If one would be used to have a basket close to the door and throw his used paper into it, Basketball style, he would not have the misconception a spear only flies 10 or 20 yards.
Animals learn to associate the characteristic noise from firing an arrow from a bow with danger Yes, but they also associate the throwing movement with danger. Even if hey never got hit or anyone of their pack got hit.
And... you only hear an arrow when it is to late. Either more or less hitting you or passing besides you. From the perspective of the shooter an arrow makes nearly no noise at all, however the bow does.
One of the biggest mysteries in human ancestry is not "how smart or skilled" ancient humans were, but:
How dumb modern scientists are
Apes hunt. Chimpanzee e.g. Apes use tools. Apes scare away leopards etc. Apes gang up for hunting, they make hunting parties, they hug each other before they depart into "chasers" and "distractors" and "killers".
How dumb scientists are to believe old humans could not hunt, made spears as toys etc. is beyond me.
The first thing in my mind if I see a tool is: oh, this is a tool for A. Obviously someone was doing A-things with that A-tool.
A friend of mine told me about a training accident in Aikido. She attacked with a wooden dagger, like in tis picture: https://www.karatemart.com/red... (ustthe first hi ton google search) While she got disarmed the "dagger" flew somewhere and she was thrown same way. For unfortunate bad luck, the dagger ended on the ground with its hilt just as he slammed there with her leg. The dagger went through her _trousers_ and through the covering Hakama https://www.qualitymartialarts...... again just one of the first hits.
Point is: the "piece of wood" went through two layers of cloth and through her calf. And that piece of wood was not even remotely sharpened to intend injury, it was blunt.
If a Neanderthal would walk thorough NYC, or Paris, no one would turn around and look at him, as no one would find anything bizzare or odd looking about him.
He is more or less white skinned, has mostly red hair or is blonde, is relatively tall and obviously because of his work habits muscular. Thats it. Put him a suit on a couch and don't let him run around to hunt, he just looks like you.
I would go so far to claim that the idea that they did not wash and where dirty and filthy is absurd. They had music, so they most likely did dance, did sing, had a language, many languages actually. They painted caves, they cooked food, they lived in families/tribes, they buried their dead, they made weapons, used flint stone, used fire probably had ceramics...
Ancient humans, regardless what "race/species" were as smart as we are... looking at the average/. post, probably smarter than we are. Just because they had no smart phones, did not ride on horses (yet), had no houses made from bricks etc. does not make them "dumb". They had no technology, but they still had brains.
The point of the article is that we've discovered that the spears used during that period were more accurate than we previously believed. Well a few days/weeks ago we had an article about "why are scientists surprised" or something.
Sorry, the article, the "research" and the "discovery" is just bullshit.
We find 300,000 year old relics of wooden spears made by Neanderthals... Some couch potato pseudo scientist can not imagine (yes imagine) that such a spear was useful to hunt unless you are as close as 10 yards. He writes a paper. It gets "scientific consensus". It gets taught in schools.
I made spears as a boy, throwing them about 40 yards... no one taught me, I had no particular skill, the spears where not sophisticated.
The idea that a prehistoric human race is smart enough to make spears, but to dumb to use them, is: idiotic.
In many regards scientists are just idiots who lack common sense.
Most likely they hat Atl Atl's to throw them or used strings wrapped around the end of the spear and threw them 100 yards or more. What fucking animal lets you get close enough that you can throw from 20 yards (oh, new science) or from 10 yards (old science)???
From the point of view of genetics, 'race' is little more than an artificial construct that humans have created to make each others lives more complicated and generally more miserable than they have to be. Race of humans, yes.
Races of horses, sheep, cows, dogs, cats... etc. not so much.
No idea what you want to say. You sound like a politician using the right words but producing random sentences.
Germany needs expansion of its natural gas generating capacity. We don't generate much natural gas anymore, we just burn it, somehow/somewhere.
pre-emptively saying it can't be expansion of the reserve capacity. As I already pointed out: we already have more reserve capacity than the amount of power we export. Building more "reserve power plants" makes no sense. If you would know how the power market and the reserve power market works, you would not write nonsense like above.
