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2023/262 - ER - 9/21/2023 2:49:50 PM

Isn't it amazing how the aliens are always humanoid? - ER - 9/14/2023 4:44:50 AM
- It's safe to assume they aren't aliens unless they're shared with the rest of the scientific community. n/t - RobVG - 9/20/2023 2:58:31 PM
- And, in this laughable example, they seem to be paper mache - RL - 9/14/2023 6:11:46 PM

The ultimate humanoid alien. - ER - 9/19/2023 6:06:50 PM

Mid-September boreal sea ice extrema - ER - 9/15/2023 2:28:45 PM
- Why I do this. - ER - 9/15/2023 3:15:18 PM
  - I appreciate these posts - podrock - 9/15/2023 4:21:53 PM

EXXON KNEW - RL - 9/15/2023 1:17:09 AM
- "We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around" - ER - 9/15/2023 1:51:43 AM
- Well, yeah. - podrock - 9/15/2023 1:48:08 AM

Alien Life Form -- Solenopsis invicta - ER - 9/12/2023 2:09:52 PM

August Arctic Sea Ice report - ER - 9/6/2023 8:13:54 PM

Could the Universe be a giant quantum computer? - RL - 8/26/2023 4:01:02 PM
- Looking for the creator is a stupid idea. The question of who created the creator will always remain. - RobVG - 9/3/2023 8:06:44 PM
  - Not my intent at all - RL - 9/4/2023 4:22:18 PM
    - I wasn't talking about you specifically. - RobVG - 9/5/2023 4:53:24 PM
    - As for the nerd-deity that coded it all - RL - 9/4/2023 5:54:41 PM
- A question - BuckGalaxy - 8/29/2023 8:47:24 PM
  - Sure, you'll need a god to program the simulation, though. - ER - 8/30/2023 11:44:17 PM
    - "In other words, the “objective” universe is irrelevant to us, we only get to deal with our subjective perception of it...." - RL - 9/4/2023 5:26:55 PM
      - It's only there if you are looking at it. - BuckGalaxy - 9/4/2023 8:51:55 PM
    - An interesting thought - BuckGalaxy - 9/1/2023 12:23:14 AM
      - It wouldn't show up on the molecular level - RL - 9/4/2023 4:38:27 PM
- The distinction may be purely linguistic - ER - 8/26/2023 5:07:00 PM
  - But it does matter... - RL - 8/26/2023 7:34:16 PM
    - I'm not sure I follow you. - ER - 8/26/2023 8:00:34 PM
      - Numerical Analysis - a digression - ER - 8/26/2023 8:38:45 PM

My first job out of Grad School - RL - 9/4/2023 7:09:54 PM

The polarization puzzle - ER - 8/27/2023 1:24:24 AM
- Welcome to the world of mineral optics - podrock - 8/27/2023 3:52:26 PM
  - It was an early researcher of mineral optics that discovered Haidinger's brush.... - RL - 8/31/2023 4:00:45 AM
- If they are PERFECT polarizers - RL - 8/27/2023 2:21:21 AM

Say goodbye to the night sky... - RL - 8/30/2023 11:29:51 PM
- And when they start colliding with each other - ER - 8/30/2023 11:50:06 PM
  - Kessler syndrome... - RL - 8/30/2023 11:56:28 PM

NSIDC mid-month bulletin - ER - 8/17/2023 3:14:59 AM
- Visualization - RL - 8/26/2023 8:57:36 PM

Chat GPT is getting dumber - RL - 8/16/2023 3:31:22 AM
- Same with Bing - RobVG - 8/17/2023 6:55:41 PM

Another Brick in the Wall - RL - 8/16/2023 11:07:03 PM
- Head music. - ER - 8/16/2023 11:30:24 PM

So tell me, what do you guys think? - ER - 7/25/2023 11:33:33 PM
- We are far past the tipping point... - RL - 8/7/2023 3:53:27 AM
  - What about carbon capture? - BuckGalaxy - 8/13/2023 2:51:44 AM
    - 400+ ppm? - ER - 8/13/2023 11:18:03 PM
      - Minimum energy to dissociate CO2 into carbon and O2 - RL - 8/14/2023 12:48:22 AM
    - I am all for it- but the scale of the problem makes it questionable - RL - 8/13/2023 10:35:55 PM
      - Thinking outside the box - BuckGalaxy - 8/14/2023 9:33:43 AM
        
