Coal mining and burning should be abolished because it puts NOx, SO2, arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel, vanadium, beryllium, cadmium, barium, chromium, copper, molybdenum, zinc, selenium and radium into the environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
{I didn't even mention CO2.}
you are also not considering the irregular arrival of ships for the diesel, and the effort of deshipping and handling the diesel. All of this completely disappears.
I love the idea of thorium, but I think ramped up solar along with battery storage will win the day, because it is installed and working in days, it can be done cheaply by individuals, has good payback in Australia and southern USA and within the next few years once it's cheaper in Boston and Berlin, it's ubiquitous. Since the panels will have come mostly from China anyway, they will by far overtake the West. They can generate solar in Southern China, the Tibetan Plateau as well as the Taklamakan desert and take it north.
Do you also think the Indians are going to wait 5-15 years for thorium to clean up air pollution in Delhi, or are they going to jump to solar and e-cars as fast as possible? India can be very agile if they want to.
...lives inside their own time zone and simply does not interact with anyone outside of it. Why should they change everything for the sake of a tiny minority?
I personally interact with 4 timezones around the world daily.
it's easier for me to think "it's 8am in Sydney, I can now call him", than "it's some time in the morning in Sydney. now, when do they have midnight? now plus 8.."
Astronomers created wifi. Get off the internet please. And don't even think of using GPS or checking the weather report tomorrow. and do not watch that sports game on television. And don't get an xray, because astrotechnology might have been used to diagnose your xrays.
You note these positive outcomes which were about protecting natural resources. The next one we need to do is reduce C02 in the atmosphere. If we don't have this positive outcome then the doomsday scenarios are real, We are already over 400 ppm and it's going up fast. We now live in the Anthropocene - our generation has changed the planet forever - no previous generations did that. The future will not be like the past - our actions will continue to change the planet. and it seems to me that the switch to solar + battery and then using excess energy to decarbonize the atmosphere is the only future I can see actually happening now. I want solar+battery to work, because fracking won't save us, nor do I see nuclear happening. Solar+battery is happening now, and individuals can get involved - we cannot get involved in wind, tides or much geothermal. While the politicians do nothing except stare at polls, we the people are plastering our houses with solar and buy batteries. Then the politicians will eventually step up when they see the people taking action and start consistently demanding national and global action.
the orbital plane of the solar system (all the planets and asteroids) is 6 to the Sun's equator. The question is - are the plaents 6 off or is the sun 6 off?
We are good at seeing planets closer than Mercury is to the Sun, basking in the light of their star. But this planet as SO FAR WAY OUT THERE beyond Pluto it is super cold and dark. It's easy to see a pinprick of light against black, but not a tiny black, slow moving (thousands of years for an orbit) object against a black sky.
I was very disappointed and angry at the ESA Press Conference this morning. Last night when they suspected (knew) [There is no way this landing was designed to not return a success signal immediately] the Lander had crashed they silenced everyone and announced a press conference at 10 AM the next morning.
At the Press Conference they emphasised the success of the orbiter and mentioned NOTHING at all about data from the lander. They left that all to questions from the Press. Basically all questions from the Press were about the lander and the data (and they were good questions - no stupid questions came), and they drip fed a piece of info at a time to the journalists.
I believe the suits at ESA were in damage control because they are scared about losing funding for the 2020 lander so they mentioned NOTHING about the crashed lander, so that when politicians check on the press releases/conferences in months to come there is NO info on the crash, but in a few days the world will know anyway, especially if NASA gets a photo of the impact and debris.
They did not make any statements at all (e.g. yes we got data from the Lander, the rockets fired for only 3-4 seconds, something went wrong with the parachute and we suspect a very hard landing) in a controlled and orderly way, they forced the journalists to extract it from them relunctantly.
I was super disappointed about scientists playing politics and covering up what they obviously knew the audience wanted to know. It was sickening.
And, yes, I live in Europe and yes, I want my tax Euros to fund the 2020 Lander, but I'm angry at scientists playing politics and ignoring the audience who wanted to know what happened last night and they deliberately said nothing.
I suspect something happened to the parachute just before jettisoning - e.g. rope breaking/twisting, chute tearing/burning that caused the lander to tumble, and so the rockets switched off as they weren't pointing against the forces on the lander that the accelerometers were reading.
Look at JPL's Mars parachute test in 2014 that ripped the parachute https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
A lot of the raw data to monitor climate change is space-based data. We now know where the energy goes into weather and seas, and we can see forest and agricultural usage only from space. This will give us the tools we need to enforce climate change.
Beautiful photos and videos from the cameras on the Space Station, and human damage seen from there will have a massive impact on people's passion to see this earth fixed and cared for.
go and spend a while looking at https://www.nasa.gov/topics/ea... https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1238... http://www.nasa.gov/feature/go... https://weather.com/tv/shows/t...
Space Science is going to help us understand how El Nino and El Nina work - and that is critical for the lives of millions of Americans.
Yes, porkbarreling by Senators for useless space projects needs to stop. That is why NASA is supporting SpaceX, etc and focusing themselves on deep space missions like Pluto and Juno.
