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Comment Re:lessStrawMoreMan (Score 1) 170

Well, at some point, all the drag from the giant windmills will act like a propeller, and gradually slow the earth down. This will result in a number of cataclysmic events such as:
1) increased effect of gravity since the rotational centripetal force will be lessened. Building will collapse, birds, insects can't fly, people will break bones, etc.

2) earth will have longer days/nights, eventually resulting in a dark and light side of the earth. Numerous world wars will result to claim land with sunlight for growing crops.

3) weather change. Since the atmosphere won't be spinning around the planet anymore - air will stagnate resulting in drought in the middle on continental land masses. Torrential super cell rain masses will develop along the coasts.

Of course if we burn some good old fashioned clean coal, and point the windmills the other way, we can prevent this. Added soot in the air will provide more mass and impulse, thus speeding the process up.

We should probably start doing that now. I imagine all the local stress on the ground in the states with significant windmill use will result in an increase in earthquakes as well, which explains California.

Comment Re:Look at all these jobs... (Score 0) 401

Sure, but how may more jobs were lost due to the tariffs? Count this company 100, and Harley Davidson moving a plant across the ocean say another 200 jobs lost. I personally know of several other business owners who are shutting down from tariff costs,

that probably equals that 800 jobs lost, or by the 3.4 multiplier 3000 less jobs from the tariff.

Steel is just the basic building block. Those higher prices are going to affect EVERY US manufacturing job adversely.

Thanks........ :-/

Comment Expect to see this a lot (Score 1) 162

People, and animals get cancer all the time. The immune system is constantly killing off those aberrant cells. It makes sense to use the existing cellular framework and improve that which already does a fantastic job.. Currrently there are HUNDREDS of drugs in stage III FDA clinical trials that work in a similar fashion. Unfortunately, every cancer is basically different - yes there are some common mutation points, but for example - there are many, many different types of breast cancer. There will be no cure for "cancer", but there will be many cures.

This is going to be a cancer treatment revolution.

Comment Re:Not surprising... (Score 1) 298

In November 2009, the Airbus A330 became the first aircraft to receive ETOPS-240 approval, which has since been offered by Airbus as an option.[10]

On December 12, 2011, Boeing received type-design approval from the U.S. FAA for up to 330-minute extended operations for its 777-200LR, 777-300ER, 777F and 777-200ER equipped with GE engines, and with Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney engines expected to follow.[11] The first ETOPS-330 flight took place on 1 December 2015 with Air New Zealand connecting Auckland to Buenos Aires on a Boeing 777-200ER.[12] On May 28, 2014, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner received its ETOPS-330 certificate from the FAA.[13]

The first time that ETOPS-330 approval was given to a four-engined aircraft was in February 2015, to the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental.[14]

In October 2014 EASA certified the Airbus A350XWB to ETOPS-370.

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