27-04-2022 02:10 | |
IBdaMann![]() (13333) |
@squeal over, I think we all realize that you are desperate to role-play a really smart person. I think we all realize that you are desperate for an audience that will "play along" with your fantasy and that will provide you with assurances that you are really, really smart. I think we all realize that you so desperately want to be the lifeguard of the kiddie pool so that you can claim absolute authority and completely control any and all activity so that nobody do anything unsafe and disrupt your fantasy. I totally get it. You simply cannot accomplish this by copy-pasting the stupidest crap the internet has to offer. You need to be posting intelligent material. As long as you are copy-pasting the words of others, make them the words of brilliant people, not the words of those internet posters who will soon be having their life-support pulled. squeal over wrote: Look, you used the word "capacity." Did you not even read this before you posted or perform some semblance of a sanity check? There is no such thing as any substance that has any sort of limit on how much electromagnetic radiation it can absorb. Regardless of any substance's temperature, it can absorb more and increase in temperature. You nonetheless decided to copy-paste from some author who declared that methane is somehow hamstrung with an "inherent infrared absorption capacity." Aren't you the least bit embarrassed for this poor selection? In addition, you apparently felt it would be value-added to imply that there is such a thing as a "mean residence time" in the atmosphere. Previously, you held a certain plausibility of having been a chemist at some point. You just threw away all such plausibility. Only a scientifically illiterate nimrod would preach this kind of gibber-babble and insist that they were his own words. You also referred to this bizarre measure of methane as a variable, not as a constant for methane. How does this value change between methane molecules? Admittedly, you never claimed to be a PhD in math so your mathematical incompetence is entirely forgivable. I just can't figure out why you felt the need to pretend to be an authority in a branch of science that doesn't exist when you fully plan to post brain-dead material under that presumed expertise. Mind-boggling. squeal over wrote:In the atmosphere of today's earth, methane has about 20x the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. Obviously this number was either computed, or the author from whom you lifted this figure simply pulled it out of his azz. So let me ask it this way: Can you show me how this "about 20x" figure was calculated? squeal over wrote:In a primordial atmosphere, there would be no oxygen present. In science, there is no "would be." That is the subjunctive and is not used. In science, there is only "is", i.e. what is in nature. You do not have a time machine so you cannot verify any speculation about the past. Thus you cannot present any sort of speculation about the past as though it is somehow falsifiable and verified, regardless of from whom you copy-pasted it. squeal over wrote:The inherent infrared absorption capacity of methane or carbon dioxide would be the same as today. Subjunctive. Speculation about the past. Summarily discarded. squeal over wrote:The mean residence time for either molecule would be much much longer. Subjunctive. Speculation about the past. Summarily discarded. squeal over wrote:Without any oxygen, methane would stick around for millennia. Subjunctive. Summarily discarded. Also patently incorrect. Methane will "stick around for millennia" if it does not combust regardless of the presence of oxygen. You picked a real bonehead to regurgitate. squeal over wrote:Without biological activity to reduce it to organic carbon (photosynthesis, chemoautotrophy), carbon dioxide would stick around a lot longer. This statement is presented to support a point that is never stated. Since there is no point for this statement, it is discarded. ... so please let me see the calculations that were used to arrive at the "about 20x" figure. I'm attaching neat graphics to which your army of followers will gravitate upon arrival. A picture is worth a thousand words! . Attached image: ![]() |
RE: The target audience will correct my error27-04-2022 02:39 | |
sealover★★★☆☆ (809) |