Anyone living on the Moon or Mars will be living underground. Humanity will move to the stars - we will solve these problems. Look at the Space Budget, and the War Budget and see where money is really being wasted. Fix the health bureaucracy in America if you want to see money not being wasted.
Who put a rover on the moon in the last few years?
Who made the components in the computer that you wrote your post on?
Which country just launched a satellite in August 2016 to perform quantum entanglement experiments over 1000's of miles, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Notice it's the Austrian Academy of Science involved here, not a US based institution.
Travel around Los Angeles, measure the air pollution, look at the state of the roads, ask people how many hours a day they spend on transportation, find out who has healthcare, look at what people eat, and then tell me that isn't backwards. That city has a long way to go to being a pleasant place to live.
You might wake up in a few years and realize what was going on around you but you refused to notice
The smartest people in America are helping Tech Companies deliver ads and make you post your breakfast publicly. This is a scandal of wasted human resources? Where do you think China is investing it's brains?
Who just bought Lexmark, leaving Xerox the only copier maker in the US?
The universe can expand faster than the speed of light. As space expands the space between locations grows. Since no object is moving faster than the speed of light, this doesn't break relativity.
If you see something go left at 0.8c and something go right at 0.8c, they are going apart from each other at 1.6c in your frame of reference, but not in their frames of reference, because they have very different times. But you won't see objects moving at 1.6c, you just see locations receding.
If a line of people from here to the Moon did a Mexican wave such that the person on the Moon started 1 second after the person on the Earth, then you would see the wave traveling just faster than c (light takes >1 s to get to the Moon), but the wave is not an object, nor is if information. The Person on the Moon started doing the wave before they saw the person on the Earth do the wave.
I thought that in a democracy the politicians are voted for and represent the people. It looks to me that in America politicians are voted by the people are represent businesses. Why do we always hear about politicians talking with businesses, rather than people and their advocates?
I fill my old Canon deskjet printer with bottles of ink and a syringe simply through the ink pad at the bottom of the cartridge. Then i zap the chip with a resetter.
I took the printer on a plane for 12 hours, and then never got around to using it for 18 months! I then took it back home 12 hours on the plane, plugged it in and it worked perfectly.
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he didn't buy that $21,000 ticket.
The just need to be retrained as solar panel and power pack installers. Their pay will go up.
Coal mining and burning should be abolished because it puts NOx, SO2, arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel, vanadium, beryllium, cadmium, barium, chromium, copper, molybdenum, zinc, selenium and radium into the environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
{I didn't even mention CO2.}
Are you sure that the Dems didn't quietly ask the Greens to do it for them..
you are also not considering the irregular arrival of ships for the diesel, and the effort of deshipping and handling the diesel. All of this completely disappears.
Austria has one never-functional nuclear reactor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., and look at what it is used for today - solar power testing! https://goo.gl/maps/yCiP3vGtnt...
I love the idea of thorium, but I think ramped up solar along with battery storage will win the day, because it is installed and working in days, it can be done cheaply by individuals, has good payback in Australia and southern USA and within the next few years once it's cheaper in Boston and Berlin, it's ubiquitous. Since the panels will have come mostly from China anyway, they will by far overtake the West. They can generate solar in Southern China, the Tibetan Plateau as well as the Taklamakan desert and take it north.
Do you also think the Indians are going to wait 5-15 years for thorium to clean up air pollution in Delhi, or are they going to jump to solar and e-cars as fast as possible? India can be very agile if they want to.
...lives inside their own time zone and simply does not interact with anyone outside of it. Why should they change everything for the sake of a tiny minority?
I personally interact with 4 timezones around the world daily.
it's easier for me to think "it's 8am in Sydney, I can now call him", than "it's some time in the morning in Sydney. now, when do they have midnight? now plus 8.."
Astronomers created wifi. Get off the internet please. And don't even think of using GPS or checking the weather report tomorrow. and do not watch that sports game on television. And don't get an xray, because astrotechnology might have been used to diagnose your xrays.
You can't paint the sand, and the wind could blow it away, or worse, onto the runway. Sand is not an option. Wet sand dry sand wet frozen sand.
As long as LastPass' software is not open-source, you can only hope they are telling the truth. I can put keepass in a debugger and see what it does.
Keepass users are more tech-savvy than Lastpass users. Different customers.
You note these positive outcomes which were about protecting natural resources. The next one we need to do is reduce C02 in the atmosphere. If we don't have this positive outcome then the doomsday scenarios are real, We are already over 400 ppm and it's going up fast. We now live in the Anthropocene - our generation has changed the planet forever - no previous generations did that. The future will not be like the past - our actions will continue to change the planet. and it seems to me that the switch to solar + battery and then using excess energy to decarbonize the atmosphere is the only future I can see actually happening now. I want solar+battery to work, because fracking won't save us, nor do I see nuclear happening. Solar+battery is happening now, and individuals can get involved - we cannot get involved in wind, tides or much geothermal. While the politicians do nothing except stare at polls, we the people are plastering our houses with solar and buy batteries. Then the politicians will eventually step up when they see the people taking action and start consistently demanding national and global action.
the orbital plane of the solar system (all the planets and asteroids) is 6 to the Sun's equator. The question is - are the plaents 6 off or is the sun 6 off?
