You do realise that US satelite scrutiny of the area is extremely intense, we saw the heat signatures of the launch, we have radar tracks of the missile trajectories, It's just a matter of analysing the data, figuring out who in the area, and putting everything together in a way that doesn't reveal classified capabilities.
Consider if your car had a black box, which it should. But in addition to collecting the data was transmitting that information continuously to the government for them to peruse any time they wanted.
Consider your car does a black box, but in addition to collecting the data was transmitting that information continuously to your auto insurance company for them to peruse any time they wanted.
EU is in a sticky situation, they're pretty dependant on Russian natural gas, they're pretty dependant on natural gas pipe lines running through the Ukrane, Russians are pretty dependant on Ukranian warm water seaports; lots of inter-dependancies to make things complicated. Personally I think Obama didn't create strong US sanctions against Russia because he doesn't have the balls and Putin knows it.
Air traffic control had declaired the area safe for commercial air tarffic.
I'm a anthropogening Climate Change Sceptic, one more flamebait wouldn't have made any difference.
Oil and coal are rarely interchangable so I'm not sure why you would think one affects the other. Now if you said that European Diesel prices go up when American petrolium refineries switch over from diesel to heating fuel oil production in the fall, that would be understandable.
Or a 50x50 mile stretch of Arizona if you felt like powering the entire peak demand of the US with it.
You say that like somebody wouldn't object to destroying 2500 square mile of fragile desert enviroment full of threatened and endangered plants and animals.
Since Asia is the World's largest net emitter of CO2, where do you propose we start?
Let's see everything wrong with the survey, just 250 households. How where the people selected. How much of a cross section was there. Was it per capita energy usage or simply per household usage (per household), difference between a person living on their own and say a family of five. A far right wing government commissioned the survey how biased were they in the selection. Some were monitored for a full year some only for one month, no clarification on summer winter split. No clarification on meals, home cooked or takeaway or restaurant (hidden energy usage) Also clothes washing, how much done in house, how much an laundrette and how much professionally cleaned (hidden energy usage). Study included rented and owned properties but did not differentiate between the two. There was a large north south divide hence different climatic conditions.
So it's a whole lets come up with a bullshit report to slander climate change and make it seem acceptable to do nothing about it.
The original "97% of climate Scientists agree" consenseus came from a 77 person population; so while your point is well taken, but needs to be applied more universally.
If the hypothesis of AGW is valid, and the Hypocrits like Gore believe that Un-Green lifestyles is destroying the climate and dooming humanity to death, famine and pestilance, and those hypocrits continue to engage in those lifestyles then what kind of monsters are they? At least the deniers honestly think that the past warming was predominately due to natural cycles and any anthropological input is self-limiting so if they destroy the world it's through ignorance instead of malice.
It certainly is a bizzare world we live in, Al Gore, the high priest of Apocolyptic Global Warming has a home in Tennesee that uses more energy the Goerge W Bush's ranch does, flies all over the world in a private jet and owns a condo in San Francisco that's 3 feet above sea-level; while Anthony Watts the leader of the Denier Illuminati has solar PV panels on his home and drives an electric vehicle.
The world's marginal fuel is lignite. No matter where you live, if you spend more energy, you're gonna burn lignite. If you spend less energy, less lignite will be burnt.
Bullshit we don't burn that nasty shit in North America and I doubt there is an extension cord long enough to reach from Europe.
The rocket launched Monday suffered a similar fate. "Rocket booster re-entry, landing burn & leg deploy were good, but lost hull integrity right after splashdown (aka kaboom)," Musk wrote on Twitter.
The failure may have been a bit on the energetic side; trying for a soft touch down with enough rocket fuel ant oxidiser to do a soft touch down is always potentially exciting.
What I've pieced together is it's a 50 cal smooth-bore discarding sabot system, the round is aerodynamically stable with the center of gravity ahead of the aerodynamic center and is fin stabilized. The round has no inertial guidance so I assume that it wouldn't be able to use nutating scanning techniques and any spin would be unnecessary complication.
Cryptographic modulation, more likely none in the first interation, then a very profitable MWO to add a simple coherency signal adapted by reading a barcode on the round as it's loaded.
An obvious countermeasure would be to have the laser turn on only when the trigger is pulled. With a velocity of about a km per sec, the bullet won't give you much time to "remove yourself from the area".
So it'll be easy to recognise the important bad-guy because he'll be the one wearing the MILES gear, a second doesn't give you enough time to vacate the area, but you only have to move farther that the bullet has time to correct.
The likely target of this weapon is going to be some impoverished kid wiring up a dud mortar round as an IED by the side of the road.
Yeah right, the chain of command is going to authorize shooting a $50K bullet at a kid; also if somebody has to paint the target, then only a few dollars more gets you a live video feed so command can watch and control any engagements. I see this as being a replacement for the AGM-114, Hellfire missile on Predator and Reaper drones against soft, point targets. One problem we're having now is the bad-guys is using tactics that maximise collateral damage. these bullets will counter those tactics and give our drones he ability to engage many more targets.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
