Ranting of Me

http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor

Some thoughts.

First, marking it in any fashion draws attention to it.

Second, anyone who can drill 1000m is high enough tech to figure out what it is. Nonissue.

Third, if they're not, but dig that deep anyway, we owe it to the gene pool to clean them out.

Fourth, this stuff has energy. We should be saving it for future use.

Fifth, how do the French and Japanese get rid of their nuclear waste? Surely someone has addressed this before.

Sixth, the danger really isn't that great http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/26-Witch-of-Yucca-Mountain.htm and making a big deal out of it just complicates things.

Seventh, I like the idea of shooting the scientists and asking 5 year olds to draw warning signs. Let's not overcomplicate it.

Eight, re: The "New Zealand is morally superior to all of you" poster. I'm sick of that crap about them not having a strategic military--they know the US, Australia, the UK and even Indonesia will save their asses if China gets frisky, and their "green" energy will work until the volcano powering it blows Auckland and all its smug inhabitants into screaming, blistered rubble. Remind me when I am World Dictator to evacuate the Maori, carpet bomb with ERRBs (Neutron bombs), then send the Maori back to civilize the survivors.

Nine, the floor is open. Thoughts?

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1BA0D6J2GS59/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg1?ie=UTF8&cdPage=1


Wow.

That is all.

From: NASA News [mailto:nasanews@mail.arc.nasa.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:11 PM
To: local-reporters@lists.arc.nasa.gov; ames-releases@lists.arc.nasa.gov
Subject: NASA Calculates a Carbon Budget for the State of California

Dec. 16, 2009

Ruth Dasso Marlaire
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
650-604-4709
ruth.marlaire@nasa.gov

RELEASE: 09-155AR

NASA CALCULATES A CARBON BUDGET FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- While world organizations struggle to find a
benchmark and tracking standards for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,
NASA has been supporting California's new carbon emissions inventory
report, using its satellite imaging data and computer models of the
state's natural ecosystems.

Researchers report that in 2004, the state's natural ecosystems
absorbed as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as fossil fuel
carbons emitted into the atmosphere. They also discovered that during
periods of above normal rainfall, ecosystems trapped significant
amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in forests and soils.( Read more... )

This project was funded by NASA as part of a long-term research
program dedicated to understanding how human-induced and natural
changes affect our global environment.

For more information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

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How to be Agents of Change (some intermediary comments deleted for flow)


Shooter: only reason why I'm up so early is that SOS test...which didn't work out so well. Screw AFSO 21 and buzzwords. Not to mention "distance learning"
mike: SOS?
Shooter: squadron officer school
Shooter: pme for captain-types.
Shooter: absolutely meaningless.
Shooter: the focus has moved from "being a military officer and knowing about effective use of violence" to "meaningless buzzwords"
mike: hah
mike: actualizing your unit's paradigm?
mo: that's scary and entirely plausible
Shooter: the sad part is that might actually be in one of the readings
mike: Determining goals and end plans to maximize effectiveness?
Shooter: ...fuck.
Shooter: that actually WAS in there
eightbit: He should facilitate the realization of his mission statement through synergy between the traditional process and the new, dynamic decision-making paradigm.
eightbit: That would definitely proactively increase mindshare.
mike: I'll spank you.
eightbit: LOL
eightbit: I'm just trying to be a change agent for best practices! It is one of my core competencies.
mike: I need a world where I can exploit my core competencies.
eightbit: Wanking is a core competency? ;)
mike: Sure, if I can get paid for it.
mike: DON'T YOU JUDGE ME.
mo: ROFLMAO
mo: I don't know enough of that vocab to effectively spout the requisite BS
Shooter: by more elegantly implementing the new AFSO21 decision-making model, as opposed to the Army's Military Decision Making Process, how could I have more effectively streamlined my processes?
Shooter: ....wait. I just blacked out. what happned?
Shooter: okay. have reached buzzword-bullshit saturation.
zeros: Man, we're missing out. We need to go to Copenhagen.
mike: for the limos and hookers?
zeros: COPENHAGEN — Police officers fired tear gas and wielded batons on Wednesday to beat back hundreds of demonstrators outside the global climate meeting here, as a police spokesman said 250 people had been arrested.
zeros: For the violence.
mike: awesome
zeros: Not that I've got a problem with limos and hookers, but they're just the icing.
mike: indeed
mike: so, are these left or right wing protesters getting gassed?
zeros: Left-wing, I assume. Right-wingers have better things to do than that shit.
zeros: Besides, the right can call on military expertise, and think rationally.
mike: wow. What doesn't the left like about it? Not enough socialism and rectal probes?
zeros: Essentially.
zeros: According to one organizer, Anne Petermann, the overarching message of Wednesday’s action is that the United Nations process for curbing climate change is a failure, and that there are “thousands of other solutions to climate change that aren’t being considered,” she said.
zeros: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/science/earth/17climate.html
zeros: No, the overarching message is that these people are a bunch of clueless shits.
Who's Shooter?
zeros: Hm, military captain?
mike: missile launch officer.
zeros: AF?
mike: yes
zeros: Pretty. Missiles of the nuke-tipped variety?
mike: yup
zeros: Hm, does he get an employee discount on them?
Shooter: who is zeros, anyways?
mike: friend of mine
mike: Aussie expat
mike: right now he wants to go to Copenhagen
mike: because the police are gassing protesters and he'd like to help.
Shooter: not bad.
Shooter: bonus points if he tapes the Mohammed cartoons to the gas canisters.