[......] I try to keep myself from becoming entrenched in any particular mode of thinking... it leads to inflexibly dictating that all else is inferior.
That's the best way to approach all of life. Sadly, there are a lot of people who don't think like that - and there seems to be plenty of them around here!
It's certainly the future [......]
It's certainly not the future, it's just a silly gimmick.
ID10Ts screaming about Siri's 'carbon footprint'
D10Ts have a massive carbon footprint - and they're only fairly small dozers.
You are 100% correct.
No he's not! The whole world's not like where you are, you know! There are plenty of places in the world where people can say with certainty where their power comes from.
[......] anyone "on the grid" who claims to know is fooling themselves.
Nonsense! You obviously haven't heard of "the rest of the world" and assume that everywhere's like where you are. There are vast areas of the world that don't have national or state grids (but do have a power distribution network - i.e., are "on the grid").
I live in Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory. The NT is big - 1.4 million square kilometres - but only has a population of about 200,000 people. There is no territory grid, so Darwin's power supply isn't connected to anywhere else. We're powered by natural gas.
Afghanistan hasn't got a national grid either. When i lived in Kabul a few years back, that city's power came from diesel generators most of the year, plus a bit of hydro when the snow's melting.
Gravimeters are fun?
Or maybe that should be "hygrometers are fun?"...
Or "hydrometers..." even!
If you think that's fun, try measuring the specific gravity at a given point.
Gravimeters are fun?
Or maybe that should be "hygrometers are fun?"...
I have a remote, but not too distant fear, of having to practice medicine, specifically surgery, without the benefit of antibiotics. That would probably mean a near end to most elective surgery and huge decrease in average life scan. No more total joint replacements, vein bypasses, organ transplants, etc.
But why do you need antibiotics for surgery? Where are the pathogens coming from? Surely if there was proper cleanliness and sterility, surgical wounds wouldn't get infected?
It is the case in the US.
I wonder if such a common thing as antibiotic soap can increase resistance over a period of time.
Probably. It's very unlikely to kill every bacterium, and the ones it doesn't kill may go on to breed stronger strains.
You're definitely on their list. The question to ask next is what list it is.