Are you saying that sleeping under full moon levels of illumination is not something animals would have dealt with since time immemorial?
Are you saying that sleeping under full moon levels of illumination is not something animals would have dealt with since time immemorial?
What on earth is this video from; I’ve never seen it before.
Given the statement was by the US organization NOAA they probably mean night in North America.
Not really, see my other comment on the post for what I think about the article.
I looked at the paper they’re talking about (which has not yet been peer reviewed), and I couldn’t find any past peer reviewed research from the author. The paper also doesn’t really explain any of its arguments past referencing sometimes unrelated stuff that “sounds scientific,” so I suspect it will be rejected from any reasonable journal. One example is the statement that the Van Allen belts protect earth, they are just belts of captured particles that could have been harmful to earth. There have been proposals to eliminate them to protect satellites (see https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD1095699.pdf). Also I don’t like how they keep using their quoted van allen belt mass of 180 mg to make other numbers seem very large, what makes the Van Allen belts relevant is their electrons have a lot of energy (moving at >0.2 c), whereas the particulate from reentry is much lower energy. The paper doesn’t explain how lots of low energy particulate is related to a tiny amount of captured high energy radiation, so mass comparisons between them (“a billion times heavier”) don’t make sense.
Because that is the necessary condition for the primary attack people are worried about right now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later. We have plenty of information that could still be damaging if decrypted in 100 years.
What makes you think someone won’t manage to develop a performant large-scale quantum computer in the next hundred years? Just 90 years ago standard computers were still more or less electromechanical arithmetic machines.
It is actually possible to take out a loan against a 401(k), up to $50k depending on account balance (https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/retirement-plans-faqs-regarding-loans). Usually they have low interest rates, and the interest is placed back into the 401(k).
Definitely safer than nuclear /s
Yeah, on rereading I see that I originally missed the specific mention of densities causing them to separate (instead of just “less oxygen”), so I now agree with the objection.
When they said oxygen levels go down, they presumably meant that the partial pressure goes down. That’s what people probably think of anyway since that necessitates supplemental oxygen (if you are high enough).
The other person was wrong, the article says the wall is being torn down because the people in charge on richer side were given 180 days to do it by a court. Trees are going to be planted where the wall was.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fft2.407
There is utility to being able to detect the presence of the things different tastes are supposed to detect (protein, sugars, acid, salt, toxins) at various points in the digestive tract as well, so your body know when to do things like empty the stomach or release certain digestive enzymes in the gut. Or make you vomit if you eat something toxic.