The TV commercial you describe refers to this site..
How can you argue with this?
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a Presidential initiative to build "FutureGen," a $1 billion project that will lead to the world's first emission-free plant to produce electricity and hydrogen from coal while capturing greenhouse gases.
But maybe the situation can be reversed with some hugely generous reconciliation efforts on the Israeli side.
I think yours is an accurate reading of the situation. But why would Israel want to "reverse the situation" by committing suicide. The occupying Arabs simply do not merit it. They do not belong in Judeo-Christian lands. The most humane plan would be for each family in Judea and Samarra to be given $50,000 and entry to another Arab country.
John Lewis in Mining the Sky posits significant quantities of water under the surface of Phobos.
Such claims are completely unjustified by observational facts, which was my original point.
it is a good staging point for Mars teleoperation and we already know that Mars has water in it's polar caps and Elysium.
As I said, Phobos and Deimos equatorial orbits make them shitty platforms for exploration. You cannot reach the polar caps from an equatorial orbit. It takes a great deal of energy to change the inclination of an orbit from 0 to 90 degrees.
My point, which seems to be lost on you, is that the glaciers in GLACIER NATIONAL PARK are almost completely gone, and will be in 20 years. We're talking about an incredible amount of melting over 50 years, by the way. Google the Columbia Ice Fields for some shocking pictures.
Considering that an entire continental ice sheet melted rapidly 12,000 years ago, the minute movements of a few mountain glaciers do not seem like much.
Learn some geography, Dingleberry. I am referring to Great Slave Lake, Lake Athabasca (Alberta) , Reindeer Lake, Lake Winnepeg. As I said, an engineering problem, not a water shortage. The American Southwest went to a whole hell of a lot more trouble to secure water supplies than Canada ever will.
If the plan is to "land" on an asteroid and plant a flag (or whatever), it's probably a good idea to actually know ahead of time that there's solid ground there. If I recall correctly, the most recent asteroid fly-bys suggested that it was mostly loose gravel held together by microgravity. Imagine "landing" and finding yourself sinking into a bunch of rocks that start flying about.
This is an ancient line of reasoning going back to the pre-Apollo Lunar Surveyor missions. It was a silly argument then and now. The surface of Eros was strong enough for NEAR to land on. Ofcourse any discussion of strength in a 0.001g gravity field is kind of silly. Soil compaction, even in a low g environment will tend to increase over time as the surface is struck by impactors, even on a disrupted asteroid.
The real action is going to be on Phobos and Mars, in that order. Don't look for the next Iceland, look for the next New York City, the slam-dunk locations in space. The Lagrange points in the Earth-Moon system, Earth-crossing "dead" comets and Mar's small moons are good candidates.
Phobos and Deimos equatorial orbits are marginally useful for exploration. Exploration missions will likely use polar orbits because of the much greater geographic coverage and landing options.
Phobos allows both resource extraction including actual water (not maybes in polar shadows)
Phobos and Deimos are S and C type asteroids repectively. S class Eros was found to be devoid of water. It is not likely that Deimos is water rich either.
Personally, what I find most convincing is graphs of current and historical CO2 levels.
p>I don't object at all with the direct CO2 measurements. It is the wild pseudoscience and politicization surrounding them that is so troubling. I am also bothered that there is no discussion of the relative tradeoffs between economic growth and CO2 output.
Disruption of the gulf stream - not predicted to happen just yet, so this prediction hasn't been refuted.
I would be happy with *any* observable effects. The rhetoric would suggest that the process in imminent. But no, they are perpetually 5 years off, which was the point of my original post.
Desertification of the US midwest - underway.
In the past 10 years I have lived in Kansas and Minnesota, where we have enjoyed excellent harvests without exception.
I live in Alberta (Canada), and we expect to run out of glacial runoff in the next 15-20 years, leaving our river and main source of water bone dry for half the year. On top of that, the climate is getting dryer, and the water shelf is dropping. These are known to most residents here.
I assume you live on the eastern slopes of the Rockies (a desert) with a rapidly growing population (like Denver). The mountain interior is very wet but there are no large lakes. North and east you have some of the largest fresh water bodies in the world. Your problem is one of lagging civil engineering not climate.
US crop failures - we'll see. Technology is improving all the time to offset this. Its happened before, though.
Wait long enough and you might be right, for one year at least.
More frequent/severe Atlantic hurricanes (were there any this year?) - Nope, but again they expect a trend towards stronger storms, and last year it was certainly evident.
