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232
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Alabama
9 electoral votes
35%
565,930
63%
1,026,387
Alaska
3 electoral votes
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Arizona
11 electoral votes
46%
727,894
49%
785,099
Arkansas
6 electoral votes
34%
304,922
61%
551,070
California
55 electoral votes
60%
1,999,976
35%
1,150,113
Colorado
9 electoral votes
48%
966,454
44%
892,323
Connecticut
7 electoral votes
51%
506,981
44%
438,395
Delaware
3 electoral votes
53%
235,581
42%
185,103
District of Columbia
3 electoral votes
93%
255,680
4%
11,015
Florida
29 electoral votes
48%
4,445,236
49%
4,577,878
Georgia
16 electoral votes
45%
1,657,575
52%
1,885,839
Hawaii
4 electoral votes
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Idaho
4 electoral votes
37%
52,312
52%
74,689
Illinois
20 electoral votes
55%
2,715,406
39%
1,928,936
Indiana
11 electoral votes
38%
979,374
57%
1,497,719
Iowa
6 electoral votes
43%
494,340
52%
599,488
Kansas
6 electoral votes
37%
307,768
57%
474,375
Kentucky
8 electoral votes
33%
628,747
63%
1,202,520
Louisiana
8 electoral votes
37%
725,698
59%
1,164,302
Maine
4 electoral votes
49%
216,275
44%
197,189
Maryland
10 electoral votes
61%
1,486,632
35%
867,354
Massachusetts
11 electoral votes
60%
1,363,270
34%
759,542
Michigan
16 electoral votes
47%
1,412,984
48%
1,453,730
Minnesota
10 electoral votes
50%
936,678
42%
797,904
Mississippi
6 electoral votes
40%
344,086
58%
505,634
Missouri
10 electoral votes
36%
699,470
60%
1,173,934
Montana
3 electoral votes
40%
79,001
53%
103,118
Nebraska
5 electoral votes
35%
210,755
60%
360,265
Nevada
6 electoral votes
50%
369,882
44%
327,157
New Hampshire
4 electoral votes
46%
228,421
48%
237,524
New Jersey
14 electoral votes
54%
1,755,348
43%
1,374,329
New Mexico
5 electoral votes
48%
326,272
40%
270,942
New York
29 electoral votes
61%
3,522,565
36%
2,078,592
North Carolina
15 electoral votes
46%
2,056,016
51%
2,298,792
North Dakota
3 electoral votes
29%
79,998
63%
174,790
Ohio
18 electoral votes
43%
2,260,132
52%
2,732,653
Oklahoma
7 electoral votes
29%
416,602
65%
944,582
Oregon
7 electoral votes
53%
748,705
41%
582,236
Pennsylvania
20 electoral votes
49%
2,412,149
48%
2,359,385
Rhode Island
4 electoral votes
55%
220,313
40%
163,050
South Carolina
9 electoral votes
40%
739,007
56%
1,040,569
South Dakota
3 electoral votes
30%
78,889
63%
163,601
Tennessee
11 electoral votes
31%
655,089
65%
1,385,178
Texas
38 electoral votes
44%
3,445,198
52%
4,090,495
Utah
6 electoral votes
22%
66,212
53%
162,586
Vermont
3 electoral votes
61%
165,961
32%
87,840
Virginia
13 electoral votes
48%
1,755,017
46%
1,676,156
Washington
12 electoral votes
48%
627,610
45%
590,070
West Virginia
5 electoral votes
27%
181,896
68%
466,274
Wisconsin
10 electoral votes
46%
1,018,669
49%
1,102,494
Wyoming
3 electoral votes
22%
41,254
70%
130,193
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Electoral college
Do you think you voted? No you did not! You only made a suggestion to your delegate of how you want them to vote.
USA’s complicated election system is a race to reach 270 of the 538 total electoral collage votes.
Measure Wind Speed with Your Own Wind Meter – Scientific American
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Have you ever wondered how wind is made? Wind is caused by a difference in air pressure. Air travels from areas of higher pressure to places where there is less pressure. And just as air flows out of the high-pressure inside an inflated balloon if the opening is not tied, air in the atmosphere will move to a lower pressure area, creating wind. The speed of that wind can be measured using a tool called an anemometer.
