China 'evacuates' 9,000 around monster radio 'scope China will "evacuate" 9,110 residents living within a five-kilometre radius of its new "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope" (FAST), in order to create "a sound electromagnetic wave environment". The monster radio 'scope - located in the south-western province of Guizhou - is due for completion in September. The …
"if you fill it with wine, every one of the world's seven billion people could get a share of about five bottles".
Around 26,250,000,000 liters which comes to about 10,488 Olympic-sized swimming pools or 15,331,403,620* Bulgarian funbags (unless I misplaced a decimal or made a rounding error or was distracted by poodles).
* A whole lot of fun indeed!
$ units
Currency exchange rates from www.timegenie.com on 2014-04-02
2890 units, 109 prefixes, 79 nonlinear units
You have: 7e9*5*0.7 l
You want: funbag
* 1.430931e+10
/ 6.9884571e-11
You have: 7e9*5*0.7 l
You want: pool
* 9788.7715
/ 0.00010215787
You have: 7e9*5*0.7 l
You want: grapefruit
* 4.6791444e+10
/ 2.1371429e-11
You have: 7e9*5*0.7 l
You want: pinch
* 7.84e+13
/ 1.2755102e-14
You have:
The whole reason for getting rid of people is so that they can easily track the cats with radio transmitters up their bum that the CIA are using to spy on them.
I don't get the down voles. Just look up the Kelo ruling and the many disasters that came with it. One of which is the keystone pipeline. NAFTA allows a foreign company to use eminent domain to take Americans land. I know that, for now, Obama , has blocked the Keystone pipeline. That hasn't stopped a number of people in Texas from giving up their land rather than risk getting less for it under eminent domain. You can also look up all of the land taken by former Governor Rick Perry for toll roads and a new railroad line for Toyota.
For fun you can always look up Donald Trump and eminent domain.
Was there at least a payout? Probably nothing of value...
Well, the article did say that each family was getting the equivalent of $US1300 as compensation. The bit the story skipped was to find out what $US1300 would be worth to one of the families being 'evacuated' from the 5km exclusion zone.
That amount would be bugger all to us in comparison with the costs of moving to a new area and then finding replacement housing and a new job, but what would it be worth to a Chinese village farmer? How far would it go to get them set up in a similar house and with a similar plot of land and/or business premises? Could it provide the same standard of living they are used to? Since there was no mention of rehousing them some place else we can only assume that the kindly Chinese Government wasn't about to do that for the 'evacuees' and the $1300 bung is all they're going to get.
A $ will go roughly 6-7 times as far in most parts of China, this is a (very), rural area, so say 10-15 times.
What I am unsure of is the cost of apartments locally; down in the south $100,000 was about the cheapest new apartment I saw advertised.
It is different if you rent of course; we were paying about $55 per month, (back in 2011), for one 3x5m room with a 1x1 kitchen and 1x1 toilet hole with hose pipe over.
If these people rented, they are probably quid-in; if they lived in their family built home, they are fucked.
"Isn't it, kinda, pointing in the wrong direction for underwater use?"
no - with a directional radio of that type you steer the beam by energising whichever part of the outside ring is facing the right way, the centre is the other pole. With VLF the radio wave can bounce of the ionosphere, giving extreme long range
To give an idea of the scale of the beast, Li whipped out his improbable units calculator and declared that "if you fill it with wine, every one of the world's seven billion people could get a share of about five bottles".
El Reg should
1 include this in their units page
2 give Mr. Li some sort of reward or citation
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