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Date: Tue Aug 9 12:57:36 2022
User: mrbuck
Message:
Maybe I can convince those people who believe that rhino horn or tiger parts can help with their ED that Panda Excrement Tea (PET) will do the same at half the price and none of the risk. mrbuck
User: mrbuck
Message:
Maybe I can convince those people who believe that rhino horn or tiger parts can help with their ED that Panda Excrement Tea (PET) will do the same at half the price and none of the risk. mrbuck
Date: Tue Aug 9 13:11:21 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:
It's the "green" option, mrb. Totally sustainable. As long as Pandas and bamboo are in the same place at the same time, you will have a supply of PET.
User: BuzzClik
Message:
It's the "green" option, mrb. Totally sustainable. As long as Pandas and bamboo are in the same place at the same time, you will have a supply of PET.
Date: Tue Aug 9 13:29:01 2022
User: redberet
Message:
I'd rather go the mango route than chasing some panda with a scooper.
User: redberet
Message:
I'd rather go the mango route than chasing some panda with a scooper.
Date: Wed Aug 10 01:15:56 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
Dude went to great, great lengths to fake his own death to get free from his crazy martinet of a girlfriend...truth.
Link: Olivia's ex, finally safe now in Mexico (allegedly)
User: Klepp
Message:
Dude went to great, great lengths to fake his own death to get free from his crazy martinet of a girlfriend...truth.
Link: Olivia's ex, finally safe now in Mexico (allegedly)
Date: Wed Aug 10 19:15:45 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
Utterly brilliant (if it were all a mere dupe to lure a search to find, uh-oh! nothing! Nothing at all in the great state of FL)! Wah, wah...
User: Klepp
Message:
Utterly brilliant (if it were all a mere dupe to lure a search to find, uh-oh! nothing! Nothing at all in the great state of FL)! Wah, wah...
Date: Fri Aug 12 12:31:43 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I know we had a thread where the curious dimming of Betelgeuse was discussed, with several posts. Apparently that was in one of the 'lost' threads?? I certainly can't find it with the search function. In any event..............
Link: Betelgeuse has a blow-out
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I know we had a thread where the curious dimming of Betelgeuse was discussed, with several posts. Apparently that was in one of the 'lost' threads?? I certainly can't find it with the search function. In any event..............
Link: Betelgeuse has a blow-out
Date: Fri Aug 12 16:46:42 2022
User: redberet
Message:
I'm puzzled, how is posting a link to a parody any different than posting a link to a divisive subject on reddit?
User: redberet
Message:
I'm puzzled, how is posting a link to a parody any different than posting a link to a divisive subject on reddit?
Date: Fri Aug 12 19:04:51 2022
User: outskirts
Message:
Too iron fisted. This is now the saccharine board. Sugar and honey okay but no vinegar or anything pickled. No hot seasonings.
User: outskirts
Message:
Too iron fisted. This is now the saccharine board. Sugar and honey okay but no vinegar or anything pickled. No hot seasonings.
Date: Fri Aug 12 19:47:11 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
TN, we may need start a Betelgeuse file of its own...(most active Red Supergiant, evincing supernova incipiency!...
User: Klepp
Message:
TN, we may need start a Betelgeuse file of its own...(most active Red Supergiant, evincing supernova incipiency!...
Date: Fri Aug 12 20:09:19 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
But was the earlier discussion in one of the "disappeared" threads? Not sure how/why that happened, but apparently it did. I would say there were 7-12+ posts on the topic. Shows the problem of throwing out babies with bathwater. Apparently. I'm not dreaming that am I?
User: TNmountainman
Message:
But was the earlier discussion in one of the "disappeared" threads? Not sure how/why that happened, but apparently it did. I would say there were 7-12+ posts on the topic. Shows the problem of throwing out babies with bathwater. Apparently. I'm not dreaming that am I?
