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Then again, maybe renewable energy sources would not be so inefficient and economically costly if more companies invested more heavily in research & development to make renewable energy sources more efficient sooner rather than later.
You spend more money now to make them more efficient, they become more efficient/cheaper sooner, you get off fossil fuels and on economically-sound renewable energy much faster.
While you have a point about the current state of renewables (“how things are”), thwap also has a point about where we need to go with renewables (“how things ought to be”).
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True, but at least it doesn’t emit CO2.
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Which sellers of gasoline (not oil) have gas prices that are not subject to the commodities market?
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Why? If anything, I’d be more worried about a platform if no one knew anything about the current state of security of a platform. At least we have a better idea now of what’s wrong with iTunes, and it will force Apple to take a much much closer look at iTunes’ security to make sure something like this can never happen again.
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Or to take it one step further, the biology/microbiology of ET lifeforms could be toxic to the bacteria/viruses of our planet.
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Neither is meta-cynicism. Zing!
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We’re trying, but the “free market” essentially gives zero fucks
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Why would a Chinese media organization lie about this? If anything, Chinese government-controlled media reports would block this kind of story because it promotes Google in a small but clear way.
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What’s the worst that could happen?
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A meta-placebo?
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The 2010s: the pseudo-8-bit/16-bit video games revolution
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You’re right, he doesn’t have the same voice. That’s not to say his voice is worse, though. It’s just different.
Tyson is very capable and competent at explaining massive concepts in a simple and profound way.
The only proof I need to provide to support this claim is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU
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hahahahaha
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Unfortunately, hypothesized effects of less gravitational pull might not mean much if the reality of the situation, i.e., the evidence, shows otherwise.
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We all love how it also spawns armchair cynics galore who really don’t contribute much except a vain attempt to alienate.
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just change your stock photos already for infosec/cybersec, The Verge
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Recommended leguevin1's comment in Ventus: can we crowdsource the fight against global warming?
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No. Go away, confused hippie.
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Regardless of whether or not the U.S. is one of the cleanest places in the world in terms of CO2 output, this Ventus project is meant to be used worldwide, not just in the US.
It sounds like you’re making an argument against a point that was never raised. No one is claiming that the U.S. is one of the worst fossil fuel offenders. Why even bring it up?
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Cryptic does not mean impossible to understand or unknowable. It just means mysterious. After a certain amount of time spent thinking about a movie, anyone can certainly determine the plot and meaning of it, even for a movie like 2001.
Most people after watching 2001 for the first time probably walked away scratching their heads about several parts of the movie. Why did HAL kill the astronauts? What exactly made it malfunction? What was the purpose of the monoliths? What was the deal with the atemporal David Bownman scene near the end of the movie? What the hell was that giant floating fetus?
Compare to many other movies at the time and even of today, 2001 is definitely very cryptic. If you watch it a few more times after first viewing it, it becomes easier to understand, but by itself upon initially viewing it and compared to many other movies (even the Shining) it’s cryptic.
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Why doesn’t 2001 deserve the “moniker” of one of the most cryptic film ever made? Also, the phrase you’re looking for is superlative award, not moniker.
Also, why not acid-infused futurism? Do you not remember this scene:
That’s just the acid-infused part. The futurism part is the entire movie.
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“Think about it,” Gingrich says, “this device is something new and different. I’ve been calling it a handheld computer, but I decided that’s really misleading.”
Everyone has been calling it a smartphone or the brand of smartphone specifically.
The fact that he doesn’t realize this and is trying to devise a new name for it is what sounds clueless.
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Ah, yes: chemicals. Scary!!