An anemometer looks like a weather vane, but instead of measuring which direction the wind is blowing with pointers, it has four cups so that it can more accurately measure wind speed. Each cup is attached to the end of a horizontal arm, each of which is mounted on a central axis, like spokes on a wheel. When wind pushes into the cups, they rotate the axis. The faster the wind, the faster the cups spin the axis. How fast will your homemade anemometer whirl?
Background
Air is made up of tiny molecules. When molecules are heated, they move faster. Consequently, when air is heated, its molecules move faster and become spaced farther apart, which makes the air less dense (meaning that there are fewer molecules in a given volume). This also means that the air has a lower overall pressure. In comparison, cold air is made of more tightly packed molecules, and so it is denser and has relatively higher pressure.
Because air pressures are inclined to balance out, when there is an area of relatively lower air pressure, the surrounding air in higher pressure areas moves in. This movement of air from a higher pressure area to a relatively lower pressure area is what generates wind. When wind pushes the cups on the anemometer, they spin around the central axis. How fast the cups revolve can be measured in revolutions per minute (rpm), or how many times one cup returns to the position where it started in one minute. Consequently, faster wind will result in a higher rpm than will a slower air movement.
Materials
• Five three-ounce paper cups (such as Dixie Cups)
• Paper hole punch or sharpened pencil
• Ruler
• Two straws
• Pin
• Stapler
• Pencil with eraser
• Fan with different speeds (optional)
• Timer (optional)
Preparation
• Prepare four cups this way: Punch one hole in the side of each cup, about one half an inch below the rim.
• For the fifth cup, punch four equally spaced holes in its sides, about one quarter an inch below the rim. Also punch one hole in the center of the bottom.
Procedure
• Take a single-hole cup and push a straw through the hole until about one inch of the straw is inside the cup. Make sure the straw is horizontal and staple it to the side of the cup. Repeat this with another single-hole cup and straw.
• Push the empty end of each straw into one of the side holes in the five-hole cup and out the one across from it. Turn the cups so that they face the same direction. Why do you think the cups should face the same direction?
• Push the empty ends of each straw protruding from the fifth cup into the other two single-hole cups until about one inch of the straw is inside each cup. Turn the new cups so all the bottoms of the cups face the same direction. Staple the ends of the straws to the side of each cup like you did for the first two cups.
• After making sure all cups are about the same distance from the center of the five-hole cup, carefully push the pin through the two straws where they intersect, in the middle of the five-hole cup. Use caution when handling the sharp pin. Why do you think it is important to use something as small as a pin for this?
• Push the pencil through the hole in the bottom of the five-hole cup, eraser-end first, until it reaches the straws. Carefully push the pin into the eraser.
• The anemometer is now ready to measure wind speeds. : If you have a fan that turns at different speeds, hold the anemometer in front of the fan and count the number of times one cup completely turns around for 15 seconds, then multiply that value by four. This number will be in revolutions per minute (rpm). …xtra: What is the speed of the wind outside? …?To determine this, first calculate the circumference of the circle made by the rotating cups by measuring the distance around the circle that they make (using a tape measure or a piece of string you can measure with a ruler). Then convert this to miles by dividing the number of inches by 12 to get feet and then dividing that number by 5,280 (the number of feet in a mile). Multiply this number by rpm. Finally, divide your product by 60 (to convert minutes to hours) and you will have an approximation of the velocity at which the anemometer is spinning (in mph), although this does not take friction in to account.
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We can kill by cell phone
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) emits highly focused energy, transferring that energy to a target to damage it.
Potential applications of this technology include anti-personnel weapon systems, potential missile defense system, and the disabling of lightly armored vehicles such as cars, drones, watercraft, and electronic devices such as mobile phones.
The Pentagon is researching technologies like directed-energy weapon and railguns to counter maturing threats posed by missile and hypersonic glide vehicles. These systems of missile defense are expected to come online in the mid to late-2020s.
