hahaha! You should read NASA's website and learn the reality:
How good are we at finding and tracking NEOs? Over 2015-2016, observers discovered more than 1500 previously unknown NEOs each year. Roughly half of the known catalogue of NEOs are objects larger than about 460 feet (140 meters) in size. The estimated population of NEOs of this size is about 25,000. Current surveys are finding NEOs of this size at a rate of about 500 per year.
The 460-foot cutoff point was established by a NASA NEO survey science definition team (SDT) in 2003. The SDT determined that impacts from objects of that size would only produce regional effects, while larger objects would have corresponding wider effects such as large sub-global effects from impacts of a 984-foot (300-meter) object and global effects from 0.6 mile (1-kilometer) object impacts. In 2016, NASA appointed a new NEO survey SDT to reevaluate this cutoff point in light of research conducted and events occurring since 2003. The new SDTâ(TM)s recommendations should be available in 2017.
Ground-based telescopes alone have limitations - for instance, they can only survey the skies at night and in clear skies. Based on statistical population estimates, about 74 percent of NEOs larger than 460 feet still remain to be discovered.
What can be done to improve the NEO detection rate? Larger ground-based telescopes and a dedicated space-based infrared asteroid survey telescope would substantially increase the discovery rate and meet the goal in the NASA Authorization Act of 2005 to detect, track, catalogue, and characterize the physical characteristics of 90 percent of the NEO population down to 140 meters in size. NASAâ(TM)s currently operating NEOWISE space-based survey was not designed for this purpose. NEOWISE is a repurposed astrophysics spacecraft, and while it has made significant contributions to NEO discovery and characterization, its capabilities are limited.
bullshit, I know all the facts and the woman was a god damned moron.
"On February 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, ordered a 49-cent cup of coffee from the drive-through window of a local McDonald's restaurant located at 5001 Gibson Boulevard Southeast. Liebeck was in the passenger's seat of a 1989 Ford Probe which did not have cup holders. Her grandson parked the car so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee. Liebeck placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled the far side of the lid toward her to remove it. In the process, she spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap.[10] Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants; they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks, and groin"
oh, you mean these facts? "On February 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, ordered a 49-cent cup of coffee from the drive-through window of a local McDonald's restaurant located at 5001 Gibson Boulevard Southeast. Liebeck was in the passenger's seat of a 1989 Ford Probe which did not have cup holders. Her grandson parked the car so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee. Liebeck placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled the far side of the lid toward her to remove it. In the process, she spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap.[10] Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants; they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks, and groin"
are there really people that stupid, and they need to read a warning not to do that? They are the ones that need "caution: hot, may cause burns" on drive-thru coffee cups? how about we forego warning them and instead hope they get brain aneurysm and die before they reproduce?
it's not an issue now. Let's call the nighttime a "10" right now, peak load is a "17". Electric cars will make the night a 13 or 14...but it will not be a problem especially as it's cooler at night.
wrong, Tesla has been focused on cool expensive toys for the well-to-do (and NOT profitably!). The entire time the major automakers were working on affordable transportation the majority would want to buy and the ability to make money doing so. As many bad things I have to say about them and the dealership structure, still they are the ones solving the real problems
nonsense, the load from cars won't compare to peak daytime load. good thing cars will be charging at night, fine time to do it.
your assertion about needing to cool at night is just nonsense; transformers don't care what happened 12 hours ago , they don'thave some magic heat sink where they store the heat until they can relieve themselves in the wee hours.
false, the energy used is utterly negligible. if you paid attention at the article about it I even calculated the percent comparison to U.S. electricity consumption.....the fast answer is that it's essentially zero. Wall warts and power bricks are a bigger concern than bitcoin.
that's your opinion, if the government can pay people to do jobs that private sector is unwilling to do, there is nothing artificial about it. The money is real, the party willing to pay is real.
Not ponzi scheme since there is not once person at the top that gets all the money at any point. I don't think bitcoin is wise as investment, though mining I can see the point for the near term. Even so, it's like a futures market more than anything else.
no they're not, just because a cop has "you're fucked" engraved on his custom AR-15 doesn't mean he's eager to gun down crying drunks in their underwear
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here it's Dunkin' Donuts where the cops get their donuts, there are SIX in my suburb alone. In the city limits of Chicago there are 166.
see my other comment where I quote NASA. they don't and can't even track all the large ones.
hahaha! You should read NASA's website and learn the reality:
How good are we at finding and tracking NEOs?
Over 2015-2016, observers discovered more than 1500 previously unknown NEOs each year. Roughly half of the known catalogue of NEOs are objects larger than about 460 feet (140 meters) in size. The estimated population of NEOs of this size is about 25,000. Current surveys are finding NEOs of this size at a rate of about 500 per year.
The 460-foot cutoff point was established by a NASA NEO survey science definition team (SDT) in 2003. The SDT determined that impacts from objects of that size would only produce regional effects, while larger objects would have corresponding wider effects such as large sub-global effects from impacts of a 984-foot (300-meter) object and global effects from 0.6 mile (1-kilometer) object impacts. In 2016, NASA appointed a new NEO survey SDT to reevaluate this cutoff point in light of research conducted and events occurring since 2003. The new SDTâ(TM)s recommendations should be available in 2017.
