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Environmental Sissies Celebrate: Yay! Shipping Giant Maersk Says It Will End Its Use of Fossil Fuels by... Um... 2050

See this limp sap squeeing about it.

Here's the article, but I'm sure you can already predict the future: Maersk collects up Coupons for Free Hugs from enviromental sissies for 30 years, then, in 2048, writes its first press release stating that "Man, this vow to stop fueling our ships with, you know, fuel, we might have gotten a bit ahead of ourselves with that," then in 2049 writes another press release stating "Where the fuck are the fusion reactors? We were told we would have fusion reactors by now. It's those pointy-headed limp-dicked scientists' fault, not ours!"

Then, in 2050, they write: "We intend to be fossil fuel free by the year 2090."

And the sissies start squeeing again.

Anyway, here's part of the article:


Maersk's target, although distant, is one of the most ambitious from a global industrial group promising to end carbon emissions altogether.

Newsflash: It's not ambitious to promise a thousand hamburgers on a Tuesday 32 years off.

The further off the completion date of the promise, the less ambitious it is.

I vow that I personally will use only renewable, clean fuels by 2050 myself.

Caveat: 1, I'll probably be dead, and will be providing fuel rather than using it, and 2, pretty much my promise relies on fusion being perfected.

In other words: I have the same plan as Global Warming Hero Maersk.

...

Maersk is not pushing one technology -- ideas such as biofuels, hydrogen, electricity or even wind or solar power have been mooted -- but is stressing the urgency as most vessels have a life of 20-25 years, meaning that viable solutions need to be found soon.

In other words: We're waiting for someone else to fix this for us.

Which is weird, because that's my plan.

"To reach the target by 2050, in the next 10 years we need some big breakthroughs," Mr Toft said. 

Soooo... Fusion then?

We read each other so well, Maersk. It's like fusion-powered kismet.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 02:00 PM




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1 Welp, I'll be dead by then.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 10, 2018 01:59 PM (UnA8+)

2 We intend to beat Maersk by going fossil-fuel-free by next year. ...By going out of business.

Posted by: General Electric at December 10, 2018 01:59 PM (OiC69)

3 topten?

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at December 10, 2018 01:59 PM (XeXoj)

4 Short timelines and goals like this show how serious these people are.

bet their prices go up exponentially in the next few years. You know for the children.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at December 10, 2018 02:00 PM (pw+jk)

5 Corgis Called.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 10, 2018 02:00 PM (UnA8+)

6 So, their target is the same as Ace's shelving project?

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:00 PM (tDk60)

7
They're recommissioning the Cutty Sark.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:00 PM (LsBY9)

8 I am sure that magic will be a thing by then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (I2dne)

9 Yup. They'll get some climate circle-jerk Twitter points for being SO FUCKIN WOKE, but they'll bail on the plan because companies aren't going to ship with a freight company whose landed costs are 30-40% higher just for some sick virtuebucks.


Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (oZ6kz)

10 Billy Krystal Cuck wants to go on another sea cruise with a fusion powered dildo....Shep!

Posted by: torabora at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (k/w1G)

11 A new concept of three sheets to the wind!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (0tfLf)

12 The Sun has fusion, and it gives us global warming. Let's send scientists to the Sun to figure it out.

Posted by: Roy at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (9rXxD)

13 Mark my words, paste will be the fuel of the future.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (pw+jk)

14 unicorn farts?

Posted by: IC at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (a0IVu)

15 It's odd how every article is cucks, sissies, soiboi's and limp sap's.

No wonder women are looking for it in all the wrong places...

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (VpIIl)

16 Re the sidebar about SE Cupp:

It's disheartening to think that nearly everyone we saw on Red Eye was part of the controlled opposition, Gutfeld included. I guess not so surprising, with hindsight, but still disheartening.

Posted by: artemis at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (AwPyG)

17 Emmanuel--is that you?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (Ndje9)

18 Whale Oil

It's the only answer.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (tDk60)

19 I will more than likely be dead. Of course, I never thought I'd make it to 29.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (IKAYy)

20 Macron is in full grovel mode. What a pussy.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (/tuJf)

21
Get some NCLs to row. "Ramming speed!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (LsBY9)

22 We plan on using sail and rowers. Remember Ben Hur you little green shits? -- Maersk

Posted by: Archer at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (gmo/4)

23 By 2050 there will be more oil than ever AND it will be taxed more than ever.

Posted by: torabora at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (k/w1G)

24 Just in time for high-speed rail in the Central Valley!

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (OiC69)

25 I can't wait to see Maersk decide nuclear power is the way to go.

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (qC1Sy)

26 Cool so they are going to go with a nuclear powered fleet then?

Posted by: Kreplach at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (qxq6t)

27 They'll just change their name in 2050. Promise kept.

Posted by: x at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (nFwvY)

28
So.


Where are you gonna put all the horse poop from your delivery teams there Sparky??

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (8XRCm)

29 Sailmakers rejoice, their business is saved by progressives

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (DodRu)

30 The enormous billowing sails of the 2050 Container Ships will be a sight to behold as they follow the Trade Winds.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (yQpMk)

31 Back in 1986, they said Chernobyl would be back on line by 2018.

They left out the part about the mutants.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (uIR1+)

32 If only those big ships could use wind! You know the winds blow consistently and in known directions in parts of the ocean! If we could only harness that. And beans, and disabled, one-legged seasoned, sea captains!..and the under- used power of chanted songs..

Posted by: catman at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (BMqHT)

33 Hmmm.... so we are going back to Sailing ships?

Because they can't use Nuclear.

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (NgKpN)

34 I wish I had seen this virtue signalling and climate crisis coming. It would have made a great book.

Posted by: George Orwell at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (pw+jk)

35 Save the dead dinosaurs!!!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (7CM5W)

36 "I vow that I personally will use only renewable, clean fuels by 2050 myself.

Caveat: 1, I'll probably be dead."

Umm..

Ace is 29 years old.
2050 minus 2019 is 31 years.

Probably dead by 60? What kind of lifestyle makes getting past 60 a remote possibility?

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (Xqo6t)

37 You don't need fusion reactors - we've been able to power ships with fission reactors for quite some time.

Posted by: Bart Cavanaugh at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (AzW6q)

38 At the rate things are proceeding, by 2050 the Earth's surface will be covered by polar bears, so I wouldn't worry about this.

