The grand solar cycle (the irregular one hundreds of years long, not the 11-year ripple on top of it) is one of the many cycles that go into determining climate. It operates independently of any carbon warming effect that may be happening. If this cycle is going into a low, it would mean another Little Ice Age if nothing else were going on. It points to the need for better climate models before hysterically making major public policy decisions.
The drawback is that nobody could afford a lifetime of adopting and training new dogs every week, not to mention teasing flashbang shrapnel out of your baby's skin.
SpaceX policy seems to be to collect rich telemetry from each launch, so that fault investigation can proceed from the data, rather than the old approach of fishing for wreckage and piecing it together to determine the cause. Does NASA do things this way too now, or is it still using the old style of forensics?
In these flat agricultural states, a vast network of farm roads have been built over the years. The hallmark of over-roaded areas is the use of four-digit state route numbers in places that are mostly rural. Now that family farms are consolidating into large agribusiness operations, fewer access points are needed. Meanwhile, the cities need more roads and maintenance, so these states needed to reprioritize.
"Venn I vass schmall boy in old country," (early Fifties) the abandoned industrial locations we raided were considered fair game because they had been bombed out by the Germans. The grownups warned us to watch for unexploded bombs and left it at that.
And never vote Democrat either, because that's where the anti-science wackos congregate. Seriously, if we're going to get anywhere, we need a new pro-science party.
"In short, the Bugs we design here, and send there, will eventually come back to haunt us."
Back contamination by meteoric spallation will take literal geologic eons. Meanwhile, Mars would be an ideal place to experiment with advanced GMO technology free of Earth's pests of the legal kind.
I have a better idea: just kickstart generic sildenafil production in some country that doesn't observe American patents. Pfizer's patent on the magic substance would have normally expired in April, 2012, but keeps getting extended due to the usual cronyist skulduggery. It would serve them right, and save the rhino, if some Asian Walter White would start manufacturing it for global consumption.
We need to start by grabbing and deorbiting the largest debris pieces, before they spall off smaller pieces. Space junk gets harder to economically intercept with decreasing size, but solar pressure will eventually sweep out the smallest stuff.
China can still build a train line, flawed as it may be, and then go back and fix the problems in the same time that it has taken California to churn through years of legal debate and then symbolically break ground in Fresno.
Fortunately for China, this is a bubble that formed as the usual speculative excess on top of a building boom. Unlike our own latest market bubbles, the Chinese boom has created enough durable infrastructure - dams, power plants, rail lines, freight terminals, water systems - that the financial effect of this crisis will be muted and temporary. For years now, China has done all the building we have not been able to break ground on. China can build bullet train lines thousands of miles long, while we can't even start a research telescope.
When our current tech bubble pops, the dollar will have been backed up by...social media apps?
Nitrogen is nitrogen. The simplest way of getting agricultural N2 from air is to plant nitrogen fixers, such as clover. For a more entertaining scale of production, use the Haber-Bosch process.
You can plant any seeds you want in one of these, Monsanto or otherwise. The real problem is that as soon as you walk out of Home Despot with one of these kits, the DEA will will be following you home to shoot your dog, slam your kids into foster care, and steal your cash. You know, just in case there might be anything suspicious about your choice of seeds.
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The grand solar cycle (the irregular one hundreds of years long, not the 11-year ripple on top of it) is one of the many cycles that go into determining climate. It operates independently of any carbon warming effect that may be happening. If this cycle is going into a low, it would mean another Little Ice Age if nothing else were going on. It points to the need for better climate models before hysterically making major public policy decisions.
While in the more enlightened Norwegian prison system, they use a sack of bills.
The drawback is that nobody could afford a lifetime of adopting and training new dogs every week, not to mention teasing flashbang shrapnel out of your baby's skin.
SpaceX policy seems to be to collect rich telemetry from each launch, so that fault investigation can proceed from the data, rather than the old approach of fishing for wreckage and piecing it together to determine the cause. Does NASA do things this way too now, or is it still using the old style of forensics?
In these flat agricultural states, a vast network of farm roads have been built over the years. The hallmark of over-roaded areas is the use of four-digit state route numbers in places that are mostly rural. Now that family farms are consolidating into large agribusiness operations, fewer access points are needed. Meanwhile, the cities need more roads and maintenance, so these states needed to reprioritize.
Like abandoned railbeds, they can become hiking trails. In Europe, I have seen Roman roads that are still used as trails.
"Venn I vass schmall boy in old country," (early Fifties) the abandoned industrial locations we raided were considered fair game because they had been bombed out by the Germans. The grownups warned us to watch for unexploded bombs and left it at that.
And never vote Democrat either, because that's where the anti-science wackos congregate. Seriously, if we're going to get anywhere, we need a new pro-science party.
"In short, the Bugs we design here, and send there, will eventually come back to haunt us."
Back contamination by meteoric spallation will take literal geologic eons. Meanwhile, Mars would be an ideal place to experiment with advanced GMO technology free of Earth's pests of the legal kind.
"Won't Mars children grow up too tall and thin-boned to ever return to Earth?"
They won't be like us, but they will have a highly popular sitcom.
And this time, they have nukes.
I have a better idea: just kickstart generic sildenafil production in some country that doesn't observe American patents. Pfizer's patent on the magic substance would have normally expired in April, 2012, but keeps getting extended due to the usual cronyist skulduggery. It would serve them right, and save the rhino, if some Asian Walter White would start manufacturing it for global consumption.
If I had a Beowulf cluster of these, I would run my own LexisNexis mirror.
We need to start by grabbing and deorbiting the largest debris pieces, before they spall off smaller pieces. Space junk gets harder to economically intercept with decreasing size, but solar pressure will eventually sweep out the smallest stuff.
Another junk East Texas patent troll suit bites the dust.
China can still build a train line, flawed as it may be, and then go back and fix the problems in the same time that it has taken California to churn through years of legal debate and then symbolically break ground in Fresno.
If we can find out which province "Rachel from Card Services" and "Windows repair tech" are from, I'm rich.
Fortunately for China, this is a bubble that formed as the usual speculative excess on top of a building boom. Unlike our own latest market bubbles, the Chinese boom has created enough durable infrastructure - dams, power plants, rail lines, freight terminals, water systems - that the financial effect of this crisis will be muted and temporary. For years now, China has done all the building we have not been able to break ground on. China can build bullet train lines thousands of miles long, while we can't even start a research telescope.
When our current tech bubble pops, the dollar will have been backed up by...social media apps?
Now Shearer won't have to release the hounds.
"It was the year 2081, and everybody was finally equal."
Gluten-free sea salt is to go with your non-GMO oats.
Nitrogen is nitrogen. The simplest way of getting agricultural N2 from air is to plant nitrogen fixers, such as clover. For a more entertaining scale of production, use the Haber-Bosch process.
You can plant any seeds you want in one of these, Monsanto or otherwise. The real problem is that as soon as you walk out of Home Despot with one of these kits, the DEA will will be following you home to shoot your dog, slam your kids into foster care, and steal your cash. You know, just in case there might be anything suspicious about your choice of seeds.
"I like Pez so much that I'm building a dispenser that ejects it at the speed of sound."
Yessiree, if you want safe streets, move to a strict gun control city like Chicago.