The target audience will correct my error. Atmospheric physicists who eventually join the conversation can use my error below as a teachable moment. Nobody is saying that methane is 10% and carbon dioxide is 90% of what causes global warming. They do have some pretty good numbers for the relative contributions. GWP says what the gas entering the atmosphere does over time, not its contribution at a single point in time. The real point was that at 1.7 ppm, methane is much more of a "trace" gas than carbon dioxide. In response to the ABSURD assertion that there is a lot more methane than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It would have been simple enough to divide the two numbers and not just say "more than 200 times as much". But the exact ratio wasn't the point. The point is that there are ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more carbon dioxide than methane in the atmosphere. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sealover wrote: |
27-04-2022 03:33 | |
IBdaMann![]() (13333) |
squealover wrote:Nobody is saying that methane is 10% and carbon dioxide is 90% of what causes global warming. You don't find any quantity of fallacies daunting. You can copy-paste one thing, copy-paste the opposite later and then you can pretend to speak for everyone and claim that no one is claiming what you copy-pasted. You rock! squealover wrote:They do have some pretty good numbers for the relative contributions. They don't exist, just like the math that you claim was used to calculate your figures that you deny claiming. GWP says what the gas entering the atmosphere does over time, not its contribution at a single point in time. squealover wrote:The real point was that at 1.7 ppm, methane is much more of a "trace" gas than carbon dioxide. You never made this point. You are pivoting right now. Attached image: ![]() |
27-04-2022 17:18 | |
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IBdaMann wrote: It reminds of pics from the piramids. ![]() |
27-04-2022 18:23 | |
Into the Night![]() (20153) |
sealover wrote: A gas is not a blanket. If you DID manage to put a blanket around a planet, it would be COLDER, not warmer. Blankets do not warm rocks. No gas or vapor has the capability to warm a planet. You cannot create energy out of nothing. You are ignoring the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics and the Stefan-Boltzmann law. CO2 cannot warm the Earth. Methane cannot warm the Earth. You cannot trap light. You cannot trap heat. You cannot decrease entropy in any way. You cannot trap thermal energy. There is always heat. You cannot create energy out of nothing. Thermal insulation is not heat or thermal energy. The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
27-04-2022 18:53 | |
Into the Night![]() (20153) |
sealover wrote: Why would a young planet be cold? sealover wrote: No gas or vapor has the capability to warm any planet. You can't create energy out of nothing. You still are ignoring the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics and the Stefan-Boltzmann law. sealover wrote: Now you are ignoring Thenevin's law again. sealover wrote: Hydrogen sulfide isn't a reductant. sealover wrote: Ignoring Thenevin's law again. Anoxygenic photosynthesis There are not enough oxidants available in the environment to support oxidation of hydrogen sulfide, but anoxygenic photosynthesis oxidizes hydrogen sulfide with needing to acquire an oxidant from the environment. The sulfate generated also opens up new niches for bacteria to use sulfate as oxidant to exploit the abundant organic carbon. Sulfate reducing bacteria would be given a niche for more life to thrive.[/quote] There is no chemical called 'sulfate'. Carbon isn't organic. sealover wrote: You don't know what any planet looked like 4000 million years ago. sealover wrote: Unit error. sealover wrote: Why would it have any water? sealover wrote: No gas or vapor has the capability to warm any planet, dude. You can't create energy out of nothing. The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
27-04-2022 19:08 | |
Into the Night![]() (20153) |
sealover wrote: It is neither. It is simply oxygen. sealover wrote: No chemical reaction is in a closed system. All of them import and export energy. Apparently you have never heard of 'heat of reaction', a basic part of chemistry. sealover wrote: Yes it is, if you choose it to be. In this discussion of yours, you are choosing it to be a closed system. sealover wrote: WRONG. Any idiot with an oxygen tank can show otherwise. Just spray said material with the oxygen. sealover wrote: Nope. Doesn't spontaneously ignite. sealover wrote: WRONG. Any idiot with a carbon dioxide tank can show otherwise. Just spray said material with a bit of CO2. CO2 is used in fire extinguishers. It displaces oxygen almost completely and lowers the temperature, breaking the fire triangle. It does take a lot of CO2 to do it though. sealover wrote: A made up word describing an 'era' that no one knows if it happened at all. sealover wrote: How do you know? Were you there? sealover wrote: How do you know? Were you there? sealover wrote: Ah. I see you believe that dinosaurs existed. sealover wrote: How do you know? Were you there? sealover wrote: What 'global ocean current'??? sealover wrote: How do you know? Were you there? It is not possible to measure the global atmospheric concentration of CO2. Now you are ignoring statistical math. sealover wrote: What cycle? How do you know? Where you there? sealover wrote: It is not possible to measure the global concentration of any gas. The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