Posted by: Roy at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (9rXxD)

39 Boy, those are going to be some big oars.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (VpIIl)

40 They're going back to whale oil...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (KCxuz)

41
Attempts to hide disappointment at lack of Science teacher thread. (See URL)

Posted by: Newest Nic at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (jYje5)

42 Off, Boofer Extraordinaire sock...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (AzW6q)

43 Dear Family 10077 creditors:
Enclosed is my plan for full repayment of the amounts owed.
"Win the lottery in 2049."
Regards,Sven10077 Patriarch of the 10077 Clan.

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (qt4GF)

44 What was our Navy paying for biodiesel?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (yQpMk)

45
Pixy hamsters to be nationalized.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (LsBY9)

46 How many containers fit on a clipper ship - 20? 25? Think of the employment opportunities - instead of a crew of a dozen for a ship of hundreds of containers, each ship carrying 20 containers needs 100 men persons of indeterminate gender to raise and set sails. Besides, we won't need no electrical appliance thingies from China when there ain't no electrical fluid being sent to our homes.

Posted by: George V at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (LUHWu)

47 'In the Year 2525...'

Posted by: Zager and Evans at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (tDk60)

48 'Probably dead by 60? What kind of lifestyle makes getting past 60 a remote possibility?

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (Xqo6t) "

Why an HQ-approved lifestyle, of course.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (oZ6kz)

49

What the fuck is this?


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Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (z8c2c)

50 Hmmm. I was wondering where the funding for the Trans-Pacific Highway and Railroad was going to come from. I guess Maersk is going to foot the bill.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (I2dne)

51 You need it this year?! But it's already February!

Posted by: Maersk 2050 at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (Z1eux)

52 22 We plan on using sail and rowers. Remember Ben Hur you little green shits? -- Maersk
Posted by: Archer at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (gmo/4)

Ah, so now we begin to see their ultimate plan for us Deplorables.

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (NgKpN)

53 "Maersk's promise of a fossil-fuel-free company that was made to the generation of environmentalists just passed is a commitment to consistency. It is the same promise we make today to the generation of environmentalists who our actuaries say will pass approximately 47 years from now."

"You fine people are the heirs of a noble promise, one that we solemnly swear to continue making."

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (Bdeb0)

54 Back in 86, I was pretty certain I would have been enshrined in Cooperstown by now. Am still waiting for my call.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (uIR1+)

55 Macron should have beat off instead of fucking his slut of a teacher. In a few years he could have boned a 18 year old classmate and got a real job.

Although, being French, he might have had to move to Louisiana first.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (wYClZ)

56 25 I can't wait to see Maersk decide nuclear power is the way to go.
Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (qC1Sy)

26 Cool so they are going to go with a nuclear powered fleet then?
Posted by: Kreplach at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (qxq6t)

Are there any civilian nuclear powered vessels in the world?

Posted by: josephistan at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (7HtZB)

57 Caveat: 1, I'll probably be dead, and will be providing fuel rather than using it,

Wait, won't Ace only be 61 years old?

Posted by: W.MichLurker at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (/Buod)

58 Any day now the Arctic will be ice-free and the Northwest Passage will be open for shipping.

Any.
Day.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (hLRSq)

59 What's wrong with on-board fission reactors? As an added bonus, dump the waste overboard and we get giant nuclear fish.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (oZ6kz)

60 Macron sounds even more nonsensical than usual.


Based on this idiotic address, he will be out on his ass before the new year.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (qxq6t)

61 >>>They're recommissioning the Cutty Sark.



Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:00 PM (LsBY9)<<<

My clean fuel cruise ship will be known as the Cucky Sarc.

Posted by: Rear Admiral Bill Kristol at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (rjqjX)

62 It's like climastrologists predicting some dire climate event

"We're all doomed! We'll all be burnt to a cinder by ... lessee ... uh ... 2050. [Yeah, I should be gone by then.] What are they gonna do, dig me up? Meanwhile, fund my grant proposal. To save the earth!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (YqDXo)

63 They're taking a lesson from the Climate Alarmists.

They won't talk about it but we've passed many a dire filled date without anything happening.

And they still keep prophesying them. The latest has been put out into 12 years from now.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (hci5m)

64 Probably dead by 60? What kind of lifestyle makes getting past 60 a remote possibility?
Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (Xqo6t)

-------

Extreme shelving is a young man's game, and ace just can't bring himself to hang up his drill.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (AzW6q)

65 They left out the part about the mutants.

I thought that they were the new employees.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (yQpMk)

66 I've got an idea for powering ships!!

Posted by: Explosive Diarrhrea at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (pw+jk)

67 54 Back in 86, I was pretty certain I would have been enshrined in Cooperstown by now. Am still waiting for my call.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (uIR1+)

Len Dykstra, is that you?

Posted by: josephistan at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (7HtZB)

68
It's like buying a product from a new company with an overly generous warranty. You know they're never going to be around to honor it.

Posted by: Newest Nic at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (jYje5)

69 What the fuck is this?


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Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (z8c2c)


A desperate woman about to hit her forties.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (wCmLp)

70 It's disheartening to think that nearly everyone we
saw on Red Eye was part of the controlled opposition, Gutfeld included. I
guess not so surprising, with hindsight, but still disheartening. Posted by: artemis at December 10, 2018 02:01 PM (AwPyG)

Wait. What went wrong with Gutfeld? I must have missed that.


Posted by: G. Gnome, GNOMCO Home Defense System and Turkey Fryer Salesman at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (al6UK)

71 26 Cool so they are going to go with a nuclear powered fleet then?

Posted by: Kreplach at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM


No. They must be thinking that WW 3 will occur before then and afterwards, it's Two Years Before the Mast!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (0tfLf)

72 Ace, this entry, as well as the one before it, are why I visit this site more than any other (although I rarely comment). Excellent work!

