Good points. Littering the slopes with 6474 dead elephants would, if anything, have a worse environmental impact than the 66 tons of human dung.

On average, you’re also paying more for food, electricity, sexual lubricant, O-rings, and toothpicks. It’s called “inflation”, and it’s a feature to prevent currency hoarding.

The volume of an elephant is about 112 decibels at one meter. A Florida Georgia Line concert can hit 120 decibels at the sound board. As FGL is approximately two half-ton pickup trucks worth of bullshit, the 66 tons of shit on Denali is about equivalent to 66 Florida Georgia Lines. Now, sound decibels are a hairy unit…

Big red flags for an abstract that waffles on for 262 words but does not name (A) the sound level in decibels, or (B) the effect size.

USA Today reports that Alaska’s Denali, the tallest mountain in North America, beholds 66 tons of frozen human shit left behind by decades worth of hikers.

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Turns out being ignorant isn’t unexpected enough to trigger a humor response.  Try working in one of the inherently funny words, such as “duck” or “pickle.”

If she runs as a Democrat with Deepak Chopra, we could elect two blue woo guru.

What we need in response is a total transformation, both of ourselves and our society.

There are plastics that will melt below 100C, but they’re uncommon and expensive. I believe combs are still mostly made from polypropylene, and the lowest melting point for a variety of polypropylene Wikipedia lists is 130C. US hot water heaters are usually set to 140 F, or 60C—though turning it down to 120 F (about…

Almost anything can be recycled. Almost nothing can be recycled at a price point cheaper that starting from the raw materials.

Fair enough. That and river crossings, that’s definitely something.

“Landed” is the key word, there. It’s not an amphibious assault if nobody’s shooting back; it’s just a landing.

That’s not the case. For a concrete example, consider the World War II designs. The belly armor on the World War II landing craft was thin, too, and the Nazis knew perfectly well what mines are. Nobody had to “discover” the things’ weakness; you could look it up in Jane’s, because anyone who could buy a shipworker a…

How many improvised explosive devices do you think there are before there’s an insurgency improvising devices that explode?

Bullshit like me to this sounds.

The ACV is protected from heavy machine gun fire, artillery shrapnel, and is designed to protect passengers from improvised explosive devices. IEDs, placed in roads, direct their blast upwards into the thin belly armor of tanks and armored vehicles.

FDA does require testing, though. But there’s another balance that has to be struck: how much testing is enough? Small studies are cheap, but can’t detect rare problems; large studies can, but cost an arm and a leg and are prone to running out of volunteers. You can’t detect a ten-cases-in-a-hundred-thousand problem…

My inclination would be to push for consumer awareness. There are risks to everything.  The public is not served by treating small risks the same as big ones.

You’re going to be really horrified if you ever read a pack of cigarettes.