Everything you know about them is wrong.
This reminds me of how the Samoans created a lot of cultural mythology by pulling Margaret Mead’s leg.
Everything you know about them is wrong.
This reminds me of how the Samoans created a lot of cultural mythology by pulling Margaret Mead’s leg.
Chad Orzel asks, what is the greatest one?
Science writer/editor Elizabeth Lopatto suffered one in a bicycle accident, and wrote about it.
One of the reasons that Rerun (who, very sadly for us, we’re going to have to put down today or tomorrow to end her suffering) has been such a great cat is her extroversion and agreeableness.
A simple proof:
as a person familiar with both mathematics and computer science, this variation is not odd, in fact it’s completely understandable. After all a computer model is based on the best possible guesses from the available data and hurricanes are “complex natural phenomena that involve multiple interacting processes” so there is nothing at all odd about there being a 850 mile variation as to where it will it. As we get closer to Sunday and we have true data to input the variation in the models will correspondingly decrease.
Now apply this to climate change models telling us we face disaster in 100 years.
You aren’t dealing with a single “complex natural phenomena that involve multiple interacting processes” you are dealing with EVERY complex natural phenomena that involve multiple interacting processes that exists on the earth. Every single additional item you add increases the variation of the data models. Furthermore you are also dealing with variations in the sun, variations in the orbits of the earth, its moon and more.
And that’s just the variations in natural phenomena, imagine the variation in industrial output on the entire planet for a period of 50 or 100 years.
Think of the computer modeling and tracking of that single hurricane and apply this thinking to the climate of the earth as a whole. How accurate that model is going to be over 100 years, 50 years, 25 years or even ten years?
Would you be willing to bet even your short term economic future on it, would anyone in their right mind do so?
Not me.
They don’t seem to be able to do it on global warming, at Glacier National Park. (We visited there in the early nineties, then went on to Banff, Jasper and Yoho).
It’s not a giant rabbit (and the name will likely be retired after this storm). When he’s not reporting on space, Eric Berger (a Houston resident) covers tropical storms. He says the rain outlook is grim.
Here’s the difference between 99% and 100%.
This is the difference between 99% & 100% totality. Literally, night & day. So stoked I was able to capture this fleeting moment! #eclipse pic.twitter.com/v84kaug2gj
— Amy Ulivieri (@amyULo) August 22, 2017
[Friday-morning update]
“I’ve always thought eclipse chasers—these people who spend thousands of dollars flying around the world to spend two minutes looking at a solar eclipse—were a little nutty. I mean, that’s a little extreme, right? If you want to see what a solar eclipse looks like, type solar eclipse into Google.”
“I was wrong.”
Would have liked to see totality (guess it remains on the bucket list, maybe 2024 or somewhere else sooner), but we got about sixty percent coverage here. There was a thick marine layer when we awoke, but the clouds broke up in time for us to watch the whole thing. As I saw the moon slice along the left side of the sun, it was easy to imagine it projecting the full shadow a thousand miles north. I took a picture of a natural pinhole camera with hundreds of crescents in our driveway.
Just past peak in Manhattan Beach. pic.twitter.com/OHCvj9DFh6
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 21, 2017
A few of my eclipse jokes on Twitter:
If I were Trump, I'd have gone out on the Truman balcony and announced to my Red State supporters that I'll be bringing the sun back soon.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 21, 2017
Making eclipses grate again! https://t.co/APqwah83oQ
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 21, 2017
There is nothing an eclipse can do that will cause it to lose its base supporters. https://t.co/qjv3hj0jEp
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 21, 2017
OK, eclipse is almost over in Los Angeles. Safe to look at the sun without glasses again.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 21, 2017
Eclipse is over; it's OK to let your kids and pets stare at the sun again. #NotReally #DontDoThis
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 21, 2017
OK, show's over out west. Safe to release all the coons, squirrels and other varmints you people brought into your homes for their safety.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 21, 2017