Posted by: Todd G. at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (m8wUd)

73 "Back in 86, I was pretty certain I would have been enshrined in Cooperstown by now. Am still waiting for my call.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (uIR1+) "

Make a few friends on the Vet's Committee, and you can probably join Harold Baines in a few years.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (oZ6kz)

74 Kind of related. Trucker turns Bill Nye the Gulag Guy into a bumbling, blithering mess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeywaJgDnCk

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (t6MX/)

75 What about those Fossil Watches anyway? Don't they care?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (7CM5W)

76 59 What's wrong with on-board fission reactors? As an added bonus, dump the waste overboard and we get giant nuclear fish.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (oZ6kz)


The favorite prey of Godzilla and Rodan.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (YqDXo)

77 Magic thinking is the greatest power source in the universe.

Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (cGlgB)

78 With climate change, the trade winds will blow at 200 miles per hour by 2050.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (uIR1+)

79 Probably dead by 60? What kind of lifestyle makes getting past 60 a remote possibility?
Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (Xqo6t)

-------

Beats me, mate

Posted by: Keith Richards at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (7HtZB)

80 44 Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (yQpMk)

<>
~ 16 bucks a gallon IIRC

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (qt4GF)

81 Kinda wish Maersk had gone the "Sod off, swampy!" route with the eco-twits...

Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (W+vEI)

82 One can sail all they want using traditional sails.

But it gets dark out there at night.

And those refrigerated containers aren't gonna cool themselves with unicorn farts.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (cqNba)

83 I also promise to stop using fossil fuels by 2050.

Because I now have so much virtue, I can pretty much drive whatever gas guzzler I want until then.

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (C78No)

84 29 now

+32

[counts on fingers, toes, neighbor's toes]

=61

Posted by: W.MichLurker at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (/Buod)

85 you guys are terrible at math. if ace dies in 2049 he'll only be 29 years old.

Posted by: x at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (nFwvY)

86
Yeah, you're right. Brexit was June 2016.

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (TE29D)

87 By 2050, I'll have perfected the trans teleporter.

Posted by: Fritz at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (2Mnv1)

88 "To reach the target by 2050, in the next 10 years we need some big breakthroughs," Mr Toft said

Well, duh! I already said that we have to be "inventing technology that's never even been invented yet". Start listening to me! Or Else!!!

Posted by: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (ctuyM)

89 S.E. CuppVerified account
@secupp
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Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (z8c2c)

-------

A cucky, left-wing TruCon trollop who trades on a pair of titties that are past the entertainment business' sell-by date.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (AzW6q)

90 @73 ... I'm a Bainesian -- glad to hear Harold got the call.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (uIR1+)

91 I read that whole thing waiting for a Zager and Evans joke and Ace let me down.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (tDk60)

92 "A desperate woman about to hit her forties.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (wCmLp) "

CELEBRITY Jeopardy winner. Leaving that out is like claiming you're an award winner because your kids gave you a "World's Best Dad" shirt.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (oZ6kz)

93 69 What the fuck is this?


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Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (z8c2c)

A desperate woman about to hit her forties.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (wCmLp)

She likes johns? At least she's honest about it.

Posted by: josephistan at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (7HtZB)

94 They left out the part about the mutants.

Leave Berkeley and Portland out of this.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (YqDXo)

95 "To reach the target by 2050, in the next 10 years we need some big breakthroughs," Mr Toft said."


We need to invent some stuff we haven't even invented yet.

Posted by: Occasional-Cortex at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (t6MX/)

Posted by: The STEM Mime at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (pw+jk)

97
Are there any civilian nuclear powered vessels in the world?
Posted by: josephistan


There have been only four nuclear-powered cargo ships. The Russian Sevmorput is the only active one.

Went on board the NS Savannah as a kid.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (LsBY9)

98 @56

I don't think so but that's the only way they are going to continue as a global shipping company if they aren't using fossil fuels.

The only other option would be to go to bio-fuels but you would need to ramp up production of bio-fuels by quantum leaps to even begin to supply what they need.

And bio fuels are an even bigger fraud than solar or wind.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (qxq6t)

99 who would not want battery powered freighters?



how long do you need to recharge one of those?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (MTjB1)

100 Promises promises . . .

Posted by: oldie at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (kH6ls)

101 I have an idea: Why not harness the power of the wind to move ships?

I know it sounds crazy, but it just might work.

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (xjiRE)

102 " @73 ... I'm a Bainesian -- glad to hear Harold got the call.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (uIR1+) "

I'm sure he's a perfectly nice guy (actually his teammates have said he's a prince of a man), but there are literally almost 100 guys I'd put in before him.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:09 PM (oZ6kz)

103 "To reach the target by 2050, in the next 10 years we need some big breakthroughs," Mr Toft said

--

"There is no situation so bad that it cannot be helped with a little bit of magic." - Punch, 1980

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 10, 2018 02:09 PM (DodRu)

104
Cutty Sark??? You mean like with club soda???

**hic sharrrrt faints shoe flies sharts again giggles shaarrrrrt**

~Hillary!!

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:09 PM (8XRCm)

105 This is a take on that movie 'When Worlds Collide", isn't it?

Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2018 02:09 PM (VpIIl)

106 >>how long do you need to recharge one of those?


You just rub it back and forth on the carpet a few times.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:09 PM (tDk60)

107 78 With climate change, the trade winds will blow at 200 miles per hour by 2050.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (uIR1+)


Wind power FTW!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:09 PM (YqDXo)

108 >>A cucky, left-wing TruCon trollop who trades on a pair of titties that are past the entertainment business' sell-by date. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM (AzW6q)

If Zod's factor--currently working in AZ to acquire Sinema--fails, he will be instructed to acquire Cupp, a serviceable alternate. One of the two will then be mated with the Acosta unit. For science.

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:09 PM (Bdeb0)

109 We must harness the Power of the Peanut!

Posted by: Zombie Washington Carver at December 10, 2018 02:10 PM (tDk60)

110

The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave and sure.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2018 02:10 PM (aKsyK)

111 101 Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (xjiRE)

The example of which shows the folly of the windfarms.....
If wind could power turbines enough to do hard work they would be on liners.

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:10 PM (qt4GF)

112 94 They left out the part about the mutants.

Leave Berkeley and Portland out of this.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:07 PM


Ahem.....

Posted by: Seattle at December 10, 2018 02:10 PM (0tfLf)

113
Wound-up rubber bands will turn the propellors!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:10 PM (LsBY9)

114 how long do you need to recharge one of those?
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (MTjB1)


Oh, about a week hooked up to a power generating plant belching out CO2 should do it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:10 PM (YqDXo)

115
Shipping Giant Maersk Says It Will End Its Use of Fossil Fuels by... Um... 2050



So they're brining back Clipper ships?

