.
Things get even better if you go for really, really big ships going at slow speed. Fuel burn goes with velocity cubed V^3, so for a given ship, if you half the velocity, your fuel burn per unit volume of cargo is reduced to 1/8th of that at the original velocity.
Physics and fuel economics is pushing the industry to use massive, slow container ships. Another cost benefit is that having fewer, bigger ships means paying less crew for the entire fleet.
These savings will have to be balanced with the insurance and security costs associated with a single vessel containing such a massive quantity of valuable goods, but "globalization" isn't the prime motivator.
If these are active AF investigations, do they have a documented chain of custody for these files if they are evidence (emails, etc.)?
Even under the UCMJ, I think that the validity of any evidence files on these servers could be questioned.
As others have pointed out the idea is flawed as it would require death to occur before childbearing. But would it not be evolutionarily advantageous to have a 'self-destruct' mechanism that deploys after having children when food and other resources might be scarce? Live just long enough to bear and raise children, but then die and cease consuming resources, leaving more for your offspring? If resources are rich, stress on the individual is low and cancer may be avoided. If resources are low and stress on the individual is high, cancer kicks in and removes consumers, leaving more resources and lessening stress on the next generation.
The human pain threshold for temperature is 106-108F (41-42C). Unless you're a masochist who likes to shotgun boiling hot liquids, so long as you don't get a painful sensation, you're fine. Realize that even if the liquid is much higher than this temperature, so long as you sip small quantities of it, it will rapidly cool to something closer to your body temperature when it enters your mouth. Most folks instinctively do this, because pain sucks.
This is not intuitively obvious to people who memorized PV = nRT in grade school *HOW*?!?
Who was this exactly a mystery *from*?
Because it has nothing to do with the ideal gas law.
They are talking about the saturation or vaporization curve of water which is a function of pressure and temperature. At 1 atm water boils at 212F. On Mars where the pressure is lower, it boils at a much lower temperature.
This boiling behavior is not new or unexpected. What is new is the understanding about how this vaporization process can move sediments on Mars. That's the new science.
...they've already identified a 27-foot-long shipwreck and disproved rumors of a 27-foot-long "Nessie trench" where the cryptid creature could be hiding...
Did they check underneath the 27-foot-long shipwreck to see if the 27-foot-long Nessie trench (and Nessie) was underneath? Ha! I didn't think so! It can't be a coincidence.
He's absolutely this stupid. Public failure of a technology demonstration in North Korea, on Kim Jon Il's birthday? Some rocket scientists are getting tossed into Kim Jon Un's Sarlacc pit as we write.
Here at Slashdot, no one ever RTFA at all. It's much faster that way.
So, say theoretically I could pick the science teacher for my kids' school. The science teacher can be: A) Bill Nye Science Guy, or B) Sarah Palin. Hmmm.. which to pick, which to pick....
Yeah, except there are a whole lot of people who would pick B, so long as she brings her Bible to every class, because that's all they need, not that godless commie pinko LGBT science stuff.
I'm a paraplegic you insensitive clods!
There are such things as gender-neutral and unisex bathrooms; eliminates need for separate gender restrooms, provides appropriate privacy and is even being done by the US navy on aircraft carriers. Some minor modifications to existing bathrooms can get most to this standard. They are not expensive and actually can reduce the overall restroom footprint and maintenance requirements for separate bathrooms.
But this would get in the way of someone's old fashioned hate, so it probably is a bad idea.
Didn't Sturgeon already tell us this 75 years ago? Ninety percent of everything is crap, including VC's.
That must mean 90% the remaining 10% is crap too. And 90% of that last 1%...
Really, build some modern reactors there and run them from a remote central station. Also use it for storage, solar panels, etc...
The worst that could happen already has. May as well make some decent power for the effort.
...where else will the U.S. have a romper room to abuse human rights outside of international conventions, answer me that!
Maybe we can move Sea World's orca breeding program there and let them flog their dolphins in peace.
1st Bob: What you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers? Tom: Yes, yes that's right. 2nd Bob: Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the software people? Tom: Well, I'll tell you why... because... engineers are not good at dealing with customers... 1st Bob: So you physically take the specs from the customer? Tom: Well... No. My secretary does that... or they're faxed. 2nd Bob: So then you must physically bring them to the software people? Tom: Well... No. ah sometimes. 1st Bob: What would you say you do here? Tom: Look I already told you, I deal with the @#$% customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
I love it how it is phrased "U.S. leading in new installations!" vs "U.S. catching up to per-capita installed capacity already found elsewhere."
Gotta be #1, always!
