"wax" was the first thing that popped into my head when I read " The insulator – which Maxwell won't identify but swears is non-toxic". Not a whole lot of cheep, non toxic materials with that particular melting point out there.
Maybe YOU don't want to see a duck get eaten by an eagle at the park, But I can assure you, seeing that happen would totally make my day. Just use it as a 'teachable moment' for your terrified sheltered children.
Wait what? maybe you mean "produces more C02" than a car. Which *may* be true, because emissions regulations are lest strict on motorcycles in a lot of places, but "Use more fuel"? not a chance. Most motorcycles get around 50-70mpg, while your average SUV gets around 18-20mpg.
Or, you seal the waste in basketball sized tungsten spheres, drill as deep into the crust as you can, and drop the sphere in. The radioactive waste heats up the sphere, causing it to melt its way down into the the crust, eventually penetrating into the mantle, never to be seen again. This system has actually been seriously proposed, and in my mind, seems like the best bet. Put it somewhere we can never go, and its no longer a problem. (the original proposal calls for drilling the holes in the sea floor, so that the distance to the mantle is less.)
Not antique. Still manufactured by Aermotor Windmills right here in the good old USA, and still the best way to get water out of a well in thousands upon thousands of places. http://www.aermotorwindmill.com/
Does the region referenced really have an average temperature of only 44 degrees Fahrenheit? Rather unpleasent place, hovering a mere 11 degrees above freezing. Of course, one assumes that is a yearly average, meaning much warmer and cooler temperatures are experienced during the sumer and winter months respectively.
The point is, telling us the 'average' temperature does little to describe the actual temperature. Thats like saying the average temperature on the moon is only -23 degrees Celsius. Sure, the temperature in sunlight is 107 C, and the temperature in shadow is -153C, but that averages out to a relitively comfortable middle ground!
True on both fronts. Which is the main reason I find myself annoyed with so many streaming video services, (i'm looking at you Netflix and Hulu) which DO lump Sci-Fi with Fantasy. Its a real pain to weed through dozens of 'Dark Crystal' knockoff fantasy movies looking for decent Sci-Fi, and the inverse is also true, looking for good fantasy movies always means wading through piles of 'sharktopus' crap. I have no idea why they insist that these two genres are one and the same, when in reality, they often attract very different crowds.
On a related note, I despise how both Netflix and Hulu boast 'Thousands of Tiles', when in reality, most of their library is low budget, off brand wares that no one wants to watch, intermixed with a few dozen blockbuster movies and new releases. Sure, its a marketing trick, and has everything to do with the fact that popular movies cost more to license to stream, but after a while, you realize you are paying 10 bucks a month for a selection thats about almost as good as your local rental store. (my local DVD rental place stocks about 90% low budget horror movies for some reason). Sure, you find a few gems in the middle of all the low budget jokes, but it does start to feel like Cable television. Thousands of channels, and nothing good is on. Thousands of movies, and nothing worth watching.
Precisely. Any time I need to do any serious research online, or do anything that resembles actual work, the phone goes on the charger, and turn to the computer on the desk. Trying to look up large reams of information on a phone screen is a hilarious pain in the dick. Sure, a phone is fine if I need to google a quick address or look up a name or something, but doing serious study and work? give me a big screen, and desktop hardware.
I suspect you are correct. I used to be able to go without sleep for far longer than I can now, and the effects of staying awake longer seem more severe the older I get. On the other hand, I can't seem to stay asleep for ages and ages like I could when I was a teenager either.
I sort of imagine that working along the lines of (and i greatly simplify here) some part of the brain goes "Huh, not receiving any input from outside. Must be asleep. Better turn on the dreams." Because honestly, if you think about it, dreams are so weird and random, you would consider them hallucinations if you where not unconscious at the time.
Not what it says. It says when it gets THAT quiet, and you start hearing your own bodily functions, like (i.e., heart beating, lungs processing air, blood rushing through veins) that it tends to mess with your head. Deaf people, by virtue of being deaf, hear none of those things.
I tell you what, those of us that work in a grocery store absolutely loathe those 'bring your own bags" people. they break down into 5 categories:
1. The spatially inept.
These idiots are not smart enough to put the round block through the round hole. They bring one reusable bag and an entire shopping cart full of items to the register, and say "oh, just cram it all in there!" Sure lady, I'll just put your 80 lbs of groceries in one bag, and then listen to you bitch about how its to heavy.
