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Comment: Re:Hmm (Score 1) 694

"If you think the citizens of the USA can beat the USA military and overthrow the USA government using guns, then you are batshit crazy."

I could think of roughly 40 different scenarios which would knock the entire government down within 5 minutes.

Blitzkreig of the population. Storm all major centers of government immediately and wipe them out, being number one. No Government, Military is officially dissolved and we have the right to make a new one. And you're batshit crazy if you think the Military is going to attack it's own people when it's CLEAR the people don't want the current government.

The military will be too busy defending this country while we're making a new government - otherwise, they're FUCKED just as much as we are.

Checkmate.

Comment: Re:If you dump al that light on crops, (Score 0) 160

by Khyber (#40182339) Attached to: Solar Geoengineering Could Lead To Whiter, Brighter Skies

How do I know I'm better-educated?

Really easy - I perform this research ON A DAILY BASIS. Wanna know why NASA pretty much gave up on LED horticulture? I outdid them.

California is well-known for stupid ideas, much like Texas, and proposing them without ever truly thinking them through.

In the EU, they have to do much better.

Oh, and I live in California, so I'm well-tied to the horticulture industry here. I've heard more stupidity from this industry in California alone than I have heard come out of the mouths of the past four presidents.

Comment: Re:If you dump al that light on crops, (Score 5, Interesting) 160

by Khyber (#40180865) Attached to: Solar Geoengineering Could Lead To Whiter, Brighter Skies

"Photosynthesis is more effective in diffuse light."

No, it's really not. Chlorophyll has a neat mechanism by which light tends to (usually) work in one direction. You can test this for yourself. Obtain a test tube of chlorophyll in a suspended liquid solution. Take an incandescent light. If you put the test tube directly between you and the light at eye level, you will see it as mostly red. Any other direction, you see it as green.

Also, making the skies BRIGHTER (as per TFS and TFA) means increasing photon flux density. The current limit for most plants to withstand light falls between 1500-1800umol. After that, you rapidly begin approaching photosynthetic poisoning (AKA bleaching0 of plant tissues. Many food crops, especially vegetative ones, don't tolerate very high light levels. Most lettuces prefer roughly 300-600 umol, and start doing undesirable things at anything much higher, like bolting and not creating a compact head, or outright turning white.

This is one of the worst ideas I've heard coming from Californian scientists in a long long time. Makes me glad to be working with better-educated European horticultural companies.

Comment: Re:Moron in the comments. (Score 1) 6

by Khyber (#40172463) Attached to: Doom 3 Remastered For Decrepit Xbox 360 and PS3 Platforms

Yep, you're lying, and apparently have never played Doom 3 before.

So let me list the minimum system requirements for your ill-educated ass.

1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500, 384 megabytes of memory, two gigabytes of hard drive space, an nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better.

And when Doom 3 came out, there was already hardware FAR more advanced, GPU and CPU-wise.

Try again when you're deep enough in the actual industry, both software-wise and semi-conductor wise.

Mods in this thread are morons, and doubly so yourself.

This is why you write articles instead of performing research, like I happen to do.

Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, D.C.

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