I think that's why Netflix is doing their own shows now. Can't get the studios to play along? Just make your own movie. They've shown they can make good shows...
Not surprisingly, the year 1950 is when our use of oil finally surpassed coal as a "world-wide" power source. Of course, coal is ALSO a fossil fuel, and also puts huge amounts of various pollutants back into our closed planetary system. Burning coal is what causes acid rain, ocean dead zones, etc, and is worse on the environment than just oil. Climate changes probably started in the mid-to-late 1800's after the Industrial Revolution really kicked off...just no one way paying any attention and it's only recently (past few decades) getting bad enough for us to really notice. Acid rain started a few decades after that. And to say "warming" is inaccurate; it's additional energy from the Sun that can't get radiated back out because of the CO2, methane, etc we're releasing. Some places get colder, some places hotter...some places now are in a multi-year drought were it used to rain regularly and some places are getting intense rain during times of the year when they never did.
It's called "warming" since originally that's what the models predicted. This is happening, but most of the excess heat is currently being "stored" in the oceans (which was unexpected and helps explain the "hiatus") yet eventually they will be unable to store more. The permafrost in Siberia is already melting (look up "dragon breath holes Siberia" for some horrifying pictures). It's really simple math overall. Take several million years of lifeforms, and then burn them all in 200-300 years. Were does all that extra CO2 go to? Off into space? Kinda, it sits up in the atmosphere making it more opaque to heat trying to escape.
Really, how hard can it be to understand? When you burn several millions of years of concentrated organic material quickly, this is what happens. You can even test this at home with a science-fair type experiment! If you took a fish tank, put a few inches of water in it, put black cloth all around it in a coldish room, seal up the tank (no fish!) but leave an air hose going in (seal that too), and have the correct light bulb going on and off every 12 hours...measure the temp in there with "normal air", then replace some of the air with CO2/methane...the air temperature above the water WILL rise. It's just physics...
I say look at giant holes of methane out-gassing in Siberia. Or the giant areas of highly acidic oceans that lack enough oxygen for fish to survive. Both of these are from us burning fossil fuels. Whether or not either of these events are considered global "warming" is up to the scientists...although "warming" is not the right word. Climate chaos from millions of years of carbon that is sequestered as oil that we're burning up in a few hundred years is a more precise term.
I had a whole box of CFL's go rouge on me! One blew up, sending burning mercury everywhere...another called up my boss at work and got me fired and the last one raped my mother.
Seems the plants are more resistant to radiation damage, and have been absorbing it inside their structure. Much of the local air-born particles that are radioactive have been "buried" by the trees and plants themselves, but it's still there. Thus the second article; hopefully it will recover before there is a massive forest fire that could release the radiation into the atmosphere.
The second article refutes you. There is a die-off of soil bacteria, so the fallen trees, leaves, etc are not rotting properly. This is currently on-going, and we just don't know if the radiation poisoning will work it's way up the food chain either. Mineral content in the soil will start to drop, trees might start dieing and basically starving. Russia might need to bring in fresh, non-radiated dirt and hope it's microbes colonize the now-dead zones, if it's not still too irradiated for them. Small microbes, thin cell walls, doesn't take much radiation to really damage and kill them. The animals have already had mutant offspring a few years afterwards but healthy animals have moved back in. Hopefully the soil microbes will either move back in too or have a radiation-resistant mutation that allows them to grow there again.
The oceans around Hawaii will probably be damaged too, and a huge swatch of Asia / Europe could be irradiated if the forests around Chernobyl burns all it's accumulating debris. I have no idea how much study has been done on plant growth rates in Japan after we nuked them; I doubt anyone there had the time or knew about soil die-off with all the other damage from the war.
