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I guess you could say it's curtains for the Thwaites glacier 
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Mar 11, 2024 10:45
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Xaris posted:i'd love if there was a blog or someone with more dedication than me who cataloged all the new copium-fueled PopSci poo poo from the past 5+ years, it'd be fun to look back over all the stupid poo poo cooked up that's just around the corner! The thought has crossed my mind That and a compilation of "faster than expected" headlines from the past 10 years
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Mar 11, 2024 10:49
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lol “stimulate the Antarctic economy”. good poo poo
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Mar 11, 2024 13:40
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perhaps painting the curtains white would help
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Mar 11, 2024 13:46
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RadiRoot posted:anyone knows offhand what greenhouse gas emissions by year for usa is for 2022 and 2023? hasnt it been going down? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?time=2000..latest&country=~USA
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Mar 11, 2024 13:56
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MightyBigMinus posted:https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?time=2000..latest&country=~USA lol at the spike in 1960 from cars and that it took <20 years to have a noticeable effect on the global level
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Mar 11, 2024 14:04
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Even if we managed to cut emissions significantly could you imagine the insane reaction from the public when their sacrifices don't yield immediate results
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Mar 11, 2024 14:14
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Microplastics posted:Even if we managed to cut emissions significantly could you imagine the insane reaction from the public when their sacrifices don't yield immediate results climate change is it, burned all that ancient daylight for a couple hundred years of partying
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Mar 11, 2024 14:17
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Continent-sized walls are stupid, I think we should build giant robots to defeat climate change.
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Mar 11, 2024 15:10
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why stop at insulating the arctic? just build a big window around the Earth and put an air conditioning unit in. ez pz
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Mar 11, 2024 15:11
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the democrats will put sunglasses on the planet
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Mar 11, 2024 15:21
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Microplastics posted:I guess you could say it's curtains for the Thwaites glacier
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Mar 11, 2024 15:26
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Erghh posted:i watched a documentary about Gobekli-Tepe that went into how people were hunter-gatherers for tens of thousands of years. then tried (and likely failed) to develop proper agriculture for awhile but once it stuck lived like that for thousands of years, along with re-ordering social structures, time use, resource allocation etc. accordingly. The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization https://amzn.eu/d/j4ubHVW
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Mar 11, 2024 15:29
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Hoping that we can go back to like 13% global oxygen levels, where forest fires are impossible because there's just not enough atmospheric oxygen for them to spread or whatever the reason is
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Mar 11, 2024 15:32
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I'm going to keep spraying my boost oxygen cans into the atmosphere
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Mar 11, 2024 15:35
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gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you
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Mar 11, 2024 15:36
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The GBS thread on hard truths with the “hard truth” that the first century of human space travel will be uncomfortable is a window into a wildly different world of expectations for the future— I was reading a lot of them thinking a lot of what was supposed to be bleak was, in my eyes, almost unthinkably optimistic. So when they are right and all that stuff comes true, I’m going to be well cheerful all the time
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Mar 11, 2024 15:49
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That one at least sounds true. We are more than 60 years into the first century of human spaceflight and it's been pretty uncomfortable.
