or:... for 1000 pounds sterling a month, you get the same crime reported 5000 times, then you need to employ 300 secretaries to sort through the reports
I think this is plain stupid... who is going to watch hours and hours of people passing by the camera ? I don't know much about UK, but I don't think is really that boring a place that people will spend hours watching low quality video of other people going down the street...
I think the journalists should take a reality check...
"were able to document several thousand years of the K-P event in short 150-year-long time-steps"... so, the minimum resolution was 150 years, but they know the recovery took only 100 years; the K-P event took several thousand years ??
They can tell from a single data point that algae bounced back faster, or that algae did not bounce back faster ? How about the "dip in sterane levels " in the clay deposits "right after the meteorite hit is evidence" that something changed the course of a river or ocean currents ? How did fish survive after a 100 years "dip" in algae levels ?
Last glaciation (the big one, not the "little ice age" that did or did not exist) had temperatures with only 5 degrees Celsius lower, so don't be so sure 20 F. below current averages is that good.
On the flip side, there will be a lot more tall blondes available in meridional climates than before:)
"There's no way to make an airship that can carry a decent fraction of the number of people who can ride on a train or ocean liner."... you mean the kind of train that needs very expensive rails, personnel to inspect those rails every day, expensive communication lines along the rails to coordinate traffic, clumsy stations that normal road traffic has to go around or above, state subsidies in every country on earth etc. ?... or the kind of ocean lines that have people dragging the estuaries to let them dock, require expensive and maintenance-hungry docking facilities plus a horde of maintenance personnel to boot ?
Airships were the victim of their own hype... they were supposed to do away with all the messy work with roads and hangars etc., plus being a sure victim to antiaircraft guns or fighter airplanes... and aircraft design and development was and still led by the needs of the military.
Yeah, I root for the airships, if only because to get a decent road infrastructure where I live we'll have to move so much earth that if it would be piled in Holland it would turn it into another Switzerland.
Hindenburg had the cruise speed at 125km/h, R100 reached 131km/h in testing, and that was limited by the engines they could mount at that time. Aeros claims heir airship will get to 280km/h, and the project had a round of tests this year, so it's not vaporware... when Hindenburg was built even heavier-than-air planes weren't much faster, and were even less efficient at moving stuff around.
From what I understand the speed of airships won't go much about 300km/h because the friction will cause much greater fuel consumption, not because an rigid frame airship won't be able to go faster.
I don't remember ever saying airships are better/more efficient at hauling freight. I only said speed is not the issue. There are lots of other issues which won't be solved very soon, if at all.
Many French cheeses depend on the fungal spores and/or bacteria naturally present in the soil there
Thank you for proving me right not to eat moldy French cheese... I always new they were putting dirt on the rolls.
Now, really... if you can tell a "French" cheese from a cheese with fancy mound made someplace else without doing a DNA test on it, you must be Superman.
You should look into how wine is made now... it does not matter if the grape is from Croatia or from Nepal... it does not even matter if they actually use grapes (though probably it would be a bit cheaper)... too little sun that summer, then add sugar, too much, add something else... and so on. Had my visit to a winery a few years back, and I don't drink shop bough wine since, got an uncle who makes his own, and if it's too sour I can add sugar myself if I want, no need to pay good money on pink colored coke...
... I think the company that got the "war on weeds" contract is just a good example of corporate welfare... from what I see from here http://www.cogongrass.org/ it "takes over" only the "ecosystems" from farm fields and "along highways, fences, and around water bodies", besides being able to survive in other sunny and well watered places. Does not seem at all to be a "end of the world as we know it" weed, just a normal grass that might bother farmers until a good enough herbicide is found.
How about this is quite an exaggeration ? Goats don't touch it ? Then why "Young inflorescences and shoots may be eaten cooked, and the roots contain starch and sugars and are therefore easy to chew." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperata_cylindrica ) ? If humans can eat parts of it, then goats will have no problem.
Serrated edges, silica embedded in the leaves... how is different from other grasses ? How is it different from wheat, for example, or from maize (you can get nasty cuts from running in a maize field), or from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agropyron_repens, which is also "invasive in some parts of the world", has deep roots and rhizomes and was a bitch for crops for hundreds of years?
The "Colorado bugs"... used to be a big issue, but it's no longer true; they're still here, munching on potato leaves and sometimes nibbling at tomato or eggplant leaves, but there are pesticides that are just right for them... no need to get town folk out in the fields to collect them, like it was done in the '50s. Even some birds got to like their taste... the pheasants if I remember well.
"that was a fairly localised conflict. "... like in a country the size of a big chunk of Europe ? Remember most maps you saw are projections of a sphere to a plane... northern parts look bigger.
"So, instead of having one giant conflict that lasts for a few years, we have a never-ending series of small but locally devastating conflicts that go on forever."... and how is this different from what was going on in the world before WWI ?
Your rocket technology awareness is sadly not very developed, if you think the rockets designed in US or USSR during the '50s had anything to do with the Vs, except being... you know, rocket-ish, being pointed and having fins. Remember I did not deny that von Braun had a hand in developing US rockets after the war, just that the technology used in the rockets that got to space in them was dissimilar enough from what was put inside the Vs.
