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After a triumphant tour in St. Petersburg, the Teatro Regio has been invited, for the first time, to the Edinburgh International Festival, the famous Scottish Festival that has offered, since 1947, the best of international music and theatre. In just three weeks, the Festival presents more than 140 performances, distributed in the six locations around the city.
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HAGATNA, Guam ---- Almost 100 U.S army personnel will deploy to Guam in coming weeks as the Pentagon moves one of its missile defense systems designed to knock down hostile targets in the upper atmosphere.
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NOW we'll see if that island tips over!!!
For some reason I don't believe the Norks can hit a target with one of their missiles.
1.2 tons would seem to be plenty of lift for a modern nuclear weapon
But the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs each weighed two tons.
Could they hit Japan by accident?
Maybe they don't need to. How high in the atmosphere would they need to set off a nuke, trigger an EMP and basically shut down the country's power grid, internet, navigational systems not to mention bring transportation to a screeching halt? I'm not a physicist, but is that a possibility?
Yes, and probable.....
This whole thing has gone from "funny' to somber and serious.
Hey, if our guys tip over the Island, the missile will hit coral and do nothing. What a great idea. We have got to thank that Ahole Democrat who suggested it.
We can't keep thinking of conventional means of delivery or attack. 19 jihadists brought havoc and mayhem to our land through unconventional means and the norks have greater creativity than Al Qaeda. Just a human-delivered dirty bomb detonated in Seoul or Tokyo could throw the world economy into another tailspin, and with it, the immediate surrender of our "leadership".
nukes got smaller.
not quite down the nuclear hand grenade where squad could really make good use of them, but close.
I'm just not sure what the Norks are capable of.
If North Korea goes to full war, you can bet dollars to donughts that they would first set off an EMP over the Korean Penninsula. If they have developed one. They could shield most everything during the blast and at any rate, they seem to do fine without much electricity.
Too bad there's not a technology to return missiles to sender as in a boomerang steer effect.
Wouldn't it be better to just fill up all the empty pads again?
100 miles. The EMP effect could cover about 2/3rds of the country.
Nope your not. This battle plan has been thought our kicked around altered and updated for the last 60 years.
Triad is a really good word to remember. Nuclear weapons launched by ground based solid fueled missiles as in Minute Man III's, air delivered weapons as in nuclear cruise missiles from our heavy bombers or nuclear bombs from a carrier based aircraft, and missiles with nuclear warheads launched from our subs. Taking out the Internet in Guam with a nuclear weapon will trigger a nuclear hell for North Korea.
Hey, baby kim, F you!!!!!!!
It's goiong to capsize?
Never underestimate your adversary
That would be be bad
First nukes were overdesigned in several aspects. First, there was no time for much testing. There was only one test, and that was a stationary device on a tower, and nobody knew for a fact that it will explode. The droppable bomb was designed, built and dropped without complete testing. So it had to be designed with a lot of redundancy.
Then there was a concern what would happen if the airplane crashes on liftoff. There weren't too many safeties in the bomb. So it had to be loaded into the airplane partially assembled, and then an engineer would finish the assembly in flight. All this resulted in a larger design that was easier to work on.
After a while those issues were cleaned up. NK today does not need to wonder if the physical theory of nuclear chain reactions is valid. They only need to do very specific mechanical work - and even that is not easy for them, with their prehistoric machines. But on the other hand they don't have to deliver a 100 kT explosion. The western world today is pampered, enlightened, and delicate. A harsh word would send it reeling. A mere 5 kT nuke - which will have very limited effect on the ground - can result in surrender of many of those enlightened foes "if it will save just one life." France, for example, surrendered early in World War II. This happens when enough of the population doesn't care who exactly is ruling over them; when it's not a single nation anymore, bound by common ideals, but just a collection of strangers who couldn't care less about those common ideals.
The reports I've seen indicate five mobile units carrying Scuds, Nodongs are deployed to the coast of Hamgyong Province and at least two Musudans are ready for launch in Kangwon Province.
I would guess that they are looking for a simultaneous launch sometime in the next five days to test our ship-board missile defenses.
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Sun Bug

How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun?

Luke Doty

Not that many! I mean, it's definitely one of those gigantic numbers with lots of zeroes, but in the grand scheme of things, there aren't as many zeroes as you might expect.

Our first question: Where does firefly light even come from?

