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Every year, we, Shan and I, send a Christmas card to people we care about (so yeah, sorry if you didn't get one ;)).
The idea is quite simple: bad photoshopping meets something relevant and/or funny.
I just realised we never posted these online, and so maybe it's time to create an archive.
In the coming days I'll be posting, one by one, our previous cards. Front and back. Hopefully this can inspire others to come up with good ideas.
Last week, an Australian climate protester, who blocked a lane of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, was sentenced to up to 15 months in prison under a new anti-protest law. It was one of many recent disruptive climate protests that seem to do little else than annoy and inconvenience everyone.
Our knee-jerk reaction to seeing someone throw soup at art or glue themselves to trains is usually contempt and anger. But I think when teenagers, grannies and scientists participate in activism that puts them at risk of going to jail and becoming the target of public scorn, it’s worth digging a little deeper.
Makes me want to build something like this…
Google recently updated their Google TV, to include "in your face" supposedly recommendations.
I don't mind recommendations if...:
a/ they are useful (i.e. I don't see how kid shows are something I'd be interested in; and Google has no idea Ila exists, and she's at least 2-3 years too young to watch those shows anyway).
b/ the recommendations would be for apps and subscriptions I actually have. Don't recommend me something on Amazon Prime if I don't have Amazon Prime installed, nor an active subscription. Idem dito for Disney+.
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Could I cool down the Earth by capturing a comet and dropping it in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass of water?
Daniel Becker
No. In fact, it's honestly sort of impressive to find a solution that would actively make the problem worse in so many different ways.
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Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls,[citation needed] so the plunge down into the atmosphere at the bottom of Earth's gravity well adds a lot more than 0.1 degrees worth of heat. A chunk of ice from space that falls to Earth gains enough energy to warm the ice up, melt it, boil it into vapor, and then heat the vapor to thousands of degrees. If you built an icy waterfall from space, the water would arrive at the bottom as a river of superheated steam.