Short introduction: The power selling market (not buying, yes only selling, might sound stupid for you that there are markets that are purely selling but that is how it is...) is divided into three markets (if you include transport grids, then it is four but that is not relevant) o power generation o reserve power o balancing power
If you live in region Pinky and I live far away in Brainy, and for some obscure reason you bought power from me, you pay what I bill you, or more precisely as you obviously are a big customer - otherwise you had not bought from me - pay what we agreed on in the contract, then: o I have to generate the power and transport it to you (that is why I excluded transport grids), you pay my bill for that o I have to pay a reserve power plant operator in your local grid a "stand by fee" + I have to agree on a contract with said reserve power operator to pay his fee if he has to switch from stand by to actually provide the reserve power - no big issue as if I fail to produce and deliver the power "I owe you" I safe the production costs for it o I have to pay the "balancing power" in your grid in case you don't take the agreed amount but take more or less or don't take it in the "bandwidth" we agreed on - and yes, for that I have to make a contract with "balancing power providers" but that is usually only the grid operator of your grid region or "balancing region"
So, as neither you nor the writer of the article you refer to seems to know stuff like this: you have no idea what "reserve power is" (hint: there are three kinds of reserve power... you can google it).
So: no, Germany is not building more reserve power plants, we already have much to many of them. Hint: every coal plant that was shut down because it was replaced by wind and solar and biomass is basically a reserve power plant now.
No idea why people on/. who never read a book about electric power generation and/or grids and/or grid management and/or electric power markets and/or renewable energy feel so eager to post every time a "Germany" or "renewable" or "nuke" threat shows up.
Electric power and grids and power plants don't work as you think they work. So: shut up. Watch a movie, eat some pop corn, drink a beer.
There are no "Dukelflautes" in Germany. Dunkel as in dark, it is at night.
Wind does not stop at night, especially not at the coast, dumbass.
You can't rely on neighbours to fill up the reliability gap of renewables. Yes we can... or do you have any news article about a power outage in recent years that was not caused by a mayor grid problem, as in collapsing pillars due to ice load on top of them?
But a sheet of paper is something I should be able to spell correctly in 3 languages and pronounce fairly accurately at least in two. So do I. But a keyboard is a keyboard, and a spelling error is not the same as a tzping error.... oops german keyboard again made me laps.
And no: if I reread what I wrote above, I don't see any *spelling* errors. Would take me probably half an hour to realize that I mistyped "typing" by accidentally hitting the Z (on a german keyboard the Z is where the english Y is... just in case you wonder) however in this post, "tzping" is red underlined... and as it is a word that makes no sense at all, I would probably spot it.
Actually I don't know if I mixed up C and S or if I initially spelled it wrong...
Oh, you now, I mistyped it. First I typed cheet, because S and C are close on the keyboard. Cheet was red underlined so I saw: "oh, there must be a typo!" As Google Chrome insists on my Mac to use a half self programmed text edit widget, it somehow realizes that MacOS says: "typo" but for some odd reason it does not sue the MacOS spelling correction... hence you can not right click on the mistyped word and chose the correct spelling. Surprisingly as I changed cheet to cheat, the red underline went away... I did not realize that the first letter was a c and not an s... because for a german sheet and cheet and cheat sound the same... and my eye does not pick up such nonsense. What ever I read can be misspelled how ever you want as it transforms directly into sound/thought anyway. Unless of course, it makes no sense.
So.... does that explain it? But to answer your question: ortografi is over rated, and obviously if you had grasped my sheet of paper with boxes you would put it into the second/outer box and not onto the rest of the paper, silly you.
So while your factory is shut down the night clubs in Bangkok are going full bore. And in comparision to a factory, how much power does a night club use?
LOL do you go around tucking them in Unfortunately not, my GF/wife does not allow me. However when we come home from the super market (which closes at 20:00) we pass many many houses.
What is wrong with you? Is your telepathy failing you? You live on the other side of the planet and believe to know more than one who is living at the place you are scrying? Perhaps you should seek mental help instead of googleing weather sites you don't comprehend.
