yeah, i have been to galveston, and like i said earlier, it's only the seawall that is raised. you may get the impression that it is the whole island, since the wall is at places 50-100 feet wide...but it is a very small part of the island that is raised.
Whoops! I think you mean the seawall is raised, not the entire island. For a performance review of how impregnable the seawall in Galveston is...see "Hurricane Ike"
Tasha26 writes: UK's Ministry of Defence admitted that secret information about its nuclear powered submarines was leaked on the internet by mistake. A "technical error" (i.e. turning the background colour of certain text to black) meant that sensitive blacked-out parts of the online MoD report could be read by anyone who copy-pasted it into another document. This accidental leak reveals amongst many things, how easy it would be to cause a Fukushima-style reactor meltdown in a sub and details of measures used by the US Navy to protect its own nuclear submarines.
"Chains are slightly more efficient than shafts, which makes a big difference for bicycles (rather than motorcycles, where small inefficiencies are negligible)."
Spot on with the bicycle side...but way off on the motorcycle side. If you think small efficiencies are not valued in motorcycles, you haven't been watching the evolution of sportbikes for the past, ahh, 20 years.