Tales of Interest

[Gnam]

We survived the Large Hadron Collider, but there is another...


The international nuclear fusion project – known as Iter, meaning “the way” in Latin – is designed to demonstrate a new kind of nuclear reactor capable of producing unlimited supplies of cheap, clean, safe and sustainable electricity from atomic fusion.

Over the next few years about a million individual components of the highly complex fusion reactor will arrive at the Cadarache site from around the world. They will be assembled like a giant Lego model in a nearby building which has a volume equal to 81 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Nothing is left to chance in a project that has defied potential Babel-like misunderstandings between the collaborating nations. The design, development and construction of a machine that will attempt to emulate the nuclear fusion reactions of the Sun is proving to be a triumph of diplomacy, as well as science and engineering.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-giant-leap-for-mankind-13bn-iter-project-makes-breakthrough-in-quest-for-nuclear-fusion-a-solution-to-climate-change-and-an-age-of-clean-unlimited-energy-8590480.html

[emjaya]

Want to buy a used car?

This one is for sale. (http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/margaret-river/cars-vans-utes/1991-subaru-brumby-ute-must-read-ad-/1007827310)

[Gnam]

:laugh: That is awesome.

[Elmo T]

FDNY Rescues NYPD Cop Stuck in Tree Helping Cat
(http://www.firehouse.com/news/10942223/fdny-rescues-nypd-cop-stuck-in-tree-helping-cat?utm_source=FH+Newsday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS130508004)


An entire unit of laughing firefighters rescued an NYPD cop who got trapped in a tree yesterday — after the officer climbed up to save a scared cat and couldn’t get back down, officials said....


:laugh::thumbup:

[dando]

FDNY Rescues NYPD Cop Stuck in Tree Helping Cat
(http://www.firehouse.com/news/10942223/fdny-rescues-nypd-cop-stuck-in-tree-helping-cat?utm_source=FH+Newsday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS130508004)



:laugh::thumbup:

What's the code for that? :D

-Kevin

[nrc]

Some work should be left to professionals. :D

[Napoleon]

Toronto, Ontario's crack smoking mayor (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/rob-ford-crack-video-toronto-mayor.html)

[RaceGrrl]

From the wayback machine:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22652675

[emjaya]

Birds of North America in Lego.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2013/may/24/north-american-lego-birds-thomas-poulsom#/?picture=409441001&index=0

[Napoleon]

From the wayback machine:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22652675

I bet when they finally find the original page it will turn out to be porn.

[emjaya]

This year’s Indianapolis 500 will be something special for Belgian ex-racing driver Teddy Pilette, for it will mark the 100th anniversary of his grandfather Theodore Pilette’s remarkable 5th place in the 1913 Indy 500.



http://www.velocetoday.com/one-family-100-years-of-racing/#more-47905

[Gnam]

South of Berlin sits an indoor tropical rainforest/waterpark.


Tropical Islands was built by the Malaysian corporation Tanjong in the former airship hangar known as the Aerium. The hall belonged to the company Cargolifter AG until its bankruptcy in 2002. It is 360 metres long, 210 metres wide, 107 metres high, has a capacity of 5.5 million m3 and cost approximately €78 million to build.

Inside the hall, the air temperature is 26 °C and air humidity around 64%. Tropical Islands is home to the biggest indoor rainforest in the world, a beach, many tropical plants and a number of swimming pools, bars and restaurants. It is open around the clock, every day of the year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236995/The-worlds-largest-indoor-beach-German-countryside.html
Not quite a Dyson Sphere, but holy moly.

http://s10.postimg.org/mt1au3bdl/innenansicht_im_tropical_islands.jpg
http://s23.postimg.org/5lqdctl7v/tropical_islands_germany_4.jpg

[Gnam]

Have you been playing Monopoly wrong?

from the Official Rule book:

BUYING PROPERTY...Whenever you land on an unowned property you may buy that property from the Bank at its printed price. You receive the Title Deed card showing ownership; place it face up in front of you.

If you do not wish to buy the property, the Banker sells it at auction to the highest bidder. The buyer pays the Bank the amount of the bid in cash and receives the Title Deed card for that property. Any player, including the one who declined the option to buy it at the printed price, may bid. Bidding may start at any price.


http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue10/CampaignRealMonopoly1.html
:laugh: :mindexplosion:

[cameraman]

Have you been playing Monopoly wrong?

:laugh: :mindexplosion:

Oh my, have you read the rules lately?

http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/MonopolyDeluxeEdition.PDF

That game is more complex than I remember. And I still can't figure out what happens if no one bids on a property. But I suppose someone will always bid $1...

[mapguy]

Have you been playing Monopoly wrong?

:laugh: :mindexplosion:

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/263/430/3a0.jpg

[Napoleon]

Have you been playing Monopoly wrong?


I had a book (it may still be on shelf or box in my house) as a kid on how to play Monopoly and it very much emphasized playing exactly by the rules, as in if you wished to play in tournaments (for example the rules state exactly how many houses are available). Any ways it discussed strategies like paying other players for options on properties and the like.

[datachicane]

I thought everybody played that way... :confused:

[RaceGrrl]

Nope, we didn't play that way. I was just a kid. My biggest concern was whether or not I'd get the top hat game piece.

[stroker]

Oh my, have you read the rules lately?

http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/MonopolyDeluxeEdition.PDF

That game is more complex than I remember. And I still can't figure out what happens if no one bids on a property. But I suppose someone will always bid $1...

As far as I know if nobody bids then nobody gets it.

[Andrew Longman]

I thought everybody played that way... :confused:Me too... But I had very rigid parents who insisted I follow all sorts of rules, stupid and otherwise :gomer:

But that said, the bidding became the most interesting part of the game and skill in it can make up for a lot of unlucky rolls. Just like life.

My older brother still would usually kick my ass but then again his idols were JP Getty, Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller. :rolleyes:

[nrc]

"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"

Jerry Sienfeld takes comedians for coffee in various interesting cars.

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/

Next week he takes David Letterman out in Paul Newman's super-charged V8 Volvo wagon.

[indyfan31]

"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"

Jerry Sienfeld takes comedians for coffee in various interesting cars.

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/

Next week he takes David Letterman out in Paul Newman's super-charged V8 Volvo wagon.

