Ahh, but when you at really (and remote, so the populations were mostly left alone) cold, not merely harsh / continental, areas...;p (those which were basically "unexplored" until XIX & late XIX century). That includes even firmly European parts such as Karelia.
Adding to what Anonymous says - you thinking that it's a choice only between being shot, tasered or batoned illustrutes nicely the problem. And really, probably the approach which is part of making the US the worst of industrialised nations as far as violent crime goes.
And hey, again, tasers are "non-lethal", "safe"...surely no officer would be afraid of them?
Well, they are the ones with few decades of experience with operating a manned spacecraft which is essentially capable of beyond-LEO operation (and has done so few times). Plus also assembly via autonomous docking and in-orbit refueling.
If they are supposedly "non-lethal" - I wonder what it would take to push not only the requirement of experiencing them few times during training, but also...after any use the officer needs to be tasered in exactly the same spot (leaves marks, right?), and in a manner he did (hey, electronic devices, can be easily done)
Sure, no chance to fly...but they are "non-lethal", right? What's to be afraid?
With the recent story of droids making streets in Austria safer (while I can see that "baptising" them & cars at my place simply doesn't work) or, closer to Iceland, some practical jokes with one volcano...it becomes more and more clear which gods are the true ones anyway. And will not ignore forgetting them for much longer.
Why only now, you ask? Well, they might work on different timescales.
But you go a bit too far. Many of those examples actually sort of support what I said. Certainly Russia (yes!), the country - places where it's really cold had native and apparently rather peaceful populations, subdued by influx of...Russians, the ethnicity. People forget that "Russia" is a fairly recent construct, spanning very diverse geographic areas and many ethnicities (at least originally). Likewise Tibet, if Dalai Lama is to be believed. Andes, too, I guess. Easy influx of alien populations, and generally the area being...not remote enough, seems to change the odds.
And you don't look at "being stuck with irritating people" in suffieciently long timespans;p. That there would be some violence is the point - it would lessen the chances of survival for such "communities" (when it's cold and isolated enough, long enough;p )
And why this is so at your place... Sure, "current societal realities" - but most importantly what has led to those?.
It almost seems like the answer is...cold, that you sort of mention. Because it does seem to a be a common feature of many places with cold (not the same as "harsh") climates. Not only working together to have means of surviving the long winter; also managing to not hate, not kill each other while being stuck through this winter in the same place with too many people?;) Well, at least after more southerly areas managed to come up with ways of defending against your summer excursions (those were good for regular venting, I guess; and gradual decline of them provided time to adapt for being stuck for most of the year with the same irritating people?;) )
That might not be best for "bottom lines" of any company involved, though...at least not short-term, and that's all what the "investors" care about. Oh well, or East Asian and European car manufacturers will get even more competitive.
And sure, it's all electric; but still a bit different, especially when looking at circumstances, acceptable costs and maintanance involved. Subs got huge advantage fairly quickly, trains were soon to follow (plus some surface ships, when high manouverability has value)...and only recently it became viable / cheap enough for cars. Though I'm surprised the trucks didn't get there sooner; hybrids showed up only recently (basically concurrently with cars), and while that doesn't offer much of an advantage for long-haul vehicles, small delivery ones can see huge gains (ok, there are very small ones for some time now; not sure why it's presented at this Wiki page as, at first, a vehicle for golf players - in its place of origin, where it's probably most popular, golf is virtually nonexistant)
BTW, I wouldn't rush with wheelmotors. It has its advantages, sure - more space, lower center of gravity and insane possibilities with traction control being the most notable ones. But requires greatly improved suspension and protection from the elements; too many things to rethink at once, to change; at considerable expense and without very big gains. Affordable cars (those which should be targeted primarily) might be good with one electric motor & FWD for two or three decades.
...and then there's Golf Plus and Jetta, with virtually the same mileage. Don't just look directly at the size of Prius, too - it wastes a bit more of its internal space.
Li-ion batteries are used for new hybrids / electrics. Main problem being that we don't even have that much lithium...
Besides, the really real world also has gasoline cars which are much more efficient; Prius looks good to you mostly because the rest is horrible at your place.
So just compare to Bora/Jetta/Gold Plus whatever stretched version of Gold you have...and which has essentially the same fuel economy as "normal" one, with proper engine (too bad people want needless power - SDI engines had plenty enough of it, while being a bit more fuel efficient in practice; and ridiculously reliable, which also counts for something)
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", as they say. Plus as far as hatchbacks/etc. go - many people think OTOH that trying desperately to look "tough", quite typical for US styling, is quite hideous in itself...
