Comment Re:0.43 mm per year, eh? (Score 2) 162
They're talking about melting LAND ice, not SEA ice. Compare sea levels today to those at the Last Glacial Maximum (~120 meters lower), and ask yourself where the extra water came from.
They're talking about melting LAND ice, not SEA ice. Compare sea levels today to those at the Last Glacial Maximum (~120 meters lower), and ask yourself where the extra water came from.
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- 4. Didn't turn out to be all that useful for routine military applications, despite earlier hopes.
And wow! Hey! Whatâ(TM)s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ⦠ow ⦠ound ⦠round ⦠ground! Thatâ(TM)s it! Thatâ(TM)s a good name â" ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
Military fiction about Nazi Germany.
The only way to win is not to play.
Lord of the Rings? Didn't we already hear about these?
where the men are men, the women are men, and the 10-year-old girls are FBI agent-bots.
We can't just go into Guilford County North Carolina and pluck a picture out of school files. Because all the computers are broken.
I was assured on Slashdot that Gladwell was supported by evidence and logic and science, and anyone who disagrees is just being politically correct.
What "evidence and logic and science" points to the involvement of hierarchical culture in the command decisions of Asiana Flight 214?
Universities have apprenticeship-like schooling too; it's called graduate school. But the end goal is different than in industry.
It's starting to seem likely that there was gross human error involved, but let's wait to see what else comes out from the investigation before blaming it all on East Asian culture.
But destroy all life? Crack the planet open? Please, you make yourself sound like a uneducated savage worshiping the man with the fire stick.
Nice rant against an argument made by nobody here.
Either Mt. Pinatubo or Mt. St. Helens were far larger than that in terms of energy and vastly more effective at coupling the debris into the upper atmosphere. Add to that the large amounts of sulfur compounds they emitted. So, where was the massive weather disruption or global cooling (or warming for that matter)? It didn't happen. It hasn't happened then or even with Krakatoa or other massive eruptions of less than Yellowstone or Mt. Toba scale.
Both Pinatubo and Krakatoa had noticeable climatic consequences. But those effects lasted only a few years, on the surface. (Krakatoa probably affected ocean heat for many decades.) Tambora helped cause "the year without a summer".
16 nukes wouldn't do much, but a large number of nukes could cause a nuclear winter. For the climatic consequences of that, see this paper.
Just maintaining the nuclear arsenal accounts for around $18million a year currently and it's rising every year.
That's $18 billion a year, on average.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