2. The artsy-crafty.
These mouth breathing yarn fanatics bring their own bags, but they are not the good square bags with the little loop that lets us open and stand it on our bagging station, they are these 'artistic' units made out of god knows what. Probably organic yarn they made from their cats hair. The point is, you spend half your time fighting with the bag, trying to get it to stay open and upright as you try and cram their organic lemon scented toilet paper into the damn thing.
3. The forgetful bastard.
These intrepid users of lead lined drinking mugs always bring a couple bags to the store. They put them in their shopping cart, and then load all their groceries in on top of them. They come to the register, load their chocolate frosted sugar bombs and frozen pizza pucks on the belt, as slowly as possible. Then, they wait until you have bagged everything they planed on purchasing to notice that they brought their own bags, and shout OH GOD! YOUR DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT! HERE! PUT MY STUFF IN THESE BAGS! We then sullenly un-bag all their crap, put it in their special organic bags, and throw the now wrinkled and used plastic bags in the trash, instead of the recycle bin, because we hate the universe at this point.
4. The just plain rude.
These people suck. These people bring plenty of decent quality reusable bags. Then, when they get to the register, they bodily hurl the bags into the face of the cashier, and growl "Use these bags". You fight back the instinct to throttle them with a snack stick.
5. A good responsible customer.
I saw one of these once. This customer came to the register with an entire cart full of items. They then kindly handed me a stack of nearly twenty reusable bags, (the good ones, that unfold right, and have the little hoop to hang on our station and keep them open). and then proceeded to help bag their stuff in the usable bags. (which, i'm being honest here, always takes longer than bagging into the plastic bags, simply because the plastic ones auto-index to the next bag because thats how their made). This customer then took their bags of stuff home, and didn't complain about anything. It was weird.
I figure a windstorm destroys a hole by filling it in with a lot of debris. As this was a typhoon, there is a good possibility of a lot of runoff filled with sediment and debris, and if the structures around the boreholes were destroyed, then that sediment and debris could convievably end up down the borehole.
of course, as you stated, they hope to be back online in a month, so that was probably not the case.
I wonder if this will have a mini ice age effect like in the 1500 -1800. (long story short, between the black plague in Europe, native american population collapse from disease in the Americas, a huge amount of C02 stopped being dumped into the atmosphere. That, combined with natural re-forestiaton due to a far smaller human usage, we experienced a general cooling. Of course, there is some debate about other contributing factors, like volcanic dust and solar activity, but the effect of all those people stopping using wood was definitely a major contributor.
I was mainly referencing Benjamin Franklin's early to rise proposal, at which point, America was pretty close to an agrarian society. Obviously, you are correct about its implementation in the US, which, while partially related to the energy crisis of the 70's, probably also stems from a patriotic hard on for the founding fathers (Franklin again). I still think the whole thing should be scrapped and use the adjusted summer time year round.
look elsewhere in this discussion, it has been stated dozens of times by now. it usually reads something like "Its so kids do not have to go to school in the dark".
I was pointing out that this is a fallacy, because, from personal experience, I know that DST does not prevent them from going to school in the dark. I have no complaints about having an extra hour of daylight in the summer, what I do dislike however, is people justifying changing their clocks in the WINTER and saying it is for the kids, when in reality, they gain nothing from the change. I say we stick to summer time setting, and forget about it.
I was most certainly not
crying that DST makes kids wake up in the dark during WINTER
I think kids should get up before its light out all the time. Builds Character.
This. Exactly this. I live in south west texas, and kids have been going to school in the dark for over a month now. And after the change, the will be going to school in the dark again before thanksgiving. (I know this, because I see them standing on the street corners with their backpacks on the days I go in to work at 7 instead of 6. In the dark. The whole 'its for the kids!' thing is a complete joke. The whole reason it was created was to help a more agrarian society, (and i'm personally doubtful how helpful it was back then. Having grown up on a ranch, we spent plenty of time outside, working, in the dark before sunrise, year round, DST be damned) We keep struggling to invent new reasons to keep using it as a modern society, and they are all dumb.
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If everything I owned passed these tests, I'd probably only own a single nuclear waste disposal unit.
"wax" was the first thing that popped into my head when I read " The insulator – which Maxwell won't identify but swears is non-toxic". Not a whole lot of cheep, non toxic materials with that particular melting point out there.
I imagine the demand will rise, as the price of fuel continues to rise. We shall see.
