Comment Re: Any day now we are all going to drown! (Score 1) 282
I've lived in multiple places in Europe. I had more freedom back home.
I've lived in multiple places in Europe. I had more freedom back home.
That's like sourcing a drug dealer on which drug you can take that is the least addictive. Yeah because he has no incentive to lie.
Spent two minutes looking around for other sources, found several that weren't attached to political entities. Pretty much the average damage going up follows along with inflation and population density.
When I visited here many times as a kid there were whole stretches of empty coastline and Tampa used to be surrounded by citrus orchards. Now the coast is a constant line of condos and beach houses for 2 hours in each direction, and all the orchards are HOAs.
People want us to spend trillions of dollars and give up our rights because their $5 million dollar beach house might be affected. Those of you buying into it are a bunch of sheep, and everyone knows that livestock is a major contributor to the "global warming crisis".
I believe the Army calls them POGs (Person other than a grunt)
As soon as they make it past basic training they don't do another "military" thing again in their time in other than wear the uniform and fall out for PT once in a while.
Instead we have this insanely expensive nuclear deterrent that we are unwilling to actually deploy along with the even more expensive expanse of conventional forces.
You could cut the military's budget by 90% to get that, or you could cut the social and welfare programs by 20% and get the same result.
Pretty sure their goal is to just dump out a convenient small amount 10-20 as a piggy back on each commercial flight. That would work well with the decaying orbit strategy with cheapo satellites. It would be pretty amazing for innovation since they could constantly be upgrading the specs as they constantly replenish their numbers..
They could also send out good sized swarms when they do test flights. I could imagine they just dump all 7500 out in one go with a dedicated launch.
You do realize if those 1.1B people did not have "safe drinking water" they would all be dead in 3-4 days. Don't recall hearing about 20% of the planet's population suddenly dying over the weekend.
You do understand that the concept of "safe drinking water" has been a moving target for something like the last 1000 years. Sterilized, purified, carbon filtered bottled water is the gold standard, but it is hardly necessary for survival. Human beings can and do survived on water that people would not think is fit to swim in much less drink.
Dry wicking shirts, a quick wipe down and fresh deodorant at the destination is enough. A shower would be great but that is not convenient. I've been doing the commute for 3 years now and other than July and August I hardly get sweaty.
I'll respond to one of your items, because most of the rest are weak talking points and can be countered with a 2 minute Google search.
How pray tell do we have an ever growing population on planet Earth, including the non-rich countries of which you speak, if 1.1B people do not have access to safe drinking water? You do realize even in the crappiest of countries the quality of life has gone UP, not down, for almost everyone. Again do a 2 minute Google search and point out how many countries are dropping in population. I'll give you a hint, the number in the 3rd world is approximately zero.
I bet you a dollar that all the people going on and on about safe drinking water would love for you to send them just the meager sum of the price of a cup of coffee once a month to ensure, insert sad picture of cute dirty little brown kids, will have safe water to drink. (Scam)
Can their quality of life be improved certainly, but are we running out of water, even fresh water...hardly. There are 120 million liters for each person on planet Earth. Pretty sure if people put their minds to it they can find a way to make it drinkable.
Hey would you look at that...a 2 minute search on Google returns 6.57 million results on how to do it.
Have a great day.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.