There is a reason actually, characteristics of diesel don't map very well to parallel hybrids...for some reason. Serial hybrids should change that.
And of course the difference in energy density of fuel doesn't explain why the really real world is accustomed also to gasoline cars which are much more fuel efficient than what you can find in the US...
To be fair, in "THIS" country the average car already had horrible fuel consumption, much worse than in the really real world; so hybrids look kinda good...
Small, decade-old 4 cylinder diesel (not TDI, SDI...they were a very related unit anyway; power is plenty enough on SDI, still slightly lower fuel consumption, ridiculously high reliability - I care more about those)
A touch below 60mpg. On a Fabia combi, true, but a) Skodas are typically the biggest cars on a given VW platform, so it's just slightly smaller than Golf or Bora b) with similar engines, larger (as long as not "oversized") VW group cars are very comparable anyway.
The really real world really can't help but wonder what's the big deal with hybrids, at least for now...
And E) is a myth, modern diesels are just as clean as petrol engines. Less than electrics, sure, but..why would you mention those in current hybrid vs. diesel?
Furthermore, diesel-electric systems were the engines of choice on submarines for decades, so it's not like automotive engineers have any excuse to think these energy sources are innately incompatible.
Still are, nuclear subs are just a...subset. Trains are probably more notable example. But they both present a bit different problems than passenger cars.
They're not really that much more noisy, you know... (mostly different, as far as characteristic of the sound goes)
I've heard from somewhere that there is actually some integration problem regarding characteristics of diesels and how existing hybrids work. Might be different for upcoming serial hybrids.
More related to TFA, I wonder how the last part you mention is responsible for the reputation (deserved) of Nokia devices being damn tough. Accidentally, they don't rely on Chinese sweatshops - Nokia owns all its fabs, most of them outside of China (with half in the EU)
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Ahh, but when you at really (and remote, so the populations were mostly left alone) cold, not merely harsh / continental, areas... ;p (those which were basically "unexplored" until XIX & late XIX century). That includes even firmly European parts such as Karelia.
Adding to what Anonymous says - you thinking that it's a choice only between being shot, tasered or batoned illustrutes nicely the problem. And really, probably the approach which is part of making the US the worst of industrialised nations as far as violent crime goes.
And hey, again, tasers are "non-lethal", "safe"...surely no officer would be afraid of them?
And then what? ;p
It seems this news piece showed up during Friday evening / night. We might at least pretend that we have better things to do then...
Adding to what Tekfactory said, ISS regularly refuels in orbit. Heck, the docking interface of Progress has inbuilt means to transfer fuel.
Well, they are the ones with few decades of experience with operating a manned spacecraft which is essentially capable of beyond-LEO operation (and has done so few times). Plus also assembly via autonomous docking and in-orbit refueling.
Especially if you were looking in the wrong way at the wrong person.
If they are supposedly "non-lethal" - I wonder what it would take to push not only the requirement of experiencing them few times during training, but also...after any use the officer needs to be tasered in exactly the same spot (leaves marks, right?), and in a manner he did (hey, electronic devices, can be easily done)
Sure, no chance to fly...but they are "non-lethal", right? What's to be afraid?
With the recent story of droids making streets in Austria safer (while I can see that "baptising" them & cars at my place simply doesn't work) or, closer to Iceland, some practical jokes with one volcano...it becomes more and more clear which gods are the true ones anyway. And will not ignore forgetting them for much longer.
Why only now, you ask? Well, they might work on different timescales.
Or a case of really bad hangover.
That was mostly tongue in cheek, after all.
But you go a bit too far. Many of those examples actually sort of support what I said. Certainly Russia (yes!), the country - places where it's really cold had native and apparently rather peaceful populations, subdued by influx of...Russians, the ethnicity. People forget that "Russia" is a fairly recent construct, spanning very diverse geographic areas and many ethnicities (at least originally). Likewise Tibet, if Dalai Lama is to be believed. Andes, too, I guess. Easy influx of alien populations, and generally the area being...not remote enough, seems to change the odds.
And you don't look at "being stuck with irritating people" in suffieciently long timespans ;p. That there would be some violence is the point - it would lessen the chances of survival for such "communities" (when it's cold and isolated enough, long enough ;p )
And why this is so at your place...
Sure, "current societal realities" - but most importantly what has led to those?.
