Uh, the article says the riot vehicle this is replacing was deployed about 500 times in the last year. What the hell is going on in Calgary where a heavily armoured military vehicle is needed ~1.46 times per day???
I sure wouldn’t want to pay that fuel bill. Oh wait…
You know what’s happening here? Environmentalists and our local anti-racist-action groups are mobilizing. That’s why they’re pulling this fucking thing out. I wish I was joking.
The old riot vehicle was a monolith. The police here are incrasingly relying on police-state intimidation tactics (things like changing the cop vehicles from white to black [this has psychological data around it], giant vehicles like hummers, massive trucks, etc, as STANDARD POLICE VEHICLES, veiled threats to citizens, etc). This is no shock.
A tiny Roman kiosk with four slender papyrus columns inside, two Hathor columns at the entrance. It is a small but elegant structure that “is unfinished and not inscribed with the name of the architect, but is probably contemporary with Trajan’s Kiosk at Philae.
A military council has taken control of Sudan and arrested longtime President Omar al-Bashir, the country’s military said Thursday. The move comes after opposition protesters recently gained new momentum in demanding al-Bashir leave office.
Sudan’s defense minister, Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf, said the “regime” had been removed and its head arrested, as he announced the coup in a televised statement.
The minister said a transitional military council will rule the country for two years.
Protesters have been calling for al-Bashir’s ouster for months. Thousands swelled the capital Khartoum’s streets as the military promised to make an important announcement earlier Thursday.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.
The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.
Supermassive black holes are relatively tiny astronomical objects — which has made them impossible to directly observe until now. As the size of a black hole’s event horizon is proportional to its mass, the more massive a black hole, the larger the shadow. Thanks to its enormous mass and relative proximity, M87’s black hole was predicted to be one of the largest viewable from Earth — making it a perfect target for the EHT.
The shadow of a black hole is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The black hole’s boundary — the event horizon from which the EHT takes its name — is around 2.5 times smaller than the shadow it casts and measures just under 40 billion km across.
