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Dunny0
07/06/09

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So, did the people of 2050 truck in a bunch of sand to Vegas, or did we just move the city somewhere else?
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goldfarb
07/06/09

@Dunny0: Vegas is in a desert, if you turn off the water it'll be gone in a year.
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Dunny0
07/06/09

@goldfarb: I realize that, it is my home. But turning off the water won't transform it into Tatooine; there's just not that much sand around here.

Seriously, it's more a flat, scrub-brush kind of desert. Let it go back to nature, and it'll be dusty and kind of brushy.

Heck, the name is Spanish for "The Meadows" - before settlement, and urbanization, this place was an oasis. I know it won't go back to that, it it won't be the surface of Arrakis either.

As I said, it's a matter of sand, and the lack thereof. Not all deserts are sand dunes.
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goldfarb
07/06/09

@Dunny0: "But turning off the water won't transform it into Tatooine; there's just not that much sand around here."

BOOO! :(
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/06/09

@Dunny0: Exactly. It'll be all hardpan with scruffy little bushes here and there, just like the outskirts of the city are nowadays.

There really aren't a lot of sand dunes in the US deserts -- they're so unusual that those that do exist are national parks and tourist attractions.

I don't know where all that sand would come from. More of the Stupid, I guess?
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goldfarb
07/06/09

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is this just concept art?

I hope so...it's terrible.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
07/06/09

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Ah, complaining about stupidity via a "docudrama", if irony was a currency these people would be Bill Gates.
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Lassus
07/06/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I'm usually with you, Garrison, but on this one I feel a little left behind.

What do you mean, exactly?
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
07/06/09

@Lassus: Yeah it's not my clearest comment. While I have nothing against them, docudramas are sort of the lowest brow form of information dispersement. Those who don't want to read about it can see a documentary, for those who a documentary is too dry and need a little more zazz can go for a docudrama, after that we get into the realm of things like "The Patriot". I just think it's ironic that they use that medium to call people stupid.
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tetracycloide
07/07/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: nothing plays to the lowest common denomenator better than telling them there's an even lower denomenator to make them feel superior.
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whump
12/09/08

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And rah_fanboi is the second comment. I should had run a pool.
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RAHfanboy
12/14/08

@whump: And soak your head in it.
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RAHfanboy
12/09/08

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If the planet is cooling (and it is), how do you establish the current rate of warming?

I have to think that these people can just barely keep a straight face long enough to release this ineffable twaddle.

What is it, in otherwise intelligent people, that makes them prone to being led around by the nose, by environmental charlatans?
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Luger-Axhandle
12/09/08

@RAHfanboy for one, welcomes his Marxist overlords.:

I read today that global ocean temperatures have been dropping for 20 years. Of course, that must be just a cycle. Funny how, when something is not congruent to AGW, it's just a cycle. Oddly there are no cycles allowed in the weather.

How cold does it have to get to kick this AGW* myth in the head?

* AGW computer modeling is based on three variables that are not measurable. I put no faith in it.
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RAHfanboy
12/09/08

@Luger-Axhandle: And even THEN they can't make the numbers work.

BTW, is a "Luger-Axhandle" anything like a "Broomstick Mauser?"
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AmishJohn
12/09/08

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Hm. "Rabid Liberalism with a high possibility of Eco-Buffoonery." Yep, SF has been set correctly.
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Kishi
12/09/08

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Let's check my hometown. Hmm, Phoenix could either suffer from flooding or a drought. Uh, but probably not both, right?
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AmishJohn
12/09/08

@Kishi: Isn't 'Drought' the default setting?

"Gee, George, it hasn't rained in weeks. Think we're in a drought?"
"Nope. A desert."
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tetracycloide
12/09/08

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carefully calibrating the necessary levels of panic by region to suit your individual needs.

can we get an update in the future when and if they begin linking to actual scientific journals and not NPR or EPA articles?
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RAHfanboy
12/09/08

@tetracycloide: No.
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