Ground-based telescopes alone have limitations - for instance, they can only survey the skies at night and in clear skies. Based on statistical population estimates, about 74 percent of NEOs larger than 460 feet still remain to be discovered.
What can be done to improve the NEO detection rate?
Larger ground-based telescopes and a dedicated space-based infrared asteroid survey telescope would substantially increase the discovery rate and meet the goal in the NASA Authorization Act of 2005 to detect, track, catalogue, and characterize the physical characteristics of 90 percent of the NEO population down to 140 meters in size. NASAâ(TM)s currently operating NEOWISE space-based survey was not designed for this purpose. NEOWISE is a repurposed astrophysics spacecraft, and while it has made significant contributions to NEO discovery and characterization, its capabilities are limited.
from: https://www.nasa.gov/planetary...
looking at stats for patrol cars in Chicago and nearby (which have 2 or 3 operators per day), 120+ miles per day is normal
though there was an abnormal high that day, over 40 degrees F
Nope, SSL ciphers fall all the time, fresh vulnerabilities, fresh attacks. Can't assume passive snooping is impossible.
you left out where the heavy buy/sell can mean days of waiting for transactions - yeah it's liquid, like molasses in January, on Neptune
that's 91 degrees C, which is f'ing hot.
the woman put the cup between her legs and pulled the top off toward herself, getting exactly what she deserved.
bullshit, I know all the facts and the woman was a god damned moron.
"On February 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, ordered a 49-cent cup of coffee from the drive-through window of a local McDonald's restaurant located at 5001 Gibson Boulevard Southeast. Liebeck was in the passenger's seat of a 1989 Ford Probe which did not have cup holders. Her grandson parked the car so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee. Liebeck placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled the far side of the lid toward her to remove it. In the process, she spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap.[10] Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants; they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks, and groin"
oh, you mean these facts? "On February 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, ordered a 49-cent cup of coffee from the drive-through window of a local McDonald's restaurant located at 5001 Gibson Boulevard Southeast. Liebeck was in the passenger's seat of a 1989 Ford Probe which did not have cup holders. Her grandson parked the car so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her coffee. Liebeck placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled the far side of the lid toward her to remove it. In the process, she spilled the entire cup of coffee on her lap.[10] Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants; they absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks, and groin"
what a dumb-ass
hey that's mean and juvenile, orangutans are intelligent and noble primates
who said it had to be to women? maybe it was to men or sheep or sci-fi movie aliens
liar, you took it out of your pants and jacked off
are there really people that stupid, and they need to read a warning not to do that? They are the ones that need "caution: hot, may cause burns" on drive-thru coffee cups? how about we forego warning them and instead hope they get brain aneurysm and die before they reproduce?
I'd argue that the large reactor reactor designs suck the worst. laser and tokamaks are expensive failures, and ITER will be another.
a working fusion reactor won't one of these big silly monsters; it will be something in the direction of a fusor/polywell if it happens at all.
Sorry, but due to the cost of tritium, DT fusion, the only kind we can hope to do in the next 50 years, will be about $1 per KWh.
Effective fusion has been figured out long ago. The Sun fuses 93 million miles away, and we collect its energy here.
No way will earth fusion reactors compete with solar and wind.
instead, we'll be using it for spacecraft and military ships and submarines.
it's not an issue now. Let's call the nighttime a "10" right now, peak load is a "17". Electric cars will make the night a 13 or 14...but it will not be a problem especially as it's cooler at night.
wrong, Tesla has been focused on cool expensive toys for the well-to-do (and NOT profitably!). The entire time the major automakers were working on affordable transportation the majority would want to buy and the ability to make money doing so. As many bad things I have to say about them and the dealership structure, still they are the ones solving the real problems
nonsense, the load from cars won't compare to peak daytime load. good thing cars will be charging at night, fine time to do it.
your assertion about needing to cool at night is just nonsense; transformers don't care what happened 12 hours ago , they don'thave some magic heat sink where they store the heat until they can relieve themselves in the wee hours.
Ford is indeed doing all of the above, and more managers will be necessary too, and that will cost money. You are whining about nothing
no there is no difference, and there are plenty of "empty-suits" in the private sector. Nothing is artificial if there is buyer and seller for work
false, the energy used is utterly negligible. if you paid attention at the article about it I even calculated the percent comparison to U.S. electricity consumption.....the fast answer is that it's essentially zero. Wall warts and power bricks are a bigger concern than bitcoin.
that's your opinion, if the government can pay people to do jobs that private sector is unwilling to do, there is nothing artificial about it. The money is real, the party willing to pay is real.
Not ponzi scheme since there is not once person at the top that gets all the money at any point. I don't think bitcoin is wise as investment, though mining I can see the point for the near term. Even so, it's like a futures market more than anything else.
no they're not, just because a cop has "you're fucked" engraved on his custom AR-15 doesn't mean he's eager to gun down crying drunks in their underwear