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It would now appear that http://www.terradaily.com/news/iceage-0 … olutionary Accident Probably Caused The Worst Snowball Earth Episode.
Where in the simple growth of bacteria to more plant like abilities of photosynthesis .
Saw the same subject TV.
What about this http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMWXH808BE_in … l]bacteria proliferation ?
LO
I'd rather have been created in the image of a supernatural being than a monkey.
Sure you're a very handsome one
To tell the truth, when I see some mankind specimens, I can very hardly admit they have been created in the image of a supernatural being too,
He, for instance,
so happy he just learned he have been created in the image of a supernatural being
the supernatural being can't be that ugly
Clark ?
Are you the kind of man wich likes to travel by his own and doesn't like to follow the guide ?
ANARCHIST !
, show you that we American's have learned a thing or two.
No doubt
Hi DonPanic,
My point is that from a passanger experience, Airbus will be a nightmare.I will not fly on an Airbus, but for entirely different reasons. It just isn't worth it to me to go through what I think will be a bad experience at the airport.
(...) anyways, I don't like to travel when crowded.
I think we have reached an agreement
Unless of course we are talking about NY to Paris for like $99. If so, you're cooking me dinner.
Bet ? Bet ! Pari tenu !
LO
Hi Clark
If you "Google Earth" spy, and document on main world great cities airports, you realize that one can gather more than 30000 transiting passengers at the same time among which a 900 passengers stream turns to a detail.
Some points :
- Passengers number argument falls if Airbus A-380 are coomercialized as freightliners.
- In populated areas, you don't create easily a new airport, nor easily extend existing airports without strong population opposition. Ecologists will criticize anyways, local politicians may compete and struggle against projects.
Tokyo New International Airport was built in spite of a ferocious resistance by land owners supported by leftists students demonstrating and rioting.
Strong opposition against Berlin airports extension.
Paris new airport project may have local populace opposition boosted by generally unfavourable public opinion. You can't democratically force population will.
- There is a safety limit in the planes number you can allow to rotate over a large airport as well as in the taking off and landing rythm. Therefore, airport authorities cannot deliver unlimited flight numbers to air transport companies. If so, and if companies face rising traffic, they will have to purchase bigger aircrafts.
These are A-380 main arguments.
Now, to tell the truth about my own opinion, a jumbo makes a choice target, and I would be just very slightly reluctant to travell in such an airplane in todays' terrorist threat, and anyways, I don't like to travel when crowded.
Don't get me wrong, people will end up flying whatever the airlines fly with. You don't have that much choice in choosing the plane that take you there.
Yes I have, when going to Madrid from Paris, I can choose either an Air France Airbus or an Iberia MD with the same ticket. Prefer Air France menu
A thousand people disgorged at a time from a plane (at the same rate of planes) will lead to congestion and a poor experience overall. Fighting a thousand other people, on just your plane alone, to try and make a connecting flight? Lost luggage (odds increase that yours will get lost due to the sheer volume that must be processed for each flight).
See how many airplanes http://pierre-bon.com/IMG/Airport.gif are linked to the NewYork airport terminals at the same time and you will see why I think that you have not a fairly balanced opinion, wrong arguments, sir !
I don't think you really know what you're talking about.
I think the question to ask is, can they fill the planes. The profit margins will not be hit unless they fill those birds up. I just don’t think they will.
I think that Air transports companies which choose an airplane have their economical arguments
like the concorde?
Easy, that one, I won't reply on the Shuttle security for instance, because I take it for a loss for everyboby.
Do you know that new NASA Mars conquest plans are begining to be seen in Europe as an evidence that the US administration admits that Earth is lost and that Mars is seen by many Americans as the new fronteer to escape from an agonizing Earth ?
Then let me wave my EU flag [wave]
Not too early untill A 380 is a commercial success
Imagine you're a sky controller responsible for the passengers safety, your are proposed to manage 65% less airplanes, do you refuse ?
Again, I understand your point, but it has nothing to do with the airlines that will be purchasing the planes and flying the planes and trying to fill the planes with passengers.
