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It's not that there are "various populations that have chosen to use and depend on water". The whole life on Earth is water-based. You mess with water, you mess with your own existence.
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I just don't understand people. The nature is our cradle. We've been learning from it and working along her side for thousands of years. And now, in the name of 'development' we will ditch all that wisdom, observations and symbiosis and make piles of trash our civilization would like to drown in. Everything in nature is re-usable. Everything. Nothing goes to waste. And then a fat capitalist fuck comes around and thinks he knows better than a millions of years of evolution.
ok, im gonna have to be the contrarian here and say waste of natural resources amongst the human race has happened since its inception.
there is overwhelming evidence that native american tribes, which for so long have been used as this cornerstone of anarcho-primitivist conservation.
there isn't an easy answer to the humanity+nature=happiness equation
First, it was a minor rage-burst of mine, not entirely relevant to the topic, therefore I appologize for it.
But lemme say if you use the word 'waste', you wont find a supporting example in our far history. First, there weren't that many of us to make such an impact. Secondly, they knew of their inferiority against the nature. And that they are dependant on it. Their whole sense of being was built around fertility and natural cycles. They had respect. They knew that whatever you take, you must also give something back. And that was the sole doctrine. But then, the trade came around, with it, the desire of accumulating more than you need, and eventually fucked everything up.
I believe the equation you talk about is most possible. It was present in our history. But there is so much to be done to bring it back, no wonder it seems impossible. Not with an iPhone in your pocket being more important than eating healthy food (not saying you have an iPhone though)
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I just don't understand people. The nature is our cradle. We've been learning from it and working along her side for thousands of years. And now, in the name of 'development' we will ditch all that wisdom, observations and symbiosis and make piles of trash our civilization would like to drown in. Everything in nature is re-usable. Everything. Nothing goes to waste. And then a fat capitalist fuck comes around and thinks he knows better than a millions of years of evolution.
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Godwin I'm not really understanding you, are you saying that the warming feedback cycles such as glacial melting, permafrost, deforestation, ocean acidification, etc. are signs of a coming ice age, or that it will get hot and then cold?
Jesus, Salv, you really got this from what I wrote, or are you trolling?
I'm saying that local water problems have much to do with human 'development'. That includes deforestation, regulating rivers (building concrete banks, re-routing streams, etc..), building dams and so on. It causes water cycles to change and become irregular, sometimes they even disappear. Therefore the drought/water failures... scenario you pointed out earlier. The effect is of course emphasized and influenced also by the coming ice age. The water cycles I mean, not the deforestation stuff.
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if you did a little research you'd know that to be false.Did you know that the largest GHG 'pollution' comes not from cars and factories, but cattle's poo? Yeah, it blew my mind too.
“Cars, buses, and trucks release pollutants and greenhouse gases that promote warming, while emitting few aerosols that counteract it. In contrast, the industrial and power sectors release many of the same gases—with a larger contribution to radiative forcing—but they also emit sulfates and other aerosols that cause cooling by reflecting light and altering clouds…
In their analysis, motor vehicles emerged as the greatest net contributor to atmospheric warming now and in the near term, with a total radiative forcing of 199 mWm-2 in 2020. The researchers found that the burning of household biofuels—primarily wood and animal dung for home heating and cooking—contribute the second most warming. And raising livestock, particularly methane-producing cattle, contribute the third most. The industrial sector releases such a high proportion of sulfates and other cooling aerosols that it actually contributes a significant amount of cooling to the system. And biomass burning—which occurs mainly as a result of tropical forest fires, deforestation, savannah and shrub fires—emits large amounts of organic carbon particles that block solar radiation.”
thats a statement by NASA 2 years ago when they conducted research to find the leading contributor to GHG.
This fact is still being disputed. As stated in your quote from NASA, not every industry emits similar chemicals, nor in the same dosage, and far from the same configuration. Some of these agents work against each other and in the end supress the emission or make it behave/bond differently when it comes into air. And believe me, NASA didn't check every single chimney in the world. Their research is based on average conclusions and the most accurate predictions. Even NASA doesn't have all information when it comes to chemical agents that are being poured out of chimneys. Most of these are industry secrets, and even governments around the world who have tried hard to establish surveillance over these emissions have not yet succeeded. GHG from methane is the most reliable measurement they have taken so far. Because it's an easier job - most of the cows more or less eat the same food and have similar digestive processes. Whereas, in industry, much of this information is hidden. So there is a lot of speculation and approximations (not to mention deliberate missinformation out of interest).
