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Comment Without Actual DATA ..... (Score 1) 104

Without having actual data on what conditions are required for "Life As We DON'T Know It", any statistical tricks are merely guesses. Here on Earth, life exists in a wide variety of environments, from sandy beaches to deep-sea fumaroles to icy mountaintops - and everywhere in between. We do not know, and CANNOT GUESS, what conditions might exist on other planets, or on moons like Titan, Ganymede or Europa, and have almost ZERO information about conditions that might exist on planets about which we know next-to-nothing.

Comment A Foolish Expenditure (Score 1) 98

"Climate change" is a CYCLE, a thousand years long. Like winters and summers, the planet gets warmer and cools off in cycles that no human lifespan can encompass. This cycle is about at its peak, and it will begin to cool off "soon" - probably by 2050 or so. Doing some sort of IRREVERSABLE geo-engineering action would exacerbate the depths of the cooling cycle, and probably cause incalculable misery.

At the peak of the last cycle, Vikings grew barley and had dairy farms on Greenland. At the peak of the previous cycle, Romans grew wine grapes near London. It's been warm before. And it has been cool before; in the 1700's, Londoners built villages on the ice of the frozen Thames River and held "frost faires".

Comment Bill Gates the Terrorist (Score 1) 140

So after trying to engineer the next population-reducing pandemic and trying to eliminate agriculture, Bill Gates is _ALSO_ trying to turn every PC into government spyware. I'm especially glad now that we never "upgraded" to Windoze 11.

And now that I've stopped playing World of Warcraft, there is no longer anything holding me to Microsoft, so I can switch to Linux. Perhaps not "with ease", but it'll be possible.

Comment They've Said That Before (Score 0) 117

The Arctic Ocean Could Be 'Ice-Free' Within the Decade? Didn't they say that 10 years ago? It wasn't true then, and it still isn't true. In fact, based on the pattern of sunspots over the last 50 years, we can expect a COOLING trend over the next 40-50 years.

Climate change is real, and it's happening, but it's a CYCLE 1000+ years long. It's been this hot, and hotter, before; at the peak of the last cycle, the Vikings had dairy farms on Greenland - which was, at the time, a green land, which was why Leif Erickson named the place as he did. And 500 years later, we had a "little ice age", with "Frost Faires" each winter, when buildings would be erected on the frozen Thames, which would last for a month or so. And the Hans Christian Andersen stories of skating on the frozen canals? That really happened. In 1777, George Washington's troops dragged cannon across the FROZEN SOLID Hudson River. But neither the Hudson nor the Thames have frozen in a century.

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