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Comment a realtime map of artillery (Score 1) 263

Couldn't they set up a few raspberry pi's around a town all listening to their microphones. They would be able to triangulate every launch and landing of every artillery shell and every bullet fired either for retaliation, protection or evidence of warcrimes. It would be simple and cheap and undetectable if the pi's only store the data on their sd card for retrieval later.
This would be identical to https://www.lightningmaps.org/ which triangulates every lightning strike in the world in realtime - and it is all amateurs at home.

Comment Re:Stop me if this doesn't make sense. (Score 1) 24

Black Holes have 3 properties, which are observable (and hence measurable): angular momentum, mass and charge. Volume or radius are not properties of a Black Hole and are unobservable. Hence Density, doesn't make sense so neither does anything you say here about density.
Yes, you could shrink a pea to something like a primordial black hole. It will still only weigh 1 gram and have a tiny event horizon and still only have the gravitational field of a 1g pea. It would attract mass that was very close and would grow, ejecting energy from friction with items crossing its event horizon - in theory it could swallow the Earth, but no way the Moon as the Moon would just continue orbiting it after the Earth was swallowed - except if ejecta from the Earth created a cloud of dust that slowed the Moon enough to fall in...
The Universe may be full of such Black Holes and they may even be constantly passing through the Earth causing subatomic holes from one side to the other that seal over and we never notice them. They are candidates for Dark Matter - a kind of "strongly" interacting massive particle .
And again density makes no sense. We talk about the density of Neutron Stars because they do have a radius and a volume.

Comment Re:It's sad for a wholly different reason (Score 1) 98

I know many Uighur since 1990, refugees even then, when a friend of mine studied at university in Urumchi in the late 80s, I learnt their beautiful language and their culture and food is delightful. It aches my heart to see them robbed. I also speak Kyrgyzh, Uzbek and even Tajik - such a beautiful part of the world. I'm just an Anglo, who fell in love with this part of the world 30 years ago.

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