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| Aesquire |
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/fal ling-sea-level/ Obviously short term trends can't paint the whole picture. Thinking the one graph means the oceans will dry up is like thinking the ice caps will melt because it was nearly as warm in 1998 as it was in 1938. Planetary average went up a lot in the 20 odd years between the cold spell of 1977 and the end of the hot spell in 1998. IF it had actually maintained that rate of change for a century.... There would be some flooding. The Soylent Green heat death scenario, however, has never happened AFAIK. Ice kilometers deep scraping away all traces of previous civilizations has. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/628868/War-G OOD-planet-shock-NASA-research-population?_ga=1.10 1105097.913083530.1458770841 Proof that less people cause less pollution. Duh. Where you go from the Obvious is the question. War is good? Sure. go that way. Maybe I can get that job at Lockheed. Or at NASA who using a One Dimensional technique seem to say that there is less pollution coming from the parts of Syria they dropped Poison gas on. True. Not the whole truth. Or the Important truths. | ||
| Hootowl |
He was close...he said the rate would only slow, not reverse. Dead wrong on everything else. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-350 7826/Tay-teenage-AI-goes-rails-Twitter-bot-starts- posting-offensive-racist-comments-just-day-launchi ng.html | ||
| Pwnzor |
I look back and see the "majority" of the country losing their minds. And then, again four years later, as the dead literally rose from their graves to vote en masse. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/433273/euthan ize-organ-harvesting Author Larry Niven wrote several stories set in a world where the problems of organ transplantation were solved. The technical problems. As he predicted/speculated, once we had blood typing, the stage was set for a cold logic. Each adult holds about 8 quarts of blood. A condemned murderer, for example, could give several people a chance for life if we humanely drained him and put his blood in the public banks. Once we had organ transplants, the logic is clearer. 2 kidneys, lungs, a liver, skin, etc. each criminal harvested, instead of wasted in inhumane execution, could potentially save far more lives than he took. Win, win. But. Once harvested parts from capital criminals become common, there will be a tendency to make lesser and lesser crime capitol offenses, just to feed the pool. The criminal side where people are murdered for their parts to be sold on the black market. There's a LOT of ramifications of using criminals for spare parts. Not all bad, not all good. Note that this is Real and NOW in China. In Europe, today, it seems the rationalization for encouraging suicidal folk, mentally ill, after all, to let the medical system kill them for the good of society, is another step in a direction few have seriously considered. It is a direction that requires a lot of thought, and I suspect that even discussion of the issues will be discouraged by people who look to gain power and wealth in the process. | ||
| Torquehd |
I was in the ROC just a few months ago, saw a bunch of Falun Gong practicioners protesting the PRC's organ harvesting. I 100% believe it and wish America could put a foot up Xi Jinping's.... "pigu" in Chinese. Edit: Yes I know it's not (just) Xi Jinping - he's a hollow figurehead... (Message edited by torquehd on March 26, 2016) | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/h ow-islamic-jihad-hacked-israel-s-drones.html The Chinese stuff is quite real. You go to China with a need, they check the prison for a match and you get your parts. cash only I bet, I doubt MVP will pay. ( but if it becomes common and MVP gets a kickback? Sure, they'll cover it ) The guy who used to have your new liver? Don't worry about it. Horrible threat to China, better off without him. Probably a Christian. Consider the huge number of criminals we have stockpiled. You got a loved one on the waiting list? Someone you know who doesn't qualify for a new part? These moral issues have to be addressed. this is not a trick question. Alcoholics have a hard time getting a fresh liver to wreck. Suicides too. If a teen takes a bottle of Tylenol in a classic cry for attention.... they die. Slowly. Tylenol O.D. kills the liver, and it takes weeks to perish, and there's nothing that can stop it, except a transplant, and suicides don't get on the list when there's a long wait for available organs. Yet... sitting right there in prison, working out and getting new tats, is a matching liver for your child and......... | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0326/Yellows tone-supervolcano-eruptions-were-even-bigger-than- we-thought Not something to worry about, but fascinating science. | ||
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| Ducbsa |
This covers the competitiveness of wind & solar power. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/03/dept -of-energy-to-greenies-sod-off.php | ||
| Hootowl |
http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of -shit-1694902226 Worth a read. People spouting off about 'toxins' have always bothered me. Funny to see one of them lambasted. | ||
| Hootowl |
Be sure to follow the link to her blog (http://www.scibabe.com for those too lazy to read the article.) "Come for the science, stay for the dirty jokes" | ||
| Aesquire |
