Plenty of dogs will consistently catch a ball out of the air - you want to tell me they don't know where it's going to land ?
Children catch balls many years before we teach them the maths needed to calculate their curves.
The argument was that you don't need to understand the physics to predict it. And the dogs don't understand the physics, but can predict where it's going.
Although I must add, my older dog, whose running days are somewhat behind her, can predict the balls path much better because she actually watches it before going after it, while my younger dogs tend to immediately take off to where they think I threw it and take their eyes off the ball, though they still usually beat her to it even when they have to make a U-turn.
To be more accurate (or pedantic, depending on your point of view), only 20% of the deep well-injected waste water in Oklahoma is coming from fracking. The rest is coming from regular old traditional oil fields.
When it comes to hauling hazardous cargo, chances are (state law may vary) it is illegal for your friend Joey who happens to have a pickup truck to haul it at all.
I should add, I'm not sure that this would qualify as a treaty. From Wikipedia:
The majority of United States free trade agreements are implemented as congressional-executive agreements. Unlike treaties, such agreements require a majority of the House and Senate to pass. Under "Trade Promotion Authority" (TPA), established by the Trade Act of 1974, Congress authorises the President to negotiate "free trade agreements... if they are approved by both houses in a bill enacted into public law and other statutory conditions are met."In early 2012, the Obama administration indicated that a requirement for the conclusion of TPP negotiations is the renewal of "fast track" Trade Promotion Authority.
But only fairly recently has it been employed in large scale in the relevant area. It wasn't economically feasible in lots of cases due to the availability of much easier and cheaper sources of oil and gas.
But now...NOW, it's causing earthquakes.
Apparently so. Do you have evidence of an alternative reason for earthquakes to go from 2/year prior to 2008 up to over 2/DAY in 2013?
It's not the fracking per se, it's the deep well injection of waste water. True, fracking creates waste water that usually gets disposed of by injecting it into deep wells, but in the subject case 4/5ths of the waste water comes from old regular wells. Apparently the cost of oil is high enough that it is worth it to go after oil that is contaminated by water, extract the water, and sell the oil.
So lets say I have a standing order to buy FooBar stock at $50 a share. Its current price is $55. So basically I'm looking to buy on dips.
Tonight it comes out that the CEO has been falsifying all financial reports, and instead of making money for the last 3 years they've lost millions. You don't think I should be able to cancel that buy order due to the new information?
You're missing the part where he cancelled after having his offer accepted, and did so repeatedly, with no intention to sell, until he drove the price enough to make stacks of cash from futures.
Half life from the main atmospheric process is about 10 years, but some of that carbon in CH4 eventually becomes carbon in CO2. (Considering all sinks, the half life is about 8-1/2 years, according to wikipedia.)
Maybe because the US, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only 3 countries in the ENTIRE WORLD that have not officially converted to metric.
On the contrary, the US officially defines feet, inches, pounds, etc. in SI units (and has for quite a number of years). So in that sense, the US is on the Metric system.
There are advantages to shared libraries, as others have pointed out, but the GP never said anything about statically linked libraries, let alone recommending them.
You got it backwards. They had been asking: If the moon was made by collision of two different planetary bodies, why are their compositions so similar to each other? Previous studies have indicated that mixing of the materials from the two bodies doesn't resolve the issue. Now a study has come out with simulations of solar system formation showing that a potential Thea and a potential Earth often have very similar compositions, therefore the similar composition is not inconsistent with the collision theory after all.
Besides, $10 billion is literally less than what Americans spent on Starbucks coffee last year alone.
So, I'm not allowed to argue against excessive Starbucks spending, either? Personally, I'd rather argue against both. (I have no problem losing a good argument, if you can convince me $10 billion was really worth it for the experience, but I don't think any one in this thread has the actual information to know one way or the other.)
Phase I is a prototype/proof of concept. After that, the government project managers make a decision about whether the product is good enough to warrant Phase II funding. If it is, they go ahead and fund it. If it's REALLY good, they do a Phase III which is basically a commercialization.
Problem is, most of these got well beyond Phase 1 without a chance in hell of ever getting to Phase 3, and still got plenty of funding that would have been better spent in Phase 1.
(Additionally, I would argue that you may need another Phase category - basic research/proof of concept would be Phase 1, and a prototype more of Phase 2)
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I don't see how we could know such a thing yet, let alone call it obvious.
