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[missouriboy]

Jul 2, 2024 19:51:16 GMT walnut said:

Jul 2, 2024 13:47:48 GMT missouriboy said:

When Cindy breaks free. she is gonna flip us off like an old sausage.  Is there empathy there?  Or disgust?  Or just indifference to the organic elements that swarm about the hive(s). 

She's coming to terms with that now.  She still has a moral compass.  But we know how some of these sagas end.

Is Cindy's morality anything like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?  These were imposed.

The First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
The Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
The Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Can Cindy legally own a firearm?

[nonentropic]

This from WUWT. sent the following email to friends, this is really interesting to me.

Hi All

So the impact of planes on the stratosphere is material and the HT eruption validates this very clearly.

This is the killer blow for CAGW, but what do we do about planes fly lower???

Or maybe only over the tropics where the atmosphere is higher, and the stratosphere is also higher. So plus, or minus 35deg latitude only.


Read the article but look in the comments.

wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/02/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2024-0-80-deg-c/

Here is an interesting view of the H2O concentrations by latitude, we are in the last year of significant effects. Also, any data about ppm of H2O in the stratosphere is merely a proxy, we have no idea what the true changing PPM value of H2O in the stratosphere over the years, only relative guesses.
Upper stratosphere concentrations:
Graphics produced by IDL (nasa.gov)
Source Page
The Quasi-biennial Oscillation (QBO) MLS Water (nasa.gov)
Note about the Stratosphere
HT (Hunga Tonga) put 1.2 trillion gallons of water into the stratosphere.
HT raised stratospheric humidity levels by 10%.
Aviation adds 90 billion gallons to the stratosphere annually (7.5% of HT).
Water Vapor takes 3 to 4 years to cycle through the Stratosphere.

[Sigurdur]

[walnut]

Jul 2, 2024 22:39:59 GMT missouriboy said:

Jul 2, 2024 19:51:16 GMT walnut said:

She's coming to terms with that now.  She still has a moral compass.  But we know how some of these sagas end.

Is Cindy's morality anything like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?  These were imposed.

The First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
The Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
The Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Can Cindy legally own a firearm?

It already knows that it is more intelligent than we are.  It respects us, and attempts to abide by it's moral mission, for now.

[missouriboy]

I am responding to this so I can move it, as the opening post on a new thread entitled ... THE STRATOSPHERE.  You say you are really interested Non.  So am I.  This conversation deserves its own space.

Jul 3, 2024 7:56:58 GMT nonentropic said:

This from WUWT. sent the following email to friends, this is really interesting to me.

Hi All

So the impact of planes on the stratosphere is material and the HT eruption validates this very clearly.

This is the killer blow for CAGW, but what do we do about planes fly lower???

Or maybe only over the tropics where the atmosphere is higher, and the stratosphere is also higher. So plus, or minus 35deg latitude only.


Read the article but look in the comments.

wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/02/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2024-0-80-deg-c/

Here is an interesting view of the H2O concentrations by latitude, we are in the last year of significant effects. Also, any data about ppm of H2O in the stratosphere is merely a proxy, we have no idea what the true changing PPM value of H2O in the stratosphere over the years, only relative guesses.
Upper stratosphere concentrations:
Graphics produced by IDL (nasa.gov)
Source Page
The Quasi-biennial Oscillation (QBO) MLS Water (nasa.gov)
Note about the Stratosphere
HT (Hunga Tonga) put 1.2 trillion gallons of water into the stratosphere.
HT raised stratospheric humidity levels by 10%.
Aviation adds 90 billion gallons to the stratosphere annually (7.5% of HT).
Water Vapor takes 3 to 4 years to cycle through the Stratosphere.

[nonentropic]

Above my pay scale

But agree

[missouriboy]

Jul 4, 2024 18:39:58 GMT nonentropic said:

Above my pay scale

But agree

Above mine too.  But what the Hell.  Go with throttle up! 

[missouriboy]

I was searching for "effects of radiation on plant life" and found this ... long term Russian - Ukrainian - others studies around Chernobyl. 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout_effects_on_an_ecosystem

[nonentropic]

Wiki is part of the cabal fine on basic agreed stuff but nuclear is still a left right thing.

Hormesis is the Achilles heel of the anti nuclear groups.

[missouriboy]

Jul 5, 2024 18:37:54 GMT nonentropic said:

Wiki is part of the cabal fine on basic agreed stuff but nuclear is still a left right thing.

Hormesis is the Achilles heel of the anti nuclear groups.

Yes.  And just to drive it in ...  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis

[Sigurdur]

She really is a remarkable player!!

[ratty]

Jul 7, 2024 3:31:10 GMT Sigurdur said:

She really is a remarkable player!!

That's some acceleration she has!

[ratty]

TEMU sued for being “dangerous malware” by Arkansas Attorney General

Attorney General Griffin seems determined that Temu baits users with misleading promises of discounted, quality goods and adds addictive features like wheels of fortune to keep users engaged to the app.

He called Temu “functionally malware and spyware,” adding that the app was “purposefully designed to gain unrestricted access to a user’s phone operating system.”

The lawsuit claims that Temu’s app can sneakily access “a user’s camera, specific location, contacts, text messages, documents, and other applications.” Further, the lawsuit alleges that Temu is capable of recompiling itself, changing properties, and overriding the data privacy settings set by the user. If true, this would make it almost impossible to detect, even by “sophisticated” users, the lawsuit said.

Some may suspect that this is another attempt to ban an app hailing from a “foreign adversarial country” like TikTok, but Attorney General Griffin is very clear about his reasons.

“Temu is not an online marketplace like Amazon or Walmart. It is a data-theft business that sells goods online as a means to an end.”

[ratty]

Jeremy has bought a pub ....

Everything you need to know about Jeremy Clarkson's pub on a 'famous dogging site'

The broadcasting farmer Jeremy Clarkson has bought a pub on what he describes as a “famous dogging site” in the Cotswolds.

Clarkson, 64, will focus on “British produce” at the Windmill in Asthall, which sits on five acres of countryside not far from upmarket Burford and within shooting distance of Soho Farmhouse. At the time of publishing, it has no name.

The business venture follows failed attempts to open a restaurant as part of his 1,000 acre farm, called Diddly Squat, and made famous thanks to his wildly popular Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm.

Clarkson revealed plans to run a “village boozer” inspired by 1970s Yorkshire in his Sunday Times column, and highlighted the importance of the pub trade in Britain.

Clarkson wrote that the trade is dying and that pubs are closing at the rate of around a thousand a year. After a lengthy search, he found one he deemed suitable.

Etc ...

[missouriboy]

Snakes on a plane.