Sadly Chernobyl was due to human stupidity and lack of communication. The equipment only failed because the head engineer purposely pushed the reactor and didn't even bother telling his engineers working in said reactor. Japan plant was also plagued with low-quality construction in addition to being built in a bad location geographically. Safety measures that should have worked failed, the valve that is still leaking is in a very tight space under several feet of highly radiated water, so radiated their submersible drones keep dying.
Sometimes I wonder if some of the squids and / or deep sea octopi have there own "version" of intelligence, they just exist in a "too far away" and exotic world for us to really study. Dolphins too. Unfortunately, underwater creatures can't exactly discover fire like we did.
Evolution has no apex. Humans are no more evolved than any other creature. Evolution is a process, it has no "goal" other then it's an expression we smart apes use to describe semi-random chemical connections that "work" better in their environment than others. Sometimes the "evolutionary" changes are a "positive", yet even our intelligence comes at a huge metabolic cost in comparison to the bulk of lifeforms (ie enough electricity to light a light bulb). When the planetary environment changes rapidly, even on a local scale from volcanoes, certain members of species inside the extinction area might have some quirk that makes it run a bit faster to escape so it reproduces. That's it, there is no "upward" driving force in evolution. We could evolve to be more stupid like Idiocracy if it meant life spread further.
Really? A true scifi fan that's never read Niven? He's one of the most influential authors in scifi! I might understand if you said you've never read any Philip K Dick, but Niven is up there with Asimov, Heinlein, and other famous authors. You should read the Ringworld series...his ideas about human evolution's "third life stage", superconductors, pleasure wires junkies, are quite interesting. In his works, the pleasure wire modification is the one I see actually happening soon. We've already identified exactly where to put the wire, the medical brain implant tech just hasn't quite gotten there yet.
their powerful weapons, but not THAT powerful. We might be able to extinguish almost all life on the planet, yet the planet itself will still be here. We have yet to develop real "planet busters", and hopefully never will.
The tech is here, but the practical engineering of anything off-planet has a long ways to go. We could easily build some "Mars-rated" habitat here on Earth, but building it on Mars is far more difficult.
In the USA we have multiple mail carriers, each has various levels of delivery authentication. From just a tracking number all the way to "ID and signature required", depends on how much extra you spend. We also have various courier services (depending on your location) who can ensure a clear, unbroken "chain" of handling...especially in New York. But when you move and file no forwarding address as required since she was involved in a court case...and this is actually pretty common with child support cases.
And often child support is served by a "family" court that has a completely different set of laws than civil or criminal court. Judges in these courts have FAR more discretionary power than a normal court; primarily due to tactic's like his ex-wife and other shenanigans. So this probably has little legal bearing on other cases especially those outside this NY family court.
Too bad it won't work like they want. I love many shows from Canada...New Girl, Continuum, Trailer Park Boys (top 5 tv shows ever), ReGenesis, The Nature of Things, Doc Zone, etc. If CRTC actually showed a flow of money from regulations into various show productions and maybe make some marketing to show the public "Your $XYZ taxes help fund $A to Continuum, $B to Doc Zone" etc people might be far less upset.
and often when the police's case falls apart and ends in a non-conviction they keep your stuff anyway. "Civil forfeiture" should be considered unconstitutional...if we moved back in time to the Colonial days this is the EXACT same thing the British were doing that lead to the War of Independence. Illegal seizures, no viable recourse, stealing property without rule of law or real proof of wrong-doing...when a DA does "civil forfeiture" they are considering the "property" itself guilty, as if your house or car has a intelligent consciousness that knows the difference between right and wrong and could have chosen not to be involved somehow. It costs at least $10K to take it to court, so the cops know if they take less than that it's not worth it. And since your property is being charged (not you) then it's considered "guilty until proven innocent", you have to pay for the lawyer, and you have to meet a higher standard of proving absolutely no drugs were ever involved (even before you owned it)
But...how could we cope without all the botnet controllers, spam gateways, compromised.ru servers, and all the other wonderful users coming out of Russia? I agree that this could be very interesting if he did this; we could see the real impact of Russia's criminal internet community. The net might work better for awhile without.ru
42u rack on coasters, with 4 running boxes. Cisco r180 router, 2016swr managed switch, cisco AP for wifi.