Interesting idea, and Jerry's perfect for it. Although, to this day I haven't laughed at a single thing Sarah Silverman has ever said. :confused:

[Gnam]

Why do I hate this? Nice car, comedians, Seinfeld...should be great or at least watchable. But, this is so boring. I kept hoping they would turn the radio on or bump into someone interesting.

Top Gear it ain't.

[nrc]

Why do I hate this? Nice car, comedians, Seinfeld...should be great or at least watchable. But, this is so boring. I kept hoping they would turn the radio on or bump into someone interesting.

Top Gear it ain't.

I guess I'm just fascinated by the interplay between comics. I think these are more about comics and comedy than they are about being comical.

[Gnam]

Me too. Comics talking to each other is usually great.

[Indy]

The one with Michael Richards was fantastic.

[Andrew Longman]

Interesting idea, and Jerry's perfect for it. Although, to this day I haven't laughed at a single thing Sarah Silverman has ever said. :confused:Well, I thought this was pretty hysterical. Not totally SFW

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I saw some earlier driving for coffee and thought is was pretty clever even if is another show about nothing. :gomer:

[emjaya]

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:cool:

[nrc]

:cool:

Very cool, indeed. How amazing to be face to face with such a big part of your past after all those years.

[stroker]

I was stunned to learn they were still using wood propellers at that point.

[nrc]

21 jokes that only nerds will understand.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/jokes-only-nerds-will-understand

[Gnam]

Boo to the Karl Marx one. It went right over my head.
:laugh: at the buddhist monk one.

[G.]

21 jokes that only nerds will understand.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/jokes-only-nerds-will-understand

From the reddit thread:


Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving, and get pulled over. Heisenberg is in the driver's seat, the officer asks "do you know how fast you were going?" Heisenberg replies, "No, but I know exactly where I am!" The officer looks at him confused and says "you were going 108 miles per hour!" Heisenberg throws his arms up and cries, "Great! Now I'm lost!" The officer, now more confused and frustrated orders the men outside of the car, and proceeds to inspect the vehicle. He opens the trunk and yells at the two men, "Hey! Did you guys know you have a dead cat back here?" Schrodinger angrily yells back, "We do now, *******!"

[datachicane]

Driver in Clackamas fails to kill, despite best efforts

Link (http://www.katu.com/news/local/Clackamas-crash-propane-tank-213707431.html)

http://media.katu.com/images/Propane+tank+close+call+%281%29.jpg

This is in a very busy industrial park, not off in the boonies.

[Gnam]

It's a nice lefthand corner. Too bad the tanks are right on the exit.

I can only imagine he touched the gas too soon coming out of the corner and looped it. I am surprised the wall didn't destroy the car and there's hardly a mark on the wall.

[Andrew Longman]

Driver in Clackamas fails to kill, despite best efforts

This is in a very busy industrial park, not off in the boonies.I didn't see mention of a motive. Is there reason to believe this wasn't just a carfull of idiots driving too fast rather than carfull of different kind of idiots playing suicide bomber wannabes?

Does certainly point out the type of vulnerabilities we have.

I have long feared about all the similarly hazardous, explosive stuff traveling on rails around the country. At many points in transit cars sit predictably on sidings in remote area impossible to secure where a device could easily be planted and then later travel under/next too highly sensitive, high profile "targets" when using a cellphone someone could detonate it.

Because the NSA is reading this and because I both value my current life and have no interest in seeing is happen, I won't get into specifics ;) ,but this woud seem to be far more of a national risk than parking a poorly made carbomb in Times Square. OTOH I can't even imagine how much of an imposition Homeland Security would feel if they took on these risks too.

[datachicane]

No, that was my own snark. The driver's clearly a very, very lucky idiot.

[nrc]

Leaving the scene means that the driver was most likely drunk.

[Andrew Longman]

No, that was my own snark. The driver's clearly a very, very lucky idiot.Clearly then trying out against a host of hopefuls to be in the next (maybe last) movie in the series: Too Fast, Too Furiously Stupid. (Alternatively titled Faster and Dumber). I hear they are planning a massive firey explosion at the conclusion at an oil refinery that will dwarf Cagney on the oil tank in White Heat, the gas station crash in Bullett, and the hotel Mel Gibson blew up in Lethal Weapon 3 combined. :D

[TravelGal]

This is going viral in the travel agent community. Sir Richard Branson is even blogging about it. How to write a complaint letter:

Full article: http://gma.yahoo.com/hilarious-airline-complaint-letter-catches-eye-ceo-142429419--abc-news-travel.html

The letter was penned by Londoner Arthur Hicks and titled "An Open Letter to LIAT."
Dear LIAT,
May I say how considerate it is of you to enable your passengers such an in-depth and thorough tour of the Caribbean.
Most other airlines I have travelled on would simply wish to take me from point A to B in rather a hurry. I was intrigued that we were allowed to stop at not a lowly one or two but a magnificent six airports yesterday. And who wants to fly on the same airplane the entire time? We got to change and refuel every step of the way!
I particularly enjoyed sampling the security scanners at each and every airport. I find it preposterous that people imagine them all to be the same. And as for being patted down by a variety of islanders, well, I feel as if I've been hugged by most of the Caribbean already. I also found it unique that this was all done on "island time," because I do like to have time to absorb the atmosphere of the various departure lounges. As for our arrival, well, who wants to have to take a ferry at the end of all that flying anyway? I'm glad the boat was long gone by the time we arrived into Tortola last night -- and that all those noisy bars and restaurants were closed.
So thank you, LIAT. I now truly understand why you are "The Caribbean Airline."
P.S. Keep the bag. I never liked it anyway.