Operational advantages
Directed energy weapons could have several main advantages over conventional weaponry:
Direct energy weapons can be used discreetly as radiation above and below the visible spectrum is invisible and does not generate sound.[4][5]
Light is only very slightly affected by gravity.
Microwave weapons
Although some devices are labelled as microwave weapons, the microwave range is commonly defined as being between 300 MHz and 300 GHz which is within the RF range. Some examples of weapons which have been publicized by the military are as follows:
Active Denial System is a millimeter wave source that heats the water in the target’s skin and thus causes incapacitating pain. It is being used by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Raytheon for riot-control duty. Though intended to cause severe pain while leaving no lasting damage, concern has been voiced as to whether the system could cause irreversible damage to the eyes. There has yet to be testing for long-term side effects of exposure to the microwave beam. It can also destroy unshielded electronics: see TEMPEST (research into unintended electronic release of information). The device comes in various sizes including attached to a humvee.
Vigilant Eagle is an airport defense system that directs high-frequency microwaves towards any projectile that is fired at an aircraft. The system consists of a missile-detecting and tracking subsystem (MDT), a command and control system, and a scanning array. The MDT is a fixed grid of passive infrared (IR) cameras. The command and control system determines the missile launch point. The scanning array projects microwaves that disrupt the surface-to-air missile’s guidance system, deflecting it from the aircraft.
Bofors HPM Blackout is a high-powered microwave weapon system which is stated to be able to destroy at distance a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic equipment. It is stated to be not lethal to humans.
The effective radiated power (ERP) of the EL/M-2080 Green Pine radar makes it a possible candidate for conversion into a directed-energy weapon, by focusing pulses of radar energy on target missiles. The energy spikes are tailored to enter missiles through antennas or sensor apertures where they can fool guidance systems, scramble computer memories or even burn out sensitive electronic components.
AESA radars mounted on fighter aircraft have been slated as directed energy weapons against missiles, however, a senior US Air Force officer noted: "they aren’t particularly suited to create weapons effects on missiles because of limited antenna size, power and field of view".Potentially lethal effects are produced only inside 100 metres range, and disruptive effects at distances on the order of one kilometre. Moreover, cheap countermeasures can be applied to existing missiles.
Electrolaser
Main article: Electrolaser
An electrolaser lets ionization occur, and then sends a powerful electric current down the conducting ionized track of plasma so formed, somewhat like lightning. It functions as a giant high energy long-distance version of the Taser or stun gun.
Pulsed energy projectile
Main article: Pulsed energy projectile
Pulsed Energy Projectile or PEP systems emit an infrared laser pulse which creates rapidly expanding plasma at the target. The resulting sound, shock and electromagnetic waves stun the target and cause pain and temporary paralysis. The weapon is under development and is intended as a non-lethal weapon in crowd control though it can also be used as a lethal weapon.
A Dazzler is a directed-energy weapon intended to temporarily blind or disorient its target with intense directed radiation. Targets can include sensors or human vision. Dazzlers emit infrared or invisible light against various electronic sensors, and visible light against humans, when they are intended to cause no long-term damage to eyes. The emitters are usually lasers, making what is termed a laser dazzler. Most of the contemporary systems are man-portable, and operate in either the red (a laser diode) or green (a diode-pumped solid-state laser, DPSS) areas of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Initially developed for military use, non-military products are becoming available for use in law enforcement and security.
Weapons designed to cause permanent blindness are banned by the 1995 United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons. The dazzler is a non-lethal weapon intended to cause temporary blindness or disorientation and therefore falls outside this protocol.
PHASR Rifle
The personnel halting and stimulation response rifle (PHASR) is a prototype non-lethal laser dazzler developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate, U.S. Department of Defense Its purpose is to temporarily disorient and blind a target. Blinding laser weapons have been tested in the past, but were banned under the 1995 UN Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, which the United States acceded to on 21 January 2009.[19] The PHASR rifle, a low-intensity laser, is not prohibited under this regulation, as the blinding effect is intended to be temporary. It also uses a two-wavelength laser.[The PHASR was tested at Kirtland Air Force Base, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate in New Mexico.
