markbnine

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by markbnine 2y ago
Wood burning can be made sustainable. Where I live, the forest service encourages people to take dead trees out of the forest. It reduces the fire load. And building codes and EPA certs have done a lot to clean up wood stoves. https:/
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by markbnine 4y ago
Aren't microplastics already in chickens? Do they get passed to the eggs? If so, where do you filter microplastics first. . . the chicken or the egg?
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by markbnine 5y ago
LROC, which may be the closest we have in volume to a lunar telescope, sends its data back to Earth. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/about LROC is one of seven instruments on board LRO. Together, these instruments have a downlink
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by markbnine 6y ago
Good documentary on this: https://frontlinetv.com/plastic-wars-full-film
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by markbnine 6y ago
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live wha
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by markbnine 6y ago
If you're looking for a rabbit hole, after Dave left Wired, he started his own blog: https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/
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by markbnine 6y ago
Me thinks they used the Fantasy Place Name generator. . . https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fantasy-town-names.php
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by markbnine 6y ago
Be patient. . . there's people working on that.
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by markbnine 6y ago
Here is a recent Frontline on how the petro-chem industry fooled consumers: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/ . Advocates may be gearing up for a lawsuit, similar to what happened to t
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Land of Oz(store.usgs.gov)
2 points by markbnine 6y ago|0 comments
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by markbnine 7y ago
Do you ever get that creepy feeling that HN is being used for guerrilla advertising?
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by markbnine 7y ago
My dad often said, "When you are cold, eat ice cream. It lowers your mean temperature." That said, we always knew he just wanted ice cream.
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by markbnine 9y ago
Our local library is more like a free internet shop with half the terminals taken up by transients and the other half by kids from the nearby jr. high, playing shoot-em ups. It's impossible to get a terminal. They also have a huge DVD
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by markbnine 10y ago
For NASA image data, you can go to the PDS: http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html The Atlas has access to the mission released data. There is also link to PILOT, which has quick access to MESSENGER data and some Dawn d
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Global Croplands(croplands.org)
1 points by markbnine 10y ago|0 comments
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Google, the Stupidity Amplifier(gregegan.net)
7 points by markbnine 10y ago|2 comments
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by markbnine 10y ago
obligatory George Carlin bit. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
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NASA launches OSIRIS-REx(upi.com)
1 points by markbnine 10y ago|0 comments
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by markbnine 10y ago
For planetary data, the PDS Imaging Node has pages both at NASA and the USGS. Here is the USGS page pointing to much of it: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/facilities/cartography-and-imag... . The PDS formats can be diff
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New Frontiers Program(newfrontiers.larc.nasa.gov)
4 points by markbnine 10y ago|0 comments
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by markbnine 11y ago
I find ZH amusing.. In some ways I think it's the anti hackers news.. Hyper negative about the future.. Constant hate for new tech.. (Fear of skynet).. The system is always rigged and the little guy will never succeed... Posts by Right
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by markbnine 11y ago
When I first read this I thought Zynga was going to move their HQ to Market Street.
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Google's self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly(cnet.com)
3 points by markbnine 11y ago|1 comments
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The Life and Creativity of a Great Bethesda Artist(kotaku.com)
3 points by markbnine 11y ago|0 comments
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Sol 1091(astrogeology.usgs.gov)
1 points by markbnine 11y ago|0 comments
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by markbnine 11y ago
Nice. Also THEMIS took a shot in 2001 as it was headed to Mars that captured this distance. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA00559
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by markbnine 11y ago
I agree with the bunker mentality of the NASA centers. That said, the PDS ( https://pds.nasa.gov/ ) is the closest thing to a central source for planetary data and imagery. And they run the photo journal ( http://ph
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Show HN: 2015 – The Year of the Dwarf Planets(astrogeology.usgs.gov)
4 points by markbnine 11y ago|1 comments
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by markbnine 11y ago
What we need now is a real-time play-by-play by Carl Sagan. . e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8eqYVFgzIU Or Larry Soderblom on Triton. Try to dig up the full "Encounter with Neptune". . . classic. . . firs
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Planetary Maps for Children(childrensmaps.wordpress.com)
2 points by markbnine 11y ago|0 comments

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