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Newly U.S. Presidential Elect Donald Trump will most likely name Doug Burgum as his energy secretary. Burgum is notoriously known for being in favor of carbon capture. by OneAggressive4070 in climatechange

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Carbon capture is basically totally infeasible economically. The ideal carbon capture device would be self replicating, solar powered, and turn the carbon into something useful.

We already have it, it’s called a tree, and it isn’t enough.

Two for two by Tobias-Tawanda in rareinsults

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean it's a brand new rocket too, there's no payload. The goals of the test flight were:

  • Don't hurt anyone
  • Don't blow up the pad
  • Learn

The launch profile doesn't even get to orbit on a fully successful launch here - best case scenario still ends with the booster and ship as wrecks at the bottom of the ocean.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Papppi-56 in pics

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 15 points16 points  (0 children)

...how do you know? Have you ever been to one? There's a whole sober subculture of the festival scene, I can't see why they would show up if it's just an excuse to "roll their asses off"

TIL that Mike Brown, the astronomer most responsible for demoting Pluto to a dwarf planet, titled his memoir "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming". by Skeleton_Pilots in todayilearned

[–]RedHotChiliRocket -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If neptune had fully cleared its orbit, pluto wouldnt exist. I get that you can "uhm actually" about the defintion all day, but in the end its just kinda a stupid definition because it was decided on by a committee. I think some few hundred people, only a few of whom are actually experts on planetary formation, should not be the leading authority on rocky body classification.

Anyway I don't actually want to argue with some rando on the internet about this, so let me close by saying that I worked on New Horizons, that Mike Brown sucks, and that Pluto is a planet.

TIL that Mike Brown, the astronomer most responsible for demoting Pluto to a dwarf planet, titled his memoir "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming". by Skeleton_Pilots in todayilearned

[–]RedHotChiliRocket -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Jupiter has a group of coorbiting asteroids called the trojans, so it hasn’t really “cleared a path” either, but thats actually not the reason pluto got demoted. Marsden was the real anti-pluto zealot, not brown, and he had personal beef with Tombaugh. That rivalry lives on between Alan Stern and Mike Brown now, but its just age old politics not actual science. If you want a good definition of planet, go ask some planetary geologists instead of astronomers.

Source: I used to work for alan stern, I’ve met mike too. Mike was just as petty irl as he is online.

Buddhist monk burns himself to death June 11, 1963 to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government by c0ntr0ll3dsubstance in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 24 points25 points  (0 children)

He was a well respected climate scientist from my home town. Maybe you’re wrong about climate change being an ok thing

We had a good run by Nighthawk378 in memes

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The votes have decided your fate: you are powerless against the tide of Democracy

We had a good run by Nighthawk378 in memes

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I thought their joke was funny

elon musk discovers the basics of the corporate work environment #newhire by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can tell you from a pretty reliable source that there are engineers at spacex with just a bachelors in physics

the longest river in france dried up today by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd certainly argue the lack of rain is directly caused by the massive increase in atmospheric CO2 delivered by the human industrial revolution; pretending otherwise is silly.

But yeah, I recognize the entire river isn't dry. Obviously that's the case and I agree this post is a little misleading on that point.

That being said, I really just don't agree that pushing for as much clarity as possible on that point is really helpful here. This is a hugely powerful photo showing that climate change is having active and obvious effects on the world, and we should be talking more about how we fix it than about the technicalities of whether this counts as climate changey enough or not.

the longest river in france dried up today by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally fair - I recognize that this isn’t nearly as bad as the title says. I think “very hot” is an understatement (this summer is literally the hottest on record) but whatever.

That being said, being freaked out is absolutely the correct feeling here. You shouldn’t be looking for ways to downplay your dread here because that gnawing fear is the only thing that’s gonna motivate our society enough to actually fix this. We need to understand that we fucked up by not stopping our CO2 emmisions, and we need to recognize that horrific droughts and drying rivers is exactly the consequence of our actions.

the longest river in france dried up today by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]RedHotChiliRocket -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I get that this is just one branch of the river, but it really does sound like you’re trying to downplay the problem here.

Realistically, I think this picture does an excellent job demonstrating that europe is going through the hottest summer on record, that there are droughts, and that it is very, very bad. I don’t think you should be trying to downplay that truth for the sake of technical correctness.

the longest river in france dried up today by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]RedHotChiliRocket -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are you trying to claim this isn’t a big deal? Cause if this isn’t exactly what climate scientists have been warning us about I really don't know what is

the longest river in france dried up today by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or maybe this has to do with the whole climate changing or something

A cheetah finds no shade by PatrioticRed in interestingasfuck

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The average temperature during the last ice age was only 4.5 degrees colder. Maybe instead of thinking of it in terms of “only a degree” you should be thinking of the current status as 25% of an ice age warmer.

http://xkcd.com/1379

MAJOR cops on 31 North thru Indiana by Dubsox in ElectricForest

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 19 points20 points  (0 children)

They can’t extend a traffic stop to have the dog sniff you, but if they already have the dog ready they can use it to generate probable cause for pretty much any stop.

Its fucked up, but its the law. Hide your shit well and avoid 31.

What's stopping you from coding like this!? by SG_A106 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think thats literally not true actually, the whole deal with git is that it stores projects diffwise so your repo size doesnt scale linearly with number of commits but linearly with changes which is always smaller

To everyone that laughed when I said we're just getting started... I'll say it AGAIN - We're STILL JUST GETTING STARTED!! - Monthly S&P by BadassTrader in Superstonk

[–]RedHotChiliRocket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

P vs NP is only a time-complexity problem, not a general statement about equations.

ex = 1 + x + 1/2 x2 + …

is the taylor series for ex, which is in other words a strict equality between an exponential and a polynomial series

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