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Comment Re:CO2 levels correlated with sea level rise? (Score 1) 147

Sorry I don't see the change in rate of increase before 1940 compared to after when CO2 really started rising quickly. If the last 75 years data has a curve it is very slight.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=8724580

Comment Re:CO2 levels correlated with sea level rise? (Score 1) 147

You can see the slow rise better with the larger graph from that page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise#/media/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png
My point is that we are in a post glacial period with slow sea level rise. Now compare the linear sea level rise in the tide gauge data to the exponential CO2 level rise and from predictions we should see a curve upward in sea level and we don't. CO2 levels really took off during WWII and here 75 years later we are not seeing the exponential rise predicted.

Found a tide gauge in San Francisco with a longer history for further reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise#/media/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png

 

Comment CO2 levels correlated with sea level rise? (Score 2, Interesting) 147

Take a look at real sea level rise at https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=8724580
Now take a look at the historical sea level rise at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level and note the Post Glacial sea level rise, sea levels are rising but slowly and consistently over the last 2000 years.

Does sea level and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere correlate? Check out https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide and scroll down a little to the second chart and see the recent exponential rise in CO2 and compare the the flat sea level rise over the last hundred years. This is what convinced me that sea level rise is not correlated with CO2 levels.

Technology

Using EMP To Punch Holes In Steel 165

angrytuna writes "The Economist is running a story about a group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology in Chemnitz, Germany, who've found a way to use an EMP device to shape and punch holes through steel. The process enjoys advantages over both lasers, which take more time to bore the hole (0.2 vs. 1.4 seconds), and by metal presses, which can leave burrs that must be removed by hand."
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M.U.L.E. Is Back 110

jmp_nyc writes "The developers at Turborilla have remade the 1983 classic game M.U.L.E. The game is free, and has slightly updated graphics, but more or less the same gameplay as the original version. As with the original game, up to four players can play against each other (or fewer than four with AI players taking the other spots). Unlike the original version, the four players can play against each other online. For those of you not familiar with M.U.L.E., it was one of the earliest economic simulation games, revolving around the colonization of the fictitious planet Irata (Atari spelled backwards). I have fond memories of spending what seemed like days at a time playing the game, as it's quite addictive, with the gameplay seeming simpler than it turns out to be. I'm sure I'm not the only Slashdotter who had a nasty M.U.L.E. addiction back in the day and would like a dose of nostalgia every now and then."

Comment Welded??? (Score 1) 1044

I really worry more about the method of closure more than anything. Anybody ever seen the smoke coming off of a welding electrode? Can't be good for any media. First if you decide on any media such as DVD or CD then definitely use vacuum seal bags with some kind of internal frame/box to keep the vacuum on the bag from warping the media (if it needs to spin when read)

Otherwise make sure the welder understands that ~no~ gas from the welding process can enter the protected enclosure. Filling the enclosure with nitrogen (good) or helium (best) would be advisable.

Welded??? How the heck are the future pic viewers supposed to open the vessel??? What if they whip out the old cutting torch and slice it right through the middle with nice big lumps of slag dropping on your oh so carefully preserved media??

Think of a better way of enclosing such as a vacuum sealed box inside a sealed 30 gallon drum inside a sealed 55 gallon drum sealed in concrete.

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