This is turning violent! I say we tie all the environmentalists up and barbecue spotted owls!
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The "democratic" (read elite socialist oligarchy) portion of our society would like to return us (meaning the people) to the stone age. It has nothing to do with the environment. It's all about control.
If in a century or two we find that carbon dioxide is really damaging our environment, then we can remove it. Technology has been the solution to all of our problems for several hundred years, why stop now?
All I hear is: Ban Human Cloning! Ban Nuclear Power! Ban SUV's! Ban Diesel Engines! WHY??!
WE ARE THE TOP OF THIS FOOD CHAIN. Welcome to natural selection. Nature will always adapt. If the malaysian spotted shit frog goes extinct, WHO CARES! We could nuke the whole planet bare and nature would recover.
Oh, and just to make things clear. I'm not a conservative. I'm not a "liberal". If you feel the need to label: I'm an Atheist Libertarian. }
Michigan, Ohio, Florida, California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, Texas, Germany, and Austria.
My only complaint's are the over abundance of vacant steel mills in the rust belt, and the air quality in Los Angeles!
It's not the end of the world! People don't die of black lung in the US because they use Charcoal to heat their homes. Even our coal fired power plants have scrubbers and pollute very little. The worst pollutant in the US is GASOLINE. But maybe if the feds hadn't destroyed the interstate rail system we wouldn't have nearly the problem.
The point is, we do everything we can within reason to preserve our environment in the US.
Go to Mexico where sewage runs free in the streets!
Imagine if the ecowhacko's would let us use Nuclear power? Then we could get rid of all of those petrol based sources. But will they let us, NO! Why? Because they would rather bitch and whine and let Al Gore tell us that we should all drive Geo's while he flies about in his private jet, or 5+ liter V8 Limo. Maybe he can invent functional fusion power for us to use.
Who is we? I don't see any problem with my environment here in the US. The environmental disaster area's are in china, eastern europe, and Russia. Why is it WE in the US are always the one's who get the blame?
Has anyone considered that the most probable ecological disaster is an Ice Age?? Our global environment has been in fluctuation between warm and cold for 900,000 years!
Maybe the CO2 will save us from the next one! Maybe we're just delaying it. Who knows how much environmental change is natural vs. mankind? I'm not sure we have enough of an observational timeline to say that we have caused any of it.
My point is that the global climate is dynamic. Maybe we should stop flipping out about every tiny variation. It's obvious that pretty extreme fluctuations occur normally!
Oh yes, let's have a carbon tax. But since I have no elected representatives in the UN. I don't have to pay it.
There is no way that the US is ever going to allow the UN to institute a national ANYTHING tax. You can do what you want, but I have enough problems with representative taxation, let alone unilateral taxation!
Sorry, off topic, but if anyone deserves money from the "WTC" attacks, it is the families of those who died in the Pentagon. They didn't get the 1mil government buy off that the civie families got. They got military compensation of less than 50K.
I think that would be ok for voice transmission, but I'm not sure I would trust it for networking. What happens when your A/C kicks on? Or someone turns on the can opener? I think you would have to put a noise filter on all of your household appliances!
Demonstration: coil your CAT5 around a hair dryer a couple of times and turn it on. See what your packet loss is then!
Microwave background is pretty decent evidence that it was in fact collapsed, hot, and dense. If it didn't start out as a singularity, you then have to answer, what brought it back in after the last expansion. We can't account for enough matter to cause collapse. Even if we count estimated "dark matter" there isn't enough. Current evidence shows that the universe has an open structure and will expand forever. This theory is subject to change upon the introduction of new evidence; but that doesn't make it speculative, only deductive.
Dense yes, solid no. Neutron star material is degenerate matter. The matter is so compressed that the electrons are forced into the nucleus and everything (protons+electrons=neutrons) turns into neutrons. Neutrons have no repulsion to each other and are frictionless, yet cannot occupy the same space (like Bosons can in EBC). Neutron star degenerate matter is a superfluid. A very, very, dense superfluid.
I don't think you can classify the big bang theory as speculative. From observed redshift in distant galaxies we know that our universe is expanding. It follows that if the universe is expanding now, then it had to have been "smaller" in the past. Since you can only get smaller for so long (14 billion years?) until you reach zero size, then the universe had a beginning. Thus the big bang.
If anyone has a better theory, I'd like to hear it. (Please, no imaginary wanderings about universal omnipotent beings that snap their fingers and what not.)
We can't even get our government to admit that social security is doomed. How are we going to convince them to spend billions of dollars on shipping ppl to Mars?
Err... The last ELE (Extinction Level Event) was 65 MILLION years ago. I rather think that anything large enough to "turn the earth in to a giant blob of lava" would classify as a mass extinction. Humans were around 780K years ago. I think a 1+Km asteroid would have put a quite a damper on the human race! It seemed to have worked for the dinosaurs.
Just how large would an asteroid have to be to "melt" the earth? Certainly the K-T asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs was not. It was well over 1Km. It made a big crater and probably burnt off most of the biomass on earth, but I think melting the Earth is a little much. If any impact were large enough, it may have been during the creation of our moon some billions of years ago.
I seem to remember reading in Wired a few years ago that it was fundamentally impossible to network through the power lines. Something to do with the loss of coherent data through the voltage transformers.
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This is turning violent! I say we tie all the environmentalists up and barbecue spotted owls!
rant() {
The "democratic" (read elite socialist oligarchy) portion of our society would like to return us (meaning the people) to the stone age. It has nothing to do with the environment. It's all about control.
