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Comment Re:Warmth? (Score 0) 286

The liar is you, or you are just an idiot.

If you have breathing problems at that hight I strongly suggest to consult a medical doctor. A cardiologist perhaps.

If in summer time it is to cold for you there, you must really be in bad shape, or are you sitting there naked in a storm?

When you are sitting in a wind proof spot in the day sun, you are grilled in a few minutes. Calling it 'cold' is idiotic!

Comment Re:More religious whackjobs (Score 0) 286

You don't know much about Polynesia it seems?

Not much about the USA either ... I doubt that Hawaii is in the upper third of standard of living in the USA ... compare it withh Tahiti perhaps to get a clue about other Polynesians areas? Or New Zealand?

You do know that volcanic ash is one of the most fertile lands, or don't you? And I would rather plant wine instead of taro.

Comment Re:More religious whackjobs (Score 1) 286

Actually, they own the land.
Hawaii got annexed by the USA somewhere around 1900.
Actually as an american you should at least know the basics.
In other words they are a sovereign - not so sovereign anymore nation - that got conquered and anexed by the US aggressors. With all kinds of slavery, suppresion amd racial violence, similar versus the blacks or native americans.
If they would go to an i ternational court they would win any case supporting their secession.

In our times if a country tries to annex another one there is international uproar ... see Ukraine.

The royal family of the Hawaiians may not even call themself so, it is illegal under the american constitution.

Now another poster wrote: they have the democary and institutions to change what they want. That is wrong, they can't secceede, at least not without war. And the majority of inhabitants on the islands are 'americans' not Hawaiians, so they hardly win any office or anything that matters to then.

Comment Re: Water heigh storage: dams (Score 1) 334

This one is build on the tip of a natural hill: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... around 1919 already

This one is not on an artificial hill either, but only has a few meters difference between the upper and the lower reservoir: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

This one is close to what I meant: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

This one is on an artificial hill: http://www.swr.de/kaffee-oder-... easy to see on the pictures

Comment Re:Talk about creating a demand (Score 1) 334

I was wrong with the price of solar power, mixed it up with the earnings you make on the stock exchange.

However wind is cheaper than coal ... we are already closing coal plants, new built ones, because they can not compete with the price on the market.

If you don't remember, my flat is only 100sqm ... but the size should have no effect on electric bills. As like you: I only have one kitchen, e.g.

The cost per sqm is only relevant for heating and in your case AC. The rooms that are not in use should not use energy, pretty simple.

And for the standard of living, it is common knowledge :D no citations needed. But perhaps my percentage is wrong and the amount of americans living on the standard of an european is much lower. On the other hand you have weird ideas of standard of living anyway ...

Comment Re:That escalated quickly (Score 1) 105

I would suggest to read about some terms, like winter and summer.

Also it would help to look on a map, to get an idea how Russia looks like.

Just because it is warmer, neither the summer is longer nor is the winter shorter.

Both seasons are more or less defined by the amount of light available. Or the length of the day.

Regarding latitude: russia has enough areas "south enough" to feed itself, if they had not done the same bullshit the americans did: exhausting the plains, having erosion, lack of water (Baikal lake etc.) they would be a paradise.

Comment Re:This again? (Score 1) 480

For the physics you can google yourself.
As articles about the EM drive are showing up on /. since 3 or 4 years, and the physics is published since at least 2000, which was 15 years ago if you are bad in math, it should not be difficult for you to figure how the drive is "supposed" to work.

How exactly do you want to be spoon fed? If you have not even read up the basics, what exactly do you ask me to tell you about it?

When somebody sounds like a total fucking crackpot, they almost always are.
Did not know that NASA is meanwhile down to crackpots. (Regarding the EM drive)
Or that the US Navy is now down to crack pots as well. (Regarding cold fusion)

You must have a strange definition of "crackpot" ... or must live in some basement playing counterstrike all day and night.

(If you want to know how to get banned from a server by doing 10 head shots in a row, obviously without cheating, I tell you ... it is super simple)

Comment Re:This again? (Score 1) 480

The inventor knows.
He formulated the theory of the device. And actually it is pretty easy to grasp for a layman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Can't be so surprising that a scientist draws/imagines a "thing" and engineers build it and: surprise, surprise, it works like the scientist thought it out. (*facepalm*)

The creationists must have done good work in america to destroy the "faith" in science!

Comment Why are people posting this nonsense? (Score 0) 480

it appears to violate conventional physics and the law of conservation of momentum;
No, it does not, otherwise it would not work.

the engine, invented by British scientist Roger Sawyer, converts electric power to thrust without the need for any propellant by bouncing microwaves within a closed container. So, with no expulsion of propellant, thereâ(TM)s nothing to balance the change in the spacecraftâ(TM)s momentum during acceleration.
The expulsion (should that not be expulsion or something?) are micro waves ... hence the name: EM drive.

I really wonder how retarded the /. community and in general the science community got meanwhile.

There is no violation of any physical law as we know it in EM drives. If you believe otherwise, point one out.

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