Well the Germans are planning on closing down all their nuclear plants so I think they expect wind to be a significant energy producer in their part of the world. I don't know if they expect it to supply more than fossil fuels, but certainly by giving up nuclear fission, wind power is going to have to be a large part of any german energy plan.
Specifically, if wind generation were expanded to the point where it produced one-10th of today's energy, the models say cooling in the Arctic and a warming across the southern parts of North America should happen.
So we would need wind farms to produce 10% of the world's energy to see the effect they're talking about.
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The dating of human and dinosaur remains has already gone through actual scientific investigation and is no longer in dispute by reputable scientists. The people who disagree are, at best, mistaken and have yet to see it, or at worst, religious zealots.
Your use of "explained away" in your last sentence is troubling. I get the feeling you're not a fan of actual scientific investigation when it debunks something you believe in.
Humans weren't even close to existing 65 million years ago. Ancient humans wouldn't have created a legend about an event that old because no human could have known it happened.
Actually no, we Americans aren't big on allowing things if parents get a chance to say no. That's why R rated movies get edited when they're put on TV. They can put "Rated R" in the TV guide and give all the warnings about violence and/or nudity and/or language they want, but some fool will always complain.
Yes, the Buran. Afaik, it only flew once, by remote control, to simply prove they could do it. After that, they just didn't have the money to keep it going.
Don't submarines routinely survive pressures greater than 90 atmospheres?
Back in 1960, the US Navy sent a specialized sub down into the Marianas Trench. That's about 35,000 ft down. Going by memory (so someone feel free to jump in and correct me), 33ft down in the ocean = 1 atm. So, that's about 1060 atmospheres.
I always thought the difficult problem with Venus was its caustic atmosphere. That's what destroyed the Soviet probes, not the atmospheric pressure.
Airbags are still more cost effective than trying for a soft landing. The 2 Viking probes cost how much, like a billion? Beagle 2 cost only $62 million (or maybe it was in pounds, I forget).
So if Britain built 16 Beagle probes (for $992 million) and sent them to Mars, it would cost about the same, but cover more of the planet than the Viking landers. Even if only a third survived, lets say just 3 since you can't a fraction of a working probe, it still covers one more spot than Viking.
Wow, I completely forgot about that cartoon. I watched it every Sunday when I was kid. I thought that was the best show on TV.
The last episode I saw was where Marsh (holy crap, did I just remember his name?) was stranded in space and some aliens just destroyed the pirate planet.
Damn, now I have to totally goof off at work and find out if that was the last episode of the show.
I tried skimming all these responses, but I didn't see anyone else mention it.
China, by banning a foreign software product, is raising a barrier to trade. At the same time, China wants to join the World Trade Organization (they didn't get accepted yet right?). So in the end, this law sounds like something the WTO is going to demand China repeal if they want to join.
If you give up on manned space travel, then you'll never develop the experience or technology necessary to make it easier and safer. It's not as if NASA could be researching better satellite technology and then *poof* the next generation of the space shuttle will appear.
I completely understand. I watched my friend play it a few times. When he got to that alternate reality school, it was all over for me. I wouldn't dare play that game.
The only Resident Evil game I played was Nemesis. I tried it for a few weeks but I just had to stop. It was all too creepy for me. Thinking about playing still kinda irks me.
That won't happen because the entire country hasn't been leveled. The US spent a lot of money on bombs designed only to destroy a very particular spot. So a lot of the old buildings are still standing with their old-time phone lines. I'd bet its cheaper to repair the damaged phone infrastructure than to wire every Iraqi house with cable.
A place like Afghanistan would be better suited to this "cable the country" plan. It will of course come down to cost. What's cheaper to do - run cable or telephone wires?
Well Iraq is gonna be "infected" with phone lines sooner than any sort of cable network because Iraqis are gonna want to make phone calls long before they feel like getting online to check the weather or swap mp3s. Once the phones come in, dialup will follow. Then AOL can create a new subsidiary, Iraq Online, and bombard that country with CDs promising 1000 free hours.
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Well the Germans are planning on closing down all their nuclear plants so I think they expect wind to be a significant energy producer in their part of the world. I don't know if they expect it to supply more than fossil fuels, but certainly by giving up nuclear fission, wind power is going to have to be a large part of any german energy plan.
Specifically, if wind generation were expanded to the point where it produced one-10th of today's energy, the models say cooling in the Arctic and a warming across the southern parts of North America should happen.