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at December 10, 2018 02:11 PM (TAmPV)

116 Are there any civilian nuclear powered vessels in the world?

Posted by: josephistan at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (7HtZB)


Nope. And NS Savannah was a prestige/propaganda project and is laid up as a museum.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:11 PM (hLRSq)

117 Alright, that does it. I'm not using Maersk for my next Amazon order.

Posted by: Chris M at December 10, 2018 02:11 PM (eAZVt)

118 "but there are literally almost 100 guys I'd put in before him. "

pfff. reached that milestone in the '90s.

Posted by: Andrew Virtually Normal Sullivan at December 10, 2018 02:12 PM (wYClZ)

119 101 I have an idea: Why not harness the power of the wind to move ships?

I know it sounds crazy, but it just might work.

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM



Dirigibles.

I've actually seen a couple pretty good business plans for this.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:12 PM (0tfLf)

120 The example of which shows the folly of the windfarms.....
If wind could power turbines enough to do hard work they would be on liners.
Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:10 PM (qt4GF)

Maybe they plan to go back to the Age of Sail?

How many sails would you need to move a super tanker?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:12 PM (ycWCI)

121 Tesla will be making freighters, only 70 percent of the cargo space will be used for batteries and they will be only slightly more flammable than LNG carriers.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 10, 2018 02:12 PM (DodRu)

122 Dear IRS,

The forms are on their way. Should be there by 2050...

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:12 PM (g0Lfb)

123 106 >>how long do you need to recharge one of those?


You just rub it back and forth on the carpet a few times.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:09 PM (tDk60)

Are we still talking about cucks & MILFs?

Posted by: josephistan at December 10, 2018 02:12 PM (7HtZB)

124 "To reach the target by 2050, in the next 10 years we need some big breakthroughs," Mr Toft said, and also, he added, I will have have long since retired and sold off all my stock options.

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 10, 2018 02:12 PM (88+cf)

125 Nope. And NS Savannah was a prestige/propaganda project and is laid up as a museum.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:11 PM (hLRSq)

-------

To the extent that anything counted as civilian industry in the USSR, they had one.

A nuclear powered icebreaker, which is freakin' badass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2018 02:12 PM (AzW6q)

126 by 2050 we'll be back to worrying about the coming ice age, which will probably be claimed to be caused by the recently-invented fusion power

Posted by: brak at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM (VckGX)

127 People think that uses sails means you can travel for free.

They've never seen how many ppl it takes to man even a 100 ton schooner and the sea is a dangerous mistress.


As you get larger the manpower goes up dramatically. Even with mechanical assists (the last clipper ships were guano carriers traveling from the Argentine to Germany)it is still labor intensive.

And these days the cat-o-nine tails is a no no. Even a rope starter is a union violation. You try climbing up 90 feet above a tossing deck to reef sail without some really really impressive incentives.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM (hci5m)

128 NS Savannah:

https://maritime.org/tour/savannah/

Posted by: RioBravo at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM (iQKgg)

129 Damn. THAT is a hell of a punt!

Posted by: Ray Guy at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM (g0Lfb)

130 lol. Maersk know good and well all the leftists and polar bears will be drowned by then and Costner will be sailing around doing stuff.

Posted by: x at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM (nFwvY)

131 Mr. Fusion is just around the corner. Until then, I'll burn dead dinosaurs.

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at December 10, 2018 02:14 PM (RD7QR)

132 116 Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:11 PM (hLRSq)

It served all of 10 years, by contrast the T-2 Tankers served 45 years....

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:14 PM (qt4GF)

133 You just rub it back and forth on the carpet a few times.
Posted by: garrett

Are we still talking about cucks & MILFs?
Posted by: josephistan


Sounds like dogs anal glands.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2018 02:14 PM (W4LFA)

134
Admiral Grammie would be perfect for this project.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:14 PM (LsBY9)

135 Damn. THAT is a hell of a punt!
Posted by: Ray Guy at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM (g0Lfb)

-----

Dude. You. Me. And probably three other old fuckers here even know who you are.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:14 PM (8XRCm)

136 >>>by 2050 we'll be back to worrying about the coming ice age, which will
probably be claimed to be caused by the recently-invented fusion power<<<

Cold fusion. And teleportation.

Posted by: Fritz at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM (2Mnv1)

137
They've never seen how many ppl it takes to man even a 100 ton schooner and the sea is a dangerous mistress.

And you still need diesel generators to run the electronic equipment

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM (TAmPV)

138 I also vow to be carbon neutral by 2090 ... do I get a free "Gaia Girl"? (kinda like winning a cupie doll)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM (Cus5s)

139 The only other option would be to go to bio-fuels but you would need to ramp up production of bio-fuels by quantum leaps to even begin to supply what they need.

And bio fuels are an even bigger fraud than solar or wind.
Posted by: Kreplach at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM (qxq6t)


The obvious problem with biofuels is that they're already half-oxidized, and so are relatively inefficient as a way of storing energy. Plus, their combustion would lead to that deadly killer gas, CO2. I know eco-nuts think that biofuels are renewable, etc. but the numbers just don't work.

Btw, while it's common to refer to a "quantum leap" as if it's some massive lurch forward, in fact it is the smallest possible change in a variable.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM (YqDXo)

140 ships would use a lot less energy if they always sailed downhill.

Posted by: Mallfly Ocasio-Cortez at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM (ZqRa6)

141 "Dude. You. Me. And probably three other old fuckers here even know who you are.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:14 PM (8XRCm) "

Hall of Fame punter. I don't think he's *that* obscure.

Now, naming a second famous punter would be a feat.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM (oZ6kz)

142 But first...you will apply wind power.

Posted by: Mel Gibson at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM (g0Lfb)

143 By an amazing coincidence, 2050 is the year I'll eat right, exercise and lose weight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (+y/Ru)

144
And you still need diesel generators to run the electronic equipment

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM (TAmPV)

Sails made of solar panels! See? Invention.

Posted by: Occasional-Cortex at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (t6MX/)

145 129 Damn. THAT is a hell of a punt!
Posted by: Ray Guy at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM (g0Lfb)

Are you the guy with the wooden foot?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (ycWCI)

146 Malcolm McLean weeps

Posted by: tmitsss at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (3MaAt)

147 They've never seen how many ppl it takes to man even a 100 ton schooner and the sea is a dangerous mistress.


As you get larger the manpower goes up dramatically. Even with mechanical assists (the last clipper ships were guano carriers traveling from the Argentine to Germany)it is still labor intensive.



