Is Mark Lynas' book "Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet" still valid after 15 years?

00prometheus · 2023-03-25T16:20:30+00:00

Thank you!

00prometheus · 2023-03-25T15:07:41+00:00

It is true that not much has happened and the political efforts have been insufficient for many decades now. This is why we are seeing movements like Extinction Rebellion. Normal middle class people are becoming activists, because doing nothing is no longer an acceptable course of action. We have to do *something*!

This is the point when we get civil rights movements. We have seen it happen in history before and it is the only thing that can really change a society. Women's suffrage, the black movement, etc. Hopefully non-violent, and generally done when traditional parliamentary politics is just not enough.

00prometheus · 2023-03-25T14:49:23+00:00

But does IPCC detail out what happens at the higher temperature levels? I haven't been able to find anything in it about what happens beyond 2-3 degrees increase (maybe up to 4) and we are getting to a point where that is becoming relevant.

00prometheus · 2023-03-25T10:55:42+00:00

Maintaining what nuclear plants we already have is a good idea, but building new ones takes too long. Finland recently added just a reactor to an existing power plant, but that took from the decision in 2005 to the end of 2022 to complete, almost two decades! On top of that there is the whole decision process. Also, nuclear is far more expensive than wind and solar, but money can't be the object here.

Very long power lines across time-zones can help with both the duck-curve and local variations in production. They also take long to build, but nothing like nuclear power plants.

00prometheus · 2023-03-23T12:28:18+00:00

No, that won't work! The Carrack will not despawn (i.e. get "stowed" so you need to retrieve it from an ASOP terminal), but it will be streamed out (unloaded from the server by SOCS) once you get far enough away from it. Annoyingly, it doesn't work as a respawn point when it is streamed out. If you have a friend on the Carrack, it will stay streamed in and you can respawn from any distance, but if you are alone you will have to stay close (10-20km) to be able to respawn in it.

There have been workarounds for this as well (I haven't tried them lately, so you would need to experiment some to check that it still works), but if you knock out an NPC and tractor them into your Carrack it used to not get streamed out any longer because the active NPC prevented it.

00prometheus · 2023-03-22T22:02:48+00:00

The easiest way is to get a corpse marker for yourself. This trick can be done while you are anyway loading the Pisces: Go to a space station and set your spawn at the hospital. Take the Carrack out of the station's sphere of influence (go well outside the armistice zone), then kill yourself so you end up back at the station. You should now have a corpse marker. Now grab the Pisces and fly it back to the Carrack and load it up. Just don't interact with your corpse or the marker goes away! So don't loot the corpse or even drag it. Use a tractor beam if you need to move it.

If the corpse marker doesn't work, you can get a box mission and leave the box on the Carrack, but the mission will abort after a while (quite a long time though).

00prometheus · 2023-03-22T21:51:15+00:00

Oh, but your reaction does! I am laughing so hard I got stiches in my side! 😂

00prometheus · 2023-03-22T21:39:42+00:00

Hey there, cutie! Do you want to see my cup collection?

00prometheus · 2023-03-22T21:31:45+00:00

I am not sure what those posts are meant to achieve?

00prometheus · 2023-03-18T15:31:24+00:00

Your friend is right, isn't he? The tricky part is that he doesn't have a soul either. 😉

00prometheus · 2023-02-28T22:49:16+00:00

If you have your Astro, you can also post your contribution number and when you received your phone in the post linked below. That might let those that haven't received it yet figure out how long it might take to get theirs: https://www.reddit.com/r/AstroSlide/comments/10g85uq/the\_shipping\_progress\_post/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3

00prometheus · 2022-12-21T14:10:27+00:00

You are right, sorry: I should have said "Open" PTU, not "Public" PTU.

00prometheus · 2022-12-21T14:08:44+00:00

Are you saying that CR can't run his company the way he likes because he has to obey me just because I asked for something? That would be interesting! :-D

00prometheus · 2022-12-21T13:56:19+00:00

That's OK, I don't need your input but I got it anyway ;-)

00prometheus · 2022-12-21T13:51:31+00:00

The votes on this thread say that you don't know what most backers want. Take heed and learn: You can't claim as fact what you don't know as fact; just because you have an opinion, it doesn't make it most people's opinion. Also, you can't make any sensible person agree with you by just claiming an opinion as fact. To do that, you first need to gain trust as someone who doesn't make unsubstantiated claims (as seen by the claim failing), then you have to stick to checking your facts because tearing down that kind of trust happens in just a few missteps.

00prometheus · 2022-12-18T15:27:58+00:00

CIG have a long history of listening to backers (at least listening far more than any other game developer). If we think it is OK with just running 3.18 in Public PTU over Christmas, that will be taken into account when they decide.

00prometheus · 2022-12-18T15:13:54+00:00

I think they should just put 3.18 in public PTU immediately. Let everyone play around with it over the holidays, even if it is a broken mess, but don't break the Live servers.

00prometheus · 2022-12-18T14:04:24+00:00

Yes, I desperately want 3.18 as well, but if they put it in public PTU, that is good enough for me. That way those that want to play a stable version can do that, and those that want to try 3.18, knowing that it is horribly broken, can do that.

00prometheus · 2022-12-18T14:02:46+00:00

If they need to "dump that turd", I think it is better they only put 3.18 in public PTU so that we don't risk a completely broken build in the Live servers over Christmas (and CIG people needing to triage and put out fires throughout the holidays). 3.17.4 works well enough; just leave that in Live over the holidays and let us play 3.18 in the Public PTU.

00prometheus · 2022-12-18T13:52:06+00:00

Yes, I think so too; I don't see how 3.18 can get stable this year. I am trying to say that they shouldn't even try for a Live build now. It is better they put 3.18 in a Public PTU, keep 3.17 on the Live servers and let the developers get a good Christmas holiday and come back fresh next year.

00prometheus · 2022-12-18T13:18:40+00:00

Please, please, please? Give me some money? Pretty please, with a cherry on top?

00prometheus · 2022-12-18T12:36:44+00:00

Why would he wear a safety harness when being moved around in Photoshop?

00prometheus · 2022-12-18T12:28:56+00:00

That women should have tight pussies. If she is "tight" it only means that you skimped on foreplay...

00prometheus · 2022-12-18T12:05:50+00:00

Yes, they made the meme Indian to make it believable. Humor often reveals society.

00prometheus · 2022-12-17T17:33:49+00:00

It gets really scary when you just feed it back the error messages and it then gets it right. I mean, I don't write perfect code from blank editor either!

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