LibertyBell

Newark hitting 70 is a very low bar, they didn't hit 80 today like JFK did? What was the high at JFK and was it the highest in the area?

By the way you mentioned evolution so you reminded me of something I was thinking about. How do you think human greed, violence, short-sightedness, fear of change and of the future, etc should be curtailed? Our most primitive section of our brains, the limbic system, and the hypothalamus to be more specific controls these primitive traits.....do you think we should tinker with it to become much more rational and forward thinking?

By the way did you read the two papers? You would like them, they mention The Great Filter frequently as well as different paradigm shifts in evolution. I just got done with reading them both in their entirety.

The Cosmos is kind of a copy-cat artist, reproducing everything from one simple initial model-construct. Every iteration changes the dress; reality emerges, and ends up looking like a varied tapestry. Electrons orbit atom nuclei, while moons encircle planets. Moons and planets encircle stars, just like atoms and their electron moons bound to molecules comprised of multiple atom-electron systems ... like the planet-star systems then in turn, bound to galaxies. That is using a physical example. Irony is the brain's primitive ability to sense this in the non-physical: the synergistic outcomes, the by product of all these actions at a distance. They too are a reproduction of an initial paradigm. Whether physical or emergence', all these are just repetition using just enough morphology in shape or color, then overly differentiated by a brain necessity to categorization. Yes the universe is fractal on many scales! Have you read about how the structure of the brain mimics the superstructure of the universe? It brings whole new meaning to the phrase "The universe created us in order to understand itself better." https://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/the-strange-similarity-of-neuron-and-galaxy-networks Also completely agreed on not interfering with animals (or other cultures) but since this was spread from humans to chimps, I think it would be useful if there was a vaccine for it for humans and that would also lessen the risk of spreading to animals. Animal farming, factory farming, etc, has got to stop, they are as big of a problem for the environment as fuel emissions. They are front and center in the IPCC report under "land use" I would stop all testing on animals too, it's immoral and unethical and unnecessary, we can now create human organs in labs to be used for testing purposes and they are far more representative and accurate than testing on other animals is. And lab grown meat and fake meat are amazing and environmentally safe alternatives too.

Yes they are not comparable to us but it is enough that we should not be farming or killing them. I am done with the whole omnivore thing too, that destroys the planet as much as all the other things we have discussed, and is mentioned by the IPCC also. oh about the vaccine I mentioned that in reference to humans and chimps, these chimps actually contracted leprosy from humans. We've been giving the covid vaccine to lions and tigers too, because some had been contracting it from handlers. Could you imagine alien "gods" creating our universe, and then we create universes ourselves inside particle colliders, but if space and time are both circular we could end up creating their universe, etc? It doesn't seem to make sense but if time indeed does not exist at the boundary of the universe(s) then they could create our universe and we could create theirs (with any number of steps in between.)

good I have no plans to turn heat on before November

this was the perfect day here, hit 80 easily! was JFK's the highest high temp in the area?

why is it such a big deal? just switch to use the airports and dont even central park data anymore. we dont care about temps from the 1800s or the early 1900s they are no longer applicable to our climate

yes it was damn hot today! was that the high? of course this doesnt come close to matching the 95 from a few years ago or the 90 in 10/07 when was the latest JFK has ever hit 80?

there are parts of Florida cooler than we are

I mean not that because I hate tornadoes, but something like Belle which didn't really cause much damage at all.

I really wish we could get a Cat 1 every year around this time, is that asking too much? I want to see a Cat 1 make landfall in our area (ACY to MTP) once every year, that's not too destructive and they are fun to track. When will the waters warm enough to make that happen?

Don looks like it will warm back up to upper 70s midweek next week and beyond?

My dad really wanted to see the northern lights but never got to see them. The year he passed away in 2014 he would wake up in the middle of the night and thought he saw them outside the window and he would call me to ask me to get up and see them too. I didn't know what to say when I couldn't see them, so I would just tell him, "I see them too, Dad, I can see them too."

So when people say, a place like say, Kansas City, got to see the northern lights, that's not too impressive when it comes to what we might be able to see at our latitude. I don't even remember the last time the northern lights were easily visible down here.

Remember when we talked about how early cold can have bad implications for the winter? Like snow and cold in November, etc, it takes a long time for the pattern to recover and by that time you've lost December, which you really need to have go your way in a winter of this type

let's get the short term right first lol- why is it overcast today? It was supposed to be sunny and warm

nice I hope it's better and warmer than the yucky cloudy clammy weather we have right now

Oh so that's why they are better visible over there vs the east coast. I thought it was because of lower light pollution there. Is geomagnetic latitude measured from the north magnetic pole?

https://twitter.com/i/events/1448313424887361549 Leprosy in chimps! This is SICK! Why is there no vaccine for this?

Look for Witches of Karres which was a very sweet and funny tale from back then as well as the sequels to it which were very nicely done over the past few years. That was one of the old stories I always wanted to see a sequel to and I was glad to see that it was done by a fine collaboration of writers who kept the spirit of the original storyline alive and even expanded it in a way the original author would have wanted to.

Yes I have some of those! When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide in one set! Imagine my delight at finding out that rogue planets are a real thing and there are planets actually wandering through interstellar and even intergalactic space, having been ejected by their parent sun, just waiting to find a hospitable solar system to live in once again and to see the warmth of a new sun.

That actually reminds me of a concept of how humanity can go from being the masters of technology to technology becoming their masters. They wake up one day and realize they aren't the ones in control anymore.

rclab I know what's going to happen, I already see it happening. The rich among us are going to go to space and establish colonies there. Eventually when the prices get cheaper some among the upper middle class will be able to follow them. The planet will honestly be fine, there is no "saving the planet" because the planet doesn't need to be saved- it's humanity that needs to be saved. What will happen is that the poor and the lower middle class will be stuck on this planet as it becomes ever more inhospitable to human life Humans will survive but at a much lower standard of living and crowded onto smaller pieces of land as sea level rises and forests burn and what's not burning is being plagued with floods. New pandemics will occur more frequently and famine will be regular, even in the developed world as a mass extinction accelerates. Eventually the only wildlife that exists on this planet will be a remnant human population, the animals we farm and some pests that are highly resistant to destruction. The earth will be one large highly polluted dump which humanity will eventually give up on and those who can will leave, while the leaving is good. Eventually, after a huge population crash (from famine, disease, starvation, etc.), humanity will return back to preindustrial levels on the planet, farming and working the land like indigenous people do, in a sustainable way. The other segment of humanity will be colonizing the solar system and wandering into interstellar space- a confirmation of HG Wells' The Time Machine, story of two humanities, the ultra rich and everyone else. Those who live amongst the stars and those who still exist on this planet.

I love those stories from the Golden Age, I actually have collections of them somewhere in my house if I can find them. The classics never age, because humanity's hopes, dreams, motivations and desires never really do either.