Date: Fri Aug 12 20:47:28 2022
User: cellmate
Message:
Does the look like your missing message? Date: Wed Jan 22 21:32:19 2020 User: Klepp Message: Betelgeuse' dimming has been rather noticeable of late. Link: Mystery Gravitational Wave Sparks Debate on if Enigmatic Star Be Date: Thu Jan 23 03:04:36 2020 User: TNmountainman Message: That star and it's shenanigans has certainly been a hot water cooler conversation topic lately, has it not? I doubt that Betelguese will go supernova on us in the near future (in human terms), but how cool would that be? Since my early years of science learnin', that's something I'd always hoped I'd get to see in my lifetime, but knew unlikely. That and Haley's, which I did get to see, but was pretty much a dud for all the years of anticipation. For background on the gravity waves aspect of this, go to the thread "Big, big, BIG (science) news", which I started nearly 6 years ago now, with the first legitimate evidence of detection of same. I would link it below, but I'm on a smartphone that doesn't handle multiple tasks like that well, especially on this site. Easy to find, and I did not overstate that case, as time has shown. Other sources have noted that large stars like Betelguese can undergo such intensity variations, but this one seems a bit odd, so who knows?
User: cellmate
Message:
Does the look like your missing message? Date: Wed Jan 22 21:32:19 2020 User: Klepp Message: Betelgeuse' dimming has been rather noticeable of late. Link: Mystery Gravitational Wave Sparks Debate on if Enigmatic Star Be Date: Thu Jan 23 03:04:36 2020 User: TNmountainman Message: That star and it's shenanigans has certainly been a hot water cooler conversation topic lately, has it not? I doubt that Betelguese will go supernova on us in the near future (in human terms), but how cool would that be? Since my early years of science learnin', that's something I'd always hoped I'd get to see in my lifetime, but knew unlikely. That and Haley's, which I did get to see, but was pretty much a dud for all the years of anticipation. For background on the gravity waves aspect of this, go to the thread "Big, big, BIG (science) news", which I started nearly 6 years ago now, with the first legitimate evidence of detection of same. I would link it below, but I'm on a smartphone that doesn't handle multiple tasks like that well, especially on this site. Easy to find, and I did not overstate that case, as time has shown. Other sources have noted that large stars like Betelguese can undergo such intensity variations, but this one seems a bit odd, so who knows?
Date: Fri Aug 12 22:14:27 2022
User: cellmate
Message:
they're deleted from the discussion board.. don't know why. i have some possibly out-of-date copies. they won't look the same and can't say about any links https://cellmate.neocities.org/msg/msg.13214.1.html https://cellmate.neocities.org/msg/msg.13214.2.html
Link: first page
User: cellmate
Message:
they're deleted from the discussion board.. don't know why. i have some possibly out-of-date copies. they won't look the same and can't say about any links https://cellmate.neocities.org/msg/msg.13214.1.html https://cellmate.neocities.org/msg/msg.13214.2.html
Link: first page
Date: Fri Aug 12 22:56:50 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Yes, cellmate, that's the thread. I was nearly certain I wasn't dreaming. I don't know why it was disappeared, but I think we know the chances are very high it was the same reason as the other threads. And it was clearly many more than 7-12 posts concerning it. THANKS!!
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Yes, cellmate, that's the thread. I was nearly certain I wasn't dreaming. I don't know why it was disappeared, but I think we know the chances are very high it was the same reason as the other threads. And it was clearly many more than 7-12 posts concerning it. THANKS!!
Date: Fri Aug 12 23:54:55 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
I wonder if he's ever read EAP.
Link: Sacrificial burial for our goddess Pachamama
User: Klepp
Message:
I wonder if he's ever read EAP.
Link: Sacrificial burial for our goddess Pachamama
Date: Sat Aug 13 00:10:32 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
That story from Bolivia is pretty crazy. What better place than "El Alto"?
User: TNmountainman
Message:
That story from Bolivia is pretty crazy. What better place than "El Alto"?
Date: Sat Aug 13 07:55:13 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:
TN — Please keep in mind these tendencies when considering his pollution of the Big Science thread. I am sorely tempted to respond to the more obvious errors (e.g., he thinks the university in Montreal mentioned in the thread is actually a person), but it would simply prolong and amplify his behavior. We need to be careful to not respond to his baiting; nothing makes him happier than to kill discussion threads.
