Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "RealLifeLore"
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Isn't there a natural limit to the maximum yield of a nuclear bomb, where water gets involved in the reaction the surface of the whole planet gets wiped clean? At least that's what they feared in 1960s, the idea was proposed by a famous physicist (Nils Bore, IIRC... or Teller... or Openheimer) decades earlier, Soviets recalled it during Tsar bomba explosion, since the reaction lasted longer than expected, and they went like "oh, shit, what if..?!" So after that calculations were done, and yes, seemed like it's possible and they are already capable if making such a doomsday device. HOWEVER, recently I've heard it's either just a myth, or such scenario is impossible since there isn't enough heavy water in oceans.
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Let's do a similar checklist for my coutry:
Beautiful beaches, shallow coastal waters and no natural harbours (except a few river mouth) and no navigable rivers deeper inland - yeap, those all check out. Except my country is one of fastest developing ones in Europe.
I guess the answers here are:
- have a democracy and international cooperation;
- fight corruption (anti-corruption efforts actually largely come bundled with democracy);
- when judicial and political systems become more stable, investment will come;
- build artificial harbours;
- build railways and pipelines inland.
It's harder than in most other places, but geography does not doom Africa to powerty. I see ethnic hodtilities and corruption as greatest dangers to their countries, like when theuly vote for a member of a certain tribe and political programme is completely irreverent. So... Maybe some borders in Africa should change or some countries should be divided into autonomies to switch from "us versus them" mindset in African politics to actual development.
P.S. My native language is neither Slavic, nor Germanic or a Romance one, and our neighbours speak a language not even from the Indo-European group at all. XD Thus I don't exactly see that on it's own as a problem.
Where my country certainly is in much more better situation than most places in Africa is arable land - pretty much whole territory (except parts taken by swamp, which are A LOT) and white sand with seldom any soil over it. However, we got very pronounced seasons - temperature variation is more extreme than in Southern Europe, which impacts railways - rails must work even when they shrink and extend in around 80°C range in between summer and winter.
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In 1936 it was only a first noticeable uprising, there are photos from 1920s of Jewish school bus with wire mesh over windows, to protect kids form stones thrown by Arabs. Another missing detail - as Jewish population was increasing during and right after the Great War / WWI, so was the Arab population. Why? Because Jewish immigrants had money, which meant jobs, which caused Arab influx too.,
And no, Jews WERE NOT given the most of mandate territory, as by that time it was already cut into several Arab states by Brits, so Jews got only the remains of what was left by that time, and even that was divided between Jews and Arabs, who at that time were not yet branded as "Palestinians", that trademark was invented decades later.
9:00 - one detail was not made clear - Arabs were not expelled, many left (in hopes, that Israel will be eliminated, and then they will return) sure, yet others stayed, thus there still is Arab population in Israel proper, not just Palestine. And some Arabs were killed by "Hamas" on October 7th.
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