Fireflies may look like they're full of glow-in-the-dark goo, but the light they give off actually comes from a thin layer on their surface.[1]You can see some diagrams of the organs here and here. Lots of insects have glowing surface patches, and some of those patches have been studied carefully to calculate their brightness. A 1928 paper on beetles called "headlight bugs"[2]Such a great name. found that their glowing patches, which were a little over a square millimeter in area, emitted about 0.0006 lumens of light. Fireflies have luminous organs (bright patches) that are about the same size as those of headlight bugs,[3]See this paper on some common American fireflies. and their organs tend to have a similar peak brightness per area, so this figure is a good guess for the brightness of a firefly's lantern.

Firefly lights aren't "always-on." They blink on and off, with patterns that vary from species to species and situation to situation. These flashes carry information, some of which you can decode using this delightful chart.[4]You can also use LEDs to mess with firefly patterns, which feels strangely invasive.

To get the brightest light, let's assume we're using a species with a mostly-on duty cycle—like a headlight bug. How does its 0.0006-lumen light output compare to the Sun?

The Sun's brightness is \( 3.8\times10^{28} \) lumens, so by simple division, it would take \( 3\times10^{31} \) of those fireflies to emit the same amount of light. That's a surprisingly small number; adult fireflies weigh about 20 milligrams, which means \( 3\times10^{31} \) fireflies would only weigh about a third as much as Jupiter and 1/3000th as much as the Sun.

In other words, per pound, fireflies are brighter than the Sun. Even though bioluminescence is millions of times less efficient than the Sun's fusion-powered glow, the Sun can't afford to be as bright because it has to last billions of times longer.[5]If you like Fermi problems—and silly equations—there's an interesting route you can take to this answer without doing any research on fireflies or the Sun at all. Instead, you can just plug this equation into Wolfram|Alpha: (5 billion years / (4 hours/day * 3 months)) / (1% * (speed of light)^2 / (3200 calories/pound)).

Let's walk through it: The first half—the numerator—is a guess for the ratio between how long the Sun has to keep glowing compared to how long a firefly does. I took a wild guess that fireflies have to light up for a few hours each night for one summer, while the Sun has to last another five billion years. The second half—the denominator—is a guess as to the ratio between the stored energy in a pound of firefly vs a pound of star. Nuclear fusion converts about 1% of the input matter to energy, so from E=mc2, the stored energy is c2 kg/kg, whereas animal matter (say, butter) is about 3,200 food calories per pound. The result should tell us the ratio between a firefly's brightness per pound and the Sun's. And the answer we get says that the fireflies are a few thousand times brighter—which is roughly what we got from working through it the other way!

It's true that we got lucky with some of our guesses, but since we made errors in both directions, they tended to cancel out. This kind of thing works more often than it seems like it should!

But wait! A mass of fireflies that big would run into problems. Besides the obvious problems with gathering that many animals in one place, the fireflies would block each others' light. The inner fireflies would be hidden behind the outer ones, and the total brightness would be limited.[6]But the light from the core fireflies wouldn't just vanish. After bouncing around a few times, it would be absorbed by neighboring fireflies, which would get warmer. This is sort of like how radiation makes its way out of the Sun's core—but in the case of the fireflies, they'd die from the heat before the process got very far.

Since the only light that matters is the light at the surface, we could imagine arranging the fireflies in a hollow sphere, with their lanterns pointing outward. Or, to make thing simpler, we could imagine a single giant firefly. How big would it need to be?

Since we know our firefly will need to give off about \( 3\times10^{31} \) times as much light as a normal firefly, it will need a glowing patch \( 3\times10^{31} \) times larger. Since surface area is proportional to length squared, our firefly will have a body length \( \sqrt{3\times10^{31}}=5\times10^{15} \) times longer than a normal firefly, which would make it about the size of the Solar System.

Since mass is proportional to length cubed, our firefly would weigh \( \left( 3\times10^{31}\right)^{\tfrac{3}{2}}=1.6\times10^{47} \) times as much as a normal firefly, which works out to about half as much as the entire Milky Way galaxy.

Such a firefly would immediately collapse under its own weight and become a black hole. In fact, given the distribution of galaxies in our universe, there's an upper limit to how large black holes can grow, and this firefly would be bigger than that limit. That means our firefly would become the largest black hole in the universe. It would give off a lot of light as it devoured our galaxy, and then, eventually, it would give off none at all.

