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McDowell posted:True, but one should consider the utility (tons of product/distance transported) compared to the emissions. In that regard I'd consider cars more wasteful than cargo ships. That, and there were about 254.4 million passenger vehicles in the United States alone in 2007.
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Earth posted:Oh Sagan, I love reading your books. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDS_YABbh6w
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Earth fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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GD_American posted:
In the 70s they tried this off the coast of Fort Lauderdale in an attempt to attract game fish to the area. Osborne Reef was enlarged with 2 million tires bound together with steel bands. Of course, nobody bothered to ensure that the bands didn't corrode in the ocean, so over time the tires became loose. It became a total environmental disaster as the tires' mobility ensured no significant marine life latched onto them. They even wrecked natural reefs by colliding with them. They're still cleaning it up. Luckily cleaning up the tires is good training for military divers, so the US military is doing most of the cleanup operation rather than the state of Florida (which probably would either refuse to pay for it or gently caress it up worse somehow). Army Diver Jason Jakovenko posted:You get down about 20 feet and it starts to come into sight, it's actually really-- it's like the moon or something. It's weird, it doesn't look like anything you could imagine, it's just tires for as far as you can see down there. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE_5Y9IKCk0 poopy pee pee fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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Senor Gato posted:In the 70s they tried this off the coast of Fort Lauderdale in an attempt to attract game fish to the area. Osborne Reef was enlarged with 2 million tires bound together with steel bands. Of course, nobody bothered to ensure that the bands didn't corrode in the ocean, so over time the tires became loose. It became a total environmental disaster as the tires' mobility ensured no significant marine life latched onto them. They even wrecked natural reefs by colliding with them. They're still cleaning it up. Luckily cleaning up the tires is good training for military divers, so the US military is doing most of the cleanup operation rather than the state of Florida (which probably would either refuse to pay for it or gently caress it up worse somehow). Why in the ever-living gently caress could they have not have realized that plastic bindings would have been better? Jesus Christ.
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How are u posted:Why in the ever-living gently caress could they have not have realized that plastic bindings would have been better? Jesus Christ. Forget it Jake, it's Floridatown.
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McDowell posted:True, but one should consider the utility (tons of product/distance transported) compared to the emissions. In that regard I'd consider cars more wasteful than cargo ships. Maybe you're not aware of exactly how polluting these things are. I don't understand why D&D gets that nuclear power isn't the bogeyman, but still thinks personal car emissions are. Using gas sucks for a number of reasons, but cars are loving clean these days. http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/ quote:...
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Radbot posted:
I think when it comes to that people aren't sweating particulates like SOx (which is not a greenhouse gas but causes acid rain) and are mainly talking about greenhouse gasses. Acid rain doesn't get the headlines anymore since SOx emissions are down 2/3rds from their high in the 70s.
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Peven Stan posted:I think when it comes to that people aren't sweating particulates like SOx (which is not a greenhouse gas but causes acid rain) and are mainly talking about greenhouse gasses. Unfortunately, they're pretty awful on that front too. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/mar/03/travelsenvironmentalimpact.transportintheuk quote:Carbon dioxide emissions from shipping are double those of aviation and increasing at an alarming rate which will have a serious impact on global warming, according to research by the industry and European academics.
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Peven Stan posted:I think when it comes to that people aren't sweating particulates like SOx (which is not a greenhouse gas but causes acid rain) and are mainly talking about greenhouse gasses. Acid rain doesn't get the headlines anymore since SOx emissions are down 2/3rds from their high in the 70s. Yup (both charts U.S. GHG emissions): http://climate.dot.gov/about/transportations-role/overview.html Of course, what that chart doesn't tell you, although the EPA's website does, is that a significant portion of shipping GHG contributions occurs in international waters, where it doesn't count toward U.S. emissions: quote:It is important to note that fuel consumed in international travel by aircraft and marine sources is not counted in national greenhouse gas inventories. However, international trade has been growing rapidly, thus increasing the role of transportation as a source of global emissions.
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TheMammoth posted:From my old neighborhood in San Francisco: Two of my good friends work there, they're boyfriend and girlfriend and neither is an exotic dancer. Arthur Mole's liberty bell, the picture was made with 25,000 soldiers in 1918 More here http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/living-photos-by-mole-and-thomas.html
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Pope's resigned
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Exclamation Marx posted:Pope's resigned I always thought popes were the pope until they died. So will we have a new pope before Easter?
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My vote is going towards Pope Weedlord Bonerhitler I He will be a good candidate for the Final Pope and possibly the Antichrist.
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Nazi Pope gently caress off!!
