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Amount of coastal flooding to double in the coming decades - RL - 5/18/2017 11:03:14 PM

Positive feedback... - RL - 5/11/2017 2:20:01 AM
- Alaska's permafrost is just the tip of the melting iceberg - RL - 5/11/2017 11:46:52 PM
  - fixed missing numbers (nt) - RL - 5/12/2017 12:17:57 AM
  - There are also enormous amounts of methane trapped in deep marine clathrates. - hank - 5/12/2017 12:05:52 AM
- Original sources: - TB - 5/11/2017 6:10:47 PM
  - Stats in the Supplementary Material - mcfly - 5/11/2017 11:32:26 PM
    - Wellll, shiver me timbers. - hank - 5/12/2017 12:01:04 AM
      - It's just a hot-button of mine - mcfly - 5/12/2017 1:06:32 AM
        
        Zen Math - ER - 5/12/2017 1:54:03 AM
        
        As aimless rambles go, that was fascinating - mcfly - 5/12/2017 3:01:32 AM
        
        Numerical analysis was never a substitute for computers. - ER - 5/12/2017 12:27:10 PM
- Not to worry. - hank - 5/11/2017 3:24:39 PM

To what lengths will they go to extend Moore's law...? - RL - 5/9/2017 10:17:37 PM

Graphene sings - RL - 5/9/2017 3:11:48 AM

Nature article claims evidence of human activity in North America 131,000 years ago - RL - 4/27/2017 3:43:00 AM
- CNN has picked the story up - mcfly - 4/27/2017 3:09:07 PM
  - The odd thing is... - RL - 5/6/2017 2:18:45 AM
    - Makes one wonder how often--and where else--that might have happened (if at all, of course) - mcfly - 5/7/2017 2:29:23 PM
      - Possibly it happened a lot - Robert - 5/7/2017 5:41:20 PM
    - On the topic of genetic archeology... - RL - 5/6/2017 2:48:51 AM

Oh, BTW, TB -- Ministry of Truth Update. - hank - 5/4/2017 12:57:39 AM
- "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." - TB - 5/4/2017 1:20:15 AM
  - Does it not bother you, even just a little bit... - RL - 5/4/2017 1:45:44 AM
    - The Irish? Is that the official version now? - ER - 5/4/2017 3:41:18 AM
      - I was careful to say that was Cahill's argument... - RL - 5/4/2017 5:14:52 PM
        
        I think what TB was trying to tell us... - hank - 5/4/2017 6:09:14 PM
        
        Don't have to be an expert. - TB - 5/4/2017 11:33:34 PM
        
        I know you were talking about recovering archived material... - hank - 5/5/2017 12:14:42 AM
        
        What I see in this particular case... - TB - 5/5/2017 12:53:08 AM
        
        Don't fall for the TB trap... - RL - 5/5/2017 4:25:02 PM
        
        " What the news article left out..." - hank - 5/5/2017 5:38:10 PM
        
        Deconstructing TB. - hank - 5/5/2017 2:57:58 AM
        
        What I see is called CONCERN TROLLING. - hank - 5/5/2017 1:56:51 AM
        
        Just curious: do you prefer what's here now? - TB - 5/5/2017 2:38:49 AM
        
        See my post "Deconstructing TB"., above. - hank - 5/5/2017 3:12:57 AM
        
        Tell you what. - TB - 5/5/2017 5:02:00 AM
        
        Why don't we just talk about the science, instead? - hank - 5/5/2017 5:22:30 AM
        
        Yes, let's get some goddamn perspective! - RL - 5/5/2017 1:26:00 AM
  - Thanks, TB, ...but...I think I've already found everything I needed. - hank - 5/4/2017 1:29:50 AM
    - It's very difficult today to put a valve on information. - TB - 5/4/2017 1:36:51 AM
      - Some thoughts on partisanship - Robert - 5/4/2017 5:58:06 PM
      - Hence the flood of alternative facts - mcfly - 5/4/2017 1:39:06 PM
      - Yeah. "The Truth is out there." - hank - 5/4/2017 1:42:27 AM

"Whann that Aprille with its shoures soute..." - hank - 5/3/2017 9:11:06 PM
- Meanwhile,,,down under... - hank - 5/3/2017 9:16:23 PM

Welcome to the Ministry of Truth. - hank - 5/1/2017 12:16:59 AM
- Webcache is your friend. - TB - 5/1/2017 2:45:43 AM
  - Ignorance is our enemy, and you voted for it... - RL - 5/1/2017 5:16:07 PM
  - I don't need no stinkin' caches. - hank - 5/1/2017 1:04:47 PM
- Because if you don't like the facts, conceal them.... - RL - 5/1/2017 1:25:30 AM
  - Meanwhile reality soldiers on... - RL - 5/1/2017 1:35:29 AM
- On a related note... - hank - 5/1/2017 1:06:07 AM
  - On Patti's performance. - hank - 5/1/2017 1:32:30 AM