Black holes last a long time, but they eventually evaporate through Hawking radiation. When the black hole era of our universe comes to an end, black holes will evaporate one by one, with the smallest evaporating faster. Since our firefly's black hole would be the largest one in the universe, it would be the last to evaporate—a final outpost of irregularity in a universe fading toward heat death.

We should probably add that to the identification chart, just in case.

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Tatooine Rainbow

Since rainbows are caused by the refraction of the sunlight by tiny droplets of rainwater, what would rainbow look like on Earth if we had two suns like Tatooine?

—Raga

A planet with double suns would have double rainbows.

Or rather, quadruple rainbows. Our rainbows here on Earth are already double rainbows—there's a second, fainter bow above the main one. You can't always see this second rainbow, since the clouds need to be just right, so people get excited when they see one.

The area between the two rainbows is darker than the area outside because raindrops reflect light more strongly in certain directions. That region has a name, by the way—it's called Alexander's dark band.

The first and second rainbows are the only ones you can see easily, but there are actually many more bows beyond those two, each one fainter than the last. Rainbows are formed by light bouncing around in raindrops, and the different bows are formed by different paths the light can take. The main rainbow is formed by the most common paths through the droplet, and other paths—where some of the light bounces around in more unusual ways—make the fainter second, third, fourth, and even fifth rainbows.

Usually, only the first and second rainbows are bright enough to see; it was only in the last five years that anyone took pictures of the third, fourth, and fifth rainbows.

Rainbows appear on the other side of the sky from the Sun, so to figure out what a double rainbow would look like on a planet with two suns, we need to figure out where the suns usually appear in the sky on that kind of planet.

There are planets with two suns out there, although we didn't know that for sure until recently. Double-star planets come in two main varieties:

In the first kind of system, the two stars are close together and the planet goes around them far away. This kind of planet is called a circumbinary planet. In the second kind of system, the two stars are farther apart, and the planet orbits one of them[1]Not necessarily the bigger one. while the other stays far away. This kind of planet is called [the other kind of planet].[2]I'm sorry, I've just never learned a good word for these.

If you lived on [the other kind of planet],[3]Sorry. the two Suns would spend most of the year in different parts of the sky. Depending on how big they were, they may also be very different in brightness. If you were orbiting the larger star, the smaller one might be no brighter than the Moon,[4]Which would still be bright enough to cast a rainbow! or even look like an ordinary planet or star.

Tatooine, in Star Wars, looks like it's probably a circumbinary planet. The two stars appear pretty close together in the sky and similar in color and size, so it seems reasonable to guess they're actually near one another, with Tatooine orbiting both of them. Two suns would create two overlapping rainbows. The main bow of the rainbow is a circle about 84 degrees across, centered in the sky exactly opposite the Sun.[5]This is why you never see more than half of a rainbow above the horizon. If the center of the rainbow were above the horizon, it would mean the Sun was below it behind you, so there wouldn't be sunlight to make a rainbow in the first place. The farther apart the two suns were, the farther apart the rainbows would be. If the two suns were 84 degrees apart, the main bows of the two rainbows would barely touch.

A pair of suns 84 degrees apart would be possible around [the other kind of planet], but not around Tatooine-type[6]If Star Wars had just used the other kind of planet, we could use its name for them and solve this problem. circumbinary planets. The reason is simple: A planet orbiting two stars can't get too close to them or its orbit becomes unstable. If it gets too close, the irregular tugging from the gravity of the two stars as they orbit will eventually cause the planet to crash into one of them or get flung out of the system.

For a system with two similar-sized stars, this "critical radius" is around six times the distance between the two stars.[7]This is a very rough number; it can range from four to eight depending on the exact arrangement. We've found a lot of planets close to that critical radius, which suggests that maybe they slowly migrate inward until they reach it and are ejected or destroyed. Strangely, we haven't found many big Jupiter-sized planets around binary stars in general; we should be seeing them if they're there, so the lack of them is a mystery. This means that the two suns would never get more than about 20 degrees apart in the sky:

This tells us that the two rainbows in a Tatooine-like system would always overlap.[8]Assuming the raindrops are made of water, or something with similar refractive properties. The colors would blend together where the bows crossed, and the dark bands would too.

I suppose doubling all the rainbows would also double the number of pots of gold at the end of each rainbow.[9]Come to think of it, do our rainbows have one pot of gold or two? I've never really thought about it. And it's not just pots of gold; I guess we'd need to rethink all kinds of rainbow references.

