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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:we're in the process of terraforming earth, but it's not going so well. It's actually going incredibly well although some people are terribly impatient
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Oct 4, 2023 15:32
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justcallhimdragon posted:wet one, happy one i've a ball of bees under a hive that swarmed then returned but didn't go back inside. they're going to die this winter and i feel bad about it but don't have extra hives/comb/resources to give them 
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Oct 4, 2023 15:36
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Microplastics posted:I mean ok, the generation ship develops its problems, but no tech bro is gonna read it and think "wow this totally undermines my enthusiasm for space flight". The generation ship, despite its problems, is a marvel I guess I’ll spoiler this cause the book is good and people in this thread would like it imo. They keep sending out generation ships and every single one eventually stops responding. Not only are they unable to establish permanent colonies on exoplanets, but all the colonies within the solar system are also completely dependent on earth including the individual people in them. The stuff about people having to take a “sabbatical” back to earth otherwise their life expectancy is like 30 years shorter was dire. The point was that we evolved on earth and are permanently tethered to this planet, regardless of technological advancement. And the implication is that this is true for all life everywhere, it can only survive where it evolved thus exploration is limited and expansion is futile. We are stuck here forever so we’d better make the most of it. But yeah tech bros can misunderstand the simplest of messages so I’m sure plenty have read it and thought “wow, they just needed smarter people like me to design their generation ship and rule it’s internal politics!” bawfuls has issued a correction as of 15:51 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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Oct 4, 2023 15:48
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so Hansen has a new paper out talking more about the Earth Energy Imbalance http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/FlyingBlind.14September2023.pdf quote:The proximate cause of the global warming is Earth’s energy imbalance (EEI): there is more energy coming in (absorbed sunlight) than energy going out (heat radiated to space). EEI increased greatly in the past decade (Fig. 4). The imbalance so far in the 2020s (1.36 W/m2) is almost double the rate (0.71 W/m2) during the calibration period (mid-2005 through mid-2015)  i'm not a scientist, but the EEI having doubled since 2015 seems extremely concerning??? according to Hansen this is mainly because of the decrease in aerosols from the global shipping industry as they started using cleaner fuel around 2015 quote:The upshot is strong indirect evidence that an ongoing decrease of particulate air pollution is in the process of increasing absorption of solar energy by Earth, which adds to greenhouse gas global warming. We predict at least a 50 percent increase of the post-2010 global warming rate, compared to the 1970-2010 rate of 0.18°C/decade.9 This is a partial payment in return for the Faustian bargain that humanity made when it chose to build its economies on fossil fuel energy. so we're looking at around 2.5C at 2050 (probably more considering feedback cycles and that we're still increasing emissions lol) at least we know how to slow down the heating - just reintroduce the dirty sulfur bunker oil again! and this time they can also sell carbon credits from it. win-win if you ask me Kal has issued a correction as of 16:16 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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Oct 4, 2023 16:13
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It would actually be extremely terrifying if reduced aerosols from cleaner shipping had that much of an impact that quickly. Like that really does not bode well for our ability to use aerosols as a mitigation strategy without drastically loving something up much more quickly than we can react.
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Oct 4, 2023 16:27
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I went for a walk in nature today and the realisation came to me that there are microplastics in every leaf, every blade of grass, every tree, the soil, the water. All of the animals and birds and bugs. Every drop of rain. All made at least a little bit of plastic. Instead of feeling sad though, I laughed. A beautiful magnum opus. A legacy of which to be proud. Homo Plasticus.
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Oct 4, 2023 16:37
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kyojin posted:I went for a walk in nature today and the realisation came to me that there are microplastics in every leaf, every blade of grass, every tree, the soil, the water. All of the animals and birds and bugs. Every drop of rain. All made at least a little bit of plastic. Don't forget about all the plastic in your blood!
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Oct 4, 2023 17:01
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Spaced God posted:Don't forget about all the plastic in your blood! And PP!
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Oct 4, 2023 17:16
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microplastics are stored in the micropenis
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Oct 4, 2023 17:22
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SixteenShells posted:microplastics are stored in the micropenis Microplastics actually make the penis longer!
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Oct 4, 2023 17:25
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FlapYoJacks posted:What if the Thwaites glacier falls into the ocean? That would be worth one hell of a hearty LOL. I bought a house in an inland city, so my value would go UP UP UP! C'mon you loving coward glacier
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Oct 4, 2023 17:30
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FlapYoJacks posted:What if the Thwaites glacier falls into the ocean? That would be worth one hell of a hearty LOL. i think someone did the math and it was like 6 months before it would melt completely causing manhattan to look like it got 8 inches of rain all the time
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Oct 4, 2023 17:37
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[Biosphere] getting 8 inches, all the time
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Oct 4, 2023 17:39
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Paradoxish posted:It would actually be extremely terrifying if reduced aerosols from cleaner shipping had that much of an impact that quickly. Like that really does not bode well for our ability to use aerosols as a mitigation strategy without drastically loving something up much more quickly than we can react.