Hint: north to south Thailand is about 2000km long... east to west about 1100km... the weather or climate at my place is not the "average" of Thailand. Every region has its specific own climate... and outside of towns people go up around 6:00 or 5:30 even and go to bed around 20:00 or 22:00
And the sleeping patterns have only a little part to do with energy consumption. If you ever had dug into energy production/consumption you knew that.
Why would something be selected for use as an insecticide if it harmed humans more than it did insects? An insecticide would be chosen because insects are sensitive to it whereas humans are not -- that's what makes it an 'insecticide'. But they are not chosen that way. And if you would follow the news you would knew that stuff like roundup is about to be abolished on most parts of the planet: because it harms humans.
How you come to the braindead idea that there are poisons that harm insects more than humans is beyond me anyway. Insects are the resilent parts of the eco system... they are the beasts that nearly survive anything.
It may have a rather small impact on CO2 emissions, but as a large part of it is domestic brown coal retrieved from open pit mines in a rather densely populated country, this also triggers repeated discussions about whole villages and small towns having to be relocated, and about the impact on local ecosystems. Perhaps you want to look on a map of germany. The "open pits" are not in densely populated areas. And the "closed pits" are some of the best nature resorts germany has.
Also its emission footprint of other substances than CO2 is bad compared to natural gas. Unlike to popular believe: the exhaust of lignite power plants is scrubbed at the same standards hard coal plants are...
And last not least, gas plants can be much smaller than coal plants, No, they aren't... by what magic would they? Oh... the area in total saves the areal for stored coal?
and don't have to be close to the coal mines, They are not close to coal mines. By what magic would they? A steel factory is not moving when coal mining moves, nor does a power plant. Power plants are close to the place where power is used. Not close to the place where coal is mined. A no brainer if you would not rely on stupid gossip of your friends. What is more easy? Buying land, getting a permit to build up a power line, or transporting coal per ship or train on existing rivers, channels or rails? WTF... what is wrong with people in our age?
so having the option to put then to a second use with power-heat cogeneration Same as existing coal plants, see above.
The northeast monsoon, starting from October until February brings cold and dry air from China over most of Thailand.[52]:2 This actually what we have at the moment:D dry wind... since october, dumbass.
But it is not called monsoon... no idea who wrote the article. Monsoon means rain season... depending on where you are it starts around august and ends around december.
If you would read the stuff you quote, you would clearly see: we are in the dry/cold seasons since october... hence: no rain since 5 month.
How stupid are you actually? Can not even read the stuff you copy/paste?
And a computer as mine, how much power does it use? Why do you try to prove you are an idiot, I don't get it.
The factory next door with over 1000 workers was closed... I think the power it drew before dwarfs my computer, but perhaps you know better...
All the shops are closed... and at midnight (I was actually sleeping at midnight already) 90% of the Thai in rural Thailand are sleeping, should be a no brainer. But no, it is not, as you like to argue about stuff, you have no clue about.
Which part of "anything germany produces" has costs to produce and "the energy costs are below 1%" of the costs don't you grasp? He?
Energy costs are completely irrelevant for stuff we export. They are "a little bit relevant" for a bakery, or a "brick manufacture". Bit for nothing else, except transportation.
We don't compete on price. We never did. We compete on quality, dumbass.
If energy prices increase ten fold, a product we export would increase in 9% of price... and you can be sure even in socialist Germany, the factory will find a way to fire enough people to keep the price increase competitive. And: a stupid american does not care how much an Audi costs. He does not base his decision to buy one on the price... he would be even more stupid if he did.
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If you need a heat pump only 2 or 3 month a year, it is still a question if and why to switch.
And inside of a city, you hardly can ask the land lord: what about me digging up the yard to install a heat pump.
On the other hand: head pumps are heavily subsidized in Germany ...
Neither did I ... accidents happen. Freak accidents, too.
Plenty in Europe.
https://www.seeker.com/cave-ar...
Many pictures ... some cro magnon some neanderthals.
But google is your friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yeah, that is the problem. Ignorant scientists.
If one would be used to have a basket close to the door and throw his used paper into it, Basketball style, he would not have the misconception a spear only flies 10 or 20 yards.