But if warming were such a major factor, wouldn't the forcing mechanism operate year to year. I am only using the 'Al Gore' argument in reverse. Maybe the hurricane cycle is more complex?
Decline of coral reefs - underway. Most of the reefs affected by El Nino (Belize's great barrier reef in particular) are almost completely dead. Scuba diving was a lot more interesting about 15 years ago.
one wonders if it isn't due to overuse by divers.
Disruption of Antarctic ice shelves - underway. There has been massive breakups of ice shelves in the last few years. Actually the predictions were mostly wrong; this is happening faster than we thought.
are you disputing the ozone hole now? That's a separate issue, but one that governments at least took significant steps towards solving around 15 years ago. The hole is larger this year than ever before, btw.
No. It has always been there. Chlorine compounds are activated at low temperatures in the stratisphere. When satellites looked, there it was! There has never not been an ozone hole!
1. The nuclear technology at North Korea does not come from China, but from Iran.
Iran and North Korea are beneficiaries of the Pakistani AQ Khan network. He hawked a Chinese plan for a nuclear weapon. Are you ignorant are do you choose to be obtuse?
2. Chinese government publicly denounced North Korea's nuclear test
The Chinese are duplicious, siding with and opposing the world community where it suits them. This is not new. Without China there would be no North Korea or Kim Jong Il.
3. Hong Kong is not in Europe and never was a part of UK but colonized in the Opium war
Yes, very successfully colonized, prosperous, and well administered. If that was conquest the world needs more. And that was thrown away because...?
You are of course well aware that you need a visa to visit China, but a simple EU or US passport is enough to visit HK. Or that you can't pay with HKD in China and can't pay with RMB in HK.
Splitting hairs, don't you think? Democracy is dead in Hong Kong. The UN resolution was used as a fig leaf by Thatcher for withdrawl. But if Hong Kong was good to give away to the communists, what about Singapore? You can't really blame Thatcher. What was she going to do, fight it out with China on their home turf? But it was a sad loss for the free world and a windfall for the slimy maoists. All the more reason to not let ot happen again with Taiwan.
In fact, China's main responsibility is to provide defense for HK since it doesn't have its own army.
What a hoot! Who besides China would ever present a threat to British-aligned Hong Kong.
Indeed it is hypocritical and downright foolish for the US not to back a highly successful Asian democracy. Surrendering it to the communists, like the British did with Hong Kong, would be a disaster. Since the worst has happened and North Korea is nuclear (a Chinese client with weapons of Chinese design), the US should insure that Taiwan and Japan have a nuclear deterrent as well. This would arrest Chinese adventurism in the region permanently.
In the beginning was a music recognition database called CDDB, and it was good.
Anyone who has worked with CDDB would disagree. Jamie Zewinski provides a detailed summary of its shortcomings. That someone steps forward as its "architect" makes me chuckle.
The Europeans have the advantage of learning from the mistakes made by the Air Force, as well as newer technology.
Europe has never maintained a large coordinated constellation of satellites and kept them operating continuously. It took the US Air Force 2 decades to perfect the logistics of launching, operating, retiring, and renewing GPS. I don't see a new, untested, marginally funded, civilian organization having fewer problems. In my opinion Galileo is another in the line of "me too" technical projects like Concorde and the A380 doomed to failure.
It is pretty obvious that Galileo will not be viable without military participation. Because it will be used by potential adversaries the US is in the regrettable position of planning countermeasures it in time of war.
The Chinese are taking power away from corporations and giving it to their people, by making public services available for free. That is almost the opposite of what happens in the West.
They take power from corporations and give it to the Peoples Liberation Army. By the way, GPS is free.
It took decades for the Air Force to learn how to manage a constellation of 24 satellites. It should be fun to watch China and Europe struggle with it.
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The TV commercial you describe refers to this site..
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These are normal development issues. Here is a good summary. Also it is not the Ares I launch vehicle that is overweight, but the Orion CEV.
I think yours is an accurate reading of the situation. But why would Israel want to "reverse the situation" by committing suicide. The occupying Arabs simply do not merit it. They do not belong in Judeo-Christian lands. The most humane plan would be for each family in Judea and Samarra to be given $50,000 and entry to another Arab country.
Such claims are completely unjustified by observational facts, which was my original point.
As I said, Phobos and Deimos equatorial orbits make them shitty platforms for exploration. You cannot reach the polar caps from an equatorial orbit. It takes a great deal of energy to change the inclination of an orbit from 0 to 90 degrees.
Considering that an entire continental ice sheet melted rapidly 12,000 years ago, the minute movements of a few mountain glaciers do not seem like much.
