I don't think that is a relevant question, actually. Just because the entire reef isnt currently 'living' does not mean it isn't habitat for things that are. A layer of coral microbes just establishing themselves on previously glacial plane, probably isn't a sufficiently similar home for a various wildlife the existing reefs support.

None of this is say the situation is a dire as is being suggested but if this analysis is correct, I don't think "transplanting" or replicating a coral reef in a meaningful fashion on human time scales is a simple undertaking at least not with an certainty of success. Maybe we can 3d print some artificial reef structures and get some microbial starts attached to them and sink them but that would take a lot of experimentation

Sounds like the problem is the house and not the stove.

The Earth has frequently been much warmer than it is today and coral reefs grew much faster then.

Perhaps they have a fine point to make but the implications fly in the face of established evidence.

And not shaky evidence - you can go vacation on huge islands made of these old reefs, from when the oceans were higher.

You can go visit Chazy Fossil Reef today and see coral fossils 480 million years old, from when Northern Vermont was a tropical marine environment.

These data aren't disputed in the field.

You are probably right about the GoT being the last great example. I'd put the bookend of that era of water cooler tv about 2013 when Netflix started doing first party content, and phasing out disk by mail.

That is about the time when most of the big general public audience started getting pretty consistent access to non-physical-distribution and non-OTA content and with it the explosion of choice and truly pain free time-shifting. Past which point nothing can get temporally constrained mass audience numbers.

Streaming killed the network television star.

In the sense that largely isn't happening any more yes. In the sense that 'water cooler' television gave as a social opportunity to have some organic national discussions about the issues of the day with a little shared context, I am not so sure.

Obviously it put the power to chose the topics of our national discourse in the hands a very smaller number of people, but it did give everyone an opportunity to discuss their view of the same content.

that is just stupid, because it means noon is never when the sun is directly overhead anywhere.

If you want more time in the afternoon why not leave the clocks and centuries of language alone, and just convince people to make business hours 7-4 rather than 8-5?

1) A lot places require an if the lights are on the fan is on or even an always-on bathroom fan exchaust fan ducted outside now. You could easily require appliances to have a relay to trigger the hood fan.

2) Ok study it, we pay taxes, this one seems like a useful activity. Sure there will be some extremist that object because there always is but I can't really imagine even the more right-leaning political operators would mount a whole lot opposition to investigating the safety of appliances found in just about every American domicile. That one really does fall nearly under "Promote the General Welfare"

3) That has never stopped anyone drafting building codes before :-). If you want to install a gas range in a modern energy efficent building, it will have to be properly vented, end of story. If that means giving up closet space above to allow for another vent-stack, or having some unsightly soffit run across the kitchen ceiling well builders just get to say hey this is what the code requires, we either do this or picket electric appliances.

Which core feature doesn't work on Windows 11 without TPM?

I don't even notice it anymore ever since my clocks change automatically.

China has a clear plan and they have been working for decades. Trump's policy choices here are almost irrelevant. I'll even say they have been "impotent".

That has everything to do with China and almost nothing to do with Trump. China has been seeking to import western technology, science, industrialize it more cheaply with lower standards of living and fewer regulatory costs, and then re-invest they spoils of that trade imbalance into their own domestic R&D.

What we are seeing now is phase-2 of plan, where they start grow based on the products of their own investments.

If anyone is to blame its policy makers from the Nixon - H. W. Bush eras. If you want to talk about racism, xenophobia, and pick your form of *supremacy, China is a world leader there in every respect! Phase-3 of China's plans are to bend the rest of the world over and export all that.

Is Trump doing to little to late, PROBABLY. That is still 1000x more noble and sensible than abandoning Western society to Xi's authoritarian vision thru cowardly inaction, which is what your kind are really advocating. Sorry the political left in both the US and UK has no plan other than 'whistle past the grave yard'. Oh but don't worry you'll make sure everyone feels really good about themselves and has a new iPad right up in Xi's people take over and send them to the literal concentration camps.

Tik/Tok spying is an unsupported conspiracy theory, but that US companies, you can't or won't identify, spying is a 'reality'.

I know I known Trump is involved, so whatever the subjects are and whatever the outcomes are it has to be terrible, but try sounding a little less like Kamala if you want to convince anyone.

People who like doing 'summer time' live near the center of their respective time zones, people who don't like it live near the edges.

The real problem is we are all still hung up on 8-5 being office hours, and 9-5/6 being retail hours. That was needed in the early industrial era because people had to make plans based on expectations, even thru the later 20th century if you were out and about you needed to be able to assume shops would be open etc.

Now you can discover a business hours with your smart phone anytime you need. We all *almost* universally can get e-mails, texts, and other alerts that cost near zero to send. So organizations like schools that have legitimate reasons for wanting their operations to be coincident with daylight can easily have special November to February hours or whatever. As long as they do the same thing every year people can plan around it just as easily, and they can send reminders, etc.

That would be at least as simple as changing the clocks in the present here.

If China wants to do research, great. The more research gets done, the better.

Worth mentioning that the tiny minority has gotten a lot more noisy lately (approximately from when smartphones became common. Another Eternal September, etc).

It's hard to know because they hide statistics when they look bad. They are motivated at all levels of government to hide things that make them look bad. We do have some things though:

https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...
https://gulfnews.com/world/asi...
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/20...