Posts by NomNomNom

Re: Not Related?

even if they came in different directions it doesn't rule out them being part of the same cluster.

Space time is curved remember so one of the space rocks in the cluster could have fallen out and swooped away and back round the Earth like a boomerang making it look like they came in different directions.

"Apart from the different direction, the asteroid arrives 18 hours after the meteorite strike."

that kind of confirms my swooping theory. If an asteroid swooped you'd expect it to get here first.

Re: What about plant cover?

"Hot spots in time also. Medieval Warm period, Roman Warm, Minoan. All warmer than last twenty years."

This is actually a common myth. There is no robust evidence that any of those warm periods were warmer than today. The best that can be said is that recent warming has brought temperatures today to be roughly equivalent to those periods. But this is very rough, we may be slightly warmer or cooler than those periods.

Re: Research to boost grant eligibility faster than thought

Sadly MacroRodent plenty of climate skeptics deny the greenhouse effect exists. Much like creationists will deny the fossil record has any meaning. They don't do it because of the scientific evidence (but in spite of it), but because they REALLY don't want to accept scientific ideas that lead from accepting it.

Re: What happened to the ice age?

shorter herby logic: "We didn't cause the ice age therefore we can't affect the climate."

seriously?

Re: O Rly?

Hacking zombies is one way to deal with them

Re: Difficult to disagree with any of that...

"The impulse purchase, or that Blu-Ray your kid wants and its the day before her birthday and you forgot to allow three days for Amazon...no longer an option."

Blue what? just buy the movie online and gift it to her account.

Oh wait I forgot we are still in 2013 where the gaming industry is in 2013 but the movie industry is still stuck in 2003.

Re: Best Form of Defence...

pray to Apep

Re: Tin foil hats

the costings are prohibitive

Re: If there is life out there, they're keeping quiet

"Because we've only been making an observable impact on the planet for a piffling thousand years?"

They surely know about us. They could have detected life on Earth millions of years ago and monitored the planet ever since. They would have seen intelligence arising before we even recognized ourselves.

Thousands of years away is nothing. If we detected a planet with life 1000 light years away we'd be there within 10,000 years. We'd probably quarantine it to protect it from contamination, but we'd keep observing.

"Any and every animal expands and breeds"

Unless they develop the ability to reprogram themselves and remove the instinct to reproduce. That might also be why the universe is quiet. If you can fulfill all your desires with reprogramming, where is the drive to do anything?

Re: If there is life out there, they're keeping quiet

"If the pattern of life has taken a similar course, this could lead to civilizations much more advanced than our own"

That's true even if it hasn't taken a similar course. It's also almost certain that the vast bulk of civilizations out there will be more advanced than our own.

We've had hundreds of millions of years of evolution "wasted" on Earth producing dumb shit like dinosaurs, which shows how much chance is involved in the timing of the emergence of intelligence. On Earth it took about a billion years. On some other planet it could take a quarter of that time. If primates had evolved 120 million years ago for example...

Even 1% less time would make a alien civilization unrecognizable advanced. Think of our technological progress in just last 100 years. Computing, nuclear power, genetics..now Imagine how unrecognizable our technology will be in 10,000 years. We probably won't even keep our natural human forms by then.

Take the range 1,000,000 BC to 2013AD. Pick a random date X from that range. Take that X to be the date on which some alien civilization out there develops radio technology. If X < 1800AD then the alien civilization got there first and so is likely more advanced than us. But X is likely to be far lower than that. Keep rolling. You aren't going to get many X near 1800AD let alone > 1800AD. Most X will fall millions of years in the past at least and so almost all alien civilizations out there will be unimaginably more advanced than us...assuming they are still around.

This is one of the major (unavoidable) flaws of sci-fis like star-trek where humans are given a powerful role in a universe of similar level civilizations, often in which we kind of "rule" space. In reality humans would be a baby irrelevant civilization unable to challenge the technology of other species ranging from much older than us to seriously ancient (take what we've done in 100 years and imagine some other species has had 100,000,000). Only the tiniest % of other civilizations would be a similar technology level to us.

yea except that the Chinese are already well aware of the UFOs. John Mcafee knows too.

Re: Why are we paying for this research?

Lets be clear. Hunting down the biggest primes is not going to help our understanding of prime numbers. The motive for that is just thrill seeking. Everyone enjoys a prime hunt, but we have already captured sufficient primes if we want to researching their behavior, we don't need to find ever bigger ones. Some of the existing primes haven't even been studied in any detail. If these researchers would just place 7, 23 and 39 in laboratory conditions and observe them they might learn a lot about the behaviour of prime numbers. Perhaps introduce some even numbers and see what happens.

Re: @NonNomNom

"Funnily enough, prices downstream already do reflect how much you use of anything without any intervention by politicians. The problem is that the treehuggers think that selective price aren't high enough and they want everybody to pay more, on the pretext that this will reduce consumption. "

Not reduce consumption, but reduce carbon emissions. If the carbon footprint of products played a larger role in it's price then things would shift towards low carbon products. People who could find a way to deliver goods, eg bananas, to the UK using far less carbon would undercut the competition.

First you say UHI has been ignored by scientists.

Then you cite half a dozen references where scientists say UHI is real. You even cite the IPCC report talking about it for christ sake.

What part of "have not biased the large-scale trends" do you not understand? That doesn't mean they say it doesn't exist, it means they are saying it doesn't bias the large-scale trends.

"You cannot suddenly find the signature of a city's heat thousands of miles away yet pretend it doesn't exist in and around that city."

Who is pretending it doesn't exist in and around that city? It's like you can't even read. Let me quote one of your own quotes:

"Urban heat island effects are real but local, and have not biased the large-scale trends"

Get it? They aren't "pretending" it doesn't exist in and around that city. They are clearly saying it DOES.

Your entire argument is a ridiculous strawman and is typical of the false accusations that are regularly leveled at scientists by no-nothing climate skeptics.

Re: UHI is a double-edged sword

UHI exists. It affects the temperature of cities. AGW supporters have not fought against that at all. Scientists take into account UHI when compiling global temperature records. The records they produce are designed to be free of UHI bias.

Arguing as if this study has just discovered UHI is ridiculous.

Also note the satellite records and ocean bouys detect global warming too. There are no Urban Heat Islands in the ocean.

Re: Insulation will help.

Insulation is a Dangerous Green Myth

Too much insulation can result in orgone energies building up within the walls of a house, which are a suspected cause of cancer and in rare situations can reach critical levels that trigger a resonance cascade.

Re: Typical BBC Fan

Someone should send in an FOIA request to those BBC fascists to force them to reveal precisely how many swastikas they have erected around BBC Headquarters, how many hours of Nazi marching their staff are forced to endure on a daily basis and more importantly how much their obsession with Nazis is costing the tax payer.

Re: Ed's comments and State Secrets

Exactly and this also explains why for years the BBC gave political asylum to Julian Saville

Re: In criticising the BBC and their alleged agenda

The Daily Mail ARE the child killers!