Suchian Musings And Ramblings About General Designs Involving Notable Estuaries
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
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and take their weapons leaving them dead
mile. The annual drainage rate during the years 2000-2007 (an average
of 25 cubic kilometers per year) was more than twice that of the years
1950-1999 (an average of 9.2 cubic kilometers per year).
So,
1950-2000 had an average of 9.2 cubic kilometers for 50 years = 460
cubic kilometers. 2000-2008, with average25 cubic kilometers for 8
years = 200 cubic kilometers. 200/460 = .4347826
The years
2000-2008 accounted for 30.% of all drainage between 1950 and 2008. This
means, 2000-2008 drained almost half as much water as 1950-2000. The
drainage rate in 2010 exceeded any previous year.
The
drainage rate in 2011 was more than twice that of 2010. (Assuming 2010
had the same rate as 2000-2008) that means 2011 had a drainage rate of
around 50 cubic kilometers a year. The drainage rate of 2012 was two
and a half times that of 2010, for a conservative estimaete of 62.5
cubic kilomeers. Thus, by a conservative estimate, the annual drainage
rate in 2012 was more than five times that of 1950-1999 (actually, it
was 6.8 times).
1950-2000: 460 cubic kilometers (9.2 a year)
2000-2008: 200 cubic kilometers (25 a year)
2011-2012: 112.5 cubic kilometers (56.25 a year).
The 312.25 cubic kilometers that was drained 2000-2012 (not counting
2009 and 2010) is around two-thirds of what was drained 1950-1900.
Estimating 25 cubic kilometers a year for ’09 and ’10, we get another 50
cubic kilometers. Meaning 362.5 cubic kilometers drained 2000-2012.
This makes 2000-2012 equal to 44% of total drainage since 1950. This
means that we sentients drained four-fifths as much water 2000-2012 as we did
1950-2000.
Assuming 2013 and 2014 had and have the same rates as 2012
(giving us 125cubic kilometers 2012-2014), it comes out to 487.5 cubic
kilometers between 2000-2014. This is, at a conservative estimate,
fifty one percent of total drainage. We drain/havedrained/willdrain
more from 2000-2014 than we did from 1950-2000.
Considering that the recharge rate (the constant rate at which rainwat3r
replenishes an aquifer, in this aquifer, it’s 3.75 cubic kilometers a
year) in 2010 was 15% of the drainage rate for that year; this means
that 2012’s recharge rate must have been 6% of the drainage rate. So,
that’s one part in 16.6666666… recharged. IT takes sixteen years for
rainwater to replenish what was drained in 2012 alone. Assuming 2013
and 2014 had/have the same rate, then the years 2012, 2013, and 2014,
together, drained as much water as is recharged in fifty years.
In
other words, all the recharge from 1950-2000 would fill up only the last
three years; meaning every single drop we drained from 1950-2000 was
permanently taken out of the water level. The small recharge of 41.25
cubic kilometers from 2000-end of 2011 is dwarfed by the 300 cubic
kilometers we drained in those same years. A balance of negative 258.75
cubic kilometers. Even with the 11.25 cubic kilometers of recharge
2012-2014, that’s a net balance of 247.5 lost since 2000, even counting
all recharge since 1950. Adding 460 to this 247.5 means an effective
draining of 707.5 cubic kilometers, ,counting recharge. 707.5 cubic
kilometers taken permantly out of the water level.
That’s 188.66666666 years of recharge, assuming we don’t drain a drop.
all in all, it seems that the aquifer has 1875 cubic kilometers.
Thus, we have 1167.5 left.
In 1960, we'd drained 3%. IN 2010, 30%, by the end of 2014, 37.733333333%.
If
we drain at 2012 levels, we have 18.68 more years before the last drop
is drained. In 3.68 years, at 2012 rates, the aquifer will be
half-gone.
IT took us 68 years to drain the first half,
1950-2018. At 2012 rates, it will take us only 15 years (2018-2032) to
drain the other half. 68 yeas to drain one half, 15 to drain the other.
all in all, 83 years. So, a person who was ten years old in 1950
(when large-scale started) would be 93 years old when the last drop is
drained. Some people of 93 still remember their childhood years.
In
one lifetime, in one living memory, see the aquifer disappear. At the
fastest, it will take 500 years to replenish. But other estimates are
500-1300, and others are around 100,000.
