Twitter Updates for 26-07-2019 – Personal blog of Peter "Sci" Turpin

I can either watch my sugar intake or eat lots of the chilled cherry pie in the fridge.
My room is still 35c. I th… https://t.co/G11kjjY7Fo 00:09:44, 2019-07-26
RT @BoingBoing: Aquanaut, an autonomous submarine that transforms into a humanoid robot https://t.co/Y3TpwW8ZRh https://t.co/QL5tRa6fJA 00:10:50, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge As I understand it the actual heat output of our present civilisation is only significant on a city-sca… https://t.co/oOaS1clYRy in reply to AdamPaigge 02:09:38, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge That's why the greenhouse effect is more about changing the absorption spectrum of our atmosphere. The… https://t.co/XbyxMRmpau in reply to SciStarborne 02:11:20, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge Most of the geoengineering options revolve around releasing chemicals or particles into the atmosphere… https://t.co/9lMLZ3c7KF in reply to AdamPaigge 02:20:54, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge I have no idea. But I do know it's bigger than just CO2, which is the one it's easy to handle naturally… https://t.co/P7HpuNGfme in reply to AdamPaigge 02:32:14, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge I have no idea if that would work. Also GEO is only relative to the Earth. For a consistent single suns… https://t.co/ezCpg5a3PV in reply to AdamPaigge 02:35:59, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge It's an attempt to make the problem fit financial models. It's the sort of logic that tells us it's it'… https://t.co/nA0MaVttXT in reply to AdamPaigge 02:37:31, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge More back-of-envelope math suggests all the necessary launches would contribute less than one half a da… https://t.co/ToL3Qn9TNH in reply to SciStarborne 02:40:37, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge 3. This is the big one: it only reduces solar exposure. It doesn't fix the atmosphere. Heat retention w… https://t.co/dYH9EiA98p in reply to SciStarborne 02:43:27, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge If memory serves the models they worked out in the 1970s (?) suggested 1% would be more than enough.
I… https://t.co/D7sLz7ASaI in reply to AdamPaigge 02:45:12, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge A diffuse cloud of shades orbiting the L1 point just need to have an effective area equivalent to 1% th… https://t.co/QrV9NDZiAT in reply to AdamPaigge 02:48:22, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge It's politically unworkable. Solar shades are mirrors unless you want them to burn up from absorbed hea… https://t.co/rVu1tfWCd7 in reply to AdamPaigge 02:52:28, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge No problem as long as you're aware a lot of this is very generalised. Character limit and just a sponge… https://t.co/ghPXZ7UzZA in reply to AdamPaigge 02:53:45, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge Sure, but I think you've got better odds of building it in your back garden than building a totally har… https://t.co/LW05MAZdKP in reply to AdamPaigge 02:56:46, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge The EU might be able to, but it's the sort of thing that starts MAD arms races.
"Any sufficiently adva… https://t.co/mrs3wlfpNF in reply to SciStarborne 02:58:28, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge As I said though, it's a flawed idea. It buys us a couple of decades but also removes the urgency. Huma… https://t.co/HJyFTEg163 in reply to AdamPaigge 02:59:59, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge Launch dumb shades into an orbit that will disperse them on their own in a decade or two.
But they can… https://t.co/gh7UgvelPP in reply to SciStarborne 03:01:54, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge That forces the issue. You buy enough time and make sure their only option is to use it. in reply to SciStarborne 03:02:48, 2019-07-26
RT @lackingceremony: "Who cares what gender the baby is? I did at the time because we didn't live in 2019 and didn't know what we know now… 03:05:29, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge I forget where it's from. Possibly Asimov. But I believe it was two tonnes of pea-gravel being enough t… https://t.co/4CXciA6nVi in reply to AdamPaigge 03:08:48, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge Again, it's only as good as peoples will to make use of it. I do not have the faith that people would m… https://t.co/IzatIpnRoj in reply to AdamPaigge 03:11:49, 2019-07-26
Who was it who recently suggested the idea about bulk planting trees using military bombers and mortars? 03:14:08, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge That sounds like an invitation for the station rulers to hold whole countries hostage, but I suppose it… https://t.co/86VNF1T28a in reply to AdamPaigge 03:15:50, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge This would all be so much easier if I could just conquer the moon.. in reply to AdamPaigge 03:16:42, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge It seems like a group idea in reply to AdamPaigge 11:45:06, 2019-07-26
@AdamPaigge *good in reply to SciStarborne 11:47:27, 2019-07-26
RT @Mortis_Banned: Waiting for the trolls to start again with "These aren't cluster bombs, you russophobic liars!", despite the information… 12:00:57, 2019-07-26
RT @haveigotnews: BREAKING: MPs go off on their 5 week summer holidays, as everything’s completely under control and there’s absolutely no… 12:01:09, 2019-07-26
RT @henrymance: Silicon Valley says it wants to tackle the world’s biggest problems.
