Sure, but beside the point. At any given time, there's "luxury" plastic, the kind we might make the case of a laptop out of, and there's "temporary" plastic, like packaging material, that we throw away after use. The second kind is more likely to leak from the disposal pipeline into the oceans, and a candidate for biodegradability.
This drives a silver stake through the heart of the idea that vaccines cause autism. You would expect that in a place where autism is a required skill on resumes everyone would be vaccinated.
Another upside: nobody is going to bitch about being "exposed to radiation" from such devices. If it's in a visible part of the spectrum, it doesn't count as Deadly Radiation.
Step-counting is fine in the gym, but on the street a smartphone can do what no fitness tracker can: track how far you are walking/running and, combined with map information, over what hills and at what altitude. The old-style pedometer relied on your being able to calculate an average stride and stick with it under all conditions.
Who says Slashdotters can read posts now? I was referring to a teetotaling part of the world which DOESN'T substitute sex for drinking, and is therefore riddled with violence.
It's neither - just another excuse for baseless obstructionism. First of all you're dealing with the minuscule number of birds that fly over a given piece of featureless open desert. Within that area, the bird incineration takes place in the tiny volume of concentrated sunlight at the focus point. Birds can roost on the collectors all day long and not come to harm. Only the few really stupid birds get the Sierra Club lawyers.
Liberal Senator: If this is a space mission, wouldn't this involve rockets? According to my latest Quinnipiac, 43% of my constituency now supports that trendy new anti-fire movement, and I'm up for reeleection next year. No thanks.
Took a big road trip through the Southwest a couple of years ago, and noted that while in New Mexico there was a huge public service campaign against drunk driving: billboards, checkpoints, radio warnings - in Utah, all the PSAs seem to see the big problem as drowsy driving. Not only do Mormons not drink, but with coffee and Coke also off the roadside picnic table, drivers fall asleep a lot there.
But nutrition science is not like physics, or even any other field of medicine other than, perhaps, psychiatry: it's still in the process of jelling as a discipline. There was a recent thread on this very topic.
"Drinking is the only thing keeping me from killing someone almost every day!"
For proof, look at the death rate in that one part of the world where for religious reasons nobody drinks and where they can't substitute sex, as in Utah.
Modest alcohol use promotes social interaction so that geek DNA can be perpetuated, while the limp-dick problem filters out abusive users from the gene pool. Everybody wins.
Of course, but that's not what the Church of Warminetics predicts. It predicts that the world will be devastated by drought and by flood at the same time.
If it's the plant I have in mind, the main coolant is dry desert air, with some help from City of Phoenix municipal sewage. This model will work in a large number of places with none of the flowing water that other nukes require to dissipate heat. The output, besides 6Gw of power that California liberals do not deign to generate for themselves, is dried poop that is used on local cotton fields.
Greens have already clubbed all the good pumped-storage facilities, like Storm King in upstate New York, to death with the same combination of NIMBYism and legal bullying they have used against every other energy project. Watch for a campaign against battery arrays because "chemicals."
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It might if you add a built-in deletion module
And you have the most powerful aphrodisiac known for women.
Sure, but beside the point. At any given time, there's "luxury" plastic, the kind we might make the case of a laptop out of, and there's "temporary" plastic, like packaging material, that we throw away after use. The second kind is more likely to leak from the disposal pipeline into the oceans, and a candidate for biodegradability.
We need biodegradable plastics for common, 'temporary' uses, such as shopping bags.
I can hike most of the day while creating a GPS track on my phone. Any exercise session will be shorter than that.
This drives a silver stake through the heart of the idea that vaccines cause autism. You would expect that in a place where autism is a required skill on resumes everyone would be vaccinated.
Another upside: nobody is going to bitch about being "exposed to radiation" from such devices. If it's in a visible part of the spectrum, it doesn't count as Deadly Radiation.
Step-counting is fine in the gym, but on the street a smartphone can do what no fitness tracker can: track how far you are walking/running and, combined with map information, over what hills and at what altitude. The old-style pedometer relied on your being able to calculate an average stride and stick with it under all conditions.
Since Greens are generally afraid of rainforests turning into deserts, wouldn't this be an improvement?
Who says Slashdotters can read posts now? I was referring to a teetotaling part of the world which DOESN'T substitute sex for drinking, and is therefore riddled with violence.
Since when did shade destroy an ecosystem? Look at rainforests.
When I toured New Zealand, I was that one guy who applauded when we paused at the dock where the Greenpeace boat was sunk.
Vive la France!
It's neither - just another excuse for baseless obstructionism. First of all you're dealing with the minuscule number of birds that fly over a given piece of featureless open desert. Within that area, the bird incineration takes place in the tiny volume of concentrated sunlight at the focus point. Birds can roost on the collectors all day long and not come to harm. Only the few really stupid birds get the Sierra Club lawyers.
Not if we can get a few more private billionaires interested in the subject. After Anousheh Ansari will come the multitudes.
Liberal Senator: If this is a space mission, wouldn't this involve rockets? According to my latest Quinnipiac, 43% of my constituency now supports that trendy new anti-fire movement, and I'm up for reeleection next year. No thanks.
Took a big road trip through the Southwest a couple of years ago, and noted that while in New Mexico there was a huge public service campaign against drunk driving: billboards, checkpoints, radio warnings - in Utah, all the PSAs seem to see the big problem as drowsy driving. Not only do Mormons not drink, but with coffee and Coke also off the roadside picnic table, drivers fall asleep a lot there.
But nutrition science is not like physics, or even any other field of medicine other than, perhaps, psychiatry: it's still in the process of jelling as a discipline. There was a recent thread on this very topic.
"Drinking is the only thing keeping me from killing someone almost every day!"
For proof, look at the death rate in that one part of the world where for religious reasons nobody drinks and where they can't substitute sex, as in Utah.
Modest alcohol use promotes social interaction so that geek DNA can be perpetuated, while the limp-dick problem filters out abusive users from the gene pool. Everybody wins.
The pure radiance of Better Call Saul eclipsed all else, and was probably responsible for bringing down Slashdot itself.
Of course, but that's not what the Church of Warminetics predicts. It predicts that the world will be devastated by drought and by flood at the same time.
Something's illegal in Nigeria?
If it's the plant I have in mind, the main coolant is dry desert air, with some help from City of Phoenix municipal sewage. This model will work in a large number of places with none of the flowing water that other nukes require to dissipate heat. The output, besides 6Gw of power that California liberals do not deign to generate for themselves, is dried poop that is used on local cotton fields.
Greens have already clubbed all the good pumped-storage facilities, like Storm King in upstate New York, to death with the same combination of NIMBYism and legal bullying they have used against every other energy project. Watch for a campaign against battery arrays because "chemicals."
Scientists are not the ones who predict flooding and drought at the same time. Political activists acting in their name do.