man that is fucking crazy
Cool/Exciting/Interesting things (probably videos)
Das
#166
At least four Russian cruise missiles, headed for Syria, have reportedly crash-landed in Iran.
Das
#172
A system for tracking the facial expressions from one person and putting them on the face of a second person in real-time. Source
Das
#177
How climate change will affect world economies
A new study from scientists and economists at Stanford and Berkeley has taken a stab at determining how climate change will affect the world’s economic activity. As part of their study, they look at which countries might benefit from climate change and which might lose out. As you might expect, countries in the Northern Hemisphere with cooler climates stand to benefit while the rest of the world will not. Here are some of the projected big winners (the Nordic countries) and losers (the Middle East):
Mongolia +1413%
Finland +516%
Iceland +513%
Russia +419%
Estonia +259%
Saudi Arabia -96%
Kuwait -96%
Oman -94%
United Arab Emirates -94%
Iraq -93%
Canada (+247%) is another one of the potential big winners while the US (-36%) stands to lose out…along with all of Africa, South America, India, and China. This quote by one of the study’s lead authors, really grabs you by the throat:
What climate change is doing is basically devaluing all the real estate south of the United States and making the whole planet less productive. Climate change is essentially a massive transfer of value from the hot parts of the world to the cooler parts of the world. This is like taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
archnemesis
#181
Do you have any natural disasters up there? What about dangerous animals? Is Sarah Palin still around?
I’ve actually considered buying some real estate on other continents in case of WW3 or if I get bored of Europe. I would probably not be that expensive to buy a plot of land in a remote part of Africa or South America.
Vizzy
#182
its civilized and its america so we got all the same laws
we got bears but they are smart and dont wander to cities much. but yes if they catch you alone, unarmed they can kill. the odds are low unless you venture unto the wild.
we get earthquakes more than most states, but no bad ones since the 60s. in the 90s as a kid a volcano erupted in SE ak and ash covered all of anchorage for a while. not many people alive have seen something like that. but i remember it vividly.
Sarah palin is nobody but a laughingstock afaik atm. anyway real estate here would be a great long term investment imo.the winters have been getting noticeably weaker, ask anyone here if they think its global warming and they would agree
archnemesis
#183
The latest issue of Nature has an article about regions benefiting from global warming.
The paper: http://web.stanford.edu/~mburke/climate/BurkeHsiangMiguel2015.pdf