The sail on an oil tanker would have to be 200' tall.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (W4LFA)

148 And these days the cat-o-nine tails is a no no. Even a rope starter is a union violation. You try climbing up 90 feet above a tossing deck to reef sail without some really really impressive incentives.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM (hci5m)

Oh, you mean like the time I had to go up the stick to secure a Radar antenna that was falling off its pedestal? at night? in a storm? (bolts had sheared).

When I had the great paycheck of an E-4 in 1981?

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (NgKpN)

149 Meanwhile, Medstone Shipping is all "Sorry, we're a bit busy to be gabbing about fuel efficiency goals for 2050..."

https://twitter.com/medstonesa/status/1068239994131804160

Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (W+vEI)

150 Now, naming a second famous punter would be a feat.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM (oZ6kz)

----

Reggie Robie

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (8XRCm)

151 If only those big ships could use wind! You know the winds blow
consistently and in known directions in parts of the ocean! If we could
only harness that. And beans, and disabled, one-legged seasoned, sea
captains!..and the under- used power of chanted songs..
=====

Hey ho, we'll go, anywhere the wind is blowing; Hey ho, we'll go, sailing for adventure on the . . .

Muppet Treasure Island is one of my favorite musicals. (So appropriate for this blog and waving hello to grammie who is living the one-eyed life for us all.)

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (MIKMs)

152 141 "Dude. You. Me. And probably three other old fuckers here even know who you are.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:14 PM



Who you calling old?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (0tfLf)

153 Lets say they do invent fusion reactors. You going to stick that on a ship? All your ships?

Posted by: Someguy at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (h5Df3)

154 By 2050 we'll be begging everyone to burn fuel to stave off the Ice Age.

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:17 PM (g0Lfb)

155 Ha! Take that, Kreplach! First! (with the nuke comment)

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 10, 2018 02:17 PM (qC1Sy)

156 "How many sails would you need to move a super tanker?"

All the sails.

Posted by: Chris M at December 10, 2018 02:17 PM (eAZVt)

157 Ray Guy drafted in 1st round as a punter, yes?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 10, 2018 02:17 PM (cfwQb)

158 Who you calling old?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM (0tfLf)

-----

Thats TWO.


Who else???

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:17 PM (8XRCm)

159 Wind:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y94ztah4

https://preview.tinyurl.com/mhod4r4

Posted by: RioBravo at December 10, 2018 02:17 PM (iQKgg)

160 Return to the Age of Sail

Posted by: Total Control Racist at December 10, 2018 02:18 PM (z2W2E)

161 I'm no expert, but isn't it impossible to sustain a fusion reaction for more than a short space of time here on earth, other than in, say, a hydrogen bomb? Not sure how they'd pull it off.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 10, 2018 02:18 PM (/qEW2)

162 lots of people have experimented with high tech sails for freighters but no one has made it work, economically.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 10, 2018 02:18 PM (MTjB1)

163
Sails made of solar panels! See? Invention.

There is actually a mega sailing yacht called the Black Pearl has that.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at December 10, 2018 02:18 PM (TAmPV)

164 Now, naming a second famous punter would be a feat.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM


Shane Lechler.

Posted by: Mr. Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at December 10, 2018 02:18 PM (ctuyM)

165 31 Back in 1986, they said Chernobyl would be back on line by 2018.

They left out the part about the mutants.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 10, 2018 02:02 PM (uIR1+)
===

Get out of here stalker!

Posted by: Random NPC from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (BDZWU)

166 101 I have an idea: Why not harness the power of the wind to move ships?

I know it sounds crazy, but it just might work.

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2018 02:08 PM


How about we get convicts to row ships around? We could have, say, three levels of rowers, and a guy near the bow pounding a drum to help them keep in rhythm.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

167 Ship traffic was so much more efficient in the 1600's. Lets go back to that!

Posted by: Archer at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (gmo/4)

168 By an amazing coincidence, 2050 is the year I'll eat right, exercise and lose weight.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM


And my wife will cough up a cheat pas with Kate Upton. (We watched a commercial for some online game that Upton was doing little scenes for; wife's reaction: "she didn't bother to bleach her eyebrows when she did her hair, did she? Did you see that!?!

Three times I was asked that.

Posted by: Minefields are safer at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (e1q4h)

169 Shane Lechler.
Posted by: Mr. Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at December 10, 2018 02:18 PM (ctuyM)

----

He's infamous.

Not famous.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (8XRCm)

170 I am gonna save the eotrin 2050
pinky promise

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (BJlbN)

171 154 By 2050 we'll be begging everyone to burn fuel to stave off the Ice Age.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:17 PM (g0Lfb)


No, the government will find some way to make it mandatory.

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (xjiRE)

172 1. Mount sails on supertanker
2. 270 knot trade winds
3. Profit!

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (DodRu)

173 161 I'm no expert, but isn't it impossible to sustain a fusion reaction for more than a short space of time here on earth, other than in, say, a hydrogen bomb? Not sure how they'd pull it off.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 10, 2018 02:18 PM (/qEW2)

To be fair, the fusion in a thermonuclear bomb is pretty short lived too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:20 PM (ycWCI)

174 Now, naming a second famous punter would be a feat.
---
JK Scott, rookie punter for the Green Bay Cheese. Get in on the ground floor with this one.

https://tinyurl.com/y96bxpsc

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 10, 2018 02:20 PM (hjaPQ)

175 Something called "sails" by any chance?

Posted by: andycanuck at December 10, 2018 02:20 PM (Evws/)

176
By that time we'll have nuclear-powered trebuchets to fling cargo to it's destination.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (LsBY9)

177 I too will end my use of fossil fuels by 2050!

Posted by: All Boomers at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (TEv5V)

178 by 2050 Amazon Prime drones will deliver the ships from port to port

Posted by: x at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (nFwvY)

179 128 NS Savannah:

https://maritime.org/tour/savannah/
Posted by: RioBravo at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM (iQKgg)

It's in Baltimore, that's close enough to try to tour her one of these days

Posted by: josephistan at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (7HtZB)

180 161 I'm no expert, but isn't it impossible to sustain a fusion reaction for more than a short space of time here on earth, other than in, say, a hydrogen bomb? Not sure how they'd pull it off.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 10, 2018 02:18 PM



You can control the fusion event by maintaining a constant plasma shield that is held in place by transwarp coils. The coils act as a focal lens for the neutron beam that is regulated by magnetic bonds as they interface with the propulsion unit.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (0tfLf)

181 And these days the cat-o-nine tails is a no no. Even a rope starter is a union violation. You try climbing up 90 feet above a tossing deck to reef sail without some really really impressive incentives.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:13 PM

=====

Oh, you mean like the time I had to go up the stick to secure a Radar antenna that was falling off its pedestal? at night? in a storm? (bolts had sheared).

