I'm not conviced that our global warming trend has anything to do with the greenhouse effect.
Does anyone think that maybe, just MAYBE, that thermal emissions from our inefficient machines just might have an effect on the one-degree-over-a-century global change that the EPA has researched?
Perhaps that the effect of 6 billion humans breathing in 70 degree air and breathing it out at 98 degrees JUST MIGHT have a noticeable effect in populated areas?
That cars setting small portions of air on fire for extended periods of time perhaps could increase the air temperature just a little bit?
That factories, air-conditioners, heaters, and power plants, due to their less than 100% efficiency, might be emitting heat as a byproduct?
Could this possibly explain global warming? That we constantly find new ways to harness the suns energy to work for us, and the byproduct is always heat?
Maybe I'm just a wacko, but this seems a lot more reasonable than a minute change in atmospheric gases.
Actually, most modern ships, at least in the military, use gyroscopic, not magnetic, compasses as a backup for GPS. Magnetic compasses are much more innaccurate because they are subject to local variations and yearly changes.
When you're doing celestial navigation, there are interpolation charts to help you figure out the magnetic variation, but it's still a greater margin of error than GPS or the gyro.
I've set up Afterstep with a few buttons for Netscape, Word Perfect, et al. for a friend who was not computer literate at all. She like it a lot. It's stable, and is difficult to change around accidentally, which I find to be an important characteristic for people not used to a gui.
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I'm not conviced that our global warming trend has anything to do with the greenhouse effect.
Does anyone think that maybe, just MAYBE, that thermal emissions from our inefficient machines just might have an effect on the one-degree-over-a-century global change that the EPA has researched?
Perhaps that the effect of 6 billion humans breathing in 70 degree air and breathing it out at 98 degrees JUST MIGHT have a noticeable effect in populated areas?
That cars setting small portions of air on fire for extended periods of time perhaps could increase the air temperature just a little bit?
That factories, air-conditioners, heaters, and power plants, due to their less than 100% efficiency, might be emitting heat as a byproduct?
Could this possibly explain global warming? That we constantly find new ways to harness the suns energy to work for us, and the byproduct is always heat?
Maybe I'm just a wacko, but this seems a lot more reasonable than a minute change in atmospheric gases.
Anyone remember when Alta Vista was the best search engine?
No? Yeah, well, my memory's not that good either.
Actually, most modern ships, at least in the military, use gyroscopic, not magnetic, compasses as a backup for GPS. Magnetic compasses are much more innaccurate because they are subject to local variations and yearly changes.
When you're doing celestial navigation, there are interpolation charts to help you figure out the magnetic variation, but it's still a greater margin of error than GPS or the gyro.
I always mess up some mundane detail!!
I've set up Afterstep with a few buttons for Netscape, Word Perfect, et al. for a friend who was not computer literate at all. She like it a lot. It's stable, and is difficult to change around accidentally, which I find to be an important characteristic for people not used to a gui.