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LTK:

--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 16 Jun 2015, 21:34 ---I find it somewhat disturbing when someone says "this bad weather proves global warming."  It's too much like "this snowy weather disproves global warming."

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Boiling down the entire video to "this bad weather proves global warming" is more than a bit disingenuous, methinks.

--- Quote ---I'm somewhat curious if filling dry lake beds with sea water pumped in via aqueducts would slow desertification in the south west, but that's kind of an expensive science project.

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Land plants and animals can't live on seawater. So, my guess is no.

Hallucinations by Google's image recognition algorithm.

Detecting animal features in a painting:


Detecting building features in random noise:


The Seldom Killer:

--- Quote from: LTK on 19 Jun 2015, 04:08 ---
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 16 Jun 2015, 21:34 ---I'm somewhat curious if filling dry lake beds with sea water pumped in via aqueducts would slow desertification in the south west, but that's kind of an expensive science project.

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Land plants and animals can't live on seawater. So, my guess is no.

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Your guess would be wrong.

It's feasible by creating a system of artificial salt marshes. You'd need to be a lot of other things at the same time but yeah, completely doable from a simplistic perspective. The big risk is that geo-engineering can throw up unexpected results.

Active Madness:
Holy salinification, batman!

mustang6172:
http://news.yahoo.com/fossil-first-ancient-human-relative-may-buried-dead-105613147.html

New hominid was discovered.  That allows me to post this gem.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6W-nE_U_IQ

cesium133:
Do you wanna see a Pluto?
(warning: very large image)
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/crop_p_color2_enhanced_release.png

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