[dando]

This is going viral in the travel agent community. Sir Richard Branson is even blogging about it. How to write a complaint letter:

Full article: http://gma.yahoo.com/hilarious-airline-complaint-letter-catches-eye-ceo-142429419--abc-news-travel.html

The letter was penned by Londoner Arthur Hicks and titled "An Open Letter to LIAT."
Dear LIAT,
May I say how considerate it is of you to enable your passengers such an in-depth and thorough tour of the Caribbean.
Most other airlines I have travelled on would simply wish to take me from point A to B in rather a hurry. I was intrigued that we were allowed to stop at not a lowly one or two but a magnificent six airports yesterday. And who wants to fly on the same airplane the entire time? We got to change and refuel every step of the way!
I particularly enjoyed sampling the security scanners at each and every airport. I find it preposterous that people imagine them all to be the same. And as for being patted down by a variety of islanders, well, I feel as if I've been hugged by most of the Caribbean already. I also found it unique that this was all done on "island time," because I do like to have time to absorb the atmosphere of the various departure lounges. As for our arrival, well, who wants to have to take a ferry at the end of all that flying anyway? I'm glad the boat was long gone by the time we arrived into Tortola last night -- and that all those noisy bars and restaurants were closed.
So thank you, LIAT. I now truly understand why you are "The Caribbean Airline."
P.S. Keep the bag. I never liked it anyway.

Classic. That's an HoFer for sure. :thumbup: :thumbup:

-Kevin

[Gnam]

Now the Chinese have an indoor sea resort. The four outside walls are 18 story office buildings and they surround a center dome that covers the hotel, waterpark, and beach. :eek:

http://i41.tinypic.com/110mba1.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/73oyeu.jpg



A 100m tall cliff-face of blue mirrored glass, stretching 500m along a triumphal plaza, the New Century Global Centre houses an entire seaside resort, along with a 14-screen Imax cinema, Olympic-sized ice rink, two five-star hotels and its own Mediterranean shopping village – all wrapped with a vast ribbon of offices. Sprawling for 1.7m square metres, it could fit 20 Sydney Opera Houses beneath its glass roof.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/jul/09/largest-building-world-china-seaside

This is straight out of Asimov's domed cities. Who needs the great outdoors?

[cameraman]

Given the smog levels it might be the only way to go...

[SteveH]

Noisy inside?

[TravelGal]

Given the smog levels it might be the only way to go...

:thumbup:

[SurfaceUnits]

GRate NEws;

After falling for three straight years, U.S. beer consumption finally leveled off last year. In 2012, the country consumed 28.2 gallons of beer for every adult of legal age.

Read more: States That Drink the Most Beer - 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/07/09/states-that-drink-the-most-beer-2/#ixzz2Yr9EMK8Q

[gjc2]

GRate NEws;

After falling for three straight years, U.S. beer consumption finally leveled off last year. In 2012, the country consumed 28.2 gallons of beer for every adult of legal age.

Read more: States That Drink the Most Beer - 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/07/09/states-that-drink-the-most-beer-2/#ixzz2Yr9EMK8Q

I have been doing my part.

[Andrew Longman]

Speaking of beer. http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ssf/2013/07/beer_truck_crash_on_i-78_in_clinton_kills_driver_blocks_traffic.html

It was Coors Light so it wasn't really beer, but whatever. It took me almost 3 hours tonight to get home from Newark Airport because of the backup associated with the clean up.

Worse for the truck driver though. He died.

[KLang]

We've got small craft brewers starting up all over around Houston. I've been doing my best help them out. :)

[chop456]

GRate NEws;

After falling for three straight years, U.S. beer consumption finally leveled off last year. In 2012, the country consumed 28.2 gallons of beer for every adult of legal age.

Read more: States That Drink the Most Beer - 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/07/09/states-that-drink-the-most-beer-2/#ixzz2Yr9EMK8Q


More than 24% of Wisconsin’s adult population were considered binge drinkers as of 2011, a higher percentage than any other state. Wisconsin had 132 breweries in the state in 2012, more than all but six other states.


:thumbup: :rockon:

[dando]

"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"

Jerry Sienfeld takes comedians for coffee in various interesting cars.

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/

Next week he takes David Letterman out in Paul Newman's super-charged V8 Volvo wagon.

He needs to do one with Leno and Tim Allen. Those two get cars.

EDIT: watching the Rickles episode in the '58 Caddy...neither Rickles or Jerry are buckled. Did they have seat belts back then?

-Kevin

[Andrew Longman]

Ford began offering seat belts in 1955 but others took time. My dad installed aftermarket seat belts to our used 1960 Studebaker. Our 1965 Chrysler Newport was our first car to come with seat belts.

[nrc]

EDIT: watching the Rickles episode in the '58 Caddy...neither Rickles or Jerry are buckled. Did they have seat belts back then?


Rickles had me choking on my drink. "She moves my medicine. It's like a scavenger hunt to stay alive."

[dando]

Ford began offering seat belts in 1955 but others took time. My dad installed aftermarket seat belts to our used 1960 Studebaker. Our 1965 Chrysler Newport was our first car to come with seat belts.

I used to sit in the back 'seat' of my mom's '74 chocolate Vette...except there wasn't a seat, just a storage area. Tall 8 yo sitting back there. :gomer: Not sure if my dad's orange Karmann Ghia had seat belts. I first learned of seat belts in our '79 T-Bird.

-Kevin

[datachicane]

EDIT: watching the Rickles episode in the '58 Caddy...neither Rickles or Jerry are buckled. Did they have seat belts back then?

-Kevin

Feds first required belts, front and back, in '66. Prior to that, most manufacturers offered them as an option after the mid-'50s or so.

[Napoleon]

Romanian guy and two others, allegedly, break into a Rotterdam museum and steal 7 priceless paintings from the likes of Monet and Picasso and returns to Romania where he is eventually picked up on suspension of involvement in the crime. Mom, figuring that if the paintings do not exist they can not prosecute her son, burns them in a wood stove.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/world/europe/romanians-tale-has-art-world-fearing-worst.html?hp

(by the way, someone in comments to that story makes an interesting suggestion that the works of art should be microchipped like people do with pets)

[Gnam]

This is why we can't have nice things. ;)

[TravelGal]

Romanian guy and two others, allegedly, break into a Rotterdam museum and steal 7 priceless paintings from the likes of Monet and Picasso and returns to Romania where he is eventually picked up on suspension of involvement in the crime. Mom, figuring that if the paintings do not exist they can not prosecute her son, burns them in a wood stove.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/world/europe/romanians-tale-has-art-world-fearing-worst.html?hp

(by the way, someone in comments to that story makes an interesting suggestion that the works of art should be microchipped like people do with pets)

To be honest, I thought a lot them were microchipped already. I guess I'm ahead of my time.

