'The primary criteria for the shuttles' location will be the stability of the site and whether the chosen institutions can exhibit them for the next 500 years.'"
That is just a knee-jerk reaction to what happened to the Russian space shuttle. After retirement (after one flight) it was stored in less-than-stable circumstances in Kazakhstan.
BTW, the Russian shuttle was largely a copy of the US shuttle, except they added some safety features. When the Russians start making safety improvements to your design, you know you have a problem.
not if the soldier is a US soldier. More often than not, the guys shooting at them can't shoot for shit,
In the current wars it seems the guys shooting at US soldiers are most often US soldiers. One car backfires, and a dozen 18yo conscr^Wrecruits are panic firing in all directions. They might have a lower (non-IED) casualty rate in Iraq if they all wore florescent hunting jackets.
Interesting, but silage is hardly the same thing as grain-fed. Maize is a grass, remember. And grain (aka corn) is the seed part of that plant.
Corn-fed means feeding on the grain only. Its confusing as in the US, corn is now used to mean the maize plant.
Why do you think most mass produced food uses corn syrup instead of sugar?
Only in the US. Corn syrup is unheard of in other places. I'd like to blame HFCS for US obesity, but we seem to be getting nearly as fat over here without it.
Silage is made from grass around here (Australia). It is just an alternative to hay, isn't it? Useful in seasons when the grass is not growing so fast.
Do the maths. e.g. 1000kg x 9.8 (gravity) x 6% gradient x (2km/hr)0.55m/s = 325W. Assuming perfect efficiency. And how long can a one ton cow walk uphill? For 2kW it would be charging up.
Woosh! only in the US, where the corn lobby gets massive subsidies from taxpayers. Its like the old days in the USSR when bread was subsidised, and so cheap that people fed it to their cows. Such a waste.
No way can a cow do 2kW for 8 hours. How long have you seen a cow run for? A fit human can do maybe 200W on a pedal generator, so 2kW is a lot even for a bovine. Its nearly 3 horsepower. Horses can run better than cows, but still not for hours solid. Maybe if we bred a billion Clydesdale horses, it might put a small dent in global energy needs.
but isn't the percentage of black children among all children more or less proportional to the percentage of all black people among all people?
That is nowhere near true. I don't know about the US, but globally, black parents have a much higher birth rate and lower life expectancy. Therefore the average age is much lower, and more kids to adults. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid
Only 8 hrs? You didn't even RTFS. As above, $10/day can go a long way in some parts of China, but don't try it in Shanghai. If you are working 15 hrs/ day, you don't have any time to spend it anyway.
Anyway, the problem is not wages, it is working hours and conditions. The laws are enough, but not enforced.
did the test, and they say: "Most respondents find it easier to associate Aboriginal Australians with Bad and White Australians with Good compared to the reverse."
I suspect the results would be much stronger if they used modern photos, rather than archival B&W photos of full-bloods.
Thanks for the link. The results of course are blindly obvious: people have preference for young, thin, fair-skinned faces. White or Asian is better than black. Hetero/homo etc. Which just means we all need to make a conscious effort to treat individuals fairly.
Very interesting test, but hardly for "racism". Are they saying that even black Americans have a preference for white faces?
And how would the results be if they used black African faces, rather than black American? Some of those a.a. faces in the test were just plain ugly.
I wish there was an Australian version of this test, so I can get my friends who claim they have no racial bias towards Aboriginals to prove it.:)
Fair suck of the saveloy - even we Aussies get confused on that one. A lot of email gets lost/delayed because they refuse to register @defense.gov.au and redirect it.
About a dozen Americans were killed by the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
And how many were dying of starvation or beatings in the POW camps or forced marches for every day the war continued? Does it compare to the 26,000 US casualties in Iwo Jima?
Seriously, the universe is expanding, and not in a simple way explainable by the classical mechanics you have used. Its all in the usual resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
Over 10 years ago, it was apparent that Saddam Hussein had to be removed from power.
Why oh WHY? He was keeping the peace domestically. His military was already neutered, and no longer threatened neighbours, or the oil flow to the US.
Kurds controlled the North. Containment was trivially cheap and effective compared to full invasion and occupation. Tell me again what has been achieved by removing Saddam?
How can we observe 46 billion light years in a universe that is only 13-20 billion years old?
Because the universe is expanding. It used to be a lot smaller. With a big telescope we can see the young stars flying away from the centre of the big bang. Even though we cannot see them "now" we can observe them as they were billions of years ago. The most distant star visible is Merda Taurus, now nearly 60b ly away, .
The odds that there isn't another populated planet (or a few hundred thousand of them) is pretty slim.
Pure speculation! How can you possibly know the odds of intelligent life out there when we have zero samples. Earth does not count - observer bias. For all you know, intelligent civilizations are 10^18 light years apart. Or 100 light years, but the only ones to survive are the ones smart enough to keep radio silence. We don't have the data.
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four fully-armed intercontinental nuclear cruise missiles.
The fact that no current known cruise missiles have more than 1000km detracts from the credibility of your anecdote.
