The written words will get more powerful as the children get older. Videos are nice, but this is an opportunity (that's a bad choice of words, given the situation) to speak to the descendants.
"Walking Special" sign seen at a local pizza restaurant. Presumably someone wanted to write, "walk-in special" but forgot the hyphen. Then someone else came along and noticed the error and added the 'g'.
Thanks for the reply. What was that recent news about Triceratops? I don't doubt evolution but I'm starting to wonder about grant-needing scientists assembling random bones to "create" long-extinct animals.
His point might be that the difference between now and then is that they (10,000 years ago) wouldn't have been able to do anything about the situation, whereas we (now) think we can.
Was carbon dioxide detected? And while we're pretending, what life forms did they imagine to exist in a sodium and ozone environment (in addition to the N2 and O2, of course)? Could these imaginary life forms be carbon-based, or just some kind of woo-woo amazing aliens that have maybe possibly been visiting Earth for the past decades (well, since 1947) and probing innocent bystanders up the butt. Am I anti-science or ignorant/arrogant for demanding proof of aliens? So many questions.
Are you the sort that wets his pants when told that your risk of getting cancer has tripled to 0.49%?
You are referencing science fiction authors? Have you heard of Jerry Pournelle or is he too old and not with it.
I'm curious - do you have children?
Ahem, listen: zero point zero four percent. Isn't that within background noise range? Don't you think there might be another cause for "warming" if there actually is any beyond cherry-picking? http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm
When you make liquid oxygen you suck in huge amounts of atmospheric air into what are called the main air compressors. Strangely, no plant or animal life suffers. Then you take out the CO2 via adsorbers (used to be done via reversing exchangers).
Anyway, it's logical that such huge flowrates collect particulates which have to be discarded if you want to be able to breathe pure oxygen at the hospital or need "6 nines" nitrogen.
In large air separation plants (read: big bucks where local officials are placated) environmental concerns just don't happen.
It's been possible to build small air sep plants for some time, but these don't have huge budgets. Guess what inevitably happens - yup, some local rent-seeking opportunist pops up and "raises awareness".
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.
I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets. I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat.400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.
I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.
I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four-course meals using only a Mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.
I agree. My work/field would benefit a lot from government-mandated CO2 abatement. But that's not the right way to go, IMHO. The "H" in "IMHO" has been propagated, IMHO, by many who are not so "H" and have a lot of "O".
Cheers.
"With exposure to X your risk of getting cancer triples!". What is never mentioned is that even after tripling, that risk is still only 1% and researchers fed lab rats X 1000 times what they would ever experience in the real world.
CO2 makes up approximately 0.039% of the atmosphere and is about 1.5 times heavier than air. How can it possibly be creating a "greenhouse effect"? I might add that a greenhouse is not analogous to the earth.
I was under the impression that there was a fair amount of complex piping involved in the shuttles. How about the N2 is stored as liquid air doing double duty as O2 source and re-entry shield gas?
That reminded me of another application of nitrogen as a shielding gas in high temperature environments, the shrouded tuyere in copper/nickel converters.
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I agree. Great advice.
Man, there's nothing I can say to you. I'm truly not worthy.
Thanks for your message. It made me think.
The written words will get more powerful as the children get older. Videos are nice, but this is an opportunity (that's a bad choice of words, given the situation) to speak to the descendants.
Best wishes, I hope things work out OK.
"Walking Special" sign seen at a local pizza restaurant. Presumably someone wanted to write, "walk-in special" but forgot the hyphen. Then someone else came along and noticed the error and added the 'g'.
Barack Obama didn't have experience as president, either.
Thanks for the reply. What was that recent news about Triceratops? I don't doubt evolution but I'm starting to wonder about grant-needing scientists assembling random bones to "create" long-extinct animals.
I notice you didn't mention extraterrestrial aliens...
His point might be that the difference between now and then is that they (10,000 years ago) wouldn't have been able to do anything about the situation, whereas we (now) think we can.
Sounds like a cool new reality game show!
Was carbon dioxide detected? And while we're pretending, what life forms did they imagine to exist in a sodium and ozone environment (in addition to the N2 and O2, of course)? Could these imaginary life forms be carbon-based, or just some kind of woo-woo amazing aliens that have maybe possibly been visiting Earth for the past decades (well, since 1947) and probing innocent bystanders up the butt. Am I anti-science or ignorant/arrogant for demanding proof of aliens? So many questions.
Are you the sort that wets his pants when told that your risk of getting cancer has tripled to 0.49%? You are referencing science fiction authors? Have you heard of Jerry Pournelle or is he too old and not with it. I'm curious - do you have children?
In 2009, the CO2 global average concentration in Earth's atmosphere was about 0.0387% by volume.
Ahem, listen: zero point zero four percent. Isn't that within background noise range? Don't you think there might be another cause for "warming" if there actually is any beyond cherry-picking? http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm
When you make liquid oxygen you suck in huge amounts of atmospheric air into what are called the main air compressors. Strangely, no plant or animal life suffers. Then you take out the CO2 via adsorbers (used to be done via reversing exchangers).
Anyway, it's logical that such huge flowrates collect particulates which have to be discarded if you want to be able to breathe pure oxygen at the hospital or need "6 nines" nitrogen.
In large air separation plants (read: big bucks where local officials are placated) environmental concerns just don't happen.
It's been possible to build small air sep plants for some time, but these don't have huge budgets. Guess what inevitably happens - yup, some local rent-seeking opportunist pops up and "raises awareness".
[waves fist] Finally I have someone to blame! You owe me $7.50 and 135 minutes of my life that I'll never get back!
Brilliantly said. Bravo.
Oh yeah? Well...
.400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.
I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets. I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat
I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.
I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four-course meals using only a Mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.
But I have not yet gone to college.
So *there*, you snooty elitist-type.
You failed to mention McGill and I am reporting you to your local Human Rights Commission for failure to do so.
If you're really good, go work for Aveva.
I agree. My work/field would benefit a lot from government-mandated CO2 abatement. But that's not the right way to go, IMHO. The "H" in "IMHO" has been propagated, IMHO, by many who are not so "H" and have a lot of "O". Cheers.
"With exposure to X your risk of getting cancer triples!". What is never mentioned is that even after tripling, that risk is still only 1% and researchers fed lab rats X 1000 times what they would ever experience in the real world.
CO2 makes up approximately 0.039% of the atmosphere and is about 1.5 times heavier than air. How can it possibly be creating a "greenhouse effect"? I might add that a greenhouse is not analogous to the earth.
I was under the impression that there was a fair amount of complex piping involved in the shuttles. How about the N2 is stored as liquid air doing double duty as O2 source and re-entry shield gas?
That's the way I read it too. And yes, N2 is cheap.
That reminded me of another application of nitrogen as a shielding gas in high temperature environments, the shrouded tuyere in copper/nickel converters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture_recognition#.22Gorilla_arm.22