[G.]

To be honest, I thought a lot them were microchipped already. I guess I'm ahead of my time.

That would only identify the work, so you knew it was an original piece that you were burning in the oven.

You and others are thinking of a transmitter for location info, I presume.

To transmit the piece's location, assume that you use cellular towers and wifi. (You can't really use the the GPS satellites, since they are about 9,000 miles away, and the power required would be too high and antenna would be too big. Besides, the satellites don't do that stuff anyway.)

Think of the smallest cellphone made, cut its size maybe in half (you can get rid of the call-handling and web-surfing abilities). Remember, you will need a charged battery, that might last 2 days or so. That will limit your size.

Now you have your Limbourg Lojack, what do you do with it? Superglue it to the back of a Monet?

The technology is not quite there yet, except perhaps deep in the bowels of DARPA.

[Napoleon]

Mom, figuring that if the paintings do not exist they can not prosecute her son, burns them in a wood stove.

Now she says she is making it up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/world/europe/romanian-says-her-tale-of-burning-art-treasures-was-a-lie.html?hp

[SurfaceUnits]

Univision Set to Finish July Sweep In First Place In Demos
By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 22, 2013 @ 2:32pm PDTTags: Amores Verdaderos, Randy Falso, Sabo Gigante, Univision
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Univision will finish the July 2013 sweep ratings derby at No. 1 in both the 18-49 and 18-34 demographic groups, beating all of the English-language broadcast networks – a sweep first for the Spanish-language network. During the sweep, Univision is delivering an average audience of nearly 3.6 million total viewers, 1.8 million Adults 18-49, 874,000 Adults 18-34, and 1.1 million Persons 12-34 in primetime. Those stats also put Univision in first place for the sweep among 12-34 year olds — with a 30 percent lead over nearest competitor, Fox. While fourth placed among viewers of all ages (ahead of Fox), Univision leaps to the top of the pack with 18-49-ers, who are the currency of most scripted entertainment programming ad sales. In that age bracket, Univision will wrap the sweep 21 percent ahead of second place broadcaster, Fox.

Univision’s Los Angeles and New York stations are key to the win — the country’s No. 1 and 2 most watched in the country, respectively, during primetime among 18-34, 18-49, and 25-54, during the ratings derby.

[SurfaceUnits]

Earth, as seen from 900 million miles away

http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/Earth%20from%20Saturn%202.jpg

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-earth-cassini-photos-20130722,0,1800495.story

[SurfaceUnits]

Drunken Canadian swims across Detroit River

This is a classic "hold my beer eh?" scenario; John Morillo caused an international rescue operation to commence after he decided to swim across the Detroit river. Morillo now faces a $5,000 fine and a ban from all waterfront city property.

The Windsor Star reports that Windsor police responded to the 1600 block of Riverside Drive around 11:30 p.m. Morillo’s neighbor, who wanted to witness his swim, called police about half an hour after she lost sight of him.

Police notified the Canadian and U.S. coast guards. Three boats and a helicopter were deployed to search the area. The U.S. coast guard found Morillo around 12:50 a.m., swimming on the Canadian side just west of the Hilton hotel.


Morillo is charged with being intoxicated in a public place. Police said the Windsor Port Authority was also investigating and would be contacting Transport Canada.

Morillo said Windsor’s harbor master told him he’ll likely be fined for swimming in a shipping channel, which could run anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000.

Authorities are also stressing that swimming in the Detroit River is “extremely dangerous” because of the strong undertow in the shipping channel. It’s also prohibited under Port Authority Operating Regulations. Harbour Master Peter Berry with the Windsor Port Authority couldn’t be reached for comment Tuesday.

“The harbor master was extremely mad at me,” said Morillo. “I don’t know, maybe they pulled him out of bed or something.”

Morillo’s ill-planned exploit was actually years in the making. It started when he heard a story about his grandmother swimming from Amherstburg to Boblo Island. He figured that didn’t sound so difficult.

“I was drinking, but I wasn’t really drunk,” Morillo said Tuesday. “The thing is, I’ve been telling people I’m going to swim across the river for years and they’re like ‘yah, yah, blah, blah, you can’t make it.’ So, I don’t know, last night I just decided it was the time to go.”

“I never should have done it. I’ve been telling people I could swim across the river for 20 years and they all laughed at me, and I finally did it. But I would not suggest anybody do it. There are giant fines for doing it, crossing the shipping lanes. It’s just really stupid and I apologize for all the people that had to go out looking for me.”

http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/07/23/drunk-man-attempts-swim-across-detroit-river/

[Andrew Longman]

I live right on the Delaware. Already this summer five people have drowned in the middle stretch around me. Actually that's about the norm. One father washed up here in town a few weeks ago. He was rafting with his daughter and thought enough to put a PFD on her but not enough to put one on himself or enough to not even go out when the river was hugely high. The raft flipped and luckily an ex-marine in a kayak who also shouldn't have been on the high river was able to save tHe girl but lost track of the dad.

Something about rivers is a magnet for idiots and creates an urge to get to the other side. Idiots only get dumber and swim poorer if they add alcohol.

Tis dude is hugely lucky.:shakehead:

[TravelGal]

That would only identify the work, so you knew it was an original piece that you were burning in the oven.

You and others are thinking of a transmitter for location info, I presume.

To transmit the piece's location, assume that you use cellular towers and wifi. (You can't really use the the GPS satellites, since they are about 9,000 miles away, and the power required would be too high and antenna would be too big. Besides, the satellites don't do that stuff anyway.)

Think of the smallest cellphone made, cut its size maybe in half (you can get rid of the call-handling and web-surfing abilities). Remember, you will need a charged battery, that might last 2 days or so. That will limit your size.

Now you have your Limbourg Lojack, what do you do with it? Superglue it to the back of a Monet?

The technology is not quite there yet, except perhaps deep in the bowels of DARPA.

Oh Pbbbt. You're such a spoil sport with all science an' stuff. :laugh:

[SteveH]

That would only identify the work, so you knew it was an original piece that you were burning in the oven.

You and others are thinking of a transmitter for location info, I presume.

