Same, especially because I’m a frequent sky-looker but have to prepare any ride-along that all we’re going to see by eye is pale fuzzy blobs. All my camera is going to show you tonight is pale sprindly clouds. I think it’s neat as hell I can use some $150 binoculars to find interstellar objects, but many people are bored by the lack of Hubble-quality sights on tap. Like… Yes, and then sent a telescope to space in order to get those images.

That being said, I once had the opportunity to see the Orion nebula through a ~30" reflector at an Observatory, and damn. I got to eyeball about what my camera can do in a single frame with perfect tracking and settings.

Projecting what he wants to be true, hoping everyone just accepts it. Ti’s the fascist’s way

I’m wondering the same. Like was it really some standard cut and paste work and then some generative fill? It’s got a certain 00s vintage look to it like it’s not current interpretations of “AI” with text prompt input.

Huh, I thought the cash value wasafter taxes

Most of the land in the US does not have million dollar 3 bed homes, but I bet most of the population lives within a commute’s distance where it’s true. I was expecting the quotes around “modest” to do some heavy lifting in both directions. Could be an apartment in a cultural center, could be an extraordinary place in the mountains. Winner’s preference

I understand the instant payout’s attraction. In this case, it makes you nearly a billionaire. It solves every financial problem a normal person has immediately. Take the payout, buy a “modest” $1 million home, live lavishly by spending $1,000 every day for 90 years straight, and still have $800 million left - still nearly a billionaire

No no, I understand the improbability and don’t play, which means I’m better than everyone who does. Quit having fun. Right? Right?

It just makes me wonder why they bother stamping the book then if they don’t stamp anything supplemental with the card.

Right, I understand the difference in which the book is required and the card is insufficient. I’m just confused on how the card saved your book. You said they were stamping the book when you made land crossings. Instead, to save your book, you brought the card, which they obviously couldn’t stamp. So what did they do instead? Issue no stamps at all? Stamp something else? Whatever they did instead, could that alternative not also be applied to the book? I’ve only ever used my book by plane, so I don’t know what the alternatives are

Adding that there’s also many cartoon skins that use cel shading, which I assume is part of why this looks so weird if you’re not up to date at all. Peter Griffin might be the earliest I remember, but there’s dozens now. They had a whole Simpsons season recently.

That makes sense. There’s some basic requirement for height and width to make you a standard shooting target for which SpongeBob would not work.

Do they stamp something to supplement the card? Is that not an option with the passport book?

It’s not a surprise to those of us, still scrolling through this thread of interest. And yet, there’s still more people who weren’t sure if the prior claims were true and yet more that still don’t give a fuck.

OK, so you don’t have fossil-fuel-free solutions, either, and you don’t have a reasonable plan to handle night time energy needs. You specifically said that utilizing fossil fuels at all was an issue, including for production of renewable, with the claim about not being able to source a turbine without fossil fuel use. It sounds like you don’t understand that “night” happens during normal human waking hours, that there are actual activities and demand for energy specifically at night, and that there is no direct path to a fossil-fuel-free energy solution. I have no idea how subsidizing alternates erases fossil fuels for your idea.

Its the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and I have 8.5 hours of daylight today. That’s about 4 hours of decent solar production without clouds, since the sun is so low. I guess I’ll just try sleeping, without electric heat (since CNG is a fossil and solar is dormant), for 14 hours tonight from dusk to dawn (5pm-7am). Wait, solar panels are still using fossil fuels for production, so those are out. Is a wood stove OK? It’s renewable, but it’s a major CO2 burden, much worse than CNG. Can’t mine lithium or nuclear material with the existing industry, all runs on petroleum. I’m not sure if life is worth living, as every waking hour has been spent at work, using the small time frame to try to support myself financially.

This also means no activity can occur at night. No manufacturing? Triple the facility sizes to allow the “night time” morning shift and the “night time” late night shift to operate with the daytime shift. Can’t go anywhere, can’t entertain myself, can’t eat, can’t enjoy anything other than lying in the dark, waiting for the sun to come back. That’s weird, putting all the overnight demand in the daytime is causing brownouts because we couldn’t triple our energy production. But hey, the burden is being shared and we’re all miserable for 5 straight months. But the summer will be rad with only demanding 8 hours of dormancy.

Look at the project. It’s not a continuous production of CO2. It says this one contains 2,000 tonnes of CO2 and produces 200MWh/day. A CNG power plant is somewhere in the range of 0.5kg CO2/kWh. That’s 10,000kg CO2 from CNG for 20MWh, or 10 tonnes. In just 200 days, a CNG plant of the same capacity will produce as much CO2 as this entire facility contains.

Bashing innovative projects like this for being anything less than a time machine to go pure nuclear actively hurts progress. Is that your goal? To maintain the status quo?

What’s your plan that doesn’t utilize the existing fossil fuel industry at all to go cold turkey on oil and full throttle on renewable?

Also, per the article, the danger zone in a burst is only claimed to be 70m until cleared and the CO2 release still pales in comparison to a regular coal plant - “equivalent to 15 round trips between New York and London on a Boeing 777”

I bet the weather will be nice there during the climate wars. Mountains are a nice touch for the sea level wars, although sea levels might drop a bit at Greenland anyway, as the rise will disproportionately affect equatorial land more. Ironic, since Greenland is a significant contributor to landlocked ice loss.

Maybe because trunk-or-treat proponents have finally found their proof of tampered food?

I’m guessing indirect contact. Spray on bag, touch bag, take out food, eat finger food, potentially lick fingers, too.