Switzerland is hardly mild. Israel has hot summers and spews about 50% of the carbon per capita of the US. Sweden, with its cold winters, is about 33% that of the US (theyre smart and use nuclear power for 40% of their energy).
Think about this. The French, Swiss, Italians, Spanish, and Portuguese all have industrialized, happy societies while belching out about 1/3 of the CO2 emissions per person of the US. Lowering CO2 emissions doesn't have to come with a dramatic lowering of the standard of living. It's mainly an engineering problem...
No: it will shift the belts toward the poles, but not necessarily expand their sizes. Also, it has to be addressed eventually. 3-5C is one thing, but when do we decide to stop? At 10C? 20C? 30C?
What's Draconian? That you might have to eat meat only once a day (healthier anyway)? Or that you might have to take an electric train on a 500 mile trip, not fly in a fossil-powered Spam can? Or that you'll have to drive in an electric or hydrogen car, not a hydrocarbon-belcher? Or that your apples might not come in a wasteful plastic bubble pack? Or that you might end up telecommuting a few times a week or even (OMG!) live in a more urban area or small town closer to your job? Or that your electricity might come from clean nuclear and renewables, not a coal-burning smog-belcher? OMG, the horror!!! Society will move on, just like it did when the EPA was introduced and car exhaust no longer smelled like an oil rig, rivers no longer caught fire, and bird populations increased as DDT was banned...
Why am I an imbecile -- as long as the material is learned, what difference does it make whether a kid shows up 160 days a year or 180? BTW - that's the way it works at university. Attendance at lectures isn't taken, but doing well on exams and assigned work is the student's responsibility.
Sounds like you're the idiot, punk.
The $7 trillion we have spent on military homicide sprees since 9/11 would have built about a thousand nuclear plants, if not more (economies of scale). Time for the US to stop throwing money down the drain on military scumbaggery and start cleaning its own environmental house.
If the system goes apeshit near the ground, will there be enough time to work the problem and trip the breakers? Also, can full nose-down trim overpower the elevators or make them less effective in recovering from a dive? Finally, what's the mode of failure? Is it JUST full nose-down trim, or is it something nastier like oscillating trim?
Debt is just a number on a computer screen. What's worse -- making our planet more hostile to life or shirking some made-up debt? Nothing wrong with defaulting.
That's why we should be building newer, safer nuclear plants. This would be like banning construction of cars because of the Model T's crash safety record.
"Flamebait" for speaking the truth that the last recession lead to constructive reforms? (Not even mentioning healthcare.) Seems like the mods are the real trolls here.
Why fail anyone so long as they do their assigned homework and pass their exams? Why is listening to a teacher yammer and yap on and on about something that's in a book or online necessary? The culture (both at school and work) should change from "show up x hours per day and pretend to be busy" to "if you can do the assigned work, it doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you don't cheat."
I wouldn't have noticed. Frankly, I spent 80% of my time in classes drawing and daydreaming -- the books were good enough to study for tests from. I still did well on all of my exams. The main parts of high school that were enjoyable were some class discussions, running cross country, pretty girls, and science labs after school.
Do it. Maybe we'll end up with sensible policies like a drinking age of 18 and a military age of 25. Having a beer is a less life-critical decision than signing up to die and kill for the megacorporations...
Also, the majority of coal jobs sucked -- no one wants the jobs from the 50s back. Crawling around in a coal seam underground, coming out with black lung? Running a steam train sounds romantic until you realize it's probably 130 degrees in the cab and some poor bastige needs to shovel coal into the boilers.
Carbon consumption and sprawl went down in the last recession. States started looking at their criminal justice and drug policies and examining the costs of mass incarceration. The economic stimulus program started funding transit projects like electric trains and light rail. Manufacturers started putting out smaller cars (sadly, the US is back on the fucking SUV wagon now), and electric cars started taking off. Recession = reform.
We'd all be healthier if we ate meat once a day, only a few times a week. Electronic devices are actually quite green, provided they're durable and designed to be repaired. A laptop or phone can access more than a million times its own weight in books. Yeah: clothing should last more than a year -- that's the way it was done until the "fast fashion" stupidity of the 2000s. School bus travel is actually pretty green. A school bus gets about 4 mpg. Times 50 students, that's about 200 mpg. It's helichopper parents dropping off Audrey and Blains at school that we should be worrying about. Let the kids walk or take the bus, ideally the first option if possible.
Shenzhen is at 22N latitude -- fortunately, this will work less well in climates where people often wear hats, baklavas, and sunglasses at the same time and can't be arsed to take them off for a 5 min subway trip.
Actually, Santiago is in the middle of the island, so the flights are mostly locals going to/from the US -- the applause is locals, not American tourists:D
The NASA "Vomit Comet" is a DC-9 and is only slightly smaller than a 737. Its pilots would wish to have a word with you. Alternating periods of weightlessness and > 1G aren't conducive to hijinks, especially if the inside of the aircraft isn't a padded room like the aforementioned flying vomitus container.
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Obviously, you need two devices ... one to be handed to the pig-filth, the other that's OFF while driving and which contains your real data.
Switzerland is hardly mild.
Israel has hot summers and spews about 50% of the carbon per capita of the US.
Sweden, with its cold winters, is about 33% that of the US (theyre smart and use nuclear power for 40% of their energy).
