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Unread postby Slowhand » Sat Feb 13, 2016 12:16:50

Yeah but I think Bucky was joking anyway, Mr. Poo Poo.
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby WheelsFellOff » Sat Feb 13, 2016 13:48:49

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby drsmooth » Sat Feb 13, 2016 16:39:25

Slowhand wrote:Man, WFO loves to poo poo everything in this thread. Lighten up, Bill Nye The Poo Poo Guy!



Apparently that's how some physicists think about the discovery too, sort of
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby SK790 » Mon Feb 15, 2016 03:42:29

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Slowhand » Mon Feb 15, 2016 10:20:27

Well, guess I won't be moving there after all.
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Bucky » Mon Feb 15, 2016 10:21:23

Well, that's not quite right, Slowhand. You weren't planning on moving at all, and this disease outbreak didn't change your situation one bit.

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Slowhand » Mon Feb 15, 2016 10:28:42

After you're done stomping on my dreams, maybe you could find some bunnies to stomp on. :(
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Unread postby TenuredVulture » Mon Feb 15, 2016 14:58:39




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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby WheelsFellOff » Mon Feb 15, 2016 16:21:53

Bucky wrote:Well, that's not quite right, Slowhand. You weren't planning on moving at all, and this disease outbreak didn't change your situation one bit.

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby ReadingPhilly » Sun Feb 21, 2016 17:50:34

The crew of Apollo 10 heard unexplainable music for an hour when they were out of contact with NASA on the far side of the moon.

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Slowhand » Sun Feb 21, 2016 18:13:13

Not at all surprised. Read up on Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who I just noticed died a couple weeks ago, nearly 45 years to the day when he walked on the moon.
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Bucky » Tue Feb 23, 2016 21:05:21

SEA LEVELS ARE RISING WAY FASTER THAN ANY TIME IN PAST 2,800 YEARS

HOW VAIN ARE WE TO ASSERT THAT WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE GOD'S CREATION

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Monkeyboy » Wed Feb 24, 2016 18:19:57

It's interesting that almost every estimate has been wrong and in almost every case things have been worse than the estimates. I guess that's what happens when researchers feel like they have to be VERY conservative with all their predictions.

The deep ocean temperature change is the scariest thing I've seen. If the nutrient upwellings stop, the base of the food chain will starve and everything up the food chain will suffer.

It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby SK790 » Wed Feb 24, 2016 21:15:39

Monkeyboy wrote:It's interesting that almost every estimate has been wrong and in almost every case things have been worse than the estimates. I guess that's what happens when researchers feel like they have to be VERY conservative with all their predictions.

The deep ocean temperature change is the scariest thing I've seen. If the nutrient upwellings stop, the base of the food chain will starve and everything up the food chain will suffer.

It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

I remember in college the narrative against GW was that the projections were alarmist. What's the anti GW narrative these days beyond a blanket "it's not happening, don't worry about it"(outright lie).
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Monkeyboy » Wed Feb 24, 2016 21:25:37

SK790 wrote:
Monkeyboy wrote:It's interesting that almost every estimate has been wrong and in almost every case things have been worse than the estimates. I guess that's what happens when researchers feel like they have to be VERY conservative with all their predictions.

The deep ocean temperature change is the scariest thing I've seen. If the nutrient upwellings stop, the base of the food chain will starve and everything up the food chain will suffer.

It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

I remember in college the narrative against GW was that the projections were alarmist. What's the anti GW narrative these days beyond a blanket "it's not happening, don't worry about it"(outright lie).


My favorite pushback is that GW will actually be good for some organisms (it will) and so we're just doing what nature does and the fit will survive (they will). Of course, they leave out the part about a mass extinction because the changes are happening so fast that organisms can't adapt. Barring an asteroid or a period of global volcanism (both of which have led to mass extinctions in the past), nature changes slowly and organisms have time to adapt. So sure, GW will be good for some organisms, but it will be bad for the vast majority.
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby MoBettle » Thu Feb 25, 2016 01:35:02

SK790 wrote:
Monkeyboy wrote:It's interesting that almost every estimate has been wrong and in almost every case things have been worse than the estimates. I guess that's what happens when researchers feel like they have to be VERY conservative with all their predictions.

The deep ocean temperature change is the scariest thing I've seen. If the nutrient upwellings stop, the base of the food chain will starve and everything up the food chain will suffer.

It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

I remember in college the narrative against GW was that the projections were alarmist. What's the anti GW narrative these days beyond a blanket "it's not happening, don't worry about it"(outright lie).


There was a freakonomics podcast a while back that had a guy on that didn't deny global warming but made the point that for all the money that you would have to spend to lower the sea level by one foot you could give fresh water to everyone in Africa ten times over or solve aids or something. I've heard another person make the case basically that humans are smart and will be able to figure out how to adapt. I think there are less people (that aren't being paid by the fossil fuel industry) that flat out deny it and more that say stuff like that.
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby CalvinBall » Thu Mar 17, 2016 11:10:18

cool video from vox about vestigial body parts.

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/17/11250962/p ... -vestigial

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby SK790 » Fri Apr 08, 2016 15:19:30

http://gizmodo.com/we-finally-know-why- ... 1769588584

The North Pole is moving East and we now know why. spoiler: it's water flux
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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby slugsrbad » Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:38:37

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Re: Rolling Science and Nature Thread

Unread postby Soren » Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:56:07

slugsrbad wrote:http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/stephen-hawking-billionaire-team-100-million-quest-find/story?id=38331436


...doesn't relativism just mean whatever these nanobots find will be meaningless for them? Their frame of reference in space-time will move much quicker than ours.
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