Yes and the ocean floor topography next to Karachi looks much like that where the 15m Tsunami swept away 2 towns on the same coast.
They've already said Karachi could be hit by 7m tsunamis, I'm not convinced that this isn't potentially a low estimate considering the sizes of past tsunamis in the surrounding region (15m to 30 meters)
A tsunami that high is not seen as a possible scenario
The tide varies by over 2.5m Normal waves can reach over 10m in height. The reactor is built at only 12m above sea level !!! The same coast of Pakistan has already had a 15m tsunami in the last century. The India Ocean produced a 30meter Tsunami just a decade ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, it doesn't sound so impossible to me, I don't hear of anyone actually having modeled various earthquake tsunami scenarios for Karachi.
You know the other reactor built to withstand a Tsunami - Yeah, Fukushima, they said there would never be a Tsunami big enough to do it any harm. Was it true? No.
Karachi is exposed to tsunami's coming from the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. To say the geography bears no resemblance when the places mentioned are geographically nearby on the same coast is quite frankly absurd - India was hit by 11meter tsunami from the same earthquake that wiped away Pakistani towns and the whole area is seismically active.
And https://books.google.co.uk/boo... ""The trading towns of Pasni and Ormara, Pakistan, located 100 km away from the epicentre, were flooded by a ~15.0m high wall of water""
Still think it's a good place to put a nuclear reactor?
If you try to force one of these buses/cars off the road with your vehicle will it fight back?
This is of course a most common problem these days, it's a rare occasion when I get on a bus without someone trying to force it off of the road. Not to worry though, these buses can transform into giant killer robots.
It seems that you can install utorrent without the extra crap now simply by declining each offer one by one. But you still get obnoxious ads.
The Bittorrent 7.9.2 client looks the same as utorrent, it tried to foist some crap on me a couple of days back - there was no way to decline the crap and continue so I exited the update installation, now it's saying there's no update.
Large scale battery storage is in production and they are in use, just because you don't know about something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Lithium-ion batteries have been halving in price every 6 years, it is becoming financially viable in some places now to go off-grid completely and just use solar+battery. Both solar and battery costs are expected to keep falling for many more years. There are also solar systems being developed that are better at collecting diffuse light rather than today's highly directional systems.
Like a broken record you attack solar+wind for their intermittency, this is an article about tidal lagoons, a system that generates power like clockwork and can release the water through the turbines when needed much like pumped hydro. It is estimated that Britain could supply 25% of it's power from tidal lagoons. Geothermal is another system that can be built to supply consistent power.
But you can't stick an xbox game in your PC and play it, you have to use a PC and an Xbox with the PC being little more than a TV that's in another room, you might as well just grab the xbox and move it.
If you could play your xbox games from a friends house on their PC, that would be interesting, of course it'll never happen because it'd allow home-brew game rentals.
I agree, just look at teenagers and the services they choose - they use snapchat because they think the data is gone quickly, they only use Facebook minimally to keep contact with parents etc.
I think it's a half and half thing, over half of the population are sheep and don't care enough about being tracked / are too lazy to try and do anything about it / or even think it's ok.
That's the most deceitful count of Chernobyl deaths I've ever heard. The lowest reasonable estimate is 9000 deaths, The extreme estimate is nearly a million deaths. 60 deaths is perhaps the first day death toll and excludes 99.9+% of the people who died as a result of the disaster.
The first unmanned space mission was Sputnik I, launched October 4, 1957
Some more:
1.1 Explorer program (1958â")
1.2 Pioneer program (1958â"1978)
1.3 Echo Project (1960â"1964)
1.4 Ranger program (1961â"1965)
1.5 Telstar (1962â"1963, commercial project with NASA contribution)
1.6 Mariner program (1963â"1973)
1.7 Lunar Orbiter program (1966-1967)
1.8 Surveyor program (1966â"1968)
1.9 Helios probes (1974â"1976)
1.10 Viking program (1975)
1.11 Voyager program (1977)
1.12 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 (1977)
1.13 Solar Maximum Mission (1980)
1.14 Infrared Astronomical Satellite, IRAS (1983)
1.15 Magellan probe (1989)
1.16 Galileo probe (1989)
1.17 Hubble Space Telescope (1990)
1.18 Ulysses (1990)
1.19 Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, UARS (1991)
1.20 Discovery Program (1992â"2011)
1.21 Clementine (1994)
1.22 Mars Global Surveyor (1996)
1.23 Cassiniâ"Huygens (1997)
1.24 New Millennium Program (1998â"2006)
1.25 Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (2002)
1.26 Earth Observing System (1997â"2011)
1.27 Mars Exploration Rovers (2003)
1.28 MESSENGER (2004)
1.29 New Frontiers program (2006â"2011)
1.30 Mars Scout Program (2007â"2008)
1.31 Dawn (2007)
1.32 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009)
1.33 Mars Science Laboratory (2011)
We've already seen the beginning of it with adaptive cruise control and self-parking. These features will continue to be refined while new ones are added, but we almost certainly face years (decades?) of gradual transition where our cars are some weird hodgepodge of self driving and user operated.
