Confirmed being the key word - the decades-old Standard Model absolutely predicts this.
Am I missing something, or do human-driven taxis have this exact same problem as well?
Hmm, how many people are in your household?
That's true, although I'm skeptical they couldn't overcome it. There's no shortage of educational overlap, or of big European institutions.
Thinking about this a bit, if the US rolls some kind of icebreaker convoy up there to occupy Nuuk, they could respond by seizing all the US bases in Europe and taking anyone they catch as a prisoner. That seems like an exchange in the EU's favour; Greenland's just not a very major place. There's arguments for everything from non-military retaliation only to nuking New York, though.
Yeah, that's probably where to go on Lemmy. I'm spoiled for choice off of Lemmy. They're all going to be full of a mix of every take though, aside from the boring ones like "diversify and hold".
Over-the-counter land wouldn't really fit there, though.
If it goes long enough for new production to matter, the EU is actually better equipped for a war of attrition, being bigger and having some kind of unity. Would it actually be a drawn-out war of attrition, or something else? Hard to say, because like you've pointed out the whole thing is so dumb.
Again, carriers aren't the only variable in play, even if they are very good at creating a zone of air superiority. Greenland isn't the only theater here, it's not a single point you can sit on top of, and it's not even mostly inhabited. I'll try not to repeat myself about the other factors I've mentioned.
Yes, but what would they go and do with them? I'm not super sure they could use much of that stuff up in Greenland when things are iced over, and then there's the question of how survivable they would be vs. technologically sophisticated Europe. What does holding Greenland even mean to them? What kind of losses are they willing to take elsewhere? What about MAD?
I mentioned the submarine thing because you made it sound like they'd be stuck on their own continent, and that's an obvious counterexample. There's like a million things at play.
Volpe said Scholz’s first question was when the car was going to go into mass production. “We are building a fleet,” was the response.
That's huge. He called it just a "business card" for the industry a bit ago.
It's not production, but it's closer.
smarter, richer, more connected
There is no free lunch. There's tons and tons of people who will claim to be smart, rich and connected but that actually are just grifters, and if they can prove otherwise they're absolutely going to bill for their time. And then there's also grifters who will bill for their time, some of whom are one or more of those things.
I should also point out that smarter is largely independent of the other two. And that trading on non-public information can be illegal, especially in developed countries.
Basically, if you're speculating on land somewhere you need to do your own homework or you'll definitely get gotten.
France alone could roll up a nuclear submarine wherever, though. It would be a weird war but I don't actually know how unequal it would be.
It's Greenland. Just principle isn't going to move anybody. Maybe not even Denmark. There's other treaties, though.
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Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications
(www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33597552
Summary from the 404 media newsletter
Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients.
Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.”
“We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago.
From the article in the link above:
Fig. 1: Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa and Corculum spp.) are asymmetrical, photosymbiotic bivalves.
Fig. 2: Transparent windows allow heart cockle shells to transmit 11–62% of photosynthetically active radiation (mean = 31%) and significantly screen out UV radiation (mean = 14%, range = 5–28%).
New plant evolution possibility just dropped?
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I mean, there were some very close calls. Trump already has one on the board as well.
Just like Germany, once it's already in power the movement won't necessarily die with the leader.