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Except IDF CLAIM THEY DID THIS!

You may remember, IDF have a HISTORY of firing on UN installations, for which they have been given exact coordinates. They use them to TARGET, not to protect.

Remember, International law DOES NOT enshrine right to protection of occupiers! In fact, the post-Nuremberg laws hold the occupier accountable for PROTECTION OF THE OCCUPIED.

They are dreaming. We are thinking about throttling them here right now. Why should we let all those other sites suffer due to one service using nearly 75% of our bandwidth. Let them fix their busted streaming model to include some caching ability.

They colocate content servers with telecommunications providers. Just not with podunk microISPs who boast that they host seven whole websites.

Throttle Netflix and you can kiss your residential customers (if you have any substantial number) goodbye. You don't have the scale or technology required to create a virtual monopoly around your customers. They'll drop you in a heartbeat in favor of the next service to offer DSL or point-to-point wirless.

But then again, I had no idea we were supposedly responsible for the extinction of mammoth.

I guess you've never watched The Flintstones.

Conveniently, there is an even better comparison. You have to disperse all of the radioactive soil into the air to make a similar comparison. We don't actually pump soil into the air though. We do however burn coal.

Webpage According to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), the average radioactivity per short ton of coal is 17,100 millicuries/4,000,000 tons, or 0.00427 millicuries/ton. This figure can be used to calculate the average expected radioactivity release from coal combustion.

Converting this to metric equates to about 0.174 MBq/ton (metric ton).

WebpageLargest coal plant in America burns 11 millions tons of coal per year.

Now 11,000,000 tons * 0.174 MBq / ton is 1.914e6 MBq -- a bit less than the twice the totally scary 1 trillion Bq

The average coal plant burns coal with around 0.5 trillion Bq / year

Now, not all of the radiation get released into the atmosphere, a lot of it ends up in the ash. But the ash is stored in ponds and left in piles on the ground, so its not a terrible improvement in terms of safe radioactive containment.

If you don't get xkcd, there's xkcdexplained, or xkcdsucks, or xkcd-sucks, or xkcdisntfunny.

There are two questions whose both correct answers correlate pretty highly with whether I'm going to get along with someone casually:

• Do you like cats? Answers "yes";
• Do you like xkcd? Answers "no".

If you don't get xkcd, there's xkcdexplained, or xkcdsucks, or xkcd-sucks, or xkcdisntfunny.

There are two questions whose both correct answers correlate pretty highly with whether I'm going to get along with someone casually:

• Do you like cats? Answers "yes";
• Do you like xkcd? Answers "no".

Too bad we can't post photos here on Slashdot.
This one states the message perfectly

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At least "Windows: The Official Magazine" is doing fine. I can easily speed up my sluggish OS, and if that's not enough, I can fix any problem, and as the ace in the sleeve I can find out how to reinstall Windows in just 1 hour. Once again we can see, that if I am in the proprietary software domain, information is easily available, and my workflow is never interrupted.

When you handling lots of little messages/jobs/tasks that are coming in quickly, passing data between processes is a horrible idea. Between context switching and system calls, you're destroying your performance.

You need to make larger batches.

1) UDP/Job comes in, write to single-writer many reader queue(large circular queues can be good for this) and the order number, maybe a 64bit incrementing integer. If the run time per job is quite constant, then you could use several single reader/writer queues and just round robin them. This would reduce potential lock contention, but would come at the cost of variable work loads could cause a bias towards a single worker.

1.a) You're not receiving packets fast enough to worry about threading reading from the NIC. If you had to look into making this part faster, like millions of Packets Per Second, the first thing I would find out is if this packets are coming from multiple data sources and if jobs need to be processing in order relative to all sources or to themselves. If themselves, then you could have a load balancer trying to round-robin and sticky by Source IP.

2) Worker sees jobs in queue(since this is a speed sensitive dedicated matching, polling could work, but may want event based), grabs N jobs, where those N Jobs can be reliably completed in a timely fashion, this may be 1 or may be 100, who knows until you test. Note the order number of your Jobs. You don't really need to grab N jobs if using a single reader/writer queue since there is no real contention, but reading in batches is good for high contention queues like multi-readers.

3) Your worker will now loop through each job running each script, hopefully all on the same worker/thread.

4) Write out the completed jobs to a single reader single writer queue. If you don't use a single reader/writer queue and instead have a multi-writer queue, you may want to commit finished jobs in batches to reduce contention.

