Technobarbarian wrote:
>
> We don't have enough things to worry about. So, people are
> inventing new things to worry about.
>
> "Woman warns against the dangerous phenomenon that is ‘trapped
> water’: ‘I’ve never thought about this’"
>
> "One TikToker recently created a video titled “Free the water!”
> to inform her viewers about the dangers of “trapped water” and
> the need to dump out liquids contained in plastic bottles that
> aren’t going to be used.
>
> “I’m on this quest to dump out any water that gets trapped in
> plastic,” Kati (@spreadyourdreams) told her followers. “Because
> once it’s trapped in these plastic bottles, we have now lost it
> basically forever.”
>
> According to the Texas Water Quality Association, trapped water is
> indeed a big problem.
>
> “In the US alone, we waste 22 million gallons of water each year
> in landfills due to trapped water inside plastic water bottles,”
> the organization wrote on the QWET website. “That is 22 million
> gallons of water that we will never get back into the Earth’s
> water cycle.”
>
> The organization went on to point out that fresh water makes up an
> extremely small fraction of all the water on Earth, and that there
> is no new water being created — the water that exists on our
> planet and in the atmosphere is all there is. That means that when
> we effectively take it out of circulation by trapping it
> indefinitely in plastic, that decreases the total water supply for
> all life."
>
> https://news.yahoo.com/lifestyle/woman-warns-against-dangerous-phenomenon-120000467.html

(reggae music)
POUR IT OUT! POUR IT OUT!
(more reggae music and gurgling sounds)

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bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

Technobarbarian wrote:
> On Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 10:36:32 AM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
>> Technobarbarian wrote:
>>>
>>> We don't have enough things to worry about. So, people are
>>> inventing new things to worry about.
>>>
>>> "Woman warns against the dangerous phenomenon that is
>>> ‘trapped water’: ‘I’ve never thought
>>> about this’"
>>>
>>> "One TikToker recently created a video titled “Free the
>>> water!†to inform her viewers about the dangers of
>>> “trapped water†and the need to dump out liquids
>>> contained in plastic bottles that aren’t going to be
>>> used.
>>>
>>> “I’m on this quest to dump out any water that gets
>>> trapped in plastic,†Kati (@spreadyourdreams) told her
>>> followers. “Because once it’s trapped in these
>>> plastic bottles, we have now lost it basically forever.â€
>>>
>>> According to the Texas Water Quality Association, trapped water
>>> is indeed a big problem.
>>>
>>> “In the US alone, we waste 22 million gallons of water
>>> each year in landfills due to trapped water inside plastic
>>> water bottles,†the organization wrote on the QWET website.
>>> “That is 22 million gallons of water that we will never
>>> get back into the Earth’s water cycle.â€
>>>
>>> The organization went on to point out that fresh water makes up
>>> an extremely small fraction of all the water on Earth, and that
>>> there is no new water being created — the water that
>>> exists on our planet and in the atmosphere is all there is.
>>> That means that when we effectively take it out of circulation
>>> by trapping it indefinitely in plastic, that decreases the
>>> total water supply for all life."
>>>
>>> https://news.yahoo.com/lifestyle/woman-warns-against-dangerous-phenomenon-120000467.html
>>
>>>
(reggae music)
>> POUR IT OUT! POUR IT OUT! (more reggae music and gurgling
>> sounds)
>>
>> -- bill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
>
> Hey, rastaman, this is serious stuff. We're already making the
> planet we live on wobble. The next thing you know we could be doing
> the limbo, under Mars.
>
> "Humans pumped so much groundwater out of the Earth that the planet
> has begun to wobble detectably on its axis, a new study has found.
>
> On its own terms, the magnitude of the new wobble is slight — a
> matter of millimeters, which puts it in the same approximate speed
> category as Earth’s slowly drifting continents.
>
> But the findings published earlier this month in Geophysical
> Research Letters show the extent to which human action — in the
> form of dam construction, groundwater drilling and the burning of
> fossil fuels — are impacting the very position of the Earth.

Don't forget about all those humans in colorful spandex jogging and
running and racing hither and thither. All that thumping and bumping
and transitory acceleration and deceleration is probably screwing up
the magma currents, and contributing to the wobble. Follow the
science: screw with the magma and the Earth will wobble. I mean, hey,
look, dude, like, just look, you know, at a powered up lava lamp if
you think I'm statistically insignificantly bullshitting you.

> They also provide powerful corroboration for something scientists
> had long suspected but had remained unproven: the staggering
> depletion of the world’s groundwater reserves over the past
> several decades.
>
> The scope of the findings released this month were startling.
> Between 1993 and 2010, the scientists found, human society — and
> mostly human agriculture — had depleted 2,510 gigatons of water.
>
> That’s the equivalent of 600 cubic miles of lost freshwater, more
> than five times the volume of Lake Erie or half the volume of Lake
> Huron.
>
> At that rate, we would run through the equivalent of the 2,900
> cubic miles of water that fill Lake Superior by the end of the
> century.
>
> That speed of depletion reflects a global threat."
>
> https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4075087-human-society-is-shifting-the-tilt-of-the-earth/
>
> 400 million years ago Oregon was underwater off the coast of
> Idaho, and we were further south. Oregon is made of the stuff that
> has been scraped up by the North American plate as it broke off
> from Pangea and started moving west. If the planet wobbles who
> knows what we might scrape up or where we could end up?

