Comment Re:Those pour [sic] souls (Score 2) 94
If you can call that "living." Think of the bacteria!
I believe you may have stumbled upon a new cause for PETA.
If you can call that "living." Think of the bacteria!
I believe you may have stumbled upon a new cause for PETA.
Rhode Island is supposed to be an island. The rising sea levels are only helping it to achieve its natural state!
Probably not enough rise to make that happen.
Although it is believed that the melting of floating ice shelves will not raise sea levels, technically, there is a small effect because sea water is ~2.6% more dense than fresh water combined with the fact that ice shelves are overwhelmingly "fresh" (having virtually no salinity); this causes the volume of the sea water needed to displace a floating ice shelf to be slightly less than the volume of the fresh water contained in the floating ice. Therefore, when a mass of floating ice melts, sea levels will increase; however, this effect is small enough that if all extant sea ice and floating ice shelves were to melt, the corresponding sea level rise is estimated to be ~4 cm.
However, if and when these ice shelves melt sufficiently, they no longer impede glacier flow off the continent, so that glacier flow would accelerate. This new source of ice volume would flow down from above sea level, thus resulting in its total mass contributing to sea rise.
It's a fad, and will be nothing but a memory in 10 years
Keurig shipped their first brewing machines in 1998; Nespresso, in 1988. Probably not a fad.
So, if we just add wifi we can have the Internet of Keurigs?
Yes. But what we really need is the Keurig of Internets.
* internet advises people to drink 2-3 L of fluids per day. * 365 days per year, 70 year lifespan -> 70k liters -> 70 m^3 over lifetime. * 7b ppl alive today. Everybody alive today will drink 500 m^3 of fluids. * the handwavey estimate is that half of the people who have ever lived are alive today. if this is true, then the entire human species has drunk 1000 m^3 of water. * the volume of the ocean is 1.3 10^9 km^3 -> 1.3 10^18 m^3.
You say "7b ppl alive today", but then multiply 70m^3 by 7. Either b=1, or your estimate is off by just a smidge, or 9 orders of magnitude.
Either way, most of the water we drink has not been previously drunk by another human. Dinosaurs, on the other hand, are a different story (obligatory xkcd).
The reason houses have so many windows is so that people have an escape route in the event of a fire. If it weren't for that requirement, you could make houses much more energy-efficient by reducing their number. Do you really need a window in a bathroom, for instance? Heck no.
The window in my downstairs bathroom is so small that no one capable of climbing to its height would be able to fit through. On the other hand, I might be able to barely squeeze through the window in my upstairs bathroom, but I'd probably break my neck in the fall to the ground.
One can be "in the right" and still not have done the right thing.
Pretty much what I was thinking. Back when the Earth was a molten mass and I was taking Driver Education in high school, there was a lot of emphasis on "defensive driving"; in other words, expect the other guy to do the wrong thing, and be ready for it. When you have a mix of self-driving and human-operated cars on the road, the self-driving ones better have some extremely conservative defensive driving skills.
You say he is a cow, yet you are the one making cow noises. How odd.
Look at that shooter in texas - read his tweets and you can see how the FBI's harassment over the years drove him from a regular dude to someone deeply angry.
I know several people who over the years made the transition from "regular dude" to "someone deeply angry". None of them, though, have made the transition from "someone deeply angry" to "someone who tries to kill people who insult his religion".
I'm with you on that one, even though (to cite another of my favorite irritants), for all intensive purposes they're the same.
I only post as AC because I post too infrequently to not have my account get deleted...
Wait, what? I've gone as long as five years without posting, and several years without even logging in, and I've never had my account deleted. What do you consider "infrequent"?
All of these recent failues (including the U.S. ones) give some insight into the Apollo program's amazing success (except for 13) in the U.S.
If you're looking for Apollo failures, Apollo 1 was rather more significant as failures go than Apollo 13. At least in 13, nobody died.
The last big news about Windows 10 was Spartan. Today's big news about Windows 10 is that Spartan has been re-named.
I can't tell you how excited I am. Really, I can't.
China is burning 5 times as much coal today as the US is, in the next 5 years or so, China will grow their coal consumption by the current total amount the US burns. That does not make any sense. Is China now burning more than the USA or is it catching up to burn "just as much" in the next 5 years?
If it doesn't make sense, you're probably not parsing it correctly (admittedly, the commas and run-on phrasing present a little challenge). Try this:
China is burning 5 times as much coal today as the US is. In the next 5 years or so, China will grow their coal consumption by the current total amount the US burns.
Or, to re-phrase: Today, China burns 5 times as much coal as the US. In 5 or so years, China will be burning 6 times as much coal as the US. BTW, I have no idea whether this is true, but I'm pretty sure that's the message.
I guess this poll is asking about elevation (height above sea level) rather then altitude (height above ground, usually). Commonly misused (or used interchangeably), but the two words do actually mean different things.
Or does the poll author assume we are flying most of the time... because that would be pretty cool too... Permanency-ed Levitation anyone?
If you're a pilot, altitude usually means height above mean sea level, and is called indicated alititude, true altitude, baro altitude, pressure altitude, or density altitude (mostly slightly different due to which factors are being corrected for, but referenced to sea level). Then, we have height above ellipsoid and height above geoid, which come into play when using GPS. What you're calling altitude is called either AGL (above ground level) or sometimes, absolute altitude. Elevation is most commonly used to mean "height above sea level" in geography.
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