See, water takes many years to seep down through rock to the saturated rock layer. A drought this year doesn't hit the aquifer for many years. So, we're getting recharge water from years before 1950. Once the 1950 agriculture irrigation years recharge gets to the aquifer, then we've got a problem, since even in 1950, we drained 9.2 cubic kilometers where 3.7 came in recharge. So, a negative recharge, I guess. Once the 1950 hits; we have to wait until the 2032 hits for any recharge to even take place. Recharge should, If I understand right, stop. 82 years of no recharge. Luckilly, it takes hundreds of years for the recharge to get to the aquifer, so, the 82 years of no recharge won't happen for hundreds of years.
Screw you, future people. Even if you don't drain a drop, don't use a drop, you'll, someday, have 82 years where the aquifer won't rise at all, not because of what you did, but because of what we did. HAVE FUN PAYING OFF OUR DEBT, SUCKERS.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
ball to the ground, which makes it rebound the higher towards
heaven.---J. Mason
True humility is not an abject, groveling,
self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God
sees us---Tryon Edwards.
Humility is not a weak and timid
quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
There is such a thing as an honest pride and self-respect. Though we
may be servants of all, we should be servile to none.---E. H. Chaplin
Humility is to have a right estimate of one's self--not to think less of himself than he ought.--Spurgeon.
Compare with:
If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little and others much.---Leighton.
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. ---Peterborough.
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to our inquiries say, "Oh, nothing.". Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts--not to hurt others.---George Eliot.
Six Rozpoints to who decodes this cryptogram of mine.
We just have prepositions, word order, and the saxon genitive "'s".
Eighty percent of the vocabulary was lost, as well as a few letters.
Word order was more flexible in Old English, but with their grammatical cases, it still could be clear what was subject and what was object. Usually, it tended to have the verb second, but still.
Now, we english-speakers nearly always go Subject-Verb-Object. Every century, SVO becomes more and more dominant.
Flipping normans.
Our verbs have only four forms now. We've essentially lost the entire case system.
THen again, this deterioration has happened in basically all indo-european languages, as languges become less synthetic and more analytical.
I still love ya, English. You're a wonderful oddball of everything.
And I love how you can do things like "will not have yet been" in so many words.
I mean, I love analytic and synthetic, but it's just, there's so few synthetic.
Besides, if you think about it, we still have word like antidisestablishmentarianism. And there are word chains in english that grammatically could be considered single words.
Ah, heck, I just like this language.
The enemy of awesome.
The sun is 46 per-cent as effective as the moon, tide-wise. So, yeah, at half moon you get 54% of the tide, and at new moon and full moon you get 146% of the tide.
Nearly three times a stronger gravity force at a syzygy than at half-moon.
Or, half a quadrillion gallons.
Heh, heh, heh. Remember my calculation, that 1950-2032 to complete depletion? Yeah. ONe lifetime, half a quadrillion gallons.
Given the conversion from Cubic Kilometers to acre-feet to gallons, and given that 50,000 acre-feet supports 1.5 million people per year; so 33,333.3 acre-feet supports one million.
4586320.3333333 million people for one year, the HIgh PLains Aquifer has at full capacity.
Or, 6000 million people for 764 years.
What we will have drained from 2000-2014, assuming we stay at 2012 drainage levels, will be enough to support 799.139377108 million people for 14 years.
In short, our actual average drainage of the High PLains Aquifer for 2000-2014 is 800 million people per year. More than ten per-cent of the human race.
But, well, agriculture takes boatloads of water, way more than anything else humans do with water. And Agriculture supports food and everything of life. I mean, the sheer irrigation from the HIh Plains aquifer is 30% of the United States's total water pumping/drainage.
I love extrapolating with math.
Oh, and so, there are 810,713 acre-feet in a cubic kilometer, or 24.3 million people-years.
The oceans have 1.6 billion cubic kilometers, but is useless because SALTY.
Now, how many gallons are in the 1.6 billion cubic kilometers of the ocean?
As seen on any mercator projection, Greenland is bigger than South America and Africa. NOw, some peoples says that that's not true, that greenland isn't actually that big, but that's a conspiracy. Clearly, Antarctica is bigger than asia.
as seen on a mercator Projection, Greenland is bigger than South America. As seen on a transverse mercator projection, south america is bigger than Asia. THerefore, Greenland is bigger htan asia, and is thus the biggest continent. Cue. Eeee Deeeee.
SEe, this is a mercator projection's greenland, and a mercator projection's africa.
THis is the awesome "reality", 'cause Africa is huge. (it's wrong, though. SIzes right, but nothing else)
Actually, the continents of the southern hemisphers have twice the landmass of the northern.
THe Mercator Projection shows right directions, but the wrong everything else.
Peters:
And South America isn't that stretched out, either.
But the sizes are right.
Peters is for accurate size representation. Mercator is for accurate angle representation.
They are all flawed inherently, because they are both trying to represent a sphere as a rectangle.