File server, 4u, 10TB+ (4.5TB raid 10), 10GB ram, i5 2.8ghz, 4x intel 1000pt nics (bonded in 2012).
HyperV: hp6005 w/ Athlon X4 3ghz, 10GB ram (runs multiple hyper-v VMs), w a 128GB SSD for the VM's
Domain controler: HP 6005 X2 2ghz
Sharepoint: HP 6005 X2 2gz
All that's in a rack, along with customize cross-over patch panels, all cat6. Outside the "datacenter" are 3 other boxes, 2 laptops, 1 samsung q1 (with an SSD and 2gB ram), and an hp mini.
I love the hp 6005's, SFF's for a test / home lab. low power consumption, but still decently upgradeable and 3 can fit on a half shelf. I had to cut a hole in the ceiling and rig up many fans blowing up into a homemade poster board "hood", and a fan / tube over the AC vent blowing down to make it "cycle". Dropped the temps in there 10+ degrees. The floor is carpet, so there are two levels of 1/2 plywood with commercial bathroom 4mm 2x2ft lanolium to roll the rack around on.
I got lucky recently, my building has been undergoing renovations and they've been throwing out old equipment and a few rack pieces here and there. Found 3x slide rails, some half-shelves, etc.
Well, if it's not specifically "illegal"...I say whomever can make it up there should go for it. As long as the companies / countries aren't putting anyone (besides their own astronauts) in danger and aren't "militarizing space" then who cares?
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I think that's why Netflix is doing their own shows now. Can't get the studios to play along? Just make your own movie. They've shown they can make good shows...
Not surprisingly, the year 1950 is when our use of oil finally surpassed coal as a "world-wide" power source. Of course, coal is ALSO a fossil fuel, and also puts huge amounts of various pollutants back into our closed planetary system. Burning coal is what causes acid rain, ocean dead zones, etc, and is worse on the environment than just oil. Climate changes probably started in the mid-to-late 1800's after the Industrial Revolution really kicked off...just no one way paying any attention and it's only recently (past few decades) getting bad enough for us to really notice. Acid rain started a few decades after that. And to say "warming" is inaccurate; it's additional energy from the Sun that can't get radiated back out because of the CO2, methane, etc we're releasing. Some places get colder, some places hotter...some places now are in a multi-year drought were it used to rain regularly and some places are getting intense rain during times of the year when they never did.
It's called "warming" since originally that's what the models predicted. This is happening, but most of the excess heat is currently being "stored" in the oceans (which was unexpected and helps explain the "hiatus") yet eventually they will be unable to store more. The permafrost in Siberia is already melting (look up "dragon breath holes Siberia" for some horrifying pictures). It's really simple math overall. Take several million years of lifeforms, and then burn them all in 200-300 years. Were does all that extra CO2 go to? Off into space? Kinda, it sits up in the atmosphere making it more opaque to heat trying to escape.
Really, how hard can it be to understand? When you burn several millions of years of concentrated organic material quickly, this is what happens. You can even test this at home with a science-fair type experiment! If you took a fish tank, put a few inches of water in it, put black cloth all around it in a coldish room, seal up the tank (no fish!) but leave an air hose going in (seal that too), and have the correct light bulb going on and off every 12 hours...measure the temp in there with "normal air", then replace some of the air with CO2/methane...the air temperature above the water WILL rise. It's just physics...
I say look at giant holes of methane out-gassing in Siberia. Or the giant areas of highly acidic oceans that lack enough oxygen for fish to survive. Both of these are from us burning fossil fuels. Whether or not either of these events are considered global "warming" is up to the scientists...although "warming" is not the right word. Climate chaos from millions of years of carbon that is sequestered as oil that we're burning up in a few hundred years is a more precise term.
well, yeah, he's pulling a classical black-or-white logical fallacy.
