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Comment Air India's "Perfect" Flight Record. (Score 1) 108

Hi. I think you are confused.

Air India crashes/fatalities:
* Air India Flight 101 CONTROLLED FLIGHT INTO TERRAIN -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Air India Flight 855 PILOT ERROR -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

What does the word perfect mean to you? Those are crashes. People died.

We can even add:
* Air India Flight 182 BOMBING -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Though that's also on the staff at the airport doing security screenings.

Comment Not only that (Score 2) 104

If their government in China had their ass so far in their rectum to refuse global warming as factual, and promoted coal like Trump/GOP did, they would not be doing renewable like crazy.

The more important is not whether it is a democracy or a dictatorial regime, the more important factor was : they are not rejecting basic science.

If both side of the aisle accepted global warming and had the will to fight, you would see the same effort in the US. Unfortunately you have the GOP which is anti science. So instead you get a dead end.

Comment he is mistaking it for storm surge (Score 1) 147

Back in 2008, it was said that within a decades or two the storm surge would rise by a few inch , which would bring them further inland. This one example about how storm surge would be bigger : https://www.sciencedaily.com/r... The problem is that people like him are a bit clueless , they misremember, misinterpret, and then their misinterpretation/misremembering becomes "a failed prediction about global warming". That is, when they are even educated enough to even understand any article about AGW.

Comment Re:We're headed for Venus, but still we stand stro (Score 1) 66

To be extra clear, here: titanium melts around 1,900 kelvin. The temperature of re-entry is 3,200 kelvin. Yes, 3,200 kelvin is "below" the temperature required to make titanium boil (by 300 kelvin), but you'll note that the 1,900 is 3,200 by 1,300.

Who honestly thinks titanium that's been heated to 'just below' its boiling point for half an hour, will be somehow intact once it's slow enough to not self-generate plasma due to atmospheric drag?

Ridiculous.

Comment Re:We're headed for Venus, but still we stand stro (Score 1) 66

How does a thing that isn't water, 'water in the ocean'? What? A thing can't water. The only thing that is water, is H2O.

Also, no -- it will not survive atmospheric re-entry. The atmosphere see to that. The heat of re-entry exceeds the temperature of Venus by *THOUSANDS OF DEGREES*.... It will not survive in 1 piece. This isn't a matter of atmospheric pressure, nor is this a matter of G-shock. It's plasma; it'll be in an envelope of super-heated plasma. Why do you think they can't use the radios on the Shuttle during re-entry? High energy plasma -- at THOUSANDS OF DEGREES.... Sheesh.

Comment It won't survive re-entry. (Score 1) 66

'"As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth atmosphere intact, and impact intact," Langbroek wrote in a blog update"'

Uh, no.

1) High-energy plasma at 3,200 K upon re-entry. This occurs for 25 minutes or so. This is why Columbia became ... a large number of pieces of wreckage strewn across multiple US states.
2) Venera probes use drag-parachutes to reduce velocity to the point that they can survive entry into the atmosphere of Venus. But, this was built by the Soviet union -- it didn't get out of low Earth orbit. Do you think that parachute functions? It doesn't, it won't.
3) The reasons cited for it 'surviving' re-entry are ... G-forces and atmospheric pressure. None of those address the fact that, though the surface of Venus is ~= 737K ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), you'll notice that the surface temperature of Venus is 2,463 kelvin 'colder' than atmospheric re-entry. What material do you think the probe is made of? Unobtanium?

Ridiculous. It will not survive atmospheric re-entry. it will not be 'a single piece' when it (or most of it, the parts that weren't vaporized by high-energy plasma), gets to sea-level.

Comment No the number of fed. employee grew (Score 2) 211

government in terms of number of people employed has shrunk under pretty much every administration

If you did bother looking up FRED statistic you would have seen you are wrong : firstly , ignoring fluctuations, the number of federal employee grew pretty much under all administration from 1950 to 1990 and yes that include Reagan the trend is pretty damn clear. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...
Except a little bit at the start the number of federal employee grew under Reagan even right until the end. It dropped a bit only later under bush senior. In fact do you see when the number massively started to drop ? It was end of bush / and all Clinton's presidency.

Facit you and op are wrong. Reagan massively stocked up federal job, under Bush they dropped a bit, then under Clinton the number dropped massively. And it was NOT in any case a "drop" of number of employee after 1950.

Comment oh and before somebody tells it is onyl 10kmh (Score 1) 214

The speed increase does not matter, what matters is the energy in case of a collision, especially with people on foot. A car at 40 kmh has about 75% more kinetic energy than one at 30 kmh (40*40/30*30=~1.77). Meaning if you hit another car or a person on foot, you dissipate into them for the collision or braking 75% more energy. What does that mean ? Counting emergency braking+reflex/thinking distance with zero visibility at 30 kmh it is around 20 meter, at 40 kmh this is 30 meter, you literally dwindle survival chance of anybody on foot.

Comment Red light camera bring 0$ if people respect rules (Score 1) 214

It is an offense to pass by the red light line, once the light turn red. The issue is, dumb fucks see the orange light and see it as a reason to increase speed to pass thru before the red light. That's not how it should work. You are supposed to slow down (if feasible , e.g. you are still far away to not brake brutally) when it is orange and stop at the red light. In practice a huge percentage of people simply keep the same speed or even accelerate when they see the orange, to try to go through the crossroad before the red, and often fail, even when they are far away from the light.

That's how red light camera make money and that's why I am for them - fine the idiot until they learn to respect the lights.

Heck at my street there is a radar camera for speed above 35 kmh. And without fail, all the FUCKERS start going 40kmh and sometimes above after the speed check - we (inhabitant) have put a speed check there and car are nearly never at 30 kmh like they should. And THAT proves to me most car driver are asshole which view road rules as "optional", and I am for adding camera everywhere until they have no chance except respecting the damn road rules.

A car is not a right, it is a privilege given freely as long as one respect the rule.

Comment US was never trustworthy (Score 1) 106

You see "US is materially less trustworthy these days" , I beg to differ, see all that shit the US did in its history, Tuskegee experiment, trail of tears and massacre, internement of Japanese, come to WW2 only when attacked, shit with Irak and WMD, CIA impact on south-am, vietnam, and so forth.... I have never seen the US as more trustworthy than your random superpower seeing only its own interest (political and economical) - and nobody's else - they only aligned with ours by accident. And now you see the emperor with cloth, the one I already saw decades ago without cloth. Just sayin'.

Comment Utterly ridiculous. (Score 2, Insightful) 77

Given that humans didn't have microplastics in the environment of the past? Their hypothesis is that you have to prove they aren't doing harm (maybe they benefit). The null hypothesis is that no microplastics is the base case; and a demonstration of safety of introducing microplastics is required. The same procedure for making a drug for human use.

This is anti-science flim-flam bullshit. See also: cigarette companies saying no link to lung cancer -- and also, smoking is actually healthy.

Don't be taken in by the same lies as earlier generations.

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