Overlapping rainbows would be beautiful, but definitely a lot more complicated.

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Pizza Bird

My boyfriend recently took a flight on a plane with wifi, and while he was up there, wistfully asked if I could send him a pizza. I jokingly sent him a photo of a parrot holding a pizza slice in its beak. Obviously, my boyfriend had to go without pizza until he landed at JFK. But this raised the question: could a bird deliver a standard 20" New York-style cheese pizza in a box? And if so, what kind of bird would it take?

—Tina Nguyen

A bird could, possibly, deliver a pizza to a house. Delivering it to an airliner is a lot harder.

A 20-inch pizza weighs about 1.8 kg.[1]Citation: I just ordered a pizza to check. I usually steer clear of experimental science in these articles, but am willing to make an exception when it involves eating a bunch of pizza. That's about 100 times the weight of a sparrow, so we're definitely going to need a large bird. There are all sorts of birds bigger than our pizza, including eagles, swans, cranes, pelicans, and albatrosses. However, some of them would do better at pizza delivery than others. To see why, let's take a look at wing shapes.

Birds have different types of wings depending on what kind of flying they need to do. Of all the types of wings, the ones best suited for pizza delivery are probably the relatively short-and-broad kind found on many soaring hawks and eagles.[2]Long, thin wings, like those of a gull or albatross, are more aerodynamically efficient in many ways. However, these wings are harder to flap, which makes it difficult for these birds to accelerate quickly. Albatrosses require long "runways" to build up speed before they can lift off.[3]Here's a live feed of some baby albatrosses nesting in Hawaii. These wings are good for taking off while carrying a heavy load, which is of course necessary for pizza delivery.

The largest birds of prey in North America[4]Not counting the California condor, which isn't very good at the kind of hard flapping required to lift heavy loads. And anyway, there are only a few hundred of them in the world—up from 22 in the early 1990's—so someone would definitely notice if you took some for pizza delivery. are the bald eagles[5]Here's a live feed of a bald eagle nest in the US National Arboretum. and golden eagles, which weigh about 4 or 5 kilograms when fully grown. The famous viral video of a golden eagle snatching a toddler is fake, but eagles have been seen to lift some awfully heavy things. Last year, photographer Alex Lamine saw a bald eagle in Georgia carrying a 12-pound (5.4 kg) tree branch, presumably to add to its gigantic nest. The eagle dropped the branch before making it back to the nest, but it definitely proved the bird was capable of flying—at least briefly—while carrying a load equal to its own body weight.

As a general rule, though, birds of prey won't try to pick up more than about half of their own weight. This means a half-kilogram peregrine falcon[6]Here's a live feed of a peregrine falcon nest box in Arizona. couldn't pick up our 2-kilogram pizza. A 5-kilogram eagle, on the other hand, probably could.

However, picking up a pizza is one thing, but what about delivering it to an airliner?

Soaring birds like vultures—and eagles—can ride thermals[7]Thermals, warm columns of rising air, are a phenomenon familiar to both glider pilots and fans of the Animorphs book series. to extreme heights. In tropical regions, where the sunlight-powered thermals are strongest, planes have encountered[8]😞 soaring Rüppell's vultures at altitudes of over 10 kilometers. That's high enough to reach a cruising airliner—but, unfortunately, this kind of soaring flight requires ideal flying conditions. "Having a pizza strapped to you" is definitely not that.

So a bird could potentially carry a pizza, but it couldn't fly up to an airliner with it. That's just as well, because there's one more major problem you'd face: Speed.

Whether or not a bird can fly as high as an airliner, it definitely can't fly as fast. Even if the person in the plane managed to get the emergency door open, they'd have to find a way to grab the pizza.

If you tip a pizza box too far, the cheese runs off one side. This critical angle varies from pizza to pizza and depends greatly on temperature, but let's suppose it's about 45°. That angle tells us that a pizza can handle a maximum sideways acceleration of about 1g.[9]Assuming you've managed to keep the pizza warm at those high altitudes—because what kind of a monster delivers a cold pizza? To accelerate up to an airliner cruising speed of 500 mph, we'll need the acceleration to happen over a distance of over a mile. In other words, we'd need a mile-long mechanism trailing behind the plane to gently reel in the pizza.