27-04-2022 19:19 | |
Into the Night![]() (20153) |
sealover wrote: You cannot create matter out of nothing. You have no idea what happened 4600 million years ago, or if Earth even existed. sealover wrote: Sorry dude, there is this thing called 'gravity'. Perhaps you've heard of it. sealover wrote: Hydrogen is not oxygen. sealover wrote: Oh...suddenly there's life involved now. No need for an Ark then! sealover wrote: Hydrogen isn't a reductant. There is no such thing as 'photooxidation'. Buzzword fallacy. sealover wrote: Sorry dude, you can't create matter out of nothing. You can't create energy out of nothing either. sealover wrote: Buzzword fallacy. sealover wrote: You are ignoring gravity again. sealover wrote: No gas or vapor has the capability to warm a planet. You can't create energy out of nothing. sealover wrote: Unit error. Non-sequitur fallacy. sealover wrote: A reductant is not energy. Photosynthesis does not create reductants. The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
27-04-2022 19:21 | |
Into the Night![]() (20153) |
Swan wrote:Into the Night wrote:Swan wrote:Into the Night wrote:Swan wrote:IBdaMann wrote:Swan wrote:Indeed you are a terraformer because you grow a few tomato plants on the windowsill of the nuthouse There is no 'quantum qubit computing'. The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
27-04-2022 19:29 | |
Into the Night![]() (20153) |
sealover wrote: No gas or vapor has the capability to warm a planet. You can't create energy out of nothing. sealover wrote: Math error. Structure used as scalar. sealover wrote: A number pulled out of your ass. Argument from randU fallacy. Oh...20 times zero is zero. All gases have ZERO warming potential. You can't create energy out of nothing. sealover wrote: Define 'primordial atmosphere'. Is it one without oxygen by definition? sealover wrote: 'Residence time' is a buzzword. sealover wrote: So? It can't warm a planet. sealover wrote: Carbon isn't organic. sealover wrote: Carbon isn't calcium. sealover wrote: The sea does not remove CO2. sealover wrote: CO2 cannot warm a planet. Methane cannot warm a planet. You cannot create energy out of nothing. The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
27-04-2022 20:03 | |
IBdaMann![]() (13333) |
Into the Night wrote:Now you are ignoring Thenevin's law again. Thank you for making mention of Thevenin's law. This is actually one of my favorite examples of mathematics itself being essentially the sole source/inspiration behind a law of science. Within the context of Global Warming, the Stefan-Boltzmann law is my usual "go to" example. It is merely [Planck's law integrated over all frequencies, i.e. the law itself was merely calculated. Thevenin's law is the Mean Value theorem (MVT) applied to linear circuits. It doesn't matter how complex your linear circuit is over X1 <--> X2, Thevenin's law states that there is a "mean" circuit (if you will) of a single voltage (and series resistance) that is equivalent. The MTV states that it doesn't matter how complex your differentiable function is over X1 <--> X2, there exists a "mean" value which yields the exact same result over X1 <--> X2 as if you were to do all the work of integrating that complex function over that range. Thevenin noticed that the MTV applies to linear circuits because their functions are differentiable so there must be a "mean" value circuit that renders the same result. Anyone who understands the MTV should be able to see that once it is pointed out. ![]() ![]() |
27-04-2022 20:41 | |
Into the Night![]() (20153) |
...deleted severely damaged quoting...sealover wrote: What target audience??? Did you know that talking to imaginary people as if they were real is considered a mental disorder? sealover wrote: Irrelevant. Neither gas has the capability to warm the Earth. sealover wrote: Base rate fallacy. sealover wrote: I will call this argument 1. sealover wrote: I will call this argument 2. Congratulations. You are now locked in paradox. You are being irrational. Arguing both sides of a paradox is irrational. The only way out a paradox is to utterly discard one of the conflicting arguments and to never use it again. sealover wrote: Paradox. Which is it, dude? The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