If in a century or two we find that carbon dioxide is really damaging our environment, then we can remove it. Technology has been the solution to all of our problems for several hundred years, why stop now?
All I hear is: Ban Human Cloning! Ban Nuclear Power! Ban SUV's! Ban Diesel Engines! WHY??!
WE ARE THE TOP OF THIS FOOD CHAIN. Welcome to natural selection. Nature will always adapt. If the malaysian spotted shit frog goes extinct, WHO CARES! We could nuke the whole planet bare and nature would recover.
Oh, and just to make things clear. I'm not a conservative. I'm not a "liberal". If you feel the need to label: I'm an Atheist Libertarian.
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Where? I've lived all over the US and Europe:
Michigan, Ohio, Florida, California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, Texas, Germany, and Austria.
My only complaint's are the over abundance of vacant steel mills in the rust belt, and the air quality in Los Angeles!
It's not the end of the world! People don't die of black lung in the US because they use Charcoal to heat their homes. Even our coal fired power plants have scrubbers and pollute very little. The worst pollutant in the US is GASOLINE. But maybe if the feds hadn't destroyed the interstate rail system we wouldn't have nearly the problem.
The point is, we do everything we can within reason to preserve our environment in the US.
Go to Mexico where sewage runs free in the streets!
Imagine if the ecowhacko's would let us use Nuclear power? Then we could get rid of all of those petrol based sources. But will they let us, NO! Why? Because they would rather bitch and whine and let Al Gore tell us that we should all drive Geo's while he flies about in his private jet, or 5+ liter V8 Limo. Maybe he can invent functional fusion power for us to use.
Who is we? I don't see any problem with my environment here in the US. The environmental disaster area's are in china, eastern europe, and Russia. Why is it WE in the US are always the one's who get the blame?
Has anyone considered that the most probable ecological disaster is an Ice Age?? Our global environment has been in fluctuation between warm and cold for 900,000 years!
Maybe the CO2 will save us from the next one! Maybe we're just delaying it. Who knows how much environmental change is natural vs. mankind? I'm not sure we have enough of an observational timeline to say that we have caused any of it.
My point is that the global climate is dynamic. Maybe we should stop flipping out about every tiny variation. It's obvious that pretty extreme fluctuations occur normally!
Here is a timeline of past ice ages.
Oh yes, let's have a carbon tax. But since I have no elected representatives in the UN. I don't have to pay it.
There is no way that the US is ever going to allow the UN to institute a national ANYTHING tax. You can do what you want, but I have enough problems with representative taxation, let alone unilateral taxation!
Sorry, off topic, but if anyone deserves money from the "WTC" attacks, it is the families of those who died in the Pentagon. They didn't get the 1mil government buy off that the civie families got. They got military compensation of less than 50K.
But it's so much more fun. Just think, you're putting your money back into the local economy, rather than funneling it overseas!
I think that would be ok for voice transmission, but I'm not sure I would trust it for networking. What happens when your A/C kicks on? Or someone turns on the can opener? I think you would have to put a noise filter on all of your household appliances!
Demonstration: coil your CAT5 around a hair dryer a couple of times and turn it on. See what your packet loss is then!
Microwave background is pretty decent evidence that it was in fact collapsed, hot, and dense. If it didn't start out as a singularity, you then have to answer, what brought it back in after the last expansion. We can't account for enough matter to cause collapse. Even if we count estimated "dark matter" there isn't enough. Current evidence shows that the universe has an open structure and will expand forever. This theory is subject to change upon the introduction of new evidence; but that doesn't make it speculative, only deductive.
Didn't I say no.... Nevermind....
Dense yes, solid no. Neutron star material is degenerate matter. The matter is so compressed that the electrons are forced into the nucleus and everything (protons+electrons=neutrons) turns into neutrons. Neutrons have no repulsion to each other and are frictionless, yet cannot occupy the same space (like Bosons can in EBC). Neutron star degenerate matter is a superfluid. A very, very, dense superfluid.
Aren't Neutron stars fluid? ; )
I don't think you can classify the big bang theory as speculative. From observed redshift in distant galaxies we know that our universe is expanding. It follows that if the universe is expanding now, then it had to have been "smaller" in the past. Since you can only get smaller for so long (14 billion years?) until you reach zero size, then the universe had a beginning. Thus the big bang.
If anyone has a better theory, I'd like to hear it. (Please, no imaginary wanderings about universal omnipotent beings that snap their fingers and what not.)
We can't even get our government to admit that social security is doomed. How are we going to convince them to spend billions of dollars on shipping ppl to Mars?
Err... The last ELE (Extinction Level Event) was 65 MILLION years ago. I rather think that anything large enough to "turn the earth in to a giant blob of lava" would classify as a mass extinction. Humans were around 780K years ago. I think a 1+Km asteroid would have put a quite a damper on the human race! It seemed to have worked for the dinosaurs.
Just how large would an asteroid have to be to "melt" the earth? Certainly the K-T asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs was not. It was well over 1Km. It made a big crater and probably burnt off most of the biomass on earth, but I think melting the Earth is a little much. If any impact were large enough, it may have been during the creation of our moon some billions of years ago.
Actually BEC and Fermion gas are more about low energy than high : )
Maybe you should be worrying about the accidental creation of strangelets in an particle accelerator!
I seem to remember reading in Wired a few years ago that it was fundamentally impossible to network through the power lines. Something to do with the loss of coherent data through the voltage transformers.