But despite extensive research, the purpose of sleep is still mysterious
Main purpose of sleep is simply saving energy. It's hard to safely find food in the dark, so it's better to go into a power down mode instead, and expend the energy during the day. Not mysterious at all.
I own a car, but I rarely use it within the (european) city I live in. Streets are narrow, mostly one way only, it's busy, and there's no place to park. I walk or take the bike when I need to be in town.
But people will still be more efficient at picking the correct place to drill, and not having a delay waiting for responses from base.
I don't believe people are more efficient if you include all the time and effort to transport them to Mars and back, and keeping them alive during their stay.
The InSight rover is less than 1000 pounds, costs less than $1 billion, and construction started in 2014. Let's compare that to a realistic human mission.
Which is why people would be useful on the surface. They can look for more opportune ways to break through the surface, and even wield tools that no little rover can.
If you can send people, you can also send a massively bigger rover with heavy tools.
Trees are very inefficient at converting sunlight to carbon. Also, burying the tree whole means your extracting nutrients from the soil, so you would need to compensate that with fertilizer.
It would be much more efficient to reduce amount of coal mined, and replace it with energy source that generates less carbon.
Clouds reflect sunlight back into space [slashdot.org]
That depends on several factors. Clouds also trap IR trying to escape from the Earth during night time. Type of cloud, altitude, and place all matter for the exact balance between the two.
the fundamental problem of climate change is some people wont beleive the data is accurate, since it can be easily manipulated
Not that easily. Data is collected by hundreds of independent organizations. And if you doubt them all, you can even set up your own weather station, and compare your local data with the officially published data in your area from your own weather service, or with global maps published by NASA or NOAA. You can go a step further, and organize a global network of amateur weather stations, and combine all the measurements. In the days of cheap internet technology, that should be pretty easy to do.
No, that's an anomaly. Of course, as you probably won't realize, the cold air in Florida is just Arctic air that has moved there. In return, warmer air flows into the Arctic. No heat has magically disappeared.
But below freezing temperature in Spokane area during February is normal. Combine that with higher moisture, and high amounts of snowfall is not a particularly shocking event.
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But despite extensive research, the purpose of sleep is still mysterious
Main purpose of sleep is simply saving energy. It's hard to safely find food in the dark, so it's better to go into a power down mode instead, and expend the energy during the day. Not mysterious at all.
If it's not been done before, I would call it a milestone.
I own a car, but I rarely use it within the (european) city I live in. Streets are narrow, mostly one way only, it's busy, and there's no place to park. I walk or take the bike when I need to be in town.
What about short men vs tall men ? Or bald vs pointy haired ? Or clean shaven vs hipster beards ?
What if you only have 10 levels, and you're level 10 ? Where do you go from there ? Nowhere.
That's why these jobs go to level 11.
Lander. It doesn't rove.
It's not landing either. Sitter ?
But people will still be more efficient at picking the correct place to drill, and not having a delay waiting for responses from base.
I don't believe people are more efficient if you include all the time and effort to transport them to Mars and back, and keeping them alive during their stay.
The InSight rover is less than 1000 pounds, costs less than $1 billion, and construction started in 2014. Let's compare that to a realistic human mission.
Which is why people would be useful on the surface. They can look for more opportune ways to break through the surface, and even wield tools that no little rover can.
If you can send people, you can also send a massively bigger rover with heavy tools.
Why are we trying to stop it?
We aren't.
People are just talking about it, but at the same time, rate of CO2 production is only increasing.
I've already got that technology. It's called Trees
Can't run my car on trees.
You could literally just flood depleted coal mines with the stuff and leave it.
Right, a free source of energy that greedy people are just supposed to "leave".
Trees are very inefficient at converting sunlight to carbon. Also, burying the tree whole means your extracting nutrients from the soil, so you would need to compensate that with fertilizer.
It would be much more efficient to reduce amount of coal mined, and replace it with energy source that generates less carbon.
Nobody's going to bury coal. If we can make coal from CO2, we're going to burn it.
if you cast a hydronic system into the concrete
Sounds like a maintenance nightmare.
Clouds reflect sunlight back into space [slashdot.org]
That depends on several factors. Clouds also trap IR trying to escape from the Earth during night time. Type of cloud, altitude, and place all matter for the exact balance between the two.
No links, no mention of where temperature recordings were made.
If full links were provided to all the data, would you believe them ?
If no, why ask for links ?
If yes, then why are you doubting the conclusion ?
the fundamental problem of climate change is some people wont beleive the data is accurate, since it can be easily manipulated
Not that easily. Data is collected by hundreds of independent organizations. And if you doubt them all, you can even set up your own weather station, and compare your local data with the officially published data in your area from your own weather service, or with global maps published by NASA or NOAA. You can go a step further, and organize a global network of amateur weather stations, and combine all the measurements. In the days of cheap internet technology, that should be pretty easy to do.
Hence all that snow in Florida.
No, that's an anomaly. Of course, as you probably won't realize, the cold air in Florida is just Arctic air that has moved there. In return, warmer air flows into the Arctic. No heat has magically disappeared.
But below freezing temperature in Spokane area during February is normal. Combine that with higher moisture, and high amounts of snowfall is not a particularly shocking event.
Second snowiest Feb ever ( well, since 1893) and about third or fourth coldest in Spokane.
Snow is more an indicator of high moisture than extreme cold. Also, it's called 'global' warming, not 'Spokane' warming.
Here, check the worldwide map for January:
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gis...
(next month you can go back and check world map for Feb)
The Methan the cows produce would also be produced if the plants they eat would simply rot.
What if the plants are grown specifically for the cows to eat ?
It also doesn't do anything to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
What's with this fucking "predator" bullshit language?
Found the pedophile.
These prices go up to eleven.
Normal prices go up to 10, but if you need to extra push over the cliff, you put it up to 11. One higher profit.
I wonder how much money they are losing because family members watch a movie together, instead of each streaming to their own account ?
non-hardened COTS electronics
All COTS is non-hardened.