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     Aesquire |
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/08/why-d idnt-us-shoot-down-north-korean-missile/140620/?or ef=d-river Why didn't we shoot down the N. Korean missile the overflew Japan? A few good reasons. It wasn't aimed at anyone. No need to waste the bucks shooting at a dud headed for the middle of the Pacific. We might miss. That's always embarrassing, and we don't need to hand Kim any PR wins. He's going to tell his own slaves that he's kicking our butts even as his cities melt, but the perception of the S. Koreans, Japanese, and China is important. Better not show a fail if you don't have to. we might hit. A real intercept will show a lot. Russia & China have a LOT of radar and radio sets in the area to watch us and they would love to have a clean recording of the radar frequencies and pulse modulation, and the commands sent to guide the ABM, just so they can jam them, when it's important to THEM. I presume the orders have already been given to shoot down a missile headed for Tokyo, Guam, etc. I'm actually worried more about Taiwan than Guam. Kim could hurt us, and an important ally and do payback to the Chinese govt. all in one shorter, easier shot. ( OTOH, the Chinese probably are a bit nervous Kim would hit THEM ) | ||
| Pwnzor |
I can't even look at Nasa's website anymore... it's all polluted with global warming crap. | ||
| Aesquire |
You should check out the Astronomy pic of the day. NASA still does some good work. Don't forget their job now is making Muslims feel good about their contributions to science. Hey, that's hard! Like making Shakers feel good about their porn industry. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I know they do, and I get the pic of the day via Google+ on my phone... but dammit if I didn't inadvertently click some link and it sent me to their site where every single story was about the receding ice pack, etc yada yada | ||
| Aesquire |
The ice pack was receding. That's called summer. In fact, at the rate days are getting shorter, in less than three years we'll be in total darkness.  | ||
| Sifo |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.ecowatch.com/pope-francis-climate-chan ge-2479496671.html The Last Pope is a true believer in the religion of Global Warming. I admit, it's nicer in some perverted way to not like a Pope. I thought John Paul II was a hero for standing up to the Evil Empire, and Benny 16 was surprisingly on the ball, especially for the former head of the Holy Inquisition. I found myself cheering on, and agreeing with both fine men on occasion. Which, as an ex-Catholic ( baptized in that Church ) made me a little uncomfortable. Most of the Popes before John Paul II I didn't like for the simple reason that they seemed to me to be keepers of the unearned power, hoarders of vast wealth, and misogynist creeps, And of course the whole sexually uptight but pay no attention to the sex with little boys thing. The current Pope, OTOH has proven that the previous one was dead right about the current Pope's religion. Which is Liberation Theology, AKA Soviet Stooge, AKA fake Christian, or as Benedict put it, Demonic. I would be honored to be excommunicated by this guy, but I'd have to lie like he does about my faith first, and I won't do that. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/article1704 08272.html Could someone hack your pacemaker? FDA is recalling 465,000 of them due to that risk Ok, I didn't see this one coming. Should have. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/01 /delingpole-ship-of-fools-iv-another-green-arctic- expedition-scuppered-by-ice/ Just another polar region stunt to take advantage of the ice free Arctic now that the world has melted, being forced to turn back because of "unprecedented" sea ice. Apparently "unprecedented" now means just like almost every year, but not how we lied about it, for more than 20 years. I'm not sure what word now means "pay no attention to the predictions we made in the past that didn't happen" or "you can't be reading this because mankind perished 30 years ago when the oceans died". It used to be "fraud", but that's now only used to describe Faith other than Islam and Marxism. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/30/climate-com munism-the-russians-arent-buying/ Since the Russians started the Greenies as a tool to destroy Western Industry, of course they know what's a hoax. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451049/envir onmentalism-funerals-vox-article-wants-eliminate-c arbon-footprint It is not possible to mock Greenies enough. I keep expecting a Headline. "Cure for cancer and common cold rejected because of carbon footprint". You can indeed make the case that anything that prevents fatal illness is bad for the environment because humans are bad for the environment. Simple. Logical. Genocidal. Suicidal. Clinically insane. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/03/revisiting- wind-turbine-impacts-erroneous-recent-calculation- highlights-need-to-assess-renewable-energy-sustain ability-claims/ An analysis of how many wind turbines we need to replace all the old power plants. And how many Tesla battery packs to keep civilization going if it's not windy, for 2 days. If it goes 3? fire up that portable generator. The one that runs on gas, not the so called Generator sold on the Glenn Beck show that's a cheap Chinese solar panel. | ||
| Ducbsa |
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/04/al-gore-outsold- on-kindle-by-an-e-book-debunking-an-inconvenient-s equel/ | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/09/06/uc-santa- cruz-professor-elizabeth-stephens-a-pioneer-in-the -ecosexual-movement-is-encouraging-the-public-to-e ngage-in-environmentalism-by-having-sex-with-the-e arth/ Every time I think I've achieved at least tolerance of weird in human sexuality, I run into weirder people who have some need to make everyone praise them for their kink. This has to go in the science thread because I don't even have language to cover it. I'm hoping a medical professional does. | ||
| Airbozo |
Santa Cruz is the center of the Keep it Weird movement (sorry Austin and Portland, do try to keep up). It has not gone well for them either (please pay attention Portland and Austin). Most of it has to do with a larger college population out voting the residents who want some control over what is going on in their city. To no avail. I think it's fitting that the UCSC mascot is a Slug. | ||
| Aesquire |