I did indeed make a mistake there. I should have used the word 'polutants' rather than C02. which would have been far more correct.
Maybe YOU don't want to see a duck get eaten by an eagle at the park, But I can assure you, seeing that happen would totally make my day. Just use it as a 'teachable moment' for your terrified sheltered children.
The new Chevy Cruze diesel engine model touts 46 mpg on the highway. (and its mostly american.)
Wait what? maybe you mean "produces more C02" than a car. Which *may* be true, because emissions regulations are lest strict on motorcycles in a lot of places, but "Use more fuel"? not a chance. Most motorcycles get around 50-70mpg, while your average SUV gets around 18-20mpg.
Or, you seal the waste in basketball sized tungsten spheres, drill as deep into the crust as you can, and drop the sphere in. The radioactive waste heats up the sphere, causing it to melt its way down into the the crust, eventually penetrating into the mantle, never to be seen again. This system has actually been seriously proposed, and in my mind, seems like the best bet. Put it somewhere we can never go, and its no longer a problem. (the original proposal calls for drilling the holes in the sea floor, so that the distance to the mantle is less.)
Not antique. Still manufactured by Aermotor Windmills right here in the good old USA, and still the best way to get water out of a well in thousands upon thousands of places. http://www.aermotorwindmill.com/
Does the region referenced really have an average temperature of only 44 degrees Fahrenheit? Rather unpleasent place, hovering a mere 11 degrees above freezing. Of course, one assumes that is a yearly average, meaning much warmer and cooler temperatures are experienced during the sumer and winter months respectively.
The point is, telling us the 'average' temperature does little to describe the actual temperature. Thats like saying the average temperature on the moon is only -23 degrees Celsius. Sure, the temperature in sunlight is 107 C, and the temperature in shadow is -153C, but that averages out to a relitively comfortable middle ground!
True on both fronts. Which is the main reason I find myself annoyed with so many streaming video services, (i'm looking at you Netflix and Hulu) which DO lump Sci-Fi with Fantasy. Its a real pain to weed through dozens of 'Dark Crystal' knockoff fantasy movies looking for decent Sci-Fi, and the inverse is also true, looking for good fantasy movies always means wading through piles of 'sharktopus' crap. I have no idea why they insist that these two genres are one and the same, when in reality, they often attract very different crowds.
On a related note, I despise how both Netflix and Hulu boast 'Thousands of Tiles', when in reality, most of their library is low budget, off brand wares that no one wants to watch, intermixed with a few dozen blockbuster movies and new releases. Sure, its a marketing trick, and has everything to do with the fact that popular movies cost more to license to stream, but after a while, you realize you are paying 10 bucks a month for a selection thats about almost as good as your local rental store. (my local DVD rental place stocks about 90% low budget horror movies for some reason). Sure, you find a few gems in the middle of all the low budget jokes, but it does start to feel like Cable television. Thousands of channels, and nothing good is on. Thousands of movies, and nothing worth watching.
Precisely. Any time I need to do any serious research online, or do anything that resembles actual work, the phone goes on the charger, and turn to the computer on the desk. Trying to look up large reams of information on a phone screen is a hilarious pain in the dick. Sure, a phone is fine if I need to google a quick address or look up a name or something, but doing serious study and work? give me a big screen, and desktop hardware.
Thank you for clarifying the discussion in a intelligent and readable manner. I wish I had mod points to mod you up.
I'll second this, and move to abolish the organization.
I suspect you are correct. I used to be able to go without sleep for far longer than I can now, and the effects of staying awake longer seem more severe the older I get. On the other hand, I can't seem to stay asleep for ages and ages like I could when I was a teenager either.
I sort of imagine that working along the lines of (and i greatly simplify here) some part of the brain goes "Huh, not receiving any input from outside. Must be asleep. Better turn on the dreams." Because honestly, if you think about it, dreams are so weird and random, you would consider them hallucinations if you where not unconscious at the time.
Not what it says. It says when it gets THAT quiet, and you start hearing your own bodily functions, like (i.e., heart beating, lungs processing air, blood rushing through veins) that it tends to mess with your head. Deaf people, by virtue of being deaf, hear none of those things.
I tell you what, those of us that work in a grocery store absolutely loathe those 'bring your own bags" people. they break down into 5 categories:
1. The spatially inept.
These idiots are not smart enough to put the round block through the round hole. They bring one reusable bag and an entire shopping cart full of items to the register, and say "oh, just cram it all in there!" Sure lady, I'll just put your 80 lbs of groceries in one bag, and then listen to you bitch about how its to heavy.
