The problem is that there are NO accurate "models" of global climate. The models that we have can't predict the present given data from the past, and the results of the models, more and more, fail to match reality. Because Hansen and the Warmists are so firmly intertwined with their models that they refuse to accept the actual experimental data, real SCIENTISTS for whom the data is paramount are refusing to accept apocalyptic prescriptions that are based entirely on the MODELS.
The Earth really is warming - it has been since the 1400's. But before that, the Vikings had dairy farms in Greenland, and the Romans grew vineyards in England. Hansen's "hockey stick" model says that there was no warm period in the 900s, and that the temperature only goes UP, but experimental data and history disagree.
Will the Earth CONTINUE to warm? Or is this just another cycle? The experimental data says "cycle", while Hansen says it will continue. The data so far says "cycle".
And Hansen can cry all he wants about "consensus", but there isn't one. And Al Gore, the Pope of Warmism, can't create one from whole cloth.
Every decoy RV, every fleck of reflective paint, every GRAM of armor on an inbound missile that MIGHT serve to protect the missile from being destroyed by our defenses COSTS THEM irreplaceable warhead payload mass. To make the Reentry Vehicle sturdy enough, they'll lose half or more of the warhead itself.
This sounds like a first approximation of victory to me!
If the Russians and the Chinese really thought that ABM missiles wouldn't work, they wouldn't CARE if we built them - because they wouldn't work!
The fact that the Russians and the Chinese (who are STILL our potential enemies) are furious tells us that they are pretty sure that the missiles WILL work. Not perfectly, maybe not even "pretty well", but at least enough to spoil their disarming first strike plans. Without the ability to launch a first strike effectively, they cannot attack at all. And even the POSSIBILITY that an ABM system MIGHT work is enough to raise the fear among THEIR warplanners.
One of the greatest military victories of the Cold War was a battle that was never fought. The USAF built a high-altitude supersonic long range bomber, against which the USSR had NO DEFENSES AT ALL. The B-70 Valkyrie would fly too high and too fast for the Soviet fighters to bring it down, and was probably fast enough to escape from most air defense missiles. So the USSR began a crash program to create a fighter that could engage the Valkyrie successfully. And the Mig-25 FOXBAT was that high-flying supersonic interceptor, the anti-B-70.
The Soviets built several squadrons of Foxbats before the USAF cancelled the XB-70 program after only two aircraft. One crashed after a midair with a chase fighter, and the other is the star attraction at the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio.
In a move that probably gave Tom Clancy the basic plot of "Hunt for Red October", a Russian Mig-25 pilot named Viktor Belenko defected to Japan, and purchased his asylum with his Foxbat. (He even wrote a book about it.) Turns out that the Foxbat was prohibitively expensive to build and fly, and required new engines every 250 hours. The Foxbat literally bankrupted the USSR - and for an enemy that never existed.
When we build a feasible missile defense system, the Russians and the Chinese will either bankrupt themselves trying to overwhelm it, or will admit that their own first strike dreams are quite out of the question. We'll find certain safety in THEIR uncertain capabilities.
"Noah's Flood" was "world-wide" only from the perspective of a very narrow slice of the "world", but an asteroid-caused tsunami could easily have inundated the entire world that THEY knew about; from Egypt to, perhaps, Sumeria. In broad general terms, it at least approximately matches the similar Gilgamesh epics, and the Egyptians have their own flood legends. Are you so insanely literal that you cannot see that legends and myths sometimes DO contain a grain of truth at their cores?
Good fantasy novels? Anything by James Branch Cabell, such as "Jurgen", "Figures of Earth", or "The Silver Stallion".
Back in the 1970s' fantasy editor Lin Carter went back and collected and republished most of the best 1920-1930 fantasy. You can still find them in used book stores.
Large asteroids - far larger than this one! - have hit the Earth before, and it WILL happen again. Probably not in 2029, or in 2037, and probably not in 2040 - but why wait? Preparing now - or at least, starting to THINK about preparing now - will pay major dividends in the long run.
