I had the same question, honestly. But it might have some benefits...
A cargo ship has a top speed of under 25MPH (20 knots). A Class 5 freight train can hit 80 MPH and there's no *technical* reason why they couldn't go even faster. Even with the increase in distance by taking the long way around, you can maybe reduce transit time. Such trains could also load and unload deep inland, closer to where the cargo is needed, eliminating multiple handling steps.
I still don't think it's a *good* idea, but it's slightly less crazy than it might initially sound. =Smidge=
How well maintained is the rail network in the USA? Can it actually handle this kind of traffic?
I doubt they would ship goods in trucks, though. I suspect the bridge would include many rail tracks. My understanding is that China has interest in a high speed rail line from northeastern China to Alaska. That said, I thought China was interested in a tunnel rather than a bridge. That might be cheaper.
The occasional labor strike at the west coast ports and the resulting backlog doesn't help either. Alternative routes may be worth the money for the Chinese to get their products to U.S. consumers.
The USA can either give Canada back that coastal strip of British Columbia that was expropriated by the UK and gifted to the USA to pay off war debts OR the US can expect to pay very heavy tolls for use of Canadian roads to transport the goods coming over this bridge. Eh.
There sure has been lots of discrimination based on race. However, there's a difference between discrimination and the institutionalized racism through slavery and Jim Crow laws that have combined for centuries of oppression. Let's say that Kim Jong-Un was dethroned today in North Korea and a democracy was implemented immediately. Do you honestly believe that North Korea would immediately prosper? It would take a long time to recover from the damage done by the dictatorship. While other races and ethnicities have prospered more quickly in the US, they also haven't faced the prolonged severe racism that African-Americans have. You're a troll because you're intentionally leaving out those important facts.
Democracy won't necessarily lead to instant prosperity???! Heretic!
There are laws against hitchhiking in many states because it is considered dangerous. Many people are killed each year from it. While l personally think this is a great social experiment, the outcome should not be unexpected. While most of us would love to pick up a hitchhiking robot, robots have yet to their respect and place among humans.
"Hitchhiking is dangerous so we make it illegal, that way if you hitchhike in our state the police will taze you, rob you and put you in a cell with Bubba. Have a nice day."
I wonder if a company like IBM could make good money reselling unused IP addresses in their 9.x.x.x block until everyone finally migrates to IPv6. There is no way that they need that many public facing IP addresses.
I heard that ARIN will be taking measures against people profiteering from this.
You know, I think Asian women are mostly beautiful. Especially Japanese. But they almost always have teeny tiny titties. And I just can't deal with that. Too bad, they almost had it all. I hear their men have small penises too.
Go to any torrent search site. Search for JAV. Download video. Have your preconceptions about small Japanese titties blown away.
Shooting at the sky is bad. Falling bullets can kill.
This is a kind of overstated "fact" not really a myth but not wholly true. A bullet fired up at 90 degrees and then falling at terminal velocity is unlikely to kill a healthy adult
So we don't have to worry about kids or the elderly being hit by them, just healthy adults.
forewarning: IDCWYDWOAITD (I Don't Care What You Do With Other Adults In The Dark)
If it wasn't genetic, that would make it their decision. Would that make them "Pro-Choice"?
If it wasn't genetic it'd make 'gay pride' make a lot more sense, you know, taking pride in having made the life choice to be gay (being proud of an accident of birth is just dumb, may as well be proud of... having blue eyes).
As it is it really should be termed 'gay shamelessness':P 'Shameless gay parade', waaaay better!
Not just Western science. Every culture on earth has some taboo on examining human psychology and physiology because of sensitivities, especially in the areas of sex and race. However this is constrained solely to homo sapiens studies. But I love how you somehow extrapolate this to troll physics research. Is the watercooler on the third floor still broken, Sergey?
Actually not every culture. I'd be more inclined to faith in Asian scientists when it comes to gender issues. Climate change though, thats just not an area for science anywhere really.
> IMO, as someone with a background in science, scepticism is the only logical option for science. I'm sceptical of all scientific results. Thats how progress is made, by not taking things at face value.
