Forty million years ago CO2 levels were higher than they are today. It's those damn Himalayan Mountains that are the cause of our problems. Before they sprung up the southwest Pacific monsoon seasons watered the Siberian rain forests; now they hit the Himalayas and act as a carbon scrubber. So we had ice ages for the last 35 million years. In the 1970 and 80s environmentalists were saying we were heading into another ice age. Then Solar Cycle 23 came along with its massive sun spot activity and insolation increased, the solar wind kept cosmic rays from striking the upper atmosphere to cause cloud formation decreasing the planet's albedo and then we had the warmest summers in recorded history, if you were willing to ignore the 1930s. Then in January of 2008 Solar Cycle 24 started, and sunspot activity since has been minimal. If we lose the Canadian prairie wheat fields under a mile of ice will we be subsidizing SUVs? Or will we embrace global glaciation, and blame our neolithic ancestors microlith technology for causing the Holocene?
The research doesn't even show evidence of a population crash. What this story is doing is attempting to resurrect the Toba eruption myth of a few years ago. There was a supervolcano eruption at Toba, Indonesia, about 75 to 77 thousand years ago and Stanley Ambrose got Henry Harpending to publicly mutter that it was vaguely possible that there had been a population crash at that time, at which point the BBC immediately did a special on the Toba eruption and the near extinction of humanity. Harpending had had the chance to do the math by that time and found that there was no genetic evidence of a bottleneck, rather that there was geographic isolation of genetically homogeneous groups for a time.
In one recent case Safeway knew that they were losing high priced razor blades off their shelves that weren't being recorded as being sold by their cash registers. That total was about $70 grand as well. One of their cashiers was selling the high end razor blades to an accomplice but scanning a low priced razor blade package. The advertisement on eBay said the item was unopened, and that was good enough for quite a few people. Safeway noticed that their products were being sold below cost and requested help from eBay, and eBay refused. eBay will not assist in ORC cases unless requested to do so by law enforcement agencies.
Major chain US retailers pooled their data and estimated that they lost 30 billion dollars in 2006. That's people stealing power tools from Home Depot to health and beauty products in Safeway. This is now called Organized Retail Crime, and the FBI is getting interested. Of course stores have to protect themselves. Last weekend three guys in a stolen van drove up to a local Safeway, walked in with a shopping cart and filled it with over $500 of steaks, chicken breasts and crab legs then ran out the door. The LPO, (Loss Prevention Officer) was well trained, and knew that three ORC guys when confronted will kick the shit out of an LPO. So he wisely stayed inside the store and watched two of the thieves load up the van while the third just watched. But he had the stolen van keys dangling from his hand. The LPO (a friend of mine, I know quite a few of the security officers working for his company) called 911, then ran out and took the keys out of the drivers hand and ran back inside the store. When the two loaders saw their driver running back inside the store they knew the job was blown, and they ran off down the street. The lone thief who re-entered the store quickly saw the odds had turned against him and also ran off. All three were apprehended within minutes and the van, the stolen meat, and the proceeds from two previous robberies were recovered.
Demons have been boycotting church services for several thousand years now. Tell your local minister to stop making the Lightbringer the bad guy in the sermons all the time and maybe they'll come back.
"Church. The First waste of time."
The ISS is in Low Earth Orbit, deep inside the Earth's magnetic field. Solar flares dump huge amounts of energy into the Earth's magnetic field. The more engergy, the further south the Aurora Borealis appears, as the magnetic field pulls particles from the solar wind to larger circles further away from the poles. The temporary increase in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field protects astronauts in the ISS; astronauts on their way to Mars, unprotected by the Earth's magnetic field, would have both the usual cosmic background radiation in addition to the increased solar radiation.
Our planet's magnetic field is decreasing in strength. It flips poles every half million years or so, and we're overdue for a flipping. The last flip came about 700 million years ago, when a dinosaur killer sized meteor struck Antarctica. That one came straight down into ice a few klicks deep, instead of the shallow impact into a sulfur deposit like Chixulub 65 million years ago.
There's evidence (http://www.nuclearplanet.com/) that Earth's magnetic field may be caused by the fissioning of a bunch of uranium at the Earth's core, and that the helium 3 emissions from volcanos suggest that we're within a century to a million years of running out of fissionables, which would leave Earth without a magnetic field, like Mars or Venus. Geologists aren't warm to the theory, but the US Dept. of Energy is paying attention...
Capilano College (North Vancouver, British Columbia) looked at a proposal for this, but it was discovered that the company offering the service was also selling essays and term papers over the internet. Cap administration may just be too distrustful, but they feared that the service could be skewed to not recognizing plagarized papers the company had itself sold to students.
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I'm just glad to see Fritz Lang finally getting the credit he deserves for coming up with Microsoft's original business plan.
