I download a new map for anywhere I travel. Nothing like flying into a new city and not having cell signal in the rental car parking garage and having to navigate mapless in the dark until your cellphone connects and google map works. I download ahead now. 

Oh, no, it’s WAY worse than that. Just listen to him:

Oppenheimer spends the latter half of the movie in New Mexico wearing a silver belt buckle with a turquoise. He would go antiquing in Santa Fe.

Interstellar war is really impractical, but stuff like this is why aliens will make the effort. 

Pretty much the same as in English, just louder.

I appreciate how Jon Hamm, once Mad Men wrapped up, could’ve done the predictable leading man action movie star thing, and basically said “Nah. I’m going to do comedies and weird shit.” And the world is better for it.

Jon Hamm is a wildly underrated/underused comedic actor. I think knowing he can do Don Draper has kind of hampered his real talents as a goofball.

This comment section is genuinely unhinged. literally having people calling the root biased both for and against majors when at this point what we know is:

The planet is perfectly capable of radiating waste heat into space... as long as we can limit CO2 emissions somehow. And it’s not like we have forever: the 2027 global warming deadline is virtually upon us. 

A very good point. Probably is even less than net zero.

I’m not sure, but I think I have a grey reply saying that I’m telling everyone to use space-based power instead of building renewables on Earth’s surface?

Primarily what needs to happen for now, is to reduce the carbon balance in the atmosphere. Having more power available while at the same time removing the need for burning carbon would do that.

I doubt it would do any “damage”.

One could create such a thing, but the stuff I’ve read says that since they’ll be beaming the power over such a wide area that its unlikely to affect anything on the ground. So, no danger of migrating birds exploding as they fly through the beams.

Our current power generation is terribly inefficient and already produces a lot of waste heat, along with pollution.

Counterpoint, While that energy while contributing some heat could help offset carbon based energy that has contributed to the earths rapid inability to regulate on it’s own, I am not as optimistic that is even remotely likely that it will. We don’t implement enough austerity for any efforts to actually have a…

Yes, it would cause some additionla warming, but I wouln’t call it a problem. It produces less heat than nuclear, let alone gas or coal (which ALSO produce CO2). It also avoids the environmental impact that a wind or solar farm would have.

it’s net zero. the energy from space will be offset by the decreased use of non-green energy like coal and oil burning.  

Efficiency will certainly be a question. I imagine at the low power levels of this demonstrator, that power losses through atmosphere would be massive. But at true scale, the losses would be at a much lower ratio.