Well, it turns out that the protesters were 100% right on that one.

But if it makes you feel any better, much as the world loathes Bush II and the neo-con war criminals, they still won't have much trouble beating Vladimir Putin in a global popularity contest. Maybe people don't protest against Russia because there is no point?

Or is it that invading a distant nation for its oil wealth is not quite the same as a bloodless annexation of a peninsula that was recently part of Russia and is still full of Russians. Khrushchev should never have given it to Ukraine.

Thats partly right, but overstated. I'd say they merely need to cast doubt - no need to make both cases equally (in)credible.
And more importantly, the propaganda is intended for domestic consumption, not "the world".

The AF447 debris was spotted the next day, and bodies and wreckage recovered within a week. It took 2 years to find the black boxes, but they had useful data on the cause of the crash. The Malaysian black boxes are almost certainly of no use.

Anyway, you are making a big assumption that the GP thinks the AF blackbox search was worthwhile.

Again? Your sound like a broken record. Anyway, buying _any_ new car is uneconomical, so you are left with no point whatsoever.

And the same Indians who form lynch mobs, breaking the accused out of prison and dragging them down the street to their death?

http://www.smh.com.au/world/wo...

Although, that only seems to happen to racial minorities in Northern India.

Not on a small off-grid community. I think you'll find offshore wind farms cost millions, while you can buy a diesel for $1000. Stop making irrelevant comparisons that ignore scale. A diesel generator on the grid is as silly as an offshore wind-farm for a small isolated community. Nobody is replacing diesels with wind, though they might experiment with supplementing it.

My point was that this project is funded by selling power to the grid, and selling it to the island is just a PR point.

Nothing to do with "eco". Most headlines are BS. Yes, they are selling it to the locals as cheap power, to try and avoid NIMBY-ism.

Real economics is harder to sell. Coal power should have massive taxes to cover externalities - the health and greenhouse effects of emissions. If they had to pay a fair price for all the garbage they dump into the atmosphere, alternatives like wind and nuclear would start looking very affordable.

Headline is misleading. It is not the turbines, but the link to the national grid that is making power cheaper for the island.
Until now, they depended on small local diesel generators.

You can bet that the 30MW wind plant is a lot more expensive than the diesel generators were.
I'd be interested to know the economics of the plant, but supplying cheaper power to the island will be an utterly trivial component.

It doesn't matter if you have a whole leg missing - you won't even be much slower. Cycling is more limited by heart-lung function, not leg muscle mass. You just need toe-straps or clip-in shoes. Sorry, ... shoe.

It will be argued.

"intelligent!? Will you look at these race conditions? I was clearly designed by an idiot."

Who reads TFA? But the answer is in TFS: "just 875 million years after the big bang".
"how far away" and "how long ago" are the same thing in astronomy.

Actually, he is. Unlike regular black holes resulting from supernova collapse, a super-massive black hole is not very dense.
e.g. a one-billion solar-mass (2x10 to 39kg) hole would give a density of 200kg/m3 - less than that of cork!

http://physics.stackexchange.c...

Some have proposed that we may living inside an even bigger black hole.

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And the rest of the world wondering how cold a Farad is.

Sounds as useful as a solar-powered flashlight.