Unfortunately climate data and predictions are apparently more motivated by political beliefs and biases than hard facts.
It may be apparent to you, but it's not to those of us who actually know something about the subject. Do you have any evidence for your absurdly paranoid assertion of a politically motivated conspiracy theory? Hint: no, no you don't, because you're just another clueless fucktard burbling about things they know nothing about on the Internet.
When are the smart-arses who reckon they've spotted some humoungous flaw in the actual science going to actually publish? Oh, right, it's all a crock of shite by delusional Daily Mail readers, and journals of record don't print papers that arrive for review written in green crayon.
If you're so smart and the world's climatologists are so dumb, for the love of god stop yammering about it on Slashdot, publish, and collect your Nobel Prize.
there was a significant problem with the daily sea ice data images on February 16. The problem arose from a malfunction of the satellite sensor we use for our daily sea ice products. Upon further investigation, we discovered that starting around early January, an error known as sensor drift caused a slowly growing underestimation of Arctic sea ice extent.
So, to be clear, this issue has arisen over the last 4-6 weeks. The records for the last decade, clearly showing a significant trend towards less sea-ice, are unaffected.
Re (4), deorbiting (or parking) dead satellites - this already happens to some extent, if vehicles are still commandable at EOL and have enough delta-v in the tank to make it to a high parking orbit (or a de-orbit burn), that's usually done. I've also seen tethers mooted as a fuel-free EOL mechanism for deorbit (winch out a 20km cable which drags through the upper atmosphere and burns off enough velocity to make the sc re-enter and burn up.) Problem is that all this costs mass, which means money. There's also the problem that lots of debris isn't under any kind of command (chunks of upper stages, satellites that died in action, dropped screwdrivers, slag from old Iridiums and and so on.)
Not only was Rimmer right ("Space aliens!"), rather more worryingly, so was David Icke. It's the LIZARD PEOPLE!!! Run for the hills!!! - NLRA Spokesperson
Jesus wept, I can't believe I was modded "interesting" up there. Either my brain's gone all funny, or the rest of the world doesn't know crude satire when they see it...:o
If we put a series of LED lights along the length of the plane and turn them off and on to produce streaks of lights running from nose to tail, it will interrupt their visual cues and make the plane stand out from the background.
Plus, it'll look freakin' awesome on a trip, dude!!!
Simpler than that; use Darwinian natural selection. Simply invent a machine the size and shape of a jet-aircraft which zooms around airports emitting loud jet turbine noises, and sucks in and shreds any bird not conditioned to keep well away from such stimuli. Rinse and repeat.
My first install was Debian 2.0 c.1998 - never got X working, hardly surprising in retrospect. I never got on with Red Hat; Mandrake was the next I tried, c.2000/01, and I've just paid £100 for the shrinkwrap edition (out of guilt, from never having given them anything for ~ a decade of great Linux fun. And some extreme frustration - mostly when tinkreing with Debian and getting hopelessly lost, but that's half the Linux learning experience.
The only other OS I've really tried is OpenBSD; I've bought probably half a dozen different releases, originally to support OpenSSH but the installation and first few logins were illuminating, to say the least. (It's all consistent! the man pages make sense! You can start with little knowledge & with care learn a huge amount from scratch with OpenBSD. (Never tried FreeBSD.)
D'oh!! I'm not an American, but if I'd thought the fulltext would be up somewhere I'd've searched for it. I just kinda assumed prestigious journals like GRL would have an embargo on such "leaks", precisely to protect their presumably miniscule $9 income stream.
Well, live and learn, I'll know next time. Thanks!
if Microsoft charge the same amount for seven as they did for Vista, they deserve to be mocked.
Stone me, that angle hadn't occurred to me! Those poor bastards who got stiffed or fooled into buying Vista are gonna be mighty pissed off, aren't they? Never was the "itsatrap" tag more appropriate.
I actually shelled out $9 to read the Geophysical Review Letters paper (I take my armchair planetary science geekery pretty seriously, but sadly not enough to justify journal subscriptions.) One possibility mentioned is sub-surface reservoirs as a possible source keeping the atmosphere topped up. (Note that unlike on earth, where methane has an atmospheric lifetime measured in weeks, at Titan it's millions or tens of millions of years.) Another interesting thing is the description of GCMs (global circulation models) and evidence of classical, earth-style Hadley cells, a major feature of earth's climate.
No malice needed; it'd be stupidity for Intel to cave to Microsoft at this point. When the 25 stone gorilla's choking on a fishbone, d'you break out the Heimlich maneuver?
Pretty much everyone in Montana, Idaho, the western half of Washington and Oregon, North East Nevada, Wyoming, and North West Colorado is dead inside a week just from the dust cloud.
Bonus!!1 !
By the way, are you familiar with the writings of Dimitri Orlov?
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So where's your Nobel prize, genius boy?
Flamebait? For blockquoting a bit of TFA?!? Go to TFA, scroll down a bit, and read the goddamn article, willya??
It may be apparent to you, but it's not to those of us who actually know something about the subject. Do you have any evidence for your absurdly paranoid assertion of a politically motivated conspiracy theory? Hint: no, no you don't, because you're just another clueless fucktard burbling about things they know nothing about on the Internet.
When are the smart-arses who reckon they've spotted some humoungous flaw in the actual science going to actually publish? Oh, right, it's all a crock of shite by delusional Daily Mail readers, and journals of record don't print papers that arrive for review written in green crayon.
If you're so smart and the world's climatologists are so dumb, for the love of god stop yammering about it on Slashdot, publish, and collect your Nobel Prize.
So, to be clear, this issue has arisen over the last 4-6 weeks. The records for the last decade, clearly showing a significant trend towards less sea-ice, are unaffected.
No, it won't, because: physics.
Yep. Deal with it.
Are you kidding? There are hundreds of dead telecom and remote sensing spacecraft in orbit.
Re (4), deorbiting (or parking) dead satellites - this already happens to some extent, if vehicles are still commandable at EOL and have enough delta-v in the tank to make it to a high parking orbit (or a de-orbit burn), that's usually done. I've also seen tethers mooted as a fuel-free EOL mechanism for deorbit (winch out a 20km cable which drags through the upper atmosphere and burns off enough velocity to make the sc re-enter and burn up.) Problem is that all this costs mass, which means money. There's also the problem that lots of debris isn't under any kind of command (chunks of upper stages, satellites that died in action, dropped screwdrivers, slag from old Iridiums and and so on.)
Not only was Rimmer right ("Space aliens!"), rather more worryingly, so was David Icke. It's the LIZARD PEOPLE!!! Run for the hills!!! - NLRA Spokesperson
My old boss was prone to exclaiming: "Bring me a new choir-boy. This one's burst!" I wonder if that's what happened to the Interweb.
Sure there is. http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/
Jesus wept, I can't believe I was modded "interesting" up there. Either my brain's gone all funny, or the rest of the world doesn't know crude satire when they see it... :o
Plus, it'll look freakin' awesome on a trip, dude!!!
Simpler than that; use Darwinian natural selection. Simply invent a machine the size and shape of a jet-aircraft which zooms around airports emitting loud jet turbine noises, and sucks in and shreds any bird not conditioned to keep well away from such stimuli. Rinse and repeat.
...using Free software to fix this problem.
Maybe.
My first install was Debian 2.0 c.1998 - never got X working, hardly surprising in retrospect. I never got on with Red Hat; Mandrake was the next I tried, c.2000/01, and I've just paid £100 for the shrinkwrap edition (out of guilt, from never having given them anything for ~ a decade of great Linux fun. And some extreme frustration - mostly when tinkreing with Debian and getting hopelessly lost, but that's half the Linux learning experience.
The only other OS I've really tried is OpenBSD; I've bought probably half a dozen different releases, originally to support OpenSSH but the installation and first few logins were illuminating, to say the least. (It's all consistent! the man pages make sense! You can start with little knowledge & with care learn a huge amount from scratch with OpenBSD. (Never tried FreeBSD.)
Live TV free for a week and you'll never go back.
When I read it, I thought "Sounds a lot like CliffBot. (lots more)
D'oh!! I'm not an American, but if I'd thought the fulltext would be up somewhere I'd've searched for it. I just kinda assumed prestigious journals like GRL would have an embargo on such "leaks", precisely to protect their presumably miniscule $9 income stream. Well, live and learn, I'll know next time. Thanks!
Stone me, that angle hadn't occurred to me! Those poor bastards who got stiffed or fooled into buying Vista are gonna be mighty pissed off, aren't they? Never was the "itsatrap" tag more appropriate.
I actually shelled out $9 to read the Geophysical Review Letters paper (I take my armchair planetary science geekery pretty seriously, but sadly not enough to justify journal subscriptions.) One possibility mentioned is sub-surface reservoirs as a possible source keeping the atmosphere topped up. (Note that unlike on earth, where methane has an atmospheric lifetime measured in weeks, at Titan it's millions or tens of millions of years.) Another interesting thing is the description of GCMs (global circulation models) and evidence of classical, earth-style Hadley cells, a major feature of earth's climate.
No malice needed; it'd be stupidity for Intel to cave to Microsoft at this point. When the 25 stone gorilla's choking on a fishbone, d'you break out the Heimlich maneuver?
What problem was that, "compute the trajectory of an office chair propelled at 2 m/s out of an office window"?
As I remember it, that blissful idyll lasted about six hours, until the 0day universal PnP vulnerability surfaced.
So, they'll cancel each other out, right?
Bonus!!1 !
By the way, are you familiar with the writings of Dimitri Orlov?