That may be why the US has never been devastated many times.
Don't congratulate yourself on geography. You've got the Atlantic on the East and the Pacific on the west. No one is goiong to roll tanks over your borders.
Has anyone repaid America for anything America has done for them
Who do you think is paying for your current account deficit? The rest of the world is pouring billions into the US EVERY DAY to support your spending on military adventures and tax cuts. Enjoy it while you can, it's not going to last much longer.
I say we tell the Russians to go screw off and not let them use the 90%+ of the space station that we funded.
"Use it" for what? Taking tourists on junkets? Nothing of any use has ever been done on the ISS (well, maybe something has, but nothing that couldn't have been done at 1% of the cost with a normal satellite). The ISS was a fun idea, until it went over budget by two orders of magnitude, but purely symbolic in value.
Tourist areas all over the world manage this without PDAs. By having signs in a second language, using the latin alphabet.
It's a lot easier to give out a few hundred, or even thousand, PDAs than trying to get English signs up in 100 million shops (not to mention taxis, buses, trains, ferries). Even in recently-British Hong Kong, most small restaurants don't have any English signs or menus, for instance.
Does it run Linux?
And thank God: "PDAs containing Chinese, Korean and English software", so old Koreans will be able to send email to their Soviet Russian friends. And if they're in a tour group, they could form a Beowulf Cluster.
I got my figure from radio. Where'd you get yours?
Me too, but I think you misheard. A brief search turns up this AFP story: "In London British charities said they had already received 16.5 million pounds (28.9 million dollars) in donations, more than matching the 15 million pledged by the government and thought to be a record for a disaster appeal." So in total that's already almost $60m.
Four or so in the car. Driver put forth the proposition that the population of the earth really needed to be reduced (for all the usual leftist and envirowacko reasons).
I don't know how this is considered a "leftist" position. After all, Adolf's Final Solution was along these lines, he's generally considered somewhat right of centre. Genghis Khan also practiced genocide, and his policies would fiot right in with the current administration.
But seriously, don't lump everything you disagree with into one amorphous Axis of Evil/Commie/Greenie/Gay/Muslim/Atheist/United Nations conspiracy. The world is more complicated than Us and Them.
escape to mongolia. no hurricanes, no sand storms, no tsunami, no earthquakes, no volcanoes.
They do have Earthquakes: "An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale hit Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on 16 Aug 2003. Considered the worst earthquake to strike Inner Mongolia in 700 years, it has caused at least 4 deaths and more than 1,000 injuries. More than 50,000 houses have collapsed, and over 80,000 houses have been seriously damaged."
40km isn't that far to go.
An Olympic sprinter like Donovan Bailey can run >40km an hour. Even a fat geek like you could probably make it in two or three.
Maybe instead of the 100 metres sprint, you should consider the Marathon, 42 km, for which the current record is 2:04. The first Marathon of the modern Olympics in 1896 had a winning time of 3:45.
Riding my bicycle at a comfortable pace the speedo is about 25 kph; I might be able to sustain 35 for a couple of hours I think. (Air resistance is the limiting factor for bikes.) Escaping from a city a small fat tyred bike would be best, except you'd probably get bike-jacked in minutes.
as a means to be self reliant India did not collaborate with the Pacific warning system. Had we been subscribers to it, we could have saved a lot many people.
How would a Pacific warning system have helped? The tsunami was in the Indian Ocean.
I wish people would get this straight. NYC isn't all of NY. NYC is only a few feet off the ground, in which case you climb to the fourth or fifth floor and watch.
It is thought that the tsunami will be caused by a volcanic eruption. We usually get a lot of warning of those, so people could be put on high alert during an eruption. There would probably be additional warning before the landslide starts.
Having read TFAs:
1) There is minimal monitoring in place
2) The landslide would take about 90 seconds. The slab of the volcan is precariously perched now and any shock would set it sliding.
I have to wonder if ther is anything at all that could be done to reduce the effect -- huge seawalls? Chipping away at the slab to let small parts slide in? Probably would be considerd an unacceptable risk if possible at all. If we can luck out for a century or two, there should be technology to do somethng obout it.
Well this most recent disaster was a 9R. So I'd say yes, an 11R (about 100 times the 9R) is at least theoretically possible.
Not on this planet.
Measuring Earthquake Magnitudes: 'It seems that earthquakes on Earth simply can't get bigger than around Mw = 9.5. (That means the whole premise of the TV series 10.5 is bogus.) A piece of rock can store up only so much strain energy before it ruptures, so the size of a quake depends strictly on how much rock--how many kilometers of fault length--can rupture at once. The Chile Trench, where the 1960 quake occurred, is the longest straight fault in the world. The only way to get more energy is with an asteroid impact.'
US Geological Survey: 'The idea of a "Mega-Quake" - an earthquake of magnitude 10 or larger - while theoretically possible--is very highly unlikely. Earthquake magnitude is based in part on the length of faults -- the longer the fault, the larger the earthquake. The simple truth is that there are no known faults capable of generating a magnitude 10 or larger "mega-quake."'
So where does it say they're going to use bombs? I think you're confused "the article" with "the Bruce Willis movie".
- and i also stated i was doing something else at the same time . stop assuming
Let's see, a bunch of amatures want to deflect an asteroit [b][i]toward[/i][/b] the earth??? And then they wanna start de-orbiting pieces of it?!
No, the submitter made all that up. Read the website, they want to nudge a small asteroid, one that's already safe, to test the technology. Nothing is comeing close to Earth. Nothng is being cut up and sold on eBay.
Too bad the "editors" don't RTFAs before posting troll articles like this.
For Christ's sake, people, write something useful.
