Comment Re:Miss the Old National Geographic : ( (Score 1) 43
I remember noticing [evidence of climate denial or religious propaganda] in their cable channel, but not so much the print edition.
What, specifically? As in what program(s)?
Comment Re:Miss the Old National Geographic : ( (Score 1) 43
National Geographic was my favorite magazine--but now it's a climate-denier and religious propaganda rag.
Evidence please? Because I can't find any. Quite the opposite, actually.
Comment Re:Mixed analogies (40 golf balls on the Moon) (Score 1) 43
Sorry for the near-duplicate post. I was having trouble with my system and browser, and didn't know that the first post went through.
Comment Re:Mixed analogies (40 golf balls on the Moon) (Score 1) 43
A standard golf ball is 42.67 mm. Average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384 400 km.
If we can see a 42.67 mm ball at 24 km, then can we see a 4.267 m ball at 2400 km and a 683 m ball on the Moon?
A standard 18-hole golf course has an area of about 150 acres. Assuming it's circular, that would give a diameter of about 2800 ft, or well over 800 m. So yes, you could just make out a golf course on the moon.
Comment Re:Mixed analogies (40 golf balls on the Moon) (Score 1) 43
A standard golf ball is 42.67 mm. Average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384 400 km.
If we can see a 42.67 mm ball at 24 km, then can we see a 4.267 m ball at 2400 km and a 683 m ball on the Moon?
A standard 18-hole golf course has a size of about 150 acres, or assuming it's circular, a diameter of about 2800 feet or a bit more than 800 m. So yes, you could just make out a golf course on the moon.
Comment Re:Was probably cheap to just bury it... (Score 2) 59
Evil? This is the price of modern life. You want your electronics, medical devices, cars, cozy homes, etc, etc? They all require manufacturing that generates lots of waste. It has to go somewhere.
Fine. But maybe not somewhere near groundwater, hm'kay?
Comment Re: Japan/European (Score 2) 64
Studies of the night sky have changed the world. Maybe the discovery of gas tendrils won't do that, but the techniques used to discover them might. Don't forget that studies of planetary motion made indispensable contributions to the development of calculus. And calculus changed the world.
Comment Re:Just what I always expected. (Score 1, Redundant) 64
Sorry, but you're not right. This is missing matter, not dark matter. See the posts above.
Comment Re:What about (Score 4, Informative) 64
This is missing matter, not dark matter. See my post above.
Comment "Missing" but not "Dark" Matter (Score 4, Informative) 64
It's well and good that they discovered tendrils of gas between galaxies. But this doesn't explain the anomalous stellar revolutions within galaxies observed by Vera Rubin and others. As I recall, those observations led to the proposal of dark matter.
TL/DR: this is "missing" matter but not "dark" matter. The latter is still unobserved, at least directly.
Comment Re:Banning bags did nothing other than line the po (Score 3, Informative) 21
Seems strange that Florida allows plastic bags and does not have a problem.
You think Florida doesn't have a problem with plastic bags? You're wrong. From the article I linked:
“These products make up the majority of the litter collected during cleanups around our state. It doesn’t make sense to ban local governments from trying to create healthier communities for wildlife and residents.” says Environment Florida advocate Mia McCormick.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds of plastic litter and polystyrene foam cups and to-go containers are collected from our beaches, parks and waterways every year through efforts like the Great American Cleanup and the International Coastal Cleanup.
Comment Re:I'm going to the beach and clean them up (Score 1) 21
You'll get arrested for littering. Find some other way to process your anger. Maybe put them in the bag-recycling bins at Ralph's or Home Depot? That'll teach 'em!
Comment Re:Still does not matter (Score 3, Interesting) 26
I like progress. I don't like exaggerated claims from said progress. But let's not diss progress just because the latter happens.
Thanks for the post though.
Comment Re:Ironic (Score 3, Insightful) 71
Good point. However, there are other reasons to use a VPN. For example, changing your apparent geographical location in order to access otherwise unavailable goods and services, like TV shows or cheaper airline fares.
Comment Re:We must now... (Score 1) 80
I think the FSM would want humans to be alive and worshiping him, not puréed into a meat product. But who am I to know His desires?
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