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Comment Re:He's right... and classy to boot (Score 1) 62

In my experience, I don't know the make of the plane I'm to fly on when I make a booking.

This may have benefits in the longer term, but in the short term, the trouble affecting his competitor will be squeezing his clients. And those that survived CoVID lockdowns will be struggling against more debt that they were hoping for.

Comment T-Rex (Score 2) 54

There's no chance of bringing back an animal with DNA as ancient as a T-Rex.

The oldest DNA that we have some of is less than half a million years old. Getting to 1 million is an impossible hope. 5 million is completely out of the question, much less 66 million.

With current technology you'd want a complete set of nuclear DNA, and that means stuff that went extinct recently enough that we have video footage of them: Thylacine, Quagga, West African black rhinoceros. Things like that.

Comment They're doing an IPO. (Score 3, Interesting) 38

Not suggesting that the good news story is exaggerated at all. But insilico medicine has filed for a Hong Kong IPO, so either this sort of publicity is timely, or they're doing the IPO on the strength of this drug going to trial ...

Which could mean that they want some pocket money to rapidly expand their operation, or it could mean that they want to spread the risk of the trial being a failure. (Or some combination of the two).

Comment Unintended Consequences (Score 4, Insightful) 177

The problem with geoengineering solutions is unintended consequences.

Sure you can cool the poles, but you're also cutting out some of the sunlight, and that is the energy input into every ecosystem on the planet, that's not near a deep ocean hydrothermal vent.

And it's already pretty tricky to eke out an existence near the poles.

Comment Re:And now it's Murder Ice (Score 1) 113

That's because the goatherders who wrote it were dumb as shit, and thought what they could see was the whole world.

Surely the flood myth wasn't something that the author(s) of Genesis saw. The story is in large part borrowed from the epic of Gilgamesh, probably written 1000 years earlier, which in turn seems to have the flood myth patched in from Atra-Hasis,

Nevertheless, 27 cm wouldn't have cut the mustard. Instead of drowning the people of the world that would have given the people of the world wet feet until they moved up the beach a bit.

Comment Re:Cats and dogs living together! (Score 1) 113

Did I miss the report on the American Midwest and California turning to sand?

Perhaps you did. Decrease in moisture over the period 1900-2020 is measurable throughout New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado.

Enough with the FUD.

Investigate the data yourself.

And thanks for making my point; in warmer weather we won't need greenhouses.

And the increasing temperatures will make the climate unsuitable for crops that don't need greenhouses now. And fires, floods and droughts will further impact productivity, as well as natural ecosystems.

Given a choice between living in the Roman era or Midieval Warming period vs the much colder times between and after I'll take the warmer times of abundance and prosperity over the colder periods of crop failures, misery, and death every time.

Fair and irrelevant. You're not being offered a choice between the roman era or the medieval warming period.

Warmer is better for human civilization. History has spoken.

Not this warming. It's killing something like 150,000 people annually.

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