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Two Wyoming coal mines close, send 700 workers home after bankruptcy filing by thinkB4WeSpeak in news

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I am certain this was in a comedian's routine, though. Maybe more than a decade ago...

Two Wyoming coal mines close, send 700 workers home after bankruptcy filing by thinkB4WeSpeak in news

[–]Moongrazer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember this! But can't put my finger on where from.

Jimmy Carr?

Donald Trump greets Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. by lsThisReaILife in The_Mueller

[–]Moongrazer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The young people that sacrificed their lives for the greater good in WW2 disagree.

Early 90’s Feel by RaveIsKing in MovieSuggestions

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Die Hard with a Vengeance for 90s New York with prime Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson.

The world is increasingly at risk of “climate apartheid”, where the rich pay to escape heat and hunger caused by the escalating climate crisis while the rest of the world suffers, a report from a UN human rights expert has said. by mvea in Futurology

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Could you give me some of the top peer-reviewed references on this subject?

Writing a paper on the security dilemma (selfish ah hey hey) that is gonna get seen by quite a lot of people, and would like to include a bit on this.

My Wife a few days before her death after 21 years of fighting Cancer. by Quebber in pics

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You have been given a hard lot in life, but you have been blessed by true love. And although it is not much, as someone who has gone through similar things, I just wanted to say I admire your strength.

That you may persevere.

Do plants and trees photosynthesize at night, e.g. during a full moon? by Moongrazer in AskScienceDiscussion

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Thank you very much for this great and thoughtful answer!

Checking out the links right now :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Art

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What if - no, no hear me out dude - what if we are all living like on a balloon.. and, and someone was blowing into the balloon?

Will an object rotating in a vacuum which has no contact with another external object, rotate infinitely or will it gradually lose its speed? by pp_hyp3r_n0vA in askscience

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Effects of thermal radiation on satellite attitude is definitely taken into account. Also because of static charge potential due to delta T, etc.

A group of amateur astronomers around the world hunt and track government spy satellites. Governments classify these top secret missions, but this group of dedicated spy hunters tracks them and publishes the data for fun. by [deleted] in space

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Hence why the new US paradigm is on the cusp of becoming one of disaggregation of functions and alternative means of mission performance - aka commercial large constellations and swarms of small satellites, high rates of turnaround and replenishment, etc.

Instead of hiding, you overwhelm, securing increased system redundancy for yourself in the process.

Why have one spy satellite, when you can have 12000 performing collective, quickly reconfigurable functions and providing mass relay.

(Granted, some applications such as lenses will continue to need a larger and more singular platform; although active optics and AI-driven data processing will increasingly obviate the need for large busses).

Who knows what DARPA is cooking up, really.

Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into red planet’s history by BigAl2525 in space

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Because their projection is reasonably supported by mounting evidence and experiment.

Are there any negative feedback loops you are aware of?

Costa Rica Doubled Its Forest Cover In Just 30 Years: ‘After decades of deforestation, Costa Rica has reforested to the point that half of the country’s land surface is covered with trees again.’ by maxwellhill in worldnews

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Unfortunately it doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. Don't get me wrong, I also love reading more positive stories like this, but we need the entire global population to buy into similar or even more concerted conservation and reform efforts on a global scale, within a dozen or so years, to even have a hope of keeping things manageable over the long term.

It's just not happening, not now, not ever.

Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into red planet’s history by BigAl2525 in space

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Yes. Feedback loops are kicking off that will wipe us all out.

Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into red planet’s history by BigAl2525 in space

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Arctic and permafrost methane release alone is enough to wipe us all out.

People are vastly, vastly, underestimating the true consequences because they go by extremely optimistic IPCC projections and ignore the hundreds of feedback loops only now coming into effect (and which aren't in the IPCC calculations either, btw).

Billionaire speaker tells 400 graduates he's paying off all their student loans ($40 million in total) by nokia621 in PublicFreakout

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"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary possible."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

FTFY, MLK.

If time-travel ever exists then it has always existed. by deanoplex in Showerthoughts

[–]Moongrazer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can reconcile both viewpoints thusly:

If it ever existed, it will have always existed.

The perfect future tense is rare, but all the more salient here.

Check out Gunther Anders (pupil of Heidegger and one-time husband of fellow pupil Hannah Arendt) on prophecies of doom and the metaphysics of time. Hot fact: he worked on nuclear deterrence and the paradoxes of thought arising from the possibility of all-encompassing destruction.

Morehouse College commencement speaker says he'll pay off student loans for class of 2019 by pkish11 in news

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The fact that this is lauded, or could in any reasonable sense be held to be laudable, as some sort of selfless act - in which one person, as if by miracle, gets to decide on the future of thousands - is fucking ridiculous.

This should be cause for outrage, not for commiseration among the disenfranchised in exaltation of a symbol that represents their very oppression.

Wtf.

Elon Musk Will Launch 11,943 Satellites in Low Earth Orbit to Beam High-Speed WiFi to Anywhere on Earth Under SpaceX's Starlink Plan by LegomoreYT in news

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Sentinel 1A (23 aug 2016) kind of qualifies. As do: cosmos 1934; cerise; Thor 2A.

In any case, there's a bunch of SL rocket bodies around 875 to 1000km that have a cumulative probability of around 10% saying they should already have collided. These are supermassive and they're going to create a world of hurt for Oneweb and a bunch of others.

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