markbnine
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Comment · 2 years ago
Wood burning can be made sustainable. Where I live, the forest service encourages people to take dead trees out of the forest. It reduces the fire load. And building codes and EPA certs have done a lot to clean up wood stoves. https://www.epa.gov/burnwise
Comment · 4 years ago
Aren't microplastics already in chickens? Do they get passed to the eggs? If so, where do you filter microplastics first. . . the chicken or the egg?
Comment · 5 years ago
LROC, which may be the closest we have in volume to a lunar telescope, sends its data back to Earth. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/about
LROC is one of seven instruments on board LRO. Together, these instruments have a downlink allocation of 310 Gbits per Ka band pass and up to 4 passes per day. That translates into 155 GBytes per day of data or 56,575 GBytes per year (55 TBytes). These data are processed by each respective instrument's Science Operation Center (SOC) with the final products being delivered to the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS).
Comment · 5 years ago
Good documentary on this: https://frontlinetv.com/plastic-wars-full-film
Comment · 6 years ago
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms... HDT
I've lived in the forest for the last ten years. Nothing better. Sure there's risks; there's risks everywhere.
Comment · 6 years ago
If you're looking for a rabbit hole, after Dave left Wired, he started his own blog: https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/
Comment · 6 years ago
Me thinks they used the Fantasy Place Name generator. . . https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fantasy-town-names.php
Comment · 6 years ago
Be patient. . . there's people working on that.
Comment · 6 years ago
Here is a recent Frontline on how the petro-chem industry fooled consumers: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/. Advocates may be gearing up for a lawsuit, similar to what happened to the cigarette companies.
Comment · 7 years ago
Do you ever get that creepy feeling that HN is being used for guerrilla advertising?
Comment · 7 years ago
My dad often said, "When you are cold, eat ice cream. It lowers your mean temperature."
That said, we always knew he just wanted ice cream.
Comment · 9 years ago
Our local library is more like a free internet shop with half the terminals taken up by transients and the other half by kids from the nearby jr. high, playing shoot-em ups. It's impossible to get a terminal. They also have a huge DVD collection that rivals the old blockbusters. Not sure who's checking out books anymore.
Comment · 9 years ago
For NASA image data, you can go to the PDS: http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html The Atlas has access to the mission released data. There is also link to PILOT, which has quick access to MESSENGER data and some Dawn data. New Horizons will be added soon.
Although there is a learning curve to processing and projecting raw imagery (using ISIS), it's gotten simpler. You can now use gdal to generate images.
Blog: https://fakemountain.com
Work: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/mark-bailen
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