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Well they will at least be shorter - If you played Avatar at 60fps it would only be about an hour long

Space program yes - ISS no I'm an astronomer and I think the LHC is a better bet than the ISS. The ISS does no astronomy work and just diverts funds from science 9especially by dem…

Space program yes - ISS no I'm an astronomer and I think the LHC is a better bet than the ISS. The ISS does no astronomy work and just diverts funds from science (especially by dem…

The sensor is the easy bit - it's getting the data out that is clever. The 5D can only store heavily compressed H264 even at 1080p30. 2k lines @ 120fps is 1GBytes/s - thats a lot o…

Film cameras + lenses are expensive, $100k expensive. They are typically leased for each production from rental houses that have many $M of stock on their shelves - and are often a…

Thanks - I was trying to get across that this is a block of water the mass of a small mountain dropping on you. You can earthquake proof a building but you can't do much against th…

Sorry - I thought you meant "thousands of people were killed - but one person survived, therefore a miracle, therefore praise god"

I live in a city of 2M people directly opposite the pacific from this. Our 50 person earthquake response team was disbanded last year after an investigation into police funding. Of…

They didn't forget - a Tsunami is a block of water a meter high and several km deep moving at 800km/h. That's a few BILLION tons of water moving at the speed of a jet aircraft - tr…

They are nothing to do with tides. Tsunami means harbor wave which is a good description - at sea they are almost unnoticeable - it'sonly when the water is concentrated on a shore …

No thank Fucking engineers. God did the deed - engineers countered it. Given the few 1000s casualties against a Mag8.9 earthquake I think God lost this one

In the UK 'Regulatory Investigative Powers' RIP was introduced to catch terrorists and international drug dealers. It allows government to get pretty much unlimited snooping abilit…

My point is that once local politics - remember it isn't cops that seize property it's DAs - kicks in then laws which are only for use against terrorists/makejor drugs dealers/orga…

Seizing 80 year olds houses because they grandson was caught with weed or seizing the home of a pair of doctors who were giving weed to cancer patients. Then strangely not applying…

Basically the same system in the UK - except they then leave a copy of the data they found in a bar (if it's top secret) or in a cab (if it's financial) They then show the evidence…

I assume the same thing is going to happen to the other social drug of choice? All those enticing pictures of Chateaus are going to be replaced by a plain white bottle and a pictur…