5) Have another worker poll/event each of queues for each worker. This worker can make sure the jobs are put back in order. This process I assume to be relatively lite, so probably a single worker to handle all of the worker queues, but could also be threaded. You just need to manage the ordering somehow.

You should have no more than N number of workers per core, where N is probably a small number, like 2. Lots of threads is bad.

I love single reader/writer queues, they can be lock-less.

Your problem sounds close to what Disruptor handles (Google: disruptor ring buffer)(fun read: http://mechanitis.blogspot.com...). May want to also look into that kind of design. It's an interesting project that runs on Java and .Net, and I think C or something, but I can't remember. Still a good read.

According to scientist, the common view is that the linear no-threshold model is actually the flawed viewpoint. See this article for a pro-radiation view that is not commonly reported. Although most people will scoff, there is actual evidence that a little ionizing radiation is good for you.

Yes, I would participate in the study that installs a radioactive source in your house (at reasonably low levels) because I believe the data that I have been able to find in the past.

Amazon has done a TON for indy authors and they've shared their profits. When the big publishers tried to force higher prices on Amazon I stopped buying. You would think these asshats would've learned from the music industry - especially since their wares are so much smaller when downloaded and lose no fidelity at all. Now they've all had to settle for big fines but do you think that this will bring readers back into the fold? I doubt it.

This guy has some interesting information about what's going on with out the big publisher bias - other than the fact that his bias is he hates big publishing lol

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/

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You're suffering from quoteitis. I suggest a regimen of strong booze.

There are potentially more users out there for a LibreOffice version for Android than for users of the Windows, Mac and Linux versions combined. So why's the Android version forever stuck in demoware limbo?

Tomaz shares the following on his blog...

Thanks to Smoose, we are now able to do some real progress with the Android version of LibreOffice. The idea is to first build a LibreOffice document viewer, which is able to display any type of document that is supported by LibreOffice. Afterwards build on that and provide more features and eventually editing. ...
I am really excited with what we have achieved and really looking forward to see where we go from here. By the time of LibreOffice 4.4 we should have a working and polished document viewer application ready. Thanks again to Smoose for funding for the work on this important step!

Per the release plan, LibreOffice 4.4 will arrive early in 2015.

Cheers,
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I know what's down there

Nice narrative, too bad it's not based on facts. You don't need to Google far to see those "who don't support this country" and who's "refusing to live up to basic responsibility of living in this country".

http://globaleconomicanalysis....

      The bottom 20% had average income of $8,100 but received $22,700 in annual assistance, netting $30,800 in after-tax income.
        The second quintile had average income of $30,700 but received $15,200 in annual assistance, netting $43,400 in after-tax income.
        The middle quintile had average income of $54,800 and received $8,100 in annual assistance.
        The second-highest quintile ($87,700 income) paid $8,800 more in taxes each than they got back.
        The highest quintile ($234,400 income) paid $52,500 more in taxes each year than they got back.

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/defau...

False equivalence. Facebook could use that $60k to fund/bribe inclusion of WebP, or maintain their own build of AssWeasel or whatever fork they want to call it.

Or they could entice users with "if you want to see pictures, click here". That works really well, and the facebook using billions might convert to something other than firefox.

Or, they could be supportive of this new tech and not use their massive market share to clobber open source into submission.

On the other side of the argument, NIH is a terrible summary of this link, found on the page you linked to.

http://muizelaar.blogspot.com/...

WebP seems like it has grown a lot - which means keeping up with another imaging library and testing something that is continually changing. Given the limitations mentioned, it hardly seemed worth the effort. And problems with the new patch abound - no tests, breaking Windows build, and devolution into a discussion forum.

Take the opinion that you don't care either way, and read through that bug with an open mind. It's hoseshit, top to bottom, and I don't blame anyone one bit for keeping WebP out.

Well, if you decide to go with a phone that can't run anything at all (Motofone f3 for example), I guess that's the choice you make. Point is that there are options that don't require a smartphone and don't need a bundled data plan (though yes, data on such plans is costly, more costly than justified but cheaper than a full data plan for occasional usage)

And yes, texts are far too expensive. Though on Tracfone they cost 0.3 of a minute which if my quick mental calculations are correct comes out somewhere under 1c which seems low so there's something up there.

http://tracfonereviewer.blogsp...

But possibly something could be done along the lines of the Amazon Kindle's whispernet where the data is included in the cost of the unit when purchased.

