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I don't know about that. The beaver wars between the Iroquois and Algonquins went on for around 60 years in the 17th century

I can't really comment about whether the scheme will work or not but if you are irrigating with the water from that jug, be careful. I lived off grid at around 40 N latitude for a year and my shower was similar except it was a 15 gallon carboy painted black. on a hot sunny day the water would often be so hot that it was necessary to add cold water to keep from being scalded while using it. If there is water actually flowing through it might not be a problem but I would consider it possible that the irrigation water might get too warm if used directly from the jug.

IMO a man that feels launching a brand new car into orbit to be a worthwhile use of resources is never going to find any significant waste, fraud or abuse Sometimes I wonder if the tariffs weren't done in the manner they were in order to pad corporate profits. While I don't think Mr Trump is the smartest guy in the world, it shouldn't take a genius to figure out that there was a good chance they would be found to be illegal and, if so, money (belatedly) returned and impossible to sort out fairly.

Patel has filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic.....

So fear is the only motivator of humans?

Can you explain to me how greed is a "subset of fear"?

Actually, I can think of 4 off the top of my head; $$$, distraction, appeasement, and resources.

probably this guy's cousin. ;)

It was my bad expression of thought using the word extinct when what I actually meant was; that in cases where evolution deviates significantly, the organism generally dies. If not, they become part of evolution and that is why I put "perverted" in quotes.

It's actually not that hard. You don't have to wait 4.5 billion years for a u-238 sample to decay to half strength, simply measure how the radioactivity decreases over a certain time and extrapolate to when it would be at half and you have just determined half life. You just need equipment capable of detecting minute changes.

I would say that human invention is part of the evolutionary process and that those inventions become part of it as well. If the evolutionary path becomes much "perverted" the species goes extinct.

Perhaps you can enlighten me as to how this is possible.Surely, whatever path gets taken is the "natural evolutionary" one?

Ya. This came about because of a 1901 deal between the shah and William Knox D'Arcy giving the Brits exclusive oil rights in most of Iran (still Persia at the time) for 60 years for basically a song. Besides being very unpopular in the country, there were questions about whether any agreement made by the shah was valid after the country transitioned to a constitutional republic in 1906-1908. After oil was found in 1908, the following year the Anglo Persian Oil Co (eventually to become BP in a couple iterations) was founded and pretty much immediately began screwing the Iranians on the terms of their deal which already was heavily weighted toward British interests. In 1933 the deal was renegotiated but the movement to nationalize the oil grew, coming to a head at the end of 1950 when the Iranians learned the Saudis were splitting profits 50-50 with the US Arab American Oi Co and they were only getting 20% from APOC. A few months later, the Prime Minister, who had been a strong opponent of nationalization was assassinated and the Parliament voted to nationalize the oil within weeks. Just prior the shah had tried taking over the government in a failed coup, resulting in widespread unrest and increasing the opposition leader's popularity to the point he got to take over the office. After the assassination, the Americans and Brits recruited every opponent of the government they could find because the new government was kicking all of the Westerners out of the country. After enough government opponents had been bribed and organized, a second coup was successful and the shah installed as head of government, which led to the situation you describe and the 1980 revolution and the present. One of the reasons the Islamic republic has survived for so long is because the previous government was so bad and many people remember.

In both degree and speed...

Funny how the proponents of this war always want to start the time line at 1980. Why not 1953? Seems to me that the only reason there is a radical Islamic state in Iran is because the US and its allies were meddling in their affairs to begin with.

I wonder what is up with Mr Trump's Bored of Peace? Or is it Board of Piece (i.e. we're taking a piece of your territory)? I thought the whole point was to prevent international conflict but I would be very (pleasantly) surprised if there was less conflict now than when that grifters' cabal was formed.

I imagine prior to the 70's it flattens out. My grandfather, who had made maple syrup since at least the early 1920's, was really set on not tapping before the beginning of March but by the time he died in 1986 we would have already been either missing the first run or tapping while it was happening more years than not. It was like parting the Red Sea, and took missing an early run or two previously, when we finally got him to agree to tap on February 24 for the first time. Now it is more like second week of February, depending on weather forecasts (I am a big fan of the Penn State meteorology department forecasts).

I can tell you the maple syrup season has gotten earlier by at least a couple weeks in Pennsylvania as well. When I was a kid back in the 60's, we never put a tap in the trees before the first week of March. Now, if you aren't tapped by the middle of February you will miss at least one hard run* of sap. *Maple trees produce the most sap when it freezes at night and gets warm in the day and the earlier in the season syrup will usually be a lighter (in color) grade and considered better than later product.

Would "motivated reasoning" apply to a mouse that thinks it can get a drink from a bucket of water but ends up drowning because it can't get back out or any other creature misjudging a given scenario?

Well, my understanding of the principle involves "supercavitation" at the nose of whatever is being propelled through the water. Even though the pressure bubble doesn't have to be made by a propeller (the applications I have seen use one), it is still generally referred to as supercavitation in my experience. Maybe we are debating semantics (cavitation vs supercavitation)?

That's all well and good but if anyone has an idea of what anglegenta or sectorsgenta means, I wish they would explain. I googled both terms and it was like fishing without a hook and bait, I got nothing.

You just explained it. The cavitation (your "air sheath") takes place at the front, thus reducing drag close to that through air instead of through water resulting in higher speeds by almost an order of magnitude. The main limit for such a scheme is how fast the bubble in front can be made.

Cavitation is also how to propel an object up to high speeds under water, just at the front instead of using the rear mounted propeller. To the OP; I must have missed something because the whole discussion about "fracturing" seems like semantics to me. When I do a cannonball into the swimming pool, isn't the resulting splash from water "fracturing"?

IDK but it seems likely to me that 95% is probably what reads as 100% when you turn it on because that is what it always reads whether it's been just long enough to charge or overnight.