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     Aesquire |
The same to a large extent is true of the asteroid impacts, and ice ages. Consider, during an ice age, all the works of man not in the tropics is scraped, literally, away. Here's a decent representation of ice sheets during the last ice age. https://xkcd.com/1225/ Here's a timeline that's very accurate until about 1900, where the Climate Con people started faking the data for religious reasons. ( the Cartoon's author is a believer, other than that, he's pretty sane. ) Heck, I'd be a believer if I was born after the Con got going, but I was around before, so I have a different perspective. https://xkcd.com/1732/ And here's a nifty 'toon using Ice Age Units, which is a cool way to compress large numbers. https://xkcd.com/1379/ But, back to hypothetical extinct civilizations. Any civilization during the Ice ages is going to retreat to the tropics. So IF there was one before the last Ice age, you'd expect traces in Africa, South America, and Asia. But that assumes that those civilizations held on for over 30,000 years in bad crop snowstorms in Kenya hell. Since no civilization post ice age has held on longer than 1000 years, ( Rome, Including Byzantium ) that seems unlikely. Here's a Vostok ice core chart going back a bit further than the timeline comic above.  Also there's the problem that Jungle eats cities. Without aerial photographs and modern imaging techniques several central American ruins would remain undiscovered to this day. There's just nothing left to see above the trees. And no one wanders through the Green Hell that these ruins survived in. Deserts erase cities too. See any Mummy Movie. All over the planet, if it's a nice place to live, people just build over the ruins of the previous people that live there. See Troy. Or Jerusalem. Or New York City. Not much trace of the farms and nice wooden houses from just 200 years ago, or 100 years ago in many places. Unless there's a rich historical organization in the future, you can bet by the year 3000 that the Empire State Building is forgotten, or more likely people will argue where it really was. ( since the shape of the Island will be different after the oceans fall 150 feet due to the burning of Hydrogen in Fusion reactors ) Thus, it's not a surprise we don't have a clue about any previous civilizations. We may someday find Atlantis in the Bermuda Triangle, or some Cthulu worshiping city in the Mountains of Madness in Antarctica... ( Or a Predator base... ) but I wouldn't hold my breath. We have a hard time grasping that there was a civilization in North America based on Constitutionally limited government and melting pot ideology. No, Seriously, there was. Really. | ||
| Hootowl |
“burning of Hydrogen in Fusion reactors“ Not being burned, or we’d get water back.  | ||
| Aesquire |
Pedant. Easier to say "burned" than "proton annihilation". I have to admit the Greenies have valid points about population control. The trouble as always is "who decides? ". Elitist eugenics makes sense theoretically. In the real world you get Planned Parenthood and it's quite successful genocide of America's blacks. Germany's Final Solution. Khan. | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/10/harvar ds_bogus_exxonmobil_study.html I should do a paper on how Harvard and Yale graduates have a disparate impact on world suffering. The pro-rape policies of Barack Obama come to mind with his support for genocide and gang rape in Egypt. The U.S. State department alone gives too many examples to list here. Do I need to mention George W. Bush? It's obvious that these institutions are a major factor in millions of deaths just in Harvard influenced policies on relations to the Soviet Union. It would be a far less biased paper than the link above from the Elitist diploma mill. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/10/israel i_technology_saving_american_lives_and_equipment.h tml Yea! It's impressive when the Pentagon's "not invented here" mindset is overcome and they make a smart decision. The Israeli APS system has been tested and works fairly well. I do expect some very harsh criticism of it the first time a ISIS or Antifa thug fires a RPG at an APS protected vehicle and the shotgun like blast kills the human shields the shooter is among. It's basically a more directional lower powered Claymore mine. As a fictional representation of the APS I suggest David Drake's "Hammer's Slammers" series. Drake was in the only independent Armor unit in Vietnam, and devised a future Tank that lacked his perceived weaknesses of the Sheridan and older tanks he served with. First, the darn treads had to go. Maintenance nightmare, field repair hell, constant failures.. Air cushion has a much lower ton per inch footprint, but needs lots of power. No problem, science fiction, fusion plants. Heavy armor, a massive power plant, advanced sensor systems ( and careful thought about combat resistant display systems ) give behemoth size, but race car speeds. Think Maus tank from the last days of the Third Reich, when Hitler went size crazy and they built a tank so heavy it couldn't go anywhere soft and had a top speed you could outrun on a bicycle easily. On air cushions? Destroyer sized main gun and freeway speed on roads, off road depends on the drag of the vegetation you flatten with it. Wheat? 65 mph. Lightning quick computer or manual ( author's imaginary energy weapon) turrets are used to shoot up soft to medium targets ( like a machine gun in current tanks.... The power turrets are being tested ) and anti-missile, anti-artillery auto-target. For close defense, a segmented replaceable strip of claymore type "shotgun" elements that auto target incoming RPG type weapons. Manual fire available for special occasions like a guy with a satchel charge, that is too close to engage normally. It's pretty much an integrated version of the Israeli system. And knowing them I bet it even has manual mode. | ||
