Most thieves are not going to use violence to steal from you
Agreed. Most thieves are also not stalking you to see you enter the PIN code. They grab it out of your pocket/bag, or break into your car or your apartment, and then just sell the phone for a few bucks without trying to unlock it.
But in the situation where they really want to get into your phone, they will now be forced to use violence.
This is why we need to colonize Mars, so when the sun swells into a red giant, we can survive the earth being devoured. Mars funding needs to be a top priority, before it is too late.
A few billion years ago, "we" were single celled organisms. Likewise, a few billion years from now, "we" will be a completely different species, in the unlikely event that our genetic line still exists then. Why should we care about this remotely related species, when we don't even care about animals going extinct today, who are much closer related to us ?
And "too late" is a huge joke. We've only been making rockets for a century. We can easily spend the next million years perfecting them before attempting to settle on Mars. Either we will get more advanced, making the job easier, or civilization will collapse, saving us a lot of wasted effort. Win-win.
The chance of life on the inside is slightly higher than on the outside, but still extremely slim. And even if there's a life form, that doesn't mean it could survive on Earth (oxygen could be toxic to it, or it may not be able to find any nutrients). And even if it could survive, that doesn't mean it's a threat. An alien virus would not be compatible with our biochemistry, for instance.
You're watching too many movies. Very unlikely there's anything dangerous on outside of asteroid, constantly exposed to radiation. Secondly, they will take plenty of precautions to avoid contamination. Also, almost impossible to get something from space to the ISS.
How? How is someone who isn't vaccinated harmful to someone who is? Isn't that the whole point of vaccinations? Or, do they not work?
Vaccinations work, but they are not 100% effective. An important measure of infectious diseases is the basic reproduction number, or R-nought. This represents the average number of infections that one sick person will create. Suppose mumps has an R-nought of 5, and you have a vaccine with 90% effectiveness, then the effective R-nought, after vaccination, is 0.5.
The critical point is an R-nought of 1. If you get below that, the diseases is expected to die out over time. If it is higher, then the disease is expected to grow. Getting the value from 5 to 0.5 will make a huge difference, which you would get if everybody is vaccinated. If too few people are vaccinated, R-nought will grow, and disease can spread, and will also infect 10% of the vaccinated population.
You may want to study up on how to calculate the volume of a sphere first...
Why don't you just get to the point instead ?
By the way, just did the calculation again, and it's not feet, it's meters. About 3.5 meters pre-industrial, and about 5 meters right now. Calculation is pretty simple, and does not involve volumes of spheres, just the column of air above a certain surface area, which can be assumed flat for this purpose. The idea is not to get an exact value, just an intuitive sense of proportion.
Give me a model that will accurately predict the future, I will give you a million dollars. A scientist that tells you otherwise is not a scientist.
Scientists know that the models cannot accurately predict the future, and they will tell you so. That's why they draw error bars around the expected values.
isn't CO2 still only on the order of 0.05% of all atmospheric gases by volume?
The only way for Earth to lose heat is to radiate it into space as infrared waves. The CO2 captures part of that energy and sends it back down. The oxygen, nitrogen and argon, which make up nearly all of the atmosphere have no effect on infrared or visible waves.
Looking at the CO2 as a percentage of the total atmosphere makes no sense. You have to look at the absolute numbers. A nice way to do that is to imagine the different gases in the atmosphere are separated into pure layers. If you do that, we would get a layer of about 4 feet of pure CO2. That's the layer that blocks the IR. Now, before the industrial age, that layer would have been about 3 feet.
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Also, most people will not be personally affected by measures to reduce drug pollution.
Most thieves are not going to use violence to steal from you
Agreed. Most thieves are also not stalking you to see you enter the PIN code. They grab it out of your pocket/bag, or break into your car or your apartment, and then just sell the phone for a few bucks without trying to unlock it.
But in the situation where they really want to get into your phone, they will now be forced to use violence.
Oh dear. You tripped over the answer and still did not see it.
That's because most people who say that are completely serious.
This is why we need to colonize Mars, so when the sun swells into a red giant, we can survive the earth being devoured. Mars funding needs to be a top priority, before it is too late.
A few billion years ago, "we" were single celled organisms. Likewise, a few billion years from now, "we" will be a completely different species, in the unlikely event that our genetic line still exists then. Why should we care about this remotely related species, when we don't even care about animals going extinct today, who are much closer related to us ?
