Just for once I'd like to hear some good soil news.
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I mean, better we figured that out now before that was our only plan for carbon sequestration.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
It's pretty bad in that it's one less tool in our toolbox and it's another reason we need to tweak current models another notch upward, but it's a fairly minor component in the vast complex assembly of bad things that is climate change.
In particular, not much money or political will has been wasted aside from a couple of pilot programs. Most of the big global efforts in that article, like cover crop subsidies and no-till agriculture, have been ongoing since at least the mid-80s, and they weren't invented for the purposes of climate change mitigation. They're primarily for soil and water conservation, and their possible use as a carbon sink was tacked on later as a side benefit.
apparently global warming has sped up the earth's rotation slightly, canceling out leap seconds? or causing a problem with GPS systems? I'm not sure, this is kind of over my head.
This tech bug situation is all very well but how is climate change making the earth spin faster? I want to hear more about that.
Like an ice skater pulling their arms in to spin faster, ice and glacier melt is flowing from higher elevations into the sea shifting the Earth's mass closer to it's center causing it to spin faster.
The shifting weight distribution of all that lost ice is also cause a shift in the poles.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
This tech bug situation is all very well but how is climate change making the earth spin faster? I want to hear more about that.
Like an ice skater pulling their arms in to spin faster, ice and glacier melt is flowing from higher elevations into the sea shifting the Earth's mass closer to it's center causing it to spin faster.
The shifting weight distribution of all that lost ice is also cause a shift in the poles.
Ah Jesus fucking Christ man, like of course but come on I’m sick of this jackpot
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MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
That feels like something that would have happened constantly over the billions of years of ice ages coming and going. I mean during the dinosaurs it would have spun faster too, since it was a lot hotter then.
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Like 4-5 degrees higher than today. Most of the landmass was in one place too. This (specifically rotation speed increase and decreases) is a minor thing in the gallons of big awfuls that is climate change, and compared to all the other things I'm not particularly worried.
I am laughing that tech hasn't learnt a single lesson from y2k.
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(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
Like 4-5 degrees higher than today. Most of the landmass was in one place too. This (specifically rotation speed increase and decreases) is a minor thing in the gallons of big awfuls that is climate change, and compared to all the other things I'm not particularly worried.
I am laughing that tech hasn't learnt a single lesson from y2k.
Yeah, the flooding will be a bit more of an issue than the day being a fraction of a millisecond shorter (on human timescales).
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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That feels like something that would have happened constantly over the billions of years of ice ages coming and going. I mean during the dinosaurs it would have spun faster too, since it was a lot hotter then.
You wouldn't believe the problems we had with GPSs back then
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So, this is cool: a team of astronomers working with the ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile have announced they've found a planetary system with intriguing similarities to our own inner solar system, including a planet that could have oceans:
Written by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, and Emily Zhang
Animation by Mike Radjabov
Filmed by Derek Muller, Raquel Nuno, Trenton Oliver, and Emily Zhang
Edited by Trenton Oliver
SFX by Shaun Clifford
Additional video supplied by Getty Images & Pond5
Produced by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, and Emily Zhang
I just got my first grant funded! It's a slot on an internal T32 training grant, which starts as a 9-month appointment with an option to extend it to two years depending on my performance. It covers my salary for the year, which is great. My PI is incredibly well funded, so this wasn't needed, but it will look very good on my CV and will also probably help me get the F32 NIH grant I just applied for.
Pretty happy right now!
edit: Internal slot on an National Institutes on Aging (NIA) training grant, that is, so the money comes from the NIH. Woo federal funding
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Man, the pictures coming back from the Perseverance rover just put me there like previous rovers didn't. Look at that! The robot just drilled a little hole in a rock on another planet, and the photo quality is like something you took on your last hike!
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Mr_Rose83 Blue Ridge Protects the HolyRegistered Userregular
Got slightly confused because the before and after images aren’t aligned very well so I gave it a go:
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zefrank is right over there
ame is cool! by which i mean she's a weird gremlin girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7K4HsbCgHs
In particular, not much money or political will has been wasted aside from a couple of pilot programs. Most of the big global efforts in that article, like cover crop subsidies and no-till agriculture, have been ongoing since at least the mid-80s, and they weren't invented for the purposes of climate change mitigation. They're primarily for soil and water conservation, and their possible use as a carbon sink was tacked on later as a side benefit.
This tech bug situation is all very well but how is climate change making the earth spin faster? I want to hear more about that.
Like an ice skater pulling their arms in to spin faster, ice and glacier melt is flowing from higher elevations into the sea shifting the Earth's mass closer to it's center causing it to spin faster.
The shifting weight distribution of all that lost ice is also cause a shift in the poles.
Ah Jesus fucking Christ man, like of course but come on I’m sick of this jackpot
I am laughing that tech hasn't learnt a single lesson from y2k.
Yeah, the flooding will be a bit more of an issue than the day being a fraction of a millisecond shorter (on human timescales).
You wouldn't believe the problems we had with GPSs back then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnlIoapky0
You could just send me. I could go there first and then.. you know, let you guys know if you should come there too.
You shouldn't. You should just stay here.
Early on, you've got the New Moon and Venus close to each other around Sunset.
As it gets dark, we've also got a rare naked eye recurrent Nova - RS Ophiuchi, for the first time since 2006:
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/a-rare-nova-visible-to-the-eye-see-it-while-you-can/
And as it moves past midnight, there's a good chance of seeing Perseids, as it's the peak of one of the best meteor showers of the year.
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-perseid-meteor-shower/
That's not bad for a single night!
But that's because the thunderstorms said we had lost our electricity privileges for the duration.
https://youtu.be/kz165f1g8-E
Written by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, and Emily Zhang
Animation by Mike Radjabov
Filmed by Derek Muller, Raquel Nuno, Trenton Oliver, and Emily Zhang
Edited by Trenton Oliver
SFX by Shaun Clifford
Additional video supplied by Getty Images & Pond5
Produced by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, and Emily Zhang
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Pretty happy right now!
edit: Internal slot on an National Institutes on Aging (NIA) training grant, that is, so the money comes from the NIH. Woo federal funding
Man, the pictures coming back from the Perseverance rover just put me there like previous rovers didn't. Look at that! The robot just drilled a little hole in a rock on another planet, and the photo quality is like something you took on your last hike!
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