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Where we headed Slippy?

Don't forget your towel. It has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”

Oh and Peanuts.

Sirhr
 
Where we headed Slippy?

Don't forget your towel. It has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”

Oh and Peanuts.

Sirhr

 
It's always that way with the ice is melting crowd.
I am not arguing for anthropogenic climate change.

I am pointing out that the climate has been both warmer (higher sea levels) and colder (lower sea levels) than it is today. And, I am pointing out that the analogy is deceptive.

It is true that (due to the lower density of ice relative to liquid water) that melting sea ice will not change the sea level. But, most of earths frozen water is not free floating; it is sitting on top of land, above sea level. When this ice melts (or “calves” from an ice sheet into the ocean) it causes the sea level to rise, because it increases the overall water (frozen and liquid) in the sea. This is the issue I take with the cup of ice water analogy. A better analogy would be a cup of water with a cube of ice, sitting next to a giant block of ice whose melt water flows into said cup.
 
I am not arguing for anthropogenic climate change.

I am pointing out that the climate has been both warmer (higher sea levels) and colder (lower sea levels) than it is today. And, I am pointing out that the analogy is deceptive.

It is true that (due to the lower density of ice relative to liquid water) that melting sea ice will not change the sea level. But, most of earths frozen water is not free floating; it is sitting on top of land, above sea level. When this ice melts (or “calves” from an ice sheet into the ocean) it causes the sea level to rise, because it increases the overall water (frozen and liquid) in the sea. This is the issue I take with the cup of ice water analogy. A better analogy would be a cup of water with a cube of ice, sitting next to a giant block of ice whose melt water flows into said cup.
Agreed that is a true assumption.

The entirety of the central US was once a shallow sea at a time there were no humans or ic engines.

Control the sun and perhaps the polar angle of the earth you can control global temperature anything else is political control of people.
 
Agreed that is a true assumption.

The entirety of the central US was once a shallow sea at a time there were no humans or ic engines.

Control the sun and perhaps the polar angle of the earth you can control global temperature anything else is political control of people.
I’d add in volcanic activity and large asteroid strikes, but otherwise agree.
 
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The original Star Wars was a WWII genre movie filmed in outer space.

From Darth Vaders helmet, to the blasters, to the ball turret gunning scenes in the Millenium Falcon.

It was a genre that worked - good against ultimate evil with dudes and hot chicks.

Than they ruined it.
 
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The original Star Wars was a WWII genre movie filmed in outer space.

From Darth Vaders helmet, to the blasters, to the ball turret gunning scenes in the Millenium Falcon.

It was a genre that worked good against ultimate evil with dudes and hot chicks.

Than they ruined it.
Also a Western... Sort of in the Seven Samurai genre...

But, yes, Lucas was a huge student of WW2... because, basically, in his youth, the 'memory' of the war and the 'good victory' was everywhere. Plus Black and White Good guys/bad guys Cold War themes he grew up with.

So... yeah! Right on! It's what made them so good.

Sirhr
 
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If anything we are still living in the ice age and the norm while warmer for the most part was warmer without humans.

The volcanic activity plays a role but the biggest forests and life forms roamed during those active times and thrived.
More than 99.9% of all life that has ever existed on earth is extinct. Only a few examples can be positively attributed to human activity.

What was it that Dr. Ian Malcom said?

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Look at the price on that good good .
You know the good good I'm talking about.







Best Good Good Ever.
Miracle Whip!
Just shopped there tonight.

Working at MB was my first job.

Owner is a fantastic human.

When the patriarch owner passed away the family wanted to sell out to another big chain which would have hurt employees and changed the company dynamic.

He wouldn’t sell his shares and the employees backed his fight against a hostile takeover.

He ended up buying his siblings out for billions with the prospect being he would be unable to meet the loan.

I think he paid the billions off early and expanded the business.

His philosophy is “Pennys” for product sold but sell lots of product.