When I had the great paycheck of an E-4 in 1981?
Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:16 PM


Bravo Zulu. Now, them passageways need to be swept down, fore and aft.

Posted by: The Goat Locker at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (ctuyM)

182 It served all of 10 years, by contrast the T-2 Tankers served 45 years....


Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:14 PM (qt4GF)


Lee Tregurtha

https://tinyurl.com/yafjrbjm

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (hLRSq)

183 under our plan to produce a carbon free economy, we will create five million good paying jobs for the people who will row the boats like in those movies about the Vikings, although I'm really a Giants fan, so maybe we could have giants just push the ships to give them a good head start.

Posted by: Mallfly Ocasio-Cortez at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (ZqRa6)

184 Harness the Power of Cetaceans

Literally. Like a stagecoach.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (tDk60)

185 I pledge to stop being an asshole by 2050.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:22 PM (GBteo)

186 "You can control the fusion event by maintaining a constant plasma shield that is held in place by transwarp coils. The coils act as a focal lens for the neutron beam that is regulated by magnetic bonds as they interface with the propulsion unit.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (0tfLf) "

So magic. Got it.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:22 PM (oZ6kz)

187 Trucker turns Bill Nye the Gulag Guy into a bumbling, blithering mess.

I watched the whole thing waiting for a truck to come in and squash him. Very disappointed.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 10, 2018 02:22 PM (KCxuz)

188 Row well and live.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2018 02:22 PM (aKsyK)

189 This sounds oddly like Republican plans to balance the budget. Is Paul Ryan working for them?

Posted by: Ripley at December 10, 2018 02:22 PM (MxEKc)

190
You can control the fusion event by maintaining a constant plasma shield that is held in place by transwarp coils. The coils act as a focal lens for the neutron beam that is regulated by magnetic bonds as they interface with the propulsion unit.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (0tfLf)

I'm not convinced half of that was real words.

Posted by: Someguy at December 10, 2018 02:22 PM (h5Df3)

191 They could just put a vee in the stern of the ship and wedge some soap in the vee.

That used to work great in the bathtub when I was four.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:23 PM (A2Uq6)

192 Is 32 years enough time for 'A Miracle Happens'?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:23 PM (oVJmc)

193 @155

Our time stamps are the same so in keeping with SJW/Marxist orthodoxy...


We should each receive an equitable and fair portion of first.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 10, 2018 02:23 PM (qxq6t)

194 A caterpillar drive. Magneto hydrodynamic propulsion. You follow?

Posted by: Fritz at December 10, 2018 02:23 PM (2Mnv1)

195 Three times I was asked that.
Posted by: Minefields are safer at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (e1q4h)
--------------

Since you're here to comment, I'm guessing you didn't say something along the lines of, "Eyebrows? Kate has eyebrows?"

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 10, 2018 02:23 PM (qC1Sy)

196 I like the hydrogen idea

Posted by: Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin at December 10, 2018 02:23 PM (z2W2E)

197 >>Is 32 years enough time for 'A Miracle Happens'?


I don't know about you...but, I need a miracle every day.

Posted by: Bob Weir at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (tDk60)

198 You can control the fusion event by maintaining a constant plasma shield that is held in place by transwarp coils. The coils act as a focal lens for the neutron beam that is regulated by magnetic bonds as they interface with the propulsion unit.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (0tfLf)
---
You forgot about the dilithium crystals.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (hjaPQ)

199
Row well and live.

"We keep you alive to serve this ship." - future motto of the Democratic party.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (LsBY9)

200 192 Is 32 years enough time for 'A Miracle Happens'?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:23 PM (oVJmc)

No, but its enough time for us to realize the Ice Age is starting... so we won't worry about Global Warmering anymore.

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (NgKpN)

201 They've been promising fusion power within 5 years for the last 50.

Oh they can produce power thru fusion. They just have to inject more power in than they get out to do it.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (hci5m)

202 182 Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (hLRSq)

Quite, though technically a T-3....
If there were economic advantage in boutique powerplants the industry would have found it....
kind of the whole point of logistics corporations really.

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (qt4GF)

203 187 Trucker turns Bill Nye the Gulag Guy into a bumbling, blithering mess.

I watched the whole thing waiting for a truck to come in and squash him. Very disappointed.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 10, 2018 02:22 PM (KCxuz)


One of the linked articles this morning included a photo the caption of which included the phrase "the scientist Bill Nye."

Rage stroke.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (A2Uq6)

204 Are there any civilian nuclear powered vessels in the world?
Posted by: josephistan at December 10, 2018 02:04 PM (7HtZB)

Yes.*

*sort of. There are Russian nuclear powered icebreakers. They're civilian in the sense that they're not exactly military, but kind of.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (GBteo)

205 We need to invent socks that don't have a bunch of excess material at the toes that bunch up in your shoe.

Posted by: Occasional-Cortex at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (t6MX/)

206 Now, naming a second famous punter would be a feat.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:15 PM

Shane Lechler.
Posted by: Mr. Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro


Sammy Baugh?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (W4LFA)

207 re 166: rats, you beat me to it. I could type a lot faster if I had more fingers.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (ZqRa6)

208 Tom Steyer, in his infinite mercy has given us twelve more years! We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

2 years after expiration of Al Gore's 10-year deadline, Tom Steyer gives humanity 12 years to act before 'unimaginable suffering'

Of course, that still won't take us to 2050.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (+y/Ru)

209 Now, naming a second famous punter would be a feat.

For me, that would be Darren Bennett (sp?). Aussie Rules guy who played for San Diego and just clobbered runners who got past everyone.

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (CE5C/)

210 63 They're taking a lesson from the Climate Alarmists.

They won't talk about it but we've passed many a dire filled date without anything happening.

