600B Tons Arctic Ice melted in 2019.

Post #433,099 by Ashton 3/21/20 4:45:46 AM 3/21/20 4:45:46 AM Reply	600B Tons Arctic Ice melted in 2019. That's 6x10¹¹ TONS. One pulse of the Bevatron accelerator == that many protons (in later years). Max avge. was 5x10¹², just before becoming an Omni-accelerator: whole Periodic Chart. Now imagine each proton weighed a Ton. (Bet ya didn't know that 'Mensuration' can be a Degreed profession). Leaving the calc of ∑ K.E. of n-particles of One Ton at 6.2 GeV/c ..for your amusement and amazement. But never mind fun with numbers: We Are Melting that which we have not extra E to re-Freeze. Tom Lehrer turns 92 on April 9th.. Needs to Update, We Will All Go Together: rhymes for the trifecta? 1) Drown in coastal areas 2) Broil seasonally, inland 3) Suffocate-via-bug 4) [Seems there's no 4]. Gotta suck-it-up, no? 'Course too: we COULD smarten-up magically, be in full swing Repairing: months after that exponential curve is nicely flattened. All that's needed is 90%-Gumption planet-wide (if there's an Econ restarted, thus 'feeding the 90%', eh?) We can Do That: gumption is indispensable--so all we need is: 90% who'd rather live. (Drown-early all Faux News automatons)--then the noise stops: workers sing songs as gunz melted down for re-purposing their decent alloys. HTH, fwiw FIFY
Post #433,104 by a6l6e6x 3/21/20 11:33:06 PM 3/21/20 11:33:06 PM Reply	Tom Lehrer YouTube link. We Will All Go Together When We Go. I bought the album when it was new back in 1959. It's funny you brought it up because I thought of it earlier in the day in a different context. My wife and I were out for a stroll holding hands. It's about all you can do do in Sun City because all common use buildings are closed and we are supposed to practice "social distancing". It was a warm sunny day everyone walking about was doing the right thing. My wife has problem with her knee where it occasionally collapses in pain. She tries to lighten the load on that leg by pushing down on my hand. Anyway, if one of us gets the coronavirus, we both will have it. Hence, I tought of the song. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #433,112 by Ashton 3/22/20 10:04:42 PM 3/22/20 10:04:42 PM Reply	GMTA.. got album(s) too; he's aways foreshadowed Geo. Carlin et alia "Don't solicit for your sister, that's not nice Unless you get a good percentage of her price" (BSA marching song) He's always had the guts to--informedly--tackle such as EXTINCTION --> towards which we + alia have so often raced like lemmings (but ever-so-much faster). (That we are 'guided' this day' by a functionally-illiterate megalomaniac..) is way beyond satire AND irony. We can never have a duet of Tom + George, telling-it Like It Is, on all the brain-dead meeja. {{sob}} That, I deem: is the Real 'tragedy of the Commons' /screw any IT/Linus associations with the phrase. Take. care. er, moar! These bugs think us geezers are Tastier, I hear. (Im in a cul-de-sac, pretty-much invisible to crowds-with-Tiki-torches and/or Drumpf arm-bands; haven't hugged any kids in a while, etc. Solitude never sucks; meditate/read the stack of books and never 'Worry' be my mantra. It's worked thus far :-) Carrion-luggage? mayhap a thing of the past. I can live with that.

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