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Re: Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water

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Post by acdha » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

tomc1985 wrote: post #70

acdha wrote: post #62

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Asking someone to support very broad claims isn't “university-level” and in this case, it's something which would be world-changing if true.

The manner in which it was asked was very poor.

Poor, or incompatible with your personal political beliefs? The person I was responding to is a science denier who made a claim he couldn’t back up which is incompatible with most of human experience. It’s unclear why you are so committed to their defense?

Re: Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water

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Post by tomc1985 » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 4:35 AM UTC

acdha wrote: post #71

tomc1985 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The manner in which it was asked was very poor.

Poor, or incompatible with your personal political beliefs? The person I was responding to is a science denier who made a claim he couldn’t back up which is incompatible with most of human experience. It’s unclear why you are so committed to their defense?

Good lord, now you're accusing me of defending the guy? Cool it.

Re: Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water

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Post by acdha » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 3:39 PM UTC

tomc1985 wrote: post #72

acdha wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Poor, or incompatible with your personal political beliefs? The person I was responding to is a science denier who made a claim he couldn’t back up which is incompatible with most of human experience. It’s unclear why you are so committed to their defense?

Good lord, now you're accusing me of defending the guy? Cool it.

Okay, so what was your goal? I asked him to explain a provocative take contradicting the article. This didn’t seem especially outlandish, but you reacted as if explaining what he meant was some kind of extraordinary burden.

Re: Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water

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Post by ralfn » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 6:47 AM UTC

wolverine876 wrote: post #30

ralfn wrote: post #5

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Thank you so much. The article is just too polluted with pseudo intellectual nonsense, but water management is a very underappreciated discipline of engineering. Although it seems impossible to measure how much water is stored in the deep soil, it is often possible to notice if it runs out. We had that last summer in the Netherlands. I suppose knowing we reached zero, and knowing the influx (mm rain, and the flow of…

> The article is just too polluted with pseudo intellectual nonsense Always an ironic comment!

I wasn't aware I was trying to sound intellectual.

I'll go find a doctor. That was definitely not my intention.

Re: Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water

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Post by kjkjadksj » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 5:29 PM UTC

tharkun__ wrote: post #43

kjkjadksj wrote: post #34

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Road runoff is usually pretty polluted in cities and some places have laws against capturing rainwater to protect downstream resources.

He doesn't say where he lives. While I agree with you that if he indeed lives in a place where the "road runoff" is nasty he should be careful, I really can't see why capturing rainwater should be banned. Of course "some places" is very vague so there might be good reasons but you'd have to provide much more context for me to believe that it's a good idea to prevent it. If my house wasn't where it is, the ground on w…

The issues with water capture is that you are basically building an illegal reservoir and not necessarily returning the water as it were if it just hit the ground. You might flush your toilet and think all is fine, but maybe now the creek in your back yard goes dry a week sooner in the year, and less tadpoles are able to be born or some other unforseen ecological effect. Or maybe downstream water users don’t get what they expect out of the watershed anymore due to illegal collecting.