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Aynirar27 said:
It is man. Ever think how much of your everyday life is accessible because of science and technology?
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There’s a big difference between something like figuring out how to mine, distribute and utilize petroleum resources to better everyone’s life and accurately dating a 6 billion year old artifact.
 
Floyd Eye said:
There’s a big difference between something like figuring out how to mine, distribute and utilize petroleum resources to better everyone’s life and accurately dating a 6 billion year old artifact.
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I’m talking about more than that. To stay on the topic of my OP, sometime look up “every day things invented by NASA”. That’s just one organization
 
Aynirar27 said:
I’m talking about more than that. To stay on the topic of my OP, sometime look up “every day things invented by NASA”. That’s just one organization
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There’s also a big difference between inventing Velcro and other useful products and carbon dating a 6 million year old ice core.
 
Floyd Eye said:
There’s also a big difference between inventing Velcro and other useful products and carbon dating a 6 million year old ice core.
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Not to be smug, but ice cores really only go back maybe a million years. Probably less
 
Fuck, as an intelligent species we can’t even figure out how to keep sea lions from dying in fishing nets.
 
Floyd Eye said:
Not my point smartest guy in the room. ?
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But my point was science goes in to everything. How much research and development do you think went in to the rubber compound of the tires on your truck?
Science isn’t just vaccines and global warming.
And scientists are just Neil Degrasse Tyson
 
Aynirar27 said:
So I’ll just end with 100ppm is a lot when you compare it to previous levels. It’s a substantial percentage. Over 50% in a couple hundred years. That is staggering and anything but “natural”. And as I’ve preached, it’s important because humans can reverse it.
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Agreed - it's huge, significant and... coming off a ridiculously-low base, a base that itself is 1/10 of what it's been in the past. Currently 0.04% of the atmosphere.

Couple that with the fact that it's the least-powerful GG and you have a double nothing burger.

Aynirar27 said:
Anyways, always a pleasure conversing with you
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You too Brother Dan. :thumbsup:
 
Aynirar27 said:
But my point was science goes in to everything. How much research and development do you think went in to the rubber compound of the tires on your truck?
Science isn’t just vaccines and global warming.
And scientists are just Neil Degrasse Tyson
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Those are things that can be proven. Because they exist and they work as intended. Tires are not a theory.
 
Monkey Man said:
Agreed - it's huge, significant and... coming off a ridiculously-low base, a base that itself is 1/10 of what it's been in the past. Currently 0.04% of the atmosphere.

Couple that with the fact that it's the least-powerful GG and you have a double nothing burger.


You too Brother Dan. :thumbsup:
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I guess it splits into two schools of thought. Back to my Astro-inspired OP, earth is the only known place with life on it, in an infinite universe(s)
You can either think we are lucky, or that life is extremely delicate. (Or both I guess). If “life” in general is delicate, humanity is extremely fragile. We have a very small window to survive in, so I believe small changes matter. Co2 matters and it’s also damn hard to get rid of. The carbon cycle can take thousands of years where methane is maybe a decade (and water even less).

I guess my view is that it’s great to look at billions of years of earth history but does it really matter outside of context? We wouldn’t have survived most of it. We are alive now. We know what we are putting in the air and we know what it does.
Whether or not it worries someone is up to them I suppose
 
Floyd Eye said:
Those are things that can be proven. Because they exist and they work as intended. Tires are not a theory.
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But that is the scientific method at work. They didn’t just mix some shit in a bowl and make a tire out of it and said “let’s see what happens”
But theories are pretty well substantiated. Scientific theories. Gravity is a theory. Atoms are a theory. The list can go on. It means a lot more than the general definition of theory
 
Aynirar27 said:
So I’ll just end with 100ppm is a lot when you compare it to previous levels. It’s a substantial percentage. Over 50% in a couple hundred years.
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A couple hundred years is, again, the blink of an eye. Insignificant. And what, specifically, do you mean by “substantial”? Should we all drastically change our lives? You are waving this torch around pretty flamboyantly, what exactly is your point?
 
tallcoolone said:
A couple hundred years is, again, the blink of an eye. Insignificant. And what, specifically, do you mean by “substantial”? Should we all drastically change our lives? You seem to be waving this torch around, what exactly is your point?
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My point is that the earth is warmer with more co2 in the atmosphere than if there were less co2 in the atmosphere
 
Aynirar27 said:
My point is that the earth is warmer with more co2 in the atmosphere than if there were less co2 in the atmosphere
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Apparently the point is we need slightly less bulky sweaters for the foreseeable future. Cool w/me.
 
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