And that is the key demographic that would likely have cable. So when they stop, and enough others stop, Cable is in even more trouble than their almost 50 percent drop.

SO and I still have cable, but it's the same thing. She watched Youtube videos, I watch Youtube videos. She keeps things like court shows on for background sound in the house. I watch science channel late at night. But really, the offerings on cable and network TV kind of stink. How many shows can we have of some hot babe banging 10 different guys, than picking one to marry, or real housewives who aren't, or sassy African women fighting with each other? So they're spiraling, and catering to a strange demographic.

Gawd, I remember a time when a model was attractive. Then came heroin chic, when every female model looked like she was strung out. Now I think they are going for "non human".

The thing I wonder about is who is the target audience?maybe the people Jaguar was trying to influence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

I know a lot of iPhone users. I don't know any who would want that weird thing. I suppose they will sell a few, but not too many.

This. It is easy to steal as well. Apple is doing one of their occasional farts. They even have the pumpkin spice iPhone. Fortunately they still have tasteful iPhones. I'm an Apple products guy, but if all they had was that orange abomination, I'd wait until they regained their sanity before buying my next phone

They've had failed products before this. And this one will definitely fail Even their models look embarrassed in the pictures.

Borat did this long before Apple thought of it

https://people.com/thmb/4qnlqIrjdWZ9D_WJgTGQA5uwsVQ=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(678x19:680x21)/Bethenny-Frankel-Feels-Like-Borat-In-Plunging-Pink-One-Piece-Swimsuit-051223-3-5e40037d18fa4f8b8ae52c3bedffedca.jpg

Well, Kessler's orbital mechanics work out. Objects travelling over 28,200 kpm have incredible kinetic energy. A space shuttle window was very damaged by a paint fleck. There results of larger object collisions will be all that much more impactful - pun intended. That transfer of energy will send some of the debris higher., some lower.

Just recently, the Shenzhou-20 was damaged by space junk. https://www.scientificamerican...

An Intelsat broke up in orbit recently. They are still investigating the cause. They are now tracking an increasing number of objects from the explosion. https://www.space.com/intelsat...

And since it is becoming pretty difficult to insure satellites now, a lot of sats are launched without insurance, and the companies are making them as cheap as possible. They aren't as robust, since losses will be uncompensated. https://www.space.com/space-ex...

Finally, if you want to see destruction, a country that can achieve orbit could place a bag of sand or ball bearings in a retrograde orbit, and bring the whole house of cards down as the exchange of energy and subsequent destruction occur.

Even that best case scenario of 5 years for the carnage to de-orbit, I'm not sure that people will want to wait that long to get their internet.

If you believe that making low earth orbit impassible for a decade is good news, I have some bad news for you.

Regardless, the nature of the energy transfer from colliding objects in space means that some of the debris will end up in a higher orbit.

I forgot to add - I nuked my back, a muscle tweaking hard and am on some really powerful muscle relaxants. So my writing style is a bit different. Wife says I'm a lot nicer today, Maybe I need to work on that! 8^)

The same growing season extension has happened in Canada. I looked at it some years ago. It is the yearly frost free interval dates. Even a few days can make a difference.

Let's hope the current doesn't collapse. I always thought Iceland was a cool place. (no pun intended)

It did make for the failure. The reconstructed stories paint a terrible picture. Families living in tight quarters with their animals, slowly heading toward the end of their existence as a colony

Oh that's a help, but doesn't sound like all that great a living to have to remain inside to keep warm. And Grindavik was evacuated earlier this year because the volcano nearby had erupted, https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... Lots of earthquakes, and heaven help any planes if they are in the wrong area.

The latest eruptions are slowing fortunately, but the risk assessment hasn't been lessened yet. Iceland is a real anomaly. A cool one, but it's a bit dangerous living there, and Gulf Stream current problems is one more worry for the good folk.

I did not know that! Here in the US, they are slowly moving upwards. In the Outer Banks we're getting them. I've seen a few on the New Jersey shore. I think those in New Jersey need protection when it gets its coldest there.

But they are all pretty far south compared to the British isles. Let's hope the Gulfstream doesn't collapse.

And sex sells. VHS and Beta were largely driven by pR0n, And so was the internet. And as physical males and females are entering an era of sexual apartheid, we all still have a sex drive. For women, they are freed from the cause of all their problems. For males, even if they spend 100K for a sex doll, it is a cheap alternative to marriage, raising a child, and the subsequent divorce.

That sounds a bit doom and gloomist, sometimes the truth do be that way.

Iceland, and the British Isles are going to be in a bad way if the gulf stream collapses. They are far enough north that reverting to weather more natural for that latitude will make it pretty darn chilly.

AGW will not necessarily make every place on earth warmer - it's way to complex a system for that. As an example, (in the British Isles) palm trees grow in a few places in Ireland. Pretty impressive for a place around the same latitude as Newfoundland. https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

So yeah, a gulf stream collapse would be a threat to Iceland's very existence. And not a whole lot they can do about it.