Missile technology is ancient... arrows are missiles, you know, and rockets were used for quite a long time before WWII, and even during the WWII (for antitank weapons, for ex.)... the bazooka was a lot more imporant, militarily speaking, than the duds that the Vs were, who only killed civilians and who took resources from the production of submarines... I believe the Vs had a larger contribution to the defeat of the Nazis than some of the Allied nations...
Of course it can be done, just not for very long. You're right, it carries freight, but at 100km/h, max 120km/h, otherwise the railway bed will need to be rebuilt every second week when ridden by 12 metric tons of weight per axle at the speed of 300km/h. You also might be right about the price, but I don't think you factored in that price the cost of keeping the line closed with a train at 100km/h, when you could have two or three at 300km/h.
Passengers and luggage are a lot lighter than... let's say, milk, in the same volume occupied in a railway wagon.
I'm not arguing for airships being better at lugging freight from place to place, just that the speed of an airship is not a problem: a rigid frame airship can go to about 300km/h before friction with the air makes fuel consumption a problem.
The airships have a host of other issues: very bulky for the amount of useful weight they can carry, trouble with fuel consumption decreasing the weight in time (so in a rigid airframe airship that would require for a way to reduce the volume of air displaced, which wasn't yet solved), the price of helium (it's a lot less expensive than it was during the '30s, but still high), trouble with precision landing in turbulence and staying in one place once landed etc.
hmm... does it write they carry freight at 300km/hour ?... and I heard they did not finish paying for the tracks, not to mention that day-to-day operation is subsidized by the state budget, because the full price would be a bit more expensive than a plane ticked for the same destination.
"Airships are slow and inefficient compared to ocean liners"... show me an ocean liner or container train that can do 250km/h, and I'll bow to your argument. Airships have a lot of drawbacks, but being slow (compared with land or sea transportation) isn't one of them.
Same military genius thought that reserves are for wimps, that bigger is better, that the way to solve food scarcity was to cull the extra population, and that making purchases from his allies with IOUs will make them love him more... not to forget getting millions of his own people killed in the process... and no, there is no connection between the V1 or V2 and the rockets that actually got to space except having pointy tops and fins... during the war the Russians, UK and US of A already had rockets that could hit a target smaller than the city of London, which was the smallest target the Vs managed.
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or: ... for 1000 pounds sterling a month, you get the same crime reported 5000 times, then you need to employ 300 secretaries to sort through the reports
I think this is plain stupid ... who is going to watch hours and hours of people passing by the camera ? I don't know much about UK, but I don't think is really that boring a place that people will spend hours watching low quality video of other people going down the street ...
"rude, and mischievous"
I think he was quite polite: a request every third second ; I wish some common web-crawlers would do the same (no, it's not google).
I think the journalists should take a reality check ...
"were able to document several thousand years of the K-P event in short 150-year-long time-steps" ... so, the minimum resolution was 150 years, but they know the recovery took only 100 years; the K-P event took several thousand years ??
They can tell from a single data point that algae bounced back faster, or that algae did not bounce back faster ? How about the "dip in sterane levels " in the clay deposits "right after the meteorite hit is evidence" that something changed the course of a river or ocean currents ? How did fish survive after a 100 years "dip" in algae levels ?
they have no way of knowing if what I wrote was crap
They could try reading it ...
Last glaciation (the big one, not the "little ice age" that did or did not exist) had temperatures with only 5 degrees Celsius lower, so don't be so sure 20 F. below current averages is that good.
On the flip side, there will be a lot more tall blondes available in meridional climates than before :)
so, how do you detect citizenship by DNA testing ? ... it would be fun to have all the descendants of the Norse "aliens" expelled :P
"There's no way to make an airship that can carry a decent fraction of the number of people who can ride on a train or ocean liner." ... you mean the kind of train that needs very expensive rails, personnel to inspect those rails every day, expensive communication lines along the rails to coordinate traffic, clumsy stations that normal road traffic has to go around or above, state subsidies in every country on earth etc. ? ... or the kind of ocean lines that have people dragging the estuaries to let them dock, require expensive and maintenance-hungry docking facilities plus a horde of maintenance personnel to boot ?
Airships were the victim of their own hype ... they were supposed to do away with all the messy work with roads and hangars etc., plus being a sure victim to antiaircraft guns or fighter airplanes ... and aircraft design and development was and still led by the needs of the military.
Yeah, I root for the airships, if only because to get a decent road infrastructure where I live we'll have to move so much earth that if it would be piled in Holland it would turn it into another Switzerland.
Hindenburg had the cruise speed at 125km/h, R100 reached 131km/h in testing, and that was limited by the engines they could mount at that time. Aeros claims heir airship will get to 280km/h, and the project had a round of tests this year, so it's not vaporware ... when Hindenburg was built even heavier-than-air planes weren't much faster, and were even less efficient at moving stuff around.
From what I understand the speed of airships won't go much about 300km/h because the friction will cause much greater fuel consumption, not because an rigid frame airship won't be able to go faster.