I'm not saying cattle is the main badass here, noone really knows what else long-term effects the industry chemicals have on the environment, climate and ecosystem, simply because factories don't exist for that long in the human history. But there is more and more evidence that long-term effects of industry chemicals are pilled up in our gene code. And that the consequences are not entirely visible to the 'naked eye'. But male children are getting born with disrupted organ development as early as in prenatal stage.
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I'm a little confused, since when is the idea of human-originated climate change false?
It's been false ever since. Don't be misslead by Al Gore's techno thriller. It's all neo-liberal crap.
We did accelerate certain parameters, but the change would be here - humans or no humans.
Did you know that the largest GHG 'pollution' comes not from cars and factories, but cattle's poo? Yeah, it blew my mind too.
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Imagine the panic we will have when there won't be enough places on Earth to sustain farms or support large migrations running away from the advancing ice.
What are you smoking? Are you implying the world would cold get fast enough that ice would form faster than people can move?
lol
take me to your dealer
you can see today that not many people live in the north (and south for the same matter). Now when Earth comes to another ice age, the ice cap will be spreading from the poles towards equator. There is evidence that in the last epoch (called Younger Dryas in Pleistocene), ice sheet was covering a large part of Europe all the way to northern Spain. This of course happens in several years, but as is impossible to farm corn and wheat in Antarctica today, so it will be in France or Germany or Italy in the future. And how the hell are you going to support the increasing population with food, when there will be less than a half of world's land left for you to work it?
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However, water shortages, drought, floods, heat waves, extreme weather, crop failure...these are all very relevant concerns, and increasing in frequency.
Well as far as water is concerned we, as humans, did a good job disrupting the established water cycles by drying up marshes, making huge dams, regulating rivers, etc... But that is mainly causing localized problems.
And the weather we have today is way from extreme. It just shows how humans are inadequate in adapting to such minor changes. Imagine the panic we will have when there won't be enough places on Earth to sustain farms or support large migrations running away from the advancing ice.
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I wouldn't take Rolling Stone articles with much relevance... on top of that...this global 'warming' is just a transitional phase. There's actually a huge freezing coming. And it's not even so much of a human's fault as is a natural cycle of the planet Earth.
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i need a good slow paced, calm simulator style game without stressful events (gun fights, etc)
Going to look at the most recent Sim City and go from there.
I play Civilization V recently. I love its turn-based gameplay which allows you to employ your own pace. When it comes to battle it relies heavily on your strategy and tactics and I love that you can still play as fast as you like.
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It's 4am here and I'm not tired at all. I've been trying to keep myself busy with writing, but that made my emotional-induced insomnia even harder to deal with.
So my first world problem is dealing with first world problems. Like for example "am I happy with my life?" "where do I go from here/now?" "should I leave this country already or not?"
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harold budd & cocteau twins - the moon the melodies
this is perfect. while i write my story.
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pluto's kinda boring (at least in the relative scale of other planet(oid)s in the solar system, all of which are exciting).
It's beautiful if you imagine a small icy rock with big moon, far out there where is so cold. And you see the sun like we see Venus from Earth, and you can't quite see the inner planets, they're so small. Neptune and Pluto disrupt each other's orbits, making Neptune the farthest planet for a while. Then you remember Earth and the shit going on there...
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John Carpenter directing Deus Ex the movie. And it should be really long...like 8 hours or something.
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I knew this gonna suck balls. I just knew all along that h*wood can't make a good movie anymore. I can't help myself but think that BladeRunner and Alien was actually written by someone else very talented and not Ridley, and that person got shot by some h*wood black ops or something....
The only thing that keeps Prometheus in orbit of planet 'Meh' is art direction, and the possibility that the movie was made bad intentionally in order to emphasize the fact of how primitive human race is. Remember? We're about to launch a manned mission to Mars which is going to be a Reality Show. If that was indeed the case with Ridley's screenplay, well... he still could've made it better.
