We are sorry, but this planet is currenty undergoing a Global Warming trend caused by human inteference. Do not be confused by the massive ice sheets currently covering much of the land mass. It is a temporary abberation and we expect that that the warming trend will continue after a short intermission.
Finding a single body there is much like catching one very specific fish. Not to mention that I'm sure there are lots of critters down there that love to eat dead bodies.
The government should give hime a better chance of finding a body. They can take the thousands of bodies they've collected at area 51, and dump them all around the area where they dumped Ben. Every body they found would quickly restrict them to the covers of the Weekly World News, and if they actually found the body, it would be given the same respectability as the alien autopsy video.
He wouldn't need to give them the whole body to receive his $25 million. He can always sell off the rest of it in pieces, like the Cristians did with anything Jesus related. Except that I doubt Bin would be able to supply barrels full of finger bones and tons of pieces of the true cross (probably related to the Bread and Fish dinner). Those relics can bring in huge sums of cash, maybe enough to fund a Democrat re-election comittee.
These articles don't go all the way of no effect, but no effect on global warming. Just from the 1st page of a google search. A few years ago, there were many "scientific" reports espousing that the sun had no effect on the global temperature, but I'm too lazy to keep looking. Do your own search.
Just google for "global warming sun no effect" and enjoy
More fun articles. The North Pole will be completely melted by Sep 2008. This event further proves GW exists and is caused by man, because the North Pole is completely ice free now, and all the Polar Bears have drowned..
No, it is an excuse to increase taxes, and make money selling "carbon credits", while the people behind it all, like Al Gore, can still live in luxury on the profits while they themselves can ignore the new regulations and taxes. It's "do as I say, not as I do".
And as far as banalities go, how about this -- do not mess with complex systems you don't fully understand. Do not mess with the ecology of the planet without understanding the consequences. Do not mess with things that could screw up the climate without understanding its effect.
Ok, put you money where your mouth is. Until you can prove that the food produced has absolutely no effect on the climate, then you must refrain from consuming any food. Farming is a big "fooling with the ecology" project. Trees are removed (often in a slash and burn manner), random assortment of plants are replaced with a single crop, crap is dumped onto the field in order to force crop growth, etc. Cows, sheep, goats, etc. are dropped into grasslands, and the original critters are forcible removed. So, until you can prove that this activity has no effect on the enviornment, you must give up using said products.
Or are you one of those "do as I say, not as I do" like Al Gore and the TV televangelists?
No, the GW adherents have already stated that the sun has absolutely no effect on global temperature. None at all. That means that any of these solar cycles should not make any difference at all. Unless they decide it only effects them when the actual numbers would otherwise prove them wrong, then the cooling cycle actually proves that GW exists and is caused entirely by man because otherwise it would be even cooler than it was. But if it gets warmer because of this cycle, than that would prove GW exists and is caused by man.
So if they had a Gen II plant this wouldn't have happened? Why don't they have a Gen II (or III) reactor?
Because, like the parent post stated, fear of nuclear power. They were supposed to replace these plants several years ago, but because of the anti-nuclear FUD they couldn't build the new ones, so they kept these plants running instead of replacing them. They couldn't just shut them down, because they needed the power.
How low does the chance of making a portion of the earth uninhabitable by human population for multiple generations have to be in order for the risk to justified?
Why don't we look at how long it takes for people to return to the site of a nuclear disaster where thousands died because of a nuclear disaster. Lets look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They actually blew up nuclear weapond at those two sites, radiation out the wazoo, enough to vaporize numerous people. Is it possible that the Japanese reactors will be worse then two nuclear bombs? How long will it be until people will be able to return to those two, uninhabitable for multiple generations, cities?
Considering that is has nearly happened 3 times and has happened once in the last 50 years,
Did you know that somone almost accidently developed a strain of ecoli bacteria that would have wiped out all known life on Earth, but you never heard about it because they didn't?
What's with this "nearly happened" shit? You can make up a lot of "nearly happened" fairy tales. We were almost wiped out because Mrs. Spooner's weekly seance nearly summoned the apocolypse last night?
