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What are you advocating here? This is a very disturbing statement.
Everybody is equal, except the people we don't like.
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Yes but there's six billion of our species and very few rhino left. You could wipe out all the world's poachers and it be a rounding error on human population. While I don't think advocating killing anyone is a good idea, I have no sympathy for poachers.
What are you advocating here? This is a very disturbing statement.
I am advocating that the defense that poachers are just some poor schmuck that wants to feed himself is bullshit.
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Eye for an eye and the whole world will go blind, buddy
No it doesn't. There'll be one guy left with one eye. How's the last blind guy going to take out the eye of the last guy left whose still got one eye left? All that guy has to do is run away and hide behind a bush. Ghandi was wrong. It's just that nobody's got the balls to come out and say it. -- Bill, Seven Psychopaths
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SpaceX's 2010 technology sure kicks NASA's 1975 technology's butt. Look, I love Elon Musk and SpaceX as much as the next guy but probably most of the cost advantage has to do with improved technology (especially materials science).
That doesn't explain why other companies still have much more expensive rockets, though. As far as I know, SpaceX has the cheapest ones by far.
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> Too many rhinos dispersed across too far a distance. Unlike elephants rhinos don't necessarily herd in large groups. Many of the rhinos killed were either alone or in a small group of 2-4. My google searching suggests there are 5k-10k black rhinos in the world. Seems plausible to monitor each one with a dedicated UAV, once you take into account economies of scale.
While it's an interesting idea, it's not just possible with today's tech. Black rhinos are only one subspecies, white rhinos are just as threatened by poaching and there are around 20 000 of those, so you're looking at around 25 000 rhinos in Africa. You'd need at least three UAVs per rhino, one on station at any given time, one ready to replace it once its endurance runs out and one spare in case something happens t…
This is welcome from Google, as focused aid of this sort can often have an outsize effect, but we must be careful to avoid believing this can solve the problem. For one, sophisticated UAVs that are much more capable than those the WWF is getting are already being used to combat rhino poaching. SANParks, the state agency responsible for South Africa's state-run national parks, has deployed the Seeker II military-spec…
>demand for rhino horn from Asia I think that is better classified as "traditional Chinese medicine". The other (more scientific?) traditional medicine in Asia - Ayurveda - has no usage of elements like rhino horn, tiger blood, etc.