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Wood burning can be made sustainable. Where I live, the forest service encourages people to take dead trees out of the forest. It reduces the fire load. And building codes and EPA …

Aren't microplastics already in chickens? Do they get passed to the eggs? If so, where do you filter microplastics first. . . the chicken or the egg?

LROC, which may be the closest we have in volume to a lunar telescope, sends its data back to Earth. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/about LROC is one of seven instruments on board LRO. T…

Good documentary on this: https://frontlinetv.com/plastic-wars-full-film

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die…

If you're looking for a rabbit hole, after Dave left Wired, he started his own blog: https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/

Me thinks they used the Fantasy Place Name generator. . . https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fantasy-town-names.php

Be patient. . . there's people working on that.

Here is a recent Frontline on how the petro-chem industry fooled consumers: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/ . Advocates may be gearing up for a lawsuit, simil…

Do you ever get that creepy feeling that HN is being used for guerrilla advertising?

My dad often said, "When you are cold, eat ice cream. It lowers your mean temperature." That said, we always knew he just wanted ice cream.

Our local library is more like a free internet shop with half the terminals taken up by transients and the other half by kids from the nearby jr. high, playing shoot-em ups. It's i…

For NASA image data, you can go to the PDS: http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html The Atlas has access to the mission released data. There is also link to PILOT, which has qui…

obligatory George Carlin bit. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4

For planetary data, the PDS Imaging Node has pages both at NASA and the USGS. Here is the USGS page pointing to much of it: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/facilities/cartography-and-…

I find ZH amusing.. In some ways I think it's the anti hackers news.. Hyper negative about the future.. Constant hate for new tech.. (Fear of skynet).. The system is always rigged …

When I first read this I thought Zynga was going to move their HQ to Market Street.