User: BuzzClik
Message:
TN — Please keep in mind these tendencies when considering his pollution of the Big Science thread. I am sorely tempted to respond to the more obvious errors (e.g., he thinks the university in Montreal mentioned in the thread is actually a person), but it would simply prolong and amplify his behavior. We need to be careful to not respond to his baiting; nothing makes him happier than to kill discussion threads.
Date: Sat Aug 13 13:41:34 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Yeah, I'm *very* hep to that. Believe it or not, I've been uber-restrained in my 'interchanges' with him. I really thought there was a glimmer of hope that some light had dawned, but sadly............. His assertion that Schwarcz was "in the left lunatic fringe of science and medicine" (after linking to him) straightened me right up. I'm done - again.
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Yeah, I'm *very* hep to that. Believe it or not, I've been uber-restrained in my 'interchanges' with him. I really thought there was a glimmer of hope that some light had dawned, but sadly............. His assertion that Schwarcz was "in the left lunatic fringe of science and medicine" (after linking to him) straightened me right up. I'm done - again.
Date: Sun Aug 14 04:24:08 2022
User: ixtapolapoquetl
Message:
if you ever drive through a tunnel with 3 others in your car, at least one of them will want you to honk the horn. carpool tunnel syndrome.
User: ixtapolapoquetl
Message:
if you ever drive through a tunnel with 3 others in your car, at least one of them will want you to honk the horn. carpool tunnel syndrome.
Date: Sun Aug 14 20:30:12 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
I'll bet park ranger is a pretty cool job...I should have studied ecology.
User: Klepp
Message:
I'll bet park ranger is a pretty cool job...I should have studied ecology.
Date: Sun Aug 14 22:41:52 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
It was Joan Fontaine's rather innocent countenance that made her way better looking than average (one man's opinion).
User: Klepp
Message:
It was Joan Fontaine's rather innocent countenance that made her way better looking than average (one man's opinion).
Date: Sun Aug 14 23:14:52 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/ikea-water-hydrogen-and-oxygen-to-combine-on-your-own.jpg
User: TNmountainman
Message:
https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/ikea-water-hydrogen-and-oxygen-to-combine-on-your-own.jpg
Date: Mon Aug 15 07:32:56 2022
User: mrbuck
Message:
I tried that kit and followed the instructions but it kept producing hydrogen peroxide. mrbuck
User: mrbuck
Message:
I tried that kit and followed the instructions but it kept producing hydrogen peroxide. mrbuck
Date: Mon Aug 15 08:15:18 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:
The big differences between the Water kit and the normal Ikea furniture assembly are a) the rapid assembly of the water, b) no leftover parts, and c) the surprise ending. In mrbuck's case, he likely had some leftover hydrogen; he undoubtedly lost the instructions and improvised.
User: BuzzClik
Message:
The big differences between the Water kit and the normal Ikea furniture assembly are a) the rapid assembly of the water, b) no leftover parts, and c) the surprise ending. In mrbuck's case, he likely had some leftover hydrogen; he undoubtedly lost the instructions and improvised.
Date: Tue Aug 16 02:54:22 2022
User: ixtapolapoquetl
Message:
wouldn't it be weird if, using modern technology, in baseball games they replaced the crack of the bat with the sound of a dodgeball?
User: ixtapolapoquetl
Message:
wouldn't it be weird if, using modern technology, in baseball games they replaced the crack of the bat with the sound of a dodgeball?
Date: Tue Aug 16 03:18:39 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Maybe. But less weird (imo) than when they *tried* to replace the crowd noise at sports venues during the COVID big surge when no fans were allowed. That was surreal, and (imo) was a bad decision. How about replacing it with the sound of a bullwhip? I like that better. Or even the sound of a whiffle ball being hit by a whiffle bat. Reeeal plastic-y. These sound like things Jack Handey would say.
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Maybe. But less weird (imo) than when they *tried* to replace the crowd noise at sports venues during the COVID big surge when no fans were allowed. That was surreal, and (imo) was a bad decision. How about replacing it with the sound of a bullwhip? I like that better. Or even the sound of a whiffle ball being hit by a whiffle bat. Reeeal plastic-y. These sound like things Jack Handey would say.