To transmit the piece's location, assume that you use cellular towers and wifi. (You can't really use the the GPS satellites, since they are about 9,000 miles away, and the power required would be too high and antenna would be too big. Besides, the satellites don't do that stuff anyway.)

Think of the smallest cellphone made, cut its size maybe in half (you can get rid of the call-handling and web-surfing abilities). Remember, you will need a charged battery, that might last 2 days or so. That will limit your size.

Now you have your Limbourg Lojack, what do you do with it? Superglue it to the back of a Monet?

The technology is not quite there yet, except perhaps deep in the bowels of DARPA.

Well there is this.

http://www.thetileapp.com/

Kind of low end version but cloud based and crowd sourced for
locating lost articles




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[Napoleon]

Demonstration of various WWII armored vehicles in France:

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/world-war-ii-tanks-roll-i-france-again/?src=recg

[G.]

Well there is this.

http://www.thetileapp.com/

Kind of low end version but cloud based and crowd sourced for
locating lost articles




Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2

The Tile looks pretty cool!

As you noted, it's success is partially based on getting a lot of people to purchase it, when you need to find missing items.

have the App, and to have GPS and Bluetooth turned on. It uses BT to talk to the phone, the GPS to get location info into the APP, and then the cellphone to send the data to the cloud. See? You can't get away from the semi-beefy transmitter and big battery. The Tile uses a cellphone that is using the APP, has BT 4.0, and GPS enabled.]

Since most priceless works of art do not have Bluetooth 4.0 capability, you would be relying on the thief (or his mom) to have his own cellphone tied to his own Tile to find the stolen works. The "stolen" Tile will sneak it's "Help Me!" cries out of specifically-enabled, Tiled phones.

Hmmmmm. Buy your kid a Tile for his phone (and gift them to all of his friends). Then slap one onto the family car, and his phone and friends phones then become unwitting narcs, reporting the cars GPS location to you. :) I like it.

[SurfaceUnits]

Gore effect in Chicago: ‘coldest July weekend seen in the city in decades’ greets early arrivers for this week’s Al Gore Climate training Chicago Weather: Fall-Like Temps Break 30-Year Record

1,122 Record Cold Temps in the U.S. in one week From July 23 to July 29 (1 week) in the U.S.

A 1971 National Geographic map shows there is a lot more Arctic sea ice now than there was 42 years ago

8th Daily Record in 9 Days Smashes Record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

The Age of Hyperbole: How Normal Weather Became ‘Extreme’: ‘A media without shame drives us towards energy poverty’


UW-Milwaukee Professor’s Peer-Reviewed Study Predicts 50 Years of Global Cooling – January 2010: ‘A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor is making headlines for his work suggesting the world is entering a period of global cooling. “Now we’re getting a break,” Anastasios Tsonis, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at UWM, said in an interview with the MacIver Institute. Tsonis published a paper last March that found the world goes through periods of warming and cooling that tend to last thirty years. He says we are now in a period of cooling that could last up to fifty years.

Professor Judith Curry, the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, on June 14, 2013: “Attention in the public debate seems to be moving away from the 15-17 year ‘pause’ to the cooling since 2002 (note: I am receiving inquiries about this from journalists). This period since 2002 is scientifically interesting, since it coincides with the ‘climate shift’ circa 2001/2002 posited by Tsonis and others. This shift and the subsequent slight cooling trend provides a rationale for inferring a slight cooling trend over the next decade or so, rather than a flat trend from the 15 yr ‘pause’.”


Many scientists in recent years have noted the recent global cooling and predicted many years to decades to centuries of more global cooling.

Growing number of scientists are predicting global cooling: Russia’s Pulkovo Observatory: ‘We could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years’

‘Sun Sleeps’: Danish Solar Scientist Svensmark declares ‘global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning…enjoy global warming while it lasts’

Prominent geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook warns ‘global COOLING is almost a slam dunk’ for up to 30 years or more
‘We’ve had 27 climate changes in the last 400 years: warm, cold, warm, cold. There have been four in this past century that have nothing to do with CO2, because CO2 wasn’t a factor hundreds of thousands of years ago. We know that those are not at all related to CO2. So why would we expect climate change today to be related to CO2?’

Australian Astronomical Society warns of global COOLING as Sun’s activity ‘significantly diminishes’
AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIST PREDICTS GLOBAL COOLING: “SUN IS THE MAJOR CONTROL OF CLIMATE; LOOK FOR COOLING’ —

And for you gullible global warming, no it isn't global warming, it's climate change neo-socialists' information, the climate has been changing for, well, ever since there has been climate. But on the bright side, the President can claim his war against global warming has been successful.

Obama Warned that Climate Change to Global Cooling more likely than Global Warming say Friends of Science as Sleepy Solar Cycle Foretells Icy Decades Ahead
Obama’s attempt to ‘stop global warming and climate change’ by reducing carbon dioxide or closing coal power plants will only create an American-style ‘heat or eat’ crisis like that which forced millions into fuel poverty in the UK and Europe. Global temperatures have been declining since 2001 as solar magnetic activity falls; these natural climate factors are not part of the IPCC’s computer models which have lead governments to implement unnecessary climate policies that sent EU electrical prices up 37% over that of the US since 2005.

Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook debunks ‘absurd’ new warmist study claiming 1,700 U.S. cities will be below sea level by 2100 — Easterbrook: ‘The rate used by [Lead Author] Strauss for his predictions is more than 10 times the rate over the past century!’
That's right, when reality doesn't live up to your politics, fabricate and lie, it's the socialist way

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ice_sheets.png

The Dalton Minimum, named after the English meteorologist John Dalton, was a period of low solar activity lasting from about 1790 to 1830 that resulted in a two-degree drop in global temperature.

Easterbrook explained that any significant drop – from a half-degree to two degrees – would have a much worse impact on human civilization than global warming.

“Impacts of global cooling are unfortunately worse than they are for global warming,” Easterbrook said. “The good news is that global warming is over for several decades. The bad news is that its going to be worse than global warming would have been because twice as many people are killed by extreme cold than extreme heat. We’ll have a decrease in food production. It’s already happening in various parts of the world.”

Leaked IPCC Climate Report Shows UN Overestimated Global Warming

Not scheduled for publication until next year, a leaked report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents evidence that fear-mongering over the magnitude of global warming may be a little too ambitious.

