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Comment Re:Fake Issue (Score 1) 353

240 trains is 120 in each direction.

Assuming they operate 18h a day, that would be 6 trains per hour in each direction. One train every 10 minutes. That is not plausible. They would be in to close order to do anything if a train in front has a problem.

If you check the train schedule, it is roughly one train per hour with up to 3 trains in peak times.

Note that many of these trains from Paris might not stop in Lyon, if they follow to Marseilles, Milan, Geneva, from any of the several companies operating on the line (TrenItalia, Lyria, Eurostars).

If they do not stop there, they show not up on the Paris - Lyon schedule. That would make sense, somewhat. I do not remember the regulations how close trains can be sent one after the other.

Comment Re:Good for many reasons (Score 2) 115

You know, there are stories about some countries being "laid back", in Europe.

Occupied during WWII by Germans was for example Greece.

In Germany Greeks had a bad reputation for being lazy.

That was basically anecdotical spread of word of mouth by returning soldiers and officers.

The occupied areas had a curfew till roughly 7:00 in the morning. Around 9:00 the officers visited the coffee shops for breakfast around the central plaza, called Plakka, in Greek.

All the farmers and fishermen were sitting there and playing with their prayer necklaces. So the officers thought: why is that lazy pack not out working? They saw them sitting around, or going to sleep after lunch and only work from 5PM to 8PM.

Well, the Greek ignored the curfew, and went working in the morning at 4AM, so at 8AM they had done half days work already and started to gather on the Plakka.

The attitude that Philippinos or Thai are "super laid back", is just idiotic.

Comment Re:Is this the way the bubble bursts? (Score 1) 23

There is no AI bubble.

We are in the 6th Kondratieff.

No idea the /. crowd insists not to grasp that.

This is the 6th mega revolution in technology for mankind.

And you insist it is a bubble.

How stupid are you?

You have the chance to be part of it, ride it, be the Shockwave rider.

But you neglect to learn the simplest things about this technology.

You are so absurd, it is unbelievable.

Comment Hurray, a good sign! (Score 1) 72

Then the climate change deniers will be proven right!

Instead of dying the heat death in Europe, we get a new "Ice Age", yay!!

And we can burn oil, win win win!

And we will have a construction boom, especially tunnels, and pipelines, something ice sheet proof.

And on top of that, we can test Mars habitats on top of the ice shield.

Well, considering that a dramatic cold switch takes only a few dozen years to drastically transform Europe (probably all of the north) into "Hel" (look it up if you do not know what that is) ... we even might experience it in our life time!

May you live in interesting times!

Comment Re:You still don't have civil rights in China (Score 0) 240

You can unionize in China just fine. Google it.
And if you want to criticize the government: you have to be a member of "the party".

That is what "the party" is for.

If you are not even in "the party" but public criticize the government, you are considered a moron etc.

What is so damn complicated in grasping their way is just different.

If you think something is going wrong, join "the party" and voice your concern there!!!

It is not super complicated to grasp.

Comment Re:The reason some of you get so nuts is... (Score 1) 353

During the end of the last "ice age" we had thousands of floods all over the planet.

Because that is what happens if a mountain of ice melts, and then a dam of rubble breaks.

There are huge areas in north America that are formed by: the flood

Then there are hundreds of floods that had similar reasons, like the break from the mediterranen sea into the black sea.

That was a slow flood .... it only flooded the area over the course of 30 years by roughly 100m (100 yards).

That is 3yards per year, roughly 1cm/half an inch - PER DAY.

Why do we know that? Oh, because we found sunken towns, with bronce age tools in the lake, and all the surrounding towns are stone age - they lost the knowledge how to make metal tools.

That the black sea was flooded, we now because the fossils of clams below 100m are all fresh water clams, and those above are sea water clams ...

And then again, by coincidence, we had 3 meteor or comet impacts in a row at the end of the last ice age, two hit Greenland and one west of Africa in the ocean.

That explains the "rain" floods. And yes, Gilgamesh and the Tora refer to the impact west of Africa.

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