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Indeed, I am less likely to trust a "skeptic" which is why I know most of the rebuttals to their nonsense offhand. This statement pretty much says it all. You are relying on canned responses without putting any real thought (ie, re-evaluating your standpoint) into what you are responding to (whethe...

Is that 3-6x the expected snow, or 1.5? (I'm rather weak on American geography). Either way, that's a lot of snow. It seems that Japan (Japan Sea coast) too is getting unusually heavy (and early?) snow. Places that had no snow at all this time last year have gotten over 2m in the last couple of days...

The scientific process (as I understand it): 1) trust nobody 2) someone makes a claim, publishes procedure 3) trust nobody 4) follow published procedure 5) trust nothing 5a) if claim substantiated, investigate why 5b) if claim not substantiated, investigate why 5c) either way, double check all instr...

Might it be that AGW is not about "saving the planet", nor terribly much about giving the UN an excuse to tax the world (not that I doubt this is a factor), but rather an attempt at preventing a post-scarcity economy? If the world's industry is crippled, or at least hobbled by ridiculous taxes, then...

You need to do a lot more than that. Comet water will be salty, dirty, with lots of other chemicals in it. You need to distill all that out of there. Considering power will probably be the least of a ship's (or colony's) concerns, distilling water won't be a problem. Cooling it might. Getting it im...

Star Wars isn't SciFi (the most generous description I've heard is Science Fantasy. More accurate is either Space opera or space fantasy). In the harder scifi I've read, the smallest (interplanetary or interstellar) ships were all big enough to have families, or nearly so. And in general, forget lan...

Magnetic induction causes heat by inducing eddy currents in a conductor (specifically, the iron core, iron not being a brilliant electrical conductor (fantastic magnetic)) and the currents causing resistive heating. This is why the iron cores of any magnetic device (transformers, motors, etc) are la...

Assuming such a beast can be built, I worked out that if you can split O2 into two O- ions, you can get about 153ks ISP (1.5e6m/s) using 186.6kV. Using 603kA allows for 0.1kg/s giving 150kN thrust. This gets a 1000ton(*) ship with 1000ton(**) LOX out to Neptune in about 8 months. Of course, the driv...

"'nuff said"? This reminds me of the cartoons I saw as a kid in the 70s (probably Batman, maybe the super hero league (I don't remember the name: the one where most of the heroes were all together)) where some (mad?) scientist had made a car that could run on water (I seem to remember him usually be...

No, it is not astonishingly accurate, otherwise writing would never have been invented in the first place. Yes, memory does tend to weaken with reading and writing, as does the ability to distinguish sounds not representable in your writing (Japanese people and the English language is an excellent e...

Indeed literacy levels have little or nothing to do with intelligence, though until reading this thread I would have said they had plenty to do with ignorance, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Without literacy, you have only oral tradition to rely on. Oral tradition is notorious for corrupting ...

alexjrgreen wrote: It's solved:

alexjrgreen wrote:Use Aqueous Froth C02 capture...

That covers the CO2. What about all the radio-actives? I will, however, admit that the froth might help with that too, though there's still the problem of what to do with the stuff afterwards.

On earth, without GHG the average global temp would be down by at least 32C. If that is a fact, then you had best be grateful for those greenhouse gases as otherwise your fingers would be too stiff to type. If the global temperature drops by 32C, most of the usable landmass will have sub-0 summers....

And with childbearing licenses will come (major increases in) child related crimes (kidnapping, black-market sales, etc). It's already happening in China (saw it on the news recently here in Japan). Yes, I want there to be a world for my children to live in, but I also want that to be a world worth ...

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen".

Not much more to say than that.