I had a whole box of CFL's go rouge on me! One blew up, sending burning mercury everywhere...another called up my boss at work and got me fired and the last one raped my mother.
Seems the plants are more resistant to radiation damage, and have been absorbing it inside their structure. Much of the local air-born particles that are radioactive have been "buried" by the trees and plants themselves, but it's still there. Thus the second article; hopefully it will recover before there is a massive forest fire that could release the radiation into the atmosphere.
The second article refutes you. There is a die-off of soil bacteria, so the fallen trees, leaves, etc are not rotting properly. This is currently on-going, and we just don't know if the radiation poisoning will work it's way up the food chain either. Mineral content in the soil will start to drop, trees might start dieing and basically starving. Russia might need to bring in fresh, non-radiated dirt and hope it's microbes colonize the now-dead zones, if it's not still too irradiated for them. Small microbes, thin cell walls, doesn't take much radiation to really damage and kill them. The animals have already had mutant offspring a few years afterwards but healthy animals have moved back in. Hopefully the soil microbes will either move back in too or have a radiation-resistant mutation that allows them to grow there again.
The oceans around Hawaii will probably be damaged too, and a huge swatch of Asia / Europe could be irradiated if the forests around Chernobyl burns all it's accumulating debris. I have no idea how much study has been done on plant growth rates in Japan after we nuked them; I doubt anyone there had the time or knew about soil die-off with all the other damage from the war.
Sadly Chernobyl was due to human stupidity and lack of communication. The equipment only failed because the head engineer purposely pushed the reactor and didn't even bother telling his engineers working in said reactor. Japan plant was also plagued with low-quality construction in addition to being built in a bad location geographically. Safety measures that should have worked failed, the valve that is still leaking is in a very tight space under several feet of highly radiated water, so radiated their submersible drones keep dying.
Silent Hill? I had no idea there was a burning coal seam because an actual portal to hell...lol
Sometimes I wonder if some of the squids and / or deep sea octopi have there own "version" of intelligence, they just exist in a "too far away" and exotic world for us to really study. Dolphins too. Unfortunately, underwater creatures can't exactly discover fire like we did.
Evolution has no apex. Humans are no more evolved than any other creature. Evolution is a process, it has no "goal" other then it's an expression we smart apes use to describe semi-random chemical connections that "work" better in their environment than others. Sometimes the "evolutionary" changes are a "positive", yet even our intelligence comes at a huge metabolic cost in comparison to the bulk of lifeforms (ie enough electricity to light a light bulb). When the planetary environment changes rapidly, even on a local scale from volcanoes, certain members of species inside the extinction area might have some quirk that makes it run a bit faster to escape so it reproduces. That's it, there is no "upward" driving force in evolution. We could evolve to be more stupid like Idiocracy if it meant life spread further.
Really? A true scifi fan that's never read Niven? He's one of the most influential authors in scifi! I might understand if you said you've never read any Philip K Dick, but Niven is up there with Asimov, Heinlein, and other famous authors. You should read the Ringworld series...his ideas about human evolution's "third life stage", superconductors, pleasure wires junkies, are quite interesting. In his works, the pleasure wire modification is the one I see actually happening soon. We've already identified exactly where to put the wire, the medical brain implant tech just hasn't quite gotten there yet.
their powerful weapons, but not THAT powerful. We might be able to extinguish almost all life on the planet, yet the planet itself will still be here. We have yet to develop real "planet busters", and hopefully never will.
only if "God" is an excellent NEO detection system coupled with enough ships to evacuate humanity lol.
The tech is here, but the practical engineering of anything off-planet has a long ways to go. We could easily build some "Mars-rated" habitat here on Earth, but building it on Mars is far more difficult.
yeah, that was Putin's idea, not Boeing's. But if they did use one, naming it the "Boeing Boing Launch System" would be great.
and Family Court has a much different legal system too, it's not the same as Civil or Criminal and has much more leeway.
part of their probation terms!
