I think the Russians managed to send a couple of probes to Venus back in the 70s or 80s. I think they lasted long enough to send back one or two panaramic shots before being destroyed.
If you want to do any sort of extended stay on Venus you're going to have to either terraform the planet or live in floating cities near the top of the atmosphere. Plus: Plants may like the CO2, but the other compounds in the atmosphere are rather toxic.
I had one of those professors. The lectures were about 10x more interesting and engaging, but his tests were terrible because everybody went off and studied what they found most interesting in the class (he tended to go off on short tangents about once every other day) and would be annoyed to discover that the test covered mostly the material they didn't find as interesting and had pretty much forgotten by the end of the lecture.
It didn't help that he was one of those professors that gave multiple choice tests where every answer was technically correct, but one was more correct than the others.
I was surprised at just how far companies like Kingston have to go to honor their lifetime warentee. I worked for SGI a couple of years ago and I was using a old beat up (8 years obsolete and it still performs decently!) Personal Iris 4D/35 when after a power failure it failed to boot complaining about bad memory. So I pull the thing apart and find that it has an enormous board with 16 SIMM-like slots. I pull out the offending module and notice 2 things:
1. It is obviously some sort of custom memory module unlike any I had ever seen before, and hasn't been manufactured in years and years.
2. It has a Kingston Memory sticker on the front.
So, I decide to see just how good the "lifetime warentee" is. Amazingly enough, they send me an RMA label right away and within days I have a brand new memory module and the system is back up and working perfectly! I was truely amazed that they were still willing to honor their agreement (I've had many bad "lifetime" warentees before where the "lifetime" is defined as 1 year or other BS) without complaint or hesitation.
Those root boxes are a terrible design, they're almost as bad as the alternatives. Basically, you're kinda stuck if you want to do administration with windowing programs like that, since the GTK libraries don't even like to start if you're running as root (so sudo admintool tends to break), and users won't stand for logging out and logging back in as root to change their IP address or some other trivial administrative task. Of course you can do everything from the command line (it's safer that way), but that goes counter to the whole neophyte friendly thing that most distros strive for (or in some cases, were designed for). GTK or Qt are too complex to be considered secure for ANY root programs anyway, but it's not like there are many other options.
Yeah OEMs LOVE to stick the cheapest drives possible on their systems. Even the high end IBM servers we have at work have the crappiest CD-ROM drives I've ever used. The part I scrounge out of systems that I'm disposing of is the CD-ROM, since I need so many replacements for the ones that fail in the lab. It's a real pain in the butt. On the other hand, I bought a 4X CD-ROM back when that was fast (1995 or so), and it still works like a dream. I have an old SGI with a 1x CD-ROM (and an old Macintosh (Sony) 2x CD-ROM) that work great, of course they need those annoying caddys...
On the other hand, for what you had to pay for those old CD-ROMs, you could buy 5 or 6 cheap nasty knockoff drives today, and the cheap ones are a heck of a lot faster.
In my opinion, there are 2 major reasons why people never use the filesystem/registry security on their machines and just run as administrator:
1. There are too many places where permissions can be set/overridden/etc. While in theory ACLs are nice for fine grained locking, in practice they are too complicated for the average user.
2. (and this one is the kicker), when a user runs up against a permissions issue in Windows, they don't get something like you would see in Unix (File/var/db/program.db: Permission denied). Instead you start the program and get a dialog box that simply reads "Error: Failure to start engine: Insufficent privleges" or something equally useless (they almost never tell you where to look). Now the user is left scratching their head as to where the problem is. In the unix one, it's more "technical" and "scary", but it's also far more practical. In the unix example, the user is going to look at the file mentioned and notice that hey, he doesn't have write access. In the Windows example the user is just going to log out and log back in as administrator, because they have almost no chance of fixing it otherwise. Of course the Windows example here is a lot friendlier to non-technical types (they don't have to even look at the filesystem to try to solve the problem), but it's also these non-technical types that get a dozen worms on their machine.
IMHO, MacOSX does a pretty good job of making regular users run as regular users and only escalating privleges when necessary (it prompts you for your password when it does this too).
You forgot the fourth option: They slow down the TV show to match the speed of the manga (Dragonball). I seriously hope the creators of Naruto aren't contemplating that path.
Given that shuttles are estimated to have a disaster in about 1 out of every hundred flights (which has thus far borne out with our space program), that would mean we would have a shuttle lost every year or so.