So where are all the tech products to reduce carbon e… 12:01:50, 2019-07-26
RT @henrymance: https://t.co/MvxN2Eu04S 12:01:54, 2019-07-26
RT @henrymance: A reminder that the tech industry is far from carbon-free https://t.co/PKjEACkuD9 https://t.co/L7VDy9Ximq 12:02:21, 2019-07-26
RT @CastArts: Let's say some rp gangsta is hitting your DM's flygirl, then you just give 'em one of these https://t.co/VprdZCDtJj 12:07:14, 2019-07-26
RT @CosmoSnowmew: Is that selfie really worth it?
"Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So D*mn Selfish and Disrespectful": https://t.c… 12:14:23, 2019-07-26
RT @fatedfox: How the living fuck is this legal? https://t.co/kk6uSJ8YPt 12:39:51, 2019-07-26
@Beelzeburb @apeslion I think it's dripping. in reply to Beelzeburb 12:40:58, 2019-07-26
RT @skipai: Trump not content in making US far right wants to get it to happen within the UK as well with his pally Farage.
Yeah, we don't… 12:42:43, 2019-07-26
RT @graylionn: so again, to all of you who said that growly shouldn’t be banned because
“it was 20 years ago, he hadn’t reoffended” or tha… 12:45:43, 2019-07-26
RT @kylegriffin1: A Border Patrol chief testified that 18-year-old Francisco Erwin Galicia never claimed to be a U.S. citizen when he was i… 12:47:25, 2019-07-26
RT @antd: Was just given this handy little “Discover Hong Kong” tourist guide, which contained a few surprises… https://t.co/Z8R4FfIUa7 12:49:47, 2019-07-26
RT @fatedfox: With all the TV reboots that have happened just recently, I think it's time this got brought back… https://t.co/1aA7ia6iCI 12:57:29, 2019-07-26
RT @orinoxide: Bodies are such ridiculous bullshit, what cowboy designed this mess. :D 13:18:59, 2019-07-26
RT @arclight: Read to the end. Helluva kicker. https://t.co/kd2qhcnpn9 13:21:04, 2019-07-26
RT @penguinssperm: can we talk about how bad is lgbt situation on eastern europe? a few days ago happening at Bialystok and now i’ve just s… 13:42:21, 2019-07-26
RT @neilhimself: Pam is the best… This is her thread. https://t.co/Lj0fP2enhJ 13:54:35, 2019-07-26
Fucking litterbugs throwing plastic cups out their car window on Oak Hill and giving everyone the finger when told… https://t.co/AT1NKXO7Wn 18:10:18, 2019-07-26
I'm a coward. One who relies on power fantasies to survive. 18:22:54, 2019-07-26
@mikelectricstuf Tied a piece of sewing thread to necklace bead and blew it through as a guide line with some compressed air? in reply to mikelectricstuf 18:59:35, 2019-07-26
RT @jpramey: The more you understand about the human condition, the more you need anesthesia. https://t.co/IF9mNgqrSC 19:03:10, 2019-07-26
That's 10 years of Endtown plowed through in two days.
I haven't binged on a webcomic in a while. I need distraction. 22:07:05, 2019-07-26
How do you both be a person and a force of nature? 22:07:24, 2019-07-26
@Feanyx I wouldn't be surprised if a few thousand do actually turn up "for the lulz" and get permanently injured wi… https://t.co/JVmkJRUI6r in reply to Feanyx 22:12:22, 2019-07-26
RT @remkoschotsman: Wake up call: Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable 'tipping point' https://t.co/Z5oqMgnHge 22:12:49, 2019-07-26
@Feanyx But that reeks of caring about the wellbeing of others, not desperate nihilism. in reply to Feanyx 22:15:35, 2019-07-26
RT @Feanyx: OK so… that #StormArea51 thing… it's JUST a meme right? Y'all are not actually gonna suicide by military, right? This is… 22:15:58, 2019-07-26
@Feanyx The US military is having briefings on it. They have more than enough time and resources to come up with a… https://t.co/h45AmwP8ju in reply to Feanyx 22:17:37, 2019-07-26
The fantasy is always about arming yourself better, because you know you're not capable of fighting yourself. 22:40:06, 2019-07-26
RT @danfoxdavies: The last time this country had a corruption stitch-up this bad, we had locals trampling the inclosures of the commons and… 22:40:41, 2019-07-26
RT @TomColetti: Literally all they’d have to do now is bump illegal immigration up from a misdemeanor to a capital offense and those concen… 22:57:51, 2019-07-26
RT @danfoxdavies: America, take a long hard look at yourselves. https://t.co/0SsLbXKsUr 23:10:45, 2019-07-26
I presume this is a Rocky Horror reference. https://t.co/tBWX9DXoOG 23:11:29, 2019-07-26
RT @ZinThing: You can tell he's a cretin from the past by the insistence on a double space after full stops. https://t.co/t127DNmXUB 23:14:57, 2019-07-26
Apparently 0.25ml of pachouli oil is still too much. 23:49:54, 2019-07-26

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