God, I hope some alien race made that Asteroid belt on purpose. And that those rocks are actually autonomous defense turrets that will keep our manned spaceships inside the inner solar system. FOR EVER!
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"Stop you grinnin'and drop your linnen"
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Giger is actually involved in this movie, but rumor is he doesnt get on airplanes so he worked remotely on the movie with ridley scott
i need confirmation on this...Giger worked with Ridley on Prometheus?
I'm a huge fan of Giger's work and a lot of Alien's visuals are his credit.
the official line is he only worked on a few murals. the jockey has been designed by nevil page, the monsters by WETA and the derelict by gutalin
I remember reading about the creative process behind it. Ridley was inspired by Giger's work and he invited him over to work on the concepts. Much of his work was scraped though (the pyramid was completely cut from the film for instance), but the alien monster was originally derived from his sculptures, and Giger himself drew the alien. Giger also worked on the facehugger, but later the crew decided to use similar designs from someone else (as well as other props in the film). It was the problem of animating the alien monster which later led the crew to design a suit that was worn by a very skinny guy, and that was basically Brian Johnston's field. Giger himself was reluctant at the beginning of the process, and Ridley insisted to credit Giger for the idea.
The next film even had some copyright issues in that regard.
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Giger is actually involved in this movie, but rumor is he doesnt get on airplanes so he worked remotely on the movie with ridley scott
i need confirmation on this...Giger worked with Ridley on Prometheus?
I'm a huge fan of Giger's work and a lot of Alien's visuals are his credit.
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Who says this film is set on LV-426?
So there were more same ships, and there were more Space Jockeys, and they all had alien eggs on board... I'm still not sure this is any better....
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It looks promising and all but what's with the high-tech? I so liked that 80s vision of future in Alien... the low-power-consumable-semi-analog electronics and stuff... this looks too much like avatar...
and these women act too much like models and not enough scientists/pilots/technicians (think of Sigourney)....
and I thought the crash site was visited for the first time in Alien...WTF is this?!
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if I think again... "I got a bad feeling about this drop."
- "You always say I got a bad feeling about this drop"
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what about bicycles? are they easy to rent or Londoners don't use them so much?
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planning is the key. even figuring out which is the nearest tube station can make hours worth of difference to what you can do in a day.
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/ worth a look through for art places. lots of free stuff to see in the art world in london.
lots of tube stations in the very centre are close together, some are much farther apart than they appear to be on a map.
you need to know where you're going to rather than where you're trying to get between. a london a-z is good if you don't have a smart phone that will work here.
i like the white cube galleries quite a lot : http://whitecube.com/ the new one in bermondsey has one or two really big damien hirst pieces, but is a bit out of the way.
simply walking along the south bank of the thames can be an interesting way to see a fair few famous buildings - between westminster, london eye and millenium bridge / tate modern / st pauls cathedral, onto tower bridge / tower of london. takes at least an hour to do that at pace, so it's a good afternoon's leisurely walk if you've not see it all before.
Right mate, my plan is more exploring, but I want to see stuff I'm interested in. Usually I mark places I want to see, and if they're not too far apart I go on foot. This way I can see more of random things, and I don't mind walking far. I like walking along the Thames idea.
I'm quite sure there some arthouses? Like if you know Christiania in Copenhagen or Tacheles in Berlin, similar stuff?
Checking out the site timeout.com
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On Berwick St, be sure to check out Sister Ray, they're a pretty nice record store - and Rough Trade, if you happen to be in the Portobello Road area.
Also, for second hand/antique clothes and things, in addition to Camden try Spital Fields Market.
Awesome.
'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'
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I don't believe we have made any major progress besides our technology. Mentally and emotionally we're pretty infantile, even declining if you think about it! How about we work on that for a start. I absolutely love the Kubrick's Odyssey. What happens when human's own tools (developing from a simple sticks and stones to overwhelming abilities to go beyond our physical strenght) surpass their creators (humans)? From the (sentient) tools' point of view we've become a underdeveloped entities with no place left to claim our own. Hence, HAL tries to kill Bowman. But that is our creation's point of view. And that point of view will exist as long as we push just one curve of development.