Rhaedas

Space is hard to get to, no gravity, and there’s radiation.

Underwater has high pressure, corrosion, and no natural lighting.

When you get an air leak in space, you find the hole and patch it. When you get a leak underwater, you don’t have to worry about it at all because it takes care of things in microseconds.

They’ll be fine longer than everyone else. Until the hull snaps in half and comes crashing down. Yeah, it’s a good climate analogy.

First glance I thought that was One Must Fall: 2097, but turns out below it doesn’t even get close to that epic level.

Anyone can be a carrier. Which is why distancing and masking was important for everyone, in that order. That we didn’t do very well. So surprise, Covid everywhere.

Working on the ramp we learned “if the red is on the right, you’re in the wrong place.” I.e., planes have the right-of-way over anyone else normally.

Not specifically, it was the Haber-Bosch process to mass produce ammonia, enabling large scale fertilizer production that vastly changed how much yield we could get from crops and land area. The problem is that it tied us to fossil fuels to keep us fed as the population exploded. So it could be filed under his prediction, with the whole idea being what is sustainable. The argument could be made that even civilization at its basics isn’t sustainable in the very long run, as it requires a hospitable environment like the Holocene, which was a rarity in all of Earth history.

Slowing, slowly. It should have hit the natural peak a long time ago, but then we learned to increase food production (at the cost of the environment).

And that one reminds me of the other one from long ago where the pilot invites a kid to sit in the seat, and in messing around the kid sends the plane into an unrecoverable crash.

If you exclude the early phases of nuclear development, and later accidents that happened due to bad management, how dangerous is well run nuclear energy? Maybe it’s not the form of energy generation that’s the problem.

with Germany deciding to stop nuclear energy after the Fukushima Daiichi event.

Hey, you don’t know where the next tsunami will happen. Have to be proactive.

The real irony being that all Japanese reactors shut down due to the quake as designed, and the tsunami wouldn’t have been a factor had money not been saved by shortcutting backup generator protection from flooding in a FLOOD ZONE.

It was more of a statement than a question, and “is that what you saw” more rhetorical to get Pippin to tell what else he saw.