Re: " because it may easily be used to lute users into visiting malware-tainted websites."
The ought to be strung up.
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Nah, they should have used a turbo encapulator.
That's why the major palnetary bodies *generally* orbit in the same plane, there is currently more variation in orbital inclination as there is much more space to play in, and thus takes a lot longer for the collisions to create a truly flat ecliptic plane. The principle is the same though.
Re: tea girl, the look on her face when he said he didn't want coffee.
There does seem to be some sort of innocence portrayed when North Korean are filmed, I'm not sure what to make of it, it's a sort of unworldliness; we know about opportunity and aspiration, they are prevented from ever knowing what that is. But then we also know about all sorts of other bad stuff, but at least we have a choice to live our lives how we want to (or so we're told).
It won't matter where any km sized object hits, the climatic implications are enormous and will affect globally. 100 m - 1 km hitting land will do pretty much the same climate-wise whether it hits a city or not; an oceanic impact may also have a greater immediate risk due to tsunami.
We're all so wrapped up in whether or not we as people get hit directly or not (i.e. an impact to a city), it clouds our judgment. If we want to save lives, put the 'scopes up in inferior orbit and give people time to evacuate to whatever squalour they then must put up with for years to come (think Ike, Katrina, etc.).
London seems to be a bit of a building site! Can only be good though. Amazing how crowded St. Paul's cathedral looks, considering it would have dominated the skyline in Wren's day.
The image was quite slow on my machine so only got to look at 'downtown'.
Still, a good effort though!
I never like to make financial comparisons between different arenas, but $450M to rescue 7 people doesn't compare well to spending the money on benefit projects. We say you can't put a price on life but we do it all the time, i.e. decide to let people die because it's too expensive to justify otherwise. Oxfam's website says £25/month would pay a teacher's salary, equivalent to 30,000 of those teachers for 50 years.
There's a nicer image in the Independent.