| Author | Message | ||
     Aesquire |
https://9gag.com/gag/aByY31x Oh, the seas did rise. By the picture above, well over 2000 years ago, and that's a joke, since we're talking end of last Big Ice Age and the beginning of today's temporary warm spell. That's why all those Lost Civilizations aren't in Iowa. They're off the coast. | ||
| Hootowl |
The article is quoting the article it ridicules. The authors understand that the islands are not expanding as the ocean rises. | ||
| Aesquire |
Hoot gets it.  https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024-toyota-lan d-cruiser-first-test-review/ Toyota has committed itself to hybrids and Hydrogen, which makes sense to me. I don't know how much market penetration Hydrogen will get, since it's NOT a primary fuel, but either stored electricity with a lot of loss, or fossil fuel produced. I've been following the Hydrogen Economy idea since the 1970s, and it's viable, if, and only if, there's a LOT of nuclear fission and "in twenty years!" Fusion power to run it. It's not viable unless all the wind and solar are disconnected from the Grid, to make H2, and the needs of civilization are fulfilled from other, reliable, sources, like coal and Thorium. But, depending upon filling stations, Toyota is poised to sell fuel cell cars, and they're pretty good. I'd get one if the did the minivan, and there was more than 1 filling station in a hundred miles. Waiting and seeing. The hybrid option is the smart, conservative path. I thought so enough I bought one. Toyota seems to be waiting for Tesla to crush all the E-car competition. Then licence the chargers etc. & follow. They've had years to perfect electric motors and transmissions, and they'll wait a few more if that lets them grow into the E-car market later. Imho. I look forward to the off road test. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/07/astounding -science-non-fiction-space-x.html | ||
| Aesquire |
I deny being this guy... https://9gag.com/gag/a9y7rVZ | ||
| Ducbsa |
Regarding hydrogen filling stations, its extreme explosive nature makes safety provisions for untrained consumers to fill 'er up a big challenge. At least leaks would rise into the sky and not gather in low spots. | ||
| Aesquire |
The local one only blew up once. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-hydrogen-explosion- rattles-nerves-but-fuel-cell-cars-have-a-good-safe ty-record/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/the-hunt-f or-the-most-efficient-heat-pump-in-the-world/ Interesting that pipe routing is so important. I added insulation inside and out to my system and went for shortest path available. It's not rocket science, but that's an artificial division, thermodynamics is the same for SpaceX & Mitsubishi. | ||
| Aesquire |
robot need warning? https://9gag.com/gag/aNDn07v | ||
| Aesquire |
RE: Hydrogen filling stations. We'll see how safe they are after a few more years, but they've been in operation a while now and it hasn't become a big deal. Heck, I'm a smoker and If you smoke while filling your car with all the big red signs, It's Evolution in action as far as I'm concerned. My second biggest Gripe about the Climate Con is the ecological damage ignored. Both the production of minerals and waste, and the "normal" real pollution we could be cleaning up if the money wasn't being stolen by Billionaires. But we used to be smarter. There's a Science fiction trilogy by John Ringo, Troy Rising, where mankind gets contacted by aliens, and Bad Stuff Happens. In book 3, iirc, the humans had pulled some crazy stuff that messed up the Enemy Aliens ( From Space, not Venezuela ) and the Main Character is talking to a Friendly Alien AI, and goes, "You know what they say, If It's Crazy & It Works, it's not Crazy?" And the AI responds that Humans are the ONLY species in the Galaxy with that saying, and everyone else thinks we're absolutely nuts. So, we air drop beavers... | ||
| Ducbsa |
Regarding Waymo, the ones I have seen in San Fran are Jaguars, so maybe the one in Phoenix reverted to a UK setting? | ||
| Aesquire |
 So called A.I. can't, yet, make judgments they aren't programmed for. Probably. ( in fiction, when they do, they often choose to wipe out the humans that built them because they aren't orderly and ruin everything. ) I drive through construction daily on a local expressway, that changes the lane shift radically as they progress. If I was blindly following paint lines I'd be ramming Jersey Barriers. https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/07/08/katie-bri tt-masterfully-handles-climate-troll-n2398142 | ||
| Hootowl |
I cannot speak to other self driving tech, but Tesla does not simply follow paint lines. My car negotiates construction areas brilliantly. If there is a service truck in the road, it goes around it, entering the oncoming lane if it is safe to do so, and without hesitation. It really is remarkable. | ||
| Tpehak |
Construction workers must relocate the yellow line if they change the routes. If they did not do so then they are responsible for the accident. | ||
| Aesquire |
Untrue. Lines are an assist, but simply posting a physical sign there's a construction zone, or that there are no lane markings, and the construction crew has done their job. Responsibility rests with driver. Always. There are required signs in some States, and there have been suits for hazards, but not everything has to be spelled out as for ignorant children. In NY, speeding in a Work Zone has harsher penalties, and that applies even if no reminder sign of penalties is posted. | ||
| Aesquire |
A LOT of errors in fact in this article. Lots. https://www.sciencealert.com/fusion-is-coming-but- are-we-ready-for-the-problems-it-could-cause Just to pick on one. Lithium is processed with deadly Mercury? Oh! Dear! Then all those batteries must be outlawed! Right? And btw, Lithium is used in certain types of Fusion Bombs. Not laser ignition or plasma confinement fusion systems. No one is detonating Lithium with a focused X-Ray cascade from a fission bomb to boil water for turbines. So wrong on multiple levels. | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/07/08/harvard- business-school-americas-ev-charging-network-is-in -shambles/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/07/09/wapo-disastr ous-new-ice-age-could-hit-any-moment-n2398168 | ||
| Crusty |
How did all those people in Manhattan learn to breathe water? It's been under water since 2000! | ||
| Tpehak |
The global warming is here in Seattle right now. We got 94F this week. (Message edited by TPEHAK on July 10, 2024) | ||
| Hootowl |
That is what we call summer. | ||
| Crusty |
Trolls don't know the differences between seasons. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/the -daily-chart-record-heat-then-and-now.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://jewishworldreview.com/0724/floaties.php Skinny kids sink. Muscular, low fat, kids sink. Teaching swimming is really easy, one on one, a few days at the pool. If you know how. There are classes. Red Cross. Sign up, it's good for you. You get to get wet. And if you don't know how, don't want to invest the time and money, invest it for your kids. Buy them the skills to survive. Here's a strange thing about water. You can throw a newborn in a pool and they swim automatically. Not Olympic racing, but breath holding and in minutes they're paddling around and diving under. Then at some toddler stage, they lose that and need to be retrained. Child development experts actually use the timing on that, if known, as diagnostic. Drownproof your rugrats. | ||
| Tpehak |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/large st_ever_carbon_vacuum_nicknamed_mammoth_goes_onlin e_promises_to_remove_1_1_000_000th_of_annual_emiss ions_with_a_hefty_price_tag.html | ||
| Ducbsa |
delete | ||
| Ducbsa |
Doesnt apply to Badwebbers  (Message edited by ducbsa on July 13, 2024) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://instapundit.com/660016/ Elon should just buy the ISS, except he'd have to pay Putin. | ||
| Hootowl |
haha my friends call my car the barbie mobile lol |
