https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...
"It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water --- with which it reacts explosively."
- John D Clark, Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
https://www.pmf.ni.ac.rs/chemianaissensis/wp-content/uploads...
He's been doing it for 20 years.
https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/05/derek-lowe-chemist-blogg...
He also had an excellent series on SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates during the height of the COVID media insanity. It was one of the few places to get a balanced, informed take on different approaches. Specifically, discussing the uncertainty bounds around results.
Definitely a gifted science communicator. (No small skill, to distill but not pol/dilute!)
You’d need a bunch of jackpots to come up, in a row, immediately, at this point for technology to provide a way out of the current debacle.
To paraphrase Paul Lieberstein’s character on the Newsroom:
If we stop drilling globally right this second
AND
Everyone stops driving their car and starts biking everywhere
AND
We invest immediately in clean renewable energy
THEN
I still don’t see a way out of this.
edit: found it on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pNYp6oc37ds
I’ve had it bookmarked for a couple of years. Worth visiting twice or trice a year, or even more frequently.
The practical details should be figured out in a decade or so. The political side may be harder.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/07/su...
I was walking my dog there most days when that happened, and to my knowledge they never caught the spooky hackers did they?
For now, just call me spooky Patsy.
Anyway, whilst more and more cars and buildings with air conditioning expel heat without a considerable lag, thus amplifying the thermal heat island effect [2], and the reduction of aerosols that were contributing to global dimming [3] making it possible to warm up the sea and land to new record highs since records began [4], have the climate scientists adjusted their models yet, or are they still in full on fatalism and alarmism mode? I feel like Roy Castle [5] still lives on.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming#Relationship_to...
[4] https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2023/06/16/sea-surface-tempera...
NASA report on the Mount Pinatubo caused global cooling: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/1510/global-effects...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
I hope we're entering a new epoch. The number of people I've met who've lost loved ones too early.
That dragon, cancer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Dragon,_Cancer
>> Shkreli bought the exclusive rights to manufacture Daraprim, a drug that can treat a rare parasitic disease, in 2015 and hiked the price from $13.50 per pill to $750, to much controversy. The entrepreneur was ordered in January 2022 to return $64.6 million in profit made by the price hikes and creating what the Federal Trade Commission alleged was “a web of anti-competitive restrictions” to prevent rivals from making a cheaper generic version.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90932968/martin-shkreli-dr-gupta...
I am not well-versed in intellectual property (so please correct me if I’m wrong), but in this case Shkreli is using a database of commercially available compounds (ZINC) and a hit present in the screen could be patented. He said he won’t do it, and, since this could be considered prior art, nobody else can do a claim.