Also, who is going to pay for all of this fuel for a launch every 4 days? While there is definatly a case that we need to get more shuttle flights (or something) up (there is a backlog of satellites waiting on the shuttle), Isn't 91 flights a year overdoing it a bit. This sounds like one of those evil genious fantasys where you don't have to worry about the money and can build whatever you want.
Minor nit, Naruto in Japan is only up to episode 128 (and this is counting the hour long specials as 2 episodes each). While I don't doubt they could run to 200+ episodes, they have not done so yet. Many series get killed at fairly arbitrary times (if the storyline starts to suck and viewership goes down, the network WILL can a series; or if the creators start asking for too much money).
Why is it when companies do something blatently evil that helps their bottom line it's an "obligation to the shareholders to maximize profits", and when it's not evil it's just an "incentive"?
If you have the memory for it, you can turn the pagefile down to 2MB and save yourself all of that paging headache. Frankly, my laptop has 768MB of memory and I use it for Mozilla, putty, Word, Excel, etc... It's not like I run Opnet or Autocad on the thing. Turning down the page file changed Mozilla from taking 30 seconds to about 5 minutes to swap back in (not kidding!) to having it come up in seconds every time. It also lets my disk spin down most of the time, whereas when I had it set to "auto" Windows would incessently pound on the disk and never let it sleep. The only downside is the annoying "You're low on virtual memory!" message you get when you log in.
Doesn't windows already do this? It drives me nuts how it loves to page out stuff that it thinks I'm not using, and then forget about it. There's nothing worse than minimizing Mozilla, firing up putty for awhile, then wanting to go back to Mozilla and have windows seemingly page the whole application back in (verrry slowly).
I finally fixed it by just telling windows to make a 2MB pagefile and be done with it. My system is far far faster now that windows isn't constantly pounding the disk (and my disk gets to spin down, which is nice in a laptop). The only downside is the annoying "your system is almost out of swap!" message when you start it up.
Yeah I was an idealist too. Then I went to the meeting and realized that everybody on the board was actually employed by the cable company they were supposed to be regulating! Apparently nobody had heard of the concept of Conflict of Interest. I just love town politics. I just wish I could figure out a way to work up enough intrest to get the local residents mad, but this apparently ranks as a "What's the problem? These are the guys who know how this stuff works, why change it?" to most of the townsfolk, including the city reps who appointed them. Morons.
Part of the point of those earbuds is that they don't block out environmental sounds very much. That's not very good for pure audio quality, but very helpful for catching PA annoucements in the subway station or hearing the horn of the bus that is about to run you over.
Plus, you look like a total dweeb jogging with those big cups on.
It's all a matter of perspective. Busnesses love to complain about unions, and rightfully so if they have to compete with people who use slave labor in some southeast asian country. Still, it is a fact that the wage gap is increasing in this country (the Rich are getting proportionally richer while the poor get proportionally poorer) so obviously unions aren't doing their job of equalizing the pay scales.
If a union had absolute power, the unionized workers would have the same pay as the management. If management had absolute power (which they used to have, which is why unions came around), then workers get just enough to survive and keep on working while Management gets everything that is left. For an example of this, look at the Coal industry before Unions came about. The best place to be is somewhere in the middle, but unfortunatly saying in the middle requires pull from both sides, which can easily erupt into conflict when either side pulls too hard.
One of the big reasons you're getting fantastic battery life is that your batteries are new. As laptop batteries age, they lose an enormous amount of their storage capacity. It's even worse if you leave a laptop plugged in most of the time. Laptop "battery conditioning" circuitry seems to greatly reduce the life of batteries, no matter what kind of laptop you have. I've got these Dell Latitudes at work that come with two batteries. Because we have crappy power here, I always leave one plugged in and only swap the other one in when I'm on the road (they hold charge really well though, so leaving it out for a month is not a problem). After a year the battery I left in the laptop all of the time has about 1/3 of the runtime of the one I only swapped in occasionally. This is not unique to Dells either, every laptop brand I've ever used (going back to Powerbook 170s and the like) has the same problem. If you leave the batteries in all of the time the laptop will kill them.
Well, yeah, if you encode the Prime number in Binary it will not look Random at all. It will look like a giant string of 1s though... Aliens might mistake it for filler or something.
