Date: 2021-08-07 05:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
Paleontology along with archaeology seem to have benefited from improvements and cost reductions in a wide array of analysis technologies.

Date: 2021-08-09 07:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
Thinking about it I suspect that a big decrease in cost is probably the driver here.

Date: 2021-08-07 05:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mountainkiss
When Patrick and I went to the dinosaur exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, we were interested to find out that new scanning technology means that dinosaur remains have been found in parts of the world where no-one had previously looked. This leads to new dinosaurs with amazing names, deriving from languages which we would not have associated with dinosaur naming. Inuit is the one I remember, but there were others too.

T-Rex Healing Practices

Date: 2021-08-07 05:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dewline
T-Rexes might have organized hospitals?

Yes, I know it's a leap from "family groups" to "hospitals", but given this news...?

Mind. Blown.
Edited Date: 2021-08-07 05:33 pm (UTC)

Date: 2021-08-07 05:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
2. "Does Apple have the manpower in place to iron out their algorithm’s shortcomings? We can only hope so." And how will they deal with staring at photos of child abuse all day? I've read of the burnout among the Facebook monitors of toxic hate speech.

3. If I'm reading this correctly, the SNP and Greens are lovemates.

5. And if Europe freezes because of this, the same old idiots will say, "See? It's cold! Global warming is a hoax!"

As For The Gulf Stream

Date: 2021-08-07 05:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dewline
CBC reported on this at least two years ago:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/nov-30-tipping-into-climate-catastrophe-blue-whale-heartbeat-thinking-twice-on-fake-news-and-more-1.5377120/climate-scientists-warn-we-re-on-the-precipice-of-disastrous-tipping-points-1.5377195

Been reading about it since via CNN, The Guardian and other sources in recent days. Alarming as Hell. "Red Alert" territory, and the oil and coal sector...how long have they known or suspected this was possible or probable?

Re: As For The Gulf Stream

Date: 2021-08-07 05:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dewline
Maybe this slows down the rate of the damage a little more:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-blocks-proposed-rocky-mountain-coal-mine-environmental-grounds-2021-08-06/

Not sure that it matters at this point, but slowing down the pace wherever we can...

Date: 2021-08-07 06:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] channelpenguin
I really don't think I can cope with much more "apocalypse news". I'm serious. There's nothing I can personally do to that will make any of it not happen and the stress and fear are close to driving me crazy. The last time it got like this I had to cut off from all news, FB, everything. I can feel myself getting to that point again. I really don't know how the rest of you cope. My only hope is that I die suddenly and instantly without warning before the shit really hits the fan. I think those of you with children must really have been optimists - no way would I wish the world to come on anyone.

Date: 2021-08-08 07:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mountainkiss
I hear you. I understand.

Date: 2021-08-09 03:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] channelpenguin
My youthful nihilism could better cope with imminent doom, somehow. "Live fast, die young" is far sexier than "Live at wildly erratic speeds, die well-preserved but middle-aged". On the other hand, I've never worried about my pension. Every cloud....

Date: 2021-08-09 12:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dewline
Heard and understood.

Date: 2021-08-15 08:56 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] anef
I am boggled at 4-winged Microraptor!

Date: 2021-08-15 03:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] anef
Oh, is that it? I was wondering how it was in fact possible, but that makes sense (in a slightly disappointing way).

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