My comment was in reference to not being able to grow crops in Siberia. I mentioned Antarctica as once having lush vegetation. While you are somewhat correct about the fact that Antarctica was in movement it was in fact located over the south pole 100 million years ago and had forests upon it at that period in time. The carbon level in the atmosphere was around 1000 ppm whereas modern day levels are around 400 I believe. I remembered some of this from school but have recently been doing some interesting reading.
"From about 100 myr ago (later Cretaceous) the crust of Australia and New Zealand begin separating from Antarctica. By this time Antarctica is already positioned over the South Pole."
It seems that even with no ice caps at all there was still plenty of vegetation. It was in fact a hothouse, humid and wet not dry and arid. Thus the term "greenhouse" gases. I imagine if tropical vegetation can grow then other crops can as well.
And it's ignorant to think we know enough to do it right. What we have is livable, even the most radical environmental global warming proponent's projections wont mean the end of life on this planet. Start adjusting things without an absolute certainty of what we're doing and this planet can become a snowball. Imagine frigid temperatures at the equator. It's happened in the far past and it could happen again.
They were once covered with lush vegetation and quite warm.
100 million years ago, surface waters around Antarctica were about 15 degrees Celsius. At this time, the vegetation on the peninsula was lush, and there were conifers. The mean annual temperatures has been estimated at 17 to 19 degrees Celsius.
It's all just about boiling water. We boiled water with wood, then coal, natural gas and now nuclear power. All these years and we're still boiling water.
Nuclear is dead in the US. It's been regulated to the point that it's not financially viable to build one. I know a guy who worked on the construction of one and he said what caused the massive costs overruns is that the plans constantly change while you are building. He said they would build a wall, then tear it down and build another wall with different specs then a year late the specs would change again. He built one wall four times. The cost overruns and impossibility to meet any kind of schedule kill it.
I have a Chromecast already. I took it out of the box, hooked it up to my TV and set it up to work with my tablet and computer. I then put it back in the box. What a waste of $35 dollars. It's so locked down as to be useless. If that's Intel's idea of a product then they can keep it.
Oh I get that point. I also get the point that sending a half ass production is worse than none at all. If you can't do it right then don't piss all that money away trying to do it lamely. They could have doubled the budget and imporved their odds all out of proportion to the money spent. Sure, I understand tradeoffs having often had to put projects on hold until I had the money to actually accomplish them.
I was ignorantly assuming that they'd do everything they could to insure the accomplishment of the mission. I realize how foolish I was now. Look at all the money they saved.
I'd never stay in a place that had such a policy. The fact that they have that policy tells me all I need to know about them. I'd thank them for letting me know ahead of time that they suck.
I've heard that argument for decades. I look at what has gone on where we throw money at problems. It doesn't convince me. Maybe I'm just not clever enough to figure out how helping warlords buy more weapons so they can enslave more people is all that helpful. Regardless, the money is gone and there is precious little to show for it.
Man don't you get it? Hydrogen is extremely dangerous. If you've ever seen the stupid things people do with gas and how many die from it then you'd realize that hydrogen will be several orders of magnitude worse.
Look man, I would like nothing better than to walk to the corner down from my house, get on a bus and go to the train station where I'd take a train to town, get off the train and walk to my job. I'd love it, hell I've done it when I was in the air force stationed at Lindsey Air Force Station in Wiesbaden, West Germany. Here though it just isn't practical because people are spread out so much. I live in a county with population about 140,000 in an area of about 380 square miles. People are spread all over the place not stacked asshole to elbow like in Germany. Most people, the vast majority live in single family dwellings. You have no idea of the situation here or it would be plain to you. The nearest big city is over 30 miles away and really that is pretty spread out as well. They've talked for decades about a high speed train from that city, Macon, to Atlanta. They can't generate any interest because it'll cost a fortune and then people will still ride their cars up the interstate highway leaving the state holding the bag for all that expense of maintenance and operation. Every study has confirmed this so that even the proponents have pretty much given up. In the Northeast of the USA it's more like Europe. Lots of high population centers not that far from each other. I really don't see why a system like these high speed trains wouldn't work there but for the rest of the country it's a bust.
If gasoline goes to 40 dollars a gallon then it might make mass transportation viable. Other than that though people usually go for the cheapest option.
Try getting a proposal to build out high speed rail passed. Put it on the ballot and it'll fail. The reason is that not enough people want it because they have to pay for it and it's not important enough to most people because most people will never use it. That's democracy in action. People bitch enough about building roads but most people use them so they know they have to pay. They bitch but they pay.
I can see an argument for high speed passenger service in the Northeast. New York, Boston, Baltimore, DC. Where else outside of that general area? They've been talking high speed rail in Georgia for decades and every study shows it'll bankrupt the state. Atlanta has some monorail service and the rest is served by bus. Outside of metropolitan Atlanta there is very little public transportation, the car rules. Most states are like that. Maybe one or two large cities and then lots of smaller cities and towns spread far apart. I remember when I was stationed in West Germany back in the 80's the population was somewhere near 90 million or so people in a country about the size of Oregon. The public transportation was fantastic. I hardly ever drove my car anywhere. As much as I'd like something like that here I know it is just not possible.
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My comment was in reference to not being able to grow crops in Siberia. I mentioned Antarctica as once having lush vegetation. While you are somewhat correct about the fact that Antarctica was in movement it was in fact located over the south pole 100 million years ago and had forests upon it at that period in time. The carbon level in the atmosphere was around 1000 ppm whereas modern day levels are around 400 I believe. I remembered some of this from school but have recently been doing some interesting reading.
http://www.discoveringantarcti...
