Ehh, I don’t see what’s wrong with carbon dioxide removal, especially if the technology can be made cheap and portable enough to add to power plants and, eventually, mobile vehicles. I’m imagining a catalytic converter-style device, but for CO2.

“That these tests involve the semi-controlled plummet” that ends within a few inches of the intended target, so fully controlled. Seems like a lot of bias there.

BINGO! I’m born and raised in Southern California, as were my parents; most of the urban wells were originally in the middle of nowhere and development moved in as parts of the fields started to run dry and were sold off to developers. With the exception of a few wildcat wells here and there, these “hidden” wells…

Yes, “just like prostitutes,” except for the fact that you’re probably not getting blown by prostitutes, but I’d almost guarantee that you’re using daily the gasoline, plastics, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals that are produced, almost exclusively, by the oil and gas industry.

A lot of this worry is full of “coulds” and “mights.” But you’ll have to excuse me if I don’t believe this will be the end of the Internet as we know it. In fact, for the vast majority of users, it doesn’t look like anything is going to change at all.

I agree. This is awesome. Everyone thought Kilauea is dead for 50 years. We visited it a year ago and nothing was happening. So hopefully there will be nice big bowl of lava for people to see!

This is actually a cool thing, not a bad thing. Kilueas last eruption lasted 35 years and most of that time it was one of the few places where you could see an active volcano from relative safety.

1) “Rampage” denotes intent, and as caused by persons. Better choices would have been “Eruption”, “Event”, etc

2) Was just there 24 hours ago...now back on the mainland...damn.

3) After a year where tourism in Hawai’i was decimated, a new year with increasing vaccine distribution and an actual active (so far non…

9/10 - failed to stick the landing. Honestly - the difficulty level is high enough it should qualify for an 11/10 compared to most other systems. Even with Falcon making landings, this is so much larger and with tiny landing gear that it’s a stunningly good try. 

Hmm.. I’m thinking they should dig a big hole so it has more room to slow down before it hits the ground.  

It was a 100% successful test.  The test was completed, and data was collected.  An unsuccessful test would be one where data was lost.

Rocket science: when blowing the thing up is still a successful test.

Are you even old enough to know what happened in the 80s when Reagan was President? I lived them, it wasn’t so bad, however it wasn’t great either, but it was better than the Jimmy Carter days. Also as much as I dislike Activision/Blizzard I do not believe they went political about the game, unlike you in this…

will it be made with NG elsewhere?

I honestly had no idea that gas stove emissions were this bad.

legit concerns about what to do about waste products

Nice to see you take other people’s opinions into account. This person simply points out a counter point and you crap all over it. You must be one of those “open-minded” liberals.

New Zealand has been bringing in 2nd-hand ‘Japanese Imports’ for decades, a win-win - good quality cars that would be crushed in Japan otherwise, to a country that does not have the economics of scale for a domestic vehicle vehicle manufacturing industry...

Phasing out private car ownership is wishful, naive and poorly planned thinking. Moving from ICE vehicles to BEV is a smarter move than telling people they may no longer own their own car. Anyone suggesting such nonsense can pound sand and kindly piss off.

Point: this article

Counterpoint (brief):
(i) these cars’ ‘cradle to grave’ environmental / natural resources costs at the ‘front end’ (i.e., manufacturing) has already been ‘spent’, and
(ii) maybe an older car - that the locals can actually afford! - is safer than walking or riding a motorcycle in busy traffic,…