The best have usually been around a longer time and have a reputation. Which ones do the pros cite?

As an amateur radio operator, The high bands get wiped first! 80, 160, not so much (no ionosphere? ground wave still works. Easy to throw up a long wire … afterward). Hams (esp. ARES) will become VERY IMPORTANT for a LONG time when it happens. Field Day is a good way to prep for aftermath. (Gear can go into metal containers to escape parts damage until afterward.) Portable generators (best without a lot of electronics on them) will be needed to re-charge the batteries!

There are A LOT of BIG countries with big electric grids in the world today. Which countries GRIDS get hit the worst depends on which side of the Earth is facing the ‘hit’. Could the West (US, Brazil) or Europe or the East (China, India).

Linux Mint puts out a great OS for a few thousand per month. With the start it’s got, Firefox could go on for decades without more income.

They are marginalizing themselves daily, but yeah, they deserve our help with that.

The first amendment guarantees freedom of the press. The journals should completely ignore nut-job’s obvious attempts to imtimidate them into buying into his perverted world-view. (Not ‘ideology’ so much as ‘spasmology’.)

No doubt the journals belong to organizations who will help them defend themselves against cretinist arm-twisting. The demented bonobos will bully their way out a job soon enough.

Better a store you can go check stuff out in before you buy … than looking at pictures on a screen and hoping it’s what it pretends to be.

Hawking proposed in 2010 that BH can’t collapse beyond the event horizon, that there isn’t one. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/hawking-meant-black-holes

In 2014 Vaz said the boundary is outside the Schwarzschild radius. http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3823

If they’re right, then there’s no inside to be trapped in.

There is A LOT of radioactive matter below the earth’s surface … constantly generating heat.

“About 50% of the Earth’s internal heat originates from radioactive decay. Four radioactive isotopes are responsible for the majority of radiogenic heat because of their enrichment relative to other radioactive isotopes: uranium-238 (238U), uranium-235 (235U), thorium-232 (232Th), and potassium-40 (40K).” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth’s_internal_heat_budget

Didn’t see that in the article, sounds interesting … where can I read more?

Newton’s classical observations have stood up well.

If anything, it’s quantum that has been poorly treated by generations of explaining-away. The world of the tiny must be predicted with probabilities because there is no way for us to observe it directly. It’s not rolling dice … we -have- to.

While trying out models of what it’s doing boggles our minds, our limitations mean we cannot decide whether it’s really deterministic. Reality isn’t limited that way. (Einstein was right.)

Some astronomers recently took a clever look for whether space is quantized into a ‘froth’. They studied monochrome light from stars 18 billion light years away, at redshift z=2.34. They found evidence of quantization into froth in all that time. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06016

EDIT: That should have read ‘NO evidence of quantization’ in 18 billion years of travel.

She puts on a good show … does her promos … then lambastes Californians because they didn’t put out the fire with ocean water. Anyone who said ‘Well, duh’ to that belongs in her club … the ‘if I can talk really fast I must be smart’ club.

Imperialism is different than taking the land outright.

Agreed. But a threat can be the beginning of a negotiation. Historically, the US wants the appearance of sovereignty to remain - even democracy if possible - just keep the right people in power.

That didn’t save South America.

Seems like we -may- have had it worked out already. The major problem is: how do we rein in the people who want to do it their way and become kings?

When I was a young teem, a teacher put a slice of apple in a sealed container with a few fruit-flies. A week later, there were hundreds of fruit-flies. In another week the bottom of the container was covered with the bodies of fruit-flies. Quick, unforgettable lesson.

Yeah I thought about quoting the rest of that line …‘which would cover the world’s energy needs for several hundred million years’ but didn’t feel like converting that to hours… 10^6 x 10^9 x 10^x x 10^6 * ~8765… it’s a lot of energy

I visit Sabine for her physical sciences commentary, because of her qualifications. Sorry to hear she stepped outside of that and offended people. Doesn’t invalidate any of what she shared in this episode.

piers anthony Maybe that’s this? https://hipiers.com/newsletter/2021-mayhem/

“for my serious novel Deep Well. I read Geothermal Engineering Fundamentals and Applications, by Arnold Watson.”

P.S. Damn, he’s looking old these days.

Turn the playback speed down to 0.75 and you won’t need to drink more coffee first.