With any luck, by 2040 we'll be able to capture it into one of the lunar Trojan points, and that'll save money in the long run from paying to lift mass from the Earth or the Moon to build that habitat.
Load Portable Apps on your flash drive, and then load Firefox (or Chrome) on that. It'll keep all of your browsing history and temp files on your flash drive.
There has been speculation that some stars may oscillate between radiating energy generated by fusion, and radiating energy generated by gravitational collapse. It may even be that many stars wobble on the cusp of fusion and collapse; a star expands slightly due to the heat and pressure of fusion to the point that fusion no longer occurs, followed by a slight gravitational collapse until the core is dense enough to support fusion again. (Read the Vernor Vinge book "A Deepness in the Sky" http://www.amazon.com/Deepness-Sky-Vernor-Vinge/dp/0812536355/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328304339&sr=1-1 for an extreme example.) The star's radiative output might vary only slightly between the phases.
After all, most theories of how the Sun works suggest that we ought to be able to detect SOME solar neutrinos; what if the Sun is in the "collapse" phase just now, and the reason we can't detect the neutrinos is because there aren't any?
There are several reasons to use a Blackberry, and the most significant (from a business user's perspective) is that the Blackberry will do voice-dialing for the phone, while some Android phones (such as my Sprint EVO 4G) need a separate and flaky app to do this, and others (such as my AT&T Samsung Galaxy IIs "Skyrocket") won't do it at all.
Android "phones" are great pocket computers to which a few phone-like features have been grafted. But they aren't all that hot at actually being a "mobile phone".
Blackberries are fairly good mobile phones, with a few computer-like features. It's a matter of emphasis.
Most people who weren't adolatrous Barry-fanboys already knew. He's a Chicago thug; what did you EXPECT!?!? He got his political start in terrorist-bomber Bill Ayers' living room.
Scan the paper documents to your hard drive, and throw them into a cardboard box labelled with the year. Record financial transactions in a financial management program like Quicken, and throw all the receipts and statements into that same box. You generally won't ever need to access the paper documents, but you have them if you ever do.
Any electronic documents go into the same scans folder on the hard drive, backed up to a portable USB drive or two.
After a few years, take that cardboard box off the shelf in the garage and burn it.
Blu-Ray is the "best; but regular DVDs are, for most purposes, "good enough". My 50" plasma HDTV looks just fine with a regular DVD, and when I compare the screens on the TV showroom at Fry's, I really can't see much difference.
Perhaps after I upgrade to a 150" TV, I'll be able to see the difference, in which case I'll buy a blu-ray player then. Assuming, of course, that 1.) Blu-ray hasn't been superseded by something even better, and 2.) Blu-Ray players aren't included as Cracker-Jack prizes.
That low for female to male transmission perhaps; male to female transmission is far higher. When you inject a tainted fluid (either blood or semen) into the body, it's a whole lot more infectious than merely being immersed for a few moments in the fluid.
99%? Not even close. Retail businesses ALREADY have evening and weekend shift workers; the big resistance to flextime and telecommuting comes from office drones, especially GOVERNMENT office drones.
I live near Sacramento, CA, a big state government town. On State holidays, the rush hour commute is a breeze. If the state office drones could telecommute even one day a week, it would cut a critical 10% of commuters, save bazillions of gallons of gas every year, and probably eliminate the phony AGW fears. For 10% of the cost of high-speed rail, every person in California could get HD broadband telepresence connections. Of course, it would kill the inner-city office building market....
When I was in the Navy, I spent a couple of years on Bermuda. (I know; a TOUGH assignment!) Bermuda doesn't (did not?) do DST. Instead, many businesses did "summer working hours"; come to work at 7 AM, no lunch break, and then close at 2 PM. If many employers offered flextime, or people could break out of the clock-watching habit, then they could have the benefits of DST all year long.
The only thing "daylight savings time" does is force, by government decree, that EVERYBODY must do this at the SAME time, in lockstep.