Great article. One of my major complaints about fraud "science" is the "boy that cried wolf" problem. Bad enough you lie to me. Worse you want to put me in prison for pointing out you lie to me. Almost as bad you want to tax me for your lies..... Worst is the damage done to the very idea of science. If you lie to prove a theory instead of change the theory to match the facts you undercut the principles of truth as a real thing. And when you by chance or hard work actually have a real warning..... you are not believed. Nor should you be. And then people die. And it's actually, literally, your fault. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp /2016/04/01/an-ancient-site-spotted-from-space-cou ld-rewrite-the-history-of-vikings-in-north-america / Heavener Runestone park in Oklahoma is probably a hoax site. Some serious portage work to get even a small ship from the Great Lakes drainage to the Ohio/Mississippi water shed. Possible, based on Viking exploration and colonization in eastern Europe. But not likely. | ||
| Rparnel1 |
Its not too far from the Arkansas River though. Conceivable that they went up the Missisippi, from the Gulf, to the Arkansas and took the Poteau river over close to Heavener. Makes for an interesting mystery. | ||
| Hootowl |
Don't know where to put this. Nuclear subs are sort of sciencish right? https://www.billwhittle.com/afterburner/under-sea- angles-and-dangles-uss-pasadena | ||
| Aesquire |
Good vid from Bill. Thanks. Yeah I'd say a ship that can cruise around the planet twice, under water, is Science. It WAS science fiction. The only reason I say twice is they run out of food. I bet they could go three times around before getting hungry if they went fast. ( and didn't care who heard them ) | ||
| Hootowl |
You catch the homage to hitchhiker? | ||
| Ducbsa |
This article has some good insights on how machines enabled crop yields to increase to feed more people and how leftist dogma wants us to go back to subsistence living. http://www.city-journal.org/html/exhibiting-bias-1 4351.html | ||
| Aesquire |
t’s about politics. The campaign is sponsored by a coalition of environmental and progressive groups, including MoveOn.org and the Working Families Party. It’s being led by a group calling itself The Natural History Museum, which sends a bus around the country with exhibits about “the socio-political forces that shape nature.” The group is financed by various foundations promoting progressive causes like “the relationship between economics, racism, climate, gender and sexual orientation” (as one donor, Solidaire, describes its interests). The donors also include a group promoting the construction of green buildings (another apparently acceptable special interest) as well as the Queens Museum (New Yorkers’ tax dollars at work!). The Natural History Museum’s mission statement isn’t easy to understand—it reads like a sophomore trying to impress his Marxist professor of sociology—but it seems to be mainly about moving beyond the evils of “capitalist enterprises” to “a collective future.” From the above link.... A religion of lies for power. | ||
| Ducbsa |
A good summary: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/fi ghting_junk_science.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2016/04/06/anti-vaxx er-who-said-i-dont-need-this-crap-learns-lesson-th e-hard-way/ | ||
| Aesquire |
http://dailysignal.com/2016/04/04/16-democrat-ags- begin-inquisition-against-climate-change-disbeliev ers/ I am a proud arch heretic. | ||
| Hootowl |
I don't know. I think the only way to settle this is in court. They will have to prove that AGW is hurting the planet, and that the contested theory is in fact, a fact. Since all their models are consistently wrong, this will be an insurmountable task...as long as the judge isn't a member of the Sierra Club. See DDT. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433830/clima te-change-prosecution-liberals Humor... sorta. Hoot, since the "revealed truth" of Global Warming has been required news for, what? 20 years, almost, and there's a LOT of money tied up in it, what are the odds a Judge, trained ( hopefully ) in argument logic, will comprehend the physics of the issue? Law school is like history without context, crammed with the art of partial truth. How many law students have ever taken a hard science course? How many don't automatically think that Revealed truth from higher authority must be real? Other than some gear heads, how many even know how an internal combustion engine works? Other than pilots, what an isobar is? ( I accept a hobbyist can be near expert, even bleeding edge, in a limited field, unrelated to his profession. ) When government agencies report, year after year, adjusted numbers to keep the flow of funding alive.... the "experts" are simply paid performers. And it's the Boss's agency experts a Judge will pay attention to. | ||
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| Ducbsa |
Brown outs again for California. They threw out Gray Davis, have they had too much Kool-aid to do it again with the Dems? http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/cali fornias-ongoing-suicide-watch.php | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.providencejournal.com/opinion/20160411/ michael-e-kraft-climate-change-deniers-deserve-pun ishment Michael E. Kraft (kraftm@uwgb.edu) is a professor emeritus of political science and public and environmental affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. |
