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With the examples given, they are only visible for limited times due to the Sun's glare. Those would be known unknowns.
The interstellar travelers would be unknown unknowns.
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06-14-2024, 01:37 PM
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After seeing the last SpaceX launch, I'm confident humanity is on a good technological trajectory to handle asteroids in the future.
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06-14-2024, 08:00 PM
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Also retrieving astronauts stranded on a space station.
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06-15-2024, 09:31 AM
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Nasa is still suffering from their hard held position of 100% success 100% of the time (unless it blows up [called an " anomaly" in the trade]) Musk isn't afraid to spectacularly fail publicly. He also gets paid handsomely for milestones
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06-15-2024, 01:33 PM
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Also retrieving astronauts stranded on a space station.
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It astonishes me how so many have the opinion that Musk is a greedy dullard. In one forum, someone commented "I'm surprised Musk hasn't drowned in the shower already". Other say he's not an engineer, but a crafty marketer. His only success was being a child of an emerald mine owner.
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06-15-2024, 04:30 PM
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I consider having eleven children a success.
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06-16-2024, 12:51 AM
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The climate scientists would probably tell you that the ideal atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration would be the question you should be asking about.
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I must suppose that you've cut yourself off from all reliable, bona-fide information sources which might have informed your worldview.
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'I reject your reality and substitute my own' Adam Savage
Through all it's prior excursions, Earth's climate has never entered a runaway greenhouse. But that's not at all necessary for our extinction.
The new factoids for me: - The climate equator is 10 degrees North of the geographical equator.
- The Nothern hemisphere is 1.4 degrees (prolly Celsius) warmer than the Southern.
Conclusion: There will be more ice-free real estate in Antartica.
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06-17-2024, 11:57 AM
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'I reject your reality and substitute my own' Adam Savage
Through all it's prior excursions, Earth's climate has never entered a runaway greenhouse. But that's not at all necessary for our extinction.
The new factoids for me: - The climate equator is 10 degrees North of the geographical equator.
- The Nothern hemisphere is 1.4 degrees (prolly Celsius) warmer than the Southern.
Conclusion: There will be more ice-free real estate in Antartica.
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Not too long ago, he was advocating for the detonation of enough atom bombs, such that radioactive 'fall-up' would shade us, and cool us.
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As to Earth's prior excursions, nothing existed like modern man, and his fossil-fuel economy.
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06-17-2024, 12:43 PM
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I'd never heard of the guy.
I was surprised by the 'cold blob'. I'd thought the threat was from the Beaufort Gyre.
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