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By the way, I had a look at that conspiracy, and I couldn't believe how dumb was the reasoning behind this...
It started about the change of calendar that happened in 1582, when the date was shifted by 11 days. But then, he reasons by considering that the same shift has been applied every year, and then he considers that today the shift has reached 268 years × 11 days = 2948 days, which is practically 8 years.
But as he considers that 268 years has passed since 1582, according to him we are now in 1850.
And finally, when correcting the miscalculation, apparently for him:
21st december 2012 + 8 years = 21st june 2020.
Seriously, if the guy that predicted this is a scientist, then I am a buddhist monk (with all the respect I have for Buddhism).
It started about the change of calendar that happened in 1582, when the date was shifted by 11 days. But then, he reasons by considering that the same shift has been applied every year, and then he considers that today the shift has reached 268 years × 11 days = 2948 days, which is practically 8 years.
But as he considers that 268 years has passed since 1582, according to him we are now in 1850.
And finally, when correcting the miscalculation, apparently for him:
21st december 2012 + 8 years = 21st june 2020.
Seriously, if the guy that predicted this is a scientist, then I am a buddhist monk (with all the respect I have for Buddhism).
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That and the entire thing started off as a panic because the Mayan calender resets every 5000 years and it happened to fall on a funny date.
Not even the remaining Mayan communities were worried. Only (as usual) the 'educated' West, from the people that brought you the Flat Earth, anti-vaccinations and Reptoids.
Not even the remaining Mayan communities were worried. Only (as usual) the 'educated' West, from the people that brought you the Flat Earth, anti-vaccinations and Reptoids.
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We’ll use all of the fossil fuel that makes economic sense, decades for sure though we’ve probably reached peak already; trouble with coal miners is all those wonderful pick and shovel jobs we reminisce about with teary eyed delusion aren’t coming back any more than the wretched, err, I mean romantic cowboy jobs
Easy coal is drying up, but giant world consuming hard coal mining machines have given it a second wind with all its lung killing silica dust for as long as we can push that
Nuclear power should be top priority for the whole damn world right now but it’s just a side note, millions of great jobs from unskilled to PhD, the research is already done all we have to do is build the damn things and from what I hear we can recycle spent material from old reactors that would be toxic for 10,000 years and bring it down to 100s of years, and we keep at it who knows what’s next...
This is the future, this is leading science, science is everything
Hydro is terrible for a lot of reasons from fish spawns to farm irrigation rights
Wind is not too bad though the rural to urban transmission is a problem and they could use some bat repeller tech would be helpful; but they are a great leveling income for ranchers, the anti-wind movement seems to be one of those false front lobby initiatives put on by some counter interest
Solar needs to be cleaned up as does the entire electronic industry, making things to last and industrial recycling needs a big serious research input
Disposable plastic bottles replaced returnables so the industry could shift responsibly away from itself to the consumer, it allowed industry to effectively pollute for profit and blame the customer; this is the sort of short thinking that created the great pacific plastic disaster with disposable plastic running unrestrained as the producers are deemed largely unaccountable, blame the stupid sloppy masses not the policy that allows such glorious feats of accounting
Easy coal is drying up, but giant world consuming hard coal mining machines have given it a second wind with all its lung killing silica dust for as long as we can push that
Nuclear power should be top priority for the whole damn world right now but it’s just a side note, millions of great jobs from unskilled to PhD, the research is already done all we have to do is build the damn things and from what I hear we can recycle spent material from old reactors that would be toxic for 10,000 years and bring it down to 100s of years, and we keep at it who knows what’s next...
This is the future, this is leading science, science is everything
Hydro is terrible for a lot of reasons from fish spawns to farm irrigation rights
Wind is not too bad though the rural to urban transmission is a problem and they could use some bat repeller tech would be helpful; but they are a great leveling income for ranchers, the anti-wind movement seems to be one of those false front lobby initiatives put on by some counter interest
Solar needs to be cleaned up as does the entire electronic industry, making things to last and industrial recycling needs a big serious research input
Disposable plastic bottles replaced returnables so the industry could shift responsibly away from itself to the consumer, it allowed industry to effectively pollute for profit and blame the customer; this is the sort of short thinking that created the great pacific plastic disaster with disposable plastic running unrestrained as the producers are deemed largely unaccountable, blame the stupid sloppy masses not the policy that allows such glorious feats of accounting
About work place health hazards like inhale-able harmful products, they can be negated if the workers are well equipped with proper PPE's. Unless you're in some lawless shithole like a chinese sweatshop or an unlicensed african gold mine.
Looks like China has excelled again at killing their own people.
Yeah but we have only a few hundred years of nuclear fuel, the problem is getting more. If we can't find a way to harvest precious ores off world, nuclear will run into the same bullshit as fossil.
I fucking hate wind power, gigantic, takes up a shit load of space, unreliable. Like an autistic student that needs his own room otherwise he'll not be to focus.
Yeah I too think glass is far more eco-friendly than plastic, you can melt it down to make new bottles, similar to steel.
Looks like China has excelled again at killing their own people.
Yeah but we have only a few hundred years of nuclear fuel, the problem is getting more. If we can't find a way to harvest precious ores off world, nuclear will run into the same bullshit as fossil.
I fucking hate wind power, gigantic, takes up a shit load of space, unreliable. Like an autistic student that needs his own room otherwise he'll not be to focus.
Yeah I too think glass is far more eco-friendly than plastic, you can melt it down to make new bottles, similar to steel.
The one thing on here i can even have any knowledge enough to speak on. Also there is another side to just being cheap. Most concrete companies including my families try to get stuff that will not go off in heat and give time to finish it. whether that be a foundation, a patio, sidewalk, driveways, etc., etc.. So that concrete you have to make sure its actually fucking workable and not a pain in the ass otherwise your your making a already hard job far more difficult. Also if it does go off fast then that most likely means it wont have time to settle and allow for workers to properly get the concrete vibrated leading to air pockets which lead to cracks which lead to a whole number of issues.