But wait—those calculations assume sideways acceleration. Pizzas—like humans—handle "face-first" acceleration best. If the pizza were rotated during the handoff, it could survive a much greater acceleration, allowing the grabbing mechanism to be smaller.

What kind of face-first acceleration can a pizza survive before it spreads out to fill the bottom of the box? I haven't found any data on that, but if anyone wants to try to sneak a pizza into a centrifuge, go for it. Be sure to take pictures!

All in all, if you're in a plane and feel the urge to order a pizza, it's probably easier to just wait until you land. Then, if you really want, you can try to get a bird to deliver it.

But don't be surprised if some slices go missing along the way.

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Eat the Sun

What percentage of the Sun's heat (per day) does the population of Earth eat in calories per year? What changes could be made to our diets for the amount of calories to equal the energy of the Sun?

—James Mitchell

0.000000000065%.

A McDonald's Big Mac contains 540 (dietary) calories of energy, or about 2,250,000 joules. The Sun's output is 382,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules per second.[1]Also known as watts. This is a rare case of a common-in-America unit which is secretly SI-friendly. Of course, we immediately worked our way around to measuring stored energy in kWh (and mAh), and now everything is terrible again. That's enough to tell us that we're going to have a hard time catching up with the Sun by eating more burgers.

Why is this so difficult?

Most of the Sun's mass is concentrated in the core, where energy is released as hydrogen fuses into helium. By volume, the Sun's core doesn't actually produce that much energy—a blob of core matter produces about the same amount of energy as the body heat of a reptile of the same size,[2]A Wikipedia factoid also compares the Sun's heat-per-unit-volume to the heat produced by an active compost pile, although the energy production from compost varies with temperature—since a hot compost pile kills off the organisms that do the composting. and less than a warmer-bodied mammal. The Sun is hotter than a reptile[citation needed] because it's so large—all that heat adds up.[3]A large object also has more surface area to radiate heat away, but since surface area is proportional to radius2 while the amount of heat-producing material is proportional to radius3, making things bigger generally makes them hotter.

Reptiles may produce heat at approximately the same rate as the stuff in the Sun, but if a reptile doesn't eat for a few weeks or months, it runs out of energy and starves. The Sun, on the other hand, has been burning for billions of years and will last for billions more—because nuclear fusion produces much more energy than metabolizing fat or muscle.

How much more? Strangely, we can come up with a pretty decent estimate just from what we know about animals. Animals live a few weeks—or months, in the case of some snakes—on their own stored reserves, while the Sun will last about 10 billion years. That's a difference of about 100 billion-fold. This is roughly similar to the ratio between the energy stored in a snake-meat Big Mac and the energy stored in a Big Mac-sized chunk of the Sun's core.[5]If you calculate out the exact actual ratios here, you'll find that the sun-to-big-mac energy ratio is a bit lower than the sun-to-lizard lifespan ratio. This is partly explained by the fact that animals are full of bones and brains and stuff, and can't efficiently consume their entire body volume as if they were a giant Big Mac.

If we want to eat enough food to keep up with the Sun's energy-use rate, we have to eat a lot more. A typical person eats a few thousand calories per day, and we probably can't improve on that too much—we can't all be The Rock. To keep up with the Sun, what we really need is more people.

At the end of this article, we imagined a galaxy full of habitable planets, each one hosting 7 billion clones of former solicitor general Ted Olson. (Don't ask.) If the Teds ate a normal diet, the total calorie consumption of that galaxy would still fall short of the Sun. We'd need approximately a thousand galaxies worth of burger-eating Ted Olsons to achieve our goal.

It's important to spread this food consumption out across multiple galaxies, because if you gathered all that food in once place, you'd have a big problem. Since food has such a low energy density compared to the Sun, you need a lot of food to keep up with the Sun. Matching a few days' worth of Sun output would require a sphere of hamburgers the size of the Earth, and keeping up with the Sun over its entire lifetime would take a pile of burgers much larger than the Sun. In fact, it would be heavier than the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.[6]Which would promptly create a new black hole. And possibly a new center of the galaxy, for all I know, although I'd want to play with Universe Sandbox for a while before making any sort of guess about how that would play out.

The bottom line: If you want to keep up with the Sun's output by feeding people burgers, you'll need to open some intergalactic franchises.

