It's really hard to figure out the normal range of body fat masses. Wikipedia says it goes from about 6% to 30%, but that's percentages not actual masses, and probably the people with 30% body fat are quite a bit heavier than the people with 6%, so how is someone supposed to figure out the actual mass of the fat?
Assuming someone's identity: How probable is being caught on travel?
Story time:
In Prague, Czech Republic, I have met a person from USA who looks like me. Except the usual "Add glasses and change hairstyle" trope (Warning: TVTropes link). Lets call this fictional person Joe.
I befriended Joe ...
The reasoning behind making copies is, that I know that latest Czech passport contains a chip with your biometric data
So, if you were about to travel with latest Czech passport, someone might use the biometric data stored on passport and compare them with your biometric data
Under the US-VISIT program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) collects the 10 fingerprints and digital photographs of most non-U.S. citizens while getting the U.S. visa and also while entering the U.S.
but, thats for non-US citizen
I do not know what US citizen goes through when "returning home" from overseas
You've got Joe's glasses, and get his hair style, maybe contact lenses for eye color. It seems like the biggest hurdle would be the accent, but that might not matter all that much if you just go to the airport with Joe's return ticket and original documents. A boarding agent probably isn't going to care all that much.
Customs once you reach the USA might be a bigger problem, if their records show that Joe was born and raised in Missouri, but suddenly has a heavy Russian accent, it might set off an alarm bell...
@PavelJanicek That's the part I don't know either
But, there may be another way if that ends up being a problem
Yep, the reasoning behind emergency documents is that getting Joe's fingerprints from the system might be harder and TSA Agent may be "too much effort"
So Pavel and Joe go out drinking. They get along great, etc. And then there is an accident which is pretty much Pavels fault, but not intentional, and Joe dies. So it's not premeditated, but suddenly the opportunity shows up; report the crime, maybe go to jail, or pretend to be Joe, maybe become a US citizen, or at least get put in a US jail...
A good one floating around: JS: "So Dany wanted to melt down the throne and while Drogon was Dracarys-ing that throne, he steps back and just straight up squished her - THATS the bloody spot on the floor" GW:"Squished?" JS: "I was like Drogon No ! Bad Dragon !! - he looks down - and i swear - all embarrassed and he flew off.. with her body still stuck to the bottom of his foot" — Anu72 hours ago
@AndyD273 The one thing I really wanted to see was John Snow having to kill Dany and I got that. It didn't happen how I wanted but all in all...for a series that big and long...not bad.
@Hosch250 In my head I had them facing off she on Drogon him on the ground. She tells Drogon to burn John. Queue torrent of withering flames for a sec. John then brushes his shoulder like Luke at the end of Last Jedi and Drogon ends up bowing to him...then he is forced to execute her like Ned killing that random dude in the very first episode.
So I skipped out after watching the first season and never caught up. I've been mostly feeding off the bitter tears of those who loved the series seeing it burned as if by a dragon by people who claim to be writers.
@AndyD273 They haven't been great this last season but honestly I think the hate is mostly misplaced despair that the series is over and people for some dumbass reason thought that suddenly GoT would go "traditional fantasy hero" and they'd get what they want for their favorite character.
The general theory goes, Bran can see the future. If he hadn't told John about his legacy then John and Daenerys get married, everyone ends up happy, except that Bran isn't king. So he engineers a plot where John has to kill the woman/aunt that he loves, then be arrested and banished, so that Bran can be king. I'm leaving a lot of stuff from the theory out, but that's the main bit
It draws several parallels to her rise to power, and proposes that GRRM deliberately did it so people would root for her, and, being human nature, not realize when it was time to back out and stop her.
Answer: Purchase land near wildlands in conjunction with other people and leave it wild. Purchase enough land that it offsets your personal carbon footprint.
How would I calculate the carbon footprint from my home and my two cars...and then compare that to what a patch of wildlife can remove from the atmosphere.
I wouldn't calculate my personal footprint since I'm not mascochist that way. I'd use someone else's numbers for average Nebraskan carbon footprint then aim to recover 125% of that value.
Decisions to make: Do you care only about the carbon used to heat/cool your home and fuel your vehicles or do you care about all the carbon used on your behalf (that's hidden away in the supply chain to bring you your food, clothes, and other stuff)?
Anyway, make a list of all the carbon usages you care about (or can even account for).
Look up the individual rates of carbon creation for each of those sources.
For large sources such as food production, look up aggregated numbers then pull out just your share by dividing the total carbon footprint for food production by the number of people in the US, times the number of people in your family.
@Green The obvious one's are the home and two cars...the indirect stuff...I am not even sure where to begin...I mean you've got food chain, there's probably something with garbage, ow, this makes my brain hurt.
Assuming you have a spreadsheet for this, sum up the carbon footprint for each of your sources.
Someone has done research on carbon capture rates of prairie. Divide your carbon footprint by the carbon capture rate. THat's the number of acres of prairie you need to equal your footprint.
Well, #1, reduce the carbon footprint of the cities. I imagine cities have way more carbon output than small towns.
#2, funny you say that, James, but I've been looking to buy land in Custer, SD (about 1-5 acres) and leaving it mostly wild just for myself. And I'm near the parks for fun, too.
@Hosch250 citation needed. There's a lot of abstractions built into that statement; and lots of ways to justify higher carbon footprints in small towns than in cities. It will depend on which data you pick.
I think I have at times, but I've retracted my nomination multiple times too...
I just want enough to live on for the rest of my days so I can just work odd jobs as I'm interested and spend the rest of my time dozing before a fire reading, programming, and spending lots of time outside.
I'd just like enough to live, but little enough that there's some pressure to work. Being lazy isn't good for me.
Basically, where I could work a 20-30 hour week, or even a 40hr week without commute and where I could jump on my bike and ride for an hour every day after work.
Instead of spending 60-90 minutes driving home, then having supper ready, and then being too full to ride (I'm not in charge of meal schedules).
@AndyD273 Given the amount of traveling I'll be doing for work, that sounds like an excellent idea to me too.
@AndyD273 As a part of my application I had to submit my FBI background report. (Empty, in case you were wondering despite all the "fun" conversations I have on WB about how to destroy the world.)
I have a friend who lives in Canada and crosses into michigan several times a year. Told me what a great feeling it is to drive past the 3+ hour long normal line and get through customs in about 10 minutes in the nexus line
Also, there was the story where they were flying on a private plane to canada and got diverted to some small airport because of weather. They were going to make him wait a couple hours until a customs agent could show up and allow him back into Canada. So he pulled out his nexus card and was like, "does this help at all?" and the airport security got really happy and just waved him through.
@AndyD273 I live like an hour from the border, and some stuff is way cheaper in the states, so I go down semi-regularly. The line is rarely more than 15 minutes. Although I can see a holiday might change that.
@Green I dunno... I'm hoping it's just the time of year and everyones just getting used to the warmer weather. Last week was like a week of fridays, which sounds great, until the next day is also a friday... Which actually would make for a really horrible scenario... where groundhog day took place on a friday, and every time the day repeated you would hear everyone around you getting excited for their weekend plans, all the time knowing that it will never happen to you...
@James Moist von Lipwig, Basically a con artist that Vetrinari saved from being hanged if he would make the post office work again (and later the royal bank)