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News Briefs 15-06-2009

Late news? That’s what happens when you unintentionally spend 15 hours curing a sleep debt.

Thanks, Greg.

Quote of the Day:

Without basketry there would be no civilisations. You can’t bring thousands of people together unless you can supply them, you can’t bring in supplies to feed populations without containers. In the early days of civilisations these containers were basketry.

We may think of baskets as humble, but other people and cultures don’t. They have been used for storage, for important religious and ceremonial processes, even for bodies in the form of coffins.

Sandy Heslop, School of World Art and Museology at UEA, in Basket Weaing May Have Taught Humans to Count.

  1. Re. Quote of the Day.
    [quote]Without basketry there would be no civilisations. You can’t bring thousands of people together unless you can supply them, you can’t bring in supplies to feed populations without containers.[/quote]

    I’m pretty sure this will be exploited in the new marketing strategy for Tupperware 😉

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    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

  2. Grey hair
    Grey hair may be caused by damage in DNA, but IMO it’s also the result of an evolutionary trait.

    Just like Alopecia (a.k.a. male baldness), male specimens with greying hair might have been favored by females, because a white head is a clear sign that his owner has survived enough time to reach old age.

    As for me, I just find it annoyingly ironic that, at 35, I’m beginning to show some gray hairs in my beard, but I ALSO suffer from the occasional case of acne. I tried for many years to get rid of the acne, but I’ve given up, consoling myself with the delusion that the pimples might protect me from wrinkles in the years to come 😉

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    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

  3. Satellite data on incoming fireballs now classified
    I think the theory of this Space.com poster is very interesting (it’s the very first post):

    [quote]Sounds to me that the US military is preparing to test some re-entry vehicles. Since they no longer report when a fireball will happen they also won’t have to explain what a fireball was. I can hear it now… “We don’t know what that anomoly [sic] was because we are no longer keeping track of them.”[/quote]

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    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

  4. Oceans apart
    The synergy between ocean currents and magnetic fields is why we should be worried about melting polar caps. The GW deniers CAN NOT deny oceanography data that clearly shows the world’s major ocean currents are changing temperatures due to melting ice from the south and north ice caps. Australian research in Antarctica shows a major current that runs from the Antarctic through both Atlantics is changing. And the run-off from this is more erratic weather, heatwaves in summer, cold snaps in winter, etc.

    Was Charles Hapgood right?

    1. mixing
      Rick MG you are mixing a whole bunch of things here.

      Of course ocean currents have a significant impact on global climate. This things are a major transport of heat and cold.

      Melting ice affects the currents.

      The changing currents make it warmer, wetter, colder, drier, in various places.

      So a change in these ocean currents causes climate changes.

      What is NOT clear if this is happening because of increased CO2 levels due to industrialization. It is not even clear that it is cure to increases CO2 levels.

      If you have access to the computer simulation models, please tell me where I can find them.

      Another question is whether or not climate change is bad or good.

      But again, please if you have a source for the simulation method, please let me know where I can find it.

      Not the interpretation, the method of how they do this. I want to know. In case I can understand the computer programs (there is more than 1). And trust me, I can understand most computer programs.

      Over here, it has been colder than usual for the last 2 years or so.

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      It is not how fast you go
      it is when you get there.

      1. plate tectonics
        Aside from the affect it might have on the magnetic field, I’m worried about what all the extra-weight from the melting ice might affect the tectonic plates. Could it result in more underwater volcanic eruptions? More earthquakes?

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

        1. extra weight?
          If anything there is less weight on the continents where there are glaciers. Most of the north polar ice is floating, so the weight doesn’t change. The water, once melted, would go somewhere else, true.

          Check post glacial rebound for some of the effects. Parts of North America and Europe are still rising, because the last ice age was cancelled, due to lack of interest, or perhaps due to public protest.

          I’m not sure what the weight of the ice is in relation to the weight of the ocean water. I doubt that it has much significance.

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          It is not how fast you go
          it is when you get there.

          1. Action/Reaction
            [quote]If anything there is less weight on the continents where there are glaciers.[/quote]

            That could have consequences too. Isn’t a drop in atmospheric pressure one of the first heralds of an incoming tornado?

            But maybe you’re right. maybe the effects of this climate change will be felt through centuries to come, just as we are still sensing the effects of the last Ice Age.

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

          2. old oceans and ice beds
            If you haven’t already, look at the wikipedia post glacial rebound page. It’s not particularly political. But it does offer some info about how and why coastlines change.

            I dont live in the mountains, never have. So I spent most of my life on what was the bottom of the sea. Where I live now, you can see what was coastline and what was beach. Now it is very nice flat agricultural land.

            Have to make some good pictures of that, and post them on my blog site.

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            It is not how fast you go
            it is when you get there.

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