2. The artsy-crafty.
These mouth breathing yarn fanatics bring their own bags, but they are not the good square bags with the little loop that lets us open and stand it on our bagging station, they are these 'artistic' units made out of god knows what. Probably organic yarn they made from their cats hair. The point is, you spend half your time fighting with the bag, trying to get it to stay open and upright as you try and cram their organic lemon scented toilet paper into the damn thing.
3. The forgetful bastard.
These intrepid users of lead lined drinking mugs always bring a couple bags to the store. They put them in their shopping cart, and then load all their groceries in on top of them. They come to the register, load their chocolate frosted sugar bombs and frozen pizza pucks on the belt, as slowly as possible. Then, they wait until you have bagged everything they planed on purchasing to notice that they brought their own bags, and shout OH GOD! YOUR DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT! HERE! PUT MY STUFF IN THESE BAGS! We then sullenly un-bag all their crap, put it in their special organic bags, and throw the now wrinkled and used plastic bags in the trash, instead of the recycle bin, because we hate the universe at this point.
4. The just plain rude.
These people suck. These people bring plenty of decent quality reusable bags. Then, when they get to the register, they bodily hurl the bags into the face of the cashier, and growl "Use these bags". You fight back the instinct to throttle them with a snack stick.
5. A good responsible customer.
I saw one of these once. This customer came to the register with an entire cart full of items. They then kindly handed me a stack of nearly twenty reusable bags, (the good ones, that unfold right, and have the little hoop to hang on our station and keep them open). and then proceeded to help bag their stuff in the usable bags. (which, i'm being honest here, always takes longer than bagging into the plastic bags, simply because the plastic ones auto-index to the next bag because thats how their made). This customer then took their bags of stuff home, and didn't complain about anything. It was weird.
I figure a windstorm destroys a hole by filling it in with a lot of debris. As this was a typhoon, there is a good possibility of a lot of runoff filled with sediment and debris, and if the structures around the boreholes were destroyed, then that sediment and debris could convievably end up down the borehole.
of course, as you stated, they hope to be back online in a month, so that was probably not the case.
Mondays are terrible enough already, there is no reason to make them worse by removing my comfort steak from them.
I wonder if this will have a mini ice age effect like in the 1500 -1800. (long story short, between the black plague in Europe, native american population collapse from disease in the Americas, a huge amount of C02 stopped being dumped into the atmosphere. That, combined with natural re-forestiaton due to a far smaller human usage, we experienced a general cooling. Of course, there is some debate about other contributing factors, like volcanic dust and solar activity, but the effect of all those people stopping using wood was definitely a major contributor.
I was mainly referencing Benjamin Franklin's early to rise proposal, at which point, America was pretty close to an agrarian society. Obviously, you are correct about its implementation in the US, which, while partially related to the energy crisis of the 70's, probably also stems from a patriotic hard on for the founding fathers (Franklin again). I still think the whole thing should be scrapped and use the adjusted summer time year round.
Nobody said it's for the kids
look elsewhere in this discussion, it has been stated dozens of times by now. it usually reads something like "Its so kids do not have to go to school in the dark".
I was pointing out that this is a fallacy, because, from personal experience, I know that DST does not prevent them from going to school in the dark. I have no complaints about having an extra hour of daylight in the summer, what I do dislike however, is people justifying changing their clocks in the WINTER and saying it is for the kids, when in reality, they gain nothing from the change. I say we stick to summer time setting, and forget about it.
I was most certainly not
crying that DST makes kids wake up in the dark during WINTER
I think kids should get up before its light out all the time. Builds Character.
This. Exactly this. I live in south west texas, and kids have been going to school in the dark for over a month now. And after the change, the will be going to school in the dark again before thanksgiving. (I know this, because I see them standing on the street corners with their backpacks on the days I go in to work at 7 instead of 6. In the dark. The whole 'its for the kids!' thing is a complete joke. The whole reason it was created was to help a more agrarian society, (and i'm personally doubtful how helpful it was back then. Having grown up on a ranch, we spent plenty of time outside, working, in the dark before sunrise, year round, DST be damned) We keep struggling to invent new reasons to keep using it as a modern society, and they are all dumb.
Maybe he just changes channels way more often than you do.