sneakeypete

National, international, international... That aint going to happen.

1 million people may/will be killed by chernobyl, however i'm willing to bet more people have been killed in coal mining accidents

Just depends if your a morning person or not really. if you are, there goes an hour of sunlight, if you aren't, you get an extra hour in the afternoon! Personally i think people should stop being lazy and get up earlier. They want to bring it in here to bring us in with the rest of the country. However half of Queensland is north of the tropic of capricon. We really do not need day light savings for any other reason. Maybe New south wales should have a split zone in their state instead of us changing.

So the game's just fine without the NAM? that's why sims will use a congested road that's next to a empty highway? The new roads in the NAM might not be nessecary for building a city, particurally when your new, but using the native traffic simulator is just as bad when you get congestion, sims using streets instead of avenues etc. and even then that's just if your trying to build a city for the challange, building something that looks good etc the NAM can help.

This was a very interesting read! Didn't do anything to explain why there'd be earthquakes 7000% worse (70 times as big..) or tsunamis that are ridiciliously fast though. That part of it seems made up... You have to have a constant supply of cool water for any power plant, nuclear or non nuclear. After the water from the plant has passed through the turbine, it is still quite warm (80C or so). They don't extract more power from it because it starts to condense which would damage the turbines to much. However, Its much more efficent if the water is cooled down as much as possible before its compressed and then fed back into the boiler. There's 2 different options for that. On one had you have the cooling tower method, where a small part of the water is lost to the atmosphere. That water needs to be replaced by a fresh inflow, usually purified water to prevent corrosion. The other option is to pass the water that's fresh out of the tubine past another source of cool water, which in this case is the ocean. You can't really do it in a river or lake, because the volume of water is to small and the extra heat in will significantly (1-2 degrees) raise the temperature ofthe water, killing lots of native flora and fauna. Not really unusual for that area, as far as i'm aware.

Just a couple of RHW shots i'll throw up

You could import Sim city 2000 cities into a game called Streets of sim city. Never did do that personally. I also think you could import them into simcopter, but i'm not 100% sure about that one.

Originally posted by: hym I never said that it wasn't. I'm debating the claim that the human brain's ability to quickly process logic is somehow vastly superior to that of a computer. quote> Seems to me that we're shoehorning our brains and pretending that they're exactly what computers are, etc. Eg, our brain really isn't just based on logic circuts, when you think about it.

The enitre article is based on the premise that "computers are getting faster faster". Well it'll be a bugger if they stop doing that wont it. And they will, if we keep going at the rate we are, miniturization wise, we'll run out of atoms before 2045 as understand it.

26C 95% humidity at about 7am. Didn't sleep well overnight

Sure, you could say lost. on the other hand we came second out of, what, 24 nations?

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose It is becoming clear that things are not "normal" anywhere, and that there is more to come. quote> This is a completely normal flood for brisbane. Anyway, i'm not going to bother with that crap, it seems so... silly once you remember the fact so many people have lost their life, or their lives work. Anyway, me and my dad spent saturday cleaning my aunts (who is actually cut off out west) property that she rents out. The tenants had got rid of most of their furniture, but the house had 50cm of water through it. We started off picking up all the junk that had been left (bin had fallen over), then started to pull up the bedroom carpet which was full of water and mud. The underlay had started to disintergrate too, which was making a real mess. Fire brigade then turned up at that point, and hosed out the house and helped us pull up the rest of the lino (which was under the carpet for some reason). at the same time a family of strangers from up the hill turned up and helped carry the carpets from the side of the house out to the front. The firebigade and helpers had moved on by lunch time, but the house walls still needed a good clean. A mate of mine had rocked up, and we were just starting to see how a bucket and sponge was working to clean the walls when seven strangers rocked up to help, with a petrol powered high pressure water cleaner, and a generator for 2 more electric ones. Took a little over half an hour to blast out the interior of the house, and even after those people moved on we had another 2 volunteers who helped us do a quick wipe over all the walls with bleach/disinfectant. All there was an amazing amount of complete strangers coming to help, and by all accounts that's going on across the entire city.

That video is actually off a 300m bit of a 500+m long floating walkway along the side of the river breaking off and floating down stream. I guess the person who designed it didn't do their calculations correctly. The ferry terminals are having the same problem. The part closest to the boat is a floating pontoon, that runs up and down on poles. These polls just aren't as tall as the flood waters, so the pontools just float up off the top and away they go...

We've had floods 2m+ higher than this before. Infact we had 2 8m+ floods in one year, back in the 1890's, this will be 5-6m. Anyway, according to the mayor, the dam is within 600mm of overtopping the emergency spillway, at which point it'd wear down, and would in the process release about a million megaliters of water into the river. Fortunatly, the inflows have mostly stopped, so they'll be able to keep it below that level.