Just for the heck of it, I tried your google search, but I can't seem to come up with many sites that can even keep the terminology straight or provide basic references.
A lot of the sites read like those ones that use "science" to debunk evolution, where they write up articles that read like science journals, but are lacking in substence. Usually it's the guys who scream stuff like: "How can you call yourself scientists when you discount my paper without even discussing it!?" Which is of course a trick question because there is nothing in the paper you could even discuss, other than perhaps how badly the author misunderstands the basic principals of science.
Remember, you can't convince everybody--and you don't have to, they'll come around eventually if your data is right and your concolusions sound. There are still people who think the Earth is flat and only 4000 years old. What you also can't do is just make up just whatever theory you want and get it treated seriously by the scientific community at large unless you have some compelling evidence to back up your claim. This is why you don't see debates like: Professor Dale Higgens vs. p4an01d on the feasability of anti-gravity devices using kitten livers, unless of course the net kook floats through the door.
If you try to go to their webmail, it chides you for not using a supported browser (Firefox 1.0 or Mozilla 1.7.3 for instance) and instead insists that you use an IE based browser and is actually broken in Gecko based browsers. It also has the feel of a crappy, thrown together site.
There is an interesting article in Scientific American this month. The author suggests that Humans have in fact halted and reversed an Ice age through the development of agriculture about 8000 years ago. It is a fascinating read and he presents some rather compelling evidence in the form of atmospheric CO2 level readings from thousands of years ago to today.
Wow, I wasn't going to get into this, but this post...
1. Scientists never come to "unanimous concensus" on anything, that's not how science works. That's how Dogma works. Science is the search of truth through experimentation and observation, you can't find truth if you're judgements are clouded by preconception. There is always someone somewhere trying to disprove even the most basic theores. That said, it's almost impossible to find a respected member of the community who denys Global Warming anymore, although there are no shortage of crackpots (guys who do no actual science, just make up their own stuff and spout it off in front of national commitees. People who have maybe one peer reviewed article published ever and suddenly become experts in everything, etc...).
2. We've actually got a LOT of data. Ice cores from the artic for instance provide a good indication of the percentage of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. There was a great article in Scientific American charting the progress of greenhouse gasses over the past 8,000 years via this method.
3. The Sun's Cycles are actually fairly well understood at this point.
4. Who is running trends against a 10 year forecast? Local variation is hard to filter out as is pure chaos at that level. That's why it most everybody has gone to longer term data sources to analyize the trends. There has been some talk about rapid climate change, but as far as I know those claims are still treated with scepticism among the community at large. They'll need stronger evidence to convince the majority of scientists.
5. Global climate change isn't like predicting the amount of rain you are going to get next Tuesday. Whereas local effects are chaotic and difficult to pin down, long term trends tend to be very predictable although hard to observe (especially if they are subtle). However, this is not a new field, and the general proponderance of evidence has shifted most scientists into the "yep, global warming is real" camp. One gets the feeling that the ones who are left in the "not enough evidence" camp at this point have some other agenda and will never have enough evidence, even if it's 80C in Toranto.
6. Remember what I said about subtle effects? They require subtle solutions.
By "recycling someone else's data" do you really mean "doing your homework?" Are you not allowed to talk about this unless you've personally dug ice cores out of the artic or examined ancient peat moss? I know the "global warming is a myth" guys hate to drag actual scientific discoveries and observations into the disussion (they always attack the evidence, looking for the smallest hint of uncertanty, which all observed data has because nobody is omniscient).
Here's a hint, if your argument boils down to: "You can't say anything because there is a chance, no matter how slight, that you are wrong." Then you have missed the point. There is ALWAYS the chance that you are wrong. Any theory can be disproven. The best you can do is say "This is the most likely conclusion based on all of the known data." Even though there is a massive body of evidence supporting your claim and nothing opposing it, there is always a chance that someone somewhere will disprove your claim. Yes, Global Warming COULD be a myth perpetuated by mountains of bad testing procedures or flawed premesis, but the chances of that happening are extremely slim at this point. In much the same way, the Sun might be made out of Cream Cheese and all of our data might be in error.
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I think the Russians managed to send a couple of probes to Venus back in the 70s or 80s. I think they lasted long enough to send back one or two panaramic shots before being destroyed.
If you want to do any sort of extended stay on Venus you're going to have to either terraform the planet or live in floating cities near the top of the atmosphere. Plus: Plants may like the CO2, but the other compounds in the atmosphere are rather toxic.