Date: Tue Aug 16 08:58:36 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Geez. Reminds me of back in the day when radio broadcasters for baseball did not travel with the team. They used the pitch-by-pitch news feed to improvise. The "crack of the bat" would be something simple like a pencil striking a block of wood. I think that this is returning (more below). As for the proposed fake bat sound: for the majors, I think the player gets to choose, just as they choose their walk up music. Let them choose any sound they like that lasts less than one second, and it can be anything. A cash register (cha-ching), a dog bark, baby cry, car door slam, water drop, breaking glass, toilet flush, crinkling paper, their wife's voice, the Road Runner's "meep meep". It would be fantastic. =============== A lot of sports on television use remote broadcasts. Maybe all the talking heads, sometimes just one of them. They get the video feed from the local source, and then start yammering. It's not horrible. During the dark days of the pandemic and the only live baseball was from Korea, the broadcasters entertained us starting at 5 am from the comfort of their own homes. For the first time in a long time, I listened to a radio broadcast of a baseball game in my car. I had a long drive, and I saw that the Cubs were playing. So, I fired up TuneIn on my phone and streamed the audio through my car stereo. It wasn't the happy experience I desired. The play-by-play was littered was ads proclaiming that every moment was being brought to you by a sponsor. The first occurrence was when the broadcaster described the colors of the uniforms. "The Cubs are wearing their road blues with white letters and blue caps. The (home team, I don't recall) are wearing maroon with white letters. These colors where brought to you by Dutch Boy Paint." That drew a nasty obscenity from me, but it never stopped. Every moment in the game had a sponsor, and it really took away from the atmosphere. To the point of this mini-thread, this radio broadcast used the same noise for every pitch, regardless of the outcome. "On a 1-1 count, here's the pitch (clack) that misses for a ball. Here's the 2-1 pitch (clack) and a swing and a miss. And the pitch (clack) he drills it deep into left center and off the wall..." With today's technology, he could have a cheap sound board with a "thump" for a pitch hitting the catcher's glove, the standard crack for solid contact, and maybe something softer for a foul ball or weak grounder. (Or, the custom, personalized sound.) I lasted about 2 innings before going back to music.
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Geez. Reminds me of back in the day when radio broadcasters for baseball did not travel with the team. They used the pitch-by-pitch news feed to improvise. The "crack of the bat" would be something simple like a pencil striking a block of wood. I think that this is returning (more below). As for the proposed fake bat sound: for the majors, I think the player gets to choose, just as they choose their walk up music. Let them choose any sound they like that lasts less than one second, and it can be anything. A cash register (cha-ching), a dog bark, baby cry, car door slam, water drop, breaking glass, toilet flush, crinkling paper, their wife's voice, the Road Runner's "meep meep". It would be fantastic. =============== A lot of sports on television use remote broadcasts. Maybe all the talking heads, sometimes just one of them. They get the video feed from the local source, and then start yammering. It's not horrible. During the dark days of the pandemic and the only live baseball was from Korea, the broadcasters entertained us starting at 5 am from the comfort of their own homes. For the first time in a long time, I listened to a radio broadcast of a baseball game in my car. I had a long drive, and I saw that the Cubs were playing. So, I fired up TuneIn on my phone and streamed the audio through my car stereo. It wasn't the happy experience I desired. The play-by-play was littered was ads proclaiming that every moment was being brought to you by a sponsor. The first occurrence was when the broadcaster described the colors of the uniforms. "The Cubs are wearing their road blues with white letters and blue caps. The (home team, I don't recall) are wearing maroon with white letters. These colors where brought to you by Dutch Boy Paint." That drew a nasty obscenity from me, but it never stopped. Every moment in the game had a sponsor, and it really took away from the atmosphere. To the point of this mini-thread, this radio broadcast used the same noise for every pitch, regardless of the outcome. "On a 1-1 count, here's the pitch (clack) that misses for a ball. Here's the 2-1 pitch (clack) and a swing and a miss. And the pitch (clack) he drills it deep into left center and off the wall..." With today's technology, he could have a cheap sound board with a "thump" for a pitch hitting the catcher's glove, the standard crack for solid contact, and maybe something softer for a foul ball or weak grounder. (Or, the custom, personalized sound.) I lasted about 2 innings before going back to music.
