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Great, now they just have to wait for the next bank crash and following economic depression and then they could try that tactic.


Bamboo rots and emits methane.


Yeah, you'd have to bury it deep enough to prevent decomposition within a few hundred years. Holes that big are hard to do without heavy machinery which guzzle fossil fuels.


I wonder if you can sink the bamboo in the sea?


It's easy enough to secure big rocks to bamboo, but the same problem arises, how do you get tons and tons of bamboo and any required ballast out to deep water positions? Cargo ships! Which are some of the worst polluters on earth.


Weird title, if a dust storm really hits Mars, as opposed to a dust storm merely brewing on Mars, the whole solar system would likely be affected. Regardless of how big the molecular cloud would be, the fact that an interstellar gas cloud is hitting Mars is the bigger news!


Amazing text!


Yeah, that tumbling didn't look like it was intended.


I'm not sure about Blue Origin, but the Apollo abort system intentionally introduced a tumble into the capsule as part of the abort process. The reason for this is that it was stable in two positions - nose first, and heat shield first. Only the latter was survivable on reentry.

It was more stable in the heat shield first position, so by introducing a tumble, they were able to avoid nose-first and ensure an abort followed by reentry was something that could be survived.

I don't know if Blue Origin is doing the same thing - but it's not impossible this was something they might have wanted.


Though this is not a reentry. You would not get the same heating effects when aborting a launch, during reentry you'd get all that lateral speed you need to decelerate from. Not the case during abort.


Still better than the alternative.


Too late now!


Allende won with 37% and a 83% turnout, Nixon won with 43% and a 62% turnout, giving Allende 30% of the popular vote and Nixon 27 %.

I'm not sure what this tells us about Nixons right to have Allende deposed though.


I'm not defending Nixon; fuck that guy.

I will, however, say that Allende is oft depicted by the left as some universally beloved leader that only the aristocracy despised. I have not heard this from my (many) Chilean friends (and they aren't part of that aristocracy). Also, it is hard to overthrow a leader when they actually are universally beloved. It happens because the people let it.


Sounds like Jimenez found the latest trick google uses to get people to submit to tracking.


Hi, I wrote the post. Indeed, AFAIK Google definitely leaves me no other choice other than registering on the website.


This study will learn things about how a biased sample of the population answer choices in a simple game depending on the context given; extrapolation from that basis to anything wider, for example the notion that the players view these choices as "moral" requires far more work. It is well known that people use games for escapism, so it does not seem straightforward that the decisions they make in a game always map cleanly to their real opinions just because you put "moral" in the title of the game.

Its also worth keeping in mind that moral decisions have been explored for quite some time, and the novelty here is mainly the mode with which the population is sampled.


If the "Swedish official" you refereed to is Peter Fallenius, he was sentenced to three years in jail in a lower court and this was upheld by the supreme court (basically his appeal was rejected because he didn't turn up[1]).

[1]: http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/fallenius-far-avtjana-straff/


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