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What would happen if one tried to funnel Niagara Falls through a straw?[1]This question was in reference to this Amazon review of gummy bears—but before you click, be warned that it describes the reviewer's gastrointestinal response to the candy in rather memorable detail.

—David Gwizdala

One would get in trouble with the International Niagara Committee, the International Niagara Board of Control, the International Joint Commission, the International Niagara Board Working Committee, and probably the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee.[2]Which is, if I'm understanding these organizational charts right, itself a supergroup made up of three committees for individual bodies of water. Also, the Earth would be destroyed.

Well, that's not quite right. At the risk of stating the obvious, the real answer is, "Niagara Falls wouldn't fit through a straw."

There are limits to how fast you can push fluids through things. If you pump a fluid through a narrow opening, it speeds up. If the fluid is a gas,[3]Gasses are fluids. I know that's weird, but many things are weird. it becomes "choked" when the speed of the gas flowing through the opening reaches the speed of sound. At that point, the gas flowing through the hole can't move any faster—although you can still get more mass to flow through per second by increasing the pressure, which compresses the gas further.

For water, a different effect causes it to choke. When a fluid flows through an opening fast enough, the pressure within the fluid drops due to the Bernoulli principle. Water always "wants" to boil, but is held together by air pressure. Without enough pressure, bubbles of steam form in the water. This is called cavitation.

When the water is forced through an opening at high speed, cavitation bubbles cause it to become less dense overall. Increasing the pressure—to try to push the water through harder—only makes it boil faster. (See page 17 here for a description of this process.)[4]Valve designers try to avoid creating these steam bubbles, because after the bubbles form, they quickly collapse as the pressure rises back up past the valve, and the force from that collapse can gradually eat away at plumbing. This keeps the total amount of water making it through the opening from rising, even if the water-steam mix moves at a higher speed.

Another limit on the water flow rate comes from the speed of sound. You can't use pressure to accelerate water through an opening faster than the speed of sound (in water).[5]It's sort of like a traffic jam—forcing more cars into the back of a traffic jam won't make the ones in the front come out faster. The analogy between traffic jams and choked flows isn't perfect, but I still like it, because it's fun to imagine someone trying to solve traffic jams by using a bulldozer to push more cars into them. However, water very rarely reaches this point, because "the speed of sound in water" is very fast. If you try to make water—which is pretty heavy—go that fast, it tends to start ignoring the turns in your pipes.

So how fast does Niagara Falls need to go to fit through a straw, and is it faster than the speed of sound? This is easy to figure out; all we need to know is the flow rate over the falls and how much area it needs to fit through.

The flow rate over Niagara Falls is at least 100,000 cubic feet per second, which is actually mandated by law. The Niagara river supplies a total of about 292,000 cubic feet per second to the falls, but much of it is diverted into tunnels to generate electric power. However, since people get mad if you turn off the world's most famous waterfall, they're required to leave at least 100,000 of those cubic feet per second flowing over the falls for everyone to look at. (50,000 at night or during the off-season). Sometime in the next few years, the falls may be turned off for maintanence. And probably to see what cool stuff they can find.

(Important note: If you divert the water into a straw, you'll be in violation of the 1950 treaty establishing the "100,000 cubic feet per second" limit. This is monitored by the International Niagara Committee, which consists of one American and one Canadian.[6]Currently, they are Aaron Thompson of Environment Canada and Brigadier General Richard Kaiser of the US Army Corps of Engineers. I'm guessing their enforcement protocol is just some variation on "filing a report," but I like to imagine that they're empowered to physically return the stolen water to the falls by any means necessary. They'll probably be upset with you, as will the other boards I mentioned earlier, so proceed at your own risk.)

A typical straw is about 7mm in diameter. To find out how fast the water flows, we just divide the flow rate by that area. If the result is greater than the speed of sound, our flow will probably be choked, which will lead to problems.

\[ \frac{100,000\text{ }\tfrac{\text{cubic feet}}{\text{second}}}{\pi\left ( \tfrac{7\text{ mm}}{2} \right )^2}=73,600,000\text{ }\tfrac{\text{meters}}{\text{second}}= 0.25c \]

Apparently, our water will be going one-quarter of the speed of light.

On the plus side, we don't need to worry about cavitation, since these water molecules would be going fast enough to cause all kinds of exciting nuclear reactions when they hit the walls of the straw. At those high energies, everything is a plasma anyway, so the concepts of boiling and cavitation don't even apply.