I don't remember ever saying airships are better/more efficient at hauling freight. I only said speed is not the issue. There are lots of other issues which won't be solved very soon, if at all.
Thank you for proving me right not to eat moldy French cheese ... I always new they were putting dirt on the rolls.
Now, really ... if you can tell a "French" cheese from a cheese with fancy mound made someplace else without doing a DNA test on it, you must be Superman.
You should look into how wine is made now ... it does not matter if the grape is from Croatia or from Nepal ... it does not even matter if they actually use grapes (though probably it would be a bit cheaper) ... too little sun that summer, then add sugar, too much, add something else ... and so on. Had my visit to a winery a few years back, and I don't drink shop bough wine since, got an uncle who makes his own, and if it's too sour I can add sugar myself if I want, no need to pay good money on pink colored coke ...
How about this is quite an exaggeration ? Goats don't touch it ? Then why "Young inflorescences and shoots may be eaten cooked, and the roots contain starch and sugars and are therefore easy to chew." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperata_cylindrica ) ? If humans can eat parts of it, then goats will have no problem.
Serrated edges, silica embedded in the leaves ... how is different from other grasses ? How is it different from wheat, for example, or from maize (you can get nasty cuts from running in a maize field), or from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agropyron_repens, which is also "invasive in some parts of the world", has deep roots and rhizomes and was a bitch for crops for hundreds of years?
Next autumn news: invasion of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_clover
The "Colorado bugs" ... used to be a big issue, but it's no longer true; they're still here, munching on potato leaves and sometimes nibbling at tomato or eggplant leaves, but there are pesticides that are just right for them ... no need to get town folk out in the fields to collect them, like it was done in the '50s. Even some birds got to like their taste ... the pheasants if I remember well.
nah, those trolls are vegan, won't even read about meat.
cheap cut ...
"that was a fairly localised conflict. " ... like in a country the size of a big chunk of Europe ? Remember most maps you saw are projections of a sphere to a plane ... northern parts look bigger.
"So, instead of having one giant conflict that lasts for a few years, we have a never-ending series of small but locally devastating conflicts that go on forever." ... and how is this different from what was going on in the world before WWI ?
no, just von Bazooka
did not say they were useful for carrying freight, just that the issue ain't the speed.
Your rocket technology awareness is sadly not very developed, if you think the rockets designed in US or USSR during the '50s had anything to do with the Vs, except being ... you know, rocket-ish, being pointed and having fins. Remember I did not deny that von Braun had a hand in developing US rockets after the war, just that the technology used in the rockets that got to space in them was dissimilar enough from what was put inside the Vs.
Missile technology is ancient ... arrows are missiles, you know, and rockets were used for quite a long time before WWII, and even during the WWII (for antitank weapons, for ex.) ... the bazooka was a lot more imporant, militarily speaking, than the duds that the Vs were, who only killed civilians and who took resources from the production of submarines ... I believe the Vs had a larger contribution to the defeat of the Nazis than some of the Allied nations ...
if you're an Internet worshiper, here is a link, too ... http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/america_and_rocket_technology.htm
Of course it can be done, just not for very long. You're right, it carries freight, but at 100km/h, max 120km/h, otherwise the railway bed will need to be rebuilt every second week when ridden by 12 metric tons of weight per axle at the speed of 300km/h. You also might be right about the price, but I don't think you factored in that price the cost of keeping the line closed with a train at 100km/h, when you could have two or three at 300km/h.
Passengers and luggage are a lot lighter than ... let's say, milk, in the same volume occupied in a railway wagon.
I'm not arguing for airships being better at lugging freight from place to place, just that the speed of an airship is not a problem: a rigid frame airship can go to about 300km/h before friction with the air makes fuel consumption a problem.
The airships have a host of other issues: very bulky for the amount of useful weight they can carry, trouble with fuel consumption decreasing the weight in time (so in a rigid airframe airship that would require for a way to reduce the volume of air displaced, which wasn't yet solved), the price of helium (it's a lot less expensive than it was during the '30s, but still high), trouble with precision landing in turbulence and staying in one place once landed etc.
hmm ... does it write they carry freight at 300km/hour ? ... and I heard they did not finish paying for the tracks, not to mention that day-to-day operation is subsidized by the state budget, because the full price would be a bit more expensive than a plane ticked for the same destination.
"Airships are slow and inefficient compared to ocean liners" ... show me an ocean liner or container train that can do 250km/h, and I'll bow to your argument. Airships have a lot of drawbacks, but being slow (compared with land or sea transportation) isn't one of them.
Same military genius thought that reserves are for wimps, that bigger is better, that the way to solve food scarcity was to cull the extra population, and that making purchases from his allies with IOUs will make them love him more ... not to forget getting millions of his own people killed in the process ... and no, there is no connection between the V1 or V2 and the rockets that actually got to space except having pointy tops and fins ... during the war the Russians, UK and US of A already had rockets that could hit a target smaller than the city of London, which was the smallest target the Vs managed.
60 seconds would be enough if you shower in a airlock and can cycle the atmosphere ...