Or we could just increase the policy of using attack helicopters to hunt down poachers. It's win-win, the pilots get first class training in finding targets in a vast landscape using various sensing equipment, and the poachers are given something real to worry about.
Some poachers have even been using helicopters themselves so there's also ample scope for air defence training there for fast jets and such too.
That way we don't have to worry about them going extinct (and the massive knock on effects to their ecosystem) in the first place. You're killing two birds with one stone- dealing with the poaching problem whilst getting your military some real training that simultaneously does something useful. Far better than classic contrived military exercises that often bare little resemblance to the real thing and just burn resources for not much benefit.
This has been a very successful policy in the countries that have attempted it thus far, and it should be ramped up. Turn poachers from the hunter who hunts illegaly with overwhelming force into the hunted that is hunted legally with overwhelming force and they soon stop.
You're right. Ever since Norway implemented this policy, there hasn't been a single elephant death in their territory due to poaching.
You could either ask Randall Munroe that question (xkcd), or just do the thought experiment yourself.
Since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, for each J of energy you put into Mars from Earth, you take away from Earth. Net effect would be that Mars would have a magnetic field, but Earth doesn't. Except of course, that Mars has a much smaller mass, and Earth probably has energy to spare.
It still sounds like it would just be cheaper to fix the social problems here on Earth and build an orbiting transparent Dyson-trampoline to deflect any incoming killer asteroids.
Or Slashdot. It's got really, really bad here over the last couple of years. Things really nose dived after the Beta exodus and a lot of regulars left.
We're still here. We're just too tired to post any more.
This guy should have never spoken to them. Period. Arrest me, give me a lawyer or let me walk out the door. No other words should have escaped his lips.
That's the theoretically noble thing to do. In reality he felt he had nothing to hide and laid it all out for them to see. Perhaps he figured it would be less of a nuisance than obtaining a lawyer and getting yelled at by the wife for wasting more money on that Google Glass thing.
Unfortunately, the cops are on the clock. They're getting paid to waste time. So trying to "save some time" really doesn't work.
Never *EVER* consent to searches. The police cannot search you or your property without reasonable cause. But if you give them the freedom to search, then they can charge you for *anything* they find, even if it wasn't what they were looking for.
No. From his perspective, time is running the same as it always does. From *our* perspective, he would be ripped to shreds extremely slowly due to time-dilation.
An unfortunate astronaut falling into a black hole would probably die due to different gravitational pulls acting on his body. The parts of his body closer to the singularity would get ripped off (or more likely, the spacesuit would rupture) as he approached the singularity.
Old Roman maxim... If you desire peace, prepare for war.
Funny you mention that. The latin wording is "Si vis pacem, para bellum". When Georg Luger invented the Pistole Parabellum 1908, he named it after that phrase. The Pistole Parabellum 1908 is also known generically as the "Luger" which was the official sidearm of the Nazis.
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Or we could just increase the policy of using attack helicopters to hunt down poachers. It's win-win, the pilots get first class training in finding targets in a vast landscape using various sensing equipment, and the poachers are given something real to worry about.
Some poachers have even been using helicopters themselves so there's also ample scope for air defence training there for fast jets and such too.
That way we don't have to worry about them going extinct (and the massive knock on effects to their ecosystem) in the first place. You're killing two birds with one stone- dealing with the poaching problem whilst getting your military some real training that simultaneously does something useful. Far better than classic contrived military exercises that often bare little resemblance to the real thing and just burn resources for not much benefit.
This has been a very successful policy in the countries that have attempted it thus far, and it should be ramped up. Turn poachers from the hunter who hunts illegaly with overwhelming force into the hunted that is hunted legally with overwhelming force and they soon stop.
You're right. Ever since Norway implemented this policy, there hasn't been a single elephant death in their territory due to poaching.
You could either ask Randall Munroe that question (xkcd), or just do the thought experiment yourself.
Since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, for each J of energy you put into Mars from Earth, you take away from Earth. Net effect would be that Mars would have a magnetic field, but Earth doesn't. Except of course, that Mars has a much smaller mass, and Earth probably has energy to spare.
It still sounds like it would just be cheaper to fix the social problems here on Earth and build an orbiting transparent Dyson-trampoline to deflect any incoming killer asteroids.
Wow, this was one topic I didn't think would get Godwinned.
That's something Joseph Stalin would say.
Or Slashdot. It's got really, really bad here over the last couple of years. Things really nose dived after the Beta exodus and a lot of regulars left.
We're still here. We're just too tired to post any more.
I heard they're waiting for their release title to be completed first: Duke Nukem Forever 2.
It would instantly fry half the planet. The rest of the planet gets to die slowly.
I'm suspicious too, about the quality of his higher education.
It started happening once 6-digit IDs started going out.
Knowing is a three-edged sword.
There's danger to be had when Slashdot ventures into knot theory (and braid theory).
BTW, you forgot to mention the important lemma that you can turn any braid into a knot by adequately connecting the ends.
Shouldn't sea water be considered a wonder drug in homeopathy, because everything eventually makes its way into the ocean and gets ultra-diluted.
This guy should have never spoken to them. Period. Arrest me, give me a lawyer or let me walk out the door. No other words should have escaped his lips.
That's the theoretically noble thing to do. In reality he felt he had nothing to hide and laid it all out for them to see. Perhaps he figured it would be less of a nuisance than obtaining a lawyer and getting yelled at by the wife for wasting more money on that Google Glass thing.
Unfortunately, the cops are on the clock. They're getting paid to waste time. So trying to "save some time" really doesn't work.
Never *EVER* consent to searches. The police cannot search you or your property without reasonable cause. But if you give them the freedom to search, then they can charge you for *anything* they find, even if it wasn't what they were looking for.
Nope. Winnipeg. So I've got a bit of street cred when it comes to cold. (Albeit not as much as the people in the *real* cold places)
Suck it up, princesses.
No. From his perspective, time is running the same as it always does. From *our* perspective, he would be ripped to shreds extremely slowly due to time-dilation.
An unfortunate astronaut falling into a black hole would probably die due to different gravitational pulls acting on his body. The parts of his body closer to the singularity would get ripped off (or more likely, the spacesuit would rupture) as he approached the singularity.
Sounds like the same kind of hornets that Matt Inman ran into. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/running5
Old Roman maxim... If you desire peace, prepare for war.
Funny you mention that. The latin wording is "Si vis pacem, para bellum". When Georg Luger invented the Pistole Parabellum 1908, he named it after that phrase. The Pistole Parabellum 1908 is also known generically as the "Luger" which was the official sidearm of the Nazis.
Makes me curious. What are the 51st and 52nd states?
Les Stroud is my hero.
Shouldn't the RNG tap into the device's accelerometer? That should provide random data if the user gives it a few successive shakes.
I'd welcome you to Slashdot, but something about your UID makes me think that's redundant.
I still think he's new here.
207MW * 40 days =
207MW * 3456000 s =
715392000MJ =
7.15392*10^11J
This is roughly equivalent to 170 megatons of TNT. 1.7 times the size of the maximum theoretical yield of the Tsar Bomba.
Probably more than enough to start an earthquake in an area that is susceptible (such as the pacific northwest).
The Soviets independently developed their weapons, *and* Klaus Fuchs passed classified nuclear weapons research to the Soviets.