Any chemists out there? Will it make a nice fuel when the hydrogen is attached? Like this one:
http://aviationtrivia.blogspot...
Would it be dangerous like this dude here says (read the tendencies part):
http://www.dequasiebooks.com/g...
I also read that these fuels were also researched in USSR. It always makes me wonder what didn't happen there. I know a couple of nice stories myself about the things that didn't happen. Things only happened when they were good or meant to be terrifying or when their fallout set off the alarms in Swedish nuclear plant. I did read these bits about boron based fuels when there was some article about green UFO-s. I know these sources might not be adecuate or true, so you might want to add your own.

When a botnet uses a DGA (Domain Generation Algorithm) it is usually for the purpose of reconnecting "lost bots" or to avoid the need to have a hard-coded Command & Control server address. But in this case, the original GameOver Zeus can't be recaptured because all of the domains that can be generated by the GOZ DGA have been "locked up" by the FBI's case. The Temporary Restraining Orders (TRO) that were issued prevented any ICANN Registrar from registering any domain that would be used in the "near future" by the DGA. (By understanding the DGA you can feed it future dates so it can spit out the domains it will use later - at least many weeks worth of domains were included in the court order.) The problem was that some of the original GOZ DGA domains were ".ru" and you can imagine that the Department of Justice really can't give orders about what happens with ".ru" domains. The TRO handled that aspect by ordering the largest ISPs in the US to forbid any of their customer computers from being able to talk to those domains. Some of this was handled by routing DNS requests for these domains to .gov controlled computers while others were handled by ISPs and security companies monitoring for traffic trying to reach those domains and issuing information back to the customers to help them get their machines cleaned up. (If you really want the geeky legal stuff, I wrote much more about that here: http://garwarner.blogspot.com/... ) Anyway, all of that to say, the *NEW* GOZ has a DIFFERENT DGA, but the *ORIGINAL* GOZ bots don't use that DGA, so there is very little chance of a reconnection. While Malcovery did prove that at least 5 of the 1,000 domains generated by the NEW DGA were ALSO on the old DGA, those domains are "locked up" as above and can't be used. We've already had good response from the security community with people beginning to "sink hole" some of the newGOZ DGA domains to identify what level of infection there may be already and to work hard on terminating the handful of domains the criminals have registered from that list so far. I hope that answered your question ... I suppose the better answer might have been "No." Gary Warner (full-disclosure - a Malcovery employee)

Actually I tried to give an example of how the Fast Flux works, both generally and in this specific case, on this blog post this morning: http://garwarner.blogspot.com/... Let me know if you still have any questions about it . . .

I'm just looking forward to when the TSA hears about this. Pretty soon we'll all be sporting new traveler's hairdos!

A 15 year plan exists in rough outline. . Yes, it is extreme but then if the climate crisis worsens to the degree predicted by some, and action is delayed as it appears it will be, there will be very little time to geoengineer remediation.

Except for a few people, nobody cares about Mars. Only need to see what the politicos and major decision makers are working on. Also from http://www.projectrho.com/rock...
"The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."

A manned mission to Mars has always been 20 years away and been presented like this for past 50 years (like fusion energy power plants are 10 years away which been presented like this for past 60 years). After a half century, maybe a different approach? Sorry I don't see how Orion or Musk's Dragon can reach Mars (supplies, food, machine shops to repair when things break down, radiation, microgravity, etc.). Then we got advocates always promoting their "One legged stool" http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.c... for the Next Big Initiative.

Of all the stuff I read, Dennis Wingo in his book Moon Rush discusses real driver should be industrial expansion, "Deals of this size are done all the time, and think what having access to and rights over a billion kilos of platinum would do for your corporate portfolio." Wingo also discusses background of major programs Apollo, SEI, Augustine commissions I and II, and why certain decisions were made (and why many times nothing happened after). http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

No, it's just the doctor and the hospital trying to practice modern medicine. If they don't have every minute detail recorded, or if they don't order every test that might help, the predatory jackasses in this country will not hesitate to sue them for malpractice, claiming that they should instinctively know what tests will be meaningful for every single patient that enters their offices.

I agree with your first sentence, sending prospecting rovers is a good idea. Actually propellent is an acceptable word. Your silly attempt at a gotcha typo flame just blew up in your face. There's plenty we could do with the lunar volatiles. Our ability to do work in remote places is increasing. ROVs, drones, telerobots are growing less expensive and more able. See Who needs humans?.

Oh God. I had to read Ecotopia for a college course, and that was a real grind. Ecotopia is... a fucking horrible book. It presents a society that -can't- exist for many reasons, and handwaves away all the social and political issues that result in the collapse of utopian societies.

