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  1. Re:Numbers: How many trees would it take on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    From your link:

    " On average, one broad leaf tree will absorb in the region of 1 tonne of carbon dioxide during its full life-time (approximately 100 years).""

    I notice they leave out the part where it returns to the atmosphere through tree rot.

  2. Re:Misguided on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    SOrry for the follow up:
    "Small farms can feed the world."
    no, they can't. Somehting we've seen over the last 100 years.

  3. Re:Misguided on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    Trees(plants, really) have been carbon neutral since after the Carboniferous era.
    During the Carboniferous Era, tree's and plands didn't rot. Eventual 'bugs' evolved to take advantage of the energy in pulp. Now that trees rot, they are carbon neutral.

    The only way to use trees to trap carbon would be to grow them, cut them down, then seal them in some sort of wrap, then store them in a sealed granite cave.

  4. That will NOT WORK on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    Trees have been carbon neutral since after the Carboniferous era.

  5. Re:Kind of Disappointed in You on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Oh, but e wan's every to look at him, and see who 'smart' he is by using a new hipster word. Probably to match his fauxdora.

  6. Re:Kind of Disappointed in You on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Except you are wrong. He is not hamstering. Hamstering would be if he was trying to make it like he never meant what he said. His explanation is the EXACT OPPOSITE OF HAMSTERING.

    By definition you are wrong. So maybe you should realize your really aren't important and own up to your mistake?

    haha, I know you wont, the stupid never do.

  7. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    'Word change' is not an excuse for being an idiot, nor is it an excuse for being wrong.
    What we have today is a bunch of people who can't own up to making a mistake so they say 'Words change' instead of. 'sorry my mistake'.

    And we have the internet, so the reason words change is now gone.

  8. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    That's not what makes a word, you ghyieheadre.

  9. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 2

    Yes, but you are a nobody. Dr. Tyson is an advocate for science, so alienating 40% of the population isn't really a good thing.

    "and that's not what men do."
    Men don't clarify things that get mistaken? Seriously?

  10. Re:It's just capitalism moving slower than usual on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 1

    You do know that all the blocks have already been bought up, right?
    Of course you don't. Hell, you probably don't even know what I mean.

  11. Re:Why not push toward collapse? on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 0

    Some of us care about other human beings. If you can't get that, then please take a long walk off a short pier.

  12. Re:Why not push toward collapse? on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 1

    WTF are you tlaking about? What 'evil'? What 'therapy'?

    Clearly you know NOTING about Cuba, so stop saying idiotic things.

    The Goal we have for Russia is different then the one we have for Cuba, you simpleton.

  13. Re:About Fucking Time on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 1
  14. Re:About Fucking Time on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FInally?
    Everything is better by any measure.
    To quote Chris Rock:
    Only President Obama could get gas to $2.50, end 2 wars, get bin Laden, bring unemployment below 8%, then be told he's failing as president.

  15. Re:Makes me wonder on NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration · · Score: 1

    You're funding my search, right?
    Oh you're not putting you money were your mouth is? shocking.

  16. Re:As with all space missions: on NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration · · Score: 1

    They talk about lowering their price, but it's based on how prices drop in other areas' something we have learned that is foolish to do when it come to space travel.

  17. Re:As with all space missions: on NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration · · Score: 1

    "Okay, a fundamental question then... What's the mission? "
    Develop technologies the make life here better? learn more about human biology beyond earth. Make another step to spreading our species, Conduct better tests on captures particle. Control descent to the planet with sensors. Look for life in the upper atmosphere.

  18. Re:As with all space missions: on NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration · · Score: 1

    How to you think you get to glorious cloud cities?
    Through intermediary steps, that's how.*

    *Alternative answer: Fly the Millennium Falcon**. I see what you were going to do there

    ** What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon!

  19. Re:Compression and cooling on New Cargo Ship Is 488 Meters Long · · Score: 1

    Sealand isn't exactly a city, or visited by the mega rich.

  20. Re:Not a cargo ship on New Cargo Ship Is 488 Meters Long · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're numbers aren't even close:

    3.6 million tonnes a year, projected.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

    1 million metric tons LNG = 52 trillion Btus
    http://www.extension.iastate.e...

    3.6 * 52 trillion
    that's about 175 trillion BTUs.

    Current price ~10 dollars per million BTU.
    http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/his...

    1.75 Billion a year, BEFORE cost of operation.

    Once again, when not using made up numbers, Green energies are the same.

  21. Re:Man, am I old ... on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 2

    I remember when we just hooked them into a personal tape drive to load something that will fail an hour later at the very end of the load.

    Good times.... was something no one said.

  22. Re:This needs to stop ... on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    If I broke into your house, and dug up all your secrets and then revealed them to the world, should I be applauded if I find out you where doing something 'wrong'?

  23. Re: That's amazing on A New Law For Superconductors · · Score: 1

    No, becasue nothing does.

    The wave moves cleaner. Remember, SoL is different in different mediums The constant we use ~300,000,000 meters per sec/sec is in vacuum, and close to the in superconductors.

    Interestingly, the electrons gain more mass in superconductors.

  24. Re:Please don't on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 1

    You apparently don't know how hard it is for a lawyer to find work.

  25. Re:You make THAT much? on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 1

    If my uncle said that to me, I'd blow his head off with a shot gun!

    Cause he's been dead for a while, and fuck zombies.