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by detritus 5y ago
Huh, I can't remember that [apparently fundamental] aspect of those two books. I'm going to see if I still have a copy of Forge of God on the bookshelf when I get home later, thanks. Last time I re-read one of his books (Eon, prob
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by detritus 5y ago
Aye, the basic concept was covered in this a couple of decades ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Star (which has just about as dark a conclusion as Cixin's trilogy does), but it was the actual Dark
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by detritus 5y ago
Implying that Blue origin is even slower-moving than those two incumbents?
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by detritus 5y ago
Huh. I could've sworn the name and concept of the Dark Forest hypothesis predated Liu Cixin's book. Obviously I have it completely arse-about-face - I thought he developed the series based upon the concept, not the other way aroun
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by detritus 5y ago
Scanning quickly down the page to the first schematics as I did, I thought "but this thing's tiny? and so arbitraily-sized!", so scrolled back up a wee bit. Ah, of course. Inches. Stuff this scale should be drawn in millimetr
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by detritus 5y ago
And people have spent millennia over-extracting plants, leading to erosion and desertification and subsequent changes of local weather patterns (precipitation, humidity, etc). If they'd known to replenish and make broader use of their
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by detritus 5y ago
When I posted the above last night, I sat there wondering whether I could Just Transition and somehow get a job in this field (scuse the pun) and had an idle fantasisation about the possibilities, but sadly my skillsets are uselessly-irrele
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by detritus 5y ago
Thank you for this. What's amusing to me here is that each year I collect a load of chestnuts and try and plant them about. I do it for a variety of inane personal reasons - I hadn't appreciated that there are a load of useful rea
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by detritus 5y ago
Start making it in Egypt or Tripoli? People in deserts shit too, I think.
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by detritus 5y ago
A city such as London (where I'm at) generates about 3600 tonnes of wet mass poop a day. Thanks for making me work that out... . Given poop isn't even a main constituent ingredient in new soil, but rather forms the 'flavourin
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by detritus 5y ago
Soil. It's soil. Soil, in prodigious quantities. We need to be making it. Using human waste - food and faecal from our cities; Using whatever plant fixes the most CO2 in a useful form that we can turn into charcoal (quick trees? bamboo
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by detritus 5y ago
You didn't go wrong, not at all.
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by detritus 5y ago
I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere here already by someone, but I've always thought that converting felled 'sequestration stock' to bio-char and making terra preta out of it would be win-win-win, as it could the
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by detritus 5y ago
I have literally no idea how I missed that. Moron! Still, being dropped into that example doesn't really put me anywhere useful. A quick video or some quick step-through from the homepage would be good. How did I miss that button?!
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by detritus 5y ago
Sadly, it appears that quip was a 'too delicious' a misinterpretation to correct. https://www.scmp.com/article/970657/not-letting-facts-ruin-g... But sssh! Don't tell anyone else.
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by detritus 5y ago
I'm afraid that I disagree with your appreciation of the landing page. It seems, from first blush, that I can't get an immediate sense of what it does and how it does so, exactly. A link to some video description or example would
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by detritus 5y ago
Never change, HN.
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by detritus 5y ago
There's also the Bill Gates-backed solar-concentrator tech that came out of stealth mode a couple of years back... https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/heliogen-solar-e...
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by detritus 5y ago
I hope you apply as critical a reflection to your own country, wherever it is, as you do Britain. I'd be curious to know why you think the general British populace is so self-revelatory - did you or do you now live here? Was that your
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Made of Air is a carbon negative materials company(madeofair.com)
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by detritus 5y ago
We Can Do This™ - ed. For clarification, I imagine that I personally can't, so instead: It Can Be Done™
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by detritus 5y ago
I must admit, I don't understand why Gibraltar doesn't have this status within the UK. Falklands et al too. Especially now, in the post-Brexit era. France and Holland do as much with their otherwise-described colonies abroad.
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by detritus 5y ago
I don't know why, but I've had this gut-wrenching feeling for a couple of years now that Something Terrible is going to happen to this before it gets into position at L2. I really hope not, obviously, but this seems like an All Yo
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by detritus 5y ago
You mean Presto? :) (Then Safeways, then Morrisons, then something else I think, and now Eroski. I do love that Gibraltar has a Basque supermarket, within spitting distance of the border, haha :)
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by detritus 5y ago
But in this instance it's not 'bull'. Sadly, for much of the past few decades, the UK government hasn't really cared much for Gibraltar, after scaling back its global spread. Its contemporary value is much diminished and
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by detritus 5y ago
Given the Convention of the High Seas was only formalised in 1958 - 245 years after the Treaty of Utrecht - that seems like a bit of a curious drum for Spain to keep banging. A not unsurprising drum, but .. well, Spain. To be clear - I love
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by detritus 5y ago
So you're familiar with the Guarda Civil's regular incursions into Gibraltar waters and their frequent games at the border, slowing things down so that crossing takes many, many hours? Such actions happened prior to the treaty of
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by detritus 5y ago
The tunnel is actually still on, and should be completed by the end of the year.
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by detritus 5y ago
How's the air up there? The UK government's been half-heartedly trying to offload Gibraltar for decades now, but the local populace have pretty much unanimously set against any such effort, especially after the Border Closure brou
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by detritus 5y ago
Yes, it is. Gibraltar is British, so most things are named in English, especially significant things. The local Spanish dialect - Llanito - would also refer to it as Punta de Europa, but that doesn't much change what it's actually

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