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Something about horses and water . . .

The documentary I referenced isn't Discovery Channel bullshit. It's based on the most recent discoveries in paleontology that relate specifically to the digs being conducted in (correction) North Dakota.

Dust particles also play a decisive role in the formation of our own existence on Earth. The dust in galaxies consists of small grains of carbon, silicon, iron, aluminum and other elements found here on earth. So when Grant Boy goes goes digging and finds a layer of dirt that is also on the other side of the planet on another continent It rained from the sky, is probably a more likely plausible story, than a Hollywood gloom and doom scenario.

Moreover I wager Global Warming from Carbon trapped in the atmosphere is a nonissue due to the Dust in the Cosmic Wind.
As these tiny space particles bombard our planets atmosphere, they get positively charges, while the carbon particulates are negatively charged.
Now guess what happens next? My God, I must be right or the Earth's atmosphere would be so dense, there would be zero visibility and our air would be 80% carbon by now after billions of years of "Global Warming"

Here's another curious tidbit, When I was a kid, one of the Space Shuttle's mission was sending a satellite into orbit, that has Sticky Traps on paddle arms, to catch some of the cosmic dust, to return to earth to analyze. Funny thing is, out of all of the Space missions, this mission has never been talked about, the findings has never been featured in a History Channel, Discovery Channel, or a PBS documentary.

Now I think I know why, those findings would end 4 or 5 Science studies and the Grants they illicit.

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Check the drought map and none of Florida is in any drought condition

Hahaha. Florida is peninsula full of water.

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Looks like the headwaters for Colorado River are not bad as Colorado's drought conditions (western slope also) have improved greatly.

My parents live in Denver. They had a shit ton of snow a few years ago, and nothing less than normal recently.

Tenpoundbass says

richwicks says

We have better vision than you imagine with machines.

So what it's a gypsum sinkhole?
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark-Pilkington/publication/253843783/figure/fig2/AS:669194437804043@1536559795707/3-D-plot-of-the-total-magnetic-field-over-the-Chicxulub-crater-viewed-in-perspective.ppm

Could be. I'm not a geologist - it's beyond my knowledge.

I'm comfortable in the zone of "I don't know", most people are not. It seems likely that the Chicxulub crater is the origin of the extinction of dinosaurs, but if it's not, I'm fine with that.

I recognize that we are primitives. In 2000 years the people that exist will be like "I can't believe they thought the universe had dark matter - what idiots!" or something along those lines. Well that's the hope, the alternative will be "what is fire?"

"The weather in Heaven is great these days. Get your vaccine and boosters now!"

richwicks says

if you are legitimately colorblind, there's a set of glasses called EnChroma glasses.

Hm, I'll have to try a pair.

I am able to differentiate red/green, but only in some cases. If a large solid color red or green square is in front of me I have no problem, but as the area gets smaller, such as thin lines of color, or red/green mixed in with other colors (especially dithering) is where things totally break down. Also, certain shades are much more difficult to ascertain, and sometimes placing certain other colors nearby the red or green makes me unable to tell the color.

It makes for comical mistakes sometimes. Back when I was maybe 19 or 20, I bought this cool looking white camo t shirt. It was a whitish to borderline very light grey cotton, and the camo pattern was pure white, using that typical raised white lettering material they use on custom lettered shirts. I wore it all summer. Then one day some girl said "cool shirt. you're brave for wearing pink." and after a brief back and forth with her, with me confused and asking what the hell she was talking about, that's the moment I realized I wasnt wearing a whitish grey shirt, but pink camo lol. Of course my friends knew but didn't tell me haha. I was really into lifting weights at that time, and to be honest I was pretty jacked...walking around in a pink camo tshirt lol.

Lots of bull riding rednecks I grew up with in the 80s wore hot pink. T-shirts, nascar hats, etc.

I’ve always thought of color blind condition having to do with the number of rods and cones in the eyes. There aren’t as many in the eyes or color blind people so the definition of color detection is reduced. Colors are just bands on the electromagnetic spectrum, usually differentiated by nanometers. Most people can tell the difference between 5-10 nanometers in that scale, some even less! A colorblind person can only tell between 50 nm. The red and the green colors are right next to each other as are the yellow and green, and the indigo/blue. So if you’re showing me a color that’s red but only 10nm away from being green, I might just call it green. Likewise for a green that’s close to being red. Or blue close to purple. Or green close to yellow. It’s annoying and other people NEVER seem to understand. Yes that’s red, but it’s such a weaksauce shade of red that I can’t tell the difference between that and your red-adjacent green you chose.

There has been a decent amount of adjustment in color schemes of important things like traffic lights to where I never have trouble getting the color right. It’s not hard to make things colorblind friendly. Just place the color deeper into the band that defines it instead of using a shade that is almost the next color.

Anyway, rant over.

Shaman says

I’ve always thought of color blind condition having to do with the number of rods and cones in the eyes.

I think it's the type as well? Apparently there are a small number of women (no men that I'm aware of) that have a 4th(?) type which allows them to see colors other humans can't. I think it's only a handful of people though. Okay, just searched and found this:

"Tetrachromats have one extra type of cone that allows them to see a fourth dimensionality of colors. It results from a genetic mutation. And there's indeed a good genetic reason why tetrachromats are more likely to be women. The possibility of a tetrachromacy mutation is only passed through the X chromosome."

It’s carried on the X chromosome. So my son was never in any danger of having that condition. But my two daughters, beautiful as they are, each have 50% chance of carrying the bad gene, which they’d have another 50% chance of passing to any male children for the condition or passing the pass through effect to their daughters.

I’m not complaining much. It hasn’t affected my life too much, aside from derailing my dreams of being a fighter pilot. It’s occasionally a problem at work when I have to do some wiring with old color coded cables. I say old because the newer stuff is colored considerately with clearly defined colors. There are work arounds for knowing your colors, and I know them all.

My pre-school teacher told my mom she thought I was retarded because I couldn’t get my colors right.