You need a heat pipe. Since the heat is moving straight up, convection alone should do it -- no energy input should be required. Granted, a 5K long heat pipe is a major expense. Ideally, the top end should be under water, to use water as a heat sink. You would have losses in the pipe, but should still have plenty of temperature differential to run a Sterling Cycle engine.
Note that this article was on Fox, along with news of a Bigfoot video from North Carolina and a story on an El Chupacabra found in Kentucky. You know that Rupert Murdock, he checks, rechecks, and checks again to make sure his stories are accurate!
If you're rational enough to pull out an app and plot a route home that avoids all the checkpoints, you're probably sober enough to drive. The problem with drunk drivers is that they DON'T think straight.
The "free market" did exist when you had a large number of farmers selling to a large number of consumers; each player in the market makes an infinitesimally small contribution, thus no one player is able to affect the market as a whole. Unfortunately, once you introduce massive corporation producing and distributing goods as well as lobbying for legislation in their favor, this model no longer holds true. So while a free market may have existed in the time of Adam Smith, to say that what we have now is in any sense "free" is erroneous.
As far as your other examples, you are correct -- people believe in some crazy shit!
Ghost Hunters is just like Monster Hunters -- don't you think if they found concrete proof of the existence of something unusual that news of it would leak out BEFORE they aired the episode???
The "autotuned" sound works for me, along with the notes that sound like they were made with a Super Nintendo.
You, kind sir, need to get your ears repaired. Either that, or you're being sarcastic. Yes, there will be a return to acoustic and a capella music... there always is.
Correlation does not prove causation, but common sense tells you that if you produce music aimed at 12 year olds, they're not going to BUY a lot of it!
Ummm... wouldn't that also require the music companies putting out some music that doesn't suck? How about recording artists that can sing in pitch and don't need to use autotune?
And whatever you do, don't cross the streams.
It would be bad.
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
If they are nomadic people returning on an annual basis to the same shellfishing grounds, then they would be "rebuilding their homes on top of the accumulated rubbish" every year anyway. Tents aren't that hard to move. I'd suspect these "islands" are mostly shell, and humans aren't the only animals that leave piles of shells lying around after eating. As for (b), when you pile stuff up in a swamp, the underlying ground tends to sink, so I'm not sure how accurately that can be measured.
I suspect that since humans despise sleeping in soggy beds, that any place humans inhabited would have been raised above swamp level in the first place, yes. I also suspect that a patch of raised ground of over 100 acres indicates a conscious effort on the behalf of a large number of residents to raise the ground above flood level, not just them chucking their garbage on the floor. In South American they carted in rich, fertile soil from the marshes for agriculture -- why wouldn't Florida natives have done the same?
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You need a heat pipe. Since the heat is moving straight up, convection alone should do it -- no energy input should be required. Granted, a 5K long heat pipe is a major expense. Ideally, the top end should be under water, to use water as a heat sink. You would have losses in the pipe, but should still have plenty of temperature differential to run a Sterling Cycle engine.
Note that this article was on Fox, along with news of a Bigfoot video from North Carolina and a story on an El Chupacabra found in Kentucky. You know that Rupert Murdock, he checks, rechecks, and checks again to make sure his stories are accurate!
Aliens, Atlantis, and Elvis...
Where exactly did the Abominable Snowman in Monster's Inc find "lemon flavoring" for his snow cones while in the middle of Siberia?
If you're rational enough to pull out an app and plot a route home that avoids all the checkpoints, you're probably sober enough to drive. The problem with drunk drivers is that they DON'T think straight.
The last really great musician I discovered (through Pandora) was Eva Cassidy. I downloaded all her albums. She died in 1986...
Sure, there is plenty of good music. But 99% of what is produced in any given year is crap, and what is being publicized now seems like 100% crap.
The "free market" did exist when you had a large number of farmers selling to a large number of consumers; each player in the market makes an infinitesimally small contribution, thus no one player is able to affect the market as a whole. Unfortunately, once you introduce massive corporation producing and distributing goods as well as lobbying for legislation in their favor, this model no longer holds true. So while a free market may have existed in the time of Adam Smith, to say that what we have now is in any sense "free" is erroneous.
As far as your other examples, you are correct -- people believe in some crazy shit!
Scanning radio signals for unusual signals can lead to new science, even if it doesn't provide proof of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Ghost Hunters is just like Monster Hunters -- don't you think if they found concrete proof of the existence of something unusual that news of it would leak out BEFORE they aired the episode???
You mean that Christian doctrine about "Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost", right? I think that's what OP was referring to.
The "autotuned" sound works for me, along with the notes that sound like they were made with a Super Nintendo.
You, kind sir, need to get your ears repaired. Either that, or you're being sarcastic. Yes, there will be a return to acoustic and a capella music... there always is.
Nah, music is like porn... you get tired of it quickly, then you need to get some "new stuff".
Correlation does not prove causation, but common sense tells you that if you produce music aimed at 12 year olds, they're not going to BUY a lot of it!
There is no reason why a mix of two songs that suck can't be fantastic
Try mixing "Baby, baby, baby" and "Friday", then get back to me on that... Bieber and Black together at last!
Ummm... wouldn't that also require the music companies putting out some music that doesn't suck? How about recording artists that can sing in pitch and don't need to use autotune?
I blame Justin Bieber, Rhiana, and Lady Gaga. Give me something worth downloading, and I'll download it!
Surely you're confusing "Catholics" or "Christians", with "All Religions"??? As a Buddhist, I don't believe in ghosts.
And whatever you do, don't cross the streams. It would be bad. Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
This hole would make an excellent geothermal energy source. (By the way, why doesn't somebody start using abandoned oil wells for geothermal?)
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"History is written by the winners." -- Alex Haley
Gee, funny that nobody has had that thought before!
Well, the bitter part is no more robot repair technicians. The sweet part is no more Jersey Shore! -- Bender
If they are nomadic people returning on an annual basis to the same shellfishing grounds, then they would be "rebuilding their homes on top of the accumulated rubbish" every year anyway. Tents aren't that hard to move. I'd suspect these "islands" are mostly shell, and humans aren't the only animals that leave piles of shells lying around after eating. As for (b), when you pile stuff up in a swamp, the underlying ground tends to sink, so I'm not sure how accurately that can be measured.
It's those RS-232 "Gender Changers" that I find offensive and repugnant! ;-)
I suspect that since humans despise sleeping in soggy beds, that any place humans inhabited would have been raised above swamp level in the first place, yes. I also suspect that a patch of raised ground of over 100 acres indicates a conscious effort on the behalf of a large number of residents to raise the ground above flood level, not just them chucking their garbage on the floor. In South American they carted in rich, fertile soil from the marshes for agriculture -- why wouldn't Florida natives have done the same?