Date: Tue Aug 16 20:51:21 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
Sometimes Pat Hughes wry sense of humor is worth a chuckle...although sometimes his sidekick Ron Coomer is a tad insufferable...but as far as Chicago radio personalities goes, damn! (sob) I miss Ed Farmer calling games...legitimately spot on with his baseball Xs and Os (he being a reliever back in the day) as well as his subtle cleverness vis a vis his partner's playing the rube (I forget ex-major leaguer's name) with Ed playing straight man (to a T)...
User: Klepp
Message:
Sometimes Pat Hughes wry sense of humor is worth a chuckle...although sometimes his sidekick Ron Coomer is a tad insufferable...but as far as Chicago radio personalities goes, damn! (sob) I miss Ed Farmer calling games...legitimately spot on with his baseball Xs and Os (he being a reliever back in the day) as well as his subtle cleverness vis a vis his partner's playing the rube (I forget ex-major leaguer's name) with Ed playing straight man (to a T)...
Date: Thu Aug 18 01:56:37 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
"Hillbilly" is considered an insult? Who knew? (Mostly) ignore the evaluator/professor, if you wish.
Link: Dolly vs. Babwa Wawa, 1977
User: TNmountainman
Message:
"Hillbilly" is considered an insult? Who knew? (Mostly) ignore the evaluator/professor, if you wish.
Link: Dolly vs. Babwa Wawa, 1977
Date: Thu Aug 18 07:36:01 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Yeesh! Big ups for Dolly. Baba was in classic form — two thumbs down.
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Yeesh! Big ups for Dolly. Baba was in classic form — two thumbs down.
Date: Thu Aug 18 08:39:47 2022
User: outskirts
Message:
Look at all the different milk in a box is available at dollar tree, now ten bits.
Link: https://www.dollartree.com/drinks/milk
User: outskirts
Message:
Look at all the different milk in a box is available at dollar tree, now ten bits.
Link: https://www.dollartree.com/drinks/milk
Date: Thu Aug 18 08:44:21 2022
User: outskirts
Message:
I've taken to freezing milk. It saves trips to stores.
User: outskirts
Message:
I've taken to freezing milk. It saves trips to stores.
Date: Thu Aug 18 22:11:47 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
Considering a conversion; sometimes He just don't make it fun enough...
Link: Thelema
User: Klepp
Message:
Considering a conversion; sometimes He just don't make it fun enough...
Link: Thelema
Date: Thu Aug 18 23:21:58 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
When preparing tartar sauce in one's own kitchen, never--repeat never--skimp on the dill (your guests will know if you do, and won't forget...
User: Klepp
Message:
When preparing tartar sauce in one's own kitchen, never--repeat never--skimp on the dill (your guests will know if you do, and won't forget...
Date: Fri Aug 19 13:44:30 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
OH! - The utter horror of traveling before the internet. It's such a wonder Alexander, Caesar, Marco Polo, the Khans, Magellan, and the various astronauts were able to get around as well as they did. And how did people survive without the internal combustion engine, microwave ovens, liquid butter, and paper towels?! Such barbarity. Such savage innocence!
Link: How did we possibly manage!?
User: TNmountainman
Message:
OH! - The utter horror of traveling before the internet. It's such a wonder Alexander, Caesar, Marco Polo, the Khans, Magellan, and the various astronauts were able to get around as well as they did. And how did people survive without the internal combustion engine, microwave ovens, liquid butter, and paper towels?! Such barbarity. Such savage innocence!
Link: How did we possibly manage!?
Date: Sat Aug 20 17:02:38 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
All this trouble, and they pick such crappy music?
Link: the robot dog dance extravaganza
User: TNmountainman
Message:
All this trouble, and they pick such crappy music?