Learn some geography, Dingleberry. I am referring to Great Slave Lake, Lake Athabasca (Alberta) , Reindeer Lake, Lake Winnepeg. As I said, an engineering problem, not a water shortage. The American Southwest went to a whole hell of a lot more trouble to secure water supplies than Canada ever will.
This is an ancient line of reasoning going back to the pre-Apollo Lunar Surveyor missions. It was a silly argument then and now. The surface of Eros was strong enough for NEAR to land on. Ofcourse any discussion of strength in a 0.001g gravity field is kind of silly. Soil compaction, even in a low g environment will tend to increase over time as the surface is struck by impactors, even on a disrupted asteroid.
Phobos and Deimos equatorial orbits are marginally useful for exploration. Exploration missions will likely use polar orbits because of the much greater geographic coverage and landing options.
Phobos and Deimos are S and C type asteroids repectively. S class Eros was found to be devoid of water. It is not likely that Deimos is water rich either.
You can stop there. It is a leftist rag that has shilled for the British warming loonies for years.
I would be happy with *any* observable effects. The rhetoric would suggest that the process in imminent. But no, they are perpetually 5 years off, which was the point of my original post.
In the past 10 years I have lived in Kansas and Minnesota, where we have enjoyed excellent harvests without exception.
I assume you live on the eastern slopes of the Rockies (a desert) with a rapidly growing population (like Denver). The mountain interior is very wet but there are no large lakes. North and east you have some of the largest fresh water bodies in the world. Your problem is one of lagging civil engineering not climate.
Wait long enough and you might be right, for one year at least.
But if warming were such a major factor, wouldn't the forcing mechanism operate year to year. I am only using the 'Al Gore' argument in reverse. Maybe the hurricane cycle is more complex?
one wonders if it isn't due to overuse by divers.
Riiight.
No. It has always been there. Chlorine compounds are activated at low temperatures in the stratisphere. When satellites looked, there it was! There has never not been an ozone hole!
Your post reminds me of my favorite SpinalTap song.
Fair enough.
Unfullfilled climate predictions:
Can you think of any prediction that has come true?
You mean like global warming theorists?
Iran and North Korea are beneficiaries of the Pakistani AQ Khan network. He hawked a Chinese plan for a nuclear weapon. Are you ignorant are do you choose to be obtuse?
The Chinese are duplicious, siding with and opposing the world community where it suits them. This is not new. Without China there would be no North Korea or Kim Jong Il.
Yes, very successfully colonized, prosperous, and well administered. If that was conquest the world needs more. And that was thrown away because...?
Splitting hairs, don't you think? Democracy is dead in Hong Kong. The UN resolution was used as a fig leaf by Thatcher for withdrawl. But if Hong Kong was good to give away to the communists, what about Singapore? You can't really blame Thatcher. What was she going to do, fight it out with China on their home turf? But it was a sad loss for the free world and a windfall for the slimy maoists. All the more reason to not let ot happen again with Taiwan.
What a hoot! Who besides China would ever present a threat to British-aligned Hong Kong.
Indeed it is hypocritical and downright foolish for the US not to back a highly successful Asian democracy. Surrendering it to the communists, like the British did with Hong Kong, would be a disaster. Since the worst has happened and North Korea is nuclear (a Chinese client with weapons of Chinese design), the US should insure that Taiwan and Japan have a nuclear deterrent as well. This would arrest Chinese adventurism in the region permanently.
Simple thermodynamic reasoning is not sufficient when ppCO2 operates in a complex chemical system.
This Nature paper discusses the process. See the second paragraph.
Done!
Anyone who has worked with CDDB would disagree. Jamie Zewinski provides a detailed summary of its shortcomings. That someone steps forward as its "architect" makes me chuckle.
Europe has never maintained a large coordinated constellation of satellites and kept them operating continuously. It took the US Air Force 2 decades to perfect the logistics of launching, operating, retiring, and renewing GPS. I don't see a new, untested, marginally funded, civilian organization having fewer problems. In my opinion Galileo is another in the line of "me too" technical projects like Concorde and the A380 doomed to failure.
It is pretty obvious that Galileo will not be viable without military participation. Because it will be used by potential adversaries the US is in the regrettable position of planning countermeasures it in time of war.
They take power from corporations and give it to the Peoples Liberation Army. By the way, GPS is free.
It took decades for the Air Force to learn how to manage a constellation of 24 satellites. It should be fun to watch China and Europe struggle with it.
...But you can't hold a whole political party responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole party system? And if the whole political system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our government institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
Sweet!