Remember to take the mask out of the plastic bag before fitting.
The resulting lack of oxygen can cause disorientation as suggested by the above comment.

Length: 100,000km, anchored on the Earth with a large mass floating in the ocean and a large counterweight at the top end, called an Apex Anchor.
Width: One meter
Design: Woven with multiple strands to absorb localized damage and curved to ensure edge-on small size hits do not sever the tether.
External Power: The power must be external as the gravity well is extreme and lifting your own power is a non-starter.
Dr. Edwards’ approach was to use large lasers pointing up to the climber with a “solar panel like” receiver on its nadir position.
Cargo: The first few years will enable 20ton payloads without humans [radiation tolerance an issue for the two week trip] with five concurrent payloads on the tether for the two-week trip to GEO. [Currently, the plan is seven concurrent payloads for one-week travel.]

What could possibly go right?

That cherry.
Let's talk about the effect on climate change of the release of tens of thousands times more CH4 than a hypothetical submarine landslides.

Nice cherries you got there. Pick 'em yourself?

FWIW I do live in hell (aka Australia) and its getting too f**king warm by half.

This is the same hell your climate denialism is dead on target to create,
with no VIABLE alternative except to burn baby burn.

E X A C T L Y

Now why are we crying about a meagre $1B to get that answer?

Re the " Apocalyptic Global Warmists ":, we are more concerned with methane tipping points
(you know, when we burn enough carbon to warm the oceans and atmosphere so the TRILLIONS of tons of
methane in permafrost and in undersea clathrate deposits are emitted). That promises runaway climate change.

Let me repeat:
The commonly accepted way to reduce climate change (archaic form: global warming) is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG).

There IS scientific consensus. Just no political consensus. Equals: we are so screwed.

Don't worry, That's just 24 hours of Federal Reserve QE's money printing time (@$85B/month)!

The commonly accepted way to reduce climate change (archaic form: global warming) is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG).
The largest sources of human caused GHG emissions are a. coal fired electricity generation b. industrial agriculture.
The total CO2 equivalent emitted by you, me and what we consume, every year is 30 Billion tons.
That needs to be reduced by at least 50% within two decades or so.

Coal fired electricity generation produces prodigious amounts of CO2.
The problem with reducing coal based emissions is many fold:
on one side are entrenched interests in coal mining, and built infrastructure, that influence politics and public opinion.
Renewables were once very expensive but are competitive now. The mass production of PV panels shows what can be achieved.
The Germans have done a great deal of research to evolve technology solutions to maintain modern lifestyles.

Industrial agriculture produces prodigious amounts of CH4 (aka methane).
The waste of up-converting feed stock into live stock will be reduced by increasingly poorer climate conditions.
Since the ratio of petrochemical energy in to food energy out is something like 10:1 all food will get expensive
as fuel costs keep rising with the inexorable increased cost of oil exploitation (aka peak oil).

Obama's $1B will fund a lot of US research to help you maintain your life without ruining the earth's ecological systems

So you're saying that a Tesla with AWD will use the same amount of petrol as a FWD/RWD model.
Like, still zero?

It's not global warming, at least not caused by our burning BILLIONS of tones of fossil fuels.
Simply, it's all God's fault for being such a homophobic sociopathetic but supreme being

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-25793358

I LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY
(with apologies to Dorothea Mackellar)

I love a sunburnt country
A land of sunburnt plains,
Of sunburnt mountain ranges,
Of droughts and sunburnt rains.
I love sunburnt horizons
I love her sunburnt sea
Her sunburn and her sunburn
This sunburnt land for me.

Micheal Leunig, 16 December 2006

How about trying THAT on for size CFR? THIS is what results when the NSA breaks the law. National security is endangered. That's the REAL situation we have. Snowden would never have leaked anything if the NSA weren't breaking the law in the first place.

If you engage in mass illegal spying against Americans and work overtime to criminalize everyone who tries to correct your behavior going through official channels by firing them, raiding their houses, bankrupting them and filing bogus charges against them and throwing them in jail AND THEN AS A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE of your illegal spying and your illegal prosecution / persecution of these people, a Snowden (of which there are likely to be potentially very many owing to your own actions) breaks rank and does what he can do to alert people of your illegal activities , well :

IT"S YOUR FAULT
YOU CAUSED THIS
YOU DID THIS

get it? Get it? This breach is YOUR fault , not Snowdens.

So some guy from The Establishment says that Snowden and all future leakers should have somehow performed a humanly impossible feat of meta analysis on millions of documents which constitute proof of widespread criminal and unconstitutional activities . THAT is the standard leakers shall be held to. Or else. They're not leakers, and it's espionage.

So says the Council on Foreign Relations.

You can just seem them breaking into workshop gorups brainstorming how to spin the Snowden Affair so as to turn the American public against him and give the NSA defenders on PBS and FOX talking points.

"Hey polls show people think he's a whistleblower , but maybe if we can split that perception by appearing to agree with the public on *some* of the stuff while damning him with the other stuff, we can split the opposition."

This from the CFR. What did you expect? I used to think that the CFR might be some kind of collective voice of wisdom, experience and expertise on world affairs. You know, people who had wide ranging real world experience and were out of their posts or retired but still engaged and concerned.

I am an asshole this way; I impugn my own idealism to the actions of others.

The CFR is a bunch of hand picked academics and fucking yes men and women drawn from previous administrations and Ivy leagues universities whose main function is to think and live and produce "solutions" within the Skinner box out of which cookies , cake and ice cream have fallen to them their whole lives . They're entirely composed of and express the perspective of government and establishment academic institutions whose "think tanks" and "department chairs" are little more than hand-up-your-ass-moving-your-mouth , you-know-who-feeds-you-baby extensions of Washington officialdom and groupthink.

Good thing they weighed in on Snowden. I know we were all breathlessly awaiting their opinion on this matter.

"I'm sorry to report he trial balloon didn't float too well."

>>It takes "infinite time energy attention [sic] and perfect information" to only buy products that are labeled as non-GMO only?

Yeah I never said that. Go back and read what I actually said.Oh that's right, you already did and that's what you took away from what I said.

Well, I'll let the marketplace decide between the two of us.

Yeah I think they do. It just make sense given how people in the world are. I don't have "proof" the same way I don't have "proof" we need an army either post WWII either. Basically, if we had no spy agencies, other nations would be infinitely more aggressive and bellicose leading to who knows what. The best offense is a good defense sometimes. Everything I've read about terrorism and geopolitics indicates that a strong national defense is essential if you want to remain free and spy agencies are an essential part of that picture.