Well…not sure if you know this or not, but every time anyone uses AI it costs 150 gallons of water to cool the servers it is hosted on…and the energy use for AI is already more than what is used to power an entire state…and what good is it? Have you ever used it for anything that makes your life better? Just last week it was reported that Bill Gates is hoping to restart the shuttered Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant just to power his AI servers and others who are trying to monetize AI are looking for power anywhere they can find it…including restarting coal-fired plants that have been shut down due to their effect on climate change…I guess my question is how can a few billionaires be allowed to use so many resources for their vanity projects that will wreck the environment? I know that these assholes are now looking at the Great Lakes for the billions of gallons of cooling water they need but what happens when they raise the temperatures of the lakes so much that there will be no ice at all in the winter? And what does that do to the wildlife that live there? Look, I think the benefits of AI have been overstated by the billionaires who only have one thing in mind…profit…that will cost all of us as they vacuum up resources that should be used for the common good and not to line the pockets of the 1%…the brakes need to put on this bullshit…after all, not one of these robber barons can tell you what AI will do to make your life better…it has already ruined internet searches that used to just give you the information you asked for but now give you crap that you have to wade through and still not get what you were searching for as it guesses what you really meant…I sure don’t need that…geez…
Category Archives: Science
Let’s talk abut vaccines…
Well…just want to talk a bit about vaccines…particularly the one for pneumonia that has been found to have some remarkable effects…this vaccine is for bacteria caused infections and yet this new study shows it is effective against flu and covid…in children, the vaccine cut infection rates by 41 to 86 percent…as effective as a flu shot…in adults this vaccine lowered viral lung infections by up to 25%…in adults, covid hospital stays and deaths were reduced by 33%…and the mechanism for these results is the fact that viruses and bacteria work together or they set the stage for each other by forcing the body to work overtime to fight infections….so if you can knock one of them down like with this vaccine, the body then can respond better to the other infection…I guess what I’m saying is if you qualify for this vaccine, get it as I have…I wonder if that along with my covid boosters have kept me from getting sick over the past four years?
Finally, masks are back…
Well…as you know I still wear a mask whenever I’m out and around people because I’m not going to get that damn disease…and it doesn’t bother me in the least when people give me dirty looks (hasn’t really happened much) when I’m grocery shopping…but today something weird happened…I’m normally the only one that has a mask on but not today…I must have counted almost 20 people in masks at Meijers and Aldis…and that surprised the heck out of me since people aren’t taking covid seriously anymore…but I am and I will continue to after reading the serious health effect of getting it just once…wear a mask to prevent brain damage? Yep…wear a mask to prevent Alzheimers? Yep…wear a mask to prevent heart and lung damage? Yep…you get the picture…my body is wearing out fast enough without letting a damn virus speed that up….at least more people are starting to figure that out, too…geez…
The stupidity, it burns…
Well…there’s a new meme about solar panels going on over at fox news and all across the right wing media today that has me just shaking my head about the stupidity of the right wingers in this country…you want to know what it is? Reports all across the right wing stupidsphere are breathlessly reporting that solar panels won’t create electricity when it’s cold outside…okay, I wonder if anyone remembers the first place solar cells were used to generate electricity? If you grew up in the 60′s, you know…in space! Do any of the idiots spouting this nonsense know how cold it is in space? It’s -454 degrees…yep MINUS 454 degrees, at least three 4 times colder than it ever gets even in the coldest place on Earth…so I really think they just might be wrong about this one….damn, the stupidity, it burns! Geez…
The two hottest days ever recorded…
Well…I wonder what the climate deniers are going to say about this? Monday and Tuesday of this week were the the two hottest days since records have been kept…and climate scientists have physical records in the trees and ground that it is the hottest two days in the past 140,000 years…with the highest concentration of co2 since that time, too…so what is the repub response to getting to the tipping point where whole ecologies are going to die? To try to outlaw doing anything about it and giving more subsidies to the oil giants to keep dumping more and more garbage into the air….if we just took the money we give to the oil companies every year and invested it in renewables, we could start digging ourselves out of the hole the fossil fuel industry has dug for the planet. People are dying all over the planet and no one wants to do anything about…I fear for my grandchildren and the world they are going to have to live in…geez…
Okay this is different…
Well..I’m sure you’ve read the news about the submersible that was trying to go down to the Titanic wreck and imploded from the pressure and killed the 5 people who were in it…as the news comes in, it appears that this accident can be put down to the hubris of the owner of the company who built it…just today, it was revealed that the sub was not certified by any of the normal agencies that do that kind of stuff…and normally outside engineering teams are brought it to check their work so to say…but this company did none of that…no testing, no nothing and now 5 people are dead from it…look, trying to go that deep is not an easy thing and that’s the reason that there aren’t hundreds of the subs around….they should at least have sent it down to that depth remotely piloted to make sure it was safe but no, these guys thought they knew everything but they didn’t…and they are dead….geez…
A supernova…
Well…let’s get away from politics for a minute and talk a little astronomy…on the 19th, an amateur astronomer saw a supernova in the galaxy M101…and. as you know, since the galaxy is 21 million light years away, it actually happened 21 million years ago and the light is just getting to us now…it is the closest supernova to Earth in almost a decade…it has continued to brighten over the past few days an will probably get almost bright enough to see with a small telescope which I wish I had…that would be so cool to see the light first hand…supernovas happen when a star runs out of hydrogen and start to fuse other elements like helium and oxygen until the star gets to trying to fuse iron that the star doesn’t have the energy to do so the star collapses and then explodes to make a supernova…and that process can happen very quickly…in some stars it only takes minutes for the entire process…so, pretty cool to think about other things than politics for a change…
Cheap elon did it…
Well…it is starting to trickle out that the failure of starship this past week is a direct result of ole elon being cheap…when I was watching the launch, I noticed that 6 or 7 or the outer ring engines were dark and knew it couldn’t be good…and they were dark because elon cheaped out on the launch pad and didn’t build flame deflectors for under the pad…he just dumped the exhaust from the 39 engines onto the concrete pad and the aftermath photos showed that the pad was totally destroyed from it…and debris from the pad bounced up and destroyed the engines…some of the chunks of concrete flew almost a half mile and destroyed a bunch of cars…and the dust and dirt from the pad covered the sensitive wetlands the pad is built on…and the reason he built in Texas was that he could do whatever he wants with no regulation…typical billionaire bullshit that they get away with all of the time…now one question I have is where were the engineers as all this crap was going on? The math should have told them that the concrete under the pad was not strong enough to take the exhaust of 39 engines fired at once but not one of them said a thing since ole elon is notorious for firing people who tell him no…so, all of this is on elon and I hope the feds step in and at least fine spacex for the damage this launch did…we know Texas won’t…geez…
Starship go boom…
Well…again, even though I hate elon….it was cool to see the super heavy with starship take off this morning…but, that was about all that was good about it…the first and second stage failed to separate and the whole thing started to tumble so it was destroyed…one good thing was the look on ole elon’s face sitting in the control room when it blew…poor, poor, elon…I’ll do one in politics when I get back from having my teeth cleaned at 2…
Starship is launching…
Well…as much as I hate elon, starship is launching this morning around 9:30…in about a half hour…