"From about 100 myr ago (later Cretaceous) the crust of Australia and New Zealand begin separating from Antarctica. By this time Antarctica is already positioned over the South Pole."
It seems that even with no ice caps at all there was still plenty of vegetation. It was in fact a hothouse, humid and wet not dry and arid. Thus the term "greenhouse" gases. I imagine if tropical vegetation can grow then other crops can as well.
And it's ignorant to think we know enough to do it right. What we have is livable, even the most radical environmental global warming proponent's projections wont mean the end of life on this planet. Start adjusting things without an absolute certainty of what we're doing and this planet can become a snowball. Imagine frigid temperatures at the equator. It's happened in the far past and it could happen again.
They were once covered with lush vegetation and quite warm.
100 million years ago, surface waters around Antarctica were about 15 degrees Celsius. At this time, the vegetation on the peninsula was lush, and there were conifers. The mean annual temperatures has been estimated at 17 to 19 degrees Celsius.
It's all just about boiling water. We boiled water with wood, then coal, natural gas and now nuclear power. All these years and we're still boiling water.
People are the source of all pollution. If we could just get rid of all the people then there would be no more pollution.
Nuclear is dead in the US. It's been regulated to the point that it's not financially viable to build one. I know a guy who worked on the construction of one and he said what caused the massive costs overruns is that the plans constantly change while you are building. He said they would build a wall, then tear it down and build another wall with different specs then a year late the specs would change again. He built one wall four times. The cost overruns and impossibility to meet any kind of schedule kill it.
I have a Chromecast already. I took it out of the box, hooked it up to my TV and set it up to work with my tablet and computer. I then put it back in the box. What a waste of $35 dollars. It's so locked down as to be useless. If that's Intel's idea of a product then they can keep it.
They already have plenty of computational power. They just need to borrow the NSA's computers.
Oh I get that point. I also get the point that sending a half ass production is worse than none at all. If you can't do it right then don't piss all that money away trying to do it lamely. They could have doubled the budget and imporved their odds all out of proportion to the money spent. Sure, I understand tradeoffs having often had to put projects on hold until I had the money to actually accomplish them.
I was ignorantly assuming that they'd do everything they could to insure the accomplishment of the mission. I realize how foolish I was now. Look at all the money they saved.
I'd never stay in a place that had such a policy. The fact that they have that policy tells me all I need to know about them. I'd thank them for letting me know ahead of time that they suck.
It's the only way to get a tablet that is open to run Linux. My Nokia N800 is obsolete and this looks like a viable replacement.
I've heard that argument for decades. I look at what has gone on where we throw money at problems. It doesn't convince me. Maybe I'm just not clever enough to figure out how helping warlords buy more weapons so they can enslave more people is all that helpful. Regardless, the money is gone and there is precious little to show for it.
He's using that new math.
Man don't you get it? Hydrogen is extremely dangerous. If you've ever seen the stupid things people do with gas and how many die from it then you'd realize that hydrogen will be several orders of magnitude worse.
If you're in the car next to a car having a hydrogen explosion it's going to be bad.
Look man, I would like nothing better than to walk to the corner down from my house, get on a bus and go to the train station where I'd take a train to town, get off the train and walk to my job. I'd love it, hell I've done it when I was in the air force stationed at Lindsey Air Force Station in Wiesbaden, West Germany. Here though it just isn't practical because people are spread out so much. I live in a county with population about 140,000 in an area of about 380 square miles. People are spread all over the place not stacked asshole to elbow like in Germany. Most people, the vast majority live in single family dwellings. You have no idea of the situation here or it would be plain to you. The nearest big city is over 30 miles away and really that is pretty spread out as well. They've talked for decades about a high speed train from that city, Macon, to Atlanta. They can't generate any interest because it'll cost a fortune and then people will still ride their cars up the interstate highway leaving the state holding the bag for all that expense of maintenance and operation. Every study has confirmed this so that even the proponents have pretty much given up. In the Northeast of the USA it's more like Europe. Lots of high population centers not that far from each other. I really don't see why a system like these high speed trains wouldn't work there but for the rest of the country it's a bust.
If gasoline goes to 40 dollars a gallon then it might make mass transportation viable. Other than that though people usually go for the cheapest option.
It's not "some" Americans don't want it. It's most Americans don't need it.
We have buses for those places. Dedicated bus lanes are great.
Really? They have trains to nowhere?
Try getting a proposal to build out high speed rail passed. Put it on the ballot and it'll fail. The reason is that not enough people want it because they have to pay for it and it's not important enough to most people because most people will never use it. That's democracy in action. People bitch enough about building roads but most people use them so they know they have to pay. They bitch but they pay.
I can see an argument for high speed passenger service in the Northeast. New York, Boston, Baltimore, DC. Where else outside of that general area? They've been talking high speed rail in Georgia for decades and every study shows it'll bankrupt the state. Atlanta has some monorail service and the rest is served by bus. Outside of metropolitan Atlanta there is very little public transportation, the car rules. Most states are like that. Maybe one or two large cities and then lots of smaller cities and towns spread far apart. I remember when I was stationed in West Germany back in the 80's the population was somewhere near 90 million or so people in a country about the size of Oregon. The public transportation was fantastic. I hardly ever drove my car anywhere. As much as I'd like something like that here I know it is just not possible.