First, their was the disparaging attitude towards being hard-working, efficient, and getting things done. I think the scene where the Ecotopians were making fun of the outsider protagonist for drying the dishes quickly was one of the most egregious, and he said if he didn't work quickly, he wouldn't get anything done. The response was "sometimes a little goes a long way, John." WTF. Absolutely insipid. And the notion that Ecotopia would repel an invasion from the US by arming everyone in the Sierra with rocket launchers (which they no longer have the technology to make) was lol-worthy. That's the only way / most convenient way into the Pacific Northwest, didn't you know?

Not to mention the book was curiously racist, with blacks being segregated into certain areas (self-segregated, naturally) and gaining semi-independence, with that and the continuation of apartheid in South Africa being offered as proof that sadly, the races could never live in harmony. Of all the ways in which Ecotopia did NOT magically solve problems, that was a strange one to leave out. Somehow, Isreal was offered as proof of how resettling a race or ethnicity would work out just fine. Oh Lord.

Bitterly Books gives a fantastic rundown of the major problems. My problem with utopian societies is they completely disregard human nature and how people actually have conflicts: "A [ political ] meeting has no formal agenda [.] there are no Robert’s Rules of Order, no motions, no votes—instead, a gradual ventilation of feelings, some personal antagonisms worked through, and a gradual consensual focusing on what needs to be done. Once this consensus is achieved, people take pains to assuage the feelings of those members who have had to give ground in order to achieve the consensus.”

Jesus, that book was an assault on the brain. Between that and Atlas Shrugged, and I was almost ready to give up on Comparative Literature and Poly Sci entirely.

At the same time, he's choosing to ignore the entire body of work that Dr. Zubrin (and now, Elon Musk is contributing to) which demonstrates that it is not too hard, nor too far away.

Yes and no. In meantime while "Space advocates have been divided into warring camps, each fighting for their version of a 1 legged stool." http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.c...

This falls into the "CREATED BY A SCHOOLTEACHER" category of bullshit claims. We are supposed to treat the product differently because of who created it, instead of analyzing it on its own merits.

51 of the 53 Dixicrats went back to the DNC, the GOP got 1 and a few years later got a second one. Notable ones sticking with the DNC are Robert Byrd, who personally ran a filibuster the Civil Rights act, and Al Gore Sr. Byrd was celebrated as a hero of the DNC a few years ago when he finally died.

So we have 96% of the racist Dixicrats going to the DNC, and 4% going to the GOP. In order to make your point you had to outright lie, but you just got called out on it.

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From the picture it looks like it takes just as much space as a regular parking garage, but I think the real potential in a system like this is in maximizing the density of parked cars.

If you skip the retarded sites like "Mashable" in TFS, you'll find that it actually does increase the density of parking.

(Even Jalopnik has better information.)

I'm picturing something like an Amazon warehouse, but with cars on each shelf.

Those kinds of shelf parking systems already exist, however, they require building an entirely new parking structure. The robot "valets" work with existing structures, which means a parking operator can upgrade just for the price of a few robots plus the check-in station, rather than having to tear down and rebuild from scratch. The operator can also introduce the robots gradually, say dedicating one floor to robot parking and charging a premium for "valet" service, increasing the number of robots as revenue allows.

Self-delusion seems to be extreme or unlikely in this case. Based on this blog, she plagiarized her entire abstract only changing the cell name from ES to STAP.

A simple plagiarism detector would have detected this fraud. I run turnitin.com service on all my students' papers and I catch plagiarizer every semester. I think this should be routine for high profile article going in to Nature or Science.

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It's spiked this sharply 5 times in the last 1 million years alone.

That's the pattern- it's like an EKG- hard upstroke of CO2 and Temperature followed by a gradual fall in the co2 and temperature.

It's likely it did 7 times but there isn't co2 data for the spikes at 900,000 and 975,000 years ago.

The Co2 Levels are higher than they've been in over a million years and are rising (and have been rising) for decades. I think we can agree on that.

And most of that increase is due to Chinese use of coal and less forests (in large part due too many people encroaching on the wilderness).

I don't know about you- but I can't do jack about Chinese use of coal and no one seems to be seriously ready to talk about reducing the population (indeed the "max" population estimate has been creeping up over the years).

Sure- I use LED and CFL Bulbs. But just about anything else I do is going to be like a spec of dust in the face of the other trends. Chinese pollution is so bad that it's still visible sometimes after crossing the pacific ocean and it's always measurable now.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VG-L...

