tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268985416439660021.post8963512090346642499..comments2023-07-18T03:44:33.021-07:00Comments on The Bit Maelstrom: Manic Monday Apocalypso: This Is Not How The World Endsblakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268985416439660021.post-32297894447551565412009-09-16T10:35:53.551-07:002009-09-16T10:35:53.551-07:00What country is that gonna be, though?
Probably w...<i>What country is that gonna be, though</i>?<br /><br />Probably where the new patent applications and scientific papers are trending from-mainly Japan.<br /><br /><i>The system was rotten — always has been, probably, whenever it strayed from some sort of engineering that could produce stuff</i>.<br /><br />In the chemical industries, much of the producing just went off shore because of regulation. <br /><br />The "stuff" the climate modellers are supposed to be predicting is tomorrow's weather. But to do that is not very sexy & runs the risk of being wrong and being noticed.chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268985416439660021.post-19357780588938077522009-09-15T02:12:31.726-07:002009-09-15T02:12:31.726-07:00What country is that gonna be, though?
The syste...What country is that gonna be, though? <br /><br />The system was rotten — always has been, probably, whenever it strayed from some sort of engineering that could produce <i>stuff</i>.<br /><br />Right or wrong, climate theory doesn't produce <i>stuff</i>. Since it's not even weather—as they're always pointing out—it's practically useless until we get to some geoengineering capability (and none of this absurd "lifestyle change" stuff qualifies as geoengineering).blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268985416439660021.post-89562991244155550422009-09-08T09:28:19.798-07:002009-09-08T09:28:19.798-07:00Look, anyone using a computer model to predict som...<i>Look, anyone using a computer model to predict something should minimally be able to: "predict" the past and also predict a short way into the future</i>.<br /><br />Bravo Blake. <br /><br /><i>Theory guides; Experiment decides</i>. -I.M. Kolthoff<br /><br />Molecular orbital calculations have come a long way by doing it right. They began by modelling the past, <i>i.e</i>., known chemical reactions, and agonized when they got things wrong. Of course, their goal wasn't to predict the known, but to discover the unknown. Nowadays, the chemical modellers still get things wrong, and "wet science" still provides surprises.<br /><br />The problem with the climate modellers has always been their agenda, which has never been neutral or dispassionate. Worse, the perversion of the grant review process is threatening the integrity of science in a general way, insofar as it undermines the public trust in federally funded science. <br />I can't really see a way out for us other than a foreign country to show us up on innovation and technology, even though it breaks my heart to see that happen.chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.com