I don't see the problem. When all the glaciers and ice shelves melt,
we'll have plenty of water and Oregon will be back underwater like the
old gods originally intended it to be.

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bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

On 11/26/2023 6:38 PM, bfh wrote:
> Technobarbarian wrote:
>> On Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 10:36:32 AM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
>>> Technobarbarian wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We don't have enough things to worry about. So, people are inventing
>>>> new things to worry about.
>>>>
>>>> "Woman warns against the dangerous phenomenon that is
>>>> ‘trapped water’: ‘I’ve never thought
>>>> about this’"
>>>>
>>>> "One TikToker recently created a video titled “Free the
>>>> water!†to inform her viewers about the dangers of
>>>> “trapped water†and the need to dump out liquids
>>>> contained in plastic bottles that aren’t going to be
>>>> used.
>>>>
>>>> “I’m on this quest to dump out any water that gets
>>>> trapped in plastic,†Kati (@spreadyourdreams) told her
>>>> followers. “Because once it’s trapped in these
>>>> plastic bottles, we have now lost it basically forever.â€
>>>>
>>>> According to the Texas Water Quality Association, trapped water
>>>> is indeed a big problem.
>>>>
>>>> “In the US alone, we waste 22 million gallons of water
>>>> each year in landfills due to trapped water inside plastic
>>>> water bottles,†the organization wrote on the QWET website.
>>>> “That is 22 million gallons of water that we will never
>>>> get back into the Earth’s water cycle.â€
>>>>
>>>> The organization went on to point out that fresh water makes up
>>>> an extremely small fraction of all the water on Earth, and that
>>>> there is no new water being created — the water that
>>>> exists on our planet and in the atmosphere is all there is.
>>>> That means that when we effectively take it out of circulation
>>>> by trapping it indefinitely in plastic, that decreases the
>>>> total water supply for all life."
>>>>
>>>> https://news.yahoo.com/lifestyle/woman-warns-against-dangerous-phenomenon-120000467.html
>>>
>>>>
> (reggae music)
>>> POUR IT OUT! POUR IT OUT! (more reggae music and gurgling
>>> sounds)
>>>
>>> -- bill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
>>
>> Hey, rastaman, this is serious stuff. We're already making the
>> planet we live on wobble. The next thing you know we could be doing
>> the limbo, under Mars.
>>
>> "Humans pumped so much groundwater out of the Earth that the planet
>> has begun to wobble detectably on its axis, a new study has found.
>>
>> On its own terms, the magnitude of the new wobble is slight — a
>> matter of millimeters, which puts it in the same approximate speed
>> category as Earth’s slowly drifting continents.
>>
>> But the findings published earlier this month in Geophysical
>> Research Letters show the extent to which human action — in the
>> form of dam construction, groundwater drilling and the burning of
>> fossil fuels — are impacting the very position of the Earth.
>
> Don't forget about all those humans in colorful spandex jogging and
> running and racing hither and thither. All that thumping and bumping and
> transitory acceleration and deceleration is probably screwing up the
> magma currents, and contributing to the wobble. Follow the science:
> screw with the magma and the Earth will wobble. I mean, hey, look, dude,
> like, just look, you know, at a powered up lava lamp if you think I'm
> statistically insignificantly bullshitting you.
>
>> They also provide powerful corroboration for something scientists
>> had long suspected but had remained unproven: the staggering
>> depletion of the world’s groundwater reserves over the past
>> several decades.
>>
>> The scope of the findings released this month were startling.
>> Between 1993 and 2010, the scientists found, human society — and
>> mostly human agriculture — had depleted 2,510 gigatons of water.
>>
>> That’s the equivalent of 600 cubic miles of lost freshwater, more
>> than five times the volume of Lake Erie or half the volume of Lake
>> Huron.
>>
>> At that rate, we would run through the equivalent of the 2,900
>> cubic miles of water that fill Lake Superior by the end of the
>> century.
>>
>> That speed of depletion reflects a global threat."
>>
>> https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4075087-human-society-is-shifting-the-tilt-of-the-earth/
>>
>>  400 million years ago Oregon was underwater off the coast of
>> Idaho, and we were further south. Oregon is made of the stuff that
>> has been scraped up by the North American plate as it broke off
>> from Pangea and started moving west. If the planet wobbles who
>> knows what we might scrape up or where we could end up?
>
> I don't see the problem. When all the glaciers and ice shelves melt,
> we'll have plenty of water and Oregon will be back underwater like the
> old gods originally intended it to be.
>

So then what will The Garden of Oregon be? An Octopus's Garden?
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