Why not use geo-thermal, wind, solar or develop fusion, or anti-matter etc. Why the insistence that nuclear power is the only way.
1. Geothermal doesn't work everywhere. You need an ative heat source (i.e. volcanoes) 2. Wind isn't useful in areas where you dont have much wind. You need a good, consistant wind to be economically viable. 3. Solar doesn't work at night, and requires a lot of area. Doesn't work that well during the day either (clouds, dust,...) Plus you'd have to completely pave California with solar cells to start to cover our current energy needs. 4. Fusion is 20 years away, and has been for at least the last 50 years. 50 years from now, it will still be 20 years away. 5. Antimater? Since they have finally been able to contain it for more than a millisecond, I'm sure that they can ship containers of antimatter across the globe without problems. And how much power does it take to create microscopic amounts again?
Nuclear power works now. It doesn't create more greenhouse gases than the current methods nor rust out your engine, like ethenol does.
Fact is it isn't the only way forward, it may not be even a good way forward, what it is the the fastest way for existing power companies to make the most money and so the established energy providers are pushing it, is what is really going on.
Profit? Obviously an Obama supporter. Anyone making any profit whatever MUST be punished. Any profits that a company makes must be seized and given to someone who deserves it more, like an illegal mexican crack whore. That's how you create jobs.
The truth is that peoople are stupid about risks. More people die of lightning strikes each year than die from nuclear power. More people die every day in automobile accidents than do in a year of nuclear power. Yet people still drive to a golf course and play during a thunderstorm.
The evening is getting intimate, and you want to dim the lights
You: One moment honey *tap* *tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* Her: What are you doing? You: Just a minute *tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap* *tap* Her: Who are you texting? You: I'm just trying to... tap* *click* *tap* tap* *click* *tap* Her: Well, I hope you're happier with her than you are with me. *slam* You: tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap* Lights dim. You: Ok, where were we....
Just nail a fish to each container. The sharks will then follow any lost container, and you can just use satellites to look for any container lit up by lasers. Much cheaper the GPS.
They should train sharks to follow the shipping containers, or nail a fish to each container to attract sharks in case they fall into the water. At night, a shipping container lit up by numerous lasers would show up on satellite, and a retreival ship could be sent out to pick it up.
You know, you could bypass all of the kid-safe problems by just making an all-porn search site. Then you'll just need to protect your users from kitten and puppy videos.
Not only that, but you will immediately have problems with cross culture compatibility... I'm pretty sure you would not get objections from the Amish, but pretty much every other group will want things skewed to {support / justify / defend} the basic cultural prejudice required by said groups.
There will always be groups that will want to impose their "kids" rules on the content. You will have to deal with flat-earthers, scientoligists, racists, and people who don't believe in either the great turtle, nor the four elephants.
Yet, the government still pays out huge amounts of tax money as tobacco subsidy to grow the stuff every year, then heavily taxes the users. The government gets much more in taxes on each cigarette sold than the tobacco company gets as earnings. They really don't want to end smoking, and lose this huge revenue stream.
Note that the spider isn't the only thing that does this. There are several waterbugs that build bubbles underwater, that aren't spiders.
They probably evolved from something that lived in the water but breathed somehow at the surface, like mosquito larva do. From that to pulling a bubble underwater doesn't seem too far a change.
If the math shows that they should see it using the energies of those two labs, then they either need to figure out why they aren't seeing it (problems with hardware), or why their theories are wrong (problems with theory). That is how real science works. Create a theory, then try to prove it true or false in the real world.
Or they can just go the "climate change" way, and vote it to be true without any validation behind it.
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We are sorry, but this planet is currenty undergoing a Global Warming trend caused by human inteference. Do not be confused by the massive ice sheets currently covering much of the land mass. It is a temporary abberation and we expect that that the warming trend will continue after a short intermission.
Finding a single body there is much like catching one very specific fish. Not to mention that I'm sure there are lots of critters down there that love to eat dead bodies.
The government should give hime a better chance of finding a body. They can take the thousands of bodies they've collected at area 51, and dump them all around the area where they dumped Ben. Every body they found would quickly restrict them to the covers of the Weekly World News, and if they actually found the body, it would be given the same respectability as the alien autopsy video.
