Fail. Coastal glacier, no connection to the inland ice mass. Inland is also losing mass as well. This is pointed out in any number of posts above, which you managed to ignore in your rush to post this bit of foolishness.
Land rises and falls for the same reasons that continents drift, altitude of any particular spot will change over time. There probably wasn't much more water then, just the magma beneath your continental plate let it sink deeper. Or perhaps your plate has collided with others in the last few hundred million years and buckling has raised the middle.
Yeah, the reason that most of Antarctica is considered a desert is because it's too cold to snow most of the time. Cold air can't hold as much moisture as warm air, and when the air gets too cold there isn't enough moisture left to precipitate out in any meaningful way. I used to see it all the time growing up in Michigan, when the temperature dropped below -10F it stopped snowing. The air just couldn't pick up enough water vapor.
You need to travel more. Glacier National Park has a series of slides showing the retreat of all their glaciers. Coastal glaciers in Alaska are retreating so fast that Princess Cruises has had to change their glacier viewing routes. A photo of Huaraz, Peru from 1947 shows mountain peaks on both sides of the valley covered in glaciers, when I first went in 1986 only the eastern range had glaciers, when I went a few years ago half of the eastern range is now bare. There are valleys in Chile and Argentina that haven't been ice-free for at least 10,000 years that are now bare. Most of the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Fuji have melted away. It's obvious everywhere we look.
Generally they're in names because there should be a pause or short stop in the pronunciation, or because it's a shortened version of a longer name (so a contraction of sorts).
I've looked at it, and his 'perspective' is pretty much absurd. He seems to believe that only facts that can be tortured sufficiently to fit into his crippled world view are worth considering and anything else is either suspect, invalid, or the product of unsupportable pseudoscience (his definition of which is laughable, especially considering the source). So yeah, a waste of time for most people.
The kids that Nye will reach are those who are already doubting. They're doubting their faith, and probably their parents' reason for their faith as well. The seed of doubt is already planted, I'm hoping that Bill Nye can fertilize and water that little seed.
Bill Nye is an experienced public speaker, with the unusual ability to condense difficult and/or complex ideas into bite-size pieces. I've never seen Ham speak, but as Nye has facts, logic and authority on his side I can't help but think this should be entertaining at the least.
Seriously? You don't keep an original reference copy around when you make changes/updates to a program or database? You should, even if for no other reason than that if you fuck up enormously you can always return the system to the original state. In this case it would also serve as documentation that issues were preexisting.
I know you're being facetious, but authorities in some large cities are monitoring illegal drug usage in different neighborhoods by analyzing the sewage coming out of them.
Dunno about store-bought 'organic' tomatoes, but home-grown tomatoes are wonderful and only vaguely resemble the pink baseballs supermarkets try to pass off as "vine ripened tomatoes". One of the few complaints that I have about living in Seattle is that the climate is not really conducive to growing tomatoes (but I'll put up with reduced harvests in lieu of sweating all summer).
Where I would like to see this used is animal behavior studies. Attach them to social animals such as chickens or cattle and see how they actually interact through the day.
If you still want to take a company-paid vacation in eastern Europe let the remote staff move the cameras to wherever they want. As long as they point it at their workstation often enough that you can have a few screen shots to give management it can look out the window at traffic almost all day (triggering the motion detector). Have to admit, that is one of the dumbest management brainstorms that I've heard of in a while.
Place where I contracted a few years ago had an engineer who knew a little coding. He had slapped together a bunch of scripts that helped him in his work, they worked fine for what he was doing, mostly output some data that then ended up getting copied and pasted into various places manually. Some of the other engineers found his tools useful and started using them, and they spread throughout the company to other departments. Then management noticed.
Management wanted him to incorporate the scripts into their general management app, have DB tables update automatically, create work orders automatically, etc. Art took one look at what they wanted and declared himself too busy to have anything to do with a project like that (fortunately he was). Outside contractors came in, declared what he had done was junk, he admitted that it was, and the project as envisioned by management took a couple of years and several piles of money to complete.
He's a contractor, why does he care if the original designer gets the credit? If his manager is any good he may already know that this is a steaming pile, if an outside contractor can fix something without pissing off the original designer he's going to be a happy camper. If the contractor can enlist the assistance of the original writer to fix it, giving him an actual reason to claim some of the credit and an incentive to share, then everyone wins.
I live in Seattle, where even backed up rush-hour traffic can saturate the cellular network. We had a windstorm here a few years ago that made everything but a POTS line utterly unusable for three days. We also have earthquakes, floods, wildfires and several big honking volcanoes in the area. Cell phone might be more convenient, but if I want to add that little bit of extra security to my wife's life we'll keep the POTS line until they finally go away.
Unfortunately this Scientific American article is behind a paywall, it's where I originally saw mention of this. This article includes at least one of the articles that SciAm was referencing.
3000 miles long? Rather hard to believe. Pretty much impossible, really. A total of 3000 miles in various tunnels? Still close to ridiculous, but almost kind of sort of believable.
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Fail. Coastal glacier, no connection to the inland ice mass. Inland is also losing mass as well. This is pointed out in any number of posts above, which you managed to ignore in your rush to post this bit of foolishness.
Land rises and falls for the same reasons that continents drift, altitude of any particular spot will change over time. There probably wasn't much more water then, just the magma beneath your continental plate let it sink deeper. Or perhaps your plate has collided with others in the last few hundred million years and buckling has raised the middle.