        Outside the box? - ER - 8/14/2023 2:24:37 PM
        
        Energy to change the world - BuckGalaxy - 8/14/2023 4:22:49 PM
        
        There are two kinds of impossible3 things. - ER - 8/14/2023 7:04:53 PM
        
        And of course... - BuckGalaxy - 8/14/2023 10:13:21 PM
        
        Physics.org is not a tabloid - BuckGalaxy - 8/14/2023 10:01:33 PM
        
        Fusion is always a possibility. - ER - 8/14/2023 11:34:05 PM
        
        Short term vs long term investments - BuckGalaxy - 8/15/2023 1:31:20 AM
        
        fish or cut bait - ER - 8/15/2023 2:25:48 PM
        
        Natural Laws - BuckGalaxy - 8/15/2023 6:51:18 PM
        
        So what the hell are we arguing about? - ER - 8/15/2023 8:38:57 PM
        
        Misconceptions? - BuckGalaxy - 8/15/2023 9:13:45 PM
        
        Capitalism has its merits, but unfettered capitalism is evil- and that is largely what we have... - RL - 8/15/2023 11:37:00 PM
        
        I agree with most of what you wrote - BuckGalaxy - 8/16/2023 1:01:12 AM
        
        More on taxes - BuckGalaxy - 8/15/2023 1:46:45 AM
        
        "Easily repealed in political cycles" - ER - 8/15/2023 2:30:08 PM
        
        30 year problem - BuckGalaxy - 8/15/2023 6:57:11 PM
        
        The breeder program. - ER - 8/15/2023 12:01:10 AM
  - I can't say I believe entirely in your assessment - ER - 8/7/2023 7:25:55 PM
    - " that the causes of the problem, pollution and resource depletion leading to environmental degradation, will diminish and the biosphere will quickly recover" - RL - 8/12/2023 5:29:54 PM
      - The earth will recover from tis emergency. - ER - 8/13/2023 1:22:26 AM
        
        Venus - BuckGalaxy - 8/13/2023 2:40:31 AM
        
        The Golden Path and the Conqueror Worm - ER - 8/13/2023 3:12:55 PM
- Something else to worry about. - RobVG - 7/26/2023 9:52:30 PM
- I think we'll need to wait and see. n/t - RobVG - 7/26/2023 6:15:08 PM
  - Not that it matters. - ER - 7/26/2023 9:51:10 PM
    - It's looking that way isn't it. - RobVG - 7/26/2023 9:56:19 PM

Basic chemistry review - ER - 8/14/2023 1:26:42 AM

Want to live longer? Stitch yourself to a Gen-Z-er... - RL - 8/12/2023 5:47:58 PM
- A sci fi hell awaits. - BuckGalaxy - 8/13/2023 1:08:23 AM
  - Getting into Q-anon territory there... - RL - 8/13/2023 2:53:06 AM
    - Would make for an interesting Sci Fi movie/book - BuckGalaxy - 8/13/2023 3:27:22 AM

Southern hemisphere winter. - ER - 8/11/2023 4:29:11 AM
- It is not an outlier... - RL - 8/12/2023 5:13:54 PM

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena - BuckGalaxy - 7/28/2023 8:23:16 PM
- Pointless. It is obvious he should be under indictment. . . - DanS - 8/4/2023 11:13:31 PM
- There are those - podrock - 8/1/2023 2:35:20 PM
- I find it interesting they don't appear to have, or bother with, Stealth technology. - RobVG - 7/31/2023 6:58:54 PM
  - Anyway, it's no more crazy than thinking there is no reality and we live in a simulation. n/t - RobVG - 8/1/2023 8:56:40 PM
    - i never did understand that theory. - ER - 8/2/2023 1:03:16 PM
      - It is an intriguing concept.... - RL - 8/3/2023 1:04:31 AM
        