I saw an editorial cartoon perhaps 30 years ago. In the cartoon, Richard Nixon is depicted sitting in a rocking chair saying "I need to make this blanket longer, so that we can stay warm in the winter. So I'll cut one foot of the blanket off at one end, and sew it onto the other end."
That's everything you need to know about Daylight Savings Time.
My experience with this has been different; I purchased a NetGear WNR854T, got it replaced once during the warranty period, and have had to pay to replace the replacement. Deader than a doornail; NO connectivity at all. Before, say, 2005, NetGear stuff had been pretty good, but the recent models have been... "sub-par" in quality and performance. I suspect that all the manufacturers are cutting costs by shaving quality, and until the disappointing reviews hit the web, they can get away with selling crap at high prices.
The problem with the planet detection methods used by the Kepler team is that it is all calculated based on occultations; the slight dimming of the star's light as a planet passes between that star and the Kepler satellite. This only works if the planet in question is 1) HUGE or 2) very close to the star or 3) the Earth just HAPPENS to be in the plane of the planet's orbit around the star. That's why we're discovering so many enormous planets with orbital periods in the range of only a few days.
But the nice thing about the Kepler data seems to be that it's eliminating many of the "it could NEVER have happened that way!" explanations. With upwards of 500 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and we've looked only at a few thousand, it looks more and more that ANYTHING is possible when it comes to planetary formation.
I once read a science fiction story in which God created the world in 4004 BC. But the Devil went back and added all the fossils and evidence of an older Earth.
Alternatively, God created the evidence of an old Earth - as a test of faith.
Both were good stories. But if you want to believe in a deity, I don't suppose that it makes a whole lot of difference whether you believe in the Jehovah of the bible, in Allah, or in Ceiling Cat.
Strange, but a LOT of lefties have had similar attitudes on racial purity and eugenics; Margaret Sanger, for example, or Stalin, or Lysenko... And anti-semitism has always been an equal-opportunity prejudice, all too common on both "sides" of the political spectrum. Especially on BOTH extremes.
The problem is that the modern 'left" is better able to HIDE their prejudices, while the intolerant right is more open about it - and the centrists abhor both of them. Occasionally, of course, people like Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson makes a goof next to an open mike, and embarrasses everybody.
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The problem is that there are NO accurate "models" of global climate. The models that we have can't predict the present given data from the past, and the results of the models, more and more, fail to match reality. Because Hansen and the Warmists are so firmly intertwined with their models that they refuse to accept the actual experimental data, real SCIENTISTS for whom the data is paramount are refusing to accept apocalyptic prescriptions that are based entirely on the MODELS.
The Earth really is warming - it has been since the 1400's. But before that, the Vikings had dairy farms in Greenland, and the Romans grew vineyards in England. Hansen's "hockey stick" model says that there was no warm period in the 900s, and that the temperature only goes UP, but experimental data and history disagree.
Will the Earth CONTINUE to warm? Or is this just another cycle? The experimental data says "cycle", while Hansen says it will continue. The data so far says "cycle".
And Hansen can cry all he wants about "consensus", but there isn't one. And Al Gore, the Pope of Warmism, can't create one from whole cloth.
Every decoy RV, every fleck of reflective paint, every GRAM of armor on an inbound missile that MIGHT serve to protect the missile from being destroyed by our defenses COSTS THEM irreplaceable warhead payload mass. To make the Reentry Vehicle sturdy enough, they'll lose half or more of the warhead itself.
This sounds like a first approximation of victory to me!
If the Russians and the Chinese really thought that ABM missiles wouldn't work, they wouldn't CARE if we built them - because they wouldn't work!
The fact that the Russians and the Chinese (who are STILL our potential enemies) are furious tells us that they are pretty sure that the missiles WILL work. Not perfectly, maybe not even "pretty well", but at least enough to spoil their disarming first strike plans. Without the ability to launch a first strike effectively, they cannot attack at all. And even the POSSIBILITY that an ABM system MIGHT work is enough to raise the fear among THEIR warplanners.
