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  1. 9 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    We should just nuke the Earth so that we can start over in 500 years.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/world/emperor-penguin-breeding-antarctic-sea-ice-climate/index.html

    As rapidly warming global temperatures help push Antarctica’s sea ice to unprecedented lows, it’s threatening the very existence of one of the continent’s most iconic species: emperor penguins.

    Four out of five emperor penguin colonies analyzed in the Bellingshausen Sea, west of the Antarctic Peninsula, saw no chicks survive last year as the area experienced an enormous loss of sea ice, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

    This widespread “catastrophic breeding failure” is the first such recorded incident, according to the report, and supports grim predictions that more than 90% of emperor penguin colonies will be “quasi-extinct” by 2100 as the world warms.

    What you have to understand is there is true ice loss AND artifactual ice loss, wherein the satellite imagery is distorted by all the concrete at Camp Mabry. The lack of reproductive success is totally cyclical. Just an unsexy year in the Antarctic. Try reading a journal next time before posting something from Cable News Nonsense

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  2. Threw on some track event, as I often do if I happen to see it is on. The current world's fastest man, Noah Lyles, was on a transport golf cart that t-boned another cart on the way into the stadium. Fortunately, all the runners are on the track, but threw off the order of heats. 

  3. 1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

    If you believe the AccuWeather 15-day forecast then it becomes a question of more than 60.

    On the subject of long range looks, the high for the Rice game? 104.

     

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  4. I escaped from hell last week to visit family in Colorado. I mostly savored the cool weather and fantastic scenery, but I always squeeze in some birding when I leave town.This trip was highlighted by a brief walk through Garden of the Gods. Dozens of white-throated swifts poured out from the cliffs while a pair of juvenile prairie falcons peered down from the top of the red rocks (Lifer #523!).

    If this heat will ever abate, fall migration is picking up around Austin. I just can't handle it after 9 am, and it's not even particularly pleasant before then either.

     

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  5. Just got back from a week in Colorado. I don't know why I came back. The wife and I had our first serious discussions of moving back there, where she is from, in the next several years. It will take zero convincing for me to take that leap.

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  6. The pool at RRHS was shockingly still somewhat refreshing this weekend. If I didn't have vacation to look forward to next week, I would be losing my mind. Pretty sure I've never spent so much time cooped up in my house. I was an "essential worker" at the time, but don't know how those of you locked down during Covid did it.

  7. That's a big dude! My 14 month-old has seemed on the verge of walking, clearly saying his first word and popping a tooth for months. Outside of maaaaybe saying Dada, he still hasn't reached those milestones. Probably doesn't help that he has been sick 3 times since his birthday and we quickly bailed on daycare since they were clearly understaffed for his age and sucked at communicating. Hopefully, when he restarts elsewhere in a couple months he's a walking, talking, toothed maniac instead of just a maniac.

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  8. Tomorrow ties the record for consecutive 100+ days in Austin, right? Looks like we should tack on a minimum 5 more days after that. Good work, everyone. Can't wait to shatter more records in the future!

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  9. 22 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

    I think I could get to around 13 feet then panic and shoot for the surface.

    As I was watching, I remembered doing a pencil off the top deck of a houseboat as a kid to see how deep I could go, and immediately clawing my way to the surface before I even started to slow down.

  10. I guess I don't remember how miserable August was in 2021, although I do recall that second summer didn't seem to end until November. But 2021 may end up being one of the most tolerable summers for the rest of our lives.

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