It's a minor experiment.
Is Bill Gates full of shit?
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It's a minor experiment.
Hitler just wanted that one little piece of Germany back...
Well, several things spring to mind.
190 nations have banned geoengineering because we don't know what unintended consequences might result from such ham-fisted tinkering with the atmosphere.
https://cen.acs.org/articles/88/i45/Countries-Agree-Ban-Geoengineering.html
Remember the Little Ice Age?
https://www.iceagenow.info/explosive-volcanism-triggered-little-ice-age/
What killed off the dinosaurs (and most other life?)
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...hoked-whole-world-in-dust-within-a-few-hours/
This experiment is like, as they say, a drop of water in an ocean.
It's to find the risks/benefits of geoengineering.
They said the same thing about various experiments since 1700's.
And please, GOD, do not invoke Godwin's law.
It's to find the risks/benefits of geoengineering.
They said the same thing about various experiments since 1700's.
And please, GOD, do not invoke Godwin's law.
Hitler would totally tell people not to go Godwin!!!
And you're right and wrong; it's an insane experiment now, but later it will be grossly misused to wreck/steal stuff.
It's an option. I guess he doesn't like to be bothered with notifications of likes/dislikes.
I did not know that!
How could Dutch Uncle confuse a petty thank-chaser like me with nobility like Legion?
I am above such petty acclamation.
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Legioncunt is afraid of the thousands of downvotes that would tumble down upon her ass.
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If you mean awesome POS then yeah, definitely.
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Bill Gates, the billionaire left-wing activist wants to save humanity.
He wants to dim the sun.
That’s right, the founder of Microsoft apparently thinks that the sun is the Blue Screen of Death in the sky and is funding research at Harvard University into dimming the sun to cool the earth.
The solar geoengineering project, called Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), will be flying a test balloon above Sweden next year as part of this research.
The plan is to eventually release 2 kg of calcium carbonate dust into the atmosphere in a year or two to study how what impact it may have.
You read that correctly.
They want to put chalk dust in the atmosphere. Are you old enough to have ever cleaned blackboard erasers for your teacher? That nasty cloud of chalk dust you inhaled during that process is what they want to put into the atmosphere.
What could possibly go wrong?
Who would have thought that the answer to “man-made climate change” would be more man-made climate change?
That said, environmentalists aren’t entirely on board. “There is no merit in this test except to enable the next step. You can’t test the trigger of a bomb and say ‘This can’t possibly do any harm’,” said Nicklas Hällström, director of the Swedish green think-tank WhatNext?
Of course, Hällström’s biggest issue with this concept is that he thinks that it will create the impression that we can still use fossil fuels.
There are several problems with this whole thing.
For starters, radical environmentalists can’t seem to decide whether "man-made climate change" is causing the earth to warm or cool.
That’s why what was once referred to as “global warming” is now called by the more vague term “climate change.”
Second, even if you ascribe to the idea that climate change is man-made and not part of a natural cycle, even the most radical of predictions refer to its impact of fractions of a degree over many, many decades.
Dimming the sun would likely have a more dramatic impact on global temperatures.
It is widely believed that the reason why dinosaurs were wiped out was an asteroid impact that released particles into the atmosphere, blocking the sun and causing a dramatic drop in global temperatures.
Is this really something we want to try ourselves?
Third, how would adding particles in the air contribute to the "greenhouse effect:?
Do we really want to find out?
https://news.trust.org/item/20201218140025-po1gu
I don't know about Bill Gates, but I know Legion is full of it.
T. A. Gardner
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Jobs and Wozniak were smarter in terms of the technology. The Apple I was quite innovative at the time (mostly Wozniak's doing). Jobs was largely responsible for the ideas that went into the Apple Mac including sizable fonts, and the Graphic User Interface (GUI) that he had Microsoft develop for him and which Gates then turned into Windows.
Everybody was stealing from everybody & making millions, but these guys weren't dumb to be sure!
Of course the whole idea of copyrighting is morally questionable; the Chinese are kind of right to ignore that stuff...
Amazon hires lobbyist brother of Biden White House counselor
Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of Biden’s White House counselor Steve Ricchetti, recently secured a lobbying contract with Amazon Services LLC.
The report shows Ricchetti registered to lobby for Amazon on Nov. 13.
For Amazon, it’s the latest move to quietly start preparing for the incoming Biden administration.
Reuters reported that two officials at the e-commerce company are working on the Biden agency review team.
Amazon executives are reportedly pushing allies for roles inside the Biden administration.
Amazon and Jeff Ricchetti did not return CNBC’s requests for comment.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/26/jeff-ricchetti-to-lobby-for-amazon-as-brother-becomes-joe-bidens-counselor.html