Because the BBC miniseries was terrible? And I'm not just talking about the speical effects either.
I had one of those professors. The lectures were about 10x more interesting and engaging, but his tests were terrible because everybody went off and studied what they found most interesting in the class (he tended to go off on short tangents about once every other day) and would be annoyed to discover that the test covered mostly the material they didn't find as interesting and had pretty much forgotten by the end of the lecture.
It didn't help that he was one of those professors that gave multiple choice tests where every answer was technically correct, but one was more correct than the others.
I was surprised at just how far companies like Kingston have to go to honor their lifetime warentee. I worked for SGI a couple of years ago and I was using a old beat up (8 years obsolete and it still performs decently!) Personal Iris 4D/35 when after a power failure it failed to boot complaining about bad memory. So I pull the thing apart and find that it has an enormous board with 16 SIMM-like slots. I pull out the offending module and notice 2 things:
1. It is obviously some sort of custom memory module unlike any I had ever seen before, and hasn't been manufactured in years and years.
2. It has a Kingston Memory sticker on the front.
So, I decide to see just how good the "lifetime warentee" is. Amazingly enough, they send me an RMA label right away and within days I have a brand new memory module and the system is back up and working perfectly! I was truely amazed that they were still willing to honor their agreement (I've had many bad "lifetime" warentees before where the "lifetime" is defined as 1 year or other BS) without complaint or hesitation.
Those root boxes are a terrible design, they're almost as bad as the alternatives. Basically, you're kinda stuck if you want to do administration with windowing programs like that, since the GTK libraries don't even like to start if you're running as root (so sudo admintool tends to break), and users won't stand for logging out and logging back in as root to change their IP address or some other trivial administrative task. Of course you can do everything from the command line (it's safer that way), but that goes counter to the whole neophyte friendly thing that most distros strive for (or in some cases, were designed for). GTK or Qt are too complex to be considered secure for ANY root programs anyway, but it's not like there are many other options.
Yeah OEMs LOVE to stick the cheapest drives possible on their systems. Even the high end IBM servers we have at work have the crappiest CD-ROM drives I've ever used. The part I scrounge out of systems that I'm disposing of is the CD-ROM, since I need so many replacements for the ones that fail in the lab. It's a real pain in the butt. On the other hand, I bought a 4X CD-ROM back when that was fast (1995 or so), and it still works like a dream. I have an old SGI with a 1x CD-ROM (and an old Macintosh (Sony) 2x CD-ROM) that work great, of course they need those annoying caddys...
On the other hand, for what you had to pay for those old CD-ROMs, you could buy 5 or 6 cheap nasty knockoff drives today, and the cheap ones are a heck of a lot faster.
In my opinion, there are 2 major reasons why people never use the filesystem/registry security on their machines and just run as administrator:
/var/db/program.db: Permission denied). Instead you start the program and get a dialog box that simply reads "Error: Failure to start engine: Insufficent privleges" or something equally useless (they almost never tell you where to look). Now the user is left scratching their head as to where the problem is. In the unix one, it's more "technical" and "scary", but it's also far more practical. In the unix example, the user is going to look at the file mentioned and notice that hey, he doesn't have write access. In the Windows example the user is just going to log out and log back in as administrator, because they have almost no chance of fixing it otherwise. Of course the Windows example here is a lot friendlier to non-technical types (they don't have to even look at the filesystem to try to solve the problem), but it's also these non-technical types that get a dozen worms on their machine.
1. There are too many places where permissions can be set/overridden/etc. While in theory ACLs are nice for fine grained locking, in practice they are too complicated for the average user.
2. (and this one is the kicker), when a user runs up against a permissions issue in Windows, they don't get something like you would see in Unix (File
IMHO, MacOSX does a pretty good job of making regular users run as regular users and only escalating privleges when necessary (it prompts you for your password when it does this too).
You forgot the fourth option: They slow down the TV show to match the speed of the manga (Dragonball). I seriously hope the creators of Naruto aren't contemplating that path.
Given that shuttles are estimated to have a disaster in about 1 out of every hundred flights (which has thus far borne out with our space program), that would mean we would have a shuttle lost every year or so.
