Part of the reason for digging up the hyperloop concept is that you can gain many of the advantages at near vacuum instead of full vacuum.

The concept seems feasible and might be commercially viable, and if it is, has the potential to significantly reduce flights within the continent.

It might not work out, or not be feasible yet, but I for one am happy were at least looking into it.

And while many here say instead we need to push high speed rail, we'll, look at the state high speed rail is in. While it may attain high speed, getting from Amsterdam to Italy or even Paris is all but fast.

Beat me to it by a minute. Damn

Almost correct.

My guess is it's bronze. The item seems to be a cannon. While in 1672, iron cannons were commonplace, they stopped manufacturing bronze cannons at least a century ago. But ships cannons got reused extensively since they were so expensive. So it's quite possible that a 200 year old bronze cannon stands next to a 1 year old iron one.

Interesting fact; ships that sailed to the colonies often had gold or silver as cargo to pay the local armies, employees or to pay for trade goods as opposed to ships sailing back, which carried trade goods only.

The "Batavia"is a good example.

No, but it's possible to raise it in pieces and later reassemble it ashore.

That said, unlikely.

Edit: @ below, no it wouldnt disintegrate into dust. It's waterlogged and you cannot let it it just sit there, but need to keep it wet while treating it, but it wont just crumble into dus once you've raised it.

Many wrecks have been preserved this way.

Well, transporting fuel has its costs too.

Also, agree with the public transport thing, but people would revolt if you denied them the use of their dear cars.

(I don't have a car by they way, nor a drivers license even, but have the luxury to live in a place with excellent, cheap public transport, taxi's and no daily commute due to my job)

Iirc, consensus is that electric cars, even with electricity from coal, is still 60 to 80 percent less polluting than a petrol fueled car.

Yup, many of these deposits all over the world.

Refining can be done properly without hurting the environment too much but that costs money of course.

China skipped that step and so can do it cheap than the rest, plus cheap labour helps too. So they pretty much cornered the market and then decided to limit certain exports.

Well yeah, but you won't burn the lava. It's just insulation. The whole comparison is silly.

>Sanctions WERE SUPPOSED to have an immediate affect by crippling Russia’s GDP and leading to rampant inflation

According to who?

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Sanctions work slowly, always have, always will. Long term effects are what are expected, short term effects are merely a bonus.

Russia has well filled coffers, enough to prop up the Ruble for a while. As for inflation, russia has enough raw materials and food production to keep the country going for a while. As for anything that needs to be imported, scarcity will lead to price hikes, but for the population, those are mostly luxury goods (iphones, etc), for the industry however, irreplacable and hard to obtain.

But the primary reason is to thwart Russia's advanced weapons production, long term. And it seems it's working.

Again, no one expects sanctions to have an immediate effect, especially when the receiving end deploys countermeasures, like manipulation of the Rouble, halting stock trade etc, which is what's going on, but these efforts cost money and Russia won't be able to do this forever.

Nah. Sanctions are like a slow working poison. At first nothing is felt, and when you start thinking everything is OK, the bite is being felt. By the time it really starts to hurt, it's nearly too late and almost irreversible.

Sanctions take a lot of time, but are very effective some time in, especially on a country that relies on raw exports and has to import almost anything else, including expertise.

When they hit the ground after falling out of a Window, those impacts you mean?

I actually read it in the troll voice from that disc world game from back in the 90s, the voice actors were spot on.

And high praise indeed. That was pratchett in his best days.

I detect a bit of Terry pratchett influence in your comment.

Well done.