Keep in mind that NOAA climate model revisions tend to decrease previously recorded historical temperature over the range of 30-130 years ago. These raw data adjustments are due to inaccurate instruments that were likely reporting higher than actual temperatures during these time periods. Not only does this correct the record, but it has the side-effect of highlighting our current emergency climate situation. Fortunately, the wikipedia editors are very quick to incorporate these new (models) of historical data as soon as they are published - this helps build trust in the current pop-science narrative to all but the most critical thinkers.
"What we see is that the early part of the record has been adjusted downward (cooler) by over half a degree F"
If you're interested in learning more, freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives a weekly(ish) live stream via instagram to bring a lot more climate studies knowledge to the masses; here's one from yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Relative to cargo ships (emission equivalent of 50,000,000 cars) and maritime waste due to environmental policies of certain leading export countries, this is relatively unimportant.
Instead, perhaps we could focus on reducing our practice of shipping raw materials via cargo ships to countries without environmental regulations or labor laws. Currently, these countries manufacture many of our goods at a much lower cost - by dumping waste into the ocean, employing children, and using components that are known by the state of California to cause cancer.
Then they burn even more oil to ship the finished product back to our country.
Here's an extremely understated introduction to the problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (all the statistics cited are from the International Maritime Organization, and are substantially lower than what is now (12 years ago) known: https://www.theguardian.com/en... )
I suppose this fact checking article is technically accurate for a very specific and narrow set of criteria... which aren't even well defined in TFA. (Technically right? That's the best kind of right!)
"Pants on fire" - (Number is correct, but fails to mention the cause) "False" - (Transgender girls aren't boys) "Mostly False" - (The numbers are valid, the comparison is questionable)
From Article However, as the stewards of the UNIX operating system, SCO is committed to providing technology leadership and delivering on the promise of UNIX-based solutions for many years to come.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Novell the stewards of UNIX?
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But since you ask about why I work as an Information Systems Coordinator, that's a bit longer story. I started college early - in fact, I finished my Bachelor's in Chemistry when I was 18 & my Master's when I was 21. So as you can imagine, at that age, I wasn't certain what I wanted to do with my life! I'm a quick learner, so it was easy for me to master the UNIX (Well, Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9, Tru64, HPUX, Irix, AIX, Linux (Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake) & maybe one or two other flavors... mostly System V though, I wasn't too keen on BSD), Windows & MacOS operating systems. Believe it or not, my biggest weakness as an IS Coordinator is the administrative & managerial responsibilities!
As far as the thread you linked, it maintained a +5 insightful for a good 36 hours after I posted it. (It ate ~20 mod points within the first 36 hours). Those that agreed with my points moved on. Those that did not kept coming back as they received additional mod points and modded me down to flamebait. Oh well, I don't care so much about karma as I do opening peoples' eyes to the truth!
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I remember when we first started hearing about the idea of black boxes being put in passenger vehicles... The first thing all the supporters said is "Your car already has one! You know... your check engine light, etc." Other supporters realized how a black box would help them if a drunk driver hit them & it was his word against them. The black box would tell the truth.
Then the opponents of black boxes mentioned that sooner or later, insurance companies & Big Brother(tm) would be pushing for mandatory black boxes.... and not just for noble purposes! They reasoned that a new insurance policy could introduce some new limitation clauses - like if you were going more than 3 mph over the speed limit when an uninsured motorist collided with you, your uninsured motorist coverage would be voided.
Well, here we are, a few years later and NIST is recommending mandatory black boxes.
Well, I'm not going to refute every point you made (although if it were earlier in the day, I would consider it!)... But how about this one.
the appendix, not used, not needed, useless leftover that causes problems for some people.
I don't blame you for believing this lie. In fact, if you look at an Encyclopedia Britannica from the late 90's, you'll see the same remarks.
However, if you jump back to 1976 and read the medical journal Gastroenterology ~p.1130, you'll see the first admission that the Appendix is not just some vestigal structure! That was the first time medical doctors began to realize that the appendix is in fact part of your lymph system.
By the 90's, medical textbooks were becoming even more emphatic that the appendix is a very important part of your Lymph systems. They have found that it not only contains BLymphocytes which are used to create immunoglobulins, but it also 'samples' the contents of your large intestines to ensure bacteria don't overpopulate it.
Now thirty years later, people such as yourself are left ignorant of facts such as the real function of your appendix - facts that are hidden from you by authors who are so insecure in their own worldview that they feel compelled to keep conflicting research hidden from the average reader (student).