Animals learn to associate the characteristic noise from firing an arrow from a bow with danger
Yes, but they also associate the throwing movement with danger. Even if hey never got hit or anyone of their pack got hit.
And ... you only hear an arrow when it is to late. Either more or less hitting you or passing besides you. From the perspective of the shooter an arrow makes nearly no noise at all, however the bow does.
One of the biggest mysteries in human ancestry is not "how smart or skilled" ancient humans were, but:
How dumb modern scientists are
Apes hunt. Chimpanzee e.g.
Apes use tools.
Apes scare away leopards etc.
Apes gang up for hunting, they make hunting parties, they hug each other before they depart into "chasers" and "distractors" and "killers".
How dumb scientists are to believe old humans could not hunt, made spears as toys etc. is beyond me.
The first thing in my mind if I see a tool is: oh, this is a tool for A. Obviously someone was doing A-things with that A-tool.
A friend of mine told me about a training accident in Aikido. ... again just one of the first hits.
She attacked with a wooden dagger, like in tis picture: https://www.karatemart.com/red... (ustthe first hi ton google search)
While she got disarmed the "dagger" flew somewhere and she was thrown same way.
For unfortunate bad luck, the dagger ended on the ground with its hilt just as he slammed there with her leg.
The dagger went through her _trousers_ and through the covering Hakama https://www.qualitymartialarts...
Point is: the "piece of wood" went through two layers of cloth and through her calf. And that piece of wood was not even remotely sharpened to intend injury, it was blunt.
If a Neanderthal would walk thorough NYC, or Paris, no one would turn around and look at him, as no one would find anything bizzare or odd looking about him.
He is more or less white skinned, has mostly red hair or is blonde, is relatively tall and obviously because of his work habits muscular. Thats it. Put him a suit on a couch and don't let him run around to hunt, he just looks like you.
I would go so far to claim that the idea that they did not wash and where dirty and filthy is absurd. They had music, so they most likely did dance, did sing, had a language, many languages actually. They painted caves, they cooked food, they lived in families/tribes, they buried their dead, they made weapons, used flint stone, used fire probably had ceramics ...
Ancient humans, regardless what "race/species" were as smart as we are ... looking at the average /. post, probably smarter than we are. Just because they had no smart phones, did not ride on horses (yet), had no houses made from bricks etc. does not make them "dumb". They had no technology, but they still had brains.
The point of the article is that we've discovered that the spears used during that period were more accurate than we previously believed.
Well a few days/weeks ago we had an article about "why are scientists surprised" or something.
Sorry, the article, the "research" and the "discovery" is just bullshit.
We find 300,000 year old relics of wooden spears made by Neanderthals ...
Some couch potato pseudo scientist can not imagine (yes imagine) that such a spear was useful to hunt unless you are as close as 10 yards. He writes a paper. It gets "scientific consensus". It gets taught in schools.
I made spears as a boy, throwing them about 40 yards ... no one taught me, I had no particular skill, the spears where not sophisticated.
The idea that a prehistoric human race is smart enough to make spears, but to dumb to use them, is: idiotic.
In many regards scientists are just idiots who lack common sense.
Most likely they hat Atl Atl's to throw them or used strings wrapped around the end of the spear and threw them 100 yards or more. What fucking animal lets you get close enough that you can throw from 20 yards (oh, new science) or from 10 yards (old science)???
From the point of view of genetics, 'race' is little more than an artificial construct that humans have created to make each others lives more complicated and generally more miserable than they have to be.
Race of humans, yes.
Races of horses, sheep, cows, dogs, cats ... etc. not so much.
Mostly, homo sapiens and neanderthals did not interbreed, just sometimes.
You mix up "sometimes" with "someplace".
Interbreeding as we know today happened in Europe. ... go figure.
The genes for red hair is an Neanderthal gene
No idea what you want to say.
You sound like a politician using the right words but producing random sentences.
Germany needs expansion of its natural gas generating capacity.
We don't generate much natural gas anymore, we just burn it, somehow/somewhere.
pre-emptively saying it can't be expansion of the reserve capacity.
As I already pointed out: we already have more reserve capacity than the amount of power we export.