But it gets worse! The recoil from the relativistic water jet would be pretty strong. It wouldn't be enough to push the North American plate south, but it would be enough to destroy whatever device you were using to create the jet.

No machine could actually accelerate that much water to relativistic speeds. Particle accelerators can get things going that fast, but they're typically fed from a small bottle of gas. You can't just plug Niagara Falls into the accelerator input. Or, at least, if you did, the scientists would get awfully mad.

Which is for the best, since the power of the particle jet created by this scenario would be greater than the power of all the sunlight that falls on Earth. Your "waterfall" would have a power output equivalent to that of a small star, and its heat and light would quickly raise the temperature of the planet, boil away the oceans, and render the whole place uninhabitable.

And yet I bet someone would still try to go over it in a barrel.

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Story goes... been snowboarding 8 years now, never wore a helmet or goggles, just wore my pair of Oakley Shades...
Luckily in that time I've only suffered one mild concussion. Getting older now and expecting my 1st kid so wanting to stay protected so I'm still around for my kid... ANYHOW
Gonna get a helmet, looking at Smith Optic's Vantage (Good Choice?) and also looking at goggles... do I really need goggles? Or could I still use my shades w/ my helmet? Haven't found a pair of goggles I like yet, so thought I'd ask.
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After the 2007 credit crisis, nancial bubbles have once again emerged as a topic of current concern. An open problem is to determine in real time whether or not a given asset's price process exhibits a bubble. Due to recent progress in the characterization of asset price bubbles using the arbitrage-free martingale pricing technology, we are able to propose a new methodology for answering this question based on the asset's price volatility. We limit ourselves to the special case of a risky asset's price being modeled by a Brownian driven stochastic dierential equation. Such models are ubiquitous both in theory and in practice. Our methods use sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We illustrate these techniques using several stocks from the alleged internet dot-com episode of 1998 - 2001, where price bubbles were widely thought to have existed. Our results support these beliefs.
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20,000 urge DUP to drop its block on gay marriage in Northern Ireland
A 20,000-strong petition warning the DUP against using Assembly powers to block same-sex marriage laws has been handed in at Stormont.
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A 20,000-strong petition warning the DUP against using Assembly powers to block same-sex marriage laws has been handed in at Stormont.
The impact of meeting the victims of the Omagh bomb "has never left me", former Policing Board chair Sir Desmond Rea revealed as he launched a new book on the atrocity.
Almost a decade after plans were announced to convert Armagh Gaol into a hotel, the developer is still waiting for support from Stormont, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.
The seven-year-old daughter of a former Ulster University professor had to ask her father to stop punching his wife, a judge was told yesterday.
Paralympics golden girl Bethany Firth arrived home from Rio to a hero's welcome - and even managed to upstage a Hollywood superstar.
Gerry Adams has accused anti-Sinn Fein elements within the British establishment of concocting a claim he sanctioned the murder of an MI5 spy in the IRA.
Around 80 new outbreaks of a deadly tree disease have been found in Northern Ireland so far this year.
Twelve operations are cancelled at the last minute every day in Northern Ireland's hospitals because staff or equipment are not available.
Big-hearted rockers Snow Patrol have backed a charity fundraiser in memory of two Armagh teenagers who died tragically just days apart.
Terrifying footage of two pedestrians almost being run over by a train has been released as a warning to others.
A former MLA has vowed to "break the legs" of any drug dealers he catches selling killer substances to children.
New Stormont spin-doctor David Gordon is set to be summoned before the Assembly committee which monitors the Executive.
A former IRA member has claimed Gerry Adams sanctioned the 2006 murder of Denis Donaldson, the senior Sinn Fein official who was working as a British spy.
The president of the Ulster Farmers' Union has warned of "big cashflow" implications after farmers faced unexpected bad weather this month.
An expert group dealing with the laws surrounding abortion in cases where the foetus cannot survive after birth is to report by the end of this month, the Assembly has heard.
Denis Donaldson inadvertently "let the cat out of the bag" about republican intelligence gathering at Stormont to another British spy.
The fastest athlete in Paralympic history, Jason Smyth, will be honoured with a civic reception in Co Londonderry after his success in the Rio games.
Primary school teachers in Northern Ireland are to receive specialist training on how to teach children about keeping safe from abuse as part of a ground-breaking trial project.
The UK Government has signalled it could subsidise an air route between Londonderry and London.
Prison officers who watched as a mentally ill prisoner blinded himself were not sufficiently trained to deal with such a severe case, the Justice Minister has told the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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One of the most offensive and disgusting cousins of fucker. Often used on blogs to swear at blogtrolls. This one out swears motherfucker.
The owner of LiveJournal is a goddamned pigfucker because he likes to make it rought for people who have a real website. The fuckstain makes it hard for people to be taken seriously when they have a real website and shuns the use of e-mail
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one who fucks pigs
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An annoying person
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south park.... bigger longer and uncut... said by T
Terrance why did u call me a pig fucker? because u fuck pigs phillip
apugs가 작성 2004년 07월 31일 (토)
One who fucks pigs. As by Terrance defined in South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
U.S. Senator Robert Byrd is an unabashed pigfucker.
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Person/persons who likes having sex with members of law enforcement.
Sheena like's to have sex with cops. She's a real pig fucker.
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A person that likes to take time out of his/her day to go to the barn and fuck pigs (EX. Evan K.)
God Damn Evan, ur such a pig fucker!
Anonymous가 작성 2003년 04월 18일 (금)
A more pejoritve name for a red neck.
"Have you seen what the South Dakota state legislature has done this time?"
"Yup, those pig fuckers have done it again."
"Yup, those pig fuckers have done it again."
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(Long Island, NY) People love coffee. They also love convenience. That's why Keurig Green Mountain's eponymous coffee machine has taken the world by storm…instead of being forced to grind beans, dump them into a paper filter, and run hot water through them in order to get a steaming cup of joe, those looking for a quick caffeine fix can simply..


