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Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

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Re: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

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Post by grzm »

schiffern wrote: post #40

>terran Could we please not alter headlines to replace real words with made-up scifi words? The original headline uses "terrestrial," which is correct. Also even in the context of scifi, "terrestrial" has a completely different meaning ("of the land surface", vs "of the planet Earth"). Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread Mods, can we get a fix? EDIT: Thanks!

The article title is "Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink", which is over the 80-character limit for titles. The submitter likely made the edit to make the title fit.

If you have better alternative, feel free to suggest one.

Edit to add: the best way to get a title fixed is to (quietly) email the mods using the contact link in the footer.

Re: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

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Post by [deleted] »

schiffern wrote: post #40

>terran Could we please not alter headlines to replace real words with made-up scifi words? The original headline uses "terrestrial," which is correct. Also even in the context of scifi, "terrestrial" has a completely different meaning ("of the land surface", vs "of the planet Earth"). Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread Mods, can we get a fix? EDIT: Thanks!

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Re: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

#43

Post by burnished »

grzm wrote: post #41
schiffern wrote: post #40

>terran Could we please not alter headlines to replace real words with made-up scifi words? The original headline uses "terrestrial," which is correct. Also even in the context of scifi, "terrestrial" has a completely different meaning ("of the land surface", vs "of the planet Earth"). Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread Mods, can we get a fix? EDIT: Thanks!

The article title is "Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink", which is over the 80-character limit for titles. The submitter likely made the edit to make the title fit. If you have better alternative, feel free to suggest one. Edit to add: the best way to get a title fixed is to (quietly) email the mods using the contact link in the footer.

Drop the word 'green', its an interesting descriptor but accuracy wouldn't be lost in the same way (I believe).

Re: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

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Post by [deleted] »

schiffern wrote: post #40

>terran Could we please not alter headlines to replace real words with made-up scifi words? The original headline uses "terrestrial," which is correct. Also even in the context of scifi, "terrestrial" has a completely different meaning ("of the land surface", vs "of the planet Earth"). Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread Mods, can we get a fix? EDIT: Thanks!

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Re: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

schiffern wrote: post #40

>terran Could we please not alter headlines to replace real words with made-up scifi words? The original headline uses "terrestrial," which is correct. Also even in the context of scifi, "terrestrial" has a completely different meaning ("of the land surface", vs "of the planet Earth"). Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread Mods, can we get a fix? EDIT: Thanks!

>Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread

You admit your point is baseless but haven't internalized it emotionally, I guess.

"Terra" is "Earth" in Latin, and "teren" is Romanian for "ground". Can't "terran" be a shorthand for "terrESTRIAL" in English just because it's the name of a faction in StarCraft?

Re: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

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Post by dang »

burnished wrote: post #43
grzm wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article title is "Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink", which is over the 80-character limit for titles. The submitter likely made the edit to make the title fit. If you have better alternative, feel free to suggest one. Edit to add: the best way to get a title fixed is to (quietly) email the mods using the contact link in the footer.

Drop the word 'green', its an interesting descriptor but accuracy wouldn't be lost in the same way (I believe).

That's a good idea. I dropped 'terrestrial' instead, because I'm not sure where else the carbon sink would be.

(Submitted title was "Remote sensing shows Antarctic green snow algae is important terran carbon sink".)

Re: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

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Post by pvaldes »

_3u10 wrote: post #37
xyzzyz wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Speaking of algae, we're not turning wasteland into algae farming ponds and developing more useful algae because, well, I don't really know. One of the reasons is that, according to many environmental activists, there is no such thing as “wasteland” that you could develop with minimal loss to environment. This is not a theoretical concern: read up on Ivanpah solar power plant, built in the middle of the literal des…

Dude in BC they pretend a pod of orcas is a separate species because orcas aren’t endangered so they had to invent a species with 73 members so they could have something to complain about. Look up Southern Resident Orca

> Dude in BC they pretend a pod of orcas is a separate species because orcas aren’t endangered so they had to invent a species with 73 members so they could have something to complain about.

Sometimes scientists do genetic analysis and find things, yep.

We don't do this because we are drama queens, It just happens that murica has some unique cetacean species and they are experiencing a sharp decline by unclear reasons. Some people repeating the same stupid jokes about activists since 1960's don't help to provide any solution.

All seen the same to you? Can you spot the differences?

https://cdn.roaring.earth/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Killer_...

Re: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

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Post by amelius »

I wonder if, instead of scrubbing CO2, it would make sense to increase the other constituents of air, e.g. oxygen, thereby reducing the effective concentration of CO2. What if we ran a giant hydrolysis operation, generating O2 (and letting H2 escape into space or finding some other use for it other than burning it)?

Re: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important carbon sink

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Post by dexwiz »

amelius wrote: post #49

I wonder if, instead of scrubbing CO2, it would make sense to increase the other constituents of air, e.g. oxygen, thereby reducing the effective concentration of CO2. What if we ran a giant hydrolysis operation, generating O2 (and letting H2 escape into space or finding some other use for it other than burning it)?

Assuming you could make a sizable contribution, extra gas would eventually dissipate into space. That said, oxygen is high in potential chemical energy (usually contributes energy to a reaction, hence everything oxidizes), while CO2 is low (doesn’t react with much without external energy like sunlight). This the process of making oxygen or using (storing) CO2 are roughly equivalent energy wise. Of course processes and catalyst may change the exact numbers, but you aren’t getting around the basic thermo problem.
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