        Its been done. - ER - 8/3/2023 3:32:32 AM
        
        Oh, I know... but my particular satire hasn't... - RL - 8/6/2023 5:00:43 PM
        
        Spoiler Alert! - ER - 8/3/2023 3:35:05 AM
        
        In Stephenson's novels - podrock - 8/3/2023 3:46:41 PM
  - So far, all the "video" I've seen - ER - 8/1/2023 1:32:28 AM
- Grusch presented NOTHING of substance - RL - 7/30/2023 1:25:34 PM
- I have my own theory. - ER - 7/28/2023 9:10:52 PM
  - Cephalization - BuckGalaxy - 8/6/2023 8:55:27 PM
    - There will be parallels... and surprises. - ER - 8/6/2023 11:49:23 PM
      - Crab, octopi, and humans exhibt cephalization - BuckGalaxy - 8/7/2023 12:49:50 AM
        
        How about symmetry? - ER - 8/7/2023 2:14:12 AM
        
        Sex for pleasure - BuckGalaxy - 8/7/2023 4:55:11 AM
        
        The joy of sex - ER - 8/7/2023 2:11:04 PM
        
        Reproductive organs are another issue - BuckGalaxy - 8/7/2023 12:59:43 AM
        
        How about moans, groans, sighs, whimpers, and grunts? - ER - 8/7/2023 1:52:13 AM
  - Stranger things - RobVG - 7/29/2023 6:42:55 PM
    - There are alternatives to hands. - ER - 7/29/2023 7:20:12 PM

Space Tourism - ER - 6/22/2023 1:13:39 PM
- P. T. Barnum would be so proud. (n/t) - DanS - 8/4/2023 11:35:07 PM
- Too Dangerous - BuckGalaxy - 6/24/2023 6:03:17 AM
  - You're right about the offshore sailboats. - ER - 6/24/2023 3:40:33 PM
  - In Colorado - podrock - 6/24/2023 1:02:20 PM
- Debris found, all hands presumed lost. - podrock - 6/22/2023 7:03:45 PM
- Into Thin Air. - podrock - 6/22/2023 4:42:50 PM
  - What is it that makes you a scaredy cat as you get older? - ER - 6/22/2023 6:05:37 PM
    - Marriage, probably. - podrock - 6/22/2023 7:26:35 PM
      - Helm hard over, shipmate. - ER - 6/23/2023 3:04:45 PM
        
        Yup. - podrock - 6/24/2023 1:03:48 PM

Considering we've just had the hottest July in history... - ER - 8/3/2023 5:51:46 PM

Arctic, low. Antarctic, whoa. - ER - 7/19/2023 7:21:47 PM

And its only July - ER - 7/6/2023 4:03:54 AM
- Those charts scare the - BuckGalaxy - 7/12/2023 5:22:52 AM
  - Also irritating - podrock - 7/12/2023 9:53:58 PM
    - We need to study the notivation of those who opposed this. - ER - 7/13/2023 12:39:14 AM
      - We know who is behind it - BuckGalaxy - 7/14/2023 2:32:12 AM
        
        The best way to cut fossil fuel production is to tax it. - ER - 7/14/2023 4:12:32 AM
      - $ - podrock - 7/13/2023 4:56:56 AM
  - Yeah, I know the feeling - ER - 7/12/2023 1:28:31 PM
- If you're going to go back as far as 800,000 years, why stop there. - RobVG - 7/6/2023 6:06:36 PM
  - Hey, I didn't make the chart. - ER - 7/7/2023 4:13:08 AM
    - You're right, ice core data only goes back 800,000 years. - RobVG - 7/7/2023 8:32:08 PM
      - That's true, - ER - 7/7/2023 11:51:34 PM
        
        Jerk - podrock - 7/8/2023 5:38:03 PM
        
        Jerk - RobVG - 7/8/2023 7:53:04 PM
        
        It can be a sudden slowing, too. - podrock - 7/9/2023 1:43:30 AM
        
        The distance s an object falls in a time t in a gravitational field a - ER - 7/10/2023 3:09:10 AM
  - Do you want - podrock - 7/6/2023 6:31:50 PM
    - Into thick air, - ER - 7/7/2023 4:24:57 AM
      - Partial pressuew - ER - 7/7/2023 4:55:28 AM

Iceland eruption - podrock - 7/10/2023 10:40:37 PM
- Live View - podrock - 7/10/2023 11:32:16 PM

The June ice report from NSIDC.org - ER - 7/7/2023 3:09:46 PM

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