I'm sorry, but who the hell filled your head with bullshit that Chingus caused a min-ice age?
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You kid, but Bill Gates has actually been proposing ideas to dim the sun
Edit: damn, someone already posted it
@boomghost
Remember that virtually everything weather related is based on hugely suppositional computer modelling.
Most climatologists have resorted to pretending that most of the variables are fixed for their experiments EXCEPT for the one they are studying.
Remember that virtually everything weather related is based on hugely suppositional computer modelling.
Most climatologists have resorted to pretending that most of the variables are fixed for their experiments EXCEPT for the one they are studying.
... that's exactly what you need to do to study something though. That's the basic idea behind a controlled experiment. The problem isn't that, at the very least.
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
The thing is, that's how you do actual lab testing. This isn't lab testing. This is taking a simulation of a dynamic system, and then freezing every part of the system except for the one or two variables you're trying to work with.
Unsurprisingly, this tends to give useless results.
boomghost
I trust you know where the launch button is?
something I vaaaguely remembered from a college class- i got it mixed it, it was the mini-ice age helped contribute to the rise of the mongol empire due to famine conditions forcing them to expand
Abhishekm
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I remember the 'Genghis Khan killed so many people he cooled the earth' being one of this Internet Facts list entries.
Except global weather is NOT a closed system despite what many think.
Additionally, how the he'll do you isolate the loss of human population in a world 800 years ago with little in the way of recorded data?
Abhishekm
Well-known member
Eh? Isnt the idea for scientific studies to FIX outside variables as much as possible as opposed to considering them fixed for the sake of the experiment. I mean I know studies do it but isn't that usually a big 'Correlation does not equate causation. Is uncontrolled experiment, no bully' disclaimer?
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Terthna
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The part where people with more money than me get to make my decisions for me. Which admittedly isn't much different from our current system, but at least we don't have company towns anymore.
Abhishekm
Well-known member
Eh, thats still them making decisions with their own money a bit. That said people still dumb enough to fall for corporate town roach motels kinda have it coming. To be fair Corpo's dumb enough to try it deserve what comes after too.
Terthna
Professional Lurker
You mean they deserve to lose workers when they shoot them for complaining? Because that's really all the corporations had for consequences before the government was forced to stop them (after they had helped them by supplying the men and guns to do the shooting). Seriously, look up how company towns actually worked; you'll quickly learn that it was less that people were dumb for being suckered into them, and more that they didn't have a choice.
Abhishekm
Well-known member
More of a first against the wall when the revolution comes kind of thing. And I mean as in dumb enough to let it get that bad before getting off their couches.
Terthna
Professional Lurker
You think people who worked in company towns could afford couches?
Abhishekm
Well-known member
I think 21st century people ARE couches.
Well,there is known joke about italians -
Why italian army exist? becouse austrians need opponent they could smash.
Joke is from 19th century,when they keep loosing.If i remember correctly,after 1866 when they get quickly defeated by prussians and beaten superior in numbers italian army.
Oh damn. They're already at Matrix level shit now.
In the Matrix series, the sky in forever darkened by nano-bots. It was a last ditch attempt by humans to deprive the machines of solar power. So the machines simply captured and enslaved humans for their bio-power.
First wage-slaves, now energy slaves.
Soylent Green, here we come!