| Ducbsa |
"to match the energy equivalent of a typical gasoline filling station today, an electric filling station would have to have the 30 megawatts of capacity, equivalent to the electricity use of 20,000 homes." It's almost like electric cars aren't practical. /sarc http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/10/ban- gas-powered-cars-california-is-thinking-about-it.p hp | ||
| Aesquire |
http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Cannabis-harve sts-threatened-by-Sonoma-County-s-12263991.php We can blame the forest fires on bad management. People often point to Yellowstone and the Elk Problem where generations of interference with nature, with the best intentions, mind you, has repeatedly led to ecological disaster. The West Coast fire problem is complex, but the causes are simple. There will be fires. Lightning or cigarettes, they happen. Every year. They were once deliberately set by Native Americans ( whose ancestors walked here ) in a Woke effort to make the region park like, with minimal damage to crops and towns. Then along came Federal Government Man. This cross between Neanderthals and the seagulls from Finding Nemo, used reverse Wicca to declare that the peasants could not harvest dead wood or clear underbrush. No matter that a thousand years of careful management by local tribes has given us wonders like Redwood forests and the best marihuana land in the continental U.S.. The known bad policies of the Federal seagulls cause the natural fires to burn hot and low, sterilizing the dirt, causing land slides, mud rivers and devastation that takes generations to repair. Off topic the cannabis crop has long been California's number one cash crop, increasingly so as Government policies destroy the Imperial Valley ecosystem and food crops & farms. Moral of the story? Bad science and government inertia equal pain and suffering for so many for so long. Decades after being informed their policies do great harm and no good, they persist because the only immortal entities are government programs. And they fight for their survival like the Greek Gods with less care for the mortals beneath them. Btw. Building a house nestled in the woods that burn? Dumber than side of volcano. Clearing a fire break would be intelligent. But probably illegal. This doesn't apply to most Eastern forest dwellers where a forest fire is bad luck instead of WHEN. | ||
| Ebutch |
https://youtu.be/nOJVk79N_t4 | ||
| Torquehd |
I'd still like to know why they don't do controlled burns during the milder months. | ||
| Ebutch |
Winter movie ( The Fatal Glass Of Beer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctt4HpnGzPo | ||
| Torquehd |
I watched 18 minutes of that movie trying to figure out what was going on. The last 30 seconds were worth it! | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452469/organ ic-food-scams-congress-should-investigate I'm openly skeptical about the "organic" business. I know a badwebber has an organic food business. But I agree usually about consumer protection. If the label says "organic" I want it to mean something. ( I doubt it, but that's another thing ) I don't have peanut or shellfish allergies, but I have friends that do. So I want the label to be accurate. I had to change ketchup brands since the local store quit carrying the brand I preferred that didn't use corn syrup. But it doesn't matter if I like your food fad. Or even think you are a virtue signaling loon when you ask for free range, cruelty free, organic veal. If that's what you want I want the label not to lie to you. Unlike late night comedian lefty types, I don't get pleasure when people I disagree with are hurt. Ok, just for a second. then I remember it's not a Christian thing to do. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-outs-sex-workers- 1818861596 Facebook uses secret systems to analyze you. They use secret systems to suggest new "friends". Secret systems to decide to censor you. ( hint, are you for a world government with absolute power? No? Screw you. Because Facebook is a world government with absolute power. ) At first glance the story of how this Social monster outs porn stars and prostitutes by giving their customers the sex workers real names and addresses seems like it doesn't matter to you. A story of pity for the poor wretches when stalkers rape and murder them, perhaps? Can't happen to me since I'm not a pitiful •••••? Then you aren't paying attention. Facebook does so much more, and knows so much more. It's not willing to tell YOU how it sorts it's Big Data, ( those secrets are money makers ) but it's willing to sell or give your personal information to anyone it wants. You told the planet you want to lose weight. That's valuable. They sell that. You don't like Trump, or Hillary, & told the planet. They sell that. When you commented on that posting? They sell that. And that means that a front group for Soros/Koch can & will pay to find their enemies. To get that list with your name and address in cyberspace and reality. To sell you soap and politics and mind control? Absolutely. That was obvious to not idiots since the beginning. To sell your address to murderous thugs of the x regime? You betcha. Are you the enemy of Bashir Asad? AQ? Mayor of Chicago? Antifa? General Motors? A supporter of Trump, Clinton, Unions? Free speech? Oreos? That list is for sale. Now that it is acceptable to murder Republicans, or country western fans, or gun toting Neanderthals, ( according to the legal staff at CBS ) surely it's acceptable to sell your home address to Social Justice Warriors so they can burn your house down because your Nazis beliefs about Organic food or Donald or Harvey's rapes? So don't ignore the poor porn actress. Just because she's not like you doesn't mean her beating and murder isn't your future too because Facebook incriminated you both in the eyes of evil. | ||
| Ratbuell |