Thanks for asking of I'm stupid, re: Flagellum. So there's the advantage - it helps the bacteria move. How silly of me - how did I miss the obviousness of your 'truth?' How do you suppose such an intricate piece of molecular machinery came to be? You say "Perhaps in earlier forms it helped the baceria move in a different way" Um, ok, click my link, look at the picture that includes all the distinct pieces of it. How could any one of those help move a bacterium without the other 4 pieces? What evolutionary advantage would gradually evoloving the 'power supply' for the flagellum give a bacterium? What advantage would the 'brushings' give the bacteria? Did I mention that this is actually way more complex than a simple 2 or 4 pole motor? It has several DOZEN 'poles' that are correctly synchronized to keep the flagellum moving forwards or backwards (depending on which direction the bacterium decides to go). If they fire incorrectly, it would be like driving a car without a timing belt - nothing would happen and the engine would self destruct. (in the same way, the flagellum would break to pieces).
I'm pretty sure you didn't look at the link I provided - take a look and explain to me how any one piece of the flagellum spinning mechanism could help a bacterium move on it's own. Remember, at each stage of mutation, the bacterium must have an advantage of some sort to ensure that it will continue to reproduce. Even Darwin concedes that if you were able to show him something that he called 'irreducibly complex,' that his own theory would need to be thrown out the window.
Darwin doesn't even mention mousetraps in the chapter
You are absolutely correct! My apologies for being misleading (and completely incorrect!) in my wording.
The fact that Darwin says that "he can find no such case" is irrelevant to my post... But thank you for adding more context to the passage I mentioned.
That appears to have been written by an angsty graduate student from the University of California in Santa Barbara... just skim over this response to his paper.
Bombardier beetles are awesome... I remember reading about them in a chemistry textbook - I always wanted to see one in action.
From another site:
The bombardier beetle lives in South America and relies on the enzyme catalysed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to defend itself against predators.
The beetle has a gland on the tip of its abdomen that contains two chambers. One chamber contains a mixture of hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide and the other contains a mixture of two enzymes, catalase and peroxidase. When the beetle is threatened it mixes the contents of the two chambers. The enzymes catalyse the decomposition of hydroquinone and of hydrogen peroxide. Both of these reactions are exothermic so the mixture gets hot. The oxygen from the decomposition of the hydrogen peroxide builds up a pressure that is used by the beetle to spray its attacker with a stream of hot, corrosive liquid.
I never thought about that being an irredudibly complex system... but I see the wiki article you linked to even mentions the possibility.
Humans drive cars and cars are driven by humans. Without a car, humans can't drive. Without a human, cars cannot be driven. Since we have such an irreducibly complex system, we must therefore conclude that humans and cars were created at the same time.
I'm sure you were trying to make a point with that statement, but I'm not sure what that point might be as your analogy is neither self consistent nor relevant to my post...
The reason why we have a pulse is because it's hard for evolution to result in turbines or continuously spinning things.
That's a loaded sentence:-)
It's also hard for evolution to result in something as complex as an eye; In fact, if you look at how many seperate pieces must 'evolve' for an eye to function, you'll realize that a turbine would be much easier to 'evolve' than an eye.
This is not flamebait... lol... In fact, run over to your library (bookshelf?) and grab a copy of Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species..." and turn to page 162. Read the section about the mousetrap. Darwin concludes that "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." (i.e., an irreducibly complex system). A mousetrap has five essential pieces - and if any one of them is missing (i.e., the spring, the hammer, the catch, the platform or the holding bar), the trap will not function.
But back to a turbine, which you say is impossible for to evolve on its own...
I'll take your challenge one step further and show you something that does exist in nature: the flagella on a bacterium.
A flagellum looks kinda like a hair that's attached to the surface of the bacterium. It acts like a propeller & allows the bacterium to swim. The flagellum is attached to and rotated by a small electrical motor made up of several different proteins.
The flagellum contains a rod (i.e., a drive shaft), a hook (i.e., a universal joint), L and P rings (i.e., bushings), S and M rings (i.e., the rotor), and a C ring & stud (stator). The electrical power for driving the motor is supplied by the voltage difference developed across the cell membrane.
Anyway, what was that about evolution not being able to cause a turbine to be created? I definitely agree with you on that point!
Can anyone offer a plausible explanation for how any one of the pieces of a bacterial flagellum would offer that bacterium some sort of advantage?
That said, it would be really weird to not feel my own heartbeat!
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"What we see is that the early part of the record has been adjusted downward (cooler) by over half a degree F"
If you're interested in learning more, freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives a weekly(ish) live stream via instagram to bring a lot more climate studies knowledge to the masses; here's one from yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Relative to cargo ships (emission equivalent of 50,000,000 cars) and maritime waste due to environmental policies of certain leading export countries, this is relatively unimportant.