He wouldn't need to give them the whole body to receive his $25 million. He can always sell off the rest of it in pieces, like the Cristians did with anything Jesus related. Except that I doubt Bin would be able to supply barrels full of finger bones and tons of pieces of the true cross (probably related to the Bread and Fish dinner). Those relics can bring in huge sums of cash, maybe enough to fund a Democrat re-election comittee.
These articles don't go all the way of no effect, but no effect on global warming. Just from the 1st page of a google search. A few years ago, there were many "scientific" reports espousing that the sun had no effect on the global temperature, but I'm too lazy to keep looking. Do your own search.
Just google for "global warming sun no effect" and enjoy
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/glob-warm.html
http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation
More fun articles. The North Pole will be completely melted by Sep 2008. This event further proves GW exists and is caused by man, because the North Pole is completely ice free now, and all the Polar Bears have drowned..
http://thebruceblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/global-warming-to-completely-melt-north-pole-its-serious-folks/
No, it is an excuse to increase taxes, and make money selling "carbon credits", while the people behind it all, like Al Gore, can still live in luxury on the profits while they themselves can ignore the new regulations and taxes. It's "do as I say, not as I do".
And as far as banalities go, how about this -- do not mess with complex systems you don't fully understand. Do not mess with the ecology of the planet without understanding the consequences. Do not mess with things that could screw up the climate without understanding its effect.
Ok, put you money where your mouth is. Until you can prove that the food produced has absolutely no effect on the climate, then you must refrain from consuming any food. Farming is a big "fooling with the ecology" project. Trees are removed (often in a slash and burn manner), random assortment of plants are replaced with a single crop, crap is dumped onto the field in order to force crop growth, etc. Cows, sheep, goats, etc. are dropped into grasslands, and the original critters are forcible removed. So, until you can prove that this activity has no effect on the enviornment, you must give up using said products.
Or are you one of those "do as I say, not as I do" like Al Gore and the TV televangelists?
No, the GW adherents have already stated that the sun has absolutely no effect on global temperature. None at all. That means that any of these solar cycles should not make any difference at all. Unless they decide it only effects them when the actual numbers would otherwise prove them wrong, then the cooling cycle actually proves that GW exists and is caused entirely by man because otherwise it would be even cooler than it was. But if it gets warmer because of this cycle, than that would prove GW exists and is caused by man.
No, it's not the rains fault that you were being terrorized by anti roofers, so instead of replacing your roof you just kept the old one that leaked.
So if they had a Gen II plant this wouldn't have happened? Why don't they have a Gen II (or III) reactor?
Because, like the parent post stated, fear of nuclear power. They were supposed to replace these plants several years ago, but because of the anti-nuclear FUD they couldn't build the new ones, so they kept these plants running instead of replacing them. They couldn't just shut them down, because they needed the power.
How low does the chance of making a portion of the earth uninhabitable by human population for multiple generations have to be in order for the risk to justified?
Why don't we look at how long it takes for people to return to the site of a nuclear disaster where thousands died because of a nuclear disaster. Lets look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They actually blew up nuclear weapond at those two sites, radiation out the wazoo, enough to vaporize numerous people. Is it possible that the Japanese reactors will be worse then two nuclear bombs? How long will it be until people will be able to return to those two, uninhabitable for multiple generations, cities?
Considering that is has nearly happened 3 times and has happened once in the last 50 years,
Did you know that somone almost accidently developed a strain of ecoli bacteria that would have wiped out all known life on Earth, but you never heard about it because they didn't?
What's with this "nearly happened" shit? You can make up a lot of "nearly happened" fairy tales. We were almost wiped out because Mrs. Spooner's weekly seance nearly summoned the apocolypse last night?
Why not use geo-thermal, wind, solar or develop fusion, or anti-matter etc. Why the insistence that nuclear power is the only way.
1. Geothermal doesn't work everywhere. You need an ative heat source (i.e. volcanoes) ...) Plus you'd have to completely pave California with solar cells to start to cover our current energy needs.