Lots of rain in NSW too, on the darling river that's draining all of decembers floods, and on the coast where stuff has been falling over the last few days

Originally posted by: Cockatoo-210893 latest predictions is for it to be higher than 74. higher.quote> God, I hope that doesn't refer to anywhere near the Brisbane CBD. .quote> It does. Higher than 5.4M measured at the brisabane CBD, on thursday. Originally posted by: Asheroo @ Sneakeypete - It's actually been constantly raining here where I am over the past 24 hours (I'm from the suburb of Mansfield), with heavy periods throughout this morning and lunch time. I can say the creeks around where I am will certainly go above normal "flood" levels (not that they do flood at all). One of my teachers a few years ago said how bad the creek near my house and school was during the floods in the 1990s (forgot which year). We haven't had so much rain around my area for ages, we don't usually get heavy showers like the northern and western suburbs do, though this time we have, so I'm expecting the creeks around here to flood. .quote> I live in wishart, and the creek is just across the road form my front door. Have seen it higher on at least 5 occasions in the last 5 years. And the next door neighbours who've been here since the 90's say its been higher than we've seen it. So all in all here, the creeks are not that high at all.

DTA: peaks of 19m for ipswich, not 90. Someone had some miscommunication on the news there Can't imagine any of the little creeks in the south of the city flooding much more than is usual for wet weather, apart from their lower reaches. fact is we haven't had much rain over the SE of the city. The Brisbane river on the other hand... My god latest predictions is for it to be higher than 74. higher. edit: some interesting links people might like to see. Weather radar, on rainfall mode. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR66D.loop.shtml#skip The upper area of the catchment for the brisbane river has has 250+mm per day for the last 3 days in a row (and today, the third day, had 250 in the last 6 hours, the day isn't even half way done yet) Dam levels, updated every morning http://www.seqwater.com.au/public/dam-levels As you can see, jumped 40% in a day, 30% day after, think they'll hit full flood capacity, which is 2.5 million megaliters (about 220% full) by tommorow.

most recent rain has been absolutly, horribly shocking. Take your pick of prefered news site and look at some of the footage. Not what i'd expect for around here at all.

How much more likely would banning handguns and leaving rifles untouched be? I mean, with rifles you still have the ability to do the "defend against your government" junk, but they're in no way concealable, and slow to fire.

Originally posted by: hym One of the nasty little secrets of the E85/biofuels groups is that they won't tell you that E85 blends aren't any cleaner than the blends that were used before them. quote> I totally agree with this point, and to be honest i only really see E85 as a good cheap race fuel/extra premium substitute. Originally posted by: hymFurthermore, engines that can burn both E85 and regular fuel blends have an inherent 10% efficiency loss because they can't be optimized around a single fuel type. quote> Now that, i don't think so. Putting E85 into a vehicle allows you to run the engine much leaner with more advanced cam timing. Now while its true that dumping E85 into an engine tuned for regular premium fuel will run 10% less efficient, the modern Flexfuel vehicles for sale now detect the fuel being used and will automatically adjust the Settings to be optimal for whatever fuel is being used.

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes but thiers not going to be another mass die out. At least not one due to diease or famine. these last couple flu "epidemics" they warn us about never come to pass anymore because they are very quickly discovered and their spread is arrested before it can spread far. 100 years ago the H1N1 would have probabaly killed 1/2 of central mexico. quote> Yes, but in 100 years time when (if?) the world population reaches 10 billion, and there's a drought in africa and a major storm in europe and a flood in the US, there'll be a dam lot of starving people. There you go, dieout. Small, yes, but its still most likely to be there and be ugly.

Originally posted by: hym Research has suggested that shrinking populations lead to unstable economies, which tends to have a chilling effect on human progress. quote> Ah, was wondering if someone would bring this up. No matter what happens, at one stage, we're going to run out of space, and the population is going to stop growing/suffer a massive die out anyway. Why not start now, while we still have untouched wilderness left, still have space to do things with, still have resources to have a good standard of living.

I Didn't get past the first sentence. However, the golden rule of the net, one of the first thing's about it (in an academic context) i was ever told is that 99% of it is unreferenced opinion.

Originally posted by: hym Which might be viable till someone tries to blow up the train, at which point the delays at the airport will find their way to the HSR system.quote> People have blown up trains in france before, but i don't see any crippling security screening. Not to mention that a High speed train is no different to any commuter/subway train. The difference between planes and trains comes, however, with the fact that one has a much higher potential energy than the other. Plane is damaged? it falls out of the sky. Train is damaged? it rolls to a stop.

They don't let you get onto the plane 5 minutes after you arrive in the middle of downtown. That's why HSR can be an option event though it only tavels at half the speed.