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simonm
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Happy Holidays
oritteropo
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C-note
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newtboy
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w1ndex
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newtboy
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ty sir
It's amazing he can stay upright with those bowling balls in his pants.
#trouserboulders
*promote
newtboy
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thank you thank you
G-g-g-g-ghost pirates!
*promote a *quality but weird episode.
newtboy
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doublethanks
*doublepromote the chickocalypse
newtboy
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tres thanks
*doublepromote and *quality
newtboy
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I for one welcome our new robotic overlords.
thanks!
Wow. Awesome.
*doublepromote *quality science.....a potentially exponential computing advancement, great until it becomes sentient and murderous.
Next, can they tackle Entangled Quantum Particle computing and communication. If we go to Mars, it would be great to have instantaneous communication instead of a varying delay each way.
newtboy
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triple thanks!
*doublepromote
*quality message, Sir Attenborough. I hope they're listening.
newtboy
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thanks!
A good, even *quality idea....for 40+ years ago.
It took 100+ years to mortally wound the ocean by 1000 cuts. A bandaid on one wound is not going to turn it around, and we almost certainly aren't going to do it anyway. Countries that don't buy into the plan will simply harvest most of the fish left by those who do. This only works in small scale preserves that are guarded against poaching, often by a military.
Fish stocks are disappearing at an alarming rate, many going extinct. For those species, it's too late, and they are numerous, and they are largely the fish humans prefer. Many others are in such decline fishing for them is already off limits or severely curtailed, like commercial salmon, abalone, and crab fishing in California. Even those actions have failed to revive their populations year after year.
Diatoms, phytoplankton, and other similar biotas are at the limit of acidity and temperature they can tolerate, and they are the base of the ocean food web, feeding most fish when they are fry or larvae. The gasses in the atmosphere today will push diatoms over that precipice with a massive ocean extinction following soon afterwards, and we continue to add more greenhouse gases than we added yesterday every day.
Then there's habitat loss, coral reefs and kelp forests are both being decimated by temperature rise and acidification. Together they are food and habitat for 25%-50% of all ocean fish and shellfish.
Less over harvesting of the ocean is a good idea, but pretending it alone can save the oceans is pure fantasy. The ocean has absorbed as much as 90+% of the excess heat from global warming, causing oceanic heat waves that destroy habitats both directly and indirectly. There is NO plan that solves that problem, it's well beyond our capabilities under the best conditions with worldwide maximum efforts.
Just sayin'.
Huge squid eggmass
* quality time for some omelets
lucky760
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thanks!
that face!
LMFAHS
*promote *comedy
PogChamp
newtboy
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thanks!
Your mama sure does care about your schoolin, son.
*quality