A horse is airborne for maybe 1 or two lengths of its body at most. This bug can jump hundreds of times its own body length. infinitesimal errors in the timing of one leg or the other (i.e., not in perfect sync) has a much more drastic effect over those distances. (a millisecond off one way or the other means the difference between landing on target, and landing several inches or feet off target.)
This of course is why you use a fingerprint from your non-dominant hand, and use an unusual finger, like your pinky or ring finger. Less chance that you are going to be leaving a perfect pinky print amongst all the index finger prints on the phone, and who would expect you to use such an awkward finger for accessing your phone in the first place.
This is why you use a print from your non-dominent hand, non-active finger (say, your non dominant hand pinky or ring finger) Those are the least likely to be damaged in day to day activities, and also the least likely to be expected for use, should someone be lifting your prints and making fake fingers to scan in. (most people would expect dominant hand index or thumb, just out of ease of use) Security through obscurity always helps.
You just have to get used to being 7/8ths miserable 9/10ths of the time, and you can suffer your way to being attractive in a matter of a few years! Yeah sure, its all 'no pain no gain' but your average human can only take so much self inflicted punishment before saying 'screw it, I just want to be comfortable for a day or two'. And then you loose all that hard earned progress. .
Yes, i am aware that about 20% of the energy in gasoline is converted into work (movement) in a car, and the rest is waisted as heat,(some of which is indeed due to rotational friction on the tires) but I can assure you, you do not create much heat due to 'atmospheric resistance' in a car. The speeds you have to be going to get ram heating are pretty spectacular, and we've never gotten close to them in a land vehicle, and you actually get cooling effects from moving through air below those speeds.
So mine on the far side of the moon. Unlike popular myth, it is NOT always dark on the far side of the moon, and we never see it from earth anyways, so you could strip mine off the entire far side and never notice it from earth. (now THAT would be an amusing thing to do as an interstellar culture. Go leave huge markings on the far side of a tidally locked bodies around a inhabited world, then hang around and see how long it takes them to notice.)
maybe we can make a ship that runs on helium 3! helium 3! its magic stuff!
you do make a good point, the stuff is useless to us if it costs more energy to go get it than you can extract from it.
that was my question. Another way to state it is something like: "Is the global raise in temperature due to the waste heat produced by burning coal and the thermal blanketing caused by the particulates in the air, all from the generation of 'power' (electricity), OR is it due to the actual use of the electricity, IE, my refrigerator running."
Indeed, it actually just hides your toolbar in Safari, but its such a subtle thing, that your immediately sitting there going "ok, something happened, and it was NOT my tab returning, so what the hell just changed?"
I should have clarified. For the most part, electric elements (resistors) used for heating do not really dissipate their heat into the air very well. Yes, they get hot, but their surface area is not particularly large, so the thermal transfer from the resistor to the surrounding environment is not particularly good. This of course means you have to use the resistor for X time to heat up Y volume of air , where other heating systems could achieve a greater thermal transfer in less than X, for the same Y volume of air.
obviously, I did not phrase it well at all in the first post.
I should have clarified. For the most part, electric elements (resistors) used for heating do not really dissipate their heat into the air very well. Yes, they get hot, but their surface area is not particularly large, so the thermal transfer from the resistor to the surrounding environment is not particularly good. This of course means you have to use the resistor for X time to heat up Y volume of air , where other heating systems could achieve a greater thermal transfer in less than X, for the same Y volume of air.
obviously, I did not phrase it well at all in the first post.
I for one recommend you switch to a more efficient form of heating. Electricity is terribly inefficient way to heat a house. (we burn say, coal, (at a energy loss) to generate steam to turn turbines, to turn generators to make electricity, to transmit over lines (at a bit of a loss) to heat up resistor, (at a hilarious loss) to warm air.
Or, you pipe gas to the house, burn it, and get warm from all the heat the gas makes. I for one, choose the latter.
Or, you can live where I do, at the third to last town at the end of a distribution trunk. We have major power fluctuations nearly daily, and actual outages weekly. There is a large supply of 'broken' microwave ovens to be had here, that all need the internal fuse replaced from the surges and brownouts we have.