When you have nothing constructive to say, resort to death threats.
Think about this. The French, Swiss, Italians, Spanish, and Portuguese all have industrialized, happy societies while belching out about 1/3 of the CO2 emissions per person of the US. Lowering CO2 emissions doesn't have to come with a dramatic lowering of the standard of living. It's mainly an engineering problem...
No: it will shift the belts toward the poles, but not necessarily expand their sizes. Also, it has to be addressed eventually. 3-5C is one thing, but when do we decide to stop? At 10C? 20C? 30C?
What's Draconian? That you might have to eat meat only once a day (healthier anyway)? Or that you might have to take an electric train on a 500 mile trip, not fly in a fossil-powered Spam can? Or that you'll have to drive in an electric or hydrogen car, not a hydrocarbon-belcher? Or that your apples might not come in a wasteful plastic bubble pack? Or that you might end up telecommuting a few times a week or even (OMG!) live in a more urban area or small town closer to your job? Or that your electricity might come from clean nuclear and renewables, not a coal-burning smog-belcher? OMG, the horror!!! Society will move on, just like it did when the EPA was introduced and car exhaust no longer smelled like an oil rig, rivers no longer caught fire, and bird populations increased as DDT was banned...
Why am I an imbecile -- as long as the material is learned, what difference does it make whether a kid shows up 160 days a year or 180? BTW - that's the way it works at university. Attendance at lectures isn't taken, but doing well on exams and assigned work is the student's responsibility. Sounds like you're the idiot, punk.
The $7 trillion we have spent on military homicide sprees since 9/11 would have built about a thousand nuclear plants, if not more (economies of scale). Time for the US to stop throwing money down the drain on military scumbaggery and start cleaning its own environmental house.
Turns the MCAS off as in cuts power to it, or just sends a computer a signal to stop trimming? Maybe the software is ignoring the pilot input.
If the system goes apeshit near the ground, will there be enough time to work the problem and trip the breakers? Also, can full nose-down trim overpower the elevators or make them less effective in recovering from a dive? Finally, what's the mode of failure? Is it JUST full nose-down trim, or is it something nastier like oscillating trim?
Encourage oil companies to invest in government debt, then bankrupt them through green programs. Voila! Debt erased...
Debt is just a number on a computer screen. What's worse -- making our planet more hostile to life or shirking some made-up debt? Nothing wrong with defaulting.
That's why we should be building newer, safer nuclear plants. This would be like banning construction of cars because of the Model T's crash safety record.
"Flamebait" for speaking the truth that the last recession lead to constructive reforms? (Not even mentioning healthcare.) Seems like the mods are the real trolls here.
Why fail anyone so long as they do their assigned homework and pass their exams? Why is listening to a teacher yammer and yap on and on about something that's in a book or online necessary? The culture (both at school and work) should change from "show up x hours per day and pretend to be busy" to "if you can do the assigned work, it doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you don't cheat."
I wouldn't have noticed. Frankly, I spent 80% of my time in classes drawing and daydreaming -- the books were good enough to study for tests from. I still did well on all of my exams. The main parts of high school that were enjoyable were some class discussions, running cross country, pretty girls, and science labs after school.
Do it. Maybe we'll end up with sensible policies like a drinking age of 18 and a military age of 25. Having a beer is a less life-critical decision than signing up to die and kill for the megacorporations...
Also, the majority of coal jobs sucked -- no one wants the jobs from the 50s back. Crawling around in a coal seam underground, coming out with black lung? Running a steam train sounds romantic until you realize it's probably 130 degrees in the cab and some poor bastige needs to shovel coal into the boilers.
Why not start somewhere? Nuclear and renewables are existing technology. Building more of them is an engineering problem. More doing, less talking.
Carbon consumption and sprawl went down in the last recession. States started looking at their criminal justice and drug policies and examining the costs of mass incarceration. The economic stimulus program started funding transit projects like electric trains and light rail. Manufacturers started putting out smaller cars (sadly, the US is back on the fucking SUV wagon now), and electric cars started taking off. Recession = reform.
We'd all be healthier if we ate meat once a day, only a few times a week. Electronic devices are actually quite green, provided they're durable and designed to be repaired. A laptop or phone can access more than a million times its own weight in books. Yeah: clothing should last more than a year -- that's the way it was done until the "fast fashion" stupidity of the 2000s. School bus travel is actually pretty green. A school bus gets about 4 mpg. Times 50 students, that's about 200 mpg. It's helichopper parents dropping off Audrey and Blains at school that we should be worrying about. Let the kids walk or take the bus, ideally the first option if possible.
Shenzhen is at 22N latitude -- fortunately, this will work less well in climates where people often wear hats, baklavas, and sunglasses at the same time and can't be arsed to take them off for a 5 min subway trip.
A parabolic trajectory doesn't involve violent direction changes. It's also not conducive to remaining standing.
It's been done in a 707 which is broadly comparable to the larger 737 variants.
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Actually, Santiago is in the middle of the island, so the flights are mostly locals going to/from the US -- the applause is locals, not American tourists :D
The NASA "Vomit Comet" is a DC-9 and is only slightly smaller than a 737. Its pilots would wish to have a word with you. Alternating periods of weightlessness and > 1G aren't conducive to hijinks, especially if the inside of the aircraft isn't a padded room like the aforementioned flying vomitus container.