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Comment · 3 years ago
Birds and little critters to be relocated to affordable housing in San Marcos.

But seriously why can't we just start building more net-zero natural gas plants that take up 1/100 of the land area? This is insane.

Comment · 4 years ago
Don Draper would have vanished for a year-long bender if he read this
Comment · 4 years ago
Never heard of that song! Sounds awful.
Comment · 4 years ago
My aunt, recently retired from the printing industry, has regaled me with many tales of the intricacies and complications she went through to print everything from Harry Potter to Jocko Willink. Kindles were also banned from entering her home.
Comment · 4 years ago
That's a good human survival play book. But what are we capable of now to clean the planet after a quadrillion tons of ash and fire hits our atmosphere.
Comment · 4 years ago
Absolutely agree with this point! You also raised another interesting idea - since we don't know when a giant impact or similar catastrophic event will occur, we can't categorize it as a near-term risk or long-term risk. It could happen anytime within the near to long range. How are risks on that broad time scale defined?

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