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Over geologic time the atmospheric pressure has been much higher than today. Likely 2-3x as much. With CO2 being 10X or likely 100X todays. There is a shit ton of carbon and Oxygen locked up in the rocks. It boggles the mind.
Currently, solar energy fluctuates up and down 6% over each orbit - with northern winter getting more and northern summer getting the least. Just by orbital mechanics. Orbital variation and the wobble in Earth's rotation on its axis and the precession of same is poorly understood and there is little in the way of proxy data to model it either. The big planets and Venus have a lot to say about it and since the NICE work came out, there is a lot of uncertainty now.
There is a lot of evidence of solar and interstellar dusty transiting the Earth's orbit. Some days see up to 30% less visible/thermal radiation due to it. Again, we just don't know.
The fact that the ice age glaciers melted in just a few thousand years each time and that heat fluctuations due solely to Milankovitch cycles only add up to 20% of the required heat flux means we just don't know.
I spent the summer up at Glacier NP and hiked up to several recent terminal moraines from the little ice age. They are huge relatively speaking. Many have buried ice from then. The fact that these glaciers were 500-1000 feet thick and began to push down to the hanging valleys is fucking scary. No one has an explanation of why they began to grow or why it got "warmer." The younger dryas saw temps drop 10 degrees F in a few years with a return to full ice age conditions in two decades. MUCH colder than the little ice age. No one knows why. again, fucking scary. And consider the Alps. or the Arctic, both were mostly ice free 6000 years ago. Now, tons of ice. Much of it came back fast.
The last few months we've looked at solar irradiance at the surface for a very large resilience project and it looks like the NREL data is junk for large parts of the year across many locations in the US. Abut 30% of the days look bad. It was based on satellite measurements. I'm afraid to go look at sat data for other things - it can't be much better as the methods are the same.
PLA doctrine is to attack leadership and decapitate it. They may want to rethink it.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake..
I'm reading several histories of the Pacific War and in all of them they had to replace most of the senior leadership when the war began.
The "professionals" in my hood will pay a Mexican 3K for something that takes a day to do and costs $500 in materials, and acceptable results.
When I lived out at the ranch full time, I made a ton of money partnered with an older Mexican. He'd find the gigs, set the posts, prep pipe, and I'd cut steel, weld in the evening. I bought all the steel and carried the cost. He'd polish and paint. I netted $50 an hour as did he. And I would get %10 on materials. For metal pipe fence.
We also made a ton of money running barbed wire. We could do a mile a week. $1 a foot plus materials. That was very lucrative.
If you are organized, methodical, don't make mistakes, and bust your ass, you can make money at a lot of things.
My wife’s work is involved with the Parker Solar Probe.
There should be some good science coming back from that mission.
Guessing if its not the answer to meet the agenda they will crash it into the sun.
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Why so many questions Bojan? The answer should be quite obvious, the outlier must be Hunter Biden
Finally Lebron gets his due…….
Just got a (h&@
on!!!!! Love those those old trucks!! Had a 66 swb I was rebuilding years ago. (25+). Stripped, to frame, sandblasted, powder coated, and a camero front clip. Moved to our new place. Wasn’t thinking, lined cab frame and bed out behind barn. Next night, lightning storm, yes, layed an oak across everything. I cried…..
Being the designated flashlight man for his dad.
Teaching him new words?
Next step is to have him remove the drain plug. BTDT on both sides.
last time I was there, there hadn't been any water in the lake in a few years.
I purchased this fine all original one owner unit today.
1970 W-200 Deluxe
318
4-speed
Dana 60
The original owners son just sent me this picture of it loaded up on his trailer.
The delivery was negotiated and he will be towing it from the Willamette Valley over Tombstone Pass to Central Oregon on Monday.
I sure hope it makes it.
Pepper Anderson approves.
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Worst job ever. Got yelled at way too many times.
Hope so to , he sure as shit dont know how to secure a vehicle to a trailer
What did ya give for it?
He just did that quick and dirty so he could move it around on the property.
High flow, fully manual, quick action Heater control!!
Walmart oil and a fram filter. He should teach his boy that saving a few dollars now will end up costing him more later
I agree on the Fram filter but WM oil is rated pretty well on Bob Is The Oil Guy.
That movie is a guilty pleasure
