The thing to understand is we're talking about sixth tenths of a degree warming since 1990, when averaged over *the entire globe* for the *entire year*. If the change were actually distributed that way -- evenly everywhere over the whole year -- nobody would notice any change whatsoever; there would be no natural system disruption. The temperature rise would be nearly impossible to detect against the natural background variation.

That's the thinking of people who point out that the weather outside their doors is unusually cool despite global warming. And if that was what climate change models actually predicted, they'd be right. But that's not what the models predict. They predict a patchwork of some places experiencing unusual heat while others experience unusual coolness, a patchwork that is constantly shifting over time. Only when you do the massive statistical work of averaging *everywhere, all the time* out over the course of the year does it manifest unambiguously as "warming".

In the short term -- over the course of the coming decade for example, -- it's less misleading to think of the troposphere becoming more *energetic*. When you consider six tenths of a degree increase across the roughly 10^18 kg of the troposphere, that is as vast, almost unthinkable amount of energy increase. Note that this also accompanied by a *cooling* of the stratosphere. Together these produce a a series of extreme weather events, both extreme heat *and* extreme cold, that aggregated into an average increase that's meaningless as a predictor of what any location experiences at any point in time.

Not a single word about methodology

"Stuff that matters" my ass.

Rapid Accelerated Disassembly?

Rapid Anomalous Disassembly?

Or did you mean R.U.D. (Rapid Unscheduled/Unplanned Disassembly)?

Starship burns methane, not RP1.

Between SuperHeavy and Starship, a fully-loaded stack needs 3500 tons of LOX and 1000 tons of CH4. So what do those cost?

Well, oxygen is easy to get from the atmosphere, so the cost of LOX is really just some equipment (which isn't terribly expensive to buy and maintain) plus electricity, and the cost ends up being dominated by the cost of electricity. It takes between 150 kWh and 800 kWh to separate and liquify a ton of oxygen, so if you're paying $0.10 per kWh, LOX costs $15-80 per ton. There are some other costs to handle and store it, so let's say $100/ton.

CH4 can be created many ways. The cheapest is probably to purify natural gas, which costs about $190 per ton (that site shows ~$5 per 1000 ft^3, and a ton is 38k ft^3). Add some costs for purification and cooling, so call it $250/ton.

3500 tons LOX * $100/ton + 1000 tons CH4 * 250/ton = $600k. Musk usually calls it $1M, which seems pretty reasonable, since they're probably not separating/purifiying it themselves and there transportation costs. 150 tons of payload to LEO with $1M worth of fuel means the fuel-only cost is $6.67/kg.

Nonsense. Our only experience with reusable orbital rockets is the space shuttle, which was an unsustainably-expensive and complex beast that was more refurbishable than reusable and had a payload one fifth of what Starship is designed for. It's all of the differences that aim to make Starship both reusable and cheap that make it hard. It's possible that it's just too ambitious, that we don't yet have the technology to make a cheap, fully-reusable (not refurbishable, reusable) orbital rocket with massive capacity. No one else has done it... no one else is even trying, that's how hard it is.

Failure is expected. If they managed to launch and land both Starship and SuperHeavy in less than a dozen test flights, that would be the surprise.

I'm surprised, and you should be too, if your view is evidence-based, because this is a new effect that was not predicted by any of the previous models, which already consider the melting permafrost, methane emissions and fossil fuel use.

I won't be impressed until the AI has better recommendations than 4 out of 5 dentists.

Of all the things an elite group of people could do to control everyone else's lives, geoengineering schemes have to rank up there at the very top.

So a gay man in this 30s living under the same roof as a minor underage runaway boy is ok? Hussein Obama the Kenyan had no problem with it either, he named a Navy ship after this sick perverted MONSTER. The boy aged out of his boyhood andMilk Lost interest, as usually happens with gay male pedophile rapists and Milk kicked his adult gross hairy ass out into the streets. His heartbroken rape victim committed suicide not long after.

You are a permanent child. Living a life without responsibility just like Peter Pan. You know what you Lost Boys grew up into? Pirates. The enemies of all, especially real children. Ever wonder why normal people despise you? My guess is no. You just resent, like a child.

Far from perfect? The USA was founded in 1619 on slavery. Rah rah USA. It's always a pleasure to take a hot steaming diarrhea squirt in the mouths of you racists every year when you celebrate your insurrectionist behavior that failed on J6. Remind you of the Trail of Tears, smallpox blankets, sending ibm computers to the Nazis and letting Putin rule you through his puppet in the White House.

Did any Japanese ask you to fix their culture for them?No? You're like those Canadians who stole children from their parents to raise them correctly away from the backwards traditional ways And then put them into graves. If Japanese culture wants to die then that'stheir decision, not yours. Just remember to bury the children deep. Nonconsensual coercion is a crime against humanity.

Televangelists?it really bothers me how the hard left is still arguing against the enemies it defeated decades ago. And the old-fashioned "religion is a mental illness" crap that was old and busted even back before Reddit became a cenorship stronghold. Tips fedora: milady!

From Tesla Model 3 Service Manual

The cooling system contains an ethylene glycol (phosphate and nitrate free) based coolant.

So when Lindsey starts reading from her AmEx-approved script, callers are infuriated by what they perceive to be another machine.

If she's accurately executing the programmers' script, I'd say she is a machine. Somebody port Doom to her!