All right, so Adelson evades the ban by paying the Times' owners $3 billion for the paper, runs his piece - indistinguishable from a full-page ad - and then sells the paper back to the owners for $3 billion less the price of a full-page ad.

What if they don't want to buy it back for that much, what if the offer is now $2 billion? What if the stock price tanked? What if a court blocks the sale for whatever reason? There are risks to both the buyer and seller that I'm comfortable having them take if that's how they want to play the game.

You're not helping your claimed problem, you're making it worse.

I simply disagree. I'll also freely acknowledge that I should not be the person to draft any kind of law like this. Hell, I wasn't even focused on campaign finance specifically, I just got behind it because Lessig is actually doing something instead of sitting around and talking like everyone else. I see his point though. If it was up to me, I would focus on 4 issues as a starting point for a fix. That paper articulates my position, or at least what it was last November. The more time passes, the more I'm starting to believe that this system is hopelessly broken and irreversibly tilted in favor of those currently in power (I'm not just talking about politicians). Maybe the fix is to abolish all political parties completely and have everyone run on their own name, I don't know. I can promise you this though: unless a substantive push for actual reform gets off the ground in this country, as soon as I can afford it I'm going to expatriate myself. I don't want to live in a hypocritical system which claims to be free but is actually ruled by money and actively tramples on everyones' rights. This country is a far, far cry from the "land of the free and home of the brave." A lot of people living here have continually shown themselves to be neither free nor brave. The people with the money have seized power for themselves, and they are willing and able to spend vast amounts of money in order to make sure that the power and freedom stays with them, at the possible cost of everyone else.

By the way, have you been reading about all of the protesting going on in Germany over the US Federal Reserve? Because I haven't seen it in the news. I've been checking Fox, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post... it's weird though, I can't find any mention of it. Like it's not even happening. Why would virtually all American media refuse to cover a story like that, wouldn't it have some sort of interest here in the US? Or worldwide media, even. I'd almost think that media around the world are controlled by the same group of people. It's almost like when small-party candidates run for office, the media virtually ignores them. Why is that? Well, I can't think about that right now, I have to keep working because I have this mortgage to pay. After work I'll stop by Wal-Mart and pick up some food, then go home and watch entertainment and sports news until I pass out. I'm sure someone else will look out for me.

The primary cost of building a tropical doldrum Atmospheric Vortex Engine is a huge hollow structure called the "arena" that contains the low pressure created by the vortex. The low pressure is relieved through compact, high speed turbines at the base of the arena. Since the turbines are compact they don't have to be costly and since they are high speed they don't have to be numerous.

What good is a tropical doldrum Atmospheric Vortex Engine?

It can generate its own building material from the ocean and atmosphere -- so if you can print them rapidly you can have rapid doubling time exponential growth in clean baseload electric production that within a decade dwarfs all energy use by civilization.

Oh, and it also provides tropical atoll seasteads sufficient to feed and house the total population of the world.

Seastead this.

I would not recommend Grails at all. First, if for no other reason, it's a bit player, so good luck finding developers, tools, help, and all of the other benefits you get with using a language/framework with a large, thriving community. That alone should be enough to steer you away from using it for enterprise anything.

Aside from that, boolean truths are quirky, to put it kindly.

Null evaluates to false, which is ridiculous and doesn't eliminate the need to check for null, just hides the problem if you forget to do it. This is because groovy uses "null objects." Null objects mean yay! no null pointer exceptions, but the consequence is... no null pointer exceptions! So have fun tracking down bugs when things fail silently.

Variables defined in closures (which is most of them) are opaque, so you can't easily inspect them without printing them out or logging them. So now you have no NPEs and no easy way to check for null values versus empty values while debugging without adding debugging code into production code. Ugh! Don't forget to annotate the debug code so you can remove it when you're done.

You don't get compile-time errors for things like using undefined classes/methods (typos!) or sending the wrong argument types. Instead, you have to compile, run, and look at massive stack traces throwing up all over your console/log: http://pastie.org/583115 Then rinse and repeat until it actually runs. And that's before you even start testing actual functionality.

Method entry and class loading breakpoints aren't supported. (This is simply an inconvenience most of the time, but it's worth noting IMO.)

Conversely, since groovy uses convention over configuration, IDEs may flag things as errors which are not. IntelliJ IDEA probably does the best at handling Groovy/Grails, but it still has some issues. My experience was that Intellisense/autocomplete didn't work reliably for Groovy in any IDE, so if that's important to you, you may miss that.

