Time to remove your head from the sand I'm afraid. In case you hadn't noticed, the evidence for climate change is in. Whether or not it is anthropogenic is another story. However that is also looking extremely likely.
Are these cranks possibly related to the Electric Universe brigade. I detect a similar level of wackiness and some common themes.
Seriously though, I read Slashdot to keep abreast of new technology news, not to read pseudo-scientific babble. I think the editors need to tighten up the quality control.
This photo is an obvious fake. I examined it in some detail yesterday on the front page of this laughable so-called newspaper.
For those who have not seen the photoraphic 'evidence' there is an out-of-focus cat hanging in the foreground which, at first glance appears to be quite big. Then in the background there is the hunter standing next to his motorbike - both sharply in focus, as is the bushland behind him. This puts the cat very close to the camera, and the hunter about 4 or 5 metres back, in my estimation making the cat at most about 60 cm from the remains of its head to its extended hind leg. This appears to be a fairly large feral domestic cat (note: very common in southeast Australia) and not a puma (note: no evidence of their existence in southeast Australia).
Have a look at the photo - I had a good look yesterday on the front page of this laughable so-called newspaper. In the foreground you can see an out-of-focus black cat hanging from a piece of string. In the background note the in-focus hunter and motorbike - I'd say he's at least 4 or 5 metres behind the 'big cat'. In my estimation this makes the cat at most 60 cm (that's 2 feet for you Americans) long from the remains of its head to its stretched out hind leg. Hardly a monster. At most a relatively large feral domestic cat (which are very common in southest Australia).
I don't believe that article said anything about contrails causing warming.
The contrail effect is likely to be greatest over the US anyway as you are all so busy flying around (and emitting voluminous quantities of greenhouse gases in the process, I might add). I don't think it's as pronounced in the rest of the world - certainly not in the Southern Hemisphere.
This job had it all.... wading up to waist deep in other people's excrement, operating air drills in confined spaces deep underground (think splashing and loudness), risk of death by gassing or falling and drowning, darkness, working with idiots....
Oh yes, operating flow meters (small propeller) which regularly clogged up with pubic hair which then had to be removed. Condoms falling on your head. Cockroaches (some of which had been bleached white by their environment!).
My friends used to refer to me as a 'turd surfer'.
There was an advertisement back in the 70's where a MGB was thrown from a plane (with a parachute) and then driven off. So the idea's not entirely new.
Slashdot Mirror
....is get popular.
Plasma is just a soup of atoms with the electrons stripped off (see Wikipedia entry.
Space plasma is plasma which is located in open space (most of the plasma in the universe, I guess).
I'm happy to see any science-related stories on slashdot - if you're not interested, don't read it.
Moon Shadow (somebody had to say it!).
Time to remove your head from the sand I'm afraid. In case you hadn't noticed, the evidence for climate change is in. Whether or not it is anthropogenic is another story. However that is also looking extremely likely.
Are these cranks possibly related to the Electric Universe brigade. I detect a similar level of wackiness and some common themes.
Seriously though, I read Slashdot to keep abreast of new technology news, not to read pseudo-scientific babble. I think the editors need to tighten up the quality control.
Try telling that to people living in low lying coastal areas or on small islands.
It's hard to see online but from looking at the printed photo the cat is out of focus whilst Kurt and his motorbike are in sharp focus.
This photo is an obvious fake. I examined it in some detail yesterday on the front page of this laughable so-called newspaper.
For those who have not seen the photoraphic 'evidence' there is an out-of-focus cat hanging in the foreground which, at first glance appears to be quite big. Then in the background there is the hunter standing next to his motorbike - both sharply in focus, as is the bushland behind him. This puts the cat very close to the camera, and the hunter about 4 or 5 metres back, in my estimation making the cat at most about 60 cm from the remains of its head to its extended hind leg. This appears to be a fairly large feral domestic cat (note: very common in southeast Australia) and not a puma (note: no evidence of their existence in southeast Australia).
Have a look at the photo - I had a good look yesterday on the front page of this laughable so-called newspaper. In the foreground you can see an out-of-focus black cat hanging from a piece of string. In the background note the in-focus hunter and motorbike - I'd say he's at least 4 or 5 metres behind the 'big cat'. In my estimation this makes the cat at most 60 cm (that's 2 feet for you Americans) long from the remains of its head to its stretched out hind leg. Hardly a monster. At most a relatively large feral domestic cat (which are very common in southest Australia).
Here is an interesting article rebutting the expanding glaciers claim.
I think this other robot was a previous /. article
I don't believe that article said anything about contrails causing warming.
The contrail effect is likely to be greatest over the US anyway as you are all so busy flying around (and emitting voluminous quantities of greenhouse gases in the process, I might add). I don't think it's as pronounced in the rest of the world - certainly not in the Southern Hemisphere.
This job had it all....
wading up to waist deep in other people's excrement, operating air drills in confined spaces deep underground (think splashing and loudness), risk of death by gassing or falling and drowning, darkness, working with idiots....
Oh yes, operating flow meters (small propeller) which regularly clogged up with pubic hair which then had to be removed. Condoms falling on your head. Cockroaches (some of which had been bleached white by their environment!).
My friends used to refer to me as a 'turd surfer'.
Yes I feel better now.
There was an advertisement back in the 70's where a MGB was thrown from a plane (with a parachute) and then driven off. So the idea's not entirely new.