Recent content by amos083

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    Earth barreling toward 'Hothouse' state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows

    Yes, how can these elitist scientist tell us -- those people who had done nothing in their lives than to spend years studying and researching climate, who rely on nothing but billions of data points, collected over decades by thousands of observers who had nothing better to do than go to the...
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    Earth barreling toward 'Hothouse' state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows

    The point is, there has been a significant rise in CO2 levels after the Industrial Revolution. Blaming global warming on volcanic activity alone, means you assume that, in addition to having volcanic activity *after* the Industrial Revolution, there has not been any volcanic activity *before* it.
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    Physicists entangle 15 trillion hot atoms

    Some explanations in this article (especially the included "Paul Explains" clip) encounter a pitfall which often plagues attempts to explain quantum phenomena: that of using classical terms to describe them. This creates an image of quantum physics of something like "weird classical physics"...
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    Scientists capture the world's deepest octopus on video. And it's adorable.

    I must object to the manner in which units are converted to the metric system. They appear in the style of "4.3 miles (6,957 meters)"; the Imperial units are given as at most 2-digit precision notation (as they should be, after all it doesn't matter whether an octopus dives a few feet above or...