It was in a display case in cooperstown last time I visited there.

I feel like it could bite our ass in the future when all of Pennsylvania has pockets of water underneath it that, by themselves pose no risk but added up eventually cause us some discomfort

Statements like this show you don't really understand what is going on here. "Pockets of water"? The whole point of hydrofracking is that this shale is incredibly impermeable and you have to fracture it to get the gas out. A lot of the water returns to the surface (handling this at the surface is the biggest challenge), and the rest if pretty much locked up in shale that is thousands of feet below any aquifers used for drinking water.

People seem to get upset when I try to place the burden of proof that this will not harm us in anyway on the companies that are going to make billions of dollars off it

In other words you are saying you'll be fine with hydrofracking as soon as someone proves the negative. Can't be done.

What can be done on the other hand, is hydrofracking safely, presuming it is adequately regulated. If the damn republicans stop trying to convince everyone that regulation is bad, then perhaps we can get going on producing more gas from shale.

Same thing with the Universal Sports over the air station. This was one of the few stations I used to watch (OTA). When Comcast bought NBC, they stopped distributing Universal Sports (which was on one of the secondary channels on the NBC channel). How this merger ever made it through antitrust scrutiny is beyond me.

Pink six-wheeled vehicle? Wasn't that Penelope from the "Thunderbirds"?

He's talking about mechanical engineering, not coding. There's a huge difference. You can always teach yourself new languages, and by the very nature of coding, there is lots online that can help you become efficient.

But when it comes to mechanical, chemical, and other types of engineering, you need to take the courses. Sure you can buy some books and read them, but there is a large set of knowledge that builds on itself that has to be learned to get to where you can be productive.

This kind of relates to a pet peeve of mine when I hear coders talking about how they can reinvent themselves to keep themselves marketable. I agree they have to, and so does everyone else to varying degrees. However, it is one thing to reinvent yourself by learning a new language that uses a semicolon rather than a line feed to end a line (OK, so I exagerate, there is a lot of other deeper concepts that differentiate languages), and another to go from being an expert in, say, thrust bearing design to wastewater treatment. There is a lot of new knowledge and experience that has to be gained, which may or may not be available through book or on-line learning.

Huh? Stallman is a fan of selling free software!

They do. Although the reference to "State Competition" tells me he might be referring to High School Competition rather than club swimming.

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Since when are coal or petroleum complex molecules? Coal is to varying degrees just carbon (the harder the coal, more it is just plain C) and petroleum is chains of Carbon with hydrogens haning off the sides. These are pretty simple molecules.

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