As a passenger, I wish air controllers to be less stressed by intense air traffic for my own sake
If people have choice between a 300 seats plane and a 900 seats plane, same comfort, on the second one, price travel being 20% cheaper, guess which will be chosen ?
But there is a difference here. Airbus, with the larger plane, will rely on centralized hub airports, and then use smaller carriers for connecting airports. This means that Airbus will not be able to offer as many different direct flights versus the Boeing planes.
Why not consider that each plane has its specific task ? A380 being fitted for heavy traffic airlines as London-New York or Bei Jing-Shanghai travels. What you say for A380 fits for Jumbos too, no one opposed them to 737 or small Airbus as you and some others do. A 380 replaces aging Jumbos, as Airbus leaders were aware that Boing had no plans for the Jumbos succession.
But I will wave my little French flag for Airbus if it helps.
[wave French flag]
I'm not specially a nationalist, Airbus is an fully international airplane with many transatlantic subcontractors
LO
Personnaly, I like much better the idea of the humble extraction being rising slowly to conscience and cleverness, with some failures but toughly trying to overcome than the idea of the fallen angel returning to barbary.
LO
But honestly?, I'd rather have been created in the image of a supernatural being than a monkey.
And honestly, doesn't the supernatural being shit and piss as any monkey ? :shock:
LO
The problem isn't with the runway. The problem is with the situation in the air, and the situation after you land- and before you embark on your flight.
Imagine you travel by air, and you have a choice between a big plane, filled with a thousand, versus one, that isn't.
Imagine trying to get your luggage and get out of the airport with a thousand other souls trying to do the same thing.
Etc
You can also ask balanced questions instead of asking questions that are intended to prosecute one side. Something that would sound as a fair trial.
Imagine you live nearby an airport, you have kids home, one gives you the choice earing a noisy jet overflying your house every 10 minutes or one every half an hour, what do you choose ?
Imagine you're a sky controller responsible for the passengers safety, your are proposed to manage 65% less airplanes, do you refuse ?
Imagine you travel by air, and you have a choice between a big plane, filled with a thousand, versus one, that isn't.
I know which one I would take.
You dont give all datas in your question, here's one you miss :
If people have choice between a 300 seats plane and a 900 seats plane, same comfort, on the second one, price travel being 20% cheaper, guess which will be choosen ?
Hi Bill
I wouldn't say that Shaun is wrong when so many people break their piggy banks to play on lotteries, rush to Las Vegas casinos, thus taxing themselves to redistribute their own money for some happy few to be millionaires. Pretty sure that among them, are some lower middle class peoples, which vote for left parties which usually slogans "lets take out of the richs to give to the poors" :?
LO
I'm about month behind on most threads, with little chance of ever catching up, but Cindy said something a while back about enjoying the flavour combination of salty and sweet.
-- I have a confession to make about a personal weakness of mine which closely matches that: Salt 'n' vinegar potato crisps and icy cold Coke! Mmmmmm!!! :oops:
To my friends' eyes and mouthes, I'am a pretty good cook.
In my favorite preparations are Madras curry chicken cooked with dried corinthian grapes, and duck cooked with oranges and clementines, flambé with 25 years old Armagnac.
one and other with basmati rice
mmmmmmmmmmmh
HUSH, don't tell anybody, but that's real gourmet's cooking, recettes are top secrets*
*Trapping girls with them
And capturing them has given the UK a lot of intelligence that can be used to stop the future planned attacks on the UK and incidentally from the intelligence gained Frances metro as well.
Don't know how it is in London and in main US cities, but here in Paris, we have about 30 false bomb alarms a day, stressing demining teams.
Hoaxers can be immediatly condemned to 2 years of jail and 30000€ fined. (about 36000$ or 20000£)
It is a difference in how the terrorism attacks are viewed and how it should be treated. The USA calls it a war on terror, the UK though has always treated it like a police action against international criminals
LO
Wisdom of the "Habeas Corpus" country...
