I’m reading about deep sea mining since a few years. This must be regulated before the first companies get started!
I have a feeling it won’t get regulated until it’s much too late and damage is done. It’s probably difficult to put rules on no man’s seafloor.
Ah yeah, this guy. I had a great laugh during the pandemic, when he said, he would get the vaccine in public and later said it can’t be public, because for some reason it was really important to him to get that needle into his ass. Best was the doctor, who said something like ‘you must not inject anything in the central area of the buttocks!’.
Yes, you’re very right.
It just feels so wrong talking about plastic straws, while we produce more plastic than ever. Everyone buys new phones, plastic clothes and a thousand other things all the time.
We need to get away from single use objects to a circular economy. We need to get away from consumerism and endless growth to a society that values life and a habitable planet.
Talking about bad straws forgets to mention the million other bad things we use and throw away.
Yes, straws are bad. Single use plastic is bad. Individual transport is bad. Fashion clothing is bad. Littering is bad. And and and…
If we continue to be stuck discussing plastic straws forever, our society won’t last much longer than paper straws.
Oh common, are we really circling this discussion forever?
We need to reduce burning fossil fuels, everything else is nice, but doesn’t really make a dent in the graphs.
The last few years have been harder than ever to clinge to any spark of hope. It feels so weird to go on business as usual in personal life. But what’s the alternative? Depression won’t save anything or anyone out there. I think I do what I personally can. I don’t think it matters, but what to live for, if not ideals and believes? But the weight of hopelessness grows regardlessly and probably will keep growing.
I don’t write this to get attention or pity or whatever. I write this, because I know countless people out there feel the same. It won’t be fine. But also, you aren’t alone. Living with dignity in a dying world is brutal. Don’t feel too bad about it!
In this context ICE stands for “Immigration and Customs Enforcement”.
For other like me that only know ICE as an abbreviation for “internal combustion engine”.
Oof, there are a few things you might wanna learn:
People have different tastes. What I find funny, you may not like it and vise versa.
Some people consider some things too serious to joke about. Some people don’t. I am one of those people that say that there is nothing in this world, that cannot be joked about.
It is absolutely possible to take something serious and at the same time laugh about it.
Your edit2 made me think of this baby girl on YouTube.
Wait, wtf? Mouth dry! Mouth dry!
I actually watched that episode last night, so that post was kinda jumping at me. What are the odds…
Sagan, a real teacher. Not only smart, there are quite a few smart people. But also able to make something complicated easily understood. To make something abstract sound straight. To make something minds can’t grasp comprehensible. A beautiful ability!
It’s not any snake, but some species that are adapted to living on trees. It’s also not really flying. Gliding would describe what they do better. As they jump, they flatten their body and make slither movements through the air, gliding maybe at a 45 angle downwards.
Interesting. Even so much that after a 14 hour road trip I read a little more about it.
The first thought was “hearing?” but then I remembered that I heard electricity before, standing next to a transformer.
According to what I read this is something different, though. High voltage is audible due to ionized air in close vicinity, while home appliances can be audible due to AC power shifting magnetic fields and that can make internal components vibrate.
Anecdotally, I believe I have heard close hitting lightnings - just before happening - in my power grid.
Sounds plausible, both. I also like to just chew things.
Didn’t read the article, but there was the worry mentioned in the title, that the rodents could have messed with the electrical wiring.
Can anybody explain why mice like wires so much? Do they look like worms to them or do they have a electrocution kink or can they sense electricity somehow or something? Genuinely interested.
Aren’t these changes, because there are just have bones to look at, so skin properties etc are a guessing game?
But how did that jaw bone double in length in 2001? Was the skull a missing part until then?
As I understood it, the dashed line is just the 35°C wet bulb temperature line.
I think it’s the “old assumed border of survivability” and don’t know if it is based solely on mathematics or on other experiments as well.
I also don’t know on how many individuals the new line is based and what age group the older people one is.
The article is about an experiment, where people are exposed to 35°C wet bulb temperatures, but in different settings. Sometimes lower temperatures but higher humidity, sometimes vise versa, but always 35°C wet bulb temperature.
So far the assumption was, that humans can’t survive a 35°C wet bulb temperature for longer than 6 hours. And at current warming this is unlikely to be naturally the case within this century.
However the experiment gives hints to believe that humans can’t survive at lower wet bulb temperatures either. It looks like with lower temperatures and higher humidity, humans can get very close to that 35°C wet bulb temperature, however people seem to struggle more with higher temperatures and lower humidity.
A possible explanation could be, that while more sweat evaporates in lower humidity, the body has a limit for how much sweat it can produce. And if you keep raising the temperature, that the human body simply can’t produce enough sweat to cool itself.
That’s pretty much what I took away from the article. They mentioned they experiment with several people, however the article was mainly about on person in the experiment, a 30ish year old, athletic male.
Edit: add some graphs from the article. Sorry for low quality, but as you said, the layout is quite atrocious and on my phone it keeps jumping around on it’s own, so I lost patience.
Ironically education is a good way for people not to radicalize, I believe.
Someone help this poor bear get some education!
It won’t help, the other lobster has diabetes, so it pisses with an accent.