One of the greatest military victories of the Cold War was a battle that was never fought. The USAF built a high-altitude supersonic long range bomber, against which the USSR had NO DEFENSES AT ALL. The B-70 Valkyrie would fly too high and too fast for the Soviet fighters to bring it down, and was probably fast enough to escape from most air defense missiles. So the USSR began a crash program to create a fighter that could engage the Valkyrie successfully. And the Mig-25 FOXBAT was that high-flying supersonic interceptor, the anti-B-70.
The Soviets built several squadrons of Foxbats before the USAF cancelled the XB-70 program after only two aircraft. One crashed after a midair with a chase fighter, and the other is the star attraction at the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio.
In a move that probably gave Tom Clancy the basic plot of "Hunt for Red October", a Russian Mig-25 pilot named Viktor Belenko defected to Japan, and purchased his asylum with his Foxbat. (He even wrote a book about it.) Turns out that the Foxbat was prohibitively expensive to build and fly, and required new engines every 250 hours. The Foxbat literally bankrupted the USSR - and for an enemy that never existed.
When we build a feasible missile defense system, the Russians and the Chinese will either bankrupt themselves trying to overwhelm it, or will admit that their own first strike dreams are quite out of the question. We'll find certain safety in THEIR uncertain capabilities.
"Noah's Flood" was "world-wide" only from the perspective of a very narrow slice of the "world", but an asteroid-caused tsunami could easily have inundated the entire world that THEY knew about; from Egypt to, perhaps, Sumeria. In broad general terms, it at least approximately matches the similar Gilgamesh epics, and the Egyptians have their own flood legends. Are you so insanely literal that you cannot see that legends and myths sometimes DO contain a grain of truth at their cores?
Good fantasy novels? Anything by James Branch Cabell, such as "Jurgen", "Figures of Earth", or "The Silver Stallion".
Back in the 1970s' fantasy editor Lin Carter went back and collected and republished most of the best 1920-1930 fantasy. You can still find them in used book stores.
Depends on where it hits. One that big into the Indian Ocean could replicate Noah's Flood, which is probably what happened THEN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burckle_Crater
Large asteroids - far larger than this one! - have hit the Earth before, and it WILL happen again. Probably not in 2029, or in 2037, and probably not in 2040 - but why wait? Preparing now - or at least, starting to THINK about preparing now - will pay major dividends in the long run.
With any luck, by 2040 we'll be able to capture it into one of the lunar Trojan points, and that'll save money in the long run from paying to lift mass from the Earth or the Moon to build that habitat.
Load Portable Apps on your flash drive, and then load Firefox (or Chrome) on that. It'll keep all of your browsing history and temp files on your flash drive.
There has been speculation that some stars may oscillate between radiating energy generated by fusion, and radiating energy generated by gravitational collapse. It may even be that many stars wobble on the cusp of fusion and collapse; a star expands slightly due to the heat and pressure of fusion to the point that fusion no longer occurs, followed by a slight gravitational collapse until the core is dense enough to support fusion again. (Read the Vernor Vinge book "A Deepness in the Sky" http://www.amazon.com/Deepness-Sky-Vernor-Vinge/dp/0812536355/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328304339&sr=1-1 for an extreme example.) The star's radiative output might vary only slightly between the phases.
After all, most theories of how the Sun works suggest that we ought to be able to detect SOME solar neutrinos; what if the Sun is in the "collapse" phase just now, and the reason we can't detect the neutrinos is because there aren't any?
There are several reasons to use a Blackberry, and the most significant (from a business user's perspective) is that the Blackberry will do voice-dialing for the phone, while some Android phones (such as my Sprint EVO 4G) need a separate and flaky app to do this, and others (such as my AT&T Samsung Galaxy IIs "Skyrocket") won't do it at all.
Android "phones" are great pocket computers to which a few phone-like features have been grafted. But they aren't all that hot at actually being a "mobile phone".
Blackberries are fairly good mobile phones, with a few computer-like features. It's a matter of emphasis.