27-04-2022 20:44 | |
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GretaGroupie wrote:IBdaMann wrote: Now that you mention it, it DOES have the desert mesa like temple look to it. It's not a pyramid though. People just don't appreciate the beauty that results from fabricating a computer chip. Usually that artwork is locked inside a plastic or ceramic case, where you can't see it. The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
27-04-2022 20:50 | |
Into the Night![]() (20153) |
IBdaMann wrote:Into the Night wrote:Now you are ignoring Thenevin's law again. It can also be applied to any series of nodes, not just electronic circuits. It's the reason you can't just separate the atmosphere from Earth and then haphazardly apply it's affects again, and also the reason why subdividing things down to individual molecules when discussing global temperature is pointless. The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
RE: Tony's Ark - What about a complex intelligent organism?28-04-2022 04:49 | |
sealover★★★☆☆ (809) |
Tony's Ark - What about a complex intelligent organism? What if there were a way to send a complex intelligent organism to terraform a distant lifeless planet? What if it could survive the trip fully intact. I love to imagine that there is a way and hope it proves feasible through some future advance in technology. What if that planet we could send it to is like the young Earth? There would be no oxygen in the atmosphere. Are there any complex intelligent creatures from earth that could live in a world without oxygen? Off the top of my head, maybe the best candidate would be something like the liver fluke. Complex multicellular creature with central nervous system. The liver fluke gets in to live where it doesn't get oxygen. Very wasteful in its metabolism, basically fermentation performed by an animal rather than bacteria or fungi. But put that guy inside a colonial organism and it might work. Provide him with all the carbohydrate he needs and let him metabolize it most inefficiently. Other members of the colony will thrive by feeding on his scraps. At least one member of the colony has to perform photosynthesis, but two three different kinds would probably be better. With so much hydrogen around, one obvious choice is an anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria that exploits hydrogen as reductant. That guy oxidizes hydrogen and generates water as the oxidized product of photosynthesis. That guy gets a LOT of bang for the buck from sunlight, thanks to the high energy reductant fed in. With so much high energy reductant around, another obvious choice is an oxygenic photosynthetic organism. Even a multicellular aquatic plant like we have on earth, generating oxygen during photosynthesis. This guy would get very little bang for the sunlight buck in his photosynthesis. Hardly fixes carbon at all compared to the other guy that feeds hydrogen into his anoxygenic photosynthesis. But the aquatic green plant generates OXYGEN. Some of that inefficient photosynthesis can be compensated by using oxygen to get energy from other sources. We'll get back to this tomorrow. |
28-04-2022 05:50 | |
Into the Night![]() (20153) |
sealover wrote: Babble. The Parrot Killer Debunked in my sig. - tmiddles Google keeps track of paranoid talk and i'm not on their list. I've been evaluated and certified. - keepit nuclear powered ships do not require nuclear fuel. - Swan While it is true that fossils do not burn it is also true that fossil fuels burn very well - Swan |
28-04-2022 15:48 | |
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IBdaMann wrote: Did you watch MTV when you were a kid? ![]() i missed all the cool stuff ![]() |
28-04-2022 15:50 | |
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Into the Night wrote: If you blur your eyes it looks like there are 2 people standing in the middle. ![]() |
28-04-2022 15:51 | |
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sealover wrote: Pandemic - war - pollution - starvation - poverty - not much intelligence here. ![]() |
28-04-2022 17:25 | |
IBdaMann![]() (13333) |
GretaGroupie wrote:If you blur your eyes it looks like there are 2 people standing in the middle. Those are Egyptian hieroglyphics on the chip. The Cairo Manufacturers Labor Union insisted that all chips produced in Egypt bear their logo. Attached image: ![]() |
29-04-2022 17:46 | |
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IBdaMann wrote: Now that is what I am talking about and it even has the know it all seal of aproval on it so maybe we are on to something? ![]() |