Link: the robot dog dance extravaganza
Date: Sat Aug 20 23:35:27 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
I love Norah Jones...and her deceased father, as well...
Link: Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury
User: Klepp
Message:
I love Norah Jones...and her deceased father, as well...
Link: Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury
Date: Sun Aug 21 02:04:56 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Note that this is not just one study, but FIVE separate ones. Here's a lay version, which is pretty well done: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/science-opponents-believe-their-knowledge-ranks-among-the-highest-but-it-is-actually-among-the-lowest/ar-AA10SOdi?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=94f143780d2b4bb1a68dbaf2d57d7412 Just sayin', of course......
Link: Those most confident in their science knowledge are wrong
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Note that this is not just one study, but FIVE separate ones. Here's a lay version, which is pretty well done: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/science-opponents-believe-their-knowledge-ranks-among-the-highest-but-it-is-actually-among-the-lowest/ar-AA10SOdi?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=94f143780d2b4bb1a68dbaf2d57d7412 Just sayin', of course......
Link: Those most confident in their science knowledge are wrong
Date: Sun Aug 21 13:33:09 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:
This quote is descriptive of someone I have observed: “Those with the most extreme anti-consensus views may be the least likely to apprehend the gaps in their knowledge. In a series of studies on opposition to GM foods, Fernbach et al. (25) found that individuals most opposed were the least knowledgeable about science and genetics but rated their understanding of the technology the highest in the sample.”
User: BuzzClik
Message:
This quote is descriptive of someone I have observed: “Those with the most extreme anti-consensus views may be the least likely to apprehend the gaps in their knowledge. In a series of studies on opposition to GM foods, Fernbach et al. (25) found that individuals most opposed were the least knowledgeable about science and genetics but rated their understanding of the technology the highest in the sample.”
Date: Sun Aug 21 13:40:03 2022
User: redberet
Message:
What a coincidence, I just learned about the Dunning-Kruger effect on my other post.
User: redberet
Message:
What a coincidence, I just learned about the Dunning-Kruger effect on my other post.
Date: Sun Aug 21 14:04:14 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
And thats only 1 example.......... Changing gears.............. I would like to have tacked this onto the old "Investment in clean energy" thread, but that got woefully hijacked, so I'm sticking it here just by default. It's deep, weighty, and complicated, not to mention long, and is sorta a very sketchy road map of all the places this new Inflation Reduction Act could possibly lead, in the realm of energy production and pollution abatement(s). If one is unfamiliar with all these issues, it can provide some significant background. It's *almost* apolitical, mostly delving into the different ways the carbon capture 'games' could play out - thus more an economics (with a side of chemistry) outlook. This act **could** be the first real blow struck in turning around the current mad dash towards unsustainable higher global temperatures. It paints a picture of the vast variety of possible solutions and pathways forward. There will undoubtedly be dismal failures (which of course will be isolated and ridiculed), but, hopefully...............actual successful technologies will emerge and be proven. Another way to think of this is that it gives license to big energy, and innovative start-ups, to figure out what works and what doesn't (in terms of sending that "bad air from China" back, or at least mitigating it). This will require some chewing, for those concerned enough to try and absorb most of it. Really a well-written article. Will be interesting to look back in 10-20 years to see the winners and losers emerge from all these ideas.
Link: The (new) IRA and carbon capture sequestration technologies
User: TNmountainman
Message:
And thats only 1 example.......... Changing gears.............. I would like to have tacked this onto the old "Investment in clean energy" thread, but that got woefully hijacked, so I'm sticking it here just by default. It's deep, weighty, and complicated, not to mention long, and is sorta a very sketchy road map of all the places this new Inflation Reduction Act could possibly lead, in the realm of energy production and pollution abatement(s). If one is unfamiliar with all these issues, it can provide some significant background. It's *almost* apolitical, mostly delving into the different ways the carbon capture 'games' could play out - thus more an economics (with a side of chemistry) outlook. This act **could** be the first real blow struck in turning around the current mad dash towards unsustainable higher global temperatures. It paints a picture of the vast variety of possible solutions and pathways forward. There will undoubtedly be dismal failures (which of course will be isolated and ridiculed), but, hopefully...............actual successful technologies will emerge and be proven. Another way to think of this is that it gives license to big energy, and innovative start-ups, to figure out what works and what doesn't (in terms of sending that "bad air from China" back, or at least mitigating it). This will require some chewing, for those concerned enough to try and absorb most of it. Really a well-written article. Will be interesting to look back in 10-20 years to see the winners and losers emerge from all these ideas.