As anything in this life, scepticism is very useful during a phase when proofs are sought. If such proofs are examined and deemed valid, it would be foolish to continue using scepticism. Though, that is exactly what we observe -- even if just as trolling.
Of course, if one thinks like the original Skeptics, which seemed to believe "no real knowledge is ever possible", then it would be alright to doubt everything all the time.
(I was about to blast English for being different from my language and cripple words, but for once it seems "skeptics" is a more correct derivation from Greek roots... well, one cannot always win, I suppose).
Even when the results are examined and deemed valid one must always be sceptical otherwise theres the risk that some discovery that would find the flaw in these results might be ignored.
It's amazing how little science exists within science these days. Everyone has lost touch with reality.
Western science is very unreliable. Take sexuality for example. It would be impossible these days, in the western world, for a scientist to announce a result that showed that homosexuality is, in some cases, not something that someone is born with. They'd never work in science again no matter how valid their results. There are certain areas in which western science is just not allowed to meddle. Our understanding of climate change is hopelessly fucked up and its doubtful there will ever be any useful scientific results on this from the west. Its all confirmation bias and covering up/ignoring unfavourable results.
The physics are most certainly NOT uncontroversial.
If this thing were to truly work, it would have insane implications to some basic assumptions about the universe - namely about the very laws of physics themselves.
This device working means that the laws of physics do vary by translation, which goes against every single other observation ever made. The science behind it is most certainly not clearly sound. Skepticism is the only logical option for this thing.
IMO, as someone with a background in science, scepticism is the only logical option for science. I'm sceptical of all scientific results. Thats how progress is made, by not taking things at face value.
I don't care about your excuses. I think you should be banned from flying over a property if the property owner deems he doesn't want you flying over his property, and further, I think a property owner should have the right to shoot your toy out of the sky and send you a bill for the bullet. I'd actually make it a criminal charge with a minimum $50,000 fine. I'd make it so expensive and difficult for you to play with your little kiddy toys over my property that you'd finally just go fucking home.
Self entitled assholes like you have made it clear the only way to deal with drones is to make it so damaging for assholes like you to even fly one that you find some other toys to play with
There'd be a lot fewer wedding party fatalities if Afghanistan implemented this law...
Sadly, New Zealand is becoming more and more over-regulated all the time. It used to have a refreshing lack of bureaucracy compared to, say, the UK - but now it's the other way around.
All of the primary English speaking countries are going down the same over-regulated path; Canada, USA, UK, Australia, NZ. They may as well be the same country as far as I'm concerned. Stifling, oppressive, paranoid, reactionary. Its times like this I'm really sad that I'm a native English speaker. I guess its time to start learning Spanish or something.
The study actually shows that the Americas and Australia each have inhabitants with DNA in common... because both places were wandered to from elsewhere in Asia. It's not Aussie DNA in the Americans, it's the same Asian DNA in Australia and the Americas.
I'm wondering if what they've found is actually Denisovan DNA. The Australian aborigines and Papuans have very high proportions of Denisovan genes.
Desktop software is really horrible these days. To preserve your freedoms, use Chrome OS or Android and organize your collaborations and activities over Facebook. Capitalist computing is much more trustworthy than that evil communist Linux thing.
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I had the same question, honestly. But it might have some benefits...
A cargo ship has a top speed of under 25MPH (20 knots). A Class 5 freight train can hit 80 MPH and there's no *technical* reason why they couldn't go even faster. Even with the increase in distance by taking the long way around, you can maybe reduce transit time. Such trains could also load and unload deep inland, closer to where the cargo is needed, eliminating multiple handling steps.
I still don't think it's a *good* idea, but it's slightly less crazy than it might initially sound.
=Smidge=
How well maintained is the rail network in the USA? Can it actually handle this kind of traffic?
I doubt they would ship goods in trucks, though. I suspect the bridge would include many rail tracks. My understanding is that China has interest in a high speed rail line from northeastern China to Alaska. That said, I thought China was interested in a tunnel rather than a bridge. That might be cheaper.
I just assumed that trains were banned in the USA
But that seems like a stretch given the effective shipping to ports on the west coast.
