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But is it strong enough to make a space elevator?
No. Smoking is way more personally dangerous than alcohol, except for auto accidents. Tobacco hurts you in so many different ways – with sagging skin, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stained teeth, strokes, hypertension. Also, alcohol addicts only represent about 10% of the drinking public, whereas about 90% of smokers become chain-smoking addicts.
And, as I mentioned, smoking often kills people a decade short of retirement. Drinkers, on the other hand, often reach old age.
Not justifying alcohol, but there are so many downsides to smoking. But you can’t explain that to an addict.
I have a folding bike that was originally meant to be part of a Marlsboro rewards program. Apparently smokers weren’t all that interested in exercise. Who knew?
The U.S. basically has no plan for storage of nuclear waste. All but one of the “swimming pools” have been filled to the brim. Some sites are starting to move the waste into concrete vaults. Some have been seen leaking.
The first step is to figure out what happens to the waste.
Yes, where I worked they generously gave you a 10 minute mid-morning break. Unless you were a smoker, and “needed” to slip out 5 minutes every hour. I often wondered if I could get away with just “smoking” a straw.
Most of the smokers I’ve known don’t even get close to 80, and are often very sickly when they do. Two family members that didn’t make it to 60. A healthy looking co-worker who dropped dead in the parking lot. A former boss who didn’t get to enjoy more than two years retirement.
Cigarettes are the only consumer product that, when used as directed, kill their consumers.
Can you add to a koopzegel with purchase of a kadobon ?
Be the traffic you want to become.
The link provided gives a 504 error – possibly because the story goes back to 2018.
Here’s a link from archive.org:
Additional points from the story:
No debris from an asteroid was found at the site, which is weird compared to other impacts. An alternate theory is the area was hit by a small (in mass), fast-travelling black hole. It would have struck, zipped through the earth, and then passed out through an ocean on the other side.
As long as the temperature is below 451F/233C, there should be no danger of fire.
Pro Tip: Keep masking tape in the kitchen. If you do something weird like storing a pizza in the oven, put a piece of masking tape over the oven dial as a reminder. Masking tape is good for putting a date on things going into the fridge too.
How are they for coming off ? The various reinforced tires I’ve tried (randoneur, gator, 25mm) are really hard to put back on. Like you peel the skin off your hands trying. I’ve notice that most tires, even cheaper ones, don’t give you trouble for the first 500 miles. So have gone back to a medium grade tire that doesn’t require special tools to replace.
Space Flower Moon Micro Reactor, a conceptual car-sized fusion reactor
Wait, what? I don’t think we’re anywhere close to build a car-sized fusion reactor. Fission, sure.
You only needed a slim 50% to split? Not like a 2/3rds majority?
Is some of this money going to fund ITER (I assume everyone in the EU has to pay a little) ?
Regardless, I stay away from both irregardless.
The most important message doesn’t happen until almost the very end. The thing that no politician wants to face up to:
Niko Paech says that’s an impossible target:
"That’s why it’s important to set our sights on a smaller, no longer growing economy … post-growth economy. A different lifestyle is part of that. We declutter our lives, free ourselves of ballast that just costs time, money, and resources and takes up space. Beyond that, we’ve got to extend the usable life of the products around us. Whether it’s smart phones or bicycles, fabrics or furniture. We’ve got to double, if not triple its life. And use many things communally.
But it’s sunny everywhere in CA. Instead of building expensive, inefficient power lines that will have to cross environmentally sensitive areas, why not build solar roofs over the hundreds of miles of freeway that are already there? This will also provide shade for all those people stuck in traffic – win/win !
I’m sceptical. That would be an extremely unethical test. And it would only prove that too much of something can kill you. Did you know that people can even die from drinking too much water?
Take-away 1: Electric cars emit 20% more micro-plastics from tires than do ICE vehicles.
Take-away 2: Electric cars are not the solution to climate change. Whether it’s a 2000lb ICE vehicle, or a 4000lb EV vehicle, it takes a lot of energy which has to come for somewhere, and a lot of material that will have to be mined, and then eventually disposed.