Link: The (new) IRA and carbon capture sequestration technologies
Date: Sun Aug 21 19:24:30 2022
User: ixtapolapoquetl
Message:
it took me a while to suss out what was going on here, clearly you are a shill, but who's? my working theory is climate scientists, with their hockey sticks, who stand to profit by trying to convince us (fraudulently) that the planet is getting hotter. i can't say more at this point, my location is known to the jewish space lasers, but trust me, i know way more than you do, you who don't even care about the children.
User: ixtapolapoquetl
Message:
it took me a while to suss out what was going on here, clearly you are a shill, but who's? my working theory is climate scientists, with their hockey sticks, who stand to profit by trying to convince us (fraudulently) that the planet is getting hotter. i can't say more at this point, my location is known to the jewish space lasers, but trust me, i know way more than you do, you who don't even care about the children.
Date: Sun Aug 21 19:42:04 2022
User: ixtapolapoquetl
Message:
there was a time when i knew the difference between who's and whose, it will take me a while to figure out who to blame. and who'se shill they are.
User: ixtapolapoquetl
Message:
there was a time when i knew the difference between who's and whose, it will take me a while to figure out who to blame. and who'se shill they are.
Date: Sun Aug 21 20:01:11 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
It looks like the one tiny flaw in my well-devised plan was that a member of the illuminati - *whose* also a fluent shill whisperer - would encounter my post. Whose going to guess that would happen? 🏒🛢
User: TNmountainman
Message:
It looks like the one tiny flaw in my well-devised plan was that a member of the illuminati - *whose* also a fluent shill whisperer - would encounter my post. Whose going to guess that would happen? 🏒🛢
Date: Sun Aug 21 21:07:41 2022
User: redberet
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I'm not familiar with either shills or solicitors. I do see a lot of hands in that big honeypot and hopefully some of them will be able to walk the walk. I myself would like to see them find a way to convert all that C02 into coal.
User: redberet
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I'm not familiar with either shills or solicitors. I do see a lot of hands in that big honeypot and hopefully some of them will be able to walk the walk. I myself would like to see them find a way to convert all that C02 into coal.
Date: Wed Aug 24 01:57:03 2022
User: TNmountainman
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Ye olde bismuth, element #83 in the periodic chart, is the element with the highest atomic number (or mass) thought/presumed to be completely stable, radioactivity-wise. Meaning it wasn't radioactive; it didn't perform internal alchemy on itself and become something intrinsically different. However............less than 20 years ago, it was discovered, after much work, that it was actually, technically radioactive. Yes, that's the same bismuth that's in our Pepto-BISmol. The reason this was discovered is because scientists were looking for it, because it's atomic structure should cause that to happen. (Too complicated to 'splain.) Well, the reason it was so hard to discern is because it has a very long half-life. Like a VERY long half-life. Like an extremely absurd, almost unfathomable half-life. Like longer than the understood age of the universe - maybe as much as a billion times longer. So on the order of 10^19 years. That's the longest-half life of any element that decays by alpha decay - which sloooooooowly turns it into Thallium. So you're pretty safe slugging down your Pepto - except the subsalicylate part can cause problems for some folks. In fact, the human body as a whole is more radioactive than that bismuth is. [An isotope of both Xenon and Tellurium (and maybe 1 or 2 more - not sure) have even longer half-lives, but maybe 'only' a hundred or thousand times longer, but they go off via beta decay.] So where does this bismuth come from, other than the earth? Well.........since it's a pretty heavy element, it *had* to be made in the interior of stars - that loooong ago blew up in some fashion. Far and away the most common (and stable) isotope of bismuth is bismuth-209. It's what's known as a "primordial nuclide", which means it was around before the planet earth - or even our sun. Formed under really extreme processes in the centers of red giants (and probably supernovae, too, but that's debatable), i.e. well after all the hydrogen has fused and so even iron (normally the heaviest atoms formed in 'regular' fusion) then begins to be squeezed into larger atoms. So the bismuth atoms in that Pepto were formed in the centers of really huge stars. I think that's just fascinating. Of course the same could be said for gold, silver, lead, etc., as well. As a sidebar........concerning primordial nuclides........argon makes up ~1% of earth's atmosphere. Some of that is primordial, mostly argon-36, which also was created in the centers of stars. But most of it is actually from the radioactive decay of an isotope of potassium (therefore not primordial). That decay is very slow, too, so no worries there, but I just think that's an interesting factoid. This little chemistry/astrophysics lesson brought to y'all by little ol' me. 🙂🌌☢
User: TNmountainman
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Ye olde bismuth, element #83 in the periodic chart, is the element with the highest atomic number (or mass) thought/presumed to be completely stable, radioactivity-wise. Meaning it wasn't radioactive; it didn't perform internal alchemy on itself and become something intrinsically different. However............less than 20 years ago, it was discovered, after much work, that it was actually, technically radioactive. Yes, that's the same bismuth that's in our Pepto-BISmol. The reason this was discovered is because scientists were looking for it, because it's atomic structure should cause that to happen. (Too complicated to 'splain.) Well, the reason it was so hard to discern is because it has a very long half-life. Like a VERY long half-life. Like an extremely absurd, almost unfathomable half-life. Like longer than the understood age of the universe - maybe as much as a billion times longer. So on the order of 10^19 years. That's the longest-half life of any element that decays by alpha decay - which sloooooooowly turns it into Thallium. So you're pretty safe slugging down your Pepto - except the subsalicylate part can cause problems for some folks. In fact, the human body as a whole is more radioactive than that bismuth is. [An isotope of both Xenon and Tellurium (and maybe 1 or 2 more - not sure) have even longer half-lives, but maybe 'only' a hundred or thousand times longer, but they go off via beta decay.] So where does this bismuth come from, other than the earth? Well.........since it's a pretty heavy element, it *had* to be made in the interior of stars - that loooong ago blew up in some fashion. Far and away the most common (and stable) isotope of bismuth is bismuth-209. It's what's known as a "primordial nuclide", which means it was around before the planet earth - or even our sun. Formed under really extreme processes in the centers of red giants (and probably supernovae, too, but that's debatable), i.e. well after all the hydrogen has fused and so even iron (normally the heaviest atoms formed in 'regular' fusion) then begins to be squeezed into larger atoms. So the bismuth atoms in that Pepto were formed in the centers of really huge stars. I think that's just fascinating. Of course the same could be said for gold, silver, lead, etc., as well. As a sidebar........concerning primordial nuclides........argon makes up ~1% of earth's atmosphere. Some of that is primordial, mostly argon-36, which also was created in the centers of stars. But most of it is actually from the radioactive decay of an isotope of potassium (therefore not primordial). That decay is very slow, too, so no worries there, but I just think that's an interesting factoid. This little chemistry/astrophysics lesson brought to y'all by little ol' me. 🙂🌌☢
Date: Wed Aug 24 03:12:17 2022
User: Klepp
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There's yet a meteorite to be come upon containing matter of irrefutably "unnatural" existence...of course (I believe) anything above *U* at #92 qualifies...but what else would "prove" finagling by extraterrestrials? I can't recall the element, but it's something way less complex than *U*...recall to what I'm referring, anyone? (Possibly listed above, and I was too lazy to read comprehensively...
User: Klepp
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There's yet a meteorite to be come upon containing matter of irrefutably "unnatural" existence...of course (I believe) anything above *U* at #92 qualifies...but what else would "prove" finagling by extraterrestrials? I can't recall the element, but it's something way less complex than *U*...recall to what I'm referring, anyone? (Possibly listed above, and I was too lazy to read comprehensively...
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