Most people who weren't adolatrous Barry-fanboys already knew. He's a Chicago thug; what did you EXPECT!?!? He got his political start in terrorist-bomber Bill Ayers' living room.
Scan the paper documents to your hard drive, and throw them into a cardboard box labelled with the year. Record financial transactions in a financial management program like Quicken, and throw all the receipts and statements into that same box. You generally won't ever need to access the paper documents, but you have them if you ever do.
Any electronic documents go into the same scans folder on the hard drive, backed up to a portable USB drive or two.
After a few years, take that cardboard box off the shelf in the garage and burn it.
Blu-Ray is the "best; but regular DVDs are, for most purposes, "good enough". My 50" plasma HDTV looks just fine with a regular DVD, and when I compare the screens on the TV showroom at Fry's, I really can't see much difference.
Perhaps after I upgrade to a 150" TV, I'll be able to see the difference, in which case I'll buy a blu-ray player then. Assuming, of course, that 1.) Blu-ray hasn't been superseded by something even better, and 2.) Blu-Ray players aren't included as Cracker-Jack prizes.
If I'm lucky....
That low for female to male transmission perhaps; male to female transmission is far higher. When you inject a tainted fluid (either blood or semen) into the body, it's a whole lot more infectious than merely being immersed for a few moments in the fluid.
I live near Sacramento, CA, a big state government town. On State holidays, the rush hour commute is a breeze. If the state office drones could telecommute even one day a week, it would cut a critical 10% of commuters, save bazillions of gallons of gas every year, and probably eliminate the phony AGW fears. For 10% of the cost of high-speed rail, every person in California could get HD broadband telepresence connections. Of course, it would kill the inner-city office building market....
The only thing "daylight savings time" does is force, by government decree, that EVERYBODY must do this at the SAME time, in lockstep.
I saw an editorial cartoon perhaps 30 years ago. In the cartoon, Richard Nixon is depicted sitting in a rocking chair saying "I need to make this blanket longer, so that we can stay warm in the winter. So I'll cut one foot of the blanket off at one end, and sew it onto the other end." That's everything you need to know about Daylight Savings Time.
My experience with this has been different; I purchased a NetGear WNR854T, got it replaced once during the warranty period, and have had to pay to replace the replacement. Deader than a doornail; NO connectivity at all. Before, say, 2005, NetGear stuff had been pretty good, but the recent models have been ... "sub-par" in quality and performance. I suspect that all the manufacturers are cutting costs by shaving quality, and until the disappointing reviews hit the web, they can get away with selling crap at high prices.
The problem with the planet detection methods used by the Kepler team is that it is all calculated based on occultations; the slight dimming of the star's light as a planet passes between that star and the Kepler satellite. This only works if the planet in question is 1) HUGE or 2) very close to the star or 3) the Earth just HAPPENS to be in the plane of the planet's orbit around the star. That's why we're discovering so many enormous planets with orbital periods in the range of only a few days. But the nice thing about the Kepler data seems to be that it's eliminating many of the "it could NEVER have happened that way!" explanations. With upwards of 500 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and we've looked only at a few thousand, it looks more and more that ANYTHING is possible when it comes to planetary formation.
... is that most music these days stinks. Badly written, poorly performed, atonal noise. Why pay for crap?
Try www.spaceweather.com.
OSCAR. http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php
Alternatively, God created the evidence of an old Earth - as a test of faith.
Both were good stories. But if you want to believe in a deity, I don't suppose that it makes a whole lot of difference whether you believe in the Jehovah of the bible, in Allah, or in Ceiling Cat.
Strange, but a LOT of lefties have had similar attitudes on racial purity and eugenics; Margaret Sanger, for example, or Stalin, or Lysenko... And anti-semitism has always been an equal-opportunity prejudice, all too common on both "sides" of the political spectrum. Especially on BOTH extremes. The problem is that the modern 'left" is better able to HIDE their prejudices, while the intolerant right is more open about it - and the centrists abhor both of them. Occasionally, of course, people like Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson makes a goof next to an open mike, and embarrasses everybody.