These will lead to an over reliance on under-capable systems, or to put it another way, people will play with their phones and fall asleep more often.
IF he really had good and legal reasons to do what he did, take it to court and face the music.
Are you saying that people shouldn't report illegal government activity?
As I've said before, if he's really this stand up guy, why did he run?
And are you saying that Snowden didn't do what he did for America and put himself in a really crap positioning order to make the the US a better place, that's pretty 'stand-up guy' in my book.
Do you think Snowden would receive a fair trial? Of course he wouldn't, they don't care if he's a whistle blower, they hate whistle blowers, they'll stick him in some send-you-nuts solitary confinement because he has hacking knowledge, he'll be there for years whilst a painfully slow trial works it's way through the courts and at the end of it he'll get to spend the rest of this life in USA's worst prisons.
Snowden's case is far too political, the justice system will stick him in prison for the rest of his life. Jjudges have a large tendency to do what the establishment expect them to do, that's what they're paid for.
Put simply: Game -> Directx -> Driver & Hardware. (Perhaps DX skips the driver for some stuff, I don't know)
It's the MS Windows software framework which takes it's input from the game and outputs to the driver / hardware, it's used for controlling 2d, 3d textures etc + soun, mostly for games. The next gen stuff does more GPU computing I guess. It started with win95-ish.
OK so I decided to break with protocol and RTFA. Vulkan is what the makers see as being the next generation of OpenGL and it is backed by Valve for obvious reasons. It is aimed at a wider range of device types.
Yeah.... The mythical battery made out of fairy farts and unicorn poop. Battery tech is limited by chemistry. Until they are in use they are a myth.
And?
1. We haven't reached the end of the road with battery tech. The way technology is going we'll probably be making batteries one atomic layer at a time.
2. Your post is outright stupid.
3. Since you haven't actually made much in the way of sensible concrete arguments as to why batteries are no good, I can't particularly respond.
4. They are in use, very small scale now, huge growth is expected as battery tech is dropping in price continuously large percentage every year.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Yes and the ocean floor topography next to Karachi looks much like that where the 15m Tsunami swept away 2 towns on the same coast.
They've already said Karachi could be hit by 7m tsunamis, I'm not convinced that this isn't potentially a low estimate considering the sizes of past tsunamis in the surrounding region (15m to 30 meters)
The tide varies by over 2.5m
Normal waves can reach over 10m in height.
The reactor is built at only 12m above sea level !!!
The same coast of Pakistan has already had a 15m tsunami in the last century.
The India Ocean produced a 30meter Tsunami just a decade ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, it doesn't sound so impossible to me, I don't hear of anyone actually having modeled various earthquake tsunami scenarios for Karachi.
Here's an idea, how about we check all of Mike's families PC's and phones and cassettes first to see if there's any copyright infringements.
No?
You know the other reactor built to withstand a Tsunami - Yeah, Fukushima, they said there would never be a Tsunami big enough to do it any harm. Was it true? No.
Karachi is exposed to tsunami's coming from the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. To say the geography bears no resemblance when the places mentioned are geographically nearby on the same coast is quite frankly absurd - India was hit by 11meter tsunami from the same earthquake that wiped away Pakistani towns and the whole area is seismically active.
Map of last 40 years earthquakes only:
http://ds.iris.edu/ieb/index.h...
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...
leads to:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
132.5foot = 40.4meters, that's a bit more than 0.9m or 12m. Normal waves can reach 10m in many places.
Perhaps you should 'shut-up' and check your facts.
And for good measure:
Pakistan-earthquake-2013-creates-new-18m-high-island-Gwadar-coast-Arabian-Sea
And
https://books.google.co.uk/boo...
""The trading towns of Pasni and Ormara, Pakistan, located 100 km away from the epicentre, were flooded by a ~15.0m high wall of water""
Still think it's a good place to put a nuclear reactor?
This one can turn socks inside-out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Official Site:
http://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c2...
You could take the shuttle, or if you're in a hurry, you could run!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is of course a most common problem these days, it's a rare occasion when I get on a bus without someone trying to force it off of the road. Not to worry though, these buses can transform into giant killer robots.
Utorrent and Bittorrent clients are both owned by Bittorent inc, they are essentially the same by the looks of it.
It seems that you can install utorrent without the extra crap now simply by declining each offer one by one. But you still get obnoxious ads.
The Bittorrent 7.9.2 client looks the same as utorrent, it tried to foist some crap on me a couple of days back - there was no way to decline the crap and continue so I exited the update installation, now it's saying there's no update.