And they still keep prophesying them. The latest has been put out into 12 years from now.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:05 PM (hci5m)

+++
Very smart way of shutting everyone else up for a good long while. Just getting ahead of the game.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (rE1pK)

211 Oh they can produce power thru fusion. They just have to inject more power in than they get out to do it.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM (hci5m)


Democrat finance in action. Put everybody on unemployment insurance, and watch the economy boom!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (A2Uq6)

212
"The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life. A filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
-- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (ctuyM)

213 Danny White

Posted by: x at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (nFwvY)

214 You can control the fusion event by maintaining a constant plasma shield that is held in place by transwarp coils. The coils act as a focal lens for the neutron beam that is regulated by magnetic bonds as they interface with the propulsion unit.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:21 PM (0tfLf)

I am glad these children were here today to hear this authentic Star Trek technobabble, Diogenes Laforge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (ycWCI)

215 Hmmm.... so we are going back to Sailing ships?

Because they can't use Nuclear.
Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (NgKpN)

Hate to tell you this but, YES.

These 'sails' are actually rotating poles that provide lift and forward motion. They work on smaller boats (including some of the larger yachts) but I don't see them being able to move these current modern freighters. They'd have to drop size and weight back to the old wooden ships to make it work.

Plus Stormy would always be trying to work the sail poles, making them even less feasible.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Si vis Pacem, Para Bellum) at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (XJktg)

216 Three times I was asked that.
Posted by: Minefields are safer at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (e1q4h)
--------------

Since you're here to comment, I'm guessing you didn't say something along the lines of, "Eyebrows? Kate has eyebrows?"
Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching

my first thought was, "who looks that high!?!"

my vocalized reaction was, "I did not and do not look for such things", followed by, "gee, women are much harsher on each other than any man ever could be".

Posted by: Minefields are safer at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (e1q4h)

217 There big container ships pulled by big ships with sales and men to climb up those rope ladders to get to the sales. Singing sailor songs as they work, required...

Posted by: Colin at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (4+twt)

218 You forgot about the dilithium crystals.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 10, 2018 02:24 PM



Dilithium...it is sooooo Stardate 2159.4.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (0tfLf)

219 I'm starting to lose hope that we're going to get the "Michael Avenatti is losing his fucking mind and it's fantastic" thread.

I mean, yesterday he tweeted at Trump the video of the Dolphins last play win against the Patriots as if it was an attack on Trump, and today he's threatening to sue one of Jacob Wohl's twitter followers for posting a video of him at the mall claiming it violates California's 2-party consent laws for recording. When's the last time we got to see this public of a mental collapse? Charlie Sheen?

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (oZ6kz)

220
"the scientist Bill Nye."

Oh, like "the ladykiller Hadrian the Seventh".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (LsBY9)

221 Controlled fusion is possible and not even all that difficult. The problem has always been that it consumes more energy than it produces.

Posted by: Chris M at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (eAZVt)

222
Hmmm.... so we are going back to Sailing ships?



What about when Big Business uses up all the wind???

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (oVJmc)

223 re 205: we do, they're called sandals
oh, and re 202: Socialist Energy!

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (ZqRa6)

224 167 Ship traffic was so much more efficient in the 1600's. Lets go back to that!
Posted by: Archer at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (gmo/4)

Oops, no wind today. I guess we sit around and wait for the weather to change.

Your iPhone 57 will be there in 6 to 12 weeks, we promise!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (GBteo)

225 There are Russian nuclear powered icebreakers. They're civilian in the sense that they're not exactly military, but kind of.

-
Boy, are they going to be embarrassed when there's no ice to break!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (+y/Ru)

226 Seems Loopy Cortez and Maersk agree. "We need to totally invent something that hasn't even been invented yet!".

Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (ffYR/)

227 208 Tom Steyer, in his infinite mercy has given us twelve more years! We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

2 years after expiration of Al Gore's 10-year deadline, Tom Steyer gives humanity 12 years to act before 'unimaginable suffering'

Of course, that still won't take us to 2050.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (+y/Ru)


"Ten years, ten years, do I hear twelve years? I do, I have twelve years, do I hear fourteen years? Fourteen years going once, going twice, ..."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (A2Uq6)

228 Oh they can produce power thru fusion. They just have to inject more power in than they get out to do it.

Oh, so we just make it up in volume.

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (CE5C/)

229
Fusion is easy.

COLD fusion without the ensuing BOOOM is the hard part.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (8XRCm)

230
under our plan to produce a carbon free economy, we will create five
million good paying jobs for the people who will row the boats like in
those movies about the Vikings, although I'm really a Giants fan, so
maybe we could have giants just push the ships to give them a good head
start.
=====

Michael row the boat ashore, alleluia; Michael row the boat ashore . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (MIKMs)

231 One of the fun parts of last week was watching a couple thousand famously left-wing and environmental fans of the Portland Timbers soccer club chartering carbon-spewing Alaska Airlines jets to fly to and from the soccer championship in Atlanta.

After all, fighting global warming involves crushing the suburbanites and their lifestyles - you don't have change your behavior, of course.

1600 lbs of warm, life-giving CO2 emissions for every traveling Timbers fan! After all, soccer games are truly important, not those jerks in cars raising families.

Posted by: The ARC of History at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (TEv5V)

232 How about we get convicts to row ships around? We could have, say, three levels of rowers, and a guy near the bow pounding a drum to help them keep in rhythm.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

-------

Survivors of the Grand North American Dignity Canal Construction Corps will power the ships that traverse it's stupendous expanse.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (AzW6q)

233 212
"The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life. A filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
-- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM (ctuyM)


So CNN thinks it was an instruction manual?

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (xjiRE)

234 >>Fusion is easy.


This.

Posted by: Chick Corea at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (tDk60)

235 I thought the push to go to the Moon now is that the Moon is rich in Helium 3 which is the fuel for Fusion

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (dKiJG)

236 Wasn't their a cruise ship built with big sails....Or was that just someone imagination.

Posted by: Colin at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (4+twt)

237 Ship traffic was so much more efficient in the 1600's. Lets go back to that!
Posted by: Archer at December 10, 2018 02:19 PM (gmo/4)

Oops, no wind today. I guess we sit around and wait for the weather to change.

-
Whatever you do, don't kill an albatross!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (+y/Ru)

238
2. And then a miracle happens...

Posted by: Maersk Corporate Strategery Plan at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (CE5C/)

239 I like the hydrogen idea
Posted by: Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin at December 10, 2018 02:23 PM (z2W2E)

-----------------

Producing plastic with hydrogen co-product:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y77hvac7

Posted by: RioBravo at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (iQKgg)

240 I recently went on a cruise on a sailing ship, the ones where you don't need many crew to set sails. Very impressive technology.

Unfortunately, we had little wind. Still needed the (somewhat underpowered) engines.

