Unsurprisingly, that book is not for sale in the Glen Canyon gift shops...

The idea is to literally bypass the dam, and to deliver a slurry of water and sediment via tunnels that would dump into the Colorado River below the dam. 

I wouldn’t worry so much. There were uranium mines inside Grand Canyon NP also, and all over the 4 Corners.

Stance it, or Carolina Squat.

I've ridden on US interstate highways where it's legal. It sucks, and is definitely scary, but when there aren't other routes you make do.

That’s not even a cynical take. It’s literally the impetus behind this. “We know how far we are to proving this, and here’s the remaining work.”

I am smart. Michael Harriot is MUCH smarter. I wouldn’t debate Michael Harriot with the expectation of anything other than being abjectly humiliated by just how much better he is at explaining ideas, using language creatively, spinning narratives that grab attention, and laying rhetorical traps.

Tow the line is one I've seen before.

Okay, now do drowning.

I think this is subjunctive, in the sense that it’s a hypothetical case.

Slough off, stand in a slough.

Alfred Crosby's Children of the Sun is an environmental history of energy use. He says the same thing.

It's a surveying term. Maine even has towns called Gores.

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All these companies hold incredible wealth. Any and all of them could pay for testing. None of them want to, because they want even more money.

And further, these companies make huge profits. They can absorb the cost of engineering, testing, and validation. They have the money, and as you point out it's a central part of their business.

With lobsters it’s even more difficult because they don’t shed as frequently as they age, and females can store sperm for years so they can bear eggs for a while without shedding to mate and grow. 

And also, these are commercially harvested species. It's not like we never encounter dead lobsters. I fished commercially for them in Maine and can easily imagine how researchers could get ahold of stomachs and eye stalks with little effort.

Canals. That's the part of the post you're looking for.

Vibrio has a pretty narrow salinity tolerance. So these infections come from contact with salt water that’s less saline than normal after heavy rains, or from freshwater that's more saline than normal after storm surge. Take your pick: hurricanes are making Vibrio more common in more places.