Since lisbon treaty a few years ago. nothing they do not ratify, can take effect in europe.

The estimates assumes Ugandan labor, Chinese materials, and Pakistani tech-support.

:p

Like I said, I love you conspiracy morons :) Can you talk some more about how I'm "up-modding my comments"? That was particularly funny :D

Oh. I'm sorry. Must be genetic.

You're welcome! I'm glad I could help. But you didn't answer the question :(

I love conspiracy morons :) You always brighten up my day!

Tell me, were you this way BEFORE taking LSD? Or did this behavior only manifest afterwards?

That's just ignorant, man. If LSD was put through the hoops by the FDA and then placed on the market, it would most likely have an even longer list of side effects. Why? Because if a enough people in a sample group develop a particular condition, it gets listed as a "possible side effect" regardless of whether there's any reason to suspect that the treatment caused it. Compound that with the fact that ANY drug is bound to have an adverse side-effect in at least a small percentage of the population, and you end up with scary looking lists that poorly informed people love to trot out in order to "prove" that their drug of choice is much safer than the stuff on the market. Whereas your dealer, unfortunately, doesn't provide an FDA-approved list to go with your narcotics.

Yeah, you're right. I got my numbers wrong. Where I wrote 10 it should be 40, and 20 should be 80. Whoops. A wee bit of a difference there.

Given the land-area of Delhi, that actually means it would be pretty much entirely annihilated. 10-12 million casualties in the city - dropping off as you get into the outlying areas. 100 million is still a bit much, but 15-20 million wouldn't be inconceivable, if it hits the right place.

Scary. Thanks for making me recheck my figures.

Ugh. Every time I see garbage like this modded insightful, I loose a little more hope for my fellow slashdotters. Goddammit people, when you read something and think "huh, I didn't know that!", your first reaction should be to look it up, NOT to hit the "mod insightful" button!

Here's a link to a book that talks about where that claim originated, and why it's wrong. Link should take you to the relevant page, but, just in case, it's "Early Astronomy" by Hugh Thurston, page 202/203.

For those too lazy to read it, here's the tl;dr version: the Mayan calendar is 365 days. It has no leap days or leap years. While there's evidence that the Mayans knew that the solar year was longer than 365 days, their calendar doesn't reflect that knowledge. The original claim was made by a guy who died in 1931, and he got his conclusion by making some silly mathematical mistakes.

No way. That's a third of the US population. Can't think of any place in the world where the population is packed densely enough to cause those kinds of casualties.

Striking rock, an iron meteorite would create a crater no more than 4km across. At 10 kilometers distance, well built structures would remain standing. You'd get dead people from flying glass and random rocks, but that's about it. At 20km, you should have no casualties at all, except maybe a few hundred dying from the resultant earthquake. Even if it hit Delhi (one of the top 10 densest cities in the world, population 12 million), I wouldn't expect more than 5 million casualties as a maximum, and probably far fewer.