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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
The JWST has an extremely sensitive IR camera. And it is going to cool down to near absolute zero so that the IR sensors don't get flooded with radiation from the rest of the telescope. Because it will get so cold, it is not going to b
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
The last time around, Nuclear weapons were not available to complicate the equation. This time, the response will need to be painful enough to punish the aggressor but not too painful that you would risk a strike on major cities. It won&#x2
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
It doesn't. It just shows you think Islamic Caliphate means a mess.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
It would take thousands of years. Dams are strong enough to outlast us.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
The TPLF led Ethiopia for 27 years. They are a tiny minority so the perception here is they used a divided and conquer strategy to govern. They were basically pitting the two large ethnic groups against each other and playing the peace-make
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
But you'd understand that we generally prefer not to die from pollution right? We're also not too eager on the global warming thing as well.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
How is Egypt a mess before the British came exactly? How was India a mess?
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
> Nile river is historically and from legal perspective an international river not an Ethiopian property. Violating this always comes with consequences. The Nile is an international river. All of us accept that. But you should reconsider
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
Means the volume of water and flaw rate, in the Nile is much less than the Amazon river.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
> Where is a country like Ethiopia getting all the money for such a mega-project? The major source: For most of the decade, for each bank loan, 27% of it goes to the construction of the dam. And then, most employees have given at least 1
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
We're all happy the election (most of it anyways) concluded peacefully. There was a fear of violence that didn't materialize. The results indicate a massive win for the PM's party. Given how popular he is, I was expecting his
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
To provide the HN audience with a single data-point from Ethiopia. * More than half of Ethiopia's 110 million people have no electric power. * Almost all of Ethiopia is under some level of food stress. * The Nile basin contains some 11
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
Hey, 60% of Ethiopians don't have powers. Take a look at "earth at night" satellite images. Ethiopia is dark. I'm an Ethiopian national and this affects me deeply. I am tired of desensitizing myself away from the plight
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
There are a couple of reasons this is unlikely to happen. A. The dam already contains more than 4.9 billion cubic meters of water. That along with the wet season rain will mean breaching it will result in catastrophic flooding of Sudan whic
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
This claim loses significance when you consider 70% of Ethiopia's water resource is in the Nile basin. There is no development without using that water.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
The 12% is allocated for evaporation losses. Those countries get 0%.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
I'm copy pasting a comment I made earlier. ================================================================ I have talked with a few Egyptians on the subject. Unfortunately most think a military solution would be simple and straightfor
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
Glad to hear that. But I am pessimistic about reaching a deal both sides would consider fair. Right now the basin water is divided by Egypt(85%) and Sudan(15%) with Ethiopia and the other 8 or 9 Nile basin countries allocated 0. Egyptian n
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
Depressing. I'll call it like it is. This is an idiotic response that lacks common sense. It's so common in the pro Egypt camp. Most of the inventory is filled with short range equipment. The only jets able to reach Ethiopia are t
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
Thanks for bringing up the Nile Basin Initiative. Unfortunately, and to the surprise of no one, Egypt has been doing its best to kill it.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
That is the perception here. Predictably, it's behind the hardening of public opinion on the issue of the dam.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
I have talked with a few Egyptians on the subject. Unfortunately most think a military solution would be simple and straightforward. "Egypt has hundreds of fighter jets. Ethiopia has 20, We can turn the dam into dust". They probab
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
This is stupid. If Ethiopia decides to hurt Egypt, it won't need to build a massive dam. Wasting water has never been too difficult. Egypt would do well to not create such an enemy at their water source.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
Nobody said it would fill in 3 years. The stated number of years is from 4 to 7.
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by ilstormcloud 5y ago
In their own words, "the stone age didn't end due to a lack of stone". The world will move on from oil, and they'll be left behind.
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by ilstormcloud 6y ago
It does seem Russia is seen as a potential partner in "containing" China.
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by ilstormcloud 6y ago
What do you think brought on the scourge of ISIS? US policies.
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by ilstormcloud 6y ago
> but on the whole America has been uncommonly benevolent. I bet you'd feel a little different if you were born in Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria for that matter. Conflicts the US triggered have cost close to a million human lives sin
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by ilstormcloud 6y ago
except it's not really self driving.
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by ilstormcloud 6y ago
>Added to this, their economy has boomed due to not having to invest in future generations. Can you clarify on what you mean by that please? Are you referring to pollution an environmental degradation?

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