That's just incredibly cool to contemplate.
Yeah, the reason that most of Antarctica is considered a desert is because it's too cold to snow most of the time. Cold air can't hold as much moisture as warm air, and when the air gets too cold there isn't enough moisture left to precipitate out in any meaningful way. I used to see it all the time growing up in Michigan, when the temperature dropped below -10F it stopped snowing. The air just couldn't pick up enough water vapor.
You need to travel more. Glacier National Park has a series of slides showing the retreat of all their glaciers. Coastal glaciers in Alaska are retreating so fast that Princess Cruises has had to change their glacier viewing routes. A photo of Huaraz, Peru from 1947 shows mountain peaks on both sides of the valley covered in glaciers, when I first went in 1986 only the eastern range had glaciers, when I went a few years ago half of the eastern range is now bare. There are valleys in Chile and Argentina that haven't been ice-free for at least 10,000 years that are now bare. Most of the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Fuji have melted away. It's obvious everywhere we look.
Can't say as I haven't lost my own data from time to time . . .
Generally they're in names because there should be a pause or short stop in the pronunciation, or because it's a shortened version of a longer name (so a contraction of sorts).
I've looked at it, and his 'perspective' is pretty much absurd. He seems to believe that only facts that can be tortured sufficiently to fit into his crippled world view are worth considering and anything else is either suspect, invalid, or the product of unsupportable pseudoscience (his definition of which is laughable, especially considering the source). So yeah, a waste of time for most people.
Wow, so much stupid in such a short post. I'm impressed.
The kids that Nye will reach are those who are already doubting. They're doubting their faith, and probably their parents' reason for their faith as well. The seed of doubt is already planted, I'm hoping that Bill Nye can fertilize and water that little seed.
Bill Nye is an experienced public speaker, with the unusual ability to condense difficult and/or complex ideas into bite-size pieces. I've never seen Ham speak, but as Nye has facts, logic and authority on his side I can't help but think this should be entertaining at the least.
Seriously? You don't keep an original reference copy around when you make changes/updates to a program or database? You should, even if for no other reason than that if you fuck up enormously you can always return the system to the original state. In this case it would also serve as documentation that issues were preexisting.
I know you're being facetious, but authorities in some large cities are monitoring illegal drug usage in different neighborhoods by analyzing the sewage coming out of them.
Dunno about store-bought 'organic' tomatoes, but home-grown tomatoes are wonderful and only vaguely resemble the pink baseballs supermarkets try to pass off as "vine ripened tomatoes". One of the few complaints that I have about living in Seattle is that the climate is not really conducive to growing tomatoes (but I'll put up with reduced harvests in lieu of sweating all summer).
Viagra and several antidepressants are now at high enough levels where they can be detected in rivers downstream from sewage treatment plants.
Where I would like to see this used is animal behavior studies. Attach them to social animals such as chickens or cattle and see how they actually interact through the day.
If you still want to take a company-paid vacation in eastern Europe let the remote staff move the cameras to wherever they want. As long as they point it at their workstation often enough that you can have a few screen shots to give management it can look out the window at traffic almost all day (triggering the motion detector). Have to admit, that is one of the dumbest management brainstorms that I've heard of in a while.
Why would you assume that managers are bright enough not to tell them? :)
Place where I contracted a few years ago had an engineer who knew a little coding. He had slapped together a bunch of scripts that helped him in his work, they worked fine for what he was doing, mostly output some data that then ended up getting copied and pasted into various places manually. Some of the other engineers found his tools useful and started using them, and they spread throughout the company to other departments. Then management noticed.
Management wanted him to incorporate the scripts into their general management app, have DB tables update automatically, create work orders automatically, etc. Art took one look at what they wanted and declared himself too busy to have anything to do with a project like that (fortunately he was). Outside contractors came in, declared what he had done was junk, he admitted that it was, and the project as envisioned by management took a couple of years and several piles of money to complete.
He's a contractor, why does he care if the original designer gets the credit? If his manager is any good he may already know that this is a steaming pile, if an outside contractor can fix something without pissing off the original designer he's going to be a happy camper. If the contractor can enlist the assistance of the original writer to fix it, giving him an actual reason to claim some of the credit and an incentive to share, then everyone wins.
**Some** Radio Shack stores still sell parts, mostly the stand-alone stores. The ones in the malls are almost completely cellphones and junk R/C toys.
Or the cell network is saturated, which it is in every single emergency that I've ever heard of.
I live in Seattle, where even backed up rush-hour traffic can saturate the cellular network. We had a windstorm here a few years ago that made everything but a POTS line utterly unusable for three days. We also have earthquakes, floods, wildfires and several big honking volcanoes in the area. Cell phone might be more convenient, but if I want to add that little bit of extra security to my wife's life we'll keep the POTS line until they finally go away.
Just what we need, to let the emergency services (POTS-line based) have to rely on Cisco and its army of CCNIdiots for communications.
Unfortunately this Scientific American article is behind a paywall, it's where I originally saw mention of this. This article includes at least one of the articles that SciAm was referencing.
3000 miles long? Rather hard to believe. Pretty much impossible, really. A total of 3000 miles in various tunnels? Still close to ridiculous, but almost kind of sort of believable.