Russia has always been in Europe, well at least The parts west of the Ural Mountains.

It's more complication than that, natural gas pipline from Russia to Western Europe pass through the Ukraine, and Russia has leased a open water naval base in the Ukrane. Russia has to go all in on this one are it's back to third World status for them.

Why would Turkey Point be underwater? If it's the sea-level rise due to Apocolyptic Global Warming then you should be pushing for as much non-CO2 emmiting generation capacity as possible, Solar and Wind are the icing on the cake, but nuclear is your cake.

I'm an astronomer who is also interested in music, especially sacred, and global warming. In astronomy, I've worked mainly on how intertellar dust can reveal the presence of super massive blackholes. ... For a number of years I've been involved in attempting to reverse global warming. I'm a member of the Green Party of the United States EcoAction committee and have helped to develop energy policy for the party. Very recently, I've gotten involved in a startup that plans to rent solar photovoltaic systems in the residential market. mdsolar (1045926)

Obviously he is more than capable of inderstanding the stats, whether he's willing to, due to conflicting vested interests and ideology is a different matter.

My understanding is all we know about a blackhole is their mass, charge and angular momentum, everything else is either implied or assumed. We know density is a measure of an amount of mass in a volume of space; we know the mass of a blackhole but the volume is unknown, time-space become undefined at the event horizon and something divided by undefined is undefined not infinite. It's just as likely that as the event horizon forms, the amount of time-space "inside" the event horizon increases due to time-space curvature and ergo the volume increased so the density could actually decrease.

The problem with using desal plants supplying the Great Basin Desert would be that the process doesn't eliminate the sodium in the water, it only reduces it to potable levels; sodium builds up in the soil and eventually becomes toxic to the plants. How long this takes depend on how much salt is left in the irrigation water and how much rain actually falls to wash out the excess salt.

If the Chinese decide building this collider is a matter of National Pride and Honor, God help anyone or anything that gets in the way; any corruption will just be greasing the wheels of the juggernaut.

Base 2 is real cool, you can count up to 1023 on your fingers; sadly I keep getting thrown out of noisy bars every time I try to order 4 beers in binary.

an employer may deliver to the employee a cheque payable in full for legal tender
Your spelling of check sugests that your legal circumstances may differ from mine.

You'll never get DUI and any sex offense exponged, hell get caught peeing in the alley too many times and your on the sex offender's list for life.

Having Kids at twenty or younger, without a commited significant other is Economic Suicide; all of your attention is on survival not success.

Nah they just incorporate in the Cayman Island.

A lot of European countries do, or did have Guest Worker programs, I could see that being a usefull safety valve for Mexico and Central America, it would certainly be better than what's happening now.

My state has a law that any employee can demand to be paid in legal tender, so should we assume any employer paying cash is comitting fraud, I mean fraud other than a bounched pay check the week before Christmass.

When I was in the US Army, I was a Hawk Missile and Launcher repairer, and work in IGLE, Internal Guidance and Launch Equipment back in 1974-78 and I can say with pretty good authority that the technology available in that era required pretty much constant maintence. The Guidance packages was all electron tubes except for one transistor, the microwave reciever was klystron based so everything drifted constantly. When something drifted out f spec it's not amatter of twisting a reostat either, you have to take it apart, unsolder a fixed resistor, and replace with a resistor of different value, potentiometers would never hold their value durring launch G's or after bouncing acrost the grond on top of a tracked vehicle. It's highly unlikely that the rebels could have just stubled upon a lost or abandoned weapon system and have gotten it working with out highly trained support personnel and operators. It takes a lot of finesse to work the old stuff, modern systems just work or not.