The west coast ports for North America. are maxed out and need modernization to accommodate larger shipping vessals.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/38e0825e-c677-11e4-a13d-00144feab7de.html
The Chinese are also spending $50B to build the Nicaragua Canal in Central America to bypass the west coast ports.
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/nicaragua_canal_a_giant_project_with_huge_environmental_costs/2871/
The occasional labor strike at the west coast ports and the resulting backlog doesn't help either. Alternative routes may be worth the money for the Chinese to get their products to U.S. consumers.
The USA can either give Canada back that coastal strip of British Columbia that was expropriated by the UK and gifted to the USA to pay off war debts OR the US can expect to pay very heavy tolls for use of Canadian roads to transport the goods coming over this bridge. Eh.
AfriNIC has a shitload of addresses it seems. Maybe they could surrender some or start setting up huge IP infrastructure and capitalize on it.
I imagine that there will soon be a few Murcan carrier battle groups off of Africa, this stuff will be more precious than oil!
There sure has been lots of discrimination based on race. However, there's a difference between discrimination and the institutionalized racism through slavery and Jim Crow laws that have combined for centuries of oppression. Let's say that Kim Jong-Un was dethroned today in North Korea and a democracy was implemented immediately. Do you honestly believe that North Korea would immediately prosper? It would take a long time to recover from the damage done by the dictatorship. While other races and ethnicities have prospered more quickly in the US, they also haven't faced the prolonged severe racism that African-Americans have. You're a troll because you're intentionally leaving out those important facts.
Democracy won't necessarily lead to instant prosperity???! Heretic!
There are laws against hitchhiking in many states because it is considered dangerous. Many people are killed each year from it. While l personally think this is a great social experiment, the outcome should not be unexpected. While most of us would love to pick up a hitchhiking robot, robots have yet to their respect and place among humans.
"Hitchhiking is dangerous so we make it illegal, that way if you hitchhike in our state the police will taze you, rob you and put you in a cell with Bubba. Have a nice day."
I wonder if a company like IBM could make good money reselling unused IP addresses in their 9.x.x.x block until everyone finally migrates to IPv6. There is no way that they need that many public facing IP addresses.
I heard that ARIN will be taking measures against people profiteering from this.
'My Computer' doesn't exist on Windows 10.
'This PC' has replaced it. Presumably if you buy a phone, explorer shows 'This Phone' or similar.
Wow thats just great, so Microsoft are no longer claiming ownership of my computer! Oh... wait...
When will Microsoft realize we own the computers, we are ultimately the ones who make decisions about the computers
Did you never wonder who the 'My' in 'My Computer' is referring?
Heres a hint; its not you.
Heres another hint; it originally meant "My, Bill Gates's, Computer
Windows 3.1 did not have a "Start" menu. Windows 3.1 had the "Programs" folder, on an otherwise blank desktop.
A lot like an iPhone. No widgets, nothing complicated, just a bunch of icons.
You know, I think Asian women are mostly beautiful. Especially Japanese. But they almost always have teeny tiny titties. And I just can't deal with that. Too bad, they almost had it all. I hear their men have small penises too.
Go to any torrent search site. Search for JAV. Download video. Have your preconceptions about small Japanese titties blown away.
Shooting at the sky is bad. Falling bullets can kill.
This is a kind of overstated "fact" not really a myth but not wholly true. A bullet fired up at 90 degrees and then falling at terminal velocity is unlikely to kill a healthy adult
So we don't have to worry about kids or the elderly being hit by them, just healthy adults.
forewarning: IDCWYDWOAITD (I Don't Care What You Do With Other Adults In The Dark)
If it wasn't genetic, that would make it their decision.
Would that make them "Pro-Choice"?
If it wasn't genetic it'd make 'gay pride' make a lot more sense, you know, taking pride in having made the life choice to be gay (being proud of an accident of birth is just dumb, may as well be proud of... having blue eyes).
As it is it really should be termed 'gay shamelessness' :P 'Shameless gay parade', waaaay better!
Not just Western science. Every culture on earth has some taboo on examining human psychology and physiology because of sensitivities, especially in the areas of sex and race. However this is constrained solely to homo sapiens studies. But I love how you somehow extrapolate this to troll physics research. Is the watercooler on the third floor still broken, Sergey?
