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While I have not looked into the details myself, the hope clouds will reflect solar heat away enough to prevent global warming from being fatal seem slim because it did not help Venus. Which is still over 400 degrees even with the clouds. It could be clouds make it worse, since water vapor...

The only way I know of that may prevent global warming from making all life on the planet go extinct, is that it may first produce a constant cloud cover from the ocean warming. That may keep global temperatures survivable, but constant cloud cover would have its own problems as well. Astronomy...

The Koramatsu case was interesting and I had not heard of it before. {... Fred Korematsu, 23, was a Japanese-American citizen who did not comply with the order to leave his home and job, despite the fact that his parents had abandoned their home and their flower-nursery business in preparation...

I still can not understand how the propaganda has succeeded in making the murder or millions of innocent civilians, like in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, or Iran, seem patriotic to people? To a degree I can understand police have to do what they are told, but I still see them seemingly...

I forgot to respond to the "pandemic" part. The reality is that masks are a bad idea during a pandemic. If you wear the same mask for a couple hours, you actually increase the odds of contagion, because the pathogen can be released into your breath in even greater quantity once the mucus...

Since Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania was such a cradle of new life forms, I wonder if there is a radioactive deposit nearby? But the ocean would seem to be the single worst possible place to dump something if you do not want it to return.

The good part is that the electric rate in NM will likely go down since I think we currently are being fined for some old coal plants still in use. The bad part is that they no longer will have incentive to subsidize solar credits any more.

Good point in that it seems they do not do dumps very well. I believe nuclear reactor fuels are metals, so soluble by corrosive water. I was just thinking of metal barrels in a concrete vault, but now that I think about it, that would need to be carefully done to prevent eventual destruction by...

Good question. Over all, the fissile material is decayed by being used in the reactor. But in the reactor, the decay process is accelerated. So the amount of radiation given off could be increased, even though then it will get used up faster. But I am not too worried about the nuclear wastes...

I thought along similar lines, but then I began to understand that all radioactive material in the earth actually came from stellar nuclear fusion billions of years ago. That means nuclear reactors actually do not create "nuclear waste", but instead they cause the already existing nuclear...

I remember when I saw the movie "China Syndrome" with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemon, and had such strong feelings against nuclear power. Now that I know how much worse fossil fuel is, I vastly prefer nuclear power, and am embarrassed by my previous rush to judgement. But it still makes me a little...

I am oddly ambivalent because although coal produces twice the CO2 of natural gas, we have only about 50 years of natural gas, and over 500 years worth of coal?

It seems most strange to me that government agents would be so ashamed or fearful of being known for what they do, that they would wear masks? Makes me think of the Tonton Macoute, who always wore sunglasses.

The masks should still be illegal since it is not right to terrorize the population the way masks do.

We have to make society nicer, so that people do not feel so isolated that they end up doing desperate things like this. I would guess transgender issues were involved, so it would seem we could do more to help with that?

The dumbest thing ICE does is the masks. It makes them look ridiculous.

Supply & demand does not work in the US market place dominated by monopolies. Like with health care where you prepay insurance as they say or be denied any access at all. Back in the 1960s you could buy cars getting 50 mpg for $1.5k that were easy to work on compared to the electronic nightmares...

Seems pretty easy to me. The easiest way to predict product desirability is through polling. The illegal economic sanctions the US is imposing in Russia prevent currency exchange through the world banks. So Russia is totally unable to conduct trade with anyone but Warsaw Pact countries. The...

Seems to me like using public facilities like the White House for partisan functions would be a violation of law?

That not only sounds very creepy, but I can't imagine these private companies would do things like this since it seems illegal? Was this over US attacks on Venezuelan boats? It seems obvious to me that economic sanctions are inherently illegal.