Blame Canada!
That's funny. Your President is coming to the UK soon to strike fear into the UK population about voting to leave the European Union in our June referendum. Before you get all high and mighty about other people interfering in your elections please stop interfering in other country's business yourselves.
I do believe our President was invited to go to the UK. It's not a one-manned invasion.
To a certain extent I was a fan of some of Anonymous' shenanigans, but this isn't right. I am by no means a fan of Donald Trump, and the electoral system is far from perfect, but to have a third party with foreign membership fucking with our elections is a direct attack on our democratic ideals (flawed though they may be).
Anonymous - please fuck off. You aren't the Robin Hoods of the Internet any more.
This never happened. There are so many layers of bullshit here that it is hard to get started shoveling through it.
Firstly, plant cooling water intakes are protected with screens to prevent any wildlife and debris entrainment, so the "quarter mile flume ride" is bullshit. The screens are designed so tiny fish fry that might impinge on them can swim away.
Even if the intakes weren't screened (impossible), the water goes into a condenser which is separate from the steam loop that drives the turbine. Said scuba diver would not be talking to anyone as his ass would plug up the condenser, which would force the plant to shut down, and he'd probably be long dead before they unplugged him. But he'd never be there, because there is a screen system just for this reason.
Source - did contract work in a lot of plants, including nuclear, and am familiar with CE plants like St. Lucie.
The push to paperless statements has nothing to do about the customer's desires, or the "going green" hogwash they advertise on the envelopes. The companies are pushing for paperless because paying people to print them out, stuff them envelopes, and then paying postage for 100k's of customers every month is an regular expense that eats into their bottom lines. Automatically pushing out a pdf by email, or posting it on a server, costs pennies and doesn't require nearly as many employees to accomplish.
This push is analogous to the self-scan checkouts at the supermarket. They're just trying to get rid of staff and get you to provide the service yourself.
I will always get paper statements from Comcast and I will always pay the monthly bill with a nice paper check because that is the only way I can screw with the bastards.
Beta Testers: Hey, Microsoft, Windows 10 is OK, but the telemetry is fucking evil.
Microsoft: It's not evil. Otherwise, how is it?
Beta Testers: It's really fucking invasive and evil.
Microsoft: Outside of the telemetry, focus! focus!
Beta Testers: Umm.. your software is evil as shit...
Microsoft: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Beta Testers: *Gasp!* * Choke!*
So 42 years of the DEA, and we're still fighting "The War on Drugs". War is hell, I guess. While we're fighting, we're coming to the realization that maybe marijuana really isn't a danger, that it isn't worth the effort to chase down and prosecute stoners and weed farmers. Is what the DEA is doing to our civil liberties, here and in other countries, really better than the alternative of just letting people do drugs? It doesn't sound like the DEA is stopping anybody who really wants to smoke or shoot up. Here in S.E. Massachusetts we have rampant opioid overdose problems, and that situation exists in a lot of places in the U.S. Maybe, just maybe, it is a demand problem instead of a supply problem?
If we took a fraction of the money that goes to the DEA and actually spent it on something useful, like decriminalizing and properly treating addiction as the medical condition it really is , demand would drop, street prices would drop, and the incentive to perpetrate criminal activities associated with the drug trade would dry up. People would be healthier, not living in prisons on the taxpayers dime, and we wouldn't have to pay taxes to a TLA to butt rape our constitutional freedoms anymore.
The Falcon 9 v1.2 uses deep chilled liquid oxygen in order to increase the propellant density, so more can get loaded on, which (according to Tsiolkovsky's Rocket Equation) increases the velocity to which it can accelerate a given payload mass (or conversely, how much mass you can accelerate to a given velocity). This system has been giving SpaceX some teething troubles.
SES-9 is going to a very high Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) to allow the satellite to get to its station sooner, as this mission has been delayed for a while. SpaceX is working really hard to get this satellite out as high as they can for the customer. They are still going to attempt to recover the first stage on a barge, but concede that they are going to be at the absolute limits of their fuel for this attempt, so it is very possible that they'll run out of fuel before touchdown. They are really pushing the envelope of the Falcon 9 v1.2 with this launch.
I'd be sympathetic if it weren't for the fact that this "relationship" has turned into something similar to the "relationship" enjoyed between a serial rapist and their victim. They are trying to jam ads up our ass whether we want them or not, without lube. The "relationship" is being destroyed for a reason. "NO" means "NO".
And many people who are out on the web aren't "consumers". They're "users" - they are merely looking for certain content. Forcing ads on people who aren't even shopping is a nuisance and counter-productive.