Posted by: navybrat, obtuse by nature at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (w7KSn)

241 I myself vow to be celibate by 2089, assuming I've reached a long-term stable condition at that date.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (Y24LV)

242 221 Controlled fusion is possible and not even all that difficult. The problem has always been that it consumes more energy than it produces.
Posted by: Chris M at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (eAZVt)

So, its like the ethanol they put in gas then?

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (NgKpN)

243 I saw this movie before except it was China and those Paris Accords on Climate

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (QkjLD)

244 Boy, are they going to be embarrassed when there's no ice to break!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (+y/Ru)

I know, right?

Someone should tell the Russians to stop wasting their money!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:29 PM (GBteo)

245
2 years after expiration of Al Gore's 10-year deadline, Tom Steyer gives humanity 12 years to act before 'unimaginable suffering'

Save humanity! Ban the Democrats!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:29 PM (LsBY9)

246 We all green energy by 2050 too, round-eyes!

Posted by: China at December 10, 2018 02:29 PM (Evws/)

247 I am glad these children were here today to hear this authentic Star Trek technobabble, Diogenes Laforge.


Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:25 PM


What until they read it after three tequila slammers. It's so much better.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2018 02:29 PM (0tfLf)

248 222
Hmmm.... so we are going back to Sailing ships?


What about when Big Business uses up all the wind???
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (oVJmc)

++

Then we'll just use oarsmen, silly.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 10, 2018 02:29 PM (rE1pK)

249
228 Oh they can produce power thru fusion. They just have to inject more power in than they get out to do it.

Oh, so we just make it up in volume.

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:27 PM (CE5C/)

Wait, I think we can make this work with financial derivatives!

Posted by: Someguy at December 10, 2018 02:29 PM (h5Df3)

250 This might be the stupidest thing anyone in the history of history has ever said. Are we going back to sails?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 10, 2018 02:29 PM (Boy/L)

251 Now, naming a second famous punter would be a feat.



Tom Landry.

All y'all, off my lawn.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2018 02:29 PM (W4LFA)

252 I saw this movie before except it was China and those Paris Accords on Climate

Is this a remake or a different take like 'Sicario'

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (QkjLD)

253 When's the last time we got to see this public of a mental collapse? Charlie Sheen?


Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (oZ6kz)


When was the last time people ran outside to scream at the heavens because Trump won?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (hLRSq)

254 "Wait, I think we can make this work with financial derivatives!

Posted by: Someguy at December 10, 2018 02:29 PM (h5Df3) "

Credit default swaps are the answer to clean and sustainable energy.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (oZ6kz)

255 What about when Big Business uses up all the wind???

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (oVJmc)


*looks at weather machines*
*rubs hands together*

Posted by: The Joos at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (t6MX/)

256 Yao. Sun-In-His-Hair was troubled. The People had gained much from the steel-horses and the canoes that burned rocks to move. Now, though, Soot and Little Big Drunk and their clan were seeking to turn the People back to the old ways. The ways that cost more wampum and were not as good. The slower ways.
"Why do they want to do this," he asked Rock-Face, his war chief. "It cannot make the People happy."
"They do not seek the happiness of the People," Rock-Face said. He was a war chief, and he had fought much, and knew that some leaders did things only to make their people unhappy. It did not make sense, but it was so.
"I want to make the People happy," Sun-In-His-Hair said. "That makes me happy."
"Soot and Little Big Drunk are unhappy," replied the old war chief. "They want the People to be unhappy, too. It is a punishment. It unites them."
Sun-In-His-Hair frowned. Perhaps it was too much for some to be happy. It made no sense, so he stopped thinking about it and ate his meal quietly.

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (Bdeb0)

257 These Maersk guys are dumb.

Posted by: the underpants gnomes at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (rjqjX)

258 What about when Big Business uses up all the wind???
=====
Chicago was there first.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (MIKMs)

259 Controlled fusion is possible and not even all that difficult. The problem has always been that it consumes more energy than it produces.
Posted by: Chris M at December 10, 2018 02:26 PM (eAZVt)


Doh!

Posted by: DR.WTF? at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (T71PA)

260 Wasn't their a cruise ship built with big sails....Or was that just someone imagination.
Posted by: Colin at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM (4+twt)

------------

Be sure to check out our holiday specials. Book now!

Posted by: Windstar at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (iQKgg)

261 Can yoy even imagine how choked the seas would be of ships if all commercial transport was required by. The Iron Law Of GoreBull Warmening to be moved by wind/sail?

It would be beautiful.

Also: Fucking Stupid

Posted by: Sharkman at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (BfOXk)

262 "When was the last time people ran outside to scream at the heavens because Trump won?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:30 PM (hLRSq) "

Well, it's 2:34 EST, so...probably like 1:45.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (oZ6kz)

263 Oh they can produce power thru fusion. They just have to inject more power in than they get out to do it.

Thermodynamics be hard, yo!

Posted by: 2nd year STEM majors at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (ctuyM)

264 I thought the push to go to the Moon now is that the Moon is rich in Helium 3 which is the fuel for Fusion

Combine what with a rich harvest of manganese nodules from the seabed and we will be the Jetsons.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (6teKQ)

265

There wouldn't be any need for shipping if we would just "buy local."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (aKsyK)

266 SE Cupp says "strangling the press is undemocratic in all its forms" but I dunno. We would have to put all the possible forms of strangling the press to a vote and see.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (yL25O)

267 OK, I've got the solution.

We tie a rope to each ship, then in each port we put a big-ass pulley. Then we get everybody who lives around the port to get off his ass and heave on the rope.

Needless to say, China will then be the dominant maritime power.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (A2Uq6)

268
Cheap, clean energy technology exists, but Big Oil bought up all the patents and buried them! They killed the guy who invented the 200-mpg carburetor, too!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (LsBY9)

269 Just capture all the hot air coming from that big domed building in DC. A big hood over the chambers sucking up the air.

Posted by: Colin at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (4+twt)

270 I like the hydrogen idea
Posted by: Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin


Hydrogen will fuel our ships. Fossil fuel will power the electrolysis process. See?

Posted by: Maersk at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (nIvDu)

271 You can control the fusion event by maintaining a constant plasma shield that is held in place by transwarp coils. The coils act as a focal lens for the neutron beam that is regulated by magnetic bonds as they interface with the propulsion unit.

-
That's the way they did it in Wakanda.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (+y/