Exactly. You need cold, so the only real solution is to detonate a nuclear device deep under the ocean in front of the hurricane so that the upwelling of cold water saps the storm of its strength. Find a flaw in that plan! I dare you!!!!
How much energy do you think it would take to have any sort of meaningful effect on a hurricane we're actually worried about?
What happened to chaos theory? Small changes leading to major effects? Personally I think the butterfly flapping it's wings is the idea taken to a ludicrous extreme, but it must kick in at some level. I imagine as well that it's easier to disrupt a storm's organization than to enhance it.
I'm more concerned about the possible corruption of this technology... Real Genius^10.
Yes, because we should all base our science policy ideas on Val Kilmer comedies. Any lines you want to quote from Top Secret or Top Gun to further support your argument?
What? Top Gun wasn't a comedy? Really?! Huh.
what's to stop it from being used to vaporize human targets or entire CITIES from space.
Reality and the laws of physics?
Seriously, what's with all the BS scare tactic posts? When did Slashdot become home of the hyperventilating Luddites?
Half the kids can't read anyway. Or solve the equation "x = 5" for x. The content of the school's Internet filter seems a bit far down the list of real concerns.
you must have been in an office building where people take the elevator from the 8th to the 9th floor
Yes, but to be fair, it's often an issue of building design. The elevators tend to be centrally located while the stairwells are often less well positioned and even tricky to find, which has always raised emergency/evacuation issues in my mind. The better buildings have stairs right next to the elevators.
Go to any site where progressives hang out. If you so much as suggest a tax might be 0.001% too high (or even just at the correct level), you are branded a "right wingnut" or "libertard". The mote intellectual or scientific the site claims to be, the more immature the name calling becomes. You soon realize many of them have never worked in the private sector at all.
The citizen ideologue (ordinary folks who slavishly follow an ideology) are, bar nothing else, the #1 biggest problem in this country. It's what allows gerrymandering to work. If the idiots out there would stop voting party lines, gerrymandering would be ineffective.
They have done surveys where they asked who someone voted for, and then asked their opinion on several issues. There was often complete disassociation between what the voter felt on issues, and how their candidate actually voted.
The reason why sin taxes target socially unpopular items is "divide and rule." In other words, if everything gets a sales tax,everyone complains.
Unfortunately, here in California, reason is extinct. Thanks to the vile, scummy subhumans in the state legislature, some parts of California now have a sales tax of 10% or more. People are protesting left and right, but the local news is too busy reporting on Octomom or some dumbass driving drunk into a tree. If you call your state representative, you get a low level intern who just insults you and hangs up. You think any of these psychopaths give a gnat's fart about popularity anymore? They're all gerrymandered in. They don't care.
Meanwhile, everyone I know is buying stuff out of state and online at places that don't charge CA sales tax, and having a good, long, hard laugh at the line on the state tax form where we're supposed to voluntarily report all out of state purchases. Yeah, right.
Yeah, but the smart playah has already taken out the pimp with the missile launcher he found floating in the air and rotating down by the docks near the bridge pylon.
Just get rid of the deductions for children. That's ass backwards anyway. Your larger family uses more public resources so you pay less taxes? WTH? Can't get by without the deductions? Maybe you weren't financially prepared to have kids.
And that sort of thinking is what got us Galactus style government in the first place that needs to find a way to tax our every breath and waking moment.
I used to work with a guy that claimed to hate how nearly every car on the road looked. When I asked him what he did like, he showed me a picture online of some godawful pile of metal. I think it was a Citroen or something. It looked like the reincarnation of the Chevy Citation after difficult birth. Oh, and *his* car was an ancient VW Thing.
The bad news: the utilities have to generate the equivalent of 28 watts (that is, 28 VA of apparent power for you EEs out there) to light that bulb. Until they fix these issues, I'll hold on to my incandescents and carbon arc lamps, thanks."
So it's better to have a 13 watt bulb instead of a 60, but better to have a 60 instead of a 28.
I gave up on torrents eventually. I either couldn't find what I wanted (I dunno why, but major filesharers have the absolute worst musical tastes), or there was a grand total of *two* seeds trickling out five bytes a minute combined. It's worth money to me to get exactly what I want and have it download in a few minutes.
Maybe papers should stop alienating readers by printing endless, shallow ideological bullshit. See the Los Angeles Times for a prime example of editors living in reality distortion bubbles, and an editorial page that has expanded to encompass the entire paper.
It's a platform designed to drive an Imax camera into a tornado. That alone assigns it much awesome. If you saw the series, the TIV1 was tougher than it looks. Agree about TIV2, though. It was a disaster.
The media reaction is priceless. Some of the talking heads are acting like this guy raped a child and killed a nun by firing starving kittens at her with an air cannon. Damn but I love it when the media goes nuclear bipolar and feeds on itself!:-)
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Exactly. You need cold, so the only real solution is to detonate a nuclear device deep under the ocean in front of the hurricane so that the upwelling of cold water saps the storm of its strength. Find a flaw in that plan! I dare you!!!!
I can out mad scientist ANYONE! Muh ha ha ha! :-)
How much energy do you think it would take to have any sort of meaningful effect on a hurricane we're actually worried about?
What happened to chaos theory? Small changes leading to major effects? Personally I think the butterfly flapping it's wings is the idea taken to a ludicrous extreme, but it must kick in at some level. I imagine as well that it's easier to disrupt a storm's organization than to enhance it.
