I suppose Americans have the right to shit on the sidewalk. Plenty of them do. Does that make it a model of citizenship?
Like Scylla and Charybdis discussing Greek entrails.
This is terrible. The itch I must scratch. (Warning: don't read.)
I thought a "hung cao" was a bull.
For me, the link went to an article behind a paywall, so I will rely on your account. All the mirror can do is reflect an image of the sun. But, if we assume (extremely generously) that the mirror is only 100 km from any ground site, it will have an angular diameter about 1/52 of that of the Sun. Which means it will reflect only 1/2690th of the sun's area (about 0.037 percent). All that trouble to produce only a visual annoyance? (The f-number for such a system would be no better than f/5,555, so I don't see it as being much of a "concentrator".)
It's not even a new idea. Krafft Ehrike proposed "solettas", circa 1970, mirrors of MUCH greater size, stemming from Hermann Oberth's ideas of the 1920s. (Hard to find information on solettas. Here is a link to an abstract of one of Ehricke's papers on the subject: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0094576579900031). I was privileged to meet and chat with Ehricke several times in the 1970s. He was quite a rousing character. As a boy, I built plastic models of the things he was dreaming up when he was at Convair.
Not even remotely.
I have to smile at the thought of "the IRGC is LIVID tonight." They are raging psychotics being bitch-slapped by reality with the evidence of their impotence and irrelevance. What are they going to do? Pray to Allah for deliverance and victory? But they won't, because they know deep in their heart that such a prayer would be futile. They could not bear to pray, and for it not to be heeded. Knowledge of that futility will eat at them like acid.
I still think Trump should play the religious card with these fanatics. "Well, faithful soldiers of Mohammed, you know I have beaten you to a pulp over the last few days, and I am doing so again today. And you know that there is nothing you can do except pray to Allah. And you also know that Allah has abandoned you to a fate that only he is allowing to happen. Did you realize that? That you are the accursed of Allah? That he is allowing an infidel to chastise you for all your insanity and evil? And the longer you indulge in your pride and terror, the longer this torment will continue? Oh, there is no end to it without 'islam'. Or death."
What do you suppose? Do you think that would push their buttons? Send them over the edge? Provoke suicides? When it comes to a bonfire of the vanities, some people like to add fuel, but I like to add oxygen.
Recent maps also spell Kiev, "Kiyv". Nothing changes about the District of Columbia. It is neither Virginia nor Maryland, which is exactly and only what that means.
Gold trim on a flag is like bringing out the silverware for important guests.
Only about culpability. Like Fox News calling the 2020 election prematurely as a synchronizing signal.
Because they are currently in action against Iran, at the very least. Why should he forget that in a national address? Sometimes, there are no hidden meanings.
Real what? If you know, write a book and claim a Nobel prize in physics. (Just as a litmus test, do you know of the Casimir force? And how it comes about?)
Claims are dirt cheap. He may have been alluding to rocket transport, but there is no such point-to-point transportation system in operation. That was a subject of discussion back in the 90s. I was working on it then. A bridge too far.
Sorry, no "Tesla tech." Good old-fashioned microwaves. This has been known for half a century.
Don't get your hopes up. I've been analyzing this problem since the 1970s when space solar power (SSP) satellites were in vogue. Gigantic installations in geostationary orbit. Requiring equally gigantic receiver installations on the ground. Far too expensive to be worth the trouble. Various manipulations have been attempted on the concept since then, but not possible to improve the system economics. (Except that Jack Olson at Boeing was aware of a way to improve the economic productivity by a factor of two...but the method was not the topic of any design studies they were under contract to perform.)
As for more limited military applications, these usually fall apart once one gets into the details of orbital availability, propagation losses, and power intensity limitations. Due to weather constraints, the beams need to be microwave, and power levels of 1 kilowatt and up are de facto weapon systems, considering the pointing accuracy and control required. 1 kW = 1.34 horsepower. The M1 Abrams main battle tank engine is 1500 hp (1.1 MW). Trying to play with power beams of this magnitude will just create a battlefield hazard. Try flying around while these are coming down from space. And God save the poor grunt who gets caught by a reflection of such a beam.
