being able to eliminate possible sources of error in the conclusion to just the data gathering techniques would definitely make the conclusions easier to swallow for people who didn't already want to implement the proposed solutions. Also, going from raw data to graph isn't something you need a climate scientist for, anyone with a background in statistics and programming should be able to understand it and draw the same conclusions.

Nice job using the straw man there, just because someone thinks that moving forward quickly to reverse AGW at great cost without the data behind the graphs being available is a bad idea, doesn't mean they think that total irresponsibility is without consequence.

I wish that getting a 65% on a test in college would have qualified as "rather well", thought I guess electronics manufacturers get graded on a curve

I just finished up undergraduate classes as an electrical engineer, and I would say the majority of people in my department used Adderall to help them study longer. Those people all ended up with better GPA's for it. It's almost the same question with sports and steroids, if I had used that kind of drug to increase my studying capacity, I probably could have gotten enough of an extra boost to enter "free Ph.D." territory.

Suppose you had a massive inductor, that was say 10H, in order to make a 60Hz filter you would need like a 100 ohm resistor, which in order to make to survive the huge currents/voltages while maintaining low impedance would need to be a big block of iron

there ain't no such thing as a free lunch

Of course if this was a SPACEX launch we'd all be calling this a failure.

C02 gets pulled out of the air to make the plants you ferment to make booze, and the fermenting process lets some of this go, when you digest it the carbon becomes part of you or respirated out. Eventually all of the carbon goes back, its a cycle.

It's probably the old hardware, I've got a laptop that was crappy four years ago, with Ubuntu 8.10 and xfce and I run into basically identical problems.

I took baby quantum mechanics a year ago (an optional 3rd semester of intro physics), and the whole predestination thing was thrown out the window to me as soon as soon as there was a probability distribution of where the particle was at any given time. My thought philosophically is that the sum of tiny deviations from the mean made it so that I could not just take an inventory of all the particles in the universe, write a program to describe their governing laws, and then the output would be every moment of of the future. I much prefer a universe of surprises.

Darwin might be perfectly happy, let genes be a form of meme expression, as the meme evolves, so do the genes.

From what I've been hearing, Windows 7 is pretty much Vista with alot of the bloat turned off. Having done that myself in my Vista install, even with all the fancy graphics turned on, I've had a good experience. I hope everyone else gets the same in Windows 7 and gets to love the fancy 'start search' bar as much as I have.

If you don't like the outcome of a straight up or down referendum, challenge it in court, great precedent there. On the other hand, if something is wrong, it doesn't matter how many people agree with a wrong view, they are still wrong. It is interesting to think what would have happened if the black turnout hadn't been so extraordinary thanks to Obama, I seem to remember exit polls saying that most african american voters voted against gay marriage. That being said, I'm all for gay marriage, do what makes you happy, it ain't hurting anyone.

There was a streaming video of a NASA panel talking to the media, and the thing here is that they have been able to see local concentrations. The ESA mission basically looked at the atmosphere on a full couple of orbits and integrated the results to be able to detect that somewhere there was methane. Now we have some concentrated areas, coincidentally where we think there might have been water...

Reaper is $13.325 million and carries 3,750lbs of payload. F35 is $83 million and carries 15,000lbs of payload, thats what wikipedia says. Reaper carries more load per dollar, but is much slower, carries less, flys lower, and doesn't have a person taking a ride.