Yeah last set of cowboys that tried that built it so cheap they didn't even bother installing shilding, they also didn't bother to tidy up the mess that they trapsed in while building it, resulting in losts of dusty surfaces on which bugs grew and then mutated due to the radiation dose from the unmaintained reactor.

There are rumours the manufacturer sent a rep around a short while ago to see how things are going but the mutated bugs killed him, no one has heard from them since

100 million tonnes ~ circa 1 km square to 100m deep. It's doable.
When you are shifting that much rock you are going to get a huge amount of side product, alu silicon, iron etc which in itself will generate opportunities.
All you need is something to start the ball rolling in a vaguely commercial way.

Ok well lets look at periods of gross warming in the past and see what happened.
If you look at the numbers of eco systems and carbonate platform types (james 1983) then these numbers increase hugely and peek at the warmest periods major transgression, while they collapse in the interveaning cool phases, where of course you have major regressions.

So yeah it is more complicated but not necessarily in the way you think

Meh make that we are already at 6 billion ma bad

Totally agree it is the lack of long term view that is the problem. It's only when you have enough life experiance that you can see that the world is not black and white. The problem is that people die/retire too young and the new folk merrily repeat the errors of the past.

Going back to comments in other part of the thread about population; I would argue that population is being held up as some sort of boogie man, the "Do this and the Boogie man will get you" line is just stupid.

We are already at six million, if we just have business as usual we will all most certainly overpopulate. So regardless of what we do about lifespan "at some point in time" we will have to enact something that holds the population in check or actually decreases it. How big a number we elect for is up for grabs. But at some point it has to stop.

In the future: We can carry on with our fixed population size, imposed via whatever methods are "acceptable" and we will have options:
1.Everyone can live short lives and breed.
2.Everyone can have very long lives with limited breeding (remember natural attrition)
3.Some mixture of 1 and 2 i.e. half living long lives and half breeding.

I would suggest options 2 and 3 would give us the best options for maintaining peace and advancing in all areas of our lives.

If people don't know how to fill their time and don't want to live long that is not a problem for society, provided it has not invested too much in them.

Your comment reminds me of those leveled at the japaneses in the 70's and 80's.

Who says the Chinese planes will be cheaper?

They may be better engineered more fuel efficient more economical to service and run.

Take a good look at what just happened in the high speed train arena to see how quickly they can turn a technology around.

It worries me that folk in the west so seriously underestimate developing countires. Most worrying is the misplaced belief that we will somehow be the ones producing all the IP.

We have set up our economies to have such strong and far reaching IP protections to that we will be well and truely sharfted when the IP is owned and developed overseas and enforced here.

You seem to be making a few assumptions there about rate of growth and rate of sea level rise there.

Carbonate sedimentation don't work like clastic sedimentation

http://sepmstrata.org/seqstratCarbHierarchies.html

So leave the carbonates alone stop the destructive fishing which may be breaking them up and you give the island a chance. Main risk to carbonates is to great an influx of sediment muddying the waters.

I sit at work then used to come home and sit, it sucked, I was beginning to feel crap.. So built a treadmill workstation at home...I wish I had done this years ago.

Bought a second hand tread mill from ebay, used a lifefitness st55 put a shelf behind it to hold the PC and monitors and a simple shelf across the handles for keyboard.

Typing gets a bit jittery over 5kph on a 4% incline but below that its fine. You get a reasonable amount of exercise or even a good workout and still do all the stuff you would have otherwise done sitting down.

Really if you have been thinking about doing this just do it...

Now I just have to persuade them to let me have one at work.

The wind blows ........Tumbleweed rolls by...........guess the world will never find out the secret of his magical energy source.

Do you think maybe he was paid off by big oil?