Building more "reserve power plants" makes no sense. If you would know how the power market and the reserve power market works, you would not write nonsense like above.
Short introduction: ...) is divided into three markets (if you include transport grids, then it is four but that is not relevant)
The power selling market (not buying, yes only selling, might sound stupid for you that there are markets that are purely selling but that is how it is
o power generation
o reserve power
o balancing power
If you live in region Pinky and I live far away in Brainy, and for some obscure reason you bought power from me, you pay what I bill you, or more precisely as you obviously are a big customer - otherwise you had not bought from me - pay what we agreed on in the contract, then:
o I have to generate the power and transport it to you (that is why I excluded transport grids), you pay my bill for that
o I have to pay a reserve power plant operator in your local grid a "stand by fee"
+ I have to agree on a contract with said reserve power operator to pay his fee if he has to switch from stand by to actually provide the reserve power - no big issue as if I fail to produce and deliver the power "I owe you" I safe the production costs for it
o I have to pay the "balancing power" in your grid in case you don't take the agreed amount but take more or less or don't take it in the "bandwidth" we agreed on - and yes, for that I have to make a contract with "balancing power providers" but that is usually only the grid operator of your grid region or "balancing region"
So, as neither you nor the writer of the article you refer to seems to know stuff like this: you have no idea what "reserve power is" (hint: there are three kinds of reserve power ... you can google it).
So: no, Germany is not building more reserve power plants, we already have much to many of them.
Hint: every coal plant that was shut down because it was replaced by wind and solar and biomass is basically a reserve power plant now.
No idea why people on /. who never read a book about electric power generation and/or grids and/or grid management and/or electric power markets and/or renewable energy feel so eager to post every time a "Germany" or "renewable" or "nuke" threat shows up.
Electric power and grids and power plants don't work as you think they work. So: shut up. Watch a movie, eat some pop corn, drink a beer.
There are no "Dukelflautes" in Germany.
Dunkel as in dark, it is at night.
Wind does not stop at night, especially not at the coast, dumbass.
You can't rely on neighbours to fill up the reliability gap of renewables. ... or do you have any news article about a power outage in recent years that was not caused by a mayor grid problem, as in collapsing pillars due to ice load on top of them?
Yes we can
But a sheet of paper is something I should be able to spell correctly in 3 languages and pronounce fairly accurately at least in two. .... oops german keyboard again made me laps.
So do I.
But a keyboard is a keyboard, and a spelling error is not the same as a tzping error
And no: if I reread what I wrote above, I don't see any *spelling* errors. Would take me probably half an hour to realize that I mistyped "typing" by accidentally hitting the Z (on a german keyboard the Z is where the english Y is ... just in case you wonder) however in this post, "tzping" is red underlined ... and as it is a word that makes no sense at all, I would probably spot it.
Actually I don't know if I mixed up C and S or if I initially spelled it wrong ...
Oh, you now, I mistyped it. First I typed cheet, because S and C are close on the keyboard. ... hence you can not right click on the mistyped word and chose the correct spelling. ... I did not realize that the first letter was a c and not an s ... because for a german sheet and cheet and cheat sound the same ... and my eye does not pick up such nonsense. What ever I read can be misspelled how ever you want as it transforms directly into sound/thought anyway. Unless of course, it makes no sense.
Cheet was red underlined so I saw: "oh, there must be a typo!" As Google Chrome insists on my Mac to use a half self programmed text edit widget, it somehow realizes that MacOS says: "typo" but for some odd reason it does not sue the MacOS spelling correction
Surprisingly as I changed cheet to cheat, the red underline went away
So .... does that explain it? But to answer your question: ortografi is over rated, and obviously if you had grasped my sheet of paper with boxes you would put it into the second/outer box and not onto the rest of the paper, silly you.
So while your factory is shut down the night clubs in Bangkok are going full bore.
And in comparision to a factory, how much power does a night club use?
LOL do you go around tucking them in
Unfortunately not, my GF/wife does not allow me.
However when we come home from the super market (which closes at 20:00) we pass many many houses.
