Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 207
Dick Armey? Who's his wife, Vagina Coastguard?
Nope, Alotta Fagina.
China To Tap Combustible Ice As New Energy Source 185
lilbridge writes "Huge reserves of "combustible ice" — frozen methane and water — have been discovered in the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Estimates show that there is enough combustible ice to provide 90 years worth of energy for China. Burning the combustible ice may be a far better alternative than letting it just melt, releasing tons of methane into the air."
Comment Re:Appreciate the difference (Score 1) 548
anyone who touched
That's strange. I heard from several sources that programming in Java for a while makes one's C++ code cleaner.
Comment Yay for public research code (Score 1) 505
I did always wonder what would happen if we feed random data into these proggies they use to calculate temperature anomalies. Would they still produce the hockey stick?
Comment Re:Indeed (Score 1) 220
> (Roughly speaking) How big are those groups?
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Comment Oh The Cliché (Score 1) 782
"Hey I'm some kind of military commander guy. Look at my scar, how evil I am, arr arr. Some primitive aliens are sitting on top of a pile of high grade jew gold and refuse to leave, so instead of drugging them up and moving them away, or mining underground without disturbing them, we are going to SHOOT A BIG TREE. Watch us behaving in a unreasonable stereotypical right-wing racist greedy big oil etc etc redneck way and losing to a stereotypical primitive good clean happy healthy spiritual natureloving hippie etc etc space indian tribe."
Comment Hmmm (Score 1) 262
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I don't think it works.
I might be doing it wrong though.
