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assbot: Logged on 08-08-2015 06:50:36; asciilifeform: reminds me of how, allegedly, a 'go' board and its stones made
their way
to leonhard euler. and he concluded
that
the game was played by
tossing'em into
the cavity at
the bottom between
the legs
polarbeard: starcraft is more like real
time chess, I'd say
thestringpuller: Although I don't know anyone
that can compete with
the Koreans in Starcraft
thestringpuller: aha. I imagine you would be good at Real
Time Strategy games.
thestringpuller: yes as in
thing you put in computer with flashing lights and stuff
that you play for fun
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: He's
trying
to make joke about
the band Pantera. RIP Dimebag
BingoBoingo: Well, if
the dam is
tall enough
the Mississippi will fill up a good basin. Just gotta make 1993 flood
the low water mark
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> peterL, Just gotta raise
the river
then << ideally, put it on a jack. "maybe i'll come down, maybe i won't. don't mess up my beer, man!"
mircea_popescu: heh look at all
the kids
that don't know better / derps nobody heard about coralled by pantera and advised by gavin & schmuckteam.
BingoBoingo: Sure, in
the gulf of Mexico it just makes big dead zones. Moving
the mess upstream preserves
tropical beaches while flooding ghetto
jurov: In
the Gulf of Mexico
there's little change it will spill and kill everything downstream
BingoBoingo: Well it already settles down and concentrates in
the Gulf of Mexico.
This would just move where it happens.
jurov: BingoBoingo: it's different when it's continuously mixed and when it's allowed
to settle down and concentrate
BingoBoingo: jurov: Every city's sewer and all
the various indistry along it constantly pump weird shit into it.
BingoBoingo: <jurov> hydropower means large lagoons
that
tend
to acumulate
toxic deposits
that noone wants
to
touch. coal and nuclear mean radioactive
toxic waste,
too. while defunct windmill means piece of perfectly usable structural alloy. << How is
this different from
the Mississippi river at present?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << dude, i don't care if he gives away clinton's hairy snatch and
the secret of immortality 45 minutes in. who
the fuck has
the
time for
this sorta
thing. << Reddit commnets were lulzy. Didn't sonsider anyone would
try listening or operate a browser capable of listening.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re
the picric acid... going anhydrous phenol + fuming sulphuric acid
to get hydroxyphenylsulfonic acid and
then fuming nitric acid on
top of
that... should be a fun little experiment :D
mircea_popescu: (all
this
talk re new ice age is quite on point, incidentally.
the crazed us cultists of pseudoscience are loudly proclaiming a narrative bluntly contradictory
to
the data. altogether more likely we're headed for cool.)
mircea_popescu: and yeah, geothermal. in fact
that'll be
the competition in case of new ice age. nuclear vs geothermal.
mircea_popescu: it does not present an actual species
threat for any species.
mircea_popescu: also -
the way nuclear is dirty is very peculiar. pollution in
the sense of poison - kills everyone. pollution in
the sense of nuclear leakeage - does not. it just shortens lifespan and increases
the angle of attack at DNA research.
mod6: Need
to look
this up quick.
assbot: Logged on 25-01-2016 05:00:08; BingoBoingo: mod6: When do you
think it would make sense
to dam
the Mississippi river
to generate hydroelectric power for mining?
mod6: <+PeterL>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-01-2016#1385014 << hydro power is proportional
to water drop, you can't really get much power out of a flat river like missississippi << very
true.
the one we were discussing yesterday is at St. Anthonys Falls. Which apparently helped
the city long ago get its start. Its not very big, and since
they put in
the dam, apparenlty
this has eroded
the origin
☝︎ mircea_popescu: if
the sun does
turn off, you'll have more ice
than you'll know what
to do with.
jurov: 99% of nuclear is unusable without ample access
to cooling water
mircea_popescu: (and yes
this has been
tested in practice, it's not at all
theoretical. nuclear subs are more important for
THIS reason
than whatever justified
their existence at
the
time.)
mircea_popescu: it quite literally represents security from
thermodynamics, in a way very similar
to how
the bombs were marketed at
the
time
to represent "Security from
the enemies".
mircea_popescu: contrary
to aqll
the brouhaha at
the
time, about how "mankind has found
the way
to end itself" bla bla, nothing could be further from
the
truth. nuclear power provides humanity a hard guarantee against large scale catastrophe
that no other life has, nor could have without
thios particular
tech.
mircea_popescu: (before you say "so do fossils" -
think again. where do you get
the oxygen ?)
mircea_popescu: anyway, re nuclear. while it is dirty in a certain way, it has an advantage nothing else does : it would work just as well with
the sun
turned off.
this is a big deal, fundamentally. whether it means anything in practice or not... well...
assbot: Here's where you forget about "wind power" as an alternative source of power. on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1VlkqOC )
mircea_popescu: if
there's both mill and hydro plant, well... finally ecoregulations can be forced on
the mill. and if it doesn't like it... fuck you, move
to germany.
mircea_popescu: if
there's nothing but
textile mill on
the veh,
textile mill gets
to poison
the river.
mircea_popescu: well, look at it
the other way : maybe it finally provides
the much needed impetuus
to force
the polluters upstream
to clean up
their act.
jurov: that was not my point. i wanted
to say,
there are cubic kilometers of liabilities likely
to happen
jurov: on other hand you handwave
the pollution away
mircea_popescu: so on one hand your argument is logically unsound, and on
the other hand
the benefit of hydro is certain.
mircea_popescu: the hydro plant has exactly nothing
to do with pollutants upstream.
jurov: romania has pointy
tits. and?
mircea_popescu: jurov
the saggy
tits
thing invalidates
the 'argument' such as it is.
jurov: yes it helped romania. how does it invalidate
the argument?
PeterL: I dunno, I'm not
that familliar with shaped charges
mircea_popescu: not modern ones, at least not
the ones with
the active armor additions.
PeterL: I guess
the question is, does it work?
mircea_popescu: sex leads
to saggy boobs : saggy boobs are seen in all females after 20-30 years of fucking, if not earlier.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> since
the 1950s
the hydropower potential of Vah river in Slovakia was almost completely developed and exactly
this happened, lakes brim-full of stuff noone knows how
to dispose <<
this may be, but on
the other hand romania exists as an industrial power rather
than an argentinian farm shithole strictly because of massive hydro power developments post ww2
mircea_popescu: jurov
this slander re hydro is not unlike saying sex leads
to saggy boobs.
mircea_popescu: anyway. picric acid at least is more stable
than guncotton,
the golden standard of "oops, we fired our cannon
there goes
the ship" application
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> but wunderwaffen-warfare is ~largely~
this kind of
thing. << quite very much so. and
tlp's "frantic activity as a cover for impotence" explains a lot of it.
assbot: Logged on 25-01-2016 05:00:08; BingoBoingo: mod6: When do you
think it would make sense
to dam
the Mississippi river
to generate hydroelectric power for mining?
kakobrekla: newer dams are actually built in a way
that flushes
that sediments periodically,
they fucked it up on
the Nile
tho.
jurov: (and another 3%
thanks
to Danube)
jurov: while contributing measly 1%
to nation's electrcity supply
jurov: since
the 1950s
the hydropower potential of Vah river in Slovakia was almost completely developed and exactly
this happened, lakes brim-full of stuff noone knows how
to dispose
kakobrekla: well
they would still get
that in either case