Soviet laser pistol was a prototype weapon designed for cosmonauts.
Project Excalibur was a United States government nuclear weapons research program to develop a nuclear pumped x-ray laser as a directed energy weapon for ballistic missile defence.
In 1984 the Soviet Strategic Missile Troops military academy developed the first handheld laser weapon, intended for use by cosmonauts in outer space.
In 1987 a Soviet laser-armed orbital weapon system, the 17F19DM Polyus/Skif-DM, failed during deployment.
In 1991 scientists at the US Army Missile Command developed and field tested a ruggedized tunable laser emitting in yellow-orange-red part of the spectrum.
Made by Northrop Grumman:
On March 18, 2009 Northrop Grumman announced that its engineers in Redondo Beach had successfully built and tested an electric laser capable of producing a 100-kilowatt ray of light, powerful enough to destroy cruise missiles, artillery, rockets and mortar rounds. An electric laser is capable of being mounted in an aircraft, ship, or vehicle because it requires much less space for its supporting equipment than a chemical laser.
On April 6, 2011, the U.S. Navy successfully tested a laser gun, manufactured by Northrop Grumman, that was mounted on the former USS Paul Foster, which is currently used as the navy’s test ship. When engaged during the test that occurred off the coast of Central California in the Pacific Ocean test range, the laser gun was documented as having "a destructive effect on a high-speed cruising target," said Chief of Naval Research Admiral Nevin Carr. While classified, the proposed range of the laser gun is measured in miles, not yards.
Northrop Grumman has announced the availability of a high-energy solid-state laser weapon system that they call FIRESTRIKE, introduced on 13 November 2008. The system is modular, using 15 kW modules that can be combined to provide various levels of power.
On 19 July 2010 an anti-aircraft laser described as the Laser Close-In Weapon System was unveiled at the Farnborough Airshow.
The ZEUS-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System) is the first laser and the first energy weapon of any type to be used on a battlefield. It is used for neutralizing mines and unexploded ordnance.
Laser Area Defense System.
The Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL) is an experimental U.S. Navy deuterium fluoride laser and was tested against an Air Force satellite in 1997.
In 2011, the U.S. Navy began to test the Maritime Laser Demonstrator (MLD), a laser for use aboard its warships.
In 2013 the U.S. began field testing a directed-energy weapon it calls the Laser Weapon System.
Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response, or PHaSR, is a non-lethal hand-held weapon developed by the United States Air Force. Its purpose is to "dazzle" or stun a target. It was developed by Air Force’s Directed Energy Directorate.
Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) is a weaponized deuterium fluoride laser developed in a joint research project by Israel and the U.S. It is designed to shoot down aircraft and missiles. See also National missile defense.
Soviet/Russian Beriev A-60: a CO2 gas laser mounted on an Ilyushin Il-76MD transport.
The U.S. Air Force’s Airborne Laser, or Advanced Tactical Laser, was a plan to mount a CO2 gas laser or COIL chemical laser on a modified Boeing 747 to shoot down missiles.
High Energy Laser-Mobile Demonstrator (HEL-MD) is a Boeing designed laser system mounted on a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck. Its current power level is 10 kW, which will be boosted to 50 kW, and expected to eventually be upgraded to 100 kW. Targets that can be engaged are mortar rounds, artillery shells and rockets, unmanned aerial vehicles, and cruise missiles. Lockheed Martin is developing a 60 kW fiber laser to mount on the HEL-MD that maintains beam quality at high power outputs while using less electricity than solid-state lasers.
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Portable Efficient Laser Testbed (PELT)
Laser AirCraft CounterMeasures (ACCM)
Legally get away with murder
Article III of the Constitution requires federal criminal trials to be held in the state in which the crime was committed. And the Sixth Amendment entitles a federal criminal defendant to a trial by jurors living in the state and district where the crime was committed. But if someone committed a crime in the uninhabited Idaho portion of Yellowstone, it would be impossible to form a jury. And being federal land, the state would have no jurisdiction. Here is a clear constitutional provision enabling criminal immunity in 50 square miles of America’s oldest national park
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