2. Wind isn't useful in areas where you dont have much wind. You need a good, consistant wind to be economically viable.
3. Solar doesn't work at night, and requires a lot of area. Doesn't work that well during the day either (clouds, dust,
4. Fusion is 20 years away, and has been for at least the last 50 years. 50 years from now, it will still be 20 years away.
5. Antimater? Since they have finally been able to contain it for more than a millisecond, I'm sure that they can ship containers of antimatter across the globe without problems. And how much power does it take to create microscopic amounts again?
Nuclear power works now. It doesn't create more greenhouse gases than the current methods nor rust out your engine, like ethenol does.
Fact is it isn't the only way forward, it may not be even a good way forward, what it is the the fastest way for existing power companies to make the most money and so the established energy providers are pushing it, is what is really going on.
Profit? Obviously an Obama supporter. Anyone making any profit whatever MUST be punished. Any profits that a company makes must be seized and given to someone who deserves it more, like an illegal mexican crack whore. That's how you create jobs.
The truth is that peoople are stupid about risks. More people die of lightning strikes each year than die from nuclear power. More people die every day in automobile accidents than do in a year of nuclear power. Yet people still drive to a golf course and play during a thunderstorm.
Bee - are - aye - eye - en - ess! That spells brains!
The evening is getting intimate, and you want to dim the lights
You: One moment honey *tap* *tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* ... tap* *click* *tap* tap* *click* *tap* ....
Her: What are you doing?
You: Just a minute *tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap* *tap*
Her: Who are you texting?
You: I'm just trying to
Her: Well, I hope you're happier with her than you are with me. *slam*
You: tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *click* *tap* *tap*
Lights dim.
You: Ok, where were we
Just nail a fish to each container. The sharks will then follow any lost container, and you can just use satellites to look for any container lit up by lasers. Much cheaper the GPS.
They should train sharks to follow the shipping containers, or nail a fish to each container to attract sharks in case they fall into the water. At night, a shipping container lit up by numerous lasers would show up on satellite, and a retreival ship could be sent out to pick it up.
You know, you could bypass all of the kid-safe problems by just making an all-porn search site. Then you'll just need to protect your users from kitten and puppy videos.
There are blood sucking vampires on Sesame Street, so what's wrong a zombie or two?
Not only that, but you will immediately have problems with cross culture compatibility... I'm pretty sure you would not get objections from the Amish, but pretty much every other group will want things skewed to {support / justify / defend} the basic cultural prejudice required by said groups.
There will always be groups that will want to impose their "kids" rules on the content. You will have to deal with flat-earthers, scientoligists, racists, and people who don't believe in either the great turtle, nor the four elephants.
Oh well, back to my breakfast of BCBs.
If you create a laser-shark, will you have to mount it on another shark?
Yet, the government still pays out huge amounts of tax money as tobacco subsidy to grow the stuff every year, then heavily taxes the users. The government gets much more in taxes on each cigarette sold than the tobacco company gets as earnings. They really don't want to end smoking, and lose this huge revenue stream.
By watching scuba divers.
Note that the spider isn't the only thing that does this. There are several waterbugs that build bubbles underwater, that aren't spiders.
They probably evolved from something that lived in the water but breathed somehow at the surface, like mosquito larva do. From that to pulling a bubble underwater doesn't seem too far a change.
What makes Sarah Palin so noteworthy in this regard?
As a typical white person, she can't name all the 58 states?
I always get stuck on the 58th state, Alaska and Hawaii.
This isn't a car! I want my flying CAR, with a trunk to haul anyone I run over!
S&R is possible, but flight time on that thing will be extremely limited. if it gets a full hour of flight time I would be impressed.
What do you do if you are at 10,000 feet, and run out of gas?
If the math shows that they should see it using the energies of those two labs, then they either need to figure out why they aren't seeing it (problems with hardware), or why their theories are wrong (problems with theory). That is how real science works. Create a theory, then try to prove it true or false in the real world.
Or they can just go the "climate change" way, and vote it to be true without any validation behind it.
I have a much cheaper device in my backyard that's good at finding nothing.
A son-in-law looking for a job?