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Driving a pickup is dangerous in LA.
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Elston Gunn posted:
For reference, this is a gray Nissan Titan like the actual target vehicle:
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Stultus Maximus posted:For reference, this is a gray Nissan Titan like the actual target vehicle: I thought they found the truck burned out in the mountains days ago? Are they searching for a new truck? Content:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4l_PeBMyk Tony Babino plays a jazzy version of l'internationale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7km7o9Gqhc Ana Belen and Victor Manuel play a funky version of A las barricadas "A militia man poses for the photographer in front of an already ransacked church, 1936 by David Seymour. Arson of churches and monasteries was common during the first days of the Republic. Militias were created in order to preserve the artistic and cultural heritage of Spain from primal anti-clerical outbursts. Their mission was to protect churches, museums and libraries."
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So Ron Paul, champion of Free Enterprise and Free Markets, King of the Libertarians, believer in complete individual and territorial sovereignty; is asking the UN to seize ronpaul.com for him, because the current owners want too much money.
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poemdexter posted:I thought they found the truck burned out in the mountains days ago? Are they searching for a new truck? Ha, what's the context of that picture?
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I can't wait for tomorrow night. http://stockman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ted-nugent-to-join-stockman-at-state-of-the-union
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http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313 The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden used this gear during the May 2011 raid. Also from that article: quote:On the third floor, there were two chicks yelling at us and the point man was yelling at them and he said to me, "Hey, we need to get moving. These bitches is getting truculent." I remember saying to myself, Truculent? Really? Love that word.
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THe biggest problem with Dawkins is that he confuses "having genuine and interesting contributions to make regarding biology" with "having genuine and interesting contributions to make regarding absolutely everything else. That's why I often prefer listening to people like Robin Ince, who have a much easier time accepting that there are things they know nothing about, while still being funny about the things that they do (although the following clip is a bit "dumb and so goddamn crazy"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdocQHsPCNM
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Highspeeddub posted:
Steve Stockman is one creepy motherfucker. quote:Stockman will also be unveiling this week The Obama Failometer, a ten-foot-long billboard that will objectively measure the failure of Obama’s economic policies. Congress is the absolute worst. Why doesn't he just become a mercenary, oh I'm sorry "private military contractor", like the rest of them? Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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Lightning hits St. Peter's the day Pope Benedict resigns.
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A man dressed as a 'Momotxorro' a natural entity made of bones and sheep skin walks to take part in a carnival in the Basque village of Zubieta on Jan. 28. In one of the most ancient carnivals in Europa , dating from before the Roman empire, companies of Joaldunak (cowbells) and Momotxorros parade between the villages of Zubieta and Ituren. Crasscrab posted:Why doesn't he just become a mercenary, oh I'm sorry "private military contractor", like the rest of them? Well if you read the article, he explains it is because he sustained some chronic injuries that aren't good for an active duty soldier, has had to deal with major problems affecting his relationship to his family, and, at least right now, does not want to keep doing something that requires him to kill people.
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System Metternich posted:
Does this mean god is happy, or not?
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From the project Negerhosen2000, some artifacts of which I just caught at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston over the weekend. (I'm lucky to have teenage kids who whine about going to art museums and not getting out of them, though admittedly it's because the CAM has such an awesome gift shop.) If you're German this is probably way old news but I thought it was the best thing ever.
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Elston Gunn posted:
I assume these are related to the Chris Dorner manhunt? I've been out of the news cycle for a few days. Are they really just wasting suspected pickups?
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I like when my gas station tells me things!
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System Metternich posted:
You can almost hear the spooky organ music. Crasscrab posted:
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Earth fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Earth posted:Please tell me that you took this picture and can tell me what area of the country so I know to never live there. Cute, but July 16, 1945 was a bit after May 7, 1945. e: Not even counting that H-bombs didn't exist for another 7 years after Hiroshima
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Mexican / U.S. propaganda during WWII. The pilots of Squadron 201, the Aztec Eagles (águilas Aztecas)who fought in the pacific theater in WWII. "Beginning in June 1945, the squadron initially flew missions with the 310th Fighter Squadron, often twice a day, using borrowed U.S. aircraft. It received 25 new P-47D-30-RA aircraft in July, marked with the insignia of both the USAAF and Mexican Air Force. The squadron flew more than 90 combat missions, totaling more than 1,900 hours of flight time. It participated in the Allied effort to bomb Luzon and Formosa to push the Japanese out of those islands. During its fighting in the Philippines, five squadron pilots died (one was shot down, one crashed, and three ran out of fuel and died at sea), and three others died in accidents during training." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escuadr%C3%B3n_201
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