I'm more concerned about the possible corruption of this technology... Real Genius^10.
Yes, because we should all base our science policy ideas on Val Kilmer comedies. Any lines you want to quote from Top Secret or Top Gun to further support your argument?
What? Top Gun wasn't a comedy? Really?! Huh.
what's to stop it from being used to vaporize human targets or entire CITIES from space.
Reality and the laws of physics?
Seriously, what's with all the BS scare tactic posts? When did Slashdot become home of the hyperventilating Luddites?
Half the kids can't read anyway. Or solve the equation "x = 5" for x. The content of the school's Internet filter seems a bit far down the list of real concerns.
12.7 MW sounds a bit low. Even a DeLorean could generate 1.21 GW.
But seriously, my home entertainment center uses more than that. Well, OK, not so seriously. But still, I'm just sayin.
heh heh :-)
No, I meant Adobe GoLive. Yep. Right. (looks around sheepishly)
And I thought GoLive had a lag time challenge.
you must have been in an office building where people take the elevator from the 8th to the 9th floor
Yes, but to be fair, it's often an issue of building design. The elevators tend to be centrally located while the stairwells are often less well positioned and even tricky to find, which has always raised emergency/evacuation issues in my mind. The better buildings have stairs right next to the elevators.
So change the price as a function of traffic.
That's exactly how they do they pay lanes here in Calfornia (and elsewhere, I imagine).
Go to any site where progressives hang out. If you so much as suggest a tax might be 0.001% too high (or even just at the correct level), you are branded a "right wingnut" or "libertard". The mote intellectual or scientific the site claims to be, the more immature the name calling becomes. You soon realize many of them have never worked in the private sector at all.
The citizen ideologue (ordinary folks who slavishly follow an ideology) are, bar nothing else, the #1 biggest problem in this country. It's what allows gerrymandering to work. If the idiots out there would stop voting party lines, gerrymandering would be ineffective.
They have done surveys where they asked who someone voted for, and then asked their opinion on several issues. There was often complete disassociation between what the voter felt on issues, and how their candidate actually voted.
Is it supposed to?
Will hydrogen fuel cells prevent car accidents?
I have a relative that has been a lawyer for over two decades.
I'm sorry. Have they sought treatment?
Curious, because 10,000 years is how long it seems to take to get through one of his books. Aw, geez, here comes another troll mod. :-(
The reason why sin taxes target socially unpopular items is "divide and rule." In other words, if everything gets a sales tax,everyone complains.
Unfortunately, here in California, reason is extinct. Thanks to the vile, scummy subhumans in the state legislature, some parts of California now have a sales tax of 10% or more. People are protesting left and right, but the local news is too busy reporting on Octomom or some dumbass driving drunk into a tree. If you call your state representative, you get a low level intern who just insults you and hangs up. You think any of these psychopaths give a gnat's fart about popularity anymore? They're all gerrymandered in. They don't care.
Meanwhile, everyone I know is buying stuff out of state and online at places that don't charge CA sales tax, and having a good, long, hard laugh at the line on the state tax form where we're supposed to voluntarily report all out of state purchases. Yeah, right.
It's time to get out the guillotines, I say.
Yeah, but the smart playah has already taken out the pimp with the missile launcher he found floating in the air and rotating down by the docks near the bridge pylon.
Just get rid of the deductions for children. That's ass backwards anyway. Your larger family uses more public resources so you pay less taxes? WTH? Can't get by without the deductions? Maybe you weren't financially prepared to have kids.
But taxing them is a viable compromise
And that sort of thinking is what got us Galactus style government in the first place that needs to find a way to tax our every breath and waking moment.
I used to work with a guy that claimed to hate how nearly every car on the road looked. When I asked him what he did like, he showed me a picture online of some godawful pile of metal. I think it was a Citroen or something. It looked like the reincarnation of the Chevy Citation after difficult birth. Oh, and *his* car was an ancient VW Thing.
Sadly, it was supposed to be cry havoc.
There's just too many people with nothing to do.
The bad news: the utilities have to generate the equivalent of 28 watts (that is, 28 VA of apparent power for you EEs out there) to light that bulb. Until they fix these issues, I'll hold on to my incandescents and carbon arc lamps, thanks."
So it's better to have a 13 watt bulb instead of a 60, but better to have a 60 instead of a 28.
Um, OK.
I gave up on torrents eventually. I either couldn't find what I wanted (I dunno why, but major filesharers have the absolute worst musical tastes), or there was a grand total of *two* seeds trickling out five bytes a minute combined. It's worth money to me to get exactly what I want and have it download in a few minutes.
Maybe papers should stop alienating readers by printing endless, shallow ideological bullshit. See the Los Angeles Times for a prime example of editors living in reality distortion bubbles, and an editorial page that has expanded to encompass the entire paper.
It's a platform designed to drive an Imax camera into a tornado. That alone assigns it much awesome. If you saw the series, the TIV1 was tougher than it looks. Agree about TIV2, though. It was a disaster.
Unless the Tornado Intercept Vehicle is part of the team, it's just a bunch of pansies chasing wind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Intercept_Vehicle
The media reaction is priceless. Some of the talking heads are acting like this guy raped a child and killed a nun by firing starving kittens at her with an air cannon. Damn but I love it when the media goes nuclear bipolar and feeds on itself! :-)