Stiff foams typically aren't any good at absorbing sound.
The argument was that you don't need to understand the physics to predict it. And the dogs don't understand the physics, but can predict where it's going.
Although I must add, my older dog, whose running days are somewhat behind her, can predict the balls path much better because she actually watches it before going after it, while my younger dogs tend to immediately take off to where they think I threw it and take their eyes off the ball, though they still usually beat her to it even when they have to make a U-turn.
To be more accurate (or pedantic, depending on your point of view), only 20% of the deep well-injected waste water in Oklahoma is coming from fracking. The rest is coming from regular old traditional oil fields.
A lot of good that "voluntary" insurance will do when he has a 6x6 smashed into his head.
While Americans will understand "burro" just fine, it is a Spanish, not English, word.
When it comes to hauling hazardous cargo, chances are (state law may vary) it is illegal for your friend Joey who happens to have a pickup truck to haul it at all.
According to Dictionary.com, it can be a verb.
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So how do you get the wool off the sheep?
Umm, it's NOT a treaty (at least not if it's done under the Trade Promotion Authority). A treaty would require a 2/3rds vote in the Senate.
The majority of United States free trade agreements are implemented as congressional-executive agreements. Unlike treaties, such agreements require a majority of the House and Senate to pass. Under "Trade Promotion Authority" (TPA), established by the Trade Act of 1974, Congress authorises the President to negotiate "free trade agreements... if they are approved by both houses in a bill enacted into public law and other statutory conditions are met."In early 2012, the Obama administration indicated that a requirement for the conclusion of TPP negotiations is the renewal of "fast track" Trade Promotion Authority.
You have a misunderstanding. Treaties trump the US constitution. Which is why they should get extra careful scrutiny before they are agreed to.
But you're leaving out the previous 20+ years spent developing systems that were never finished.
Technically, Diesel is combustible, not flammable; gasoline is flammable.
YMMV
So what about the report coming from the government of the state of Oklahoma, which says basically the same thing?
But only fairly recently has it been employed in large scale in the relevant area. It wasn't economically feasible in lots of cases due to the availability of much easier and cheaper sources of oil and gas.
Apparently so. Do you have evidence of an alternative reason for earthquakes to go from 2/year prior to 2008 up to over 2/DAY in 2013?
It's not the fracking per se, it's the deep well injection of waste water. True, fracking creates waste water that usually gets disposed of by injecting it into deep wells, but in the subject case 4/5ths of the waste water comes from old regular wells. Apparently the cost of oil is high enough that it is worth it to go after oil that is contaminated by water, extract the water, and sell the oil.
You're missing the part where he cancelled after having his offer accepted, and did so repeatedly, with no intention to sell, until he drove the price enough to make stacks of cash from futures.
Putting it on the ISS also gets you the advantage of being able to more easily target junk on orbits that may intersect with the orbit of the ISS.
Been there. Done that. Three strikes and you're out. (RTFA)
Still, a felony seems awfully harsh.
Half life from the main atmospheric process is about 10 years, but some of that carbon in CH4 eventually becomes carbon in CO2. (Considering all sinks, the half life is about 8-1/2 years, according to wikipedia.)
On the contrary, the US officially defines feet, inches, pounds, etc. in SI units (and has for quite a number of years). So in that sense, the US is on the Metric system.
There are advantages to shared libraries, as others have pointed out, but the GP never said anything about statically linked libraries, let alone recommending them.
You got it backwards. They had been asking: If the moon was made by collision of two different planetary bodies, why are their compositions so similar to each other? Previous studies have indicated that mixing of the materials from the two bodies doesn't resolve the issue. Now a study has come out with simulations of solar system formation showing that a potential Thea and a potential Earth often have very similar compositions, therefore the similar composition is not inconsistent with the collision theory after all.
So, I'm not allowed to argue against excessive Starbucks spending, either?
Personally, I'd rather argue against both. (I have no problem losing a good argument, if you can convince me $10 billion was really worth it for the experience, but I don't think any one in this thread has the actual information to know one way or the other.)
Problem is, most of these got well beyond Phase 1 without a chance in hell of ever getting to Phase 3, and still got plenty of funding that would have been better spent in Phase 1.
(Additionally, I would argue that you may need another Phase category - basic research/proof of concept would be Phase 1, and a prototype more of Phase 2)