I feel like there’s a reasonable optimization. Everything has an environmental cost, even the production of green energy infrastructure. I think we can reasonably compare and contrast the probable lifetime impact of an energy source, including decommission and possible recycling. That is nothing is perfect but it’s about what’s the best we can manage given what the market can financially support.
Yeah this! This is what I was thinking about. I like this comedian, I’m just famously bad at committing names to memory.
So true, sidebar I could have sworn I’ve heard Twonk before. Looked it up and got this.
Twonk is a mild, humorous British slang term used to describe a foolish or silly person. It is typically used in friendly banter among mates to refer to someone who has done something a bit thoughtless or clueless, but not necessarily malicious.
I really can’t confirm if it’s legitimate though.
And now you know how your parents / grandparents felt about what you were into.
Reminds me of Terrence McKenna’s statement on being cool. I was cool, until they changed what cool was. It’s always changing and it’s always kinda cringe. Anyone remember LMFAO or essentially the entirety of the 80’s? It’s always been cringe. It’s just that our cringe we considered normal and cool.
The Trump presidencies have really stressed what is legal and our response towards illegal action. This is a bit like when there isn’t a law saying you shouldn’t fuck a horse and then someone goes and fucks a horse so now we need the no horse fucking law.
Yeah the goal is to grab and detain without any connection to the family so there’s no means of response and ultimately deport in which a response is nearly impossible short if the person is wealthy enough or actually a citizen.
Whether a flash of light is visible comes down to a fundamental concept in visual neuroscience known as temporal summation or generally Bloch’s Law.
Our eyes don’t process light instantaneously, they integrate light over a short window of time (around 10 to 100 milliseconds, depending on whether you are looking through your central or peripheral vision).
Bloch’s Law states that for very short durations, the perceived brightness of a flash depends on the total number of photons hitting the retina during that time window, not the duration itself.
So you can flash a standard light source like a normal LED very quickly, like at 1 microsecond or faster, it will be completely invisible. The flash was so short that the total number of photons entering your eye fell way below the minimum threshold required to trigger your photoreceptors and send a signal to your brain.
inversely you can increase the intensity of the light enough that it will always be seen regardless of the duration of the pulse, a high-powered laser pulsed for a femtosecond will remain visible.
Lol yeah it’s like ten light-years away.
So it’s physically impossible or just beyond our current level of technological ability?
Looks like a stoned AF grey alien
So natural gas powerplants with sufficient exhaust scrubbers are having a substantial effect on atmospheric pollutants? I feel like we keep getting off of the main question here. Like to stoves and lighters and such. I get nothing burns perfectly clean but seems like just an engineering hurtle to me. With natural gas I’m typically more concerned about the hydro fracking aspect. There’s really not a solution to groundwater contamination in fracking beyond them saying it didn’t happen.
I think it’s just a joke about slang aka D for Dick.
I prefer fetlang
If it’s none of the above could be a marriage / immigration thing. Met a dude once who had married like six times. Would find needy women with money, woo them, divorce them and then collect.
I’m still not fully sold that it appreciably does affect air quality, I’m aware it’s not zero but is it causing like cancer and birth defects in people around the powerplant? I think you and I are more aligned than the others on this thread.