It's not clear where business logic should go. http://bartling.blogspot.com/2...

It's buggy. https://jira.grails.org/browse...

To be fair, I'm heavily biased against dependency injection, dynamic typing, and coding by convention, which are the very concepts Grails is built around. I could go into all of the reasons, but any flamewar worth its salt will list them all for you.

Some of the stupid interviewing criteria that my colleagues and me [sic] had to deal with boggles my mind.

Ahh, reminds me of the Angry Aussie and his response to pointless interview questions:

For instance, there was the putz I had to see this week who thought he was being really clever. It seems as though someone gave him the book of Microsoft interview questions and he was eager to show off his new "knowledge". This style of interviewing gives you abstract questions that have no relationship whatsoever to the work you'll be doing. Or to the real world.

Proponents say they're trying to see how creatively you can think. Normal humans say it's a waste of time.

I do not know enough about the FCC investigation to comment on that part, but a cover-up attempt is definitely not what is happening. No one would have even known about this if Google had not voluntarily come forward with the information. Here is the blog post from four years ago, from Google themselves, and they did in fact work with relevant agencies in various countries to determine how to fix the mess they caused.

This is a big win for transparency. I am glad that Facebook did this and that they are being open about it.

Marketers have known this forever. The media has been manipulating the emotions of the American populace for generations. Through their actions, Facebook is bringing the discussion into the open and making people aware of it. I think that by now, most people are aware of the fact that the "news" is just a propaganda tool used to maintain the narrative of the powers that be.

This is also a big win for personal responsibility. It has now been proven that what we focus on and what we choose to share impacts not only our moods, but the moods of those in our network. The question now becomes, "Will you share positive stories that make people feel good, or negative stories that make them feel bad?" Given control over your own information channel, will you continue to parrot the party line and share mainstream propaganda? Or will you amplify alternate signals?

http://socnetmastermind.blogsp... (ignore the other posts, this is just a place for random, social networking related thoughts)

If you look at the temperature over the last millionish years...
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/...

you can see it's been this hot many times before without human intervention.
you can see the temperature made a major move upwards a looooong time before the 1800's. from 26c to 29c. Humans almost certainly had nothing to do with that or other massive temperature shifts between 26 and 30c that have occurred repeatedly over the last millionish years.

This particular move may be enhanced by humans. 7 billion human beings are having widespread effects on the planet. And it looks like we may be on target for 11 billion humans instead of 9 billion humans.

That's a lot of Co2, methane from cows, asphalt paved and building covered ground that used to be forest in most places.

But we are not even at a record temperature yet, similar temperature moves have happened many times (dozens, scores?) over the last million years without humans being the cause.

Based on the evidence of the historical record the temperature could fall 3 degrees shortly after it peaks. Well after we are dead of course.

Right now, I think the most likely course is temperatures will continue to rise slowly- we'll see the oceans rise by 20" by 2100.

And we'll have *too many* people. Way over the carrying capacity of the earth. We've overbred and it really doesn't matter what we do if we don't get the population down. We are just moving deck chairs on a sinking Titantic.

Here's the last 10 million years
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6ftZ...

It shows a pretty strong correlation between co2 and temperature. It also shows the co2 level has fluctuated a lot without humans around and that the temperature has been as high and lower many times in the last 10 million years.

Here's the last 65 million years
http://mpe.dimacs.rutgers.edu/...

We are at the bottom of a 65 million year long cooling period.

Here's the last 2.4 billion years
http://geology.utah.gov/survey...

We could just be exiting a near ice age. It looks like much of the time, the average temperature of the earth has been about 72F. About 10 degrees warmer than it is now. Humans could be the cause- but even without human interaction, the temperature seems likely to return to the mean at some point in the future. On a billion year scale, the current temperatures are uncommonly low.

@itzly - you said that you "didn't know the details for Mars":

The speed of sound at atmospheric interface is around 200m/s so take your favorite realistic entry velocity at Mars and divide it by 200m/s to get the entry Mach number. (Spoiler: It won't be Mach 11)

Reference: http://exrocketman.blogspot.co... (look at figure 7 column 'c' is for the speed of sound)

Let's say we're *really slow* and enter at 5 km/s as you mentioned above. That would mean 5000/200 = Mach 25. A more realistic *direct* entry velocity is in the neighborhood of 6-7 km/s.

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