Now, some people like to have maps upside down, so south is up and north is down. That's just as valid. THe point of a map is to be accurate, not politically correct.
But there are different standards of accuracy. Distance? Size? Shape? Direction? Relative placement
Mercator shows directions right, and if you're going any direction other than parallell to the equator, only on a Mercator will a straight path along the earth's surface be shown as a straight line on the map. Mercator is for ships. The angle on a mercator will be right, though the distance will be off, the area will be distorted, and the shapes of landmasses will be wrong.
Peters gets the areas of landmasses right, but not the shapes, angle, or distance.
SO, out of: Shape, Angle, Distance, or Area; you can have one of those four represented correctly on your map.
Or, you can compromise and have them all be wrong, but not too badly wrong.
The best map projection is a globe because a sphere cannot be presented as a two-dimensional shape without messing stuff up.
There, I've finished that argument forever.
Also, Fuller is disqualified for being foldable into a 3d shape. No cheating! You can't just try to be a 3d map and a 2d map at the same time!
See, the thing is, the FUller map needs more triangles. MOre, more, more, more, more triangles and ways of folding.
But, see, the thing about the Fuller map is that directions are all wierd-like, you ahve to do that pac-man thing where you teleport from one edge to the other.
And then, when you have infinite triangles, you have a globe.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I will find that forum, and join it, and it will be amazing.
But the real world isn't like that.
I think that the homogeneity of this forum appealed to me before, but less so now. A nice thing about the Internet is that to some extent you can choose who you come into contact with and avoid people whose opinions upset you, but sometimes I think that leaves us with unrealistic expectations about what's possible offline.
Pancakes or Waffles.
So, the webcomic Goblins hasn't had a new strip since February 9.
In six days it will be May 9, and it will be a clean three months. If he posts the new comic on May 9, we can say it was three months for one comic. If he posts it on May 10, we can say that there was a three-month wait from one comic to the next. IF he posts it on may 11, we can say that there were three straight months (Feb 10-Mar 10, Mar 10-apr 10, Apr 10-may 10) with no update. IF he posts it on may 12, and we can claim to have waited more than three months for the update.
Today is the 83rd consecutive day with no update. Come on, on may 9 it will be 89. May 10, 90. May 19, 99. (my sister's birthday is may 19.). And may 20, 100 consecutive no-update days.
So, if he posts the first new comic on may 22, we can say that there were over a hundred consecutive no-update days. But we can't say that on May 21st. (we waited over a hundred days between two comics).
Come on, Mister Tarol Hunt. You're so close to 100! You can make it! Just 17 more days, and you'll hit triple digits! Nineteen more days for the coveted "over 100 consecutive non-update days" award.
And hey, since by that time, you're at May 22, why not wait until June 11th to post a new comic? Make it so we can say we waited over four months between comics (Feb 9-mar 9; mar9-apr9; apr9-may9, may9-june9).
And then you're at 122 consecutive non-update days! Almost perfect! And June 12 will be day 123, but if you post an update that day, then you only had 122 consecutive non-update days. You need to wait to June 14, so we can say we had over 123 consecutive non-update days. On June 16, we can say over 125!
Come on man, just another month and thirteen days. Is that so hard?
And, well, on march 18, you absolutely promised to have an update (or resume work), "tomorrow". IF you can make it to June 20, that's over three months late!
And that is why I hope Goblins doesn't update until June 20.
And then, June 24, it will be the 135 consecutive no-update day, or the day of the 27th ghost comic. 27 is 3*3*3. SO, clearly, there should be no update before June 25th.
OH, and then why not wait until July 11th, so we can say we waited over five months between comics. And then, as long as you've got five months , that's so close to half a year, don't turn back now. August 11th, six clean months of no-update. August eleventh, 183rd consecutive non-update day. IF you update august eleventh, we can't claim 183 consecutive no-update days. And since 182*2 is only 364, we can't claim half a year of no update. That would be snatched away from us jsut before the prize. Sooo, update august 12th, and we have 183 consecutive non-update days, more than half a year, except in leap years. SO, even then, we can't say it was more than half a year, because lap years.
SO, what needs to happen is no updates before august 13. THat way we can claim a wait of over half a year. 184 days.
And, well, remember how I was unsatisfied with day 83 for being so close and yet not quite 100? Same with 183.
And then, if you wait 17 more days, you have 200 days! August 31 will be the 201st consecutive non-update day.
Over 200 consecutive no-update days! Yaay!
And that is why there should be no update before september. That's my final.
OH wait, september 12, wait of over seven months.