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Oct 4, 2023 17:39
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6 months? That's two quarters away
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Oct 4, 2023 17:39
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Paradoxish posted:It would actually be extremely terrifying if reduced aerosols from cleaner shipping had that much of an impact that quickly. Like that really does not bode well for our ability to use aerosols as a mitigation strategy without drastically loving something up much more quickly than we can react. Chemtrails not just real, but good
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Oct 4, 2023 17:49
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I'm seeing these news stories from the past couple of days how Paris is thoroughly infested with bed bugs, showcasing the bugs crawling out of home furniture, supposedly embedded in the public transport, in movie theater seats, etc. Apparently, there is an appeal to mount a national level response to control the outbreak which involves a lot of chemical warfare on the insect population of France for the sake of the upcoming Olympics.
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Oct 4, 2023 17:53
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speaking of thwaites, y'all wanna read some excellent cope? https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/there-no-doomsday-glacier-thwaites
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Oct 4, 2023 17:54
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Rip Testes posted:I'm seeing these news stories from the past couple of days how Paris is thoroughly infested with bed bugs, showcasing the bugs crawling out of home furniture, supposedly embedded in the public transport, in movie theater seats, etc. Apparently, there is an appeal to mount a national level response to control the outbreak which involves a lot of chemical warfare on the insect population of France for the sake of the upcoming Olympics. bed bugs are just what they call native parisians
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Oct 4, 2023 17:56
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Bed bugs can go to hell and if every other living thing has to be collateral damage then so be it
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Oct 4, 2023 18:18
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Microplastics posted:Bed bugs can go to hell and if every other living thing has to be collateral damage then so be it I have some good news for you
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Oct 4, 2023 18:22
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Kal posted:so Hansen has a new paper out talking more about the Earth Energy Imbalance Yeah this seems like a great setup for ruining things even further with some aerosol injections! My gut feeling is that'll get started sometime around 2028-2029. Fun times
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Oct 4, 2023 18:22
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Microplastics posted:Bed bugs can go to hell and if every other living thing has to be collateral damage then so be it This is how I feel about mosquitoes. At least we're gonna take those motherfuckers with us
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Oct 4, 2023 18:23
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The generation ships are all infested with bedbugs
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Oct 4, 2023 18:30
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mdemone posted:This is how I feel about mosquitoes. At least we're gonna take those motherfuckers with us
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Oct 4, 2023 18:46
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bawfuls posted:are we though? oh yeah. the whole animal kingdom babayyyyy I give archaebacteria and fungi even odds though mosquitoes gotta feed on something, good luck fellas
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Oct 4, 2023 18:48
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sw0cb posted:Yeah this seems like a great setup for ruining things even further with some aerosol injections! My gut feeling is that'll get started sometime around 2028-2029. Fun times whats super cool is that people are now proposing we chlorinate the air so it slightly degrades methane faster, do not ask about the impacts of chlorinated air on the biosphere (doomer)
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Oct 4, 2023 18:59
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Trabisnikof posted:whats super cool is that people are now proposing we chlorinate the air so it slightly degrades methane faster, do not ask about the impacts of chlorinated air on the biosphere (doomer) maybe we can just chlorinate it waaaaay up high, where there isnt anything alive. air famously stays in one spot, right?
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Oct 4, 2023 19:00
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We are so hosed but let’s be real: 2035 seems more and more optimistic every day lmfao.
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Oct 4, 2023 19:38
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so we're doing acid rain again, but chloric instead of sulfuric?
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Oct 4, 2023 19:39
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spaceship earth is my favourite sci fi generation ship 
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Oct 4, 2023 20:04
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Dog Case posted:The generation ships are all infested with bedbugs [Biosphere] The generation ships are all infested with bedbugs
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Oct 4, 2023 20:19
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In ten or twenty years conservatives are going to propose "air conditioning" the atmosphere.
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Oct 4, 2023 20:19
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of course you can't live in space. but you CAN live on the continents beyond the ice wall
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Oct 4, 2023 20:20
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Hubbert posted:spaceship earth is my favourite sci fi generation ship Yeah! Speaking of which let's just check the monitors to make sure spaceship earth is still ticking along nicely Oh. Oh. Maybe we should divert power from the holodecks for a while. There are some niggling issues to deal with
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Oct 4, 2023 21:11
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ANY ATTEMPTS TO DIVERT RESOURCES OR ENERGY FROM THE TERRIBLE TREAT MACHINE FOR THE "PRESERVATION" OF THE VESSEL WILL INCUR SEVERE PENALTIES INCLUDING LOSS OF LIVELIHOOD OR LIFE
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Oct 4, 2023 21:20
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two very different depictions of climate change courtesy of Bing Image Creator 
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Oct 4, 2023 21:33
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stumbled on this for un-related reasons and it made me think of this thread
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Oct 4, 2023 22:06
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smoobles posted:two very different depictions of climate change courtesy of Bing Image Creator Thread title.
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Oct 4, 2023 22:26
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MightyBigMinus posted:stumbled on this for un-related reasons and it made me think of this thread God, I wish that were me.
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Oct 4, 2023 22:27
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