In chinese strategy books, if you treat fairly your ennemies, they know that, surrounded, they will better surrender than eagerly fight up to the end, then bringing more casualties and wastes.
Doesn't work with suicide terrorists, but anyways, it works for those which fear for their lives which are a majority.
LO
Many of America's best decades of economic performance came after the New Deal, which I believe was an effort to blend the best attributues of capitalism and socialism.
I think there is not a good or perfect system in the absolute, each system creates its own "antigenes" such as the more its goes, the closer its reaches to a breakdown point.
Capitalism tends to unbearable inequalities between peoples, socialism tends to unproductivity as seen with the english industry in the years 1970.
Right now, I think that power of money owners have gone too far, and that soon or later, there will be a clock beam return, be smooth or brutal.
Economists know that for a long term period, the average industry profit rate is about 3.25% (over inflation rate). Now investissors seek for profits rates over 10%, then they act as predators, throwing attacks at industrial groups, dismanteling them, keeping only the most valuable departments, closing the less profitables ones, without any consideration on their market positions, firing as many workers as possible, without thinking that wrecked employment regions become marketless regions. At least Mr Ford 1 had the intelligence to consider his employees as his enterprise best clients.
new very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays source in Milky Way
http://dphs10.saclay.cea.fr/Sap/Actuali … ls5039.pdf
Hi Gennaro
"Providence State" does a lot of good which can become economically valuable, as for example, unless in Sweden, in France, kids transportation isn't free. Metro and Bus authorities spend a lot of money tracking bus and metro fraud wich is at more than 80% the kids' facts. Should kids transportation be free, paid by taxes, there would be less anti-fraud employees need, more security agents, therefore more clients for public transports avoiding them because of insecurity fear, less traffic jams, less wasted fuel, better productivity.
Social helps can help maintaining low criminality rate as social money providing may avoid people getting it by illegal or criminal means.
Problem is that Providence State works when the rate of people taking abusely advantage of the system is very low.
When too many people coming from foreign countries with little law respect, as now, the system fails.
We see it in France with some Romania and former Yugoslavia originated peoples which take advantage of the lack of repression at under 15 years old children. Their parents don't send them to school, instead, send them to buglar, destroy and steal the parking meters money, train them picking pockets. As born in France, children have french nationality, so that the family cannot be sent back home...
When France created public obligatory and free schools by 1882, authorities didn't hesitate to threaten with jail parents which were reluctant to send their children to school.
Think you have this kind of problems in Sweden too.
LO
Spectacular picture!
I wonder how the ice came to be there?
Can suppose that it's summer remains of larger CO2 and water ice winter condensation deposit, no ?
Anyhow, ESA tells that by September, we'll know more about underground Mars water.
LO
It is a favorite rhetorical tactic of Al Qaeda and similarly reckless islamic terrorists to issue a blanket declaration that their muslim victims were apostate.
They believe that the rest of Islam is unworthy of consideration.
Seems that the first "strike wawe" wich commited London attacks were treated that way, "second class muslims" just good enough to be mules. Scotland Yard now believe they were unaware of the nature their loads, or at least, unaware of the hour the explosives should blast, if ever they kwew what they were carrying.
Strangely, they had identification papers, go and fro metro tickets, things suicide bombers shouldn't wear.
Second wave guys weren't suicide bombers and escaped or tried to escape.
LO
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050728/us_ … ims_dc]U.S. Muslims issue anti-terrorism fatwa--Cindy
Muslims are by far the most numerous victims of extremist terrorists.
Then they are victims of native populations' retaliations in the countries they immigrated.
Tough to be between the hammer and the anvil :cry:
My main point is that this is a police and intelligence "war" not like World War II where large armies are useful.
If the opponents had balanced forces, they wouldn't be terrorists, they would lead a conventionnal war. Terrorism is the weapon of the weaks, and the weaker they are, the wilder are their means.
In Vietnam, VC led at first suicide terrorist attacks against US troops, then a guerilla war. It turned to conventionnal war when North Vietnamese army was strong enough to challenge US Army.