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8y ago
Please reconsider your thoughts on this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_bleaching
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction ?
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Well in my layman's understanding, rockets generally need a fuel and some kind of oxidizer since there is no free oxygen in space. Hence, the LOX?
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Indeed. Coral reefs are important nursery's for many fish species, and reducing the areas for fish to safely grow up puts yet another pressure on declining fish stocks. Not to mention marine crustaceans that are also affected by rising
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>Goldstein, Natalie (2009). Global Warming. Infobase Publishing. p. 53. "The last time acidification on this scale occurred (about 65 mya) it took more than 2 million years for corals and other marine organisms to recover; some scie
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What orbital rockets today are launching a 1st stage with liquid oxygen and hydrogen? I thought they are mostly used for upper stages where they are required for combustion in space. For example, the Falcon 9 uses LOX and refined kerosene i
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Every category you purport to be causes for celebration are presently reversing themselves the world over due to ignorant, nationalist, neo-fascist governments like the one systematically dismantling the EPA discussed in the article.
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I'm referring to their organized snubbing of Bernie, which was out in the open when it comes down to it.
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Yes their backroom dealings were/are unethical, and its exposure surely help them to lose the election, but was any of it actually illegal? To put it another way, evidence brought forward in a court of law supposedly has limits placed
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One I pondered is how some cities have a primary axis offset a few degrees from N/S, either more to the East or more to the West and how that might be related to their location in a given time zone with respect to where the sun rises&#
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I too am saddened by this information :(
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https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/2050828...
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I'm not trying to defend this, just providing the FCC's context: >`Complaints filed through the Consumer Complaint Center are categorized as "informal" complaints. There is no fee for filing an informal complaint. If
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Myself, I'm not convinced plastic is more harmful to the immediate environment in this application than the tar/bitumen itself. It does seem the issue of plastic shedding into the environment has not been investigated enough, but
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>The bitumen-modified plastic improved the tensile strength of the road by making it more durable and flexible. Plastic also prevented pothole formation. When the layer of molten plastic filled the space between the gravel and bitumen it
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My comment was tongue-in-cheek that the Carcross isn't a desert either, and the article claiming it was the "world's smallest desert" was wrong in both size and the erroneous statement that it is a desert. >The dry cl
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If we're talking "deserts" in the sense that there is a bunch of sand and some dunes, then I'd hazard that the Desert of Maine[0] wins this contest at 600 acres smaller (.16km^2 in total) than the Carcross desert (2.6km^
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>THC is already an approved drug in the US under the name nabilone. It’s schedule 2. Nabilone is a THC analog , with a slightly different molecular makeup than THC extracted from Cannabis. So no, THC is not schedule 2 under US law, as i
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Which brings us around to the subject of the article ;)
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8 million -> 13 million metric tons (+60% increase) of Methane seems like a big jump.
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In case you're wondering, burning natural gas does produce ~half the CO2 you would release from burning various types of coal, [0] the dirtiest (yes, much worse than all of the nuclear power accidents combined[1]) of all methods of ele
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A valid point! Thanks for postulating!
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>And we can't have a different answer for 1-on-1 chats and group chats. What might be the reasoning here that Keybase won't do it yet Signal messenger does start the timer on the "receive" end?
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Short answer, yes, it can remain in soil attached to root vegetables and be taken up into the tubers themselves, less so with leaf material, and further less so with fruits. It depends on the concentration of lead in the soil, the type of s
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This separation needs to end. The sooner, the better. Alcohol is very much a drug. "An estimated 88,0008 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women8) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading p
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Well they must be convinced one way or another.
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NBC from 2003: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3071789/ns/us_news-only/t/go-pills...
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Not just Germany, or Japan, but US Bomber pilots used Amphetamines in WW2[0], and the infantry in Vietnam[1]. [0] https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/JINH_a_00212 (I could only find this abstract about US
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Ah so that's the "Peace" song that plays when Alexander comes grovelling. Very cool.
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I really wish I could downvote you for spreading FUD. https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/file/Hawaii+Carbon+Dioxide+Tim...
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