Large scale battery storage is in production and they are in use, just because you don't know about something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Lithium-ion batteries have been halving in price every 6 years, it is becoming financially viable in some places now to go off-grid completely and just use solar+battery. Both solar and battery costs are expected to keep falling for many more years. There are also solar systems being developed that are better at collecting diffuse light rather than today's highly directional systems.
Like a broken record you attack solar+wind for their intermittency, this is an article about tidal lagoons, a system that generates power like clockwork and can release the water through the turbines when needed much like pumped hydro. It is estimated that Britain could supply 25% of it's power from tidal lagoons. Geothermal is another system that can be built to supply consistent power.
But you can't stick an xbox game in your PC and play it, you have to use a PC and an Xbox with the PC being little more than a TV that's in another room, you might as well just grab the xbox and move it.
If you could play your xbox games from a friends house on their PC, that would be interesting, of course it'll never happen because it'd allow home-brew game rentals.
I agree, just look at teenagers and the services they choose - they use snapchat because they think the data is gone quickly, they only use Facebook minimally to keep contact with parents etc.
I think it's a half and half thing, over half of the population are sheep and don't care enough about being tracked / are too lazy to try and do anything about it / or even think it's ok.
That's the most deceitful count of Chernobyl deaths I've ever heard. The lowest reasonable estimate is 9000 deaths, The extreme estimate is nearly a million deaths. 60 deaths is perhaps the first day death toll and excludes 99.9+% of the people who died as a result of the disaster.
http://www.theecologist.org/Ne...
Some more:
1.1 Explorer program (1958â")
1.2 Pioneer program (1958â"1978)
1.3 Echo Project (1960â"1964)
1.4 Ranger program (1961â"1965)
1.5 Telstar (1962â"1963, commercial project with NASA contribution)
1.6 Mariner program (1963â"1973)
1.7 Lunar Orbiter program (1966-1967)
1.8 Surveyor program (1966â"1968)
1.9 Helios probes (1974â"1976)
1.10 Viking program (1975)
1.11 Voyager program (1977)
1.12 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 (1977)
1.13 Solar Maximum Mission (1980)
1.14 Infrared Astronomical Satellite, IRAS (1983)
1.15 Magellan probe (1989)
1.16 Galileo probe (1989)
1.17 Hubble Space Telescope (1990)
1.18 Ulysses (1990)
1.19 Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, UARS (1991)
1.20 Discovery Program (1992â"2011)
1.21 Clementine (1994)
1.22 Mars Global Surveyor (1996)
1.23 Cassiniâ"Huygens (1997)
1.24 New Millennium Program (1998â"2006)
1.25 Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (2002)
1.26 Earth Observing System (1997â"2011)
1.27 Mars Exploration Rovers (2003)
1.28 MESSENGER (2004)
1.29 New Frontiers program (2006â"2011)
1.30 Mars Scout Program (2007â"2008)
1.31 Dawn (2007)
1.32 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009)
1.33 Mars Science Laboratory (2011)
These will lead to an over reliance on under-capable systems, or to put it another way, people will play with their phones and fall asleep more often.
If you don't understand this world then I would posit that that is simply because you do not know enough about it.
Are you saying that people shouldn't report illegal government activity?
And are you saying that Snowden didn't do what he did for America and put himself in a really crap positioning order to make the the US a better place, that's pretty 'stand-up guy' in my book.
Do you think Snowden would receive a fair trial? Of course he wouldn't, they don't care if he's a whistle blower, they hate whistle blowers, they'll stick him in some send-you-nuts solitary confinement because he has hacking knowledge, he'll be there for years whilst a painfully slow trial works it's way through the courts and at the end of it he'll get to spend the rest of this life in USA's worst prisons.
Snowden's case is far too political, the justice system will stick him in prison for the rest of his life. Jjudges have a large tendency to do what the establishment expect them to do, that's what they're paid for.
Put simply:
Game -> Directx -> Driver & Hardware. (Perhaps DX skips the driver for some stuff, I don't know)
It's the MS Windows software framework which takes it's input from the game and outputs to the driver / hardware, it's used for controlling 2d, 3d textures etc + soun, mostly for games. The next gen stuff does more GPU computing I guess. It started with win95-ish.
OK so I decided to break with protocol and RTFA. Vulkan is what the makers see as being the next generation of OpenGL and it is backed by Valve for obvious reasons. It is aimed at a wider range of device types.
DirectX 12 isn't out yet and appears to be a Windows 10 only thing. Quick check shows windows 7 has DX11. I'm assuming you know what DirectX is ;-)
Source:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
And?
1. We haven't reached the end of the road with battery tech. The way technology is going we'll probably be making batteries one atomic layer at a time.
2. Your post is outright stupid.
3. Since you haven't actually made much in the way of sensible concrete arguments as to why batteries are no good, I can't particularly respond.
4. They are in use, very small scale now, huge growth is expected as battery tech is dropping in price continuously large percentage every year.