Alright, that's the final. September 12th.
given eight comics thus year so far, assuming no update on step 13, well, 256/8 is 32, or one update day followed by 31 nonupdate days. September 21st, day 264 of the year. 32 non update days for every update day. Eight more days is October first, for 33 nonupdate days to every update day.
so, for every update day! there is on average a non update period of more than a month.
And, well, if you wait until October 11th to update, that's eight months of consecutive non updating. more than a month of nonupdate for every update.
Oct 12, final for realsies.
wait, that's day 283. you gotta make it to 301 consecutive non update days. Oct 27.
Long twigs together make big nests that float. Thus, movable buildings. Twigs are pruned from the tipping plants. Crocodilians do the pruning with their teeth. Long big dead branches that are pruned can be anchors.
a)
I am unwilling to watch it for free illegally (okay, I watched a fight
scene on youtube, but that was basically for me to see what the show was
like. Sort of like a teaser trailer.),
b) No way am I going to watch it for money illegally, because DUH,
c) I can't find any way to watch it for free legally,
d) I can't find any way to watch it for money legally,
e) I'm not cool with the fanservice, it's grating. Considering my computer's need to pause videos and buffer all the time, I had a rather difficult time with the fight scene that I watched. If I like to look at a show, I don't mind having it paused so much. It lets me notice details and background characters and little things that I wouldn't otherwise (Like Dipper's notebook with the number two on it from the episode we first met Gideon). But when the visual is something I don't like, it's really poorly served.
I mean, there's already a focus on fanservice, but for my computer to keep pausing and buffering makes it even worse, even more sustained focus. It's like, Oh, Let's Interrupt Dialogue and Story For Buffering So We Can Maintain Focus On Short Skirts And Imipolex's Obsessions Even More.
f)I lost my waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Once, long
ago, hundreds and hundreds of years ago, there was a stripey girl named
Adalheidis.
Adalheidis was a magic sort of girl, and when she wanted to be clean, she snapped her fingers and
made it rain (this is before sprinklers were invented). When she
wanted to dry off, she clapped her hands and made it sunny (This is
before towells were invented). Sometimes, she would make a rain just to wet
the dirt so she could take a mudbath, and then she would end the rain
and feel the mud dry on her dresses (this was before germs were invented, there was no need to stay clean).
People did this all the time, because reflections
hadn't been invented yet, and neither had mirrors. Mud-Cocoons were the
only way for people to see what they looked like. The problem with
Mud-Cocoons is that, like all cocoons, it is broken when you
leave it.
But, as I said, Adalheidis was a magic person, and
you never know what magic can do. She put the pieces of her Mud-Cocoons
back together, and looked at them. She learned a horrible secret in
doing so; she learned that she was growing taller! Now, the problem
with growing taller is that you eventually bump your head on the moon.
So, Adalheidis decided to get her being taller done by flying and so her face was as tall as a giraffe's face. But her feet weren't on the ground. And then she could fly.
One day, Adalheidis got lonely so she threw a wave at an orange ship and that made a person made of rock. She named her rock-friend Annukka. But the orange ship, which was hit by the wave, went far away and found an island filled with scissors and keys (for unlocking doors for finding treasure (I was the captain of that ship)).
Annukka said "Oh, I am naked.", so Adelheidis threw some corn and it hit a rock which was a secret rock that opens a cave when you hit it with corn. Inside the cave was a pointy hat and some pants and a jacket. But there was a big bumblebee named bzzzzzzzzz in the cave, so Adelheidis and Annukka found forty five midgets to beat up the bumblebee until it went back to its nest.
Also, the shoes were made of bubble gum and let you walk up walls.
Man, seven year old me, what were you thinking.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It was written and illustrated on papers that I stapled together.
The 45 midgets were in a lot of my stories back then. 45 was the biggest number I knew back then. The orange ship had its own story. It appears I was trying to connect things. Yeah, it's pretty clear that I ran out of ideas and introduced the Secret Rock.
All human visitors must wear a full body airtight containment suit, to prevent spread of disease, invasive species, and discharges of magic. Horses have a very hard time traversing swamps, does have a much easier time because they have proportionally bigger hooves and have cloven hooves that let air in the space between the two cleaves as the cow raises its foot. A horse must contend with a partial vacuum from its uncloven, solid hoof.
But even still, most cows live in Imipolex's Domaine. Rozburg has no cows, the herds do not like the lack of graze and the insects.
Rozburg is the inhabited bit of the Rozburg swamp.
The main impediments to invasion are he lack of roads and good solid land, the swamp-ness with its insects and molds, and the international agreement to ban magic and electricityin this swamp for fear of worldwide catastrophe.
But, man, when it blooms in the spring, Rozburg is beautiful.