...and people wonder why I don't do Facebook, either for myself or for my sound company... I'm too busy out there in that "real world" place. Well...and Badweb.  | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/12/michael-laufer -drug-prices/ I didn't quite figure out what the spin is on this one. I think I'm supposed to not like him. What do you think? | ||
| Ourdee |
Never met him. So, I do not know if I like him or not. I have epi-pens laying around. So, I won't make one for now. I do agree that big pharma costs too much. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.iceagenow.info/nasa-confirms-sea-level s-falling-across-planet/ Biased site reporting on biased organization. But opposite bias. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4676492/chinas-runaw ay-tiangong-1-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-wi thin-months-harvard-university-astrophysicist-warn s/ From my favorite apocalypse paper now that the weekly world news is long out of print. We should see possible impact path maps soon. I certainly wouldn't move because of this, but surely will go out when it tumbles in to try and see the show. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Bad windpower news: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/10/gree n-energy-fails-every-test.php One commenter mentions big fossil fuel subsidies; what are they? | ||
| Aesquire |
We've been subsidizing the Oil business for years. Purely selfish reasons. As a nation we don't want to all die in darkness, like the credibility of the New York Post. I know a few here heat their homes with wood, I know a few locally that do, too, but they also watch tv so they burn fossil fuels and Uranium. We need fossil fuels to run our ships, planes, tanks, scout motorcycles, Humvees, and the limos that run Nancy Pelosi around. The amount of direct tax money to the Eviiil Oil companies is less than to the Virtuous Windmill Factories, today, but that doesn't include our defense spending etc. Then again, the article doesn't mention the compromises to keep cheap solar panels coming from China that leave an ecological disaster far away. | ||
| Hootowl |
Tax breaks are not tax credits. Evil oil gets no tax credits. "Green" power does. Tax breaks are what the government refers to as "tax incentives". They reward the behavior they want by taxing it less. This is also the crack in our Republic that begets all the bribery and corruption in politics. How about that flat tax? | ||
| Hootowl |
Tax credits are what the government issues when it wants to really disrupt a market. | ||
| Macbuell |
A Consumption tax would be the smartest option with Food and other life necessities taxed at a lower rate, regular rate for everything else plus a luxury tax on yachts, luxury cars, etc. That seems like the fairest, smartest possible solution. It would also incent the government to adopt policies that spur economic growth as that should spur more purchase power / more purchases and an increase in Consumption Tax Revenue. | ||
| Aesquire |
Fairest? Tax the yachts. Ruin the yacht builders. That was Clinton's result. Kerry parks his yacht in a different state so he doesn't pay taxes on it. Yacht builders in Spain & Italy now make the yachts for the rich instead of New England companies. That's a triple fail. No tax income, lost jobs, more on welfare. They say you tax behavior you want to discourage. | ||
| Hootowl |
"yachts" Which is actually pronounced "throat warbler mangrove". | ||
| Airbozo |
"I'd still like to know why they don't do controlled burns during the milder months." Can't speak to all places, but in my area (Santa Cruz Mountains), they do controlled burns all the time. "Btw. Building a house nestled in the woods that burn? Dumber than side of volcano. Clearing a fire break would be intelligent. But probably illegal." Clearing a fire break is encouraged AND legal. The local Fire Chief has the last say about legality and no one I know has ever been in trouble for doing so. You get in trouble for NOT clearing a break. We work with the fire department every year to cleanup and clear everything they ask. | ||
| Aesquire |
My statement on fire breaks is from my observations of forest fires across the country. I know families near me who's homes are lovely tree shadowed houses down winding driveways which mean they need snow plows to get to the road and any fire wipes out their life's dream. But the California fires this year are sweeping through towns out where trees are few and farms burn. These kinds of fires don't happen here. Forest fires are rare, but super brush fires are unheard of. Too much moisture. We don't have the Santa Ana winds and while I've experienced life in that environment I don't live there. I'm not wrong on fire breaks, but I sure didn't cover the situation of the fires in Napa. That a whole town can burn like that is outside my experience. Don't build in the trees is easy to say, & not stupid, but it's different than I thought. How do you make fire breaks to stop these fires? The break down in communication is startling. The aging power system seems to be a cause of some of the fires, and it was predicted but the highly intrusive government wasn't caring with higher priority to green virtue signaling instead of public safety. Somewhere in Sacramento a boss is happy the fires are erasing the evidence that he didn't do his job. | ||
| Macbuell |
Aesquire ... I think you are confusing a Sales tax with a property tax. I am not proposing taxing things that which are already owned such as property taxes on homes. I'm proposing a Sales tax and it would merely be 1% or so higher on luxury items. Do you really think a wealthy individual who is going to spend a large sum of money on a yacht is going to worry about an additional % in Sales tax. Maybe I am wrong but it doesn't feel they will. Some very smart people are big proponents of the Fair Tax. What I outlined is that concept with an additional luxury tax. |
