Netherlands have experience with dam breaches and flooding. They have about as much experience with tsunamis as Scotland or Italy.
The 2011 tsunami wasn't a towering wave like in disaster movies but a quick & relentless rising sea level. Same concept as a flooding although a bit larger in scale. The friction exerted by dike slopes also help reduce the wave's kinetic energy and could potentially be used to generate electric power in normal conditions.
Why not learn from those who have almost 1000 years of experience with this sort of thing, the Netherlands?
Walls are useless; dikes on the other hand are much more versatile. E.g. build parks & plant trees on the ocean side while the top can be used for roads, railways etc.
Maybe this planet swallowed its neighboring planets over time when their orbits became unstable in such a complex system, hence it's so massive?
Could this in turn become another star once it has acquired enough mass to jump start nuclear fusion?
They used to be the company engineers wanted to work for. When I got to Pixar in '81, the engineers that had been at HP were still proud of having worked there. It's really sad what's happened.
They are now the company IT managers want to work for.
Today's HP internal management culture is one where technical staff is being sneered at and technical ignorance is a badge of honor.
The company has lost it's way some time around the Compaq merger and is now slowly rotting from the inside.
Not that I condone that in any way. But I do get the impression that this is the message here.
Racism & cultural inequality is unfortunately natural for any multicultural country.
However I don't see many migrants from other religions who feel disrespected go around killing innocent people and blowing shit up. The problem of reverse cultural integration mainly seems to be an issue with Islam.
Only Islam seems to advocate violence before peaceful protest. It also has a tendency for inflexibility with breaking religious rules which in a multicultural society will always result in an our team against theirs sentiment.
France has one of the most elaborate social support systems in the world with free education, healthcare, etc; I see plenty of Asian, Indian, Chinese, Russian, etc, etc immigrants studying hard and taking positive part in Western society.
As an atheist, no one who cares about the Pope's opinion gives a shit about yours.
Speak for yourself. As an atheist, I do care about any help we can get to combat the growing ignorance. I much rather have a religious community who's believes align with scientific findings than one which goes against it for whatever reason.
We have the biggest coral reef in the world, one of the 7 Wonders of the Natural World, right on our doorstep... it's been there for about 18 million years. Too bad the bugger is in the way now, blocking access to more profit - ahem, job creation - for Gina & co.
What's another piece of coral anyway... they'll all be gone soon enough.
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Netherlands have experience with dam breaches and flooding. They have about as much experience with tsunamis as Scotland or Italy.
The 2011 tsunami wasn't a towering wave like in disaster movies but a quick & relentless rising sea level. Same concept as a flooding although a bit larger in scale. The friction exerted by dike slopes also help reduce the wave's kinetic energy and could potentially be used to generate electric power in normal conditions.
Why not learn from those who have almost 1000 years of experience with this sort of thing, the Netherlands? Walls are useless; dikes on the other hand are much more versatile. E.g. build parks & plant trees on the ocean side while the top can be used for roads, railways etc.
Maybe this planet swallowed its neighboring planets over time when their orbits became unstable in such a complex system, hence it's so massive?
Could this in turn become another star once it has acquired enough mass to jump start nuclear fusion?
P.S. Feel free to RTFA me!
They used to be the company engineers wanted to work for. When I got to Pixar in '81, the engineers that had been at HP were still proud of having worked there. It's really sad what's happened.
They are now the company IT managers want to work for.
Today's HP internal management culture is one where technical staff is being sneered at and technical ignorance is a badge of honor.
The company has lost it's way some time around the Compaq merger and is now slowly rotting from the inside.
Not that I condone that in any way. But I do get the impression that this is the message here.
Racism & cultural inequality is unfortunately natural for any multicultural country.
However I don't see many migrants from other religions who feel disrespected go around killing innocent people and blowing shit up. The problem of reverse cultural integration mainly seems to be an issue with Islam.
Only Islam seems to advocate violence before peaceful protest. It also has a tendency for inflexibility with breaking religious rules which in a multicultural society will always result in an our team against theirs sentiment.
France has one of the most elaborate social support systems in the world with free education, healthcare, etc; I see plenty of Asian, Indian, Chinese, Russian, etc, etc immigrants studying hard and taking positive part in Western society.
As an atheist, no one who cares about the Pope's opinion gives a shit about yours.
Speak for yourself. As an atheist, I do care about any help we can get to combat the growing ignorance. I much rather have a religious community who's believes align with scientific findings than one which goes against it for whatever reason.
Sounds like another case of the "Fox News" virus.
Struth! You Americans worry too much.
Just contact our Australian Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, he will be able to explain how mega dredging projects are actually good for the environment.
We have the biggest coral reef in the world, one of the 7 Wonders of the Natural World, right on our doorstep... it's been there for about 18 million years. Too bad the bugger is in the way now, blocking access to more profit - ahem, job creation - for Gina & co.
What's another piece of coral anyway... they'll all be gone soon enough.