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Why Thanos couldn't have snapped his fingers while wearing the Infinity  Glove - Ars Technica
 

Hillcrest

Lifer
Dec 3, 2021
3,810
19,372
Connecticut, USA
Speaking of climate and things floating around in it: I received a phone call from my local volunteer fire department on the Emergency Alert System that there was a smell of smoke in my Town and to stay indoors if it would bother me; it was being caused by wildfires in Massachusetts floating over Connecticut.
I had to run to the Post Office and sure enough the air was hazy throughout Town but no smell of smoke.
No one else I spoke to seemed to have gotten this call. I couldn't find anything on local news. So I Googled Massachusetts Wildfire Map and sure enough ... It pulled up an interactive map showing wildfires in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Wyoming ! Fortunately there was a 'hand thingy' that I used to scroll all the way east to Massachusetts and there are no wildfires depicted in Massachusetts. There were however two wildfires actually in Connecticut : The Rocky Hill wildfire and the Hawthorne wildfire. (I think those are both state parks.). The point of all this is that if there are UFOs and UAPs and Aliens ... you can trust your government to tell you and get it right ! :rolleyes: ;)puffy
 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings
Jun 15, 2013
21,023
50,395
Southern Oregon
jrs457.wixsite.com
Speaking of climate and things floating around in it: I received a phone call from my local volunteer fire department on the Emergency Alert System that there was a smell of smoke in my Town and to stay indoors if it would bother me; it was being caused by wildfires in Massachusetts floating over Connecticut.
I had to run to the Post Office and sure enough the air was hazy throughout Town but no smell of smoke.
No one else I spoke to seemed to have gotten this call. I couldn't find anything on local news. So I Googled Massachusetts Wildfire Map and sure enough ... It pulled up an interactive map showing wildfires in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Wyoming ! Fortunately there was a 'hand thingy' that I used to scroll all the way east to Massachusetts and there are no wildfires depicted in Massachusetts. There were however two wildfires actually in Connecticut : The Rocky Hill wildfire and the Hawthorne wildfire. (I think those are both state parks.). The point of all this is that if there are UFOs and UAPs and Aliens ... you can trust your government to tell you and get it right ! :rolleyes: ;)puffy
Oregon is always burning.
 

SBC

Lifer
Oct 6, 2021
1,638
7,728
NE Wisconsin
All things considered, I'm actually pleased that it's overall sounded like adults bouncing around ideas without losing sleep over others' differences. I'd have expected it to be shut down by now, but it seems to me that the participants are proving that that's not necessary. Nobody has gotten overly personal or histrionic. At most there are eyerolls in both directions, and anybody should be able to live with some eyerolls.
 

SBC

Lifer
Oct 6, 2021
1,638
7,728
NE Wisconsin
I won't pretend to have a sufficiently informed understanding of climate change claims, one way or the other (although that in itself is tantamount to one of the viable positions in this conversation), but just for fun -- and without making much of a point -- here's a gem from Sagan's Cosmos, published as late as (I kid you not) 1981:

"Forests are darker than grasslands, and grasslands are darker than deserts. As a consequence, the amount of sunlight that is absorbed by the ground has been declining, and by changes in the land use we are lowering the surface temperature of our planet. Might this cooling increase the size of the solar ice cap, which, because it ts bright, will reflect still more sunlight from the Earth, further cooling the planet, driving a runaway albedo effect?"
 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings
Jun 15, 2013
21,023
50,395
Southern Oregon
jrs457.wixsite.com
I won't pretend to have a sufficiently informed understanding of climate change claims, one way or the other (although that in itself is tantamount to one of the viable positions in this conversation), but just for fun -- and without making much of a point -- here's a gem from Sagan's Cosmos, published as late as (I kid you not) 1981:

"Forests are darker than grasslands, and grasslands are darker than deserts. As a consequence, the amount of sunlight that is absorbed by the ground has been declining, and by changes in the land use we are lowering the surface temperature of our planet. Might this cooling increase the size of the solar ice cap, which, because it ts bright, will reflect still more sunlight from the Earth, further cooling the planet, driving a runaway albedo effect?"
I love Carl Sagan. I almost pursued a career in Astronomy because of his brilliance and enthusiasm. I might have taken UCLA's offer of a full scholarship from the Department of Mathematics to pursue it, ya gotta know math, but art won out.
Keep in mind that Sagan was not a climatologist.
Science is always a battle. That's the nature of debate. But when 97% of climatologists agree about climate change, that's significant.
 

LeafErikson

Lifer
Dec 7, 2021
2,284
20,145
Oregon
Oregon is always burning.
We stopped allowing our forests to maintain equilibrium through healthy, naturally occurring, low temperature burns about about a century ago. We now have ladder fuels abound, decades-old dwarf trees, tree replants after logging that lack species or age diversity, and a problem that is completely unmanageable. The second we started putting out every fire that would have naturally maintained the health of our forest systems was when we created a problem that didn't exist. Ironically, Smokey the Bear messaging has been one of the most catastrophic things to ever happen to our forests.