we have to get over the social issue first.

There is no social issue, there is only a propaganda issue. People have been told over and over that nuclear is the ultimate evil thing. They just need some counterbalancing facts about how it can be safe and that in fact it's safer than coal... then start by replacing coal plants with small really well contained nuclear plants, and expand from there.

Forbes artical says 150 deaths deaths/trillionkWhr from wind power, but your link cant find 150 total deaths in the history of wind power.

Total energy consuption in 2008 was 143,851 TWh, and wind in 2010 was 2.5% of the total energy generation (and growing fast), perhaps its was 1.25% in 2008. So 143851*0.0125 =1798 TWh from wind.

Your link says 150 deaths per TWh, which equates to 270,000 people beign killed eveyr year from wind power. Do you believe that ?

Umm, a TWhr (TeraWattHour) is NOT the same as "trillion KWhr". There are, in fact, 1000 TWhr in every "trillion KWhr".

There are simply far too many of us and we continue to multiply at an obscenely accelerating rate.

Well, no.

Whether there are too many of us is debatable, but it is NOT debatable that the rate of population increase has been decreasing steadily for decades.

Current projections show population peaking under 12 billion, and declining thereafter.

So, no, we're not continuing to multiply "at a obscenely accelerating rate".

So, I'll assume the rest of your rant is as devoid of fact as the part I quoted, and not waste time either reading or responding to it.

Tom Wigley is one of the world's top climate scientists

That's damning with faint praise. It's springtime. The climate ninnies are out in full force.

I'm willing to have a radio chip that I don't control inside my phone so long as I can turn that little fucker off when I want to.

So, you're willing to have a radio chip that you don't control inside your phone so long as you can control it?

Last week I saw somebody texting while riding a bike. Shit you not.

Nobody would notice just one more group with their hands out.

Because they broke up and killed their crew one time in sixty

Yeah, we wanted something more reliable, like the Soyuz, which only killed the crew twice in 120 flights, and failed its mission only nine other times in 120 flights.

Unlike the Shuttle, which killed its crew twice in 135 missions, and failed its mission no other times in 135 missions....

1. Trace a circle on the ground, measure the circumference and the diameter and divide.

2. Trace a circle on a square of paper, making sure it touches all four edges. Weigh the paper. Cut out the circle, weigh the circle. Do the math.

3. Put a valuable piece of difficult to manufacture metal on a post and shoot valuable rounds of ammunition you may need to save your life at it.

4. Read the Bible. The number there, correct to one significant figure, is probably close enough for anything you're doing in a post-apocalyptic time anyway. If it isn't, remember 22/7.

If that was the important issue then you should have led with that and used the parking app issue as support for whatever conclusion you wanted to come to, instead of droning on and on and on about how nobody knows about parking apps for Seattle and how bad some of them are and how you think people on some survey website are your friends, and only then writing a tiny bit about "the more important issue".

By the way, you keep talking about parking apps finding garages, but you don't consider "is there a space there", and you repeatedly say that garages are important only if "it's hard to find on-street". You don't know the on-street is filled until you get there and the time you save going straight to a garage instead of wandering the street looking for cheaper parking is worth something. And if the garage you pin your hopes on doesn't have any open spaces, you're screwed anyway.

Last launch was also a test of the recoverable first stage. No landing legs last time, though. First stage came down, but when it began hover, it spun out of control.

SpaceX theorized that if it had had the landing legs to stabilize it, it wouldn't have augured in, so they're repeating the test with landing legs. It's still going to dump into the ocean, but hopefully it'll hover properly before they dump it.

If things go well this time, next launch should be the recover the first stage on land test. Which ought lower the already ridiculously low SpaceX launch prices by a factor of five or so....

Again, lots of pointless talk about "rights" and "licensing" and "rules" to justify ambushing and robbing travelers. Why justify it? Just stop ambushing and robbing travelers.

If mobsters were setup along the road, stopping travelers and taking their money under implied threats, it would be wrong. Not just illegal, but actually morally wrong. Even if they only took $100 from each. Even if they only stopped people going fast. Even if they had "rules" for who was stopped. Even if they said they were only targeting people doing risky things. Even if they told you you "agreed" to this by coming on their turf. Fortunately, we don't have mobsters doing that. Unfortunately, we have an even more powerful organization doing essentially the same thing.

Mobsters don't care about right and wrong. They just want to get paid. How about you?

It's all somewhat arbitrary in any case.

Won't argue with that.

It's all just a matter of what we choose to call things and how we choose to categorize things. Lumping things into categories based on similar characteristics is helpful for a number of reasons.

And you're telling me this why? Why didn't you also explain that water was wet?

If you go back and look at the history of when and why Ceres (and Vista, and Pallas, etc.) was demoted from planetary status, you'll see all sorts of similarities. The continued discovery of Kupier bodies shows Pluto was part of a larger community, just like Ceres.

And, horror of horrors, when we discovered Neptune, we realized it was part of a larger community (of planets). Note that the Kuiper Belt is pretty much as arbitrary as the Asteroid Belt - they're both a region of space with stuff in them. Just like Jupiter's orbit (Jupiter, an indeterminate number of moons, Trojan asteroids, etc), or Earth's.

What folk mean when they say defining things such that you keep Pluto in and leave Ceres out is that they're looking for a consistent pattern of categorization and nomenclature which minimizes changes. It's simply easier to drop the ninth to to squeeze back in a fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth.

And here I thought science was about discovering new things, not about minimizing change. My bad..

But she advocates e-cigarettes.

And what's wrong with e-cigs? All the nicotine, none of the carcinogens. Sounds like a winner to me (from the pov of someone who has never smoked, and doesn't actually know anyone who still smokes)