If our entire transportation sector used these things, about how much atmospheric oxygen would be in battery use at any given moment? I'm hoping it would be insignificant, but that's how we start thinking about a lot of things.
No problem.. I hear Druidia has all the air we would ever need.
I can see where the author could get confused. Those aren't for phone booths... those are for new suicide booths. If you think about it.. those make a lot more sense for a city like NY.
I think it's important to provide solutions rather than just criticize the ideas of others. So... may I humbly suggest we solve these problems by simply eating those people who are not productive members of society? That would reduce the population... encourage people to work and be productive.. and provide a source of meat that doesn't depend on cows. That's at least as good an idea of trying to bio-engineer the human race for some nebulous politically correct social agenda.
1) put lots of (mostly) men down in holes in the ground.
2) Give them powered machinery that predominately runs on diesel power.
Actually... I believe most sub-surface mining equipment runs on electric power to lessen the emissions and remove a potential source of ignition. They still have to ventilate though because of the risk of dust and methane explosions. So even if the workers had SCUBA gear (or whatever the mining equivalent is) they would still have to deal with air circulation issues as they relate to safety. I'll also mention that while you hear about a bad mining accident every 5-10 years here... you don't hear about the thousands of mines that operate without incident.
I saw the video a couple days ago and a few things jumped out at me as diverging from the reality they try to paint in the interview. First.. the thing landed right next to them.. was it really shot down or did they just land it? Second.. that road wasn't exactly a highway. It looked to be a two lane road through the wilderness... not one other car went by or was even seen for the whole duration of the video.
If they did in fact shoot it down... good for them... that was a small erratically moving target and they were out there for target practice after all.
The new official retirement age has been raised to 112. Enjoy those last two years at home on us... you've earned them.
Provide a man with fire and he keeps warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm the rest of his life. Something.. something.. something.. soviet Russia.
If only there were a bank on Mars that needed bailed out... by god then we would get there! I wonder if there is enough atmosphere on the red planet to fly a helicopter from which we could drop money.. or lacking the funds... turkeys.
I heard you like to reduce maps, so I put a CPU in your RAM so you can hash while you map.
I don't know where you get the bit about a third of Japan's rice being grown in Fukushima province. A lot of the rice eaten in Japan is imported, for one thing. For another thing the major part of the contamination from the Fukushima reactors was deposited in mountainous terrain to the north-west of the plant. Nearly all rice-growing in Japan is done on coastal flatlands such as the Kansai region, a looong way from Fukushima.
I get it from various sources... I don't recall exactly where I read that tidbit.. but it's easy enough to find sites like this one. http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/kokusai/IADwebsite/aboutfuku/aboutfuku8.htm Where it specifically mentions all the agricultural products that come out of that area and articles like this one: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45337452/ns/world_news-disaster_in_japan/t/japan-bans-rice-grown-near-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-plant/#.TxuQOyOZNCI Interestingly.. those 'safe levels of radiation' mentioned in the article have been something of a moving target lately. Governments worldwide have been changing regulations to drastically increase what's considered safe with regard to food specifically from Japan. Google it yourself if you doubt what I'm saying.
This is basically the same situation for the agricultural areas contaminated with fallout although decontamination there might be easier as less soil needs removing and treating.
One has to look at the decon methods they are using.. and how effective they are likely to be. I've seen estimates that to really decon it right you have to remove 4" of top soil. That would be devastating to the environment there and utterly impossible on the scale we are talking. That's not how they are de-contaminating though. In many cases they are removing less depth or simply ploughing the soil to turn it over. They are also dumping radioactive soil into Tokyo Bay where it's sure to end up in marine life.. so not really getting rid of it.. just moving it around making it harder to find. The latest numbers I've seen were about 1400 square miles needs to be de contaminated. That's not just farm land.. that's cities.. woods.. private houses etc. Crops grown in contaminated soil can uptake hot particles and pass them on to the people or animals that consume them.
As for radioactivity levels, I do hope you are aware that seafood swims in radioactivity? Seawater has about 10Bq/litre of radioactivity due to the presence of potassium-40 (K-40). A rough BOTE calculation says there are 50 million tonnes of this radioactive isotope in the world's oceans continuously emitting beta particles and gamma rays. The few kilogrammes of cesium-134 and -137 deposited in the sea by the Fukushima explosions are a spit in the bucket by comparison.
Seriously? I guess that would be ok if your fish are all pulled from that 'average' ocean.. but of course that's where math and the real world part ways. Fishing is done near coast lines where the continuing discharge of radioactive water is going to create a hot zone to the east of Japan. It makes no sense to talk about worldwide averages when the danger is coming from a single point near a major food source. Big fish eat little fish.. and dilute contamination gets concentrated.. that's what I meant by working its way up the food chain.
The fact is.. the numbers you see in the press releases are based on estimates.. wild guesses actually. No one really knows how much material got released.. what it was or how far it might have gone. Ocean and land surveys are ongoing and as the numbers start to get updated.. we are finding out it was much worse than anyone thought initially. This is not hyperbole.. it's a realistic examination of the disaster that happened last year.. and the continuing disaster of bad policy and bad cleanup methods.
That one incident directly killed more people and destroyed more homes than the Fukushima radiation releases have done to date.
Are you being purposefully obtuse? Do you realize that this multiple meltdown incident has contaminated a huge swath of land in Japan and fresh water sources? This part of the country is one of the big farming areas.. I've seen estimates that about 1/3 of the rice consumed in Japan comes from Fukushima prefecture. As the people who live there move back.. resume farming... people will eat the livestock, fish, and produce that comes out there... these particles of radiation will be breathed in and otherwise work their way up the food chain. These sorts of incidents don't have to kill a million people on day one.. that will come in the next 5-7 years from increased cancer rates. The fact that our own FDA has no plans to screen fish coming out of the pacific ocean should be scary if you like to eat fish.
I'm sure they don't realize what they are doing... but they will in time. They (unlike apple) don't sell the hardware their software runs on. Therefore.. it's not under their control how many devices are in the market that can run an OS that is so locked down. At first there may be many... but those choices will taper off as sales of linux based devices will always be less expensive. That and people don't like windows on non desktop platforms and I seriously doubt they have done enough right with the next iteration of Windows to change that perception. So in the end.. this will resemble yet another failed Microsoft mobile platform and less like the next desktop OS for the future. In the mean time.. they will continue to shed 3rd party developers as this slow motion train wreck unfolds.
Eventually, the thieves will take care of themselves.
I'm sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drug store, but in 2012 it's a little hard to come by. Just ask Iran... plus their scientists have a tendency to spontaneously blow up.
I say KILL IT WITH FIRE! And while they are readying the bonfire... hunt down sendmail as well. Some software ages gracefully... like a fine wine... and gets better over the years. Other looks more like some over the hill celebrity who's had way too much work done on their face just so they can pretend to still be relevant and land that last big staring role. Give it up Bind... it's not going to happen.
Thanks for the info... the article didn't specify if that rate was per spot beam or the aggregated capacity for the entire satellite though. It makes sense that it would be per spot.. but then they also mentioned having 2 stations in different parts of the country where that traffic would rejoin the internet. I'm sure other customer data will be sharing those spot beams as well.. so.. not being an expert.. I would think those two internet gateway locations and the capacity of the beams covering them would still be your limiting factor.
Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.