And "too late" is a huge joke. We've only been making rockets for a century. We can easily spend the next million years perfecting them before attempting to settle on Mars. Either we will get more advanced, making the job easier, or civilization will collapse, saving us a lot of wasted effort. Win-win.
I assume most of the medications in the sewage water are there because they are not completely metabolized, and we pee/poop them out.
Ok, so now a thief has to carry a weapon so he can force you to unlock the phone. Progress.
Literally hundreds of millions of people already use it every day.
Literally hundreds of millions eat too much junk food, therefore it's good for you.
how desperately the pedants and the autists are struggling to write this "inconvenience" into the narrative.
Which is a very reasonable thing to do. Better a small change here and there than invoking magic.
silvery artifact that saw in the sky over South Tulsa a few years back had to have zero mass as well
Source ?
They simply keep flying in same direction until they've gone around,
Please tell us if the Earth was round or flat.
50kV isn't that strange. Fairly easy to make, as long as you don't need a lot of current.
The chance of life on the inside is slightly higher than on the outside, but still extremely slim. And even if there's a life form, that doesn't mean it could survive on Earth (oxygen could be toxic to it, or it may not be able to find any nutrients). And even if it could survive, that doesn't mean it's a threat. An alien virus would not be compatible with our biochemistry, for instance.
You're watching too many movies. Very unlikely there's anything dangerous on outside of asteroid, constantly exposed to radiation. Secondly, they will take plenty of precautions to avoid contamination. Also, almost impossible to get something from space to the ISS.
A free market, without any government regulation, would drift relentlessly towards a monopoly situation. Power begets power.
How about cooking a Sunday roast in Delhi ?
Probably, yes, given that there's a sizable Arab population in Israel.
About the size of the Ark of the Covenant
Needs "Elon Musk" in the title for extra clicks.
Then I guess you should also include Dr. Patrick Moore, former president of Greenpeace being supposedly afraid of reality as well.....
This guy ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How? How is someone who isn't vaccinated harmful to someone who is? Isn't that the whole point of vaccinations? Or, do they not work?
Vaccinations work, but they are not 100% effective. An important measure of infectious diseases is the basic reproduction number, or R-nought. This represents the average number of infections that one sick person will create. Suppose mumps has an R-nought of 5, and you have a vaccine with 90% effectiveness, then the effective R-nought, after vaccination, is 0.5.
The critical point is an R-nought of 1. If you get below that, the diseases is expected to die out over time. If it is higher, then the disease is expected to grow. Getting the value from 5 to 0.5 will make a huge difference, which you would get if everybody is vaccinated. If too few people are vaccinated, R-nought will grow, and disease can spread, and will also infect 10% of the vaccinated population.
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And, just how does the CO2 know which way to send it?
It sends the radiation in all directions. But the part that goes back down is what's contributing to greenhouse effect.
You may want to study up on how to calculate the volume of a sphere first...
Why don't you just get to the point instead ?
By the way, just did the calculation again, and it's not feet, it's meters. About 3.5 meters pre-industrial, and about 5 meters right now. Calculation is pretty simple, and does not involve volumes of spheres, just the column of air above a certain surface area, which can be assumed flat for this purpose. The idea is not to get an exact value, just an intuitive sense of proportion.
Give me a model that will accurately predict the future, I will give you a million dollars. A scientist that tells you otherwise is not a scientist.
Scientists know that the models cannot accurately predict the future, and they will tell you so. That's why they draw error bars around the expected values.
3 or 4 ft thick? At what altitude? Do you know how to calculate the volume of a sphere?
3 or 4 ft thick at standard pressure. Yes.
The concept postulating a slow-down of heat loss due to IR absorption by trace gases is totally UNPHYSICAL
I'm afraid we're going to need more than a tweet.
isn't CO2 still only on the order of 0.05% of all atmospheric gases by volume?
The only way for Earth to lose heat is to radiate it into space as infrared waves. The CO2 captures part of that energy and sends it back down. The oxygen, nitrogen and argon, which make up nearly all of the atmosphere have no effect on infrared or visible waves.
Looking at the CO2 as a percentage of the total atmosphere makes no sense. You have to look at the absolute numbers. A nice way to do that is to imagine the different gases in the atmosphere are separated into pure layers. If you do that, we would get a layer of about 4 feet of pure CO2. That's the layer that blocks the IR. Now, before the industrial age, that layer would have been about 3 feet.