angiosperm

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by angiosperm 3y ago
We have also pumped a very large amount of long-lived fluorine compounds into the air, that will last for centuries. They have from 2500x to 25000x times the "greenhouse gas warming potential", kg for kg. They are mostly refrigera
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by angiosperm 3y ago
It should be obvious that a non-written language from 8000 years ago would not be spoken today, just as much newer languages Latin and Sanskrit are long dead, as was Hebrew until artificially revived. Spoken Hebrew is evolving fast.
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by angiosperm 3y ago
PIE is, exactly , the name of that ancestral language. We are able to deduce many details of that language from a large amount of distributed evidence about extant languages and extinct written languages. A great many details have been elu
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by angiosperm 3y ago
The existence of indo-european languages is itself ironclad evidence of the existence of a proto-indo-european language. The alternative would be that each of the populations speaking an indo-european language just made up identical vocabu
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by angiosperm 3y ago
For anybody who has doubted that history can be a science, consider the issue firmly resolved.
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by angiosperm 3y ago
You miss the point that the value of the outcomes correlates poorly with the expense of the experiment. Therefore, a hundred cheap experiments promise a hundred times the value of one expensive experiment. Compared to dark matter detection
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by angiosperm 3y ago
The ozone layer is considerably lower than the ionosphere. But it is probably equally as damaged by launches, and much, much slower to heal afterward.
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by angiosperm 3y ago
The Ozone Layer is considerably lower than the Ionosphere proper, and protects all surface life from ionizing solar UV radiation. It most likely is as damaged by rocket exhaust as the ionosphere, and much more slowly healed. That undoubtedl
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by angiosperm 3y ago
They could sell pieces of True Cross cut from scraps of it. The story of how it got transported from Judea to England and buried there is the stuff of legends.
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by angiosperm 3y ago
I appreciated that it listed "no destructors" immediately after the top-line "no garbage collection", so I didn't need to read any further. What it means is it offers no ability to encapsulate resource management, s
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by angiosperm 3y ago
Dollars have always been strictly quantitative. A dollar spent on experiment A is a dollar not spent on experiments B through Z.
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by angiosperm 3y ago
It makes plenty of sense to spend on a multitude of cheap experiments in place of vanishingly few super-expensive ones, and on a multitude of disparate, poorly understood phenomena instead of hammering away at just one.
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by angiosperm 3y ago
That is strictly true. However, it is not hard to gauge which phenomena are cheaper to experiment on. I would rather see a hundred independent phenomena pursued than just one. Since significance correlates so poorly with cost, odds favor mo
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by angiosperm 3y ago
It seems easy to imagine a universe in which dark matter, particles or otherwise, have literally no interactions with regular matter except via gravitation. All the efforts to spot such an interaction seem to be based purely on wishing th
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by angiosperm 3y ago
Whenever this topic comes up, there is a lot of hand-wringing as if the nightmare scenario were still in some misty future. It's not. AIs already control the world. They have proven indifferent to the welfare of humans. Perhaps the m