Science/Techno Babble Random, Random

[ponchi101]

Does this make Sharpless the third person to receive TWO Nobel Prizes (Curie and Pauling)?

[Suliso]

Does this make Sharpless the third person to receive TWO Nobel Prizes (Curie and Pauling)?

The fifth. Besides the two you mentioned also Frederick Sanger (chemistry 1958, 1980) and John Bardeen (physics 1956, 1972).

[ponchi101]

I don't know why they chose today (it was neither her Bday or Dday), but today is Ada Lovelace Day.
A wonderful and also sad story about one truly great mathematician.
Ada Lovelace Day: who was the mathematician and what is she known for?

[ti-amie]

[ponchi101]

A little reminder that SPACE cannot be conquered based on corporate rules.

[Suliso]

To be fair nothing was really conquered here. They guy merely funded and launched a satellite internet service. Not even a new idea, but the government would never have.

Musk is being stupid in offering his ill informed opinions on this conflict and then getting offended when he's called out for it.

[ponchi101]

As I posted something about the vandalism being attempted at art pieces, in the name of "Climate Change Awareness".
I received from a friend a small chart showing the amount of metals needed to phase out fossil fuels. I went on line to look a bit more into it, and found a few articles about this. I will link only one:
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?

Now, the article starts by pulling no punches. The short answer is NO. There are not enough metals to phase out oil.
But, the few articles I read all stem from a single presentation by an Iceland professor, so the BS detection kit has to be deployed. If all articles refer to one single source, the required "multiple sources to verify" rule is not being applied.
However, the articles are not sensationalist, and the youtube talk in which this professor explains his point of view is given in a very didactic sense.
The video is long (over one hour), so it takes a little commitment.
And, of course, remember I am an O&G person, whose critical thinking may be currently affected by financial pressures.

The following is the chart sent to me:

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[ti-amie]

Thank you for the above^. Everyone wants to get rid of fossil fuels but that's where the discussion should start not stop.

[ponchi101]

Not everyone. People in Russia, Nigeria, Venezuela, the Arab Peninsula and several other places, simply don't want to or CANNOT get rid of them.
The sleepy, little town of Añelo, in the Argentinean province of Neuquen, truly did not want to. A booming economy in 2019, it's now a ghost town, simply because of lack of investment in O&G. Venezuela will never recover unless oil reclaims some position.
It is a very complicated issue (and remember, I may be O&G, but CC, for me, is not even possible to challenge as an anthropic-based phenomenon).

[ti-amie]

Not everyone. People in Russia, Nigeria, Venezuela, the Arab Peninsula and several other places, simply don't want to or CANNOT get rid of them.
The sleepy, little town of Añelo, in the Argentinean province of Neuquen, truly did not want to. A booming economy in 2019, it's now a ghost town, simply because of lack of investment in O&G. Venezuela will never recover unless oil reclaims some position.
It is a very complicated issue (and remember, I may be O&G, but CC, for me, is not even possible to challenge as an anthropic-based phenomenon).

You're right. I started to go back and correct my post to say "almost everyone" but there's a lot of stuff going on today. I agree.

[ti-amie]

[ti-amie]

[ponchi101]

It is not a "Town Square".
It is a bully sand lot.

[ti-amie]

It was until the "influencers" in media, show biz and politics found out where everyone was hanging out.

I got into Twitter when I was seriously blogging a few years ago. It was the best way to reach Tennis Twitter.

I'm leaning towards staying but I'm also thinking about opening or re-opening another account somewhere else.

[MJ2004]

I’m on book twitter. I refuse to use booktok, so I’ll stay on Twitter for now, at least until the authors, podcasters and bloggers I follow go elsewhere. I don’t actually post anything, I just follow others.