We have had power outages extending nearly 24 hours, and the fluctuations make battery backup systems a must for any important electronic device. The town at the actual end of the trunk got federal funds to construct a battery backup that will power the entire town for something like two hours. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100325-presidio-texas-battery/
My question is mainly, where does this data of 8 to 10 billion rounds of ammunition come from. Maybe my Google-Fu is failing me, but I cant find any solid data on the number of rounds sold to the public. I've found references to 10-14 billion rounds produced in the US, but obviously, the military/government agencies are a large buyer of ammo, so not all of that ends up in the public hands.
now, arguing on the internet aside, I am not particularly opposed to moving away from lead ammunition. However, I am against knee-jerk reactions, which means I am against banning something completely before a suitable replacement is widely available. Yes, solid copper rounds are available, at increased cost, as are copper jacketed steel, but again, cost and availability is a major issue.
I am also a proponent of people being responsible with their actions and activities, so I frown on the idiot who is shooting floating beer cans in a public aquifer with lead ammo, but not particularly bothered by someone using lead ammo at a gun range, where it will most likely be mined out and recycled.
The point is, when numbers get into the billions on ANY subject, people tend to want the person referencing those numbers to provide a source for their data, I'm not asking you to educate the idiotic masses, i am simply asking you to not obfuscate the dialogue.
I don't consider dipshits shooting up road signs and beer cans 'Hunters'. Parent post proclaimed that 3000 Tons of lead where left by 'Hunters' not recreational idiots. Call me pedantic if you want, but personally, I know that most responsible hunters bristle at being lumped in with trash like that.
where are you getting this 3000 tons figure from? I'm sure some lead is left behind, but with average hunting caliber bullets weighing in at around 4 grams, your are claiming that around 680,388,555 rounds are fired into the woods, by hunters, miss their target, and eventually come to rest in the woods each year. Now, the stats say that only 12.5 million people in the US over the age of 16 hunt each year, meaning that each of them must fire 54 rounds at their intended target without hitting it. Somehow, those numbers seem a bit off from actual hunting results.
Those costs indeed do come out of their pockets. You are sadly quite wrong as to the actual ranching industry, having been spoon fed disinformation somewhere. Coming from several generations of ranching, I can assure you, of the things you listed, some are figments of your imagination, and the ones that are real are not subsidized at all. Ranching is a difficult, expensive, and time consuming process. Farming (for grains and plants) on the other hand, is quite subsidized.
M-66's are just a normal black-cat in a larger wrapper for the most part. Open palm just stings, closed palm stings more. forever gone are the days of the "M-80 man, as powerful as a quarter stick of dynamite man."
My first thought was "I kind of want to try this, just to see what happens." Of course, I'm leading into an 8 day work cycle, and cant afford the couple days in federal detention that would probably result from such shenanigans, so i'm giving it a miss.
Then my thought was, "If thats all it takes these days to get a visit from the feds then now i know how to REALLY waste my tax dollars!" I don't know what it would cost to send five agents out to where I live, but I suspect its more than I pay in income taxes each year.
this effect also can occur naturally, without drilling. (I knew a person lived far from any drilling who could light their water taps. They would go out instantly from the water pouring with the gas, but it made an interesting flash.)
One would imagine that if the marker was significantly different in solubility (or other characteristics) from the fracking solution, It would cause problems with said fracking solution, such as changing its viscosity, precipitating out or floating out, or any number of things. Based on this reasonable assumption, One would imagine that the marker was chosen to be able to be mixed into the fracking solution and remain a homogenous part of that solution. Thus, if any of the solution got where it was not supposed to be, it would show. If the marker had a predilection for separating itself from the solution, it would be more possible to throw a false positive (most likely way it would separate out would be to be lighter than the fracking solution and rise out).
But thats just my best guess, based on how *i* would come at a project like that.
I read a blog by a guy who had walked across the United States, from the Atlantic in Georgia, to the Pacific in California. He crossed Midland TX in August, and noted that during the middle of the afternoon, walking down the highway, while traffic was low, there was this odd constant popping/crackling sound. He finally stood still and investigated it for a while, and discovered that it was the road tar making the sounds as is slowly boiled in the summer sun. little bubbles would form, bulge out the surface, and then burst with a tiny 'pop'. I don't know if this answers your question, but it seemed to be a good time to tell that story.