Also, who is going to pay for all of this fuel for a launch every 4 days? While there is definatly a case that we need to get more shuttle flights (or something) up (there is a backlog of satellites waiting on the shuttle), Isn't 91 flights a year overdoing it a bit. This sounds like one of those evil genious fantasys where you don't have to worry about the money and can build whatever you want.
Minor nit, Naruto in Japan is only up to episode 128 (and this is counting the hour long specials as 2 episodes each). While I don't doubt they could run to 200+ episodes, they have not done so yet. Many series get killed at fairly arbitrary times (if the storyline starts to suck and viewership goes down, the network WILL can a series; or if the creators start asking for too much money).
Why is it when companies do something blatently evil that helps their bottom line it's an "obligation to the shareholders to maximize profits", and when it's not evil it's just an "incentive"?
If you have the memory for it, you can turn the pagefile down to 2MB and save yourself all of that paging headache. Frankly, my laptop has 768MB of memory and I use it for Mozilla, putty, Word, Excel, etc... It's not like I run Opnet or Autocad on the thing. Turning down the page file changed Mozilla from taking 30 seconds to about 5 minutes to swap back in (not kidding!) to having it come up in seconds every time. It also lets my disk spin down most of the time, whereas when I had it set to "auto" Windows would incessently pound on the disk and never let it sleep. The only downside is the annoying "You're low on virtual memory!" message you get when you log in.
Doesn't windows already do this? It drives me nuts how it loves to page out stuff that it thinks I'm not using, and then forget about it. There's nothing worse than minimizing Mozilla, firing up putty for awhile, then wanting to go back to Mozilla and have windows seemingly page the whole application back in (verrry slowly).
I finally fixed it by just telling windows to make a 2MB pagefile and be done with it. My system is far far faster now that windows isn't constantly pounding the disk (and my disk gets to spin down, which is nice in a laptop). The only downside is the annoying "your system is almost out of swap!" message when you start it up.
Yeah I was an idealist too. Then I went to the meeting and realized that everybody on the board was actually employed by the cable company they were supposed to be regulating! Apparently nobody had heard of the concept of Conflict of Interest. I just love town politics. I just wish I could figure out a way to work up enough intrest to get the local residents mad, but this apparently ranks as a "What's the problem? These are the guys who know how this stuff works, why change it?" to most of the townsfolk, including the city reps who appointed them. Morons.
Part of the point of those earbuds is that they don't block out environmental sounds very much. That's not very good for pure audio quality, but very helpful for catching PA annoucements in the subway station or hearing the horn of the bus that is about to run you over.
Plus, you look like a total dweeb jogging with those big cups on.
It's all a matter of perspective. Busnesses love to complain about unions, and rightfully so if they have to compete with people who use slave labor in some southeast asian country. Still, it is a fact that the wage gap is increasing in this country (the Rich are getting proportionally richer while the poor get proportionally poorer) so obviously unions aren't doing their job of equalizing the pay scales.
If a union had absolute power, the unionized workers would have the same pay as the management. If management had absolute power (which they used to have, which is why unions came around), then workers get just enough to survive and keep on working while Management gets everything that is left. For an example of this, look at the Coal industry before Unions came about. The best place to be is somewhere in the middle, but unfortunatly saying in the middle requires pull from both sides, which can easily erupt into conflict when either side pulls too hard.
It sounds to me like the site operators of Allofmp3 did a pretty good job of bribing whoever they needed to get the case thrown out of court.
It uess 102 pounds/hour when cruising. It takes a lot more fuel to get up to cruising altitude.
So what comics do you find funny? Of course all of this is in the eye of the beholder, so opinions are somewhat worthless in this field.
Also, PVP and Superosity? How did you come up with that odd couple? It's not too often I see Superosity listed as one of the "greats".
One of the big reasons you're getting fantastic battery life is that your batteries are new. As laptop batteries age, they lose an enormous amount of their storage capacity. It's even worse if you leave a laptop plugged in most of the time. Laptop "battery conditioning" circuitry seems to greatly reduce the life of batteries, no matter what kind of laptop you have. I've got these Dell Latitudes at work that come with two batteries. Because we have crappy power here, I always leave one plugged in and only swap the other one in when I'm on the road (they hold charge really well though, so leaving it out for a month is not a problem). After a year the battery I left in the laptop all of the time has about 1/3 of the runtime of the one I only swapped in occasionally. This is not unique to Dells either, every laptop brand I've ever used (going back to Powerbook 170s and the like) has the same problem. If you leave the batteries in all of the time the laptop will kill them.