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Mar 11, 2024 16:19
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Hubbert posted:Continent-sized walls are stupid, I think we should build giant robots to defeat climate change. we've got a category 4c kaiju incoming initiate neural handshake
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Mar 11, 2024 17:43
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Samuel Glompers posted:I will nevervpiss myselfxagain, thanks to the fish bowl i have slid into my pants; a responsible solution, and a handsome bulge,
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Mar 11, 2024 17:45
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Mar 11, 2024 17:49
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vegetables posted:The GBS thread on hard truths with the “hard truth” that the first century of human space travel will be uncomfortable is a window into a wildly different world of expectations for the future— I was reading a lot of them thinking a lot of what was supposed to be bleak was, in my eyes, almost unthinkably optimistic. space travel is the mechanism by which ordinary people can pretend that we can escape the repayment of the debts our civilization has incurred during its time on earth. they try and temper their ridiculous position by claiming that space will be "hard" or "uncomfortable" or "difficult," as if by recognizing these things the premise becomes true rather than just another fantasy
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Mar 11, 2024 17:51
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i pretend to escape with drugs ...lots of evidence other people do too
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Mar 11, 2024 17:54
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bedpan posted:space travel is the mechanism by which ordinary people can pretend that we can escape the repayment of the debts our civilization has incurred during its time on earth. they try and temper their ridiculous position by claiming that space will be "hard" or "uncomfortable" or "difficult," as if by recognizing these things the premise becomes true rather than just another fantasy lmaoing at the idea of a sustained presence in space built on top of a collapsing biosphere back home starving to death with a million extra steps
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Mar 11, 2024 17:54
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space travel is very much like the lottery but buying a lottery ticket might make you a winner versus dying for elon musk and jeff bezos
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Mar 11, 2024 17:56
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I want even more oxygen so we get giant creatures again.
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Mar 11, 2024 17:56
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The Oldest Man posted:lmaoing at the idea of a sustained presence in space built on top of a collapsing biosphere back home yes but think of the profits that will be realized from starving the spacemen
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Mar 11, 2024 17:57
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Sam Neil laughing gif
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Mar 11, 2024 18:03
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Mar 11, 2024 18:12
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Mar 11, 2024 18:12
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lol lmao
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Mar 11, 2024 18:16
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it would be cool to live on a spaceship. or so I imagine, I'm sure it would actually suck. depends on how much of a protagonist I'm being in this fantasy
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Mar 11, 2024 18:33
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Now taking bets on the date of the next y-axis extension, I will start us off with the 1:1 on August 21st
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Mar 11, 2024 18:41
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mistermojo posted:it would be cool to live on a spaceship. or so I imagine, I'm sure it would actually suck. depends on how much of a protagonist I'm being in this fantasy
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Mar 11, 2024 18:43
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:lol, y'all right. I'm going to just enjoy crack pingin' in the Children of Men re-enactment while everyone else goes mental over banal gossip poo poo as the world literally burns around them. I loved the BBC Six O'clock News the other day having a segment 15 minutes in that lasted all of 30 seconds about record high global temperatures. That was fifth billing after some cop investigation, the hosed up budget this week, something about the Royals probably, and something about Gaza. top headline in sweden is about nato ascension, into someone dying at age 92, to something about terrorism, to royals, to a swedish journalist who got killed in afghanistan way back when(kind of shocking they have this up today considering item #1) to some sports to something else, something about Ukraine into something about Gaza further down is a short piece on greta thunberg and some activists blocking the entry into parliament, she says they're doing it because of a planetary emergency. police allowed them to remain and redirected to other entryways and said things have been calm and respectful. lmao
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Mar 11, 2024 18:55
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mistermojo posted:it would be cool to live on a spaceship. or so I imagine, I'm sure it would actually suck. depends on how much of a protagonist I'm being in this fantasy If you're curious about this I can recommend the book / audiobook (read by the author even) of Endurance by Scott Kelly. He participated in a 340 day mission on the ISS and has some pretty incredible descriptions of how gross and annoying it was.
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Mar 11, 2024 18:57
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https://www.wired.com/story/astronaut-scott-kelly-explains-how-the-iss-is-like-harris-county-jail/ lmfao i gotta read this book
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Mar 11, 2024 19:00
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Kelly's Endurance was worth reading all on its own because it got me to read Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing which is among the best books I've ever read. It's truly insane and we flat out don't have stories like that anymore where 28 dudes decide to cross Antarctica on foot just to show off how badass they are.
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Mar 11, 2024 19:55
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in the 60s, one of the antarctic research team members had to do an appendectomy on themselves because he was the only doctor for a thousand miles. i could try for the rest of my life and I'll never be that badass as that
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Mar 11, 2024 20:03
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I've literally been to Antarctica, it was nice.
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