Gone are the days, when pursuit of happiness was understood as a natural right granted to each human being not by their government, but by the Creator.
Yes, very long gone. They died when we gave up on hunter-gathering, settled into fixed dwellings, and the first genius figured out that the soup would taste better if the privy were downstream.
It does, huh? You don't mind the thousands-pounds piloted aircraft flying above your all day, you don't mind the trucks driving around all day (delivering the same stuff), it is the light drones, that keep you awake at night?
The airplanes flying overhead don't land in my neighborhood.
The UPS trucks park in my neighborhood according to well-tested and well-enforced procedures, just as I do.
A drone big enough to deliver, say, a laptop on my driveway is big enough to kill my dog or the neighbor's kid. Until I know that little detail has been taken care of, you're damn right I have the right to impose such a requirement. Whine about the freedom of the open range all you like; we've come too far to go back to writing our rules in blood.
What do you mean by "caught off guard?" Are you assuming that if they saw it coming, they'd shoot it down? Or would they maybe pull it over with a police blimp?
( Does Germany even have winter? I think Fahrenheit (the guy who invented the temperature scale) was German and he seemed to think that 0F was as cold as you could get, so I guess they don't have a real winter there.)
There are several folkloric versions of how he set the zero, but he didn't do it by watching a thermometer...google "frigorific mixture".
You can certainly find subzero temps in Europe if you go high enough, but Fahrenheit mostly lived and worked in the Low Countries.
Not killing innovation, requiring it. If you want to deliver packages by air to people's doorsteps, you're just going to have to invent an anti-gravity device that will do it without killing their children and dogs.
It always was: the few hundred voters who live in Deer Trail, a Colorado truckstop town, rejected the measure to authorize them. If you're one of the tourists who were conned into buying one at the truckstop anyway, you should continue on up to Wyoming where they'll be glad to sell you a stuffed jackalope head.
Gimme a break. That "package delivery" shtik was a Christmas-shopping publicity stunt. If you really believed it was going to happen, you'd be investing in pediatric and veterinary hospitals.
...I love it. There are Nissan (at least) dealers hereabouts who have occasionally priced cars over MSRP. Now that may be annoying, but it's basically legitimate, considering that "suggested" means just that. I can understand a dealer saying "We're charging you over MSRP because we can, so take it or leave it".
But these guys take it to a different level. The window sticker lists the MSRP and all the usual add-ons, and then an entry that says "[Dealername] Added Value $500". It doesn't include any of the silly crap like Scotchgarding the seats -- those are saved for the sales manager to try to force on you.
Seems like an echo of Richard Feynman's famous "I can open your safe" hobby at Los Alamos. Same method: guessing at obvious combinations like birthdates, in the 50% of cases where the lock wasn't still on the factory combination.
Well, let's see. The salinity of the oceans has a worldwide range of about 3.1 - 3.8%, with most of it in the range 3.4 - 3.7%. If you add freshwater equal to 3% of the total, you'll take roughly 1/10 of a percentage point off those figures.
Acid concentrations, of course, are much lower than salt concentrations, and the added water will likely have about the same acidity anyway. Given that the added water comes from icemelt, there will be more liquid water surface exposed to sunlight and that will likely increase the temperatures.
whatever ocean is facing the Moon at any given time will have a higher water level
The Moon creates two tidal bulges, one facing the Moon and one on the opposite side. Google "gravity gradient" for an explanation. (To put it in a very oversimplified way, the Moon's gravity is strongest on the side toward it, weakest on the opposite side, and intermediate at the center of the Earth.)
The Sun also creates a pair of bulges. It has much more mass than the Moon, but it's also a lot farther away, so the solar tides are about half as big as the lunar tides. In the course of about a day we get four high tides, two from the Moon and two from the Sun. As the relative position of the Moon changes, they slide into and out of sync; we get the highest tides when all three bodies are in a line.
The continents interact with the bulges to create a sloshing effect which greatly amplifies the tides in some places, and almost eliminates them in others.
It would indeed, if the sphere consisted of a solid, perfect sphere surrounded by water, not rotating, and not subject to the external gravitational fields of the Sun and Moon. However it meets none of those conditions: it has continents and two pairs of tidal bulges, so the water moves in a dynamic and extremely complex fashion. Remember: it's a huge mass of complex shape moving back and forth over thousands of miles.
If you could just take away the continents, and you stuck a giant dipstick in the bottom, you'd find the tidal bulges were only a matter of inches. The actual tides vary from practically nil in certain places, to +/- 25 feet in the Bay of Fundy. If you'd like to see why, jack up your car and give it an oil change -- and try to pull the bowl out from underneath without getting oil all over your driveway.
Tides are basically a sloshing effect. For a famous example, the Pacific side of the Panama Canal sees much larger tides than the Atlantic side, and has a mean sea level about 8 inches higher.
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Gone are the days, when pursuit of happiness was understood as a natural right granted to each human being not by their government, but by the Creator.
Yes, very long gone. They died when we gave up on hunter-gathering, settled into fixed dwellings, and the first genius figured out that the soup would taste better if the privy were downstream.
It does, huh? You don't mind the thousands-pounds piloted aircraft flying above your all day, you don't mind the trucks driving around all day (delivering the same stuff), it is the light drones, that keep you awake at night?
The airplanes flying overhead don't land in my neighborhood.
The UPS trucks park in my neighborhood according to well-tested and well-enforced procedures, just as I do.