Instead, perhaps we could focus on reducing our practice of shipping raw materials via cargo ships to countries without environmental regulations or labor laws. Currently, these countries manufacture many of our goods at a much lower cost - by dumping waste into the ocean, employing children, and using components that are known by the state of California to cause cancer.
Then they burn even more oil to ship the finished product back to our country.
Here's an extremely understated introduction to the problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (all the statistics cited are from the International Maritime Organization, and are substantially lower than what is now (12 years ago) known: https://www.theguardian.com/en... )
I, for one, welcome our new Communist overlords.
I suppose this fact checking article is technically accurate for a very specific and narrow set of criteria... which aren't even well defined in TFA. (Technically right? That's the best kind of right!)
It reminds me of these recent fact checks: http://imgur.com/a/tSs3o
"Pants on fire" - (Number is correct, but fails to mention the cause)
"False" - (Transgender girls aren't boys)
"Mostly False" - (The numbers are valid, the comparison is questionable)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Order_Monsters
Another great Paul Reiche III title -
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16322014.700-a-black-hole-ate-my-planet.html
"Within 24 hours, the laboratory issued a rebuttal: the risk of such a catastrophe was essentially zero"
Try using the infamous pre-SP1 vlk that starts with FCKGW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCKGW
Q:What do you call Batman & Robin after they get hit by a car? >
A:Flatman & Ribbon!
From Article
However, as the stewards of the UNIX operating system, SCO is committed to providing technology leadership and delivering on the promise of UNIX-based solutions for many years to come.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Novell the stewards of UNIX?
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Try connecting an unpatched Solaris 2.6 box to the internet. Within a day it will be hacked and much more dangerous than any hacked Windows PC.
Caleb
I published a paper in the Journal of Chemical education last December, but I also posted in on our own website for anyone to download...
No need to cuss ;-)
Since you're interested... I actually am a decent chemist. I'm even published in a peer-reviewed journal.
But since you ask about why I work as an Information Systems Coordinator, that's a bit longer story. I started college early - in fact, I finished my Bachelor's in Chemistry when I was 18 & my Master's when I was 21. So as you can imagine, at that age, I wasn't certain what I wanted to do with my life! I'm a quick learner, so it was easy for me to master the UNIX (Well, Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9, Tru64, HPUX, Irix, AIX, Linux (Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake) & maybe one or two other flavors... mostly System V though, I wasn't too keen on BSD), Windows & MacOS operating systems. Believe it or not, my biggest weakness as an IS Coordinator is the administrative & managerial responsibilities!
As far as the thread you linked, it maintained a +5 insightful for a good 36 hours after I posted it. (It ate ~20 mod points within the first 36 hours). Those that agreed with my points moved on. Those that did not kept coming back as they received additional mod points and modded me down to flamebait. Oh well, I don't care so much about karma as I do opening peoples' eyes to the truth!
Click on my name & look at my info box if you're curious about my background in science.
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I remember when we first started hearing about the idea of black boxes being put in passenger vehicles... The first thing all the supporters said is "Your car already has one! You know... your check engine light, etc." Other supporters realized how a black box would help them if a drunk driver hit them & it was his word against them. The black box would tell the truth.
Then the opponents of black boxes mentioned that sooner or later, insurance companies & Big Brother(tm) would be pushing for mandatory black boxes.... and not just for noble purposes! They reasoned that a new insurance policy could introduce some new limitation clauses - like if you were going more than 3 mph over the speed limit when an uninsured motorist collided with you, your uninsured motorist coverage would be voided.
Well, here we are, a few years later and NIST is recommending mandatory black boxes.
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Well, I'm not going to refute every point you made (although if it were earlier in the day, I would consider it!)... But how about this one.
the appendix, not used, not needed, useless leftover that causes problems for some people.
I don't blame you for believing this lie. In fact, if you look at an Encyclopedia Britannica from the late 90's, you'll see the same remarks.
However, if you jump back to 1976 and read the medical journal Gastroenterology ~p.1130, you'll see the first admission that the Appendix is not just some vestigal structure! That was the first time medical doctors began to realize that the appendix is in fact part of your lymph system.
By the 90's, medical textbooks were becoming even more emphatic that the appendix is a very important part of your Lymph systems. They have found that it not only contains BLymphocytes which are used to create immunoglobulins, but it also 'samples' the contents of your large intestines to ensure bacteria don't overpopulate it.
Now thirty years later, people such as yourself are left ignorant of facts such as the real function of your appendix - facts that are hidden from you by authors who are so insecure in their own worldview that they feel compelled to keep conflicting research hidden from the average reader (student).