A womb with a view - RL - 4/27/2017 2:07:26 AM

What if we're wrong about climate change? - hank - 4/23/2017 5:47:11 PM

March for Science - RL - 4/22/2017 1:22:20 PM
- I went to the one in Fort Lauderdale. - hank - 4/23/2017 3:24:03 AM
- DC March - RL - 4/23/2017 12:01:32 AM
  - Wide angle view of the march - RL - 4/23/2017 2:46:00 AM
  - Don't worry, Trump voters, your point of view was well represented too! - RL - 4/23/2017 12:11:20 AM

laser propulsion proposal - RL - 4/16/2017 6:13:41 PM
- How does that work? - hank - 4/17/2017 11:22:41 PM
  - It isn't easy... - RL - 4/19/2017 2:44:52 AM

NASA PRESS CONFERENCE starting 2pm est - RL - 4/13/2017 5:45:57 PM
- Press conference link: - RL - 4/13/2017 5:48:57 PM
  - I watched it live online...it was enjoyable - mcfly - 4/14/2017 5:13:38 AM
    - It may be too early to tell yet, because of the long lead times for space missions, - hank - 4/14/2017 12:55:25 PM
      - Where are all those zero-g cancer cures and hyper-spherical ball bearings we were supposed to get out of space station labs? - RL - 4/14/2017 9:40:44 PM
        
        I'm not saying NOTHING has been accomplished in orbital lab research. - hank - 4/15/2017 2:32:41 AM
  - Too bad Trump's budget axes the Europa lander.... - RL - 4/13/2017 6:35:05 PM

Optimum space station/satellite orbits - hank - 4/12/2017 10:49:53 PM
- Some information links - TB - 4/13/2017 6:00:18 PM
  - Heat Capacity Mapping Mission (HCCM) - ER - 4/13/2017 8:31:01 PM
  - Thanks, TB. I'll check it out. - hank - 4/13/2017 8:00:21 PM
    - Tundra Orbit - TB - 4/14/2017 4:46:32 AM

Beware the ice(s) of March -- so what else is new? - hank - 4/11/2017 4:13:33 PM

Bureau of land management changes its website banner to a picture to a lump of coal - RL - 4/7/2017 3:47:42 AM

PIOMAS End-of-March Arctic sea ice volumes - hank - 4/5/2017 5:56:05 PM

Why would 234 alien civilizations scattered all over the sky all have their com lasers aimed at us? - RL - 4/5/2017 3:00:18 AM
- I am fairly certain I posted that in reply to hank' message below... - RL - 4/5/2017 3:01:10 AM
  - I can't imagine what prompted these guys to publish. - hank - 4/5/2017 3:39:04 AM
    - This isn't the technical debunk I read before... - RL - 4/5/2017 4:03:48 AM

Yo, RL. This one's right up your alley... - hank - 4/5/2017 2:47:59 AM

NASA taking first steps toward high-speed space 'internet' - RL - 3/23/2017 2:55:28 AM
- SETI applications - hank - 4/3/2017 5:28:50 AM
  - OSETI - RL - 4/4/2017 2:09:26 AM
    - I was thinking of a beacon, not much bandwidth needed there... - hank - 4/4/2017 4:29:25 AM
- And coming soon... - RL - 3/30/2017 1:47:39 AM
  - More... - RL - 3/30/2017 7:47:36 PM

"A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars" - Robert - 3/20/2017 7:41:18 PM
- Yo, Podrock! - hank - 3/21/2017 2:26:35 AM
  - Happy to... - podrock - 3/21/2017 2:42:51 PM
- anaglyphically correct - ER - 3/20/2017 9:19:18 PM
  - In a true stereoscopic image, - ER - 3/20/2017 11:43:25 PM
    - Interesting - Robert - 3/21/2017 6:38:19 PM
      - The way I used to do it, back in the analog era, - ER - 3/21/2017 8:23:30 PM
        
        Angle of repose - SDG - 3/30/2017 7:56:59 PM
        
        I don't know much about the angle of repose... - ER - 3/30/2017 9:31:06 PM

From the glory days of mechanical engineering - RobVG - 3/29/2017 1:57:13 AM
- There's no doubt it's clever engineering. - hank - 3/29/2017 2:05:08 PM
  - Only one? The design was for a fighter on either wing tip? - RobVG - 3/29/2017 2:23:04 PM
    - Sorry, I did not explain myself well. - hank - 3/29/2017 3:40:58 PM
      - Oh - RobVG - 3/29/2017 4:19:40 PM
        
        I believe we rely too much on automated and digital solutions. - hank - 3/29/2017 5:15:33 PM
        
        Two sides to that story - Robert - 3/29/2017 8:30:04 PM
        
        So humor an old Luddite. - hank - 3/29/2017 9:02:53 PM

Alien Spacecraft Refueling at the Sun - BuckGalaxy - 3/23/2017 7:21:23 PM
- I could do a better job of faking video than that... - RL - 3/24/2017 2:37:04 AM

Exxon claims it has "lost" Tillerson's emails on climate change... - RL - 3/23/2017 5:37:39 AM
- Priorities... - hank - 3/23/2017 2:09:19 PM

Positive feedback - RL - 3/21/2017 11:35:33 PM
- The war on science hasn't shut down NASA yet... - RL - 3/22/2017 11:40:49 PM
  - NASA scientists are all lefty pinko losers. - hank - 3/23/2017 12:17:16 AM
    - Don't forget all that sweet global warming conspiracy cash... - RL - 3/23/2017 2:28:14 AM

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