Not even close. China does the majority of their own coal.
I didn't say we sold them all of the coal they use. The point is, that we sell them all of the coal we produce, then it doesn't much matter who's burning it, climate-wise.
The pollution I blame on the US (and Europe, don't feel left out on the Asian peninsula!) is that WE let them get away with it. We buy their cheap, pollution producing crap. We buy it. And as long as we buy it, they will produce it. It is our pollution, whether you like it or not.
Don't forget that we also sell them the coal.
The measured rate of rise has been averaged out at 1.1 millimeters per year, so who in their right mind with the credentials to back it up would predict 20cm by 2100?
You mean aside from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
Honestly, at 1.1 mm per year, in a hundred years that gives you 11 cm. A projection of 20 cm is entirely reasonable. But don't actual numbers stand in your way or anything, because, you know, Benghazi. Or whatever.
nobody gets a Nobel Prize for dropping rocks off a tower.
Fuck.
Given that we're talking about Legos, I assume you meant "misogynistic, homophobic yellow guy brigade"?
They already made a Lego of the GGP.
Social Justice Warriors want to parade about the most trivial crap I tell you.
We'll stop when it's possible to release a female scientist Lego set without a bunch of benighted troglodytes whinging about it on Slashdot.
No. That would be assuming you can go faster than the speed of light, without limits, which isn't the case.
Even if you were a massless particle, you would reach the speed of light in less than 1 year of accelerating at 1G, and then, you wouldn't be able to go faster.
Nope. GP was correct: note he said 30 years ship time You can accelerate at 1G indefinitely and you won't exceed the speed of light. You will asymptotically approach the speed of light, and time dilation will make the trip seem very short to the crew on board the ship.
Now calculate the reaction mass required.
Self driving cars are absolute nonsense. It requires intellect to decide whether an object is a plastic bear or a real bear about to enter the road, and has to be braked for. Any business/investment into this self driving car design field is setting themselves up for a major lawsuit because the basic principle is that you require artificial intelligence on par with a human to make the same correct decisions while driving, identifying objects and predicting their future behavior correctly. Even a dog's level won't cut it, as shepherds have dogs and sheep, and the trio exists well together, but dogs and sheep can't coexist, or at least wolves haven't figured out a way yet, and you need a human to decide things like we're gonna take that mountain pass yonder instead of the one over here. Alpha wolves and wolf packs make similar decisions, and a whole lot of wolf lives depend on a good or bad decision, in middle of winter, similar to the Donner Party back in the Oregon Trail/California Trail days. Even humans make horrible judgment calls sometimes which way to drive, or in an accident piling up in front of you which way to swerve, how are you gonna trust these decisions to a machine, or intellect less than a human? Driving is a matter of life and death. If anything you need a machine smarter than a human in comprehending the world around it, and predicting actions of objects like insane people as pedestrians, walking in the middle of the road. Saying you ran someone over "legally" does not fly far in court, just because someone crossed the street before you when they had red light and you had green, or stopped in the middle like Rain Man, you still have to judge for yourself what to do.
Well, I for one would totally totally feel better if you were replaced by a machine.
This is about infotainment systems, not self-driving cars.
I would certainly hope that any car with an "infotainment" system is self-driving, so that the driver isn't looking at the fucking "infotainment" instead of the road.
Any bets on how much of the "infotainment" is going to be ads?
They had the same problem prior to the year 2000, so why wasn't this lesson already learned?
This. Especially once the predicted apocalypse brought the world to its knees. You'd think we would learn.
Compare the geographic size and population density of the US with Japan, South Korea and Sweden. The US has a much larger rural population and much more space to cover. I'm not saying internet access in the US isn't abysmal, which it is. But I don't think that is a useful comparison for the majority of the US.
Which is why rural areas on the U.S. have no water or electricity, of course.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