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In Brief: Man accused of knocking down, robbing pregnant woman
Police: Robber knocked down pregnant woman
Erie police accuse a man of assaulting and robbing a pregnant woman on the east side Saturday afternoon.
Jamie H. Evans, 41, is accused of knocking the pregnant woman to the ground and taking $20 from her in the 400 block of East Seventh Street at about 4:25 p.m., according to a criminal complaint.
Evans was arraigned on a felony count of robbery and misdemeanor counts of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.
He remained in the Erie County Prison on $50,000 bond Monday.
Items taken from vehicles in Waterford
WATERFORD -- State police are investigating a rash of thefts from vehicles in Waterford Township.
Numerous items were reported stolen from several vehicles parked on East Street between Thursday at 6 p.m. and Friday at 6:30 a.m., police said Monday. Investigators listed six victims in the thefts.
Anyone with information is asked to call Trooper John Piasecki at 898-1641.
Presque Isle Downs looks for more dealers
Presque Isle Downs & Casino will hold another training school for prospective table games dealers.
The casino will accept applications until Friday for part-time dealers. Classes will start May 27 at the former Downs at Erie off-track betting parlor, 7700 Peach St., and will last six weeks, the casino announced. There is no cost to attend the school.
The casino will hire up to 20 employees from among those who successfully complete the dealer school.
Applications are available in the human resources department on the second floor of the administration building at Presque Isle Downs, 8199 Perry Highway. Applications also can be submitted through the casino's website, www.presqueisledowns.com; click the "about" tab and then the "employment" tab.
Applicants who mail in their applications should send them to Presque Isle Downs & Casino, P.O. Box 10728, Erie, PA 16514.
Applicants must be at least 21 at the completion of the dealer school and able to be licensed by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.
Sinnott, trolley to offer rides for voters today
Voters at several public housing complexes can get a ride to the polls today on an EMTA Bayliner trolley with Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott.
The trolley will arrive at these locations, at these approximate times: Grandview Manor, 4210 Davison Ave., 8:20 a.m.; Ostrow Apartments, 4220 Davison Ave., 8:25 a.m.; Mercy Terrace Apartments, 430 E. Grandview Blvd., 9:20 a.m.; Mid City Towers, 12 E. Ninth St., 10:10 a.m.; and Tullio Towers, 21 W. Ninth St., 10:40 a.m.
The polls are open for today's primary from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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The Isles Inn is situated in a quiet corner of Somerled Square yet only minutes away from the Shops, Harbour and Swimming Pool. Portree is located in the centre of the Isle of Skye and is an ideal location for touring the Misty Isle and beyond to the islands of Lewis and Harris. The Isles Inn in Portree has 9 rooms as follows: 2 Family, 3 double, 1 twin.
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