Actually not every culture. I'd be more inclined to faith in Asian scientists when it comes to gender issues. Climate change though, thats just not an area for science anywhere really.
> IMO, as someone with a background in science, scepticism is the only logical option for science. I'm sceptical of all scientific results. Thats how progress is made, by not taking things at face value.
As anything in this life, scepticism is very useful during a phase when proofs are sought. If such proofs are examined and deemed valid, it would be foolish to continue using scepticism. Though, that is exactly what we observe -- even if just as trolling.
Of course, if one thinks like the original Skeptics, which seemed to believe "no real knowledge is ever possible", then it would be alright to doubt everything all the time.
(I was about to blast English for being different from my language and cripple words, but for once it seems "skeptics" is a more correct derivation from Greek roots... well, one cannot always win, I suppose).
Even when the results are examined and deemed valid one must always be sceptical otherwise theres the risk that some discovery that would find the flaw in these results might be ignored.
It's amazing how little science exists within science these days. Everyone has lost touch with reality.
Western science is very unreliable. Take sexuality for example. It would be impossible these days, in the western world, for a scientist to announce a result that showed that homosexuality is, in some cases, not something that someone is born with. They'd never work in science again no matter how valid their results. There are certain areas in which western science is just not allowed to meddle. Our understanding of climate change is hopelessly fucked up and its doubtful there will ever be any useful scientific results on this from the west. Its all confirmation bias and covering up/ignoring unfavourable results.
I thought that was the Q thruster, it's this the one that bounces photons around in an asymmetric cavity?
The Q's thruster got Janeway all excited...
The physics are most certainly NOT uncontroversial.
If this thing were to truly work, it would have insane implications to some basic assumptions about the universe - namely about the very laws of physics themselves.
This device working means that the laws of physics do vary by translation, which goes against every single other observation ever made. The science behind it is most certainly not clearly sound. Skepticism is the only logical option for this thing.
IMO, as someone with a background in science, scepticism is the only logical option for science. I'm sceptical of all scientific results. Thats how progress is made, by not taking things at face value.
Dunno, maybe Spain? :D
I don't care about your excuses. I think you should be banned from flying over a property if the property owner deems he doesn't want you flying over his property, and further, I think a property owner should have the right to shoot your toy out of the sky and send you a bill for the bullet. I'd actually make it a criminal charge with a minimum $50,000 fine. I'd make it so expensive and difficult for you to play with your little kiddy toys over my property that you'd finally just go fucking home.
Self entitled assholes like you have made it clear the only way to deal with drones is to make it so damaging for assholes like you to even fly one that you find some other toys to play with
There'd be a lot fewer wedding party fatalities if Afghanistan implemented this law...
TBF, the guy in the Huff Po story you linked to only killed himself
yeah but in NZ you aren't allowed to kill yourself, its against the law!
Classic....
Yea sure, so it followed you home and ate your homework too....
Most of the drones in use today aren't 'drones' they are RC toys. Now a real drone, programmable and autonomous... that could follow you around...
Sadly, New Zealand is becoming more and more over-regulated all the time. It used to have a refreshing lack of bureaucracy compared to, say, the UK - but now it's the other way around.
All of the primary English speaking countries are going down the same over-regulated path; Canada, USA, UK, Australia, NZ. They may as well be the same country as far as I'm concerned. Stifling, oppressive, paranoid, reactionary. Its times like this I'm really sad that I'm a native English speaker. I guess its time to start learning Spanish or something.
The study actually shows that the Americas and Australia each have inhabitants with DNA in common ... because both places were wandered to from elsewhere in Asia. It's not Aussie DNA in the Americans, it's the same Asian DNA in Australia and the Americas.
I'm wondering if what they've found is actually Denisovan DNA. The Australian aborigines and Papuans have very high proportions of Denisovan genes.
Desktop software is really horrible these days. To preserve your freedoms, use Chrome OS or Android and organize your collaborations and activities over Facebook. Capitalist computing is much more trustworthy than that evil communist Linux thing.
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