So we would need wind farms to produce 10% of the world's energy to see the effect they're talking about.
You would be amazed. This week I discovered someone in my office who knew nothing about google.
So is that hammer. read
The dating of human and dinosaur remains has already gone through actual scientific investigation and is no longer in dispute by reputable scientists. The people who disagree are, at best, mistaken and have yet to see it, or at worst, religious zealots.
Your use of "explained away" in your last sentence is troubling. I get the feeling you're not a fan of actual scientific investigation when it debunks something you believe in.
"And there has been fossils and other things to suggest humans and dinos were around at the same time."
What B-movie have you been getting your science lessons from?
Humans weren't even close to existing 65 million years ago. Ancient humans wouldn't have created a legend about an event that old because no human could have known it happened.
People can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14 percent of all people know that.
Actually no, we Americans aren't big on allowing things if parents get a chance to say no. That's why R rated movies get edited when they're put on TV. They can put "Rated R" in the TV guide and give all the warnings about violence and/or nudity and/or language they want, but some fool will always complain.
Yes, the Buran. Afaik, it only flew once, by remote control, to simply prove they could do it. After that, they just didn't have the money to keep it going.
Don't submarines routinely survive pressures greater than 90 atmospheres? Back in 1960, the US Navy sent a specialized sub down into the Marianas Trench. That's about 35,000 ft down. Going by memory (so someone feel free to jump in and correct me), 33ft down in the ocean = 1 atm. So, that's about 1060 atmospheres. I always thought the difficult problem with Venus was its caustic atmosphere. That's what destroyed the Soviet probes, not the atmospheric pressure.
That would have been the best Cosby show ever!
Airbags are still more cost effective than trying for a soft landing. The 2 Viking probes cost how much, like a billion? Beagle 2 cost only $62 million (or maybe it was in pounds, I forget). So if Britain built 16 Beagle probes (for $992 million) and sent them to Mars, it would cost about the same, but cover more of the planet than the Viking landers. Even if only a third survived, lets say just 3 since you can't a fraction of a working probe, it still covers one more spot than Viking.
Perhaps Intel could hold off on the 10 ghz chips and concentrate on making some that don't get so damn hot.
Have you tried using Real Alternative? You can download it from Kazaa Lite's website.
Wow, I completely forgot about that cartoon. I watched it every Sunday when I was kid. I thought that was the best show on TV. The last episode I saw was where Marsh (holy crap, did I just remember his name?) was stranded in space and some aliens just destroyed the pirate planet. Damn, now I have to totally goof off at work and find out if that was the last episode of the show.
I tried skimming all these responses, but I didn't see anyone else mention it. China, by banning a foreign software product, is raising a barrier to trade. At the same time, China wants to join the World Trade Organization (they didn't get accepted yet right?). So in the end, this law sounds like something the WTO is going to demand China repeal if they want to join.
If you give up on manned space travel, then you'll never develop the experience or technology necessary to make it easier and safer. It's not as if NASA could be researching better satellite technology and then *poof* the next generation of the space shuttle will appear.
You can't put all this on Bush. Any exploration or colonization effort will take the support of many subsequent presidential administrations.
Well hopefully this quote is actually real...
Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus said in 10 AD, "Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments."
Don't forget the C64 had a California Raisins video game. I can't believe I bought that. That has to be the single greatest waste of money in my life.
I completely understand. I watched my friend play it a few times. When he got to that alternate reality school, it was all over for me. I wouldn't dare play that game.
The only Resident Evil game I played was Nemesis. I tried it for a few weeks but I just had to stop. It was all too creepy for me. Thinking about playing still kinda irks me.
That won't happen because the entire country hasn't been leveled. The US spent a lot of money on bombs designed only to destroy a very particular spot. So a lot of the old buildings are still standing with their old-time phone lines. I'd bet its cheaper to repair the damaged phone infrastructure than to wire every Iraqi house with cable.
A place like Afghanistan would be better suited to this "cable the country" plan. It will of course come down to cost. What's cheaper to do - run cable or telephone wires?
Well Iraq is gonna be "infected" with phone lines sooner than any sort of cable network because Iraqis are gonna want to make phone calls long before they feel like getting online to check the weather or swap mp3s.
Once the phones come in, dialup will follow. Then AOL can create a new subsidiary, Iraq Online, and bombard that country with CDs promising 1000 free hours.