Look at the guy's site before you spout off. He has a lot of other software, most of it related to graphics. And MailList, like any mailing software, could be used for spamming, but its features seem more designed for (legit) mailings, discussion lists, etc. I don't think it has stealth features, to hide the sender, add chaff to confuse filters, and other such that would mark it as evil by design.
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Don't congratulate yourself on geography. You've got the Atlantic on the East and the Pacific on the west. No one is goiong to roll tanks over your borders.
Did Werner von Braun have an unlisted number?
Who do you think is paying for your current account deficit? The rest of the world is pouring billions into the US EVERY DAY to support your spending on military adventures and tax cuts. Enjoy it while you can, it's not going to last much longer.
"Use it" for what? Taking tourists on junkets? Nothing of any use has ever been done on the ISS (well, maybe something has, but nothing that couldn't have been done at 1% of the cost with a normal satellite). The ISS was a fun idea, until it went over budget by two orders of magnitude, but purely symbolic in value.
Shit, according to these screenshots, some species of Windows, including of course IE.
Shit, according to thesea href="http://www.narita-airport.or.jp/e-navi/funct ion.html">screenshots, some species of Windows, including of course IE.
It's a lot easier to give out a few hundred, or even thousand, PDAs than trying to get English signs up in 100 million shops (not to mention taxis, buses, trains, ferries). Even in recently-British Hong Kong, most small restaurants don't have any English signs or menus, for instance.
Does it run Linux?
And thank God: "PDAs containing Chinese, Korean and English software", so old Koreans will be able to send email to their Soviet Russian friends. And if they're in a tour group, they could form a Beowulf Cluster.
Me too, but I think you misheard. A brief search turns up this AFP story: "In London British charities said they had already received 16.5 million pounds (28.9 million dollars) in donations, more than matching the 15 million pledged by the government and thought to be a record for a disaster appeal." So in total that's already almost $60m.
Is a game show "stuff that matters"?
Over $29 million so far.
I don't know how this is considered a "leftist" position. After all, Adolf's Final Solution was along these lines, he's generally considered somewhat right of centre. Genghis Khan also practiced genocide, and his policies would fiot right in with the current administration.
But seriously, don't lump everything you disagree with into one amorphous Axis of Evil/Commie/Greenie/Gay/Muslim/Atheist/United Nations conspiracy. The world is more complicated than Us and Them.
They do have Earthquakes: "An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale hit Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on 16 Aug 2003. Considered the worst earthquake to strike Inner Mongolia in 700 years, it has caused at least 4 deaths and more than 1,000 injuries. More than 50,000 houses have collapsed, and over 80,000 houses have been seriously damaged."
And pretty bad Snowstorms.
Maybe instead of the 100 metres sprint, you should consider the Marathon, 42 km, for which the current record is 2:04. The first Marathon of the modern Olympics in 1896 had a winning time of 3:45.
Riding my bicycle at a comfortable pace the speedo is about 25 kph; I might be able to sustain 35 for a couple of hours I think. (Air resistance is the limiting factor for bikes.) Escaping from a city a small fat tyred bike would be best, except you'd probably get bike-jacked in minutes.
How would a Pacific warning system have helped? The tsunami was in the Indian Ocean.
Watch the buildings fall down until yours goes.
RTFA. Or even the Slashdot summary.
Having read TFAs:
1) There is minimal monitoring in place
2) The landslide would take about 90 seconds. The slab of the volcan is precariously perched now and any shock would set it sliding.
I have to wonder if ther is anything at all that could be done to reduce the effect -- huge seawalls? Chipping away at the slab to let small parts slide in? Probably would be considerd an unacceptable risk if possible at all. If we can luck out for a century or two, there should be technology to do somethng obout it.
Not on this planet.
Measuring Earthquake Magnitudes: 'It seems that earthquakes on Earth simply can't get bigger than around Mw = 9.5. (That means the whole premise of the TV series 10.5 is bogus.) A piece of rock can store up only so much strain energy before it ruptures, so the size of a quake depends strictly on how much rock--how many kilometers of fault length--can rupture at once. The Chile Trench, where the 1960 quake occurred, is the longest straight fault in the world. The only way to get more energy is with an asteroid impact.'
US Geological Survey: 'The idea of a "Mega-Quake" - an earthquake of magnitude 10 or larger - while theoretically possible--is very highly unlikely. Earthquake magnitude is based in part on the length of faults -- the longer the fault, the larger the earthquake. The simple truth is that there are no known faults capable of generating a magnitude 10 or larger "mega-quake."'
So where does it say they're going to use bombs? I think you're confused "the article" with "the Bruce Willis movie". - and i also stated i was doing something else at the same time . stop assuming
I'll assume you're a troll as well as an idiot.
Bye.
No. You've posted a dozen comments but never bothered to read the fucking article.
No, the submitter made all that up. Read the website, they want to nudge a small asteroid, one that's already safe, to test the technology. Nothing is comeing close to Earth. Nothng is being cut up and sold on eBay.
Too bad the "editors" don't RTFAs before posting troll articles like this.
Look at the guy's site before you spout off. He has a lot of other software, most of it related to graphics. And MailList, like any mailing software, could be used for spamming, but its features seem more designed for (legit) mailings, discussion lists, etc. I don't think it has stealth features, to hide the sender, add chaff to confuse filters, and other such that would mark it as evil by design.
I Googled for "MailList King Pro", one of his products, and most of the hits were for serial numbers and cracks...
It's not impossible to use "queue" here, but I think you meant "cue".
queue. A line of people, vehicles, etc., awaiting their turn to proceed
cue. A particular word or phrase in a play etc. which serves as a signal to another actor to enter or begin a speech.