We are good at seeing planets closer than Mercury is to the Sun, basking in the light of their star. But this planet as SO FAR WAY OUT THERE beyond Pluto it is super cold and dark. It's easy to see a pinprick of light against black, but not a tiny black, slow moving (thousands of years for an orbit) object against a black sky.
I was very disappointed and angry at the ESA Press Conference this morning. Last night when they suspected (knew) [There is no way this landing was designed to not return a success signal immediately] the Lander had crashed they silenced everyone and announced a press conference at 10 AM the next morning.
At the Press Conference they emphasised the success of the orbiter and mentioned NOTHING at all about data from the lander. They left that all to questions from the Press. Basically all questions from the Press were about the lander and the data (and they were good questions - no stupid questions came), and they drip fed a piece of info at a time to the journalists.
I believe the suits at ESA were in damage control because they are scared about losing funding for the 2020 lander so they mentioned NOTHING about the crashed lander, so that when politicians check on the press releases/conferences in months to come there is NO info on the crash, but in a few days the world will know anyway, especially if NASA gets a photo of the impact and debris.
They did not make any statements at all (e.g. yes we got data from the Lander, the rockets fired for only 3-4 seconds, something went wrong with the parachute and we suspect a very hard landing) in a controlled and orderly way, they forced the journalists to extract it from them relunctantly.
I was super disappointed about scientists playing politics and covering up what they obviously knew the audience wanted to know. It was sickening.
And, yes, I live in Europe and yes, I want my tax Euros to fund the 2020 Lander, but I'm angry at scientists playing politics and ignoring the audience who wanted to know what happened last night and they deliberately said nothing.
I suspect something happened to the parachute just before jettisoning - e.g. rope breaking/twisting, chute tearing/burning that caused the lander to tumble, and so the rockets switched off as they weren't pointing against the forces on the lander that the accelerometers were reading.
Look at JPL's Mars parachute test in 2014 that ripped the parachute https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
A lot of the raw data to monitor climate change is space-based data. We now know where the energy goes into weather and seas, and we can see forest and agricultural usage only from space. This will give us the tools we need to enforce climate change.
Beautiful photos and videos from the cameras on the Space Station, and human damage seen from there will have a massive impact on people's passion to see this earth fixed and cared for.
go and spend a while looking at https://www.nasa.gov/topics/ea...
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1238...
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/go...
https://weather.com/tv/shows/t...
Space Science is going to help us understand how El Nino and El Nina work - and that is critical for the lives of millions of Americans.
Yes, porkbarreling by Senators for useless space projects needs to stop. That is why NASA is supporting SpaceX, etc and focusing themselves on deep space missions like Pluto and Juno.
Anyone living on the Moon or Mars will be living underground. Humanity will move to the stars - we will solve these problems.
Look at the Space Budget, and the War Budget and see where money is really being wasted. Fix the health bureaucracy in America if you want to see money not being wasted.
And the time between the bleachings is not long enough for the corals to recover.
Who put a rover on the moon in the last few years?
Who made the components in the computer that you wrote your post on?
Which country just launched a satellite in August 2016 to perform quantum entanglement experiments over 1000's of miles, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Notice it's the Austrian Academy of Science involved here, not a US based institution.
Travel around Los Angeles, measure the air pollution, look at the state of the roads, ask people how many hours a day they spend on transportation, find out who has healthcare, look at what people eat, and then tell me that isn't backwards. That city has a long way to go to being a pleasant place to live.
You might wake up in a few years and realize what was going on around you but you refused to notice
The smartest people in America are helping Tech Companies deliver ads and make you post your breakfast publicly. This is a scandal of wasted human resources? Where do you think China is investing it's brains?
Who just bought Lexmark, leaving Xerox the only copier maker in the US?
The universe can expand faster than the speed of light. As space expands the space between locations grows. Since no object is moving faster than the speed of light, this doesn't break relativity. If you see something go left at 0.8c and something go right at 0.8c, they are going apart from each other at 1.6c in your frame of reference, but not in their frames of reference, because they have very different times. But you won't see objects moving at 1.6c, you just see locations receding. If a line of people from here to the Moon did a Mexican wave such that the person on the Moon started 1 second after the person on the Earth, then you would see the wave traveling just faster than c (light takes >1 s to get to the Moon), but the wave is not an object, nor is if information. The Person on the Moon started doing the wave before they saw the person on the Earth do the wave.
I thought that in a democracy the politicians are voted for and represent the people. It looks to me that in America politicians are voted by the people are represent businesses. Why do we always hear about politicians talking with businesses, rather than people and their advocates?
This is going to be amazing for Google's Speech Recognition Training.
It's appalling that some countries are still using landfill. Stop it already.
I fill my old Canon deskjet printer with bottles of ink and a syringe simply through the ink pad at the bottom of the cartridge. Then i zap the chip with a resetter.
I took the printer on a plane for 12 hours, and then never got around to using it for 18 months! I then took it back home 12 hours on the plane, plugged it in and it worked perfectly.