Forty million years ago CO2 levels were higher than they are today. It's those damn Himalayan Mountains that are the cause of our problems. Before they sprung up the southwest Pacific monsoon seasons watered the Siberian rain forests; now they hit the Himalayas and act as a carbon scrubber. So we had ice ages for the last 35 million years. In the 1970 and 80s environmentalists were saying we were heading into another ice age. Then Solar Cycle 23 came along with its massive sun spot activity and insolation increased, the solar wind kept cosmic rays from striking the upper atmosphere to cause cloud formation decreasing the planet's albedo and then we had the warmest summers in recorded history, if you were willing to ignore the 1930s. Then in January of 2008 Solar Cycle 24 started, and sunspot activity since has been minimal. If we lose the Canadian prairie wheat fields under a mile of ice will we be subsidizing SUVs? Or will we embrace global glaciation, and blame our neolithic ancestors microlith technology for causing the Holocene?
This is the 21st century compliment to the Speak 'n Spell interface for NORAD.
The research doesn't even show evidence of a population crash. What this story is doing is attempting to resurrect the Toba eruption myth of a few years ago. There was a supervolcano eruption at Toba, Indonesia, about 75 to 77 thousand years ago and Stanley Ambrose got Henry Harpending to publicly mutter that it was vaguely possible that there had been a population crash at that time, at which point the BBC immediately did a special on the Toba eruption and the near extinction of humanity. Harpending had had the chance to do the math by that time and found that there was no genetic evidence of a bottleneck, rather that there was geographic isolation of genetically homogeneous groups for a time.
He told that to the BBC.
Guess which version of the story they ran.
In one recent case Safeway knew that they were losing high priced razor blades off their shelves that weren't being recorded as being sold by their cash registers. That total was about $70 grand as well. One of their cashiers was selling the high end razor blades to an accomplice but scanning a low priced razor blade package. The advertisement on eBay said the item was unopened, and that was good enough for quite a few people. Safeway noticed that their products were being sold below cost and requested help from eBay, and eBay refused. eBay will not assist in ORC cases unless requested to do so by law enforcement agencies. Major chain US retailers pooled their data and estimated that they lost 30 billion dollars in 2006. That's people stealing power tools from Home Depot to health and beauty products in Safeway. This is now called Organized Retail Crime, and the FBI is getting interested. Of course stores have to protect themselves. Last weekend three guys in a stolen van drove up to a local Safeway, walked in with a shopping cart and filled it with over $500 of steaks, chicken breasts and crab legs then ran out the door. The LPO, (Loss Prevention Officer) was well trained, and knew that three ORC guys when confronted will kick the shit out of an LPO. So he wisely stayed inside the store and watched two of the thieves load up the van while the third just watched. But he had the stolen van keys dangling from his hand. The LPO (a friend of mine, I know quite a few of the security officers working for his company) called 911, then ran out and took the keys out of the drivers hand and ran back inside the store. When the two loaders saw their driver running back inside the store they knew the job was blown, and they ran off down the street. The lone thief who re-entered the store quickly saw the odds had turned against him and also ran off. All three were apprehended within minutes and the van, the stolen meat, and the proceeds from two previous robberies were recovered.
I've been watching Battlestar Galatica reruns all day and I haven't heard one mention of "Lamanites."
That'll work. You've no doubt suffered greatly due to my boycott of Euro-American owned casinos in Las Vegas.
Demons have been boycotting church services for several thousand years now. Tell your local minister to stop making the Lightbringer the bad guy in the sermons all the time and maybe they'll come back. "Church. The First waste of time."
The ISS is in Low Earth Orbit, deep inside the Earth's magnetic field. Solar flares dump huge amounts of energy into the Earth's magnetic field. The more engergy, the further south the Aurora Borealis appears, as the magnetic field pulls particles from the solar wind to larger circles further away from the poles. The temporary increase in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field protects astronauts in the ISS; astronauts on their way to Mars, unprotected by the Earth's magnetic field, would have both the usual cosmic background radiation in addition to the increased solar radiation.
Our planet's magnetic field is decreasing in strength. It flips poles every half million years or so, and we're overdue for a flipping. The last flip came about 700 million years ago, when a dinosaur killer sized meteor struck Antarctica. That one came straight down into ice a few klicks deep, instead of the shallow impact into a sulfur deposit like Chixulub 65 million years ago.
There's evidence (http://www.nuclearplanet.com/) that Earth's magnetic field may be caused by the fissioning of a bunch of uranium at the Earth's core, and that the helium 3 emissions from volcanos suggest that we're within a century to a million years of running out of fissionables, which would leave Earth without a magnetic field, like Mars or Venus. Geologists aren't warm to the theory, but the US Dept. of Energy is paying attention...
Capilano College (North Vancouver, British Columbia) looked at a proposal for this, but it was discovered that the company offering the service was also selling essays and term papers over the internet. Cap administration may just be too distrustful, but they feared that the service could be skewed to not recognizing plagarized papers the company had itself sold to students.