Thanks for asking of I'm stupid, re: Flagellum. So there's the advantage - it helps the bacteria move. How silly of me - how did I miss the obviousness of your 'truth?' How do you suppose such an intricate piece of molecular machinery came to be? You say "Perhaps in earlier forms it helped the baceria move in a different way" Um, ok, click my link, look at the picture that includes all the distinct pieces of it. How could any one of those help move a bacterium without the other 4 pieces? What evolutionary advantage would gradually evoloving the 'power supply' for the flagellum give a bacterium? What advantage would the 'brushings' give the bacteria? Did I mention that this is actually way more complex than a simple 2 or 4 pole motor? It has several DOZEN 'poles' that are correctly synchronized to keep the flagellum moving forwards or backwards (depending on which direction the bacterium decides to go). If they fire incorrectly, it would be like driving a car without a timing belt - nothing would happen and the engine would self destruct. (in the same way, the flagellum would break to pieces).
I'm pretty sure you didn't look at the link I provided - take a look and explain to me how any one piece of the flagellum spinning mechanism could help a bacterium move on it's own. Remember, at each stage of mutation, the bacterium must have an advantage of some sort to ensure that it will continue to reproduce. Even Darwin concedes that if you were able to show him something that he called 'irreducibly complex,' that his own theory would need to be thrown out the window.
Maybe you could sell your old account on eBay :-) It's a sub 550k UID...
Darwin doesn't even mention mousetraps in the chapter
You are absolutely correct! My apologies for being misleading (and completely incorrect!) in my wording.
The fact that Darwin says that "he can find no such case" is irrelevant to my post... But thank you for adding more context to the passage I mentioned.
That appears to have been written by an angsty graduate student from the University of California in Santa Barbara... just skim over this response to his paper.
Don't be misled...
Bombardier beetles are awesome... I remember reading about them in a chemistry textbook - I always wanted to see one in action.
From another site:
The bombardier beetle lives in South America and relies on the enzyme catalysed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to defend itself against predators.
The beetle has a gland on the tip of its abdomen that contains two chambers. One chamber contains a mixture of hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide and the other contains a mixture of two enzymes, catalase and peroxidase. When the beetle is threatened it mixes the contents of the two chambers. The enzymes catalyse the decomposition of hydroquinone and of hydrogen peroxide. Both of these reactions are exothermic so the mixture gets hot. The oxygen from the decomposition of the hydrogen peroxide builds up a pressure that is used by the beetle to spray its attacker with a stream of hot, corrosive liquid.
I never thought about that being an irredudibly complex system... but I see the wiki article you linked to even mentions the possibility.
Humans drive cars and cars are driven by humans. Without a car, humans can't drive. Without a human, cars cannot be driven. Since we have such an irreducibly complex system, we must therefore conclude that humans and cars were created at the same time.
What are you talking about? Do you have any idea what an irreducibly complex system is? How about Natural Selection? (The basis of the theory of evolution.)
I'm sure you were trying to make a point with that statement, but I'm not sure what that point might be as your analogy is neither self consistent nor relevant to my post...
The reason why we have a pulse is because it's hard for evolution to result in turbines or continuously spinning things.
:-)
That's a loaded sentence
It's also hard for evolution to result in something as complex as an eye; In fact, if you look at how many seperate pieces must 'evolve' for an eye to function, you'll realize that a turbine would be much easier to 'evolve' than an eye.
This is not flamebait... lol... In fact, run over to your library (bookshelf?) and grab a copy of Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species..." and turn to page 162. Read the section about the mousetrap. Darwin concludes that "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." (i.e., an irreducibly complex system). A mousetrap has five essential pieces - and if any one of them is missing (i.e., the spring, the hammer, the catch, the platform or the holding bar), the trap will not function.
But back to a turbine, which you say is impossible for to evolve on its own...
I'll take your challenge one step further and show you something that does exist in nature: the flagella on a bacterium.
A flagellum looks kinda like a hair that's attached to the surface of the bacterium. It acts like a propeller & allows the bacterium to swim. The flagellum is attached to and rotated by a small electrical motor made up of several different proteins.
The flagellum contains a rod (i.e., a drive shaft), a hook (i.e., a universal joint), L and P rings (i.e., bushings), S and M rings (i.e., the rotor), and a C ring & stud (stator). The electrical power for driving the motor is supplied by the voltage difference developed across the cell membrane.
Anyway, what was that about evolution not being able to cause a turbine to be created? I definitely agree with you on that point!
Can anyone offer a plausible explanation for how any one of the pieces of a bacterial flagellum would offer that bacterium some sort of advantage?
That said, it would be really weird to not feel my own heartbeat!