tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post3591553255153557952..comments2024-03-24T17:01:24.541-04:00Comments on Crazy Eddie's Motie News: 'Sonic Sea,' a triple nominee, and its competitorsPinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-19404521393214749252017-10-27T01:14:02.536-04:002017-10-27T01:14:02.536-04:00Whales use sonar, not quantum binary signals. Dele...Whales use sonar, not quantum binary signals. Deleted.Pinku-Senseihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-79309469099451956272017-10-27T01:13:02.869-04:002017-10-27T01:13:02.869-04:00I have 302 entries about food, but you post this h...I have 302 entries about food, but you post this here. Sorry, off topic spam is deleted.Pinku-Senseihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-10121900758826084702017-10-26T13:51:39.172-04:002017-10-26T13:51:39.172-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-54176096053797976352017-10-26T10:58:16.091-04:002017-10-26T10:58:16.091-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-40856165218325080712017-10-02T20:22:40.206-04:002017-10-02T20:22:40.206-04:00I've been hearing and reading about this for d...I've been hearing and reading about this for decades. It was part of the background for Sperm Whales in the Ringworld game, which was published in 1984, 33 years ago. A U.S. Navy sonar test during the early 21st Century deafened them, leading to their extinction. As for us being their noisy upstairs neighbors, I think that's apt.<br /><br />I had to listen hard and turn on closed captioning for the second video. Then again, I don't think World Animal News is the most professional media organization, which you might gather from my comments chiding them on their lack of understanding about how the Emmys and Oscars work.<br /><br />That's a strikingly optimistic take on the pandemic. That doesn't mean you're wrong.<br /><br />Yeah, that's a bummer about Mars. No Matt Damon poop potatoes.Pinku-Senseihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-12563049642929062732017-10-02T13:38:22.178-04:002017-10-02T13:38:22.178-04:00More remarkable videos. I had heard of this probl...More remarkable videos. I had heard of this problem of human-generated noise causing trouble for cetaceans. I guess from their point of view, humans are like the asshole neighbor upstairs who never turns their music down.<br /><br />On the second video, I could hardly understand what the interviewees were saying because of all the background noise. But given the topic, maybe that's fitting.<br /><br />About the 2014 ebola outbreak, what seems remarkable to me is that it killed <i>only</i> 11,000 people in an affected area with a population of several million, with public-health and sanitation conditions among the worst on the planet. Maybe we're not as vulnerable to really large-scale devastation by new diseases as we think we are. This is not to downplay the dangers to health workers on the scene, of course.<br /><br />The video on soil is, to me, yet another reminder of the absurdity of the dream of terraforming and colonizing Mars. The conditions that allow our food crops to grow in Earth's soil are very complex and developed over hundreds of millions of years. It's absurd to think we could replicate all that on a large scale on a lifeless world (and Martian soil is saturated with chemicals that would kill Earthly soil bacteria, anyway).Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.com