What is wrong with you? Is your telepathy failing you? You live on the other side of the planet and believe to know more than one who is living at the place you are scrying? Perhaps you should seek mental help instead of googleing weather sites you don't comprehend.
Hint: north to south Thailand is about 2000km long ... east to west about 1100km ... the weather or climate at my place is not the "average" of Thailand. Every region has its specific own climate ... and outside of towns people go up around 6:00 or 5:30 even and go to bed around 20:00 or 22:00
And the sleeping patterns have only a little part to do with energy consumption. If you ever had dug into energy production/consumption you knew that.
What is about those links?
Something wrong? Do they need prove reading?
Why would something be selected for use as an insecticide if it harmed humans more than it did insects? An insecticide would be chosen because insects are sensitive to it whereas humans are not -- that's what makes it an 'insecticide'.
But they are not chosen that way. And if you would follow the news you would knew that stuff like roundup is about to be abolished on most parts of the planet: because it harms humans.
How you come to the braindead idea that there are poisons that harm insects more than humans is beyond me anyway. Insects are the resilent parts of the eco system ... they are the beasts that nearly survive anything.
It may have a rather small impact on CO2 emissions, but as a large part of it is domestic brown coal retrieved from open pit mines in a rather densely populated country, this also triggers repeated discussions about whole villages and small towns having to be relocated, and about the impact on local ecosystems.
Perhaps you want to look on a map of germany. The "open pits" are not in densely populated areas. And the "closed pits" are some of the best nature resorts germany has.
Also its emission footprint of other substances than CO2 is bad compared to natural gas. ...
Unlike to popular believe: the exhaust of lignite power plants is scrubbed at the same standards hard coal plants are
And last not least, gas plants can be much smaller than coal plants, ... by what magic would they? Oh ... the area in total saves the areal for stored coal?
No, they aren't
and don't have to be close to the coal mines, ... what is wrong with people in our age?
They are not close to coal mines. By what magic would they? A steel factory is not moving when coal mining moves, nor does a power plant. Power plants are close to the place where power is used. Not close to the place where coal is mined. A no brainer if you would not rely on stupid gossip of your friends. What is more easy? Buying land, getting a permit to build up a power line, or transporting coal per ship or train on existing rivers, channels or rails? WTF
so having the option to put then to a second use with power-heat cogeneration
Same as existing coal plants, see above.
You have to pump the water up before, hence it is called "pumped storage" ... how braindead are you?
So it is a 10% loss bottom line.
Since ever means: since the time it was invented :D
Unfortunately your wiki article is wrong ...
The northeast monsoon, starting from October until February brings cold and dry air from China over most of Thailand.[52]:2 :D dry wind ... since october, dumbass.
This actually what we have at the moment
But it is not called monsoon ... no idea who wrote the article. Monsoon means rain season ... depending on where you are it starts around august and ends around december.
If you would read the stuff you quote, you would clearly see: we are in the dry/cold seasons since october ... hence: no rain since 5 month.
How stupid are you actually? Can not even read the stuff you copy/paste?
And a computer as mine, how much power does it use?
Why do you try to prove you are an idiot, I don't get it.
The factory next door with over 1000 workers was closed ... I think the power it drew before dwarfs my computer, but perhaps you know better ...
All the shops are closed ... and at midnight (I was actually sleeping at midnight already) 90% of the Thai in rural Thailand are sleeping, should be a no brainer. But no, it is not, as you like to argue about stuff, you have no clue about.
Which part of "anything germany produces" has costs to produce and "the energy costs are below 1%" of the costs don't you grasp?
He?
Energy costs are completely irrelevant for stuff we export. They are "a little bit relevant" for a bakery, or a "brick manufacture". Bit for nothing else, except transportation.
We don't compete on price. We never did. We compete on quality, dumbass.
If energy prices increase ten fold, a product we export would increase in 9% of price ... and you can be sure even in socialist Germany, the factory will find a way to fire enough people to keep the price increase competitive. And: a stupid american does not care how much an Audi costs. He does not base his decision to buy one on the price ... he would be even more stupid if he did.
Sure ... if you know nothing about GMOs ... the answer makes perhaps sense, I mean, to you.
Florida has mountains, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... dumbass.