Green Baron

Network attached storage. A good sounding name for a very simple "file server" with an easy configuration program and harddisk(s) that you simply plug in to your router and follow the installation menu.

Well, sorry for your loss, but pendrives are bad means to store valuable data. They get around a lot and catch viruses, the cheap ones are volatile, they can easily get lost, ... Better would be a harddrive, but don't carry it with you. Next best are all those clouds and things on the internet, but you give away your data potentially for everyone to see. Quite ok is a NAS at home that you can configure, but one that doesn't call home every now and then. And best of all is a file server at home, separate from the internet, with some kind of redundancy, that backs up regularly to tape or optical storage, but that's a bit overkill.

Or the other way round ? Having mass in a nutshell ... sucking a nutshell on mars ... Gravity is property of mass. It keeps things in "place". Otherwise (no restmass) they'd be condemned to the limiting speed, aka c, forever (our ever, not theirs), and have no perception of the life, the universe and all. 42 had no meaning then. But things have mass, thus exchange gravity over a still to determine medium, which makes sentences like "I am here, where are you ?" possible and meaningful. Or questions like why does gravity exist. Sadly there are more questions than answers. Wit the exception of 42, that answer has no question i have heard. :-)

Yep.

Tropical storms can form over tropical (warm) waters all around the world. They are called hurricanes in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific and Typhoons in the western Pacific. Indian ocean also sees tropical storms, just not as frequently as the larger waterbodies (this should be checked).

The ability to reflect is distributed unequally ... :-) Yo, man.

Not everybody heeds scientist's advice and for some (many actually) personal earnings go over everything else including lives. Fortunately nobody will in foreseeable future tap a supervolcano with other means than words because it's technically not realizable. Lucky weathering out !

Hey, you're alive :-) Yes, but we can (try to) get behind the mechanisms that cause and steer the processes in the atmo-, cryo-, hydro- and so on spheres. And those that take place in the earth's interior and crust. We aren't doing that bad, large leaps forward have been made. We'll just sit out adverse "weather" in all forms and then we or others carry on. Without research we wouldn't even have been able to issue the warnings days before impact of the storm, or judge the behaviour of geological processes and their possible dangers. It is only that complex things don't have simple answers and humans don't have superpowers. Most not even powers :-) Superman has superpowers, that makes the lecture incredible boring, even stupid because we know he always switches off physics and then wins ... how unsporty.

The answer is easy: right now it is impossible to predict the occurrence of an earthquake or eruption until the signs are clear and unambiguous. *shrug*

The bottleneck 75.000 years ago for humans is less than unsure. Too many of those lived all around the world then. I don't recall exactly, a paper around 2012 dealt with it and i think especially with Toba. Don't have the time now for a search now, sorry. Sciencemag ? Of course i don't want to say that supervolcanoes are no threat, sure they are. There is little we can do right now and for the foreseeable future, except research and more research, before anybody pokes into an unstable magmachamber with water around. Possible bottlenecks happened to Homo erectus spp. earlier ...

I heard that too, once. My medieval knowledge is limited. But people generally where more spiritual and it might be simply because churches - at least high medieval times, 11th century onwards - usually where strong stone buildings that offered more safety from gusts, rain and lightning strikes.

They build rather gears with a row of low pressure balloon tyres today, like in many transport aircraft. If one tyre pops there are 7 left. If one track rips then they'll have to walk ...

Remains the disadvantage: weight and complexity.

I won't comment on your other points because all of them have been addressed before, discussed in newspapers and magazines, anywhere every day, so i leave it. I don't like running in circles ;-) But this one is a good good point indeed ! "cost of climate change" Stay safe ! @Just Jim, i hope we get a sign of life from you (and anybody else in the line of water of course) tomorrow or as soon as the lines are up again :-)

Then there should be a sharp step in the curve in the early 80s to support your claim that satellites made a big difference. But the curve goes done at that time, not up. But it doesn't. Where is the step in the 60s when frequent intercontinental traffic started ? I need to demonstrate nothing. You apparently want to disprove data from worldwide operating networks of scientists and officials. Approved data, published and undisputed in the community. Just plain figures. No. This is about a recent development. Past times had different conditions in all of the spheres. It'll be extremely unsciency to compare apples and bananas, also, that'll be partly that what you are complaining about: unconfirmed data. "We" have established nothing, you have claimed so ;-) And the table isn't about hurricanes before 1850. Wind speeds could and can very well be measured, not as accurately as with a calibrated anemometer but in 5knots steps until 60 knots no problem. Just needs some knowledge and training. The table isn't even about exact wind speeds, just plain categories. Ships at sea file storm reports since the beginning of naval travel. But i don't work myself out any more for fear it is just plainly rejected. But be it as it may, i concede all your objections and cut off any data before 1980. Now, how does the statistic look ? With the exception of the 5-year-gap 2012-2016 even worse ! A steep increase, isn't it ? So, what now, with this years season so far ? Still fighting against reality ;-) ? Have a nice one, and stay safe everybody ! also p.s.: yeah, it is not certain how much is human caused in climate overall and hurricanes especially and probably never will be for sure because weather and climate isn't as exact as an engineering job. Tell that to the people who loose their houses and relatives and tell them that no action to avoid further deterioration is necessary. Was that cynical ?

so we have killed 25 people levelled several islands and caused 10s of billions damage ? And are just warming up ? sorry am on mobile yeah, good luck of course

Yep, that'll be a little less than 4km ? I happened. That was where my doubts startet :-)

*scratchhead* probably not enough air for such a big hive ?

Major hurricanes did not happen every year, multiples even less of course, and even less make landfall. But they are getting more and more. Source below. Nice to view: the past six years have been relatively moderate (two majors), leading to the "all not that bad" conclusion of climate change deniers. Don't try to find patterns ;-) Minds superior to ours have tried ... :-)

@tater, then the one is used for for official data and the others maybe for finding out about parameters for corrections of obstacles, different materials, insolation, moisture etc. blabla. Mayhaps you underestimate your fellow weatherfrogs ;-)

Other "companies" may have other definitions. DWD (German weatherfrogs) measures 10m above ground and obstacles have to be at least 10 times the height away. That excludes most hobby meteorologists ;-) In general all of them know how to calibrate their instruments and where they are. @ProtoJeb21: i admire your enthusiasm but predictions have the problem that they are difficult, especially those regarding the future ;-)

Just read the link :-)

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/crn/measurements.html Model calculations are usually for a height of 10m above ground. That would be a huge difference though as speed and direction even over a flat surface can be considerable between 1.5 and 10m.

Cute cat :-) Irma seems to have received an upgrade again and might arrive at your front door as major hurricane again. If only i knew the future ... Poor Cubans.

Guys don't put too much interpretation in a bad quality video with funny flashes. It might just be a joke.