A drone big enough to deliver, say, a laptop on my driveway is big enough to kill my dog or the neighbor's kid. Until I know that little detail has been taken care of, you're damn right I have the right to impose such a requirement. Whine about the freedom of the open range all you like; we've come too far to go back to writing our rules in blood.
Well, as long as they don't go eyeliner...
I'm sorry, but thanks to Richard Dawkins, atheism now has people going door to door trying to convert people. .
Where? All I get is Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Baptists.
Yes they do, but that description does not apply to the Greenpeace blimp anyway. It has both an engine and a propane burner.
What do you mean by "caught off guard?" Are you assuming that if they saw it coming, they'd shoot it down? Or would they maybe pull it over with a police blimp?
The "whole MF Sun" will not be available to you until you build a Dyson sphere. But yeah, I guess that would be an example of really WANTING to...
( Does Germany even have winter? I think Fahrenheit (the guy who invented the temperature scale) was German and he seemed to think that 0F was as cold as you could get, so I guess they don't have a real winter there.)
There are several folkloric versions of how he set the zero, but he didn't do it by watching a thermometer...google "frigorific mixture".
You can certainly find subzero temps in Europe if you go high enough, but Fahrenheit mostly lived and worked in the Low Countries.
Accelerating energy -- what a concept.
Not killing innovation, requiring it. If you want to deliver packages by air to people's doorsteps, you're just going to have to invent an anti-gravity device that will do it without killing their children and dogs.
I guess my drone hunting license is useless....
It always was: the few hundred voters who live in Deer Trail, a Colorado truckstop town, rejected the measure to authorize them. If you're one of the tourists who were conned into buying one at the truckstop anyway, you should continue on up to Wyoming where they'll be glad to sell you a stuffed jackalope head.
...and I'll bet the filthy infidel doesn't believe we're gonna get flying cars, either.
Gimme a break. That "package delivery" shtik was a Christmas-shopping publicity stunt. If you really believed it was going to happen, you'd be investing in pediatric and veterinary hospitals.
Ummm, you're aware you're talking about a 27MHz SSB-AM system interfering with a 2.4 GHz spread-spectrum PCM system, right?
That vibration you feel is your lawyer trembling with anticipation of a paycheck.
Because, "You cannot cheat an honest man."
Of course you can. Haven't you ever been shortchanged? You can't hustle an honest man.
Hustling is making the victim think he's cheating you.
...I love it. There are Nissan (at least) dealers hereabouts who have occasionally priced cars over MSRP. Now that may be annoying, but it's basically legitimate, considering that "suggested" means just that. I can understand a dealer saying "We're charging you over MSRP because we can, so take it or leave it".
But these guys take it to a different level. The window sticker lists the MSRP and all the usual add-ons, and then an entry that says "[Dealername] Added Value $500". It doesn't include any of the silly crap like Scotchgarding the seats -- those are saved for the sales manager to try to force on you.
At least give him some credit for not saying it should be Prii, as if "-i" were a universal Latin plural for "-us".
Buddy of mine went to the U of Miami where the Marine Biology Dept was always irritated by that. They used to rail against "octopi" for "octopus".
Seems like an echo of Richard Feynman's famous "I can open your safe" hobby at Los Alamos. Same method: guessing at obvious combinations like birthdates, in the 50% of cases where the lock wasn't still on the factory combination.
Well, let's see. The salinity of the oceans has a worldwide range of about 3.1 - 3.8%, with most of it in the range 3.4 - 3.7%. If you add freshwater equal to 3% of the total, you'll take roughly 1/10 of a percentage point off those figures.
Acid concentrations, of course, are much lower than salt concentrations, and the added water will likely have about the same acidity anyway. Given that the added water comes from icemelt, there will be more liquid water surface exposed to sunlight and that will likely increase the temperatures.
whatever ocean is facing the Moon at any given time will have a higher water level
The Moon creates two tidal bulges, one facing the Moon and one on the opposite side. Google "gravity gradient" for an explanation. (To put it in a very oversimplified way, the Moon's gravity is strongest on the side toward it, weakest on the opposite side, and intermediate at the center of the Earth.)
The Sun also creates a pair of bulges. It has much more mass than the Moon, but it's also a lot farther away, so the solar tides are about half as big as the lunar tides. In the course of about a day we get four high tides, two from the Moon and two from the Sun. As the relative position of the Moon changes, they slide into and out of sync; we get the highest tides when all three bodies are in a line.
The continents interact with the bulges to create a sloshing effect which greatly amplifies the tides in some places, and almost eliminates them in others.
Well, yes...it's a cut in the civil engineering sense, and its excavation was paid for and supervised by the federal government.
It would indeed, if the sphere consisted of a solid, perfect sphere surrounded by water, not rotating, and not subject to the external gravitational fields of the Sun and Moon. However it meets none of those conditions: it has continents and two pairs of tidal bulges, so the water moves in a dynamic and extremely complex fashion. Remember: it's a huge mass of complex shape moving back and forth over thousands of miles.
If you could just take away the continents, and you stuck a giant dipstick in the bottom, you'd find the tidal bulges were only a matter of inches. The actual tides vary from practically nil in certain places, to +/- 25 feet in the Bay of Fundy. If you'd like to see why, jack up your car and give it an oil change -- and try to pull the bowl out from underneath without getting oil all over your driveway.
Tides are basically a sloshing effect. For a famous example, the Pacific side of the Panama Canal sees much larger tides than the Atlantic side, and has a mean sea level about 8 inches higher.
Are you commenting on "Jack Russell Terrorist" or "furball"? Both of them are common terms and can be googled...no auto-correct involved.