That is just a knee-jerk reaction to what happened to the Russian space shuttle. After retirement (after one flight) it was stored in less-than-stable circumstances in Kazakhstan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)#Destruction
http://www.buran.ru/images/jpg/bbur89.jpg
BTW, the Russian shuttle was largely a copy of the US shuttle, except they added some safety features. When the Russians start making safety improvements to your design, you know you have a problem.
not if the soldier is a US soldier. More often than not, the guys shooting at them can't shoot for shit,
In the current wars it seems the guys shooting at US soldiers are most often US soldiers. One car backfires, and a dozen 18yo conscr^Wrecruits are panic firing in all directions.
They might have a lower (non-IED) casualty rate in Iraq if they all wore florescent hunting jackets.
Interesting, but silage is hardly the same thing as grain-fed. Maize is a grass, remember. And grain (aka corn) is the seed part of that plant.
Corn-fed means feeding on the grain only. Its confusing as in the US, corn is now used to mean the maize plant.
Why do you think most mass produced food uses corn syrup instead of sugar?
Only in the US. Corn syrup is unheard of in other places. I'd like to blame HFCS for US obesity, but we seem to be getting nearly as fat over here without it.
Silage is made from grass around here (Australia). It is just an alternative to hay, isn't it? Useful in seasons when the grass is not growing so fast.
Do the maths. e.g. 1000kg x 9.8 (gravity) x 6% gradient x (2km/hr)0.55m/s = 325W.
Assuming perfect efficiency. And how long can a one ton cow walk uphill? For 2kW it would be charging up.
Many cows are fed corn. Get over it.
Woosh! only in the US, where the corn lobby gets massive subsidies from taxpayers. Its like the old days in the USSR when bread was subsidised, and so cheap that people fed it to their cows. Such a waste.
Corn? Cows eat grass. Feeding them corn would be a huge waste of resources.
No way can a cow do 2kW for 8 hours. How long have you seen a cow run for?
A fit human can do maybe 200W on a pedal generator, so 2kW is a lot even for a bovine.
Its nearly 3 horsepower.
Horses can run better than cows, but still not for hours solid.
Maybe if we bred a billion Clydesdale horses, it might put a small dent in global energy needs.
but isn't the percentage of black children among all children more or less proportional to the percentage of all black people among all people?
That is nowhere near true. I don't know about the US, but globally, black parents have a much higher birth rate and lower life expectancy. Therefore the average age is much lower, and more kids to adults. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid
65 cents * 8 hours a day =
Only 8 hrs? You didn't even RTFS.
As above, $10/day can go a long way in some parts of China, but don't try it in Shanghai.
If you are working 15 hrs/ day, you don't have any time to spend it anyway.
Anyway, the problem is not wages, it is working hours and conditions. The laws are enough, but not enforced.
did the test, and they say:
"Most respondents find it easier to associate Aboriginal Australians with Bad and White Australians with Good compared to the reverse."
I suspect the results would be much stronger if they used modern photos, rather than archival B&W photos of full-bloods.
Thanks for the link. The results of course are blindly obvious: people have preference for young, thin, fair-skinned faces. White or Asian is better than black. Hetero/homo etc. Which just means we all need to make a conscious effort to treat individuals fairly.
Very interesting test, but hardly for "racism". Are they saying that even black Americans have a preference for white faces?
And how would the results be if they used black African faces, rather than black American? Some of those a.a. faces in the test were just plain ugly.
I wish there was an Australian version of this test, so I can get my friends who claim they have no racial bias towards Aboriginals to prove it. :)
because Wireless LAN and Aeroguard are on that list)
Aeroguard!? Active ingredient is DEET, which was developed by the US Army.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEET#History
Fair suck of the saveloy - even we Aussies get confused on that one.
A lot of email gets lost/delayed because they refuse to register @defense.gov.au and redirect it.
and shooting at real people during training generates a lot of paperwork.
Only if you keep a video of the training, and some fool with a conscience leaks it.
They were not innocent victims, but fanatical supporters of a regime every bit as bad as the Nazis
I think you are being a bit harsh on the Nazis, so far as such a thing is possible.
About a dozen Americans were killed by the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
And how many were dying of starvation or beatings in the POW camps or forced marches for every day the war continued?
Does it compare to the 26,000 US casualties in Iwo Jima?
Two trains leave City A in opposite directions, traveling 60 mph.
Except is this case, the trains are not moving their wheels. Somebody is stretching the rails out underneath them at 60mph and accelerating.
Seriously, the universe is expanding, and not in a simple way explainable by the classical mechanics you have used. Its all in the usual resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
Over 10 years ago, it was apparent that Saddam Hussein had to be removed from power.
Why oh WHY? He was keeping the peace domestically. His military was already neutered, and no longer threatened neighbours, or the oil flow to the US.
Kurds controlled the North. Containment was trivially cheap and effective compared to full invasion and occupation.
Tell me again what has been achieved by removing Saddam?
How can we observe 46 billion light years in a universe that is only 13-20 billion years old?
Because the universe is expanding. It used to be a lot smaller. With a big telescope we can see the young stars flying away from the centre of the big bang.
Even though we cannot see them "now" we can observe them as they were billions of years ago. The most distant star visible is Merda Taurus, now nearly 60b ly away, .
The odds that there isn't another populated planet (or a few hundred thousand of them) is pretty slim.
Pure speculation! How can you possibly know the odds of intelligent life out there when we have zero samples. Earth does not count - observer bias.
For all you know, intelligent civilizations are 10^18 light years apart.
Or 100 light years, but the only ones to survive are the ones smart enough to keep radio silence.
We don't have the data.