The preliminary report, which is available for download online, was leaked this month by an individual directly involved in the agency’s review process. After sifting through the analysis, critics found a chart comparing four separate temperature models, each of which has overstated temperature rises that the Earth has actually realized.

“Temperatures have not risen nearly as much as almost all of the climate models predicted,” Dr. Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, told Fox News January 28. “Their predictions have largely failed, four times in a row... what that means is that it's time for them to re-evaluate.”
UN IPCC Official Edenhofer: ‘We Redistribute World’s Wealth By Climate Policy’

[Gnam]

The graphic of the ice thickness compared to the city skylines is very cool. :thumbup:

[nrc]

Please quote a reasonable portion and link the rest.

[datachicane]

Easterbrook's projections are legendary for their accuracy.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/lessons-from-past-climate-predictions-don-easterbrook.html

Well, or not. That's what you get when you don't use, y'know, actual physics in your model.
:rolleyes:

Seriously, has Stu hacked your account?

[SurfaceUnits]

Easterbrook's projections are legendary for their accuracy.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/lessons-from-past-climate-predictions-don-easterbrook.html

Well, or not. That's what you get when you don't use, y'know, actual physics in your model.
:rolleyes:

Seriously, has Stu hacked your account?
Wow, you could work your way into the subject of an Insane Clown Posse number

The IPCC and virtually all climate scientists were wrong because of their agenda.

Who made all the lemmings stop using global warming and use climate change instead.

[nrc]

I was just thinking how we needed a good forum debate to settle this climate change thing once and for all.

[datachicane]

When your preferred conclusion requires, by your own admission, 'virtually all climate scientists' to be wrong, it might be time to reassess your threshold for credible sources. We ignore the scientific consensus at an astronomically increased probability of being incorrect, and that demonstrably.

[cameraman]

When your preferred conclusion requires, by your own admission, 'virtually all climate scientists' to be wrong, it might be time to reassess your threshold for credible sources. We ignore the scientific consensus at an astronomically increased probability of being incorrect, and that demonstrably.

Methinks you're missing about half a sentence there.

I also get the feeling that I'm being trolled. I'm in no mood to retype War & Peace on all things climate when this http://www.education.noaa.gov/Climate/ exists.

It's all there be it monitoring (http://www.education.noaa.gov/Climate/Climate_Monitoring.html), carbon cycle (http://www.education.noaa.gov/Climate/Carbon_Cycle.html), ocean acidification (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Ocean+Acidification), carbon uptake (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Ocean+Carbon+Uptake) or climate change impacts (http://www.education.noaa.gov/Climate/Climate_Change_Impacts.html), climate systems/ change/modeling (http://www.climate.gov/teaching) and much more.

The volume of material on these sites is huge, it's actually three, the main NOAA site, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory site and the NOAA climate site.

Too keep it simple and sweet, NOAA is correct and what was posted above is mostly flat out wrong but the ice sheet figure is cool.

[SurfaceUnits]

What happened to Al Gore's global warming campaign?


If we don't change, our species will not survive... Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
Maurice Strong, September 1, 1997 edition of National Review magazine

What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group's conclusion is 'no'. The rich countries won't do it. They won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?

[SurfaceUnits]

2007 Shock News : Global Warming To Kill Almost Everybody By 2012

Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012

Hydrate hypothesis illuminates growing climate change alarm

A recent scientific theory called the "hydrate hypothesis" says that historical global warming cycles have been caused by a feedback loop, where melting permafrost methane clathrates (also known as "hydrates") spur local global warming, leading to further melting of clathrates and bacterial growth.

In other words, like western Siberia, the 400 billion tons of methane in permafrost hydrate will gradually melt, and the released methane will speed the melting. The effect of even a couple of billion tons of methane being emitted into the atmosphere each year would be catastrophic.

Runaway Global Warming promises to literally burn-up agricultural areas into dust worldwide by 2012, causing global famine, anarchy, diseases, and war on a global scale as military powers including the U.S., Russia, and China, fight for control of the Earth's remaining resources.

Over 4.5 billion people could die from Global Warming related causes by 2012, as planet Earth accelarates into a greed-driven horrific catastrophe.

Al Gore mentions the Siberian peat bog in the update special feature on the DVD of An Inconvenient Truth.

12/21/12 :)

http://seattlehouses.blogspot.com/2007/01/hydrate-hypothesis-and-runaway-global.html

[datachicane]

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As long as we're talking hypothetical shadowy conspiracies, what if a small group of industry leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to their short-term profits were the possibility of AGW-mitigating regulation? If their current margins and business models were to survive, wouldn't they have an interest in doing whatever was necessary to delay such regulation as long as possible?

We've been down this road before.

504

BTW, SU, why all the posts without links or attribution? That's very bad form, amigo. In any case, digging up a quote from some random wacko in order to support your position ain't exactly the best form, either.

[SurfaceUnits]

Check out the Chicago Climate Exchange and its collapse and who made millions off the continued hoax

[cameraman]

You wouldn't have these problems if you clued into the fact that Newsweek is not a scientific journal. You are not quoting scientists you are quoting a journalist's take on an interview.

Those hydrates are still there and they can release their methane if they get warm enough. As of today they are not warm enough.

Instead of spouting off snark you could actually try and learn something.

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/methane-hydrates-and-contemporary-climate-change-24314790

[cameraman]

Check out the Chicago Climate Exchange and its collapse and who made millions off the continued hoax

It wasn't any scientists, that's for damn sure.

[datachicane]

It wasn't any scientists, that's for damn sure.

x10

[SurfaceUnits]

That's right, it was Al Gore, the Benny Hinn of weather forecasting; the man who has the carbon footprint of 10,000 Nunavut Eskimos, 10,000 African villagers and 10,000 Bedouin tribesman.

[cameraman]

So what does any of that political & Wall Street ******** have to do with you denying the science? You don't like what global power brokers are doing so you **** all over a bunch of underpaid NOAA scientists and accuse them of making up the science. What you are bitching about has nothing to do with climate science.

[SurfaceUnits]

So what does any of that political & Wall Street ******** have to do with you denying the science? You don't like what global power brokers are doing so you **** all over a bunch of underpaid NOAA scientists and accuse them of making up the science. What you are bitching about has nothing to do with climate science.