In the USA we have multiple mail carriers, each has various levels of delivery authentication. From just a tracking number all the way to "ID and signature required", depends on how much extra you spend. We also have various courier services (depending on your location) who can ensure a clear, unbroken "chain" of handling...especially in New York. But when you move and file no forwarding address as required since she was involved in a court case...and this is actually pretty common with child support cases.
And often child support is served by a "family" court that has a completely different set of laws than civil or criminal court. Judges in these courts have FAR more discretionary power than a normal court; primarily due to tactic's like his ex-wife and other shenanigans. So this probably has little legal bearing on other cases especially those outside this NY family court.
All US TV stations should just show marathons of Trailer Park Boys all night. It's one of the funniest shows EVER.
Too bad it won't work like they want. I love many shows from Canada...New Girl, Continuum, Trailer Park Boys (top 5 tv shows ever), ReGenesis, The Nature of Things, Doc Zone, etc. If CRTC actually showed a flow of money from regulations into various show productions and maybe make some marketing to show the public "Your $XYZ taxes help fund $A to Continuum, $B to Doc Zone" etc people might be far less upset.
and often when the police's case falls apart and ends in a non-conviction they keep your stuff anyway. "Civil forfeiture" should be considered unconstitutional...if we moved back in time to the Colonial days this is the EXACT same thing the British were doing that lead to the War of Independence. Illegal seizures, no viable recourse, stealing property without rule of law or real proof of wrong-doing...when a DA does "civil forfeiture" they are considering the "property" itself guilty, as if your house or car has a intelligent consciousness that knows the difference between right and wrong and could have chosen not to be involved somehow. It costs at least $10K to take it to court, so the cops know if they take less than that it's not worth it. And since your property is being charged (not you) then it's considered "guilty until proven innocent", you have to pay for the lawyer, and you have to meet a higher standard of proving absolutely no drugs were ever involved (even before you owned it)
PBS article
But...how could we cope without all the botnet controllers, spam gateways, compromised .ru servers, and all the other wonderful users coming out of Russia? I agree that this could be very interesting if he did this; we could see the real impact of Russia's criminal internet community. The net might work better for awhile without .ru
42u rack on coasters, with 4 running boxes. Cisco r180 router, 2016swr managed switch, cisco AP for wifi.
File server, 4u, 10TB+ (4.5TB raid 10), 10GB ram, i5 2.8ghz, 4x intel 1000pt nics (bonded in 2012).
HyperV: hp6005 w/ Athlon X4 3ghz, 10GB ram (runs multiple hyper-v VMs), w a 128GB SSD for the VM's
Domain controler: HP 6005 X2 2ghz
Sharepoint: HP 6005 X2 2gz
All that's in a rack, along with customize cross-over patch panels, all cat6. Outside the "datacenter" are 3 other boxes, 2 laptops, 1 samsung q1 (with an SSD and 2gB ram), and an hp mini.
I love the hp 6005's, SFF's for a test / home lab. low power consumption, but still decently upgradeable and 3 can fit on a half shelf. I had to cut a hole in the ceiling and rig up many fans blowing up into a homemade poster board "hood", and a fan / tube over the AC vent blowing down to make it "cycle". Dropped the temps in there 10+ degrees. The floor is carpet, so there are two levels of 1/2 plywood with commercial bathroom 4mm 2x2ft lanolium to roll the rack around on.
I got lucky recently, my building has been undergoing renovations and they've been throwing out old equipment and a few rack pieces here and there. Found 3x slide rails, some half-shelves, etc.
Well, if it's not specifically "illegal"...I say whomever can make it up there should go for it. As long as the companies / countries aren't putting anyone (besides their own astronauts) in danger and aren't "militarizing space" then who cares?