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FlamingRain 3 points ago +4 / -1

The surface of the moon is covered with very fine, very sharp, electrostatically-charged powder. Landing rockets blasts that powder everywhere at high velocity. Landing the first rocket is fine, landing next to anything is where the problem starts; now you're sandblasting everything nearby.

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FlamingRain 2 points ago +2 / -0

It was a problem. We didn't stay long enough for it to become a big problem.

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

They’ll just tell you that wasn’t real communism.

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FlamingRain 3 points ago +3 / -0

People have gaslighted ChatGPT into saying 2+2=5, so I don’t think this proves what you think it proves.

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FlamingRain 2 points ago +2 / -0

I lost most of my interest in ChatGPT when it suggested I use powershell commands that don’t actually exist.

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

That pretty accurately describes how I was feeling, yeah. But everything came together tonight. My wife's best friend showed up unannounced, and I managed to convince her to stay a while and spend some time with my wife. Now, after several hours of drinking and laughing and crying, all her thanksgiving prep stress is gone. Today was a good day.

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

I want you to know that I still think about your kindness. Thank you.

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FlamingRain 2 points ago +2 / -0

Doesn’t matter. If Pence is a traitor, we should attack him. If it’s a ruse, we should still attack him to maintain the ruse.

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

That’s an odd-looking telescope. What’s it’s effective aperture diameter?

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sure we can. The ocean brings it to you on the currents. And as you lower the concentration, more lithium dissolves into the water to maintain equilibrium, from the 70% of the earth covered by ocean. Like I said, the downside is expense, not abundance. I just don't like people deceptively saying that the Earth doesn't have enough of something, because it definitely does. It just gets more expensive to extract.

Nothing about seawater extraction makes net-zero any less suicidal, of course.

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

Oh yeah, the greens will hate it, just like they hate anything that actually works. But if you're worried about the source, you can just multiply the lithium concentration in seawater by the total volume of seawater. I guarantee you'll get more than 1000 tonnes, lol.

The actual downside of seawater extraction of any mineral is the significant energy cost. Mining land deposits is cheaper, until we mine them out.

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

Really? The source I found had cobalt at 507 million tonnes. Chart on second page, note that totals given are in millions of tonnes: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.5b00463?src=getftr

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

There’s definitely enough lithium-200 billion tons of it, dissolved in seawater. Far less cobalt, though.

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FlamingRain 3 points ago +3 / -0

The most obvious difference is quantity. An RMBK reactor core like Chernobyl’s #4 reactor contains 194 tons of enriched Uranium fuel. In contrast, Little Boy carried 141 pounds of highly enriched uranium. And, since Little Boy was an airburst, most of the fallout ended up in the ocean while Chernobyl instead sat there and burned. And you can take a tour to Chernobyl, just wear a dosimeter because some areas have radiation levels high enough to be dangerous. It’s dangerous like a poorly-cleared minefield, not a ravening death zone.

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FlamingRain 2 points ago +4 / -2

If you really thought we were all going to die from Fukishima, you really didn’t know anything at all about radiation. Sorry, fren.

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FlamingRain 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yes it is. Many different radioactive isotopes are created in a nuclear explosion. The most dangerous ones are dangerous because of their intense radiation. Their radiation is intense because they have a short half life.

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FlamingRain 2 points ago +2 / -0

She’s been involved with Amgen since at least 2008. This isn’t the only thing they sell, so don’t put much stock in this tweet. Do your homework friends: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/03/pelosis_etha_and_amgen.html

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

My heart is so hardened I’m struggling to find joy even in this victory. I didn’t realize I had let myself get this bad.

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FlamingRain 1 point ago +1 / -0

Again, that's a perpetual motion machine. Because the way you get energy from the hydrogen you've released from the water is by burning it with oxygen you've released from the water to make... water.

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