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The JWST has an extremely sensitive IR camera. And it is going to cool down to near absolute zero so that the IR sensors don't get flooded with radiation from the rest of the teles…

The last time around, Nuclear weapons were not available to complicate the equation. This time, the response will need to be painful enough to punish the aggressor but not too pain…

It doesn't. It just shows you think Islamic Caliphate means a mess.

It would take thousands of years. Dams are strong enough to outlast us.

The TPLF led Ethiopia for 27 years. They are a tiny minority so the perception here is they used a divided and conquer strategy to govern. They were basically pitting the two large…

But you'd understand that we generally prefer not to die from pollution right? We're also not too eager on the global warming thing as well.

How is Egypt a mess before the British came exactly? How was India a mess?

> Nile river is historically and from legal perspective an international river not an Ethiopian property. Violating this always comes with consequences. The Nile is an internationa…

Means the volume of water and flaw rate, in the Nile is much less than the Amazon river.

> Where is a country like Ethiopia getting all the money for such a mega-project? The major source: For most of the decade, for each bank loan, 27% of it goes to the construction o…

We're all happy the election (most of it anyways) concluded peacefully. There was a fear of violence that didn't materialize. The results indicate a massive win for the PM's party.…

To provide the HN audience with a single data-point from Ethiopia. * More than half of Ethiopia's 110 million people have no electric power. * Almost all of Ethiopia is under some …

Hey, 60% of Ethiopians don't have powers. Take a look at "earth at night" satellite images. Ethiopia is dark. I'm an Ethiopian national and this affects me deeply. I am tired of de…

There are a couple of reasons this is unlikely to happen. A. The dam already contains more than 4.9 billion cubic meters of water. That along with the wet season rain will mean bre…

This claim loses significance when you consider 70% of Ethiopia's water resource is in the Nile basin. There is no development without using that water.

The 12% is allocated for evaporation losses. Those countries get 0%.

I'm copy pasting a comment I made earlier. ================================================================ I have talked with a few Egyptians on the subject. Unfortunately most th…

Glad to hear that. But I am pessimistic about reaching a deal both sides would consider fair. Right now the basin water is divided by Egypt(85%) and Sudan(15%) with Ethiopia and th…

Depressing. I'll call it like it is. This is an idiotic response that lacks common sense. It's so common in the pro Egypt camp. Most of the inventory is filled with short range equ…

Thanks for bringing up the Nile Basin Initiative. Unfortunately, and to the surprise of no one, Egypt has been doing its best to kill it.

That is the perception here. Predictably, it's behind the hardening of public opinion on the issue of the dam.

I have talked with a few Egyptians on the subject. Unfortunately most think a military solution would be simple and straightforward. "Egypt has hundreds of fighter jets. Ethiopia h…

This is stupid. If Ethiopia decides to hurt Egypt, it won't need to build a massive dam. Wasting water has never been too difficult. Egypt would do well to not create such an enemy…

Nobody said it would fill in 3 years. The stated number of years is from 4 to 7.