Microplastics posted:

Extrapolations aired its season finale a few days ago.

A hit-or-miss show, with mostly misses in my opinion. But episode 5 was enough of a hit to almost make up for it, I highly recommend it even if you don't watch any other episodes.

Unfortunately the show got a bit too distracted with highly speculative future tech that didn't have much to do with climate change, like memory deletion and mind uploads (insert your roll-eyes emoji here). And even the future tech that was relevant to climate change was a bit deus ex machina. The final episode referred to CCS and presented it as wildly successful, without giving any hints as to how it might work ("My carbon capture machine is just out of frame, sequestering carbon"). I guess it's taking the Star Trek approach of "well, if we explain how it works, it'll be too obviously bullshit".

Aside from that, the characters were a little bit too Good or Evil, with little nuance. And the final episode, I think, tried to make some sort of point about capitalism and ethical consumption, but it was incoherent, at least to me.

Dystopia Barbarian posted:

Not to be contrarian, but if FTL travel is impossible (and I believe it is), this is simply untrue.

The universe is unfathomably vast. There could be thousands of other civilizations spread throughout and we'd never know.

Zodium posted:

capitalist realism is the obvious solution to the fermi paradox, and the great filter is a very stupid one. looking for signs of civilization as we know it and scratching our heads at finding nothing is no paradox at all--it might not have been completely unreasonable when enrico fermi came up with it in 1950, but it makes no sense today.

Zodium posted:

it almost goes without saying that the great filter was conceived of by an economist.

4d3d3d posted:

A climate optimist is just a denialist who could no longer deny because it's so blindingly obvious. I know people will deny they're sick with something even as it kills them but even the coal rollin' boys have a limit sometimes

Ssthalar posted:

Amusingly, according to quantum mechanics, we're technically changing the world simply by observing it.
... Of course, whether that change is for better or worse, who can tell.

Now where did i put those boxes of cats...
I should get an Orb to ponder, that would be dope.

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Despite the "observer effect" in the double-slit experiment being caused by the presence of an electronic detector, the experiment's results have been interpreted by some to suggest that a conscious mind can directly affect reality.[3] However, the need for the "observer" to be conscious (versus merely existent, as in a unicellular microorganism) is not supported by scientific research, and has been pointed out as a misconception rooted in a poor understanding of the quantum wave function ψ and the quantum measurement process.

Homeless Friend posted:

to be sure, matt christmans 30 years war podcast was 100% timely lol. i got to the end yesterday and its like yup. we're in the middle where we can't point to the start or the end, and are waiting to see where the pieces fall. how these contractions are if not solved then funneled into a workable solution. of course c-spam, as the nominal communism forum, is like heh heh heh communism will win but we truly have no idea. thats why 'go and do something about it' falls on deaf ears. its like telling somebody to go push a cloud. vs organizing at your job where pros and cons are direct.

Mayor Dave posted:

Last time I looked into it hydrogen would need a revolution in materials technology for mass scale storage to be feasible, not to mention sourcing enough electricity to crack that much water

Cup Runneth Over posted:

What really makes it this thread is that that never happened but people pretend it did because it's funnier

Microplastics posted:

tf is this



help help i'm trapped in a web and can't perceive my way out

Osv18 posted:

fair enough. I am 100% a crank.

Ruggan posted:

ok, scrap that

next idea: nuclear powered space garbage guns. we can shoot garbage into the sun with nuclear power and that includes the nuclear waste too. the sun is huge so it should handle our little garbage patch nbd. thoughts?

Microplastics posted:

And being asked to get in it?

Zodium posted:

the sun is an alien waging thermodynamic war on earth

4d3d3d posted:

I think they felt justified in new oil exploration (among other things) because of the IRA, which was met with a lot of empty-headed triumphalism. Political capital

Koirhor posted:

I am completely convinced that capitalism is the great filter and that humanity will just be another failed species among millions of others in the universe. Just enjoy what you can while you can I guess.

Zodium posted:

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4d3d3d posted:

Pretty much this

Also

https://twitter.com/ProfBillMcGuire/status/1659585905777049600

Cold on a Cob posted:

if i still played games i'd play the gently caress out of a reboot of fallout centered around a climate apocalypse where the usa and china go nuts with crispr instead of atomic energy + weaponry

Eraflure posted:

Not apocalyptic enough. Have them waddle across the Pacific Puddle

MightyBigMinus posted:

the ipcc is good and you are a dumbass making poo poo up

Trabisnikof posted:

The politicization comes in from how questions are framed and which sections get elevated to the Summary for Policymakers and thus get reported to the media at all.

silicone thrills posted:

Lol old spice rolled out deoderant in paper compostable tubes and already discontinued them.

MightyBigMinus posted:

doing a surface skim of a page or two on wikipedia and then dismissing the entire org based on two lines is *exactly* what makes you a dumbass. that is the signature pattern of a stupid person looking for the most threadbare justification they can find for their contrarian spit take. this isnt even an ipcc thing, this is a you being a poo poo thinker/poster thing.

#1 - the chair of the ipcc graduted with his phd in 1975 and worked for three years as an economist at exxon mobile. IN THE SEVENTIES. in 1992 he joined the ipcc and has worked there now for twenty+ years. for you to dismiss him as an "exxonmobile economist" is a genuinely stupid take. a perfect example of using vague keyword association because you lack any actual understanding of a subject.

#2 - raygun gave zero shits and had zero involvement in the ipcc. just because something happens during a presidential administration doesn't mean the president did it. another very typical stupid opinion pattern.

this really isn't about the ipcc, its about you trying to pretend you're smarter than and can therefore be dismissive of the single most authoritative organization on a given topic because you skimmed wikipedia.

Puppy Burner posted:

You need a straw? Are you a toddler? Little baby can't hold a glass?

RadiRoot posted:

seems bad

celadon posted:

so if everything is happening faster than expected, is it the sort of deal where 10 things being 10% faster makes the whole system go 10% faster, like they all are in parallel, or like 10 things being 10% faster is 1.1^10 = 2.6x faster. cause if all the catastrophes are synergizing it will get stupid really fast

Zodium posted:

planning to read a book free of ideological tint. any ideas?

cum jabbar posted:

survival strategy is an ideology for bald guys

Koirhor posted:

meanwhile

Soggy Muffin posted:

When I was a baby I only drank water, been only drinking water for 38 years now. Now I’m gonna have to stick to milk of the cow once the water goes away, just all milk