Well, yeah, if you encode the Prime number in Binary it will not look Random at all. It will look like a giant string of 1s though... Aliens might mistake it for filler or something.
No evidence is good enough is it?
Just for the heck of it, I tried your google search, but I can't seem to come up with many sites that can even keep the terminology straight or provide basic references.
A lot of the sites read like those ones that use "science" to debunk evolution, where they write up articles that read like science journals, but are lacking in substence. Usually it's the guys who scream stuff like: "How can you call yourself scientists when you discount my paper without even discussing it!?" Which is of course a trick question because there is nothing in the paper you could even discuss, other than perhaps how badly the author misunderstands the basic principals of science.
Remember, you can't convince everybody--and you don't have to, they'll come around eventually if your data is right and your concolusions sound. There are still people who think the Earth is flat and only 4000 years old. What you also can't do is just make up just whatever theory you want and get it treated seriously by the scientific community at large unless you have some compelling evidence to back up your claim. This is why you don't see debates like: Professor Dale Higgens vs. p4an01d on the feasability of anti-gravity devices using kitten livers, unless of course the net kook floats through the door.
If you try to go to their webmail, it chides you for not using a supported browser (Firefox 1.0 or Mozilla 1.7.3 for instance) and instead insists that you use an IE based browser and is actually broken in Gecko based browsers. It also has the feel of a crappy, thrown together site.
There is an interesting article in Scientific American this month. The author suggests that Humans have in fact halted and reversed an Ice age through the development of agriculture about 8000 years ago. It is a fascinating read and he presents some rather compelling evidence in the form of atmospheric CO2 level readings from thousands of years ago to today.
Wow, I wasn't going to get into this, but this post...
1. Scientists never come to "unanimous concensus" on anything, that's not how science works. That's how Dogma works. Science is the search of truth through experimentation and observation, you can't find truth if you're judgements are clouded by preconception. There is always someone somewhere trying to disprove even the most basic theores. That said, it's almost impossible to find a respected member of the community who denys Global Warming anymore, although there are no shortage of crackpots (guys who do no actual science, just make up their own stuff and spout it off in front of national commitees. People who have maybe one peer reviewed article published ever and suddenly become experts in everything, etc...).
2. We've actually got a LOT of data. Ice cores from the artic for instance provide a good indication of the percentage of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. There was a great article in Scientific American charting the progress of greenhouse gasses over the past 8,000 years via this method.
3. The Sun's Cycles are actually fairly well understood at this point.
4. Who is running trends against a 10 year forecast? Local variation is hard to filter out as is pure chaos at that level. That's why it most everybody has gone to longer term data sources to analyize the trends. There has been some talk about rapid climate change, but as far as I know those claims are still treated with scepticism among the community at large. They'll need stronger evidence to convince the majority of scientists.
5. Global climate change isn't like predicting the amount of rain you are going to get next Tuesday. Whereas local effects are chaotic and difficult to pin down, long term trends tend to be very predictable although hard to observe (especially if they are subtle). However, this is not a new field, and the general proponderance of evidence has shifted most scientists into the "yep, global warming is real" camp. One gets the feeling that the ones who are left in the "not enough evidence" camp at this point have some other agenda and will never have enough evidence, even if it's 80C in Toranto.
6. Remember what I said about subtle effects? They require subtle solutions.
By "recycling someone else's data" do you really mean "doing your homework?" Are you not allowed to talk about this unless you've personally dug ice cores out of the artic or examined ancient peat moss? I know the "global warming is a myth" guys hate to drag actual scientific discoveries and observations into the disussion (they always attack the evidence, looking for the smallest hint of uncertanty, which all observed data has because nobody is omniscient).
Here's a hint, if your argument boils down to: "You can't say anything because there is a chance, no matter how slight, that you are wrong." Then you have missed the point. There is ALWAYS the chance that you are wrong. Any theory can be disproven. The best you can do is say "This is the most likely conclusion based on all of the known data." Even though there is a massive body of evidence supporting your claim and nothing opposing it, there is always a chance that someone somewhere will disprove your claim. Yes, Global Warming COULD be a myth perpetuated by mountains of bad testing procedures or flawed premesis, but the chances of that happening are extremely slim at this point. In much the same way, the Sun might be made out of Cream Cheese and all of our data might be in error.