| Author | Message | ||
     Hootowl |
Sodium chloride is water soluble. If you drink enough water, you don't really have to worry about sodium intake, unless you already have blood pressure issues. Like most of the 'foods that will kill us' in the 70s and 80s, salt turned out to be not all that bad after all. And the food they said was safer than plain old fat, man made transfats, are just about the worst thing you can put in your body. Except cocaine. And bullets. | ||
| Court |
>>> And bullets. True  But . . .the good news is . . . they took 2 out and I only have 98. | ||
| Hootowl |
I always suspected you were full of crap. Now I have a picture to prove it!     | ||
| Court |
Hahahahah . . . and RIGHT you were ! | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-pro blems/researchers-say-frequent-ejaculation-could-s ave-mens-lives/news-story/dedd2ce2cb85c9cf6ff67f24 c455dbe5 I know young men used to tell girls they had medical needs...........  Now we have proof! | ||
| Aesquire |
Odds on this having any impact on adult females in long term relationships? How do you figure the odds? I got maniacal laughter. And advice to keep dreaming. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/07/04/ucla-prof essors-blame-number-of-cars-in-los-angeles-for-soc ial-injustices/ Spacial injustice? I'd love to have these nutty professors give their lecturers on how car culture is evil to the low rider clubs of LA. Or the black gay motorcycle club in Rochester N.Y.. ......... but they'd urinate uncontrollably in either neighborhood. No, I'm not a member, but I've talked bikes with them while working in their 'hood, and they are a much nicer bunch of fellows than progressive professors. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/05/exclusive-study- finds-temperature-adjustments-account-for-nearly-a ll-of-the-warming-in-climate-data/ The Global Warming profiteers find it dangerous to elevate minority opinions in science. Never mind that polls, minority or majority have nothing to do with science. But everything to do with Power. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/07 /delingpole-record-breaking-cold-in-greenland-alar mists-look-an-arctic-squirrel/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://spectator.org/41862_scientific-pretense-vs -democracy/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/1 0/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-under way-scientists-warn Despite the hype and that some of the authors have been wrong before, I generally agree. The answer is almost certainly not what the authors would propose. ( at a guess a totalitarian planetary government, since that's usually it ) I propose we breed and release predators in urban areas. Lions and tigers and...... oh my. I suggest Washington D.C. and Georgetown as the first experimental location. A Jurassic park type cloning of raptor and terror birds would be thrilling too. Think you'd like to hunt terror birds? | ||
| Ducbsa |
An M240 might do for that. | ||
| Aesquire |
Boar spear & sling seasons only Gotta be period correct. Mammoth season is spear only. ( bows not invented yet ) Velociraptors were the size of turkeys. Since there weren't any human hunters I'm good with shotguns. They also hunt in packs so big mag tubes. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Oh, no, you are wrong. In Jurassic Park, they were big. | ||
| Aesquire |
Must have been the frog DNA. In the movies, Utah Raptor just didn't sound as cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahraptor  | ||
| Gaesati |
Meanwhile, a trillion ton iceberg broke off Antarctica and the permafrost is melting in siberia and northern Canada releasing huge amounts of methane ( 86 times as effective a greenhouse gas as co2). Throw another coal on the fire! | ||
| Aesquire |
I'm for Global Warming. Gotta hold off that ice age somehow. Thank you for pointing out that the CO2 hype is just that. | ||
| Aesquire |
Good point about the iceberg. We should tow that to LA. Or more practically, break off slices to haul to LA. ( most Eastern & Northwestern cities have plenty of fresh water ) I'm astounded no one has already done it, Probably because they would be called satanic for their crimes against humanity for touching the Elegantly Beautiful Castles of Nature, ( which is an Arctic berg. From Greenland, or Alaska. Not the giant slabs you get from Antarctica. ) before they melt. and the melting Causing Climate Change. You'd have to build a big plastic bag, probably in Long Beach harbor, to hold the 'berg and draw the fresh water off. With some judicious ice carving you could have snow skiing on the 'berg. This would take a lot of stress off the incomplete artificial life support system that is So-Cal. No water, no cities in So-Cal. They started a very ambitious water storage and delivery system in CA, Roman in scope and ambition. They quit building the water system pretty much as soon as the rich people in 'Frisco has fresh water and didn't want to pay anymore. ( a slight oversimplification, but not much ) That's why California has water problems. ( aside from the fact that Climate Change has made much of it a desert, long before Europeans started burning all the coal they could find. ) | ||
| Strokizator |
If you could haul LA to the iceberg you'd solve two problems at once. | ||
| Ducbsa |
I thought I remembered about icebergs for water from a while ago. Nothing here https://www.google.com/search?q=tow+iceberg+to+dub ai&oq=tow+iceber&aqs=chrome.2.0j69i57j0l4.7703j0j7 &sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=iceberg+towing+problem s is from too far back, though. | ||
| Crusty |
Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven wrote about it in one of their novels. I think it was Oath of Fealty, but I could be mistaken. | ||
| Hootowl |
It was pitched in Brewster's Millions too...as a way to piss away a bunch of money. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/13 /scientists-claim-hundreds-u-s-cities-may-not-surv ive-rising-waters/ Since the Prophet Gore I have zero faith in the flood scenarios. He bought a Malibu beach house with his unearned millions. So even he doesn't believe this stuff. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/13 /alarmists-threaten-biological-annihilation-from-o verpopulation-and-global-warming/ Yes. Oath of Fealty and Brewster's Millions. The studies go back further than both. Great big tug boats. Some small scale testing has been done but like airships it's a matter of scale. A small berg won't make it to 2/3 around the world. No one knows how hard it will be to tow a big one. I love airships but they work better the bigger and huge is hard to park. An airship the size of a stadium has a lot of area for wind to push around. | ||
| H0gwash |
The actual plan to quench LA's thrist is only slightly less weird- 2 massive concrete lined underground tunnels called the "California waterfix." | ||
| Hootowl |
They do lose a lot of water to evaporation with the existing system of aqueducts and pumping stations. An enclosed system makes sense. But I would use 4 foot PE pipes, as many in tandem as required. No leaching of calcium and other minerals into the water, which weakens the concrete over time, and makes the water hard. | ||
| H0gwash |
It seems the current plans are for a pair of pipes 40 foot in diameter, 150 feet below grade, and 30 miles long. I thought they were much longer, actually. (Message edited by h0gwash on July 13, 2017) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California A pair of pipes is just a stopgap. Literally an emergency measure because they didn't build the reservoirs and pipes needed to do the job properly. The entire system probably should be built as originally planned, with modifications to account for better understanding as time as passed. It's an oversimplification to say they built just enough of the grand plan to feed the rich, but not much of one. There's also a dam on the Colorado that has to be emptied since it's a disaster for the river, but politics alone is keeping it open. http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/10/opinion/la -oe-vandevelder-glen-canyon-brower-goldwater-20140 110 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/opinion/unplugg ing-the-colorado-river.html | ||
| Hootowl |
The Colorado river used to empty into the gulf of California, which is how California gets to claim water rights. However, now the river ends in the desert in Arizona. California should lose its water rights until the water naturally flows into its territory again. Northern California gets lots of rain. They can divert those rivers to feed LA, if they want. | ||
| H0gwash |
Southern California has 60% of the state population, so anything like this that goes to a vote is won by them. |
