tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post6980010431237517762..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: The Science of Making RainSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-3435886527357328622021-03-01T06:34:15.798-05:002021-03-01T06:34:15.798-05:00Water civil wars more likely. Can you honestly bel...Water civil wars more likely. Can you honestly believe a non-incorporated group of people can settle on whether there should be raining or not tomorrow?<br /><br />Now, for a incorporated one ... suddenly Facebook looks like innocent joke.Olmo Sirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12676046817371118267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-74296421659676535172021-02-28T03:23:52.696-05:002021-02-28T03:23:52.696-05:00"It is a process in which a given life form e..."It is a process in which a given life form extracts energy from another life form (host) to a degree that is greater than the amount that it contributes"<br />By that definition, Homo is one. (btw, fungi are heterotrophs, that was not the point).<br /><br />"Truth is a slippery term."<br />It was not used as a term. We use language to describe relations, assuming the Vadimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350813784317789818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-58307466571840294062021-02-27T12:54:26.586-05:002021-02-27T12:54:26.586-05:00Parasite is not just a word. It is a process in wh...Parasite is not just a word. It is a process in which a given life form extracts energy from another life form (host) to a degree that is greater than the amount that it contributes, resulting in negative consequences for the host. Fungi are obligate parasite by definition.<br />Truth is a slippery term. For any theory at all, proof i.e. truth is the ability to create or fundamentally change Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11490835915837052199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-86656766501158365242021-02-26T22:15:53.383-05:002021-02-26T22:15:53.383-05:00Not sure what you want to express. Calling somethi...Not sure what you want to express. Calling something parasite doesn't explain anything as there are obviously different fungi and they perform different functions in different environments. In the same vein, we may call all bacteria 'evil', 'good' or with any other empty word. It's all about the structure of relations and function each organism performs. Then, how it'sVadimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350813784317789818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-9252949855630533442021-02-25T13:10:39.303-05:002021-02-25T13:10:39.303-05:00Fungi are obligate parasites and infect other life...Fungi are obligate parasites and infect other life forms to survive. Crops e.g. corn are blighted by fungi. Of course the 'truth' is what we would like it to be as long as we area able to claim consensus (enough support) Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11490835915837052199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-9806018062647143772021-02-24T21:28:28.242-05:002021-02-24T21:28:28.242-05:00Sabine, another topic came to mind, which is at th...Sabine, another topic came to mind, which is at the junction of popular culture and science - everything is connected. Suzanne Simard studied (paper & all) how trees in forest are interconnected by mycorrhizal networks. So that forest literally operates its own Internet on different levels (hands down, the most beautiful thing I've re-discovered last year).<br /><br />She seems to be Vadimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350813784317789818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-65951838760110863302021-02-24T11:43:25.744-05:002021-02-24T11:43:25.744-05:00Yet another urgent and interesting problem few peo...Yet another urgent and interesting problem few people have heard or are interested in (certainly not the hype type) - water management. <br /><br />I've been wandering through Tamil Nadu & Kerala (in 2016), people were talking about a severe draught that year (if not mistaken, it was even worse the next year). They had a severe argument about water supplies, as Kerala has dam on a river Vadimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350813784317789818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-41026182951548620602021-02-24T08:53:29.452-05:002021-02-24T08:53:29.452-05:00Ha-ha, thanks! That was an interesting concurrence...Ha-ha, thanks! That was an interesting concurrence with Ozone video. <br /><br />PS Concerning the algorithm, I've seen many opinions (yeah, not the best source of information) that it takes comments (and even comments likes) as input (in many hot topics it was suggested to hit 5-7 likes to comments to raise videos). FWIW. Vadimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350813784317789818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-55312332473348143282021-02-24T06:29:03.361-05:002021-02-24T06:29:03.361-05:00Hi Vadim,
Thanks for those references. Interestin...Hi Vadim,<br /><br />Thanks for those references. Interesting topic indeed, I might look into this.<br /><br />I suspect no one besides YT knows how their algorithm works, but I know as much as that it doesn't just count views, it keeps track of how much people watch of a video. I don't know how much comments matter. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-84553410140901256512021-02-24T04:13:29.078-05:002021-02-24T04:13:29.078-05:00A very interesting topic! Following in the footste...A very interesting topic! Following in the footsteps of Lawrence about aerosols and other pollutants. I've noticed that when passenger planes fly over clouds at low altitudes (mostly stratus type comes to mind) they seem to disappear. And that happens even when the plane is high enough above them. <br /><br />I was intrigued by that phenomenon but could not find what happens. As most Vadimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17350813784317789818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49879440062599261752021-02-23T21:08:30.179-05:002021-02-23T21:08:30.179-05:00Quanta Magazine: Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devast...Quanta Magazine: Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devastate Polar Sea Ice.<br /><br />https://www.quantamagazine.org/cloud-making-aerosol-could-devastate-polar-sea-ice-20210223/Lawrence Crowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090839464038445335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-34623314029526304352021-02-21T19:30:11.624-05:002021-02-21T19:30:11.624-05:00It's good to see that the atmosphere is being ...It's good to see that the atmosphere is being investigated and tested. Richard Feynman put forth a challenge to physicists in the'50's to unlock the mystery of the enormous energies found in the atmosphere but that has not been a success as far as I know.<br />The atmosphere remains a deep mystery with all sorts of strange things besides energy flows. Why does water vapour form Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11490835915837052199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68504069635872319922021-02-21T10:56:42.301-05:002021-02-21T10:56:42.301-05:00Back when one of my brothers owned 320 acres of la...Back when one of my brothers owned 320 acres of land near the hamlet of Donald, Ontario, we would spend holiday weekends at the cabin we built alongside a river. On one of these wintertime visits the temperature dropped to -20 Fahrenheit (-29 Celsius). Exhaling warm, moist breath into such extremely cold air would create a mini snowstorm. It was kind of neat to watch the tiny, crystallized David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23439686489036097752021-02-21T09:42:45.361-05:002021-02-21T09:42:45.361-05:00A Pink Floyd put it, "With, without, after al...A Pink Floyd put it, "With, without, after all it's what the fighting's all about." There will doubtless be in a future world of climate and weather modification those regions and people who have the assets and those who do not. History shows there is little occasion where that has not been the case. <br /><br />The future may see water wars that are far more serious than oil Lawrence Crowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090839464038445335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-25226434093958148082021-02-20T12:57:24.083-05:002021-02-20T12:57:24.083-05:00Monopolize is too strong a word I think, but I agr...Monopolize is too strong a word I think, but I agree that there is trouble at the front door. It's clearly doable in principle, we have know that for decades. The question is only how long it will take for a nation to get so good at it that other nations will suffer. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-39404735331344161832021-02-20T12:02:40.047-05:002021-02-20T12:02:40.047-05:00I am not sure how practical this is, or if practic...I am not sure how practical this is, or if practical how desirable it is. I was unaware there was a growing interest in this. As you say you need the moisture in the air to start. Clouds have water droplets or ice crystals and these methods involve the introduction of a phase transition inducing particle sites into the cloud to enhance droplet formation. I do not know if this has been done with Lawrence Crowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090839464038445335noreply@blogger.com