Maybe those British fauxscientists who were found too be lying out their asses has something to do with it
there is no science relevant to so-called man made global warming. The last ice age ended without help from man, as did the one before that and the one before that. One valcano eruption could change global climate. A few days of solar flares or no extraneous solar activity could change global climate. But I will admit that disbanding New York City and Los Angeles and returning the space to mother nature would end any sort of man made global warming. But what you really should be concerned with is the Earth's decaying magnetic field. i already have the man made angle on that covered so you will have to find something else.


This is a tough time for climate science. The Guardian's new revelations about the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia might help to explain the university's utter failure to confront its critics. They could also explain why the head of the unit, Phil Jones, blocked freedom of information requests and proposed that material subject to those requests be deleted. He has been spared a criminal investigation only because the time limit for prosecutions has expired.

The emails I read gave me the impression that Phil Jones had something to hide. Now we know what it might have been. The Guardian has discovered that Jones appears to have suppressed data that undermines a paper he published in Nature in 1990. The paper claimed that Chinese weather stations show that local heating caused by urbanisation has very little effect on the temperature record. It now seems that much of the data they used is worthless and the documents required to validate it do not exist. The paper might be 20 years old, but in a way that makes the scandal worse: Phil Jones has had 20 years in which to issue a correction. Even after the hacking in October last year, he has still not done so.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/feb/02/climate-change-hacked-emails

[cameraman]

Maybe those British fauxscientists who were found too be lying out their asses has something to do with it
there is no science relevant to so-called man made global warming. The last ice age ended without help from man, as did the one before that and the one before that. One valcano eruption could change global climate. A few days of solar flares or no extraneous solar activity could change global climate. But I will admit that disbanding New York City and Los Angeles and returning the space to mother nature would end any sort of man made global warming. But what you really should be concerned with is the Earth's decaying magnetic field. i already have the man made angle on that covered so you will have to find something else.

Too bad it was all selectively edited and purposefully taken out of context to create a fake scandal that you are perpetuating two years after it was debunked. Take your tinfoil cap off and read this tome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy

[SurfaceUnits]

MISCONCEPTION: Science proves ideas.

CORRECTION: Journalists often write about "scientific proof" and some scientists talk about it, but in fact, the concept of proof — real, absolute proof — is not particularly scientific. Science is based on the principle that any idea, no matter how widely accepted today, could be overturned tomorrow if the evidence warranted it. Science accepts or rejects ideas based on the evidence; it does not prove or disprove them. To learn more about this, visit our page describing how science aims to build knowledge.

MISCONCEPTION: Science can only disprove ideas.

CORRECTION: This misconception is based on the idea of falsification, philosopher Karl Popper's influential account of scientific justification, which suggests that all science can do is reject, or falsify, hypotheses — that science cannot find evidence that supports one idea over others. Falsification was a popular philosophical doctrine — especially with scientists — but it was soon recognized that falsification wasn't a very complete or accurate picture of how scientific knowledge is built. In science, ideas can never be completely proved or completely disproved. Instead, science accepts or rejects ideas based on supporting and refuting evidence, and may revise those conclusions if warranted by new evidence or perspectives.

[SurfaceUnits]

Too bad it was all selectively edited and purposefully taken out of context to create a fake scandal that you are perpetuating two years after it was debunked. Take your tinfoil cap off and read this tome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy

socialist wikipedia published information is suspect at best. that article does not even address the central issue of the kerfuffle.

It is difficult to imagine a more bizarre academic dispute. Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring stations in remote parts of rural China?

But the argument over the weather stations, and how it affects an important set of data on global warming, has led to accusations of scientific fraud and may yet result in a significant revision of a scientific paper that is still cited by the UN's top climate science body.

It also further calls into question the integrity of the scientist at the centre of the scandal over hacked climate emails, the director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), Dr Phil Jones. The emails suggest that he helped to cover up flaws in temperature data from China that underpinned his research on the strength of recent global warming.

The Guardian has learned that crucial data obtained by American scientists from Chinese collaborators cannot be verified because documents containing them no longer exist. And what data is available suggests that the findings are fundamentally flawed.

The problem was with corraborating evidence that global warming and not urbanisation was the primary factor in warming.

He pointed out that the data showed that 49 of the (84) Chinese meteorological stations had no histories of their location or other details. These mysterious stations included 40 of the 42 rural stations. Of the rest, 18 had certainly been moved during the study period, perhaps invalidating their data.

Keenan told the Guardian: "The worst case was a station that moved five times over a distance of 41 kilometres"; hence, for those stations, the claim made in the paper that "there were 'few if any changes' to locations is a fabrication". (The full statement in the original 1990 Nature paper reads: "The stations were selected on the basis of station history: we chose those with few, if any, changes in instrumentation, location or observation times.")

[cameraman]

Sloppy file keeping but no conspiracy exists. And all follow up studies have confirmed the overall conclusion of the paper in question. Missing data or not, he was and is correct.




Published online 15 February 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2010.71
Corrected online: 16 February 2010

Climatologist Phil Jones answers his critics in an exclusive interview with Nature.

By Olive Heffernan

Phil Jones holds himself defensively, his arms crossed tightly in front of his chest as if shielding himself from attack. Little wonder: Jones has spent the past three months being vilified for his central role in what is now called 'climategate'.

Jones was director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, when, last November, more than 1,000 e-mails and documents were illegally obtained from the university and posted on the Internet. Their contents quickly embroiled him in a controversy that has shaken the climate community and threatened his career. Jones has stood down from his post while several independent investigations look into the affair, including one headed by Muir Russell, former vice-chancellor of the University of Glasgow, UK, which will assess allegations that the e-mails contain evidence of poor scientific practice at the CRU.

Speaking exclusively to Nature, Jones is reluctant to discuss how the past few months have affected him personally, and says he cannot comment on allegations that freedom of information requests for raw climate data were mishandled by the university. But he is eager to set the record straight on the science.

Central to the Russell investigation is the issue of whether he or his CRU colleagues ever published data that they knew were potentially flawed, in order to bolster the evidence for man-made global warming. The claim specifically relates to one of Jones's research papers1 on whether the urban heat island effect — in which cities tend to be warmer than the surrounding countryside — could be responsible for the apparent rise in temperature readings from thermometers in the late twentieth century. Jones's study concluded that this local effect was negligible, and that the dominant effect was global climate change.