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A horse is airborne for maybe 1 or two lengths of its body at most. This bug can jump hundreds of times its own body length. infinitesimal errors in the timing of one leg or the other (i.e., not in perfect sync) has a much more drastic effect over those distances. (a millisecond off one way or the other means the difference between landing on target, and landing several inches or feet off target.)
This of course is why you use a fingerprint from your non-dominant hand, and use an unusual finger, like your pinky or ring finger. Less chance that you are going to be leaving a perfect pinky print amongst all the index finger prints on the phone, and who would expect you to use such an awkward finger for accessing your phone in the first place.
This is why you use a print from your non-dominent hand, non-active finger (say, your non dominant hand pinky or ring finger) Those are the least likely to be damaged in day to day activities, and also the least likely to be expected for use, should someone be lifting your prints and making fake fingers to scan in. (most people would expect dominant hand index or thumb, just out of ease of use) Security through obscurity always helps.
You just have to get used to being 7/8ths miserable 9/10ths of the time, and you can suffer your way to being attractive in a matter of a few years! Yeah sure, its all 'no pain no gain' but your average human can only take so much self inflicted punishment before saying 'screw it, I just want to be comfortable for a day or two'. And then you loose all that hard earned progress. .
Yes, i am aware that about 20% of the energy in gasoline is converted into work (movement) in a car, and the rest is waisted as heat,(some of which is indeed due to rotational friction on the tires) but I can assure you, you do not create much heat due to 'atmospheric resistance' in a car. The speeds you have to be going to get ram heating are pretty spectacular, and we've never gotten close to them in a land vehicle, and you actually get cooling effects from moving through air below those speeds.
So mine on the far side of the moon. Unlike popular myth, it is NOT always dark on the far side of the moon, and we never see it from earth anyways, so you could strip mine off the entire far side and never notice it from earth. (now THAT would be an amusing thing to do as an interstellar culture. Go leave huge markings on the far side of a tidally locked bodies around a inhabited world, then hang around and see how long it takes them to notice.)
maybe we can make a ship that runs on helium 3! helium 3! its magic stuff!
you do make a good point, the stuff is useless to us if it costs more energy to go get it than you can extract from it.
that was my question. Another way to state it is something like: "Is the global raise in temperature due to the waste heat produced by burning coal and the thermal blanketing caused by the particulates in the air, all from the generation of 'power' (electricity), OR is it due to the actual use of the electricity, IE, my refrigerator running."
To bad it totally reloads the last page, instead of pulling it from cache like the back button(mostly) does.
Indeed, it actually just hides your toolbar in Safari, but its such a subtle thing, that your immediately sitting there going "ok, something happened, and it was NOT my tab returning, so what the hell just changed?"
I should have clarified. For the most part, electric elements (resistors) used for heating do not really dissipate their heat into the air very well. Yes, they get hot, but their surface area is not particularly large, so the thermal transfer from the resistor to the surrounding environment is not particularly good. This of course means you have to use the resistor for X time to heat up Y volume of air , where other heating systems could achieve a greater thermal transfer in less than X, for the same Y volume of air. obviously, I did not phrase it well at all in the first post.
I should have clarified. For the most part, electric elements (resistors) used for heating do not really dissipate their heat into the air very well. Yes, they get hot, but their surface area is not particularly large, so the thermal transfer from the resistor to the surrounding environment is not particularly good. This of course means you have to use the resistor for X time to heat up Y volume of air , where other heating systems could achieve a greater thermal transfer in less than X, for the same Y volume of air.
obviously, I did not phrase it well at all in the first post.
I for one recommend you switch to a more efficient form of heating. Electricity is terribly inefficient way to heat a house. (we burn say, coal, (at a energy loss) to generate steam to turn turbines, to turn generators to make electricity, to transmit over lines (at a bit of a loss) to heat up resistor, (at a hilarious loss) to warm air. Or, you pipe gas to the house, burn it, and get warm from all the heat the gas makes. I for one, choose the latter.
Or, you can live where I do, at the third to last town at the end of a distribution trunk. We have major power fluctuations nearly daily, and actual outages weekly. There is a large supply of 'broken' microwave ovens to be had here, that all need the internal fuse replaced from the surges and brownouts we have.
We have had power outages extending nearly 24 hours, and the fluctuations make battery backup systems a must for any important electronic device. The town at the actual end of the trunk got federal funds to construct a battery backup that will power the entire town for something like two hours.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100325-presidio-texas-battery/
The gas though? never had an outage.