My observations on power transmission technology: mechanical shaft power is safest, electrical power is cautious, and beamed power is exceedingly dangerous.
It seems like this Bright Idea surfaces every generation, after the previous generation learned their lesson, dropped it, and retired out of service. Nobody bothers to do a back-of-the-envelope study on the end-to-end architecture, or the potential countermeasures (e.g., chaff).
Drat! You beat me to it. I was going to say, "Maxine Waters is a man."
You mean this Moon landing, on the Moon's south pole no less? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6CL0Zg5KVE No graphics, just straight video. They had to get there in order to make it, and the south pole is not that easy to get to.
What green India? Who is touting that? Hot and arid is all I've ever heard of.
Every race has its bottom layer. I assume you prefer the drugged-out prostitutes and criminals of the "homeless" encampments? They literally stink out freeway causeways with uncontrolled fecal matter (really great when you are driving along with the top down). How are you with Irish boiled cabbage? Or German sauerkraut?
What I see with my own eyes (and smell with my own nose) are numerous degraded white people called "homeless," troubling the streets of a city I once loved. I had to grow up next door to "white trash"---they literally had trash in their front yard. I have nothing to do with "mulatto dystopias." Prolific drug use, prostitution, and criminality is an "incompatible culture" so far as I am concerned. If this lot were "replaced," it would be an improvement.
As I understand, it was to be a temporary pause in order to implement improved training to cope with the problem. It may be satisfying and deserved to shoot the culprit, but it is better for the agent safety if the problem can be precluded.
Ah...a misunderstanding. By "they" I meant the Muslims. With commercial air travel, it is far better to be safe than sorry. When my first reaction to sounds from the passenger cabin is "What the fuck is THAT?" my hand reaches for the radio controls to redirect to the nearest landing opportunity.
If the Muslims don't like the bad press and ire from the other passengers, so much the better.
So, the headline makes a claim that Vance is at pains not to make? According to Promethean Action, the likely culprits are the City of London. Which is all moot, considering that the Iranians are pathologically incapable of not being treacherous.
How can they complain when we take them seriously?
My typical reaction: "So, when will you self-euthanize?"
I apologize for collateral damage. By that sentence, I was not intending to refer to you, but to the huge bulk of bigoted comment that appeared above your comment. You have a much more moderate tone, for which I thank you.
I approach this from personal experience. Where I live is very ethnically mixed with western and eastern Europeans, Latinos, American and African blacks, East Asians, Middle Easterners, and Indians across all elements of the local economy. I dislike seeing people I have known at close range being disparaged or even hated for their virtues. I think it was once said of Indians that "they are the Jews of the Indian Ocean," based on their initiative, drive, and good business practice. (The Indian presence in South Africa is the largest in the world outside of India. Mahatma Gandhi was born in SA.) This saying gains more ground when I see the kind of dirt thrown up against them. I've worked with engineers hailing from all corners of the world, all of them hard working and smart.
Yes, if the legal working conditions are not fair (meaning not uniform without regard to person), that should be corrected. But I am not convinced that many U.S. citizens find that a barrier more important than their own pride and indolence. This all turns into a life lesson for why there is such "Jew" hatred: their intelligence and productivity are taken as a reproach by the dull and lazy, who fancy themselves entitled. I am not sympathetic to such envy. I had to work hard to gain my station in life, and so did everyone else around me, no matter their origin.
As for 7-11, that is old lore. I wondered at that when I was a child, and then was told. Same thing for Motel 6: It was a time when you could get an overnight room for $6. And a pretty good hamburger for 25 cents (modern keyboards no longer have the cent symbol), which earlier used to be the price for a gallon of gasoline. We were more used to hearing Scandinavian or Dutch accents in those days. Nobody else wanted to be lumberjacks or flood plain farmers. Do you see? It has always been this way: immigrants fit in where they can find work similar to what they knew. There was plenty of work to go around. No one was jealous of any other.
I love Trump. Talk about thinking outside the box.
Makes more sense to de-statehood California and New York.