Heinlein did call these the Crazy Years in his future history. That ended, IIRC with a religious dictatorship. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://nypost.com/2017/09/09/new-york-city-is-over due-for-a-major-earthquake/ Sensationalism and hyperbole. Yet it's true a big quake in the NYC area would be a disaster of extraordinary magnitude. If the water lines and traffic tunnels failed or were temporarily blocked, say for weeks, Manhattan might be uninhabitable. Lose all but one bridge and the tunnels and the island would run out of food in days and no way to evacuate or place to put the refugees. Natural gas lines could break leaving the city in flames and without heat. ( both are especially ironic ) Worst case scenario would be in a winter storm. Or summer heat wave. The blockbuster Hollywood earthquake movies never show the aftermath. And are naturally obsessed with LA. Of course, the biggest quake on record in the Continental U.S. was in Missouri. Back when towns in the region were small. ( church bells rang on the East coast from that quake ) And disasters that are "due" include Super volcano in Yellowstone ( probably not soon ) , Northwest coast quake & undersea slide, ( triggered by N Korea nuclear war? Nothing like a radioactive tsunami! Sharks? Hah! ) & everyone's favorite, comet or asteroid strike. Long overdue, but in the case of a comet, weeks of warning, giving us widespread panic and religious wars. Me? I just take them as they come. I'm hoping Jose hits D.C. ....... I always hope stuff hits D.C.  | ||
| Zac4mac |
Speaking of "overdue", when are the north and south poles gonna flip again???????? | ||
| Torquehd |
North and South are antiquated direction roles. Maps should be transdirectional with no racist, fascist distinction between N,S,E or W. If you self-identify as wanting to drive west from chicago to get to NYC, you should be able to drive west and still get there. If you want to say that the North seceded due to Southern Aggression, you should be entitled to your opinion. No one should force their cardinal views on you. | ||
| Aesquire |
Punch a Directionist today! | ||
| Torquehd |
While we're on the subject, why does the government keep telling us that the N and S poles of magnets should be attracted to eachother? What if I want to see two N's hooking up? Or what if I want to install my batteries with + to + instead of + to -? Those ugly religionists are keeping me down, man. | ||
| Aesquire |
I have no clue on pole flipping. The Sun, British paper, loves lurid science and covers such things often. Asteroids are overdue. Super volcanoes are due soon, maybe, and real orbital periodic Ice Age isn't due for a few thousand but mini ice ages that topple civilization and lead to dark ages are likely. Unfortunately weather prediction is subject to chaos and the periodic appearance is subject to swings and slides, that come from the inertia and fractal resonances. Asteroids and volcanic eruptions are deceptive, looking at time lines. As the planet cools volcanism slows. Doesn't stop, though, and the range of variation in timing a mega eruption is more than the rate of change in human history. So, could be Tuesday, or 12,000 years. Asteroids are similar. There are less of them overall, over time, as they run into planets. The rate of change is tiny, so it's just a foolish illusion to think they don't happen any more. Plus Jupiter and the other gas giants pump rocks out of the Oort cloud as they swing by to rain down on us from light hours away. My opinion is we live in a golden age of natural disasters where we've had enough time to leave the cave and build space stations. I wanted to be a. Asteroid Ranger as a kid. We need Space Cadet training on The Wheel, and nuclear patrol boats tracking and diverting rogue rocks! Don't know what to do about the volcanoes that doesn't seem like a bad movie. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451217/flori da-gas-shortage-blame-environmentalists Disasters and fuel. | ||
| Ducbsa |
"What the climate hysterics never do is offer any quantitative analysis to substantiate their claims of increased hurricane activity. They don’t, because they can’t. To better measure the destructive force of hurricanes and all tropical cyclones, NOAA developed the accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index, which measures wind energy and can be summed over the entire season. ACE includes number, strength, and duration of all the tropical storms in the season. ACE is a better indicator than comparing individual hurricanes, if the intensity of tropical storms is increasing over time. ACE is not increasing globally or in the northern hemisphere as atmospheric greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide (CO2), are increasing. " http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/comm on-sense-on-hurricanes.php | ||
| Aesquire |
http://nypost.com/2017/09/11/hackers-could-program -sex-robots-to-kill/ I didn't think I'd be in the "Ghost in a Shell" world in my lifetime. It does make sense that the best minds in SF would "predict" some of the details of our dystopian future. "Ghost" is still years ahead, but we have the first combat drones, sex bots, mass hack attacks, and A.I. terror. ( the folk who got rich on social media are terrified ) | ||
| Aesquire |
Writer and Strategy expert Jerry Pournelle passed away Sept. 8, 2017. Author of many award winning and best selling novels, like "Footfall" "Lucifer's Hammer" and "King David's Spaceship". Jerry was also a columnist for Byte magazine and started the original "blog" on the internet. With author Larry Niven he not only wrote some of the best novels in their genre, he also was one of the creators of SDI, and Strategic defense planning. He has left behind a talented family, legions of fans, and a body of work that cannot be recommended enough. | ||
| Hootowl |
I hope the poles flip soon. The north pole is actually the south magnetic pole. It's messing with my sleep. | ||
| Aesquire |
You're being positionist! Although I know EE types that want to time travel back to tell Ben Franklin to change the charge on the electron. | ||
| Sifo |
These are the folks that scare the crap out of me. Follow their brand of science, or else. Good science simply doesn't work that way. Good government simply doesn't work that way. Mix BS science with evil government, and you seem to get what the progressives are pushing for. Calls to punish skeptics rise with links to climate change, hurricanes | ||
| Hootowl |
---"murder is murder” and “we should punish it as such.” This is ironic, coming from the Left. |