In the paper1, the authors used data from weather stations around the world; those in China "were selected on the basis of station history: we chose those with few, if any, changes in instrumentation, location or observation times", they wrote.

But in 2007, amateur climate-data analyst Doug Keenan alleged that this claim was false, citing evidence that many of the stations in eastern China had been moved throughout the period of study. Because the raw data had been obtained from a Chinese contact of one of Jones's co-authors, Wei-Chyung Wang of the University at Albany in New York, and details of their location had subsequently been lost, there was no way of verifying or refuting Keenan's claim.

Jones says that approaching Wang for the Chinese data seemed sensible at the time. "I thought it was the right way to get the data. I was specifically trying to get more rural station data that wasn't routinely available in real time from [meteorological] services," says Jones, who asserts that standards for data collection have changed considerably in the past twenty years. He now acknowledges that "the stations probably did move", and that the subsequent loss of the stations' locations was sloppy. "It's not acceptable," says Jones. "[It's] not best practice." CRU denies any involvement in losing these records.

Jones says that he did not know that the weather stations' locations were questionable when they were included in the paper, but as the study's lead author he acknowledges his responsibility for ensuring the quality of the data. So will he submit a correction to Nature? "I will give that some thought. It's worthy of consideration," he says.

"The science still holds up" though, he adds. A follow-up study2 verified the original conclusions for the Chinese data for the period 1954–1983, showing that the precise location of weather stations was unimportant. "They are trying to pick out minor things in the data and blow them out of all proportion," says Jones of his critics.

The rest of the article.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100215/full/news.2010.71.html

[datachicane]

...as if he'll take the time to read those and evaluate them on their merits.

This isn't about a bunch of boring facts 'n' stuff, it's about ideology and what your chosen political identity tells you is hiding under your bed.

[datachicane]

In any case, this thread is for 'Tales of Interest'.
I suggest a new thread for dubious conspiracy theories so as to keep this one on topic.

[SurfaceUnits]

...as if he'll take the time to read those and evaluate them on their merits.

This isn't about a bunch of boring facts 'n' stuff, it's about ideology and what your chosen political identity tells you is hiding under your bed.

Global climate change wasn't a topic in discussion when the report was issued,(global climate came into use when their man made global warming scam fell thru) it was global warming; so Nature is itself engaged in specious rewriting of so called facts. And Jones concludes that veracity of data collected is not important, it's the ideology of the investigator that is important and that should make a couple of you happy. So yeah, taking a reading beside a stream in the Wasatch Range one day and then in downtown Salt Lake City the next and concluding there is man made global warming going on is perfectly good science. Just like there was no illegal gun running taking place in Benghazi or on the Mexican border.

[datachicane]

505

[Gnam]

I feel like a passenger on a Spanish bullet train. This thread is experiencing technomological difficulties. :tony:

Spinout in 3...2...1...

[SurfaceUnits]

Frost damages nearly fifth of Brazil sugarcane crop

North Pole Sees Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record — ‘Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that’

21st Daily Record of Year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
Growing Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Breaking All Records

New satellite dataset finds global temperatures decreased from 1982-2006

Tell your global warming conspiracy uncle to stock up on thermals and fire wood.

‘Civilization as we know it may even be at risk’: With the US murder rate on track to be the lowest in a century, warmists suggest that CO2 causes ‘increased murder’

Scientists warn: "Don't spit outside, ‘You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide’

[SurfaceUnits]

Travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler has unveiled the results of its readers choice survey on the world's unfriendliest cities, with two New Jersey destinations making a list of the bottom 10.

The residents of Newark, New Jersey were voted the unfriedliest damn people on the planet with Atlantic City coming in ninth.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/holiday-ideas/the-world8217s-friendliest-8212-and-unfriendliest-8212-cities-named/story-e6frfqd9-1226691364948#ixzz2bG3b3C00

[Elmo T]

The residents of Newark, New Jersey were voted the unfriedliest damn people on the planet with Atlantic City coming in ninth.



Survey is flawed because no one would choose Newark as a destination. :saywhat:

[Andrew Longman]

Travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler has unveiled the results of its readers choice survey on the world's unfriendliest cities, with two New Jersey destinations making a list of the bottom 10.

The residents of Newark, New Jersey were voted the unfriedliest damn people on the planet with Atlantic City coming in ninth.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/holiday-ideas/the-world8217s-friendliest-8212-and-unfriendliest-8212-cities-named/story-e6frfqd9-1226691364948#ixzz2bG3b3C00There are too many damn people in Jersey anyway. Go away!

[SurfaceUnits]

Sun Will Flip Its Magnetic Field Soon

The sun is gearing up for a major solar flip, NASA says.

In an event that occurs once every 11 years, the magnetic field of the sun will change its polarity in a matter of months, according new observations by NASA-supported observatories.

The flipping of the sun's magnetic field marks the peak of the star's 11-year solar cycle and the halfway point in the sun's "solar maximum" — the peak of its solar weather cycle.

The sun is gearing up for a major solar flip, NASA says.

"It looks like we're no more than three to four months away from a complete field reversal," Todd Hoeksema, the director of Stanford University's Wilcox Solar Observatory, said in a statement. "This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system."

As the field shifts, the "current sheet" — a surface that radiates billions of kilometers outward from the sun's equator — becomes very wavy, NASA officials said. Earth orbits the sun, dipping in and out of the waves of the current sheet. The transition from a wave to a dip can create stormy space weather around Earth, NASA officials said.

http://i.space.com/images/i/000/031/505/i02/solar-max-polarity.jpg

"The sun's north pole has already changed sign, while the south pole is racing to catch up," Scherrer said. "Soon, however, both poles will be reversed, and the second half of solar max will be underway."

The current solar maximum is the weakest in 100 years, experts have said. Usually, at the height of a solar cycle, sunspot activity increases. These dark regions on the sun's surface can give birth to solar flares and ejections, but there have been fewer observed sunspots this year than in the maximums of previous cycles.

http://www.space.com/22271-sun-magnetic-field-flip.html