Good to know! Thanks!

Remember that second-hand smoke can also be dangerous.

Never actually seen any, since they're idiotically expensive.

It may be "new" in the sense that cerulean could be the hot new color, but the Apollo astronauts already had LCVG's in the 1970s (example here).

"In an independent space suit, the heat is ultimately transferred to a thin sheet of ice (formed by a separate feed water source). Due to the extremely low pressure in space, the heated ice sublimates directly to water vapor, which is then vented away from the suit."

Not to mention operating a mouse.

Where do you get these facts, if not from people?

... and yet they're hanging out on Slashdot. This does not strike me as an efficient strategy to destabilize the West.

Heat and, what's that other thing? Oh, yes: radioactive waste. Let's not forget that.

There was a time when white people thought the whole continent was "nothing but space", except for those pesky Indians. Took care of that problem real nice. Now there are people who complain about solar farms taking up desert space, displacing "the endangered desert tortoise and Joshua trees".

It's interesting to me and seems odd that there's been a lot of discussion here about "explosions", which are highly unlikely (and have been rare historically), but this seems to be the only mention of nuclear waste, which is a problem that actually exists right now and is only getting worse over time. And a large number of reactors means more sites producing waste, which has to be either stored on site or transported, both of which have their problems.

As to transportation, we know that trains occasionally derail, killing passengers or spilling cargo like oil; presumably a crash of a train carrying radioactive or fissionable nuclear material would be even worse. You can put the material into big tough containers and/or glassify it on site, but there would still be risks, including hijacking. It's really hard to predict low-probability events and even harder to prevent them.

Obviously not, but "incompetent" is generally the way to bet. It only takes a few.

In 2025, China added 378 GW of solar power, according to Ember; or 315 GW according to PV Magazine.

Carbon Brief also says 315 GW in 2025. They also that the rate of addition has slowed in 2026, but China still added "Just 10 GW" in April, 2026 alone. It isn't clear whether this is peak or average power.

Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and fire. Who came up with that name? Seems to be tempting fate. Maybe someone out there really likes volcanoes.

I would suggest using the Wayback Machine at archive.org, which is fine if you want to see what a Web site looked like on a particular date. But I haven't been able to find any way to search for content within a saved Web site. The "Help" for Search seems to be out of date and badly out of touch with reality. Based on what's listed under "Collection search", you can search a few dozen information sources, but not general Web sites. Maybe you can figure it out.

Luckily, there's a sophisticated mathematical operation to do this conversion. Informally, it's called "subtract one".

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