My question is mainly, where does this data of 8 to 10 billion rounds of ammunition come from. Maybe my Google-Fu is failing me, but I cant find any solid data on the number of rounds sold to the public. I've found references to 10-14 billion rounds produced in the US, but obviously, the military/government agencies are a large buyer of ammo, so not all of that ends up in the public hands.
now, arguing on the internet aside, I am not particularly opposed to moving away from lead ammunition. However, I am against knee-jerk reactions, which means I am against banning something completely before a suitable replacement is widely available. Yes, solid copper rounds are available, at increased cost, as are copper jacketed steel, but again, cost and availability is a major issue.
I am also a proponent of people being responsible with their actions and activities, so I frown on the idiot who is shooting floating beer cans in a public aquifer with lead ammo, but not particularly bothered by someone using lead ammo at a gun range, where it will most likely be mined out and recycled.
The point is, when numbers get into the billions on ANY subject, people tend to want the person referencing those numbers to provide a source for their data, I'm not asking you to educate the idiotic masses, i am simply asking you to not obfuscate the dialogue.
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I don't consider dipshits shooting up road signs and beer cans 'Hunters'. Parent post proclaimed that 3000 Tons of lead where left by 'Hunters' not recreational idiots. Call me pedantic if you want, but personally, I know that most responsible hunters bristle at being lumped in with trash like that.
where are you getting this 3000 tons figure from? I'm sure some lead is left behind, but with average hunting caliber bullets weighing in at around 4 grams, your are claiming that around 680,388,555 rounds are fired into the woods, by hunters, miss their target, and eventually come to rest in the woods each year. Now, the stats say that only 12.5 million people in the US over the age of 16 hunt each year, meaning that each of them must fire 54 rounds at their intended target without hitting it. Somehow, those numbers seem a bit off from actual hunting results.
Those costs indeed do come out of their pockets. You are sadly quite wrong as to the actual ranching industry, having been spoon fed disinformation somewhere. Coming from several generations of ranching, I can assure you, of the things you listed, some are figments of your imagination, and the ones that are real are not subsidized at all. Ranching is a difficult, expensive, and time consuming process. Farming (for grains and plants) on the other hand, is quite subsidized.
M-66's are just a normal black-cat in a larger wrapper for the most part. Open palm just stings, closed palm stings more. forever gone are the days of the "M-80 man, as powerful as a quarter stick of dynamite man."
My first thought was "I kind of want to try this, just to see what happens." Of course, I'm leading into an 8 day work cycle, and cant afford the couple days in federal detention that would probably result from such shenanigans, so i'm giving it a miss.
Then my thought was, "If thats all it takes these days to get a visit from the feds then now i know how to REALLY waste my tax dollars!" I don't know what it would cost to send five agents out to where I live, but I suspect its more than I pay in income taxes each year.
I'm forfeiting being able to use mod points here just to say there needs to be a "+1 Horrifying, but probably true." option.
this effect also can occur naturally, without drilling. (I knew a person lived far from any drilling who could light their water taps. They would go out instantly from the water pouring with the gas, but it made an interesting flash.)
One would imagine that if the marker was significantly different in solubility (or other characteristics) from the fracking solution, It would cause problems with said fracking solution, such as changing its viscosity, precipitating out or floating out, or any number of things. Based on this reasonable assumption, One would imagine that the marker was chosen to be able to be mixed into the fracking solution and remain a homogenous part of that solution. Thus, if any of the solution got where it was not supposed to be, it would show. If the marker had a predilection for separating itself from the solution, it would be more possible to throw a false positive (most likely way it would separate out would be to be lighter than the fracking solution and rise out).
But thats just my best guess, based on how *i* would come at a project like that.
I read a blog by a guy who had walked across the United States, from the Atlantic in Georgia, to the Pacific in California. He crossed Midland TX in August, and noted that during the middle of the afternoon, walking down the highway, while traffic was low, there was this odd constant popping/crackling sound. He finally stood still and investigated it for a while, and discovered that it was the road tar making the sounds as is slowly boiled in the summer sun. little bubbles would form, bulge out the surface, and then burst with a tiny 'pop'. I don't know if this answers your question, but it seemed to be a good time to tell that story.