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Though the constant doomerism one encounters when they speculate about breaking such trends can discourage anyone from thinking it’s worth pursuing.
This sounds like a way to free yourself of personal responsibility. "We could have done so much if the doomsayers hadn't discouraged us!"
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This sounds like a way to free yourself of personal responsibility. "We could have done so much if the doomsayers hadn't discouraged us!"
You can't personal responsibility your way out of large-scale societal issues...
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You can't personal responsibility your way out of large-scale societal issues...
And this is a bit like saying your vote doesn't count because it's just one of many. Society is built of people. Changes can only come from people.
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And this is a bit like saying your vote doesn't count because it's just one of many. Society is built of people. Changes can only come from people.
I don't think anybody suggested otherwise. But funny you use the plural there...
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I was taught logarithmic scales in middle school. If every concept needs to be dumbed down to a pre-middle school level for maximum accessibility (to minimize gatekeeping), you're going to end up with a public who literally can't comprehend the things they're being told because they stopped learning before middle school.
The average comprehension is grade school level
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Thanks! :) Haha! I think the ISS hull uses classified shielding to provide some kind of advanced protection. But it's expensive and based on materials science activated with electric fields. I think they also have some detection system to detect and correct single-event effects. Just info tho, I don't have an article source for this haha! :) Even then astronnauts may be advised to not use some devices during specific…
I think it’s worth mentioning here COTS hardware is also very resilient (things like ZFS without ECC excluded) to radiation these days. Here’s a video of a GoPro riding through an electron beam: https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?si=6z6626hrdXhvZ2x_ There are lots of bad things happening while it’s in the middle of the beam, but it appears to function normally after completing the pass.
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Though the constant doomerism one encounters when they speculate about breaking such trends can discourage anyone from thinking it’s worth pursuing.
This sounds like a way to free yourself of personal responsibility. "We could have done so much if the doomsayers hadn't discouraged us!"
I think those kinds of comments can be discouraging for the layman who wants to help the planet but maybe isn’t well versed enough in the topic to argue with the doomer. More sinisterly, I’ve often wondered how much doomerism is pushed by oil companies and other businesses that stand to benefit from the status quo.
WWV 15 mhz is way down in Chicagoland at 19:03z. 10 mhz extremely faint.
D-Layer absorption is way up. https://www.solarham.com/globald.htm
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Uhm... What is a misconception in my post? I guess electronics can also be affected by a slightly higher flux of cosmic rays, but malfunctions due to cosmic rays are extremely unlikely in any case.
Okay that’s a good question but I’d like you to try to answer it. What do you think is a misconception in your original based on what I said? It’s not just about cosmic rays. I wasn’t attacking you, and not saying you don’t understand it, just the comment seemed like a misconception about a few things. Haha! :)
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Thanks! This is the doc I found the "90 percent of our population is dead" quote from, which is asserted indirectly: https://irp.fas.org/congress/2008_hr/emp.pdf It's referring to a fictional story in that quote, but the scientist says that 90% is accurate for the real world if that scenario were to happen. Pretty chilling.
This is an interesting read. I noticed also that Roscoe Bartlett, the rep running that hearing, moved entirely off the grid after retirement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Bartlett#Personal_life
Reads more like a self-written personal home page than an encyclopedia entry produced by independent volunteers.