It almost seems like the answer is...cold, that you sort of mention. Because it does seem to a be a common feature of many places with cold (not the same as "harsh") climates. Not only working together to have means of surviving the long winter; also managing to not hate, not kill each other while being stuck through this winter in the same place with too many people? ;) ;) )
Well, at least after more southerly areas managed to come up with ways of defending against your summer excursions (those were good for regular venting, I guess; and gradual decline of them provided time to adapt for being stuck for most of the year with the same irritating people?
That's their fault for allowing themselves to fall into "excited delirium".
That might not be best for "bottom lines" of any company involved, though...at least not short-term, and that's all what the "investors" care about. Oh well, or East Asian and European car manufacturers will get even more competitive.
And sure, it's all electric; but still a bit different, especially when looking at circumstances, acceptable costs and maintanance involved. Subs got huge advantage fairly quickly, trains were soon to follow (plus some surface ships, when high manouverability has value)...and only recently it became viable / cheap enough for cars. Though I'm surprised the trucks didn't get there sooner; hybrids showed up only recently (basically concurrently with cars), and while that doesn't offer much of an advantage for long-haul vehicles, small delivery ones can see huge gains (ok, there are very small ones for some time now; not sure why it's presented at this Wiki page as, at first, a vehicle for golf players - in its place of origin, where it's probably most popular, golf is virtually nonexistant)
BTW, I wouldn't rush with wheelmotors. It has its advantages, sure - more space, lower center of gravity and insane possibilities with traction control being the most notable ones. But requires greatly improved suspension and protection from the elements; too many things to rethink at once, to change; at considerable expense and without very big gains. Affordable cars (those which should be targeted primarily) might be good with one electric motor & FWD for two or three decades.
I think it's just fun.
...and then there's Golf Plus and Jetta, with virtually the same mileage. Don't just look directly at the size of Prius, too - it wastes a bit more of its internal space.
Li-ion batteries are used for new hybrids / electrics. Main problem being that we don't even have that much lithium...
Besides, the really real world also has gasoline cars which are much more efficient; Prius looks good to you mostly because the rest is horrible at your place.
So just compare to Bora/Jetta/Gold Plus whatever stretched version of Gold you have...and which has essentially the same fuel economy as "normal" one, with proper engine (too bad people want needless power - SDI engines had plenty enough of it, while being a bit more fuel efficient in practice; and ridiculously reliable, which also counts for something)
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", as they say. Plus as far as hatchbacks/etc. go - many people think OTOH that trying desperately to look "tough", quite typical for US styling, is quite hideous in itself...
There is a reason actually, characteristics of diesel don't map very well to parallel hybrids...for some reason. Serial hybrids should change that.
And of course the difference in energy density of fuel doesn't explain why the really real world is accustomed also to gasoline cars which are much more fuel efficient than what you can find in the US...
To be fair, in "THIS" country the average car already had horrible fuel consumption, much worse than in the really real world; so hybrids look kinda good...
Small, decade-old 4 cylinder diesel (not TDI, SDI...they were a very related unit anyway; power is plenty enough on SDI, still slightly lower fuel consumption, ridiculously high reliability - I care more about those)
A touch below 60mpg. On a Fabia combi, true, but a) Skodas are typically the biggest cars on a given VW platform, so it's just slightly smaller than Golf or Bora b) with similar engines, larger (as long as not "oversized") VW group cars are very comparable anyway.
The really real world really can't help but wonder what's the big deal with hybrids, at least for now...
And E) is a myth, modern diesels are just as clean as petrol engines. Less than electrics, sure, but..why would you mention those in current hybrid vs. diesel?
Furthermore, diesel-electric systems were the engines of choice on submarines for decades, so it's not like automotive engineers have any excuse to think these energy sources are innately incompatible.
Still are, nuclear subs are just a...subset. Trains are probably more notable example. But they both present a bit different problems than passenger cars.
They're not really that much more noisy, you know... (mostly different, as far as characteristic of the sound goes)
I've heard from somewhere that there is actually some integration problem regarding characteristics of diesels and how existing hybrids work. Might be different for upcoming serial hybrids.
Though much of Europe probably pays twice or three times what you pay in the US for fuel...
So...maube that's the only way, people not taking full tank for pennies for granted? Especially if one can't be much worse when it comes to living beyond means (X axis only)
More related to TFA, I wonder how the last part you mention is responsible for the reputation (deserved) of Nokia devices being damn tough. Accidentally, they don't rely on Chinese sweatshops - Nokia owns all its fabs, most of them outside of China (with half in the EU)