Which of these is your favourite and why?

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Of course our "'human kind' era" has been temperate. If it hadn't, there wouldn't have been any such thing. If it hadn't been temperate then we wouldn't have developed agriculture.

(Which we actually did (at least) twice. There's evidence that we invented agriculture before the last proper ice age, then went back to sleep (not literally, obviously) when the ice came, then invented it again 2000 years later.)

A very small window to develop all this stuff we developed, really. We are inquisitive little monkeys.

I agree with what I think is implied in some of your posts - we don't really appreciate how precarious civilisation is. It would not really take a lot to send us right back to the stone age (having said that, we were far more technologically advanced during the stone age than people tend to think (I don't mean any 'the pyramids were really microwave generators' bullshit by that, I just mean that we weren't stereotypical cavemen during a lot of the neolithic - we had agriculture, trade (and possibly quite complex and intriguing invoicing/receipt/contract systems*), religion, lived in quite large towns/cities, were able to preserve food with salt, had diverse secondary products etc.))

Um, forgot what the point was. Water is sometimes drastically cooler than the air because it has a really fucking high specific heat capacity, that's no mystery is it?

Also we're putting a rather impressive robot on Mars in a few hours**, by hoisting it onto Mars' surface from a hovering rocket-platform 20m above the surface. That's pretty fucking amazing.

* The person sending the delivery out would (assuming the theory is correct, like) embed markers into the flat of a clay hemisphere indicating the products being transported (types and amounts) and what was owed in return, he would then imprint his identifying seal. Another hemisphere would be attached and the whole thing would then be sealed and would accompany the delivery and the receiver would break it open, being able to ensure that the person performing the delivery had not stolen anything and would know what goods were owed in return.
** Assuming the whole ridiculous plan works

I apologise, I thought for a moment that there might have been some basis in reality in some of your points, but now I realise you're just another maddo.

 

Please continue being mental, I'll leave you to it.

See, I called it :D

We had that around here yesterday.

 

Huge hailstorms in parts of Bradford - on my walk into work I go through a large park and there were still piles of ice sitting around.

 

What have I learned from this? That the British weather is bat shit crazy. :C

Who's? Who's fucking "artificial weather system"?

Probably them Jews again.

They're buggers for it. Weather manipulation and cream cheese in bagels; two crimes against humanity.

Only because they forget the bacon.

How do you manipulate weather with bacon?

Eat enough of it and you kill enough pigs meaning less greenhouse gases coming out of their rear ends. The climate will be changed somewhat.

So, if these people (whoever they are. Just saying they're in Svalbard doesn't really answer my question, by the way) are so good that they can control the weather (and the planet's crust, apparently, though I'm still not clear on why they're doing any of it), how are they also so incompetent that someone like you knows all about it?

Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels (with a little freshly-milled black papper)! (drool)

w3rd.

Replace the salmon with bacon and it's a deal.

I'll replace the papper with pepper, but that's about it.