Yes but would they have died if they were doing say, 40mph when the steering pump failed? Hell no, probably would've walked away without a scratch.
Judging by the pics and how the metal structure of the Porsche is wrapped around the pole, they were doing triple digit speeds... probably a quarter mile run.
You can easily move to another state. Just pack up your stuff and go. You cannot easily move to another country; in some cases it may be impossible (what country will have you?)
Very interesting... so now U.S. is afraid to kill him, but Russia/China/Iran have something to gain by killing him.
His only choice now is to put himself completely at Putin's mercy, give the Russians everything he's got that he hasn't released yet, seek KGB protection, and find a nice Russian gal to settle down with for the rest of his life. Oh and deactivate the doomsday switch so the Chinese don't have an incentive to kill him anymore.
I know you're trying to be snarky, but in fact it would be true if the warm tropical weather came by itself without the increase in disease carrying insects and vermin, torrential rain, etc. Not to mention the cultures that evolved in tropical climates have yet to develop science and medical technology.
The few places in tropical climates that have developed to European levels enjoy excellent health and longevity. Singapore would be one example.
Fact is, people (especially old people) die en mass in cold winters and do well in hot weather. Why do you think old people all move to Florida instead of enjoying their Michigan/NY winters?
People like to rag on China's rampant corruption and how their high speed rail minister got jailed for skimming $ millions.
Well, at least they have a functioning high speed rail. USA is just as corrupt, I guess Chicago politics especially, and unlike the Chinese we're left with nothing valuable at the end of the day.
Okay in that case, attaching a hose to the nitrogen tank and a mask at the other end would do the trick. Simply place the mask over your face while lying down on your back. Then you can have the windows open for other people's safety and still be breathing in pure nitrogen.
You would need some kind of a pressure regulator between the tank and the hose though, nitrogen from a tank would under high pressure and probably send the mask flying.
He should just keep a normal dose of coke, plus a cyanide pill. Bliss followed by a quick death.
The problem though is that both are illegal to possess and could land you in jail while you're still healthy.
Better to keep a large container of compressed nitrogen gas in your bedroom. And make sure your bedroom is somewhat airtight (e.g. gaps in the window sills caulked, etc)
Nitrogen is legal to own and can be bought at any scuba store. Flooding your bedroom with large amounts of nitrogen is a pleasant, quick, and painless way to die. And all you have to do is close the door and turn the valve on.
"intent to distribute" has been in the drug laws for a long time.
"Hate crimes" are pretty close to thought crimes as well. I mean, an assault is an assault and should be punished as one, right? No, they carry extra penalties if the perpetrator was thinking the wrong thoughts while perpetrating the assault.
Child porn is also practically a thought crime now that they've expanded the law to cover fictional cartoons and drawings.
The answer is that it's in their own self-interest, or what the leaders of the government think it's in their own self-interest. Which is what pretty much every political action boils down to.
Singapore is a tiny nation surrounded by giants (in terms of population). It is totally dependent on water imports from Malaysia, for instance. It's a 5 minute boat ride from tens of millions of impoverished refugees (or invaders, depending on how you look at it). Are you surprised that Singapore would spy on the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia? Does it shock your utopian sensibilities that any other democratic nation would stoop to the level of the great satan United States?
South Korea is in the same boat as Singapore, although to a lesser degree. They are surrounded by a nuclear N. Korea, Communist China which is trying to transform itself into Imperial China, and a frenemy Japan which is still laying territorial claims to its land.
I don't know what country you live in, but if you think your sterling government doesn't spy on its neighbors, you need to pick up a copy of 48 Laws of Power and learn how the real world works.
If you want to archive and preserve data long term, wouldn't you want a stable location, someplace that doesn't suffer from 9+ magnitude earthquakes every century or so? And btw SF is overdue for one of these big ones.
I'd pick a small city in the Rocky mountains, far from earthquakes, floods and riots.
from astronomical observations that 85% of the Universe's matter is dark"
They don't *know*, they're deducing this from reconciling observed data with general relativity but it's far from certain.
However relativity is not infallible, maybe it's true only in a special case -- like how Newtonian mechanics works great but only in a special case (bigger size than quantum scale, less velocity than ~1/10 c, etc)
Maybe at very large size and mass such as galaxies, general relativity doesn't hold and there's a better theory for explaining motion and gravity. If so we wouldn't have to invent nonexistent dark matter to account for the faster-than-expected galactic rotation and other things.
It made me cringe reading this. Both you and your teacher haven't the foggiest idea what escape velocity is, let alone orbital mechanics. I would hazard a guess and say you attended public schools in the U.S., and you were born after 1980?
As for your last point, most of the energy required for achieving orbit goes into accelerating to orbital speed (~17,500 mph). Getting out of the atmosphere is relatively easy. If you had a magic balloon that took you straight up to an altitude of 1,000 miles, you would just fall straight back down to earth again and you would be nowhere near achieving orbit.
I thought collecting interstellar hydrogen atoms with giant magnetic scoops while accelerating to near lightspeed and using them in a fusion ramjet was what Bussard was working on...
Yes, let's bring in a UN international team to deal with this crisis, consisting of such notable experts as:
U.S. FEMA, especially the Katrina veterans Russian crack team that saved Chernobyl Chinese People's Liberation Army, they handle all the earthquake disaster relief over there
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Yes but would they have died if they were doing say, 40mph when the steering pump failed? Hell no, probably would've walked away without a scratch.
Judging by the pics and how the metal structure of the Porsche is wrapped around the pole, they were doing triple digit speeds... probably a quarter mile run.
You can easily move to another state. Just pack up your stuff and go. You cannot easily move to another country; in some cases it may be impossible (what country will have you?)
it's looking into the future
Did Novell buy it and fuck it up? Or...?
Very interesting... so now U.S. is afraid to kill him, but Russia/China/Iran have something to gain by killing him.
His only choice now is to put himself completely at Putin's mercy, give the Russians everything he's got that he hasn't released yet, seek KGB protection, and find a nice Russian gal to settle down with for the rest of his life. Oh and deactivate the doomsday switch so the Chinese don't have an incentive to kill him anymore.
I know you're trying to be snarky, but in fact it would be true if the warm tropical weather came by itself without the increase in disease carrying insects and vermin, torrential rain, etc. Not to mention the cultures that evolved in tropical climates have yet to develop science and medical technology.
The few places in tropical climates that have developed to European levels enjoy excellent health and longevity. Singapore would be one example.
Fact is, people (especially old people) die en mass in cold winters and do well in hot weather. Why do you think old people all move to Florida instead of enjoying their Michigan/NY winters?
People like to rag on China's rampant corruption and how their high speed rail minister got jailed for skimming $ millions.
Well, at least they have a functioning high speed rail. USA is just as corrupt, I guess Chicago politics especially, and unlike the Chinese we're left with nothing valuable at the end of the day.
Okay in that case, attaching a hose to the nitrogen tank and a mask at the other end would do the trick. Simply place the mask over your face while lying down on your back. Then you can have the windows open for other people's safety and still be breathing in pure nitrogen.
You would need some kind of a pressure regulator between the tank and the hose though, nitrogen from a tank would under high pressure and probably send the mask flying.
He should just keep a normal dose of coke, plus a cyanide pill. Bliss followed by a quick death.
The problem though is that both are illegal to possess and could land you in jail while you're still healthy.
Better to keep a large container of compressed nitrogen gas in your bedroom. And make sure your bedroom is somewhat airtight (e.g. gaps in the window sills caulked, etc)
Nitrogen is legal to own and can be bought at any scuba store. Flooding your bedroom with large amounts of nitrogen is a pleasant, quick, and painless way to die. And all you have to do is close the door and turn the valve on.
"intent to distribute" has been in the drug laws for a long time.
"Hate crimes" are pretty close to thought crimes as well. I mean, an assault is an assault and should be punished as one, right? No, they carry extra penalties if the perpetrator was thinking the wrong thoughts while perpetrating the assault.
Child porn is also practically a thought crime now that they've expanded the law to cover fictional cartoons and drawings.
Can you really be that naive?
The answer is that it's in their own self-interest, or what the leaders of the government think it's in their own self-interest. Which is what pretty much every political action boils down to.
Singapore is a tiny nation surrounded by giants (in terms of population). It is totally dependent on water imports from Malaysia, for instance. It's a 5 minute boat ride from tens of millions of impoverished refugees (or invaders, depending on how you look at it). Are you surprised that Singapore would spy on the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia? Does it shock your utopian sensibilities that any other democratic nation would stoop to the level of the great satan United States?
South Korea is in the same boat as Singapore, although to a lesser degree. They are surrounded by a nuclear N. Korea, Communist China which is trying to transform itself into Imperial China, and a frenemy Japan which is still laying territorial claims to its land.
I don't know what country you live in, but if you think your sterling government doesn't spy on its neighbors, you need to pick up a copy of 48 Laws of Power and learn how the real world works.
Sweden was tricked into sending him to Solvang, which looks like Denmark but isn't.
because most people have heard of Blackberry and know what it is.
If you want to archive and preserve data long term, wouldn't you want a stable location, someplace that doesn't suffer from 9+ magnitude earthquakes every century or so? And btw SF is overdue for one of these big ones.
I'd pick a small city in the Rocky mountains, far from earthquakes, floods and riots.
from astronomical observations that 85% of the Universe's matter is dark"
They don't *know*, they're deducing this from reconciling observed data with general relativity but it's far from certain.
However relativity is not infallible, maybe it's true only in a special case -- like how Newtonian mechanics works great but only in a special case (bigger size than quantum scale, less velocity than ~1/10 c, etc)
Maybe at very large size and mass such as galaxies, general relativity doesn't hold and there's a better theory for explaining motion and gravity. If so we wouldn't have to invent nonexistent dark matter to account for the faster-than-expected galactic rotation and other things.
probably not nuts, just hype / pump-and-dump.
how many lines of code did the Jurassic Park UNIX system have?
And when you plow into a pedestrian in your Audi A4 while checking a Facebook message, better call Saul!
to provide electricity for my flying car, and my holographic storage disks too!
It made me cringe reading this. Both you and your teacher haven't the foggiest idea what escape velocity is, let alone orbital mechanics. I would hazard a guess and say you attended public schools in the U.S., and you were born after 1980?
As for your last point, most of the energy required for achieving orbit goes into accelerating to orbital speed (~17,500 mph). Getting out of the atmosphere is relatively easy. If you had a magic balloon that took you straight up to an altitude of 1,000 miles, you would just fall straight back down to earth again and you would be nowhere near achieving orbit.
I thought collecting interstellar hydrogen atoms with giant magnetic scoops while accelerating to near lightspeed and using them in a fusion ramjet was what Bussard was working on...
I told you so!
Signed,
Edison
just do a computer simulation of sending robots into space. Much cheaper and most people can't even tell, 3D graphics are so good nowadays.
Yes, let's bring in a UN international team to deal with this crisis, consisting of such notable experts as:
U.S. FEMA, especially the Katrina veterans
Russian crack team that saved Chernobyl
Chinese People's Liberation Army, they handle all the earthquake disaster relief over there
he got shanghaied to Venus and is working secretly as an ad copywrighter