The devices themselves are popular with educators. I volunteer in schools and have helped them turn old cell phones and iPod touches into fun learning tools. There is a lot of 360 degree video and content out there that is great for kids, and they're always excited to use it. And every teacher seems to have or know someone who has some old devices in a drawer somewhere that are perfectly suited for it.
The pension ponzi scheme has to end sometime. Whether the music stops when it's my turn, yours, or today's children it simply isn't possible to grow the number of people paying in forever.
It's a frustration of mine with model rollercoasters. The train zips around the track much faster than the real rides. I've been playing with ideas like magnets and DC motors to try and make the trains move more slowly.
Those things are true in the current climate regime. They may not hold true when global average temperatures exceed 1.5 degrees over preindustrial. In addition to decreased crop yields what we will be able to grow will be less nutritious, not even getting into increased mortality due to heat and other human impacts: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2865/a-degree-of-concern-why-g...
I think in addition to questioning having kids as a default in life society needs to ask if it is ethical to continue having kids. We have an impending climate crisis we haven't even begun to address that will make the life of any child born today much harder and much different than life today.
I don't recall being given an alternative option.
My local power utility burns natural gas, the buses run on diesel, and the local supermarket has only recently begun stocking items that do away with unnecessary plastic. Can someone really be a hypocrite if they are forced out of necessity to use fossil fuels due to a system they had no hand in designing?
They will run clean, but if carbon is taxed appropriately I'm doubtful they will be cheap enough for the average person to own one since the manufacturing will be far from clean. Most likely people will summon a shared vehicle with an app.
Ingenious- I wonder if this would be a good avenue for an open-design ultralight aircraft. You could publish the vector files so that anyone could send them to a laser cutter.
I bought it because I maintain a collection of misfit computing projects that never had a chance. It'll look great between my Virtual Boy and Atari Jaguar.
I think you're right- the solution is going to be a combination of carbon capture, agricultural technology, energy storage, and some degree of energy austerity enforced with carbon taxes. How much austerity depends on how soon we begin addressing the problem.
The app developer should release the code ASAP- instructions could be written so that users could install the app by building it themselves, even if it can only persist for 7 days at a time.
There was also a Super FX 2 which powered Doom, among a few other games. Notably Winter Gold looked quite good given the platform's limitations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uQlCZVb_Ro
Was there some sort of scientific breakthrough that has allowed researchers to find these microplastics for the first time, or is it just that nobody had looked yet?
People didn't listen to Carl Sagan, James Hansen, or other big-name scientists who spoke up. Putting another scientist up there will just get them dismissed like all the others, because at the core of the issue is that we have a huge voting block that doesn't want to change and doesn't want to listen, and will contort whatever any movement leader says so that they can ignore it.
In a world with such high climate sensitivity, is there still a realistic pathway to an acceptable outcome? SSP1 2.6 was already highly optimistic and with these two new models even it doesn't keep us below 2 degrees.
I've said many times that nuclear power needs better marketing. Drop nuclear from the name like the MRI manufacturers did. It's no longer a nuclear plant, it's a traveling wave plant, or a molten salt plant- more descriptive and also separates the concept in people's minds from a Simpsons-esque nuclear plant.
I think many miss that these aren't health foods. A Beyond burger doesn't become healthier than a beef burger just because there's no beef- it's still a burger. It's salt and fat. The point of these products is to fulfill a demand for veg/vegan junk food, not to make fast food healthier.
I'm excited that as our technology improves we will likely find objects like this increasingly frequently, and in the near future may have the ability to rapidly send a mission to intercept one.