Ah, the first law of denialism; models can be made to give any result you want, and besides, the models can't predict the current climate.
The second law: nobody argues that the climate isn't warming, and besides, we know from Climategate that the evidence that it's warming is all a hoax.
The third law: scientists cling to this AGW panic in order to keep the money for research coming. But we shouldn't listen to their supposed conclusions until a lot more research is done.
"And God so loved the coal industry that He gave it dominion over the very winds of the air and the clouds in the sky, yea, unto the very temperature of the oceans."
here endeth the lesson.
Uh, as a scientist, ican tell you that if your theory consistently predicts half a degreevgigh, rather than useless, that's actually pretty easy to fix.
here, let me put it in words you can understand. If your rifle always shoots an inch below where you aim, would you toss the gun out?
Machines often don't do what I "instructed" them to; usually that's a defect, either in the machine's design or in my understanding of it.
Or, the cure for a computer's free will is to power it off and then on again.
If we really believed in free will, we wouldn't believe in punishment, training, education, rehab, behavior mod, etc. All the things which we do to alter somebody else's behavior so that it's not free.
Don't forget Fortran 66's handy capacity to use constants as variables. You could say
1=2
And from then down in the code 1+1 would equal 4. That was pretty handy, although only when you wanted to play a mean joke on somebody.
Well, when you think about it, expecting aliens to show up within the next 50 years is more likely of they haven't shown up for 6000 years than if they haven't shown up for 5 billion years.
The difficulty with the lunar program was largely a function of it being "out of sequence", so to speak; running a marathon when we had barely learned to crawl.
Any rational plan for space exploration recognizes the twofold nature of the task; getting from the earth's surface into orbit, which pushes the limits of our capability, and getting from orbit to someplace else, technologically less difficult, although the biology etc is still a question.
thus the universal plan for a space station, a base camp at the lower slopes from which we launch the assault on the peak. This was slightly used on the Apollo missions but mostly not, requiring huge boosters to get the whole thing up there at once instead of shipping pieces up with smaller boosters.
Of course, it seems now that if we had waited until we had a workable space station, we'd never have gotten to the Moon.
Well, they have sent their minions to ensure that we complete the task of returning all that fossil carbon to the atmosphere so they can have the type of hot, humid climate which they enjoy
But... Cliven Bundy is preserving the prairie by letting his cows mow the grass and fertilize the ground, so how can human activity be bad for the environment?
Of course, the journal "Climate Change" has been published since 1977. And "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change" was published in 1955. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
But you go ahead and believe that "they changed it" just to fool you guys, but you're just smarter than "them".
Theology. The massive storms, unprecedented flooding, pervasive droughts, record highs, lows, rainy spells, dry spells, etc impacting the US and the world over the past few years are all the work of Satan, and/or punishment for gay marriage.
Only the number of hurricanes is relevant to AGW.
And it's warming on Mars. And Al Gore is fat and flies in airplanes.
They'll be going for $40 at Toys R Us next Christmas.
i got my night vision goggles there on closeout for $10. Probably wouldn't withstand combat use, though.
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Ah, the first law of denialism; models can be made to give any result you want, and besides, the models can't predict the current climate. The second law: nobody argues that the climate isn't warming, and besides, we know from Climategate that the evidence that it's warming is all a hoax. The third law: scientists cling to this AGW panic in order to keep the money for research coming. But we shouldn't listen to their supposed conclusions until a lot more research is done.
"And God so loved the coal industry that He gave it dominion over the very winds of the air and the clouds in the sky, yea, unto the very temperature of the oceans." here endeth the lesson.
Uh, as a scientist, ican tell you that if your theory consistently predicts half a degreevgigh, rather than useless, that's actually pretty easy to fix. here, let me put it in words you can understand. If your rifle always shoots an inch below where you aim, would you toss the gun out?
A bug in the programming. Failure to return resources to the free pool when the task ends.
Machines often don't do what I "instructed" them to; usually that's a defect, either in the machine's design or in my understanding of it. Or, the cure for a computer's free will is to power it off and then on again.
If we really believed in free will, we wouldn't believe in punishment, training, education, rehab, behavior mod, etc. All the things which we do to alter somebody else's behavior so that it's not free.
I presume that I have free will, but why would I assume anybody else does?
I'm waiting for the r2d2/c3po tv show. Here's the twist; they're detectives.
Don't forget Fortran 66's handy capacity to use constants as variables. You could say 1=2 And from then down in the code 1+1 would equal 4. That was pretty handy, although only when you wanted to play a mean joke on somebody.
Ixnay on the atinlay
And what about "Star Bucks"?
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Well, when you think about it, expecting aliens to show up within the next 50 years is more likely of they haven't shown up for 6000 years than if they haven't shown up for 5 billion years.
Wonder if we could have had a lunar program for the price of that Iraq war that would pay for itself.
The cost of a lunar mission has risen because now it would require air bags, power windows, climate control, cup holders, and iPod compatibility.
The difficulty with the lunar program was largely a function of it being "out of sequence", so to speak; running a marathon when we had barely learned to crawl. Any rational plan for space exploration recognizes the twofold nature of the task; getting from the earth's surface into orbit, which pushes the limits of our capability, and getting from orbit to someplace else, technologically less difficult, although the biology etc is still a question. thus the universal plan for a space station, a base camp at the lower slopes from which we launch the assault on the peak. This was slightly used on the Apollo missions but mostly not, requiring huge boosters to get the whole thing up there at once instead of shipping pieces up with smaller boosters. Of course, it seems now that if we had waited until we had a workable space station, we'd never have gotten to the Moon.
Imagine that the aliens closely resemble slices of bacon.
Well, they have sent their minions to ensure that we complete the task of returning all that fossil carbon to the atmosphere so they can have the type of hot, humid climate which they enjoy
Well, they do need somebody to anally probe.
But... Cliven Bundy is preserving the prairie by letting his cows mow the grass and fertilize the ground, so how can human activity be bad for the environment?
If we called it "God's Righteous Anger" every Republican candidate would be demanding that we do something to stop it.
Of course, the journal "Climate Change" has been published since 1977. And "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change" was published in 1955. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com... But you go ahead and believe that "they changed it" just to fool you guys, but you're just smarter than "them".
Theology. The massive storms, unprecedented flooding, pervasive droughts, record highs, lows, rainy spells, dry spells, etc impacting the US and the world over the past few years are all the work of Satan, and/or punishment for gay marriage. Only the number of hurricanes is relevant to AGW. And it's warming on Mars. And Al Gore is fat and flies in airplanes.
They'll be going for $40 at Toys R Us next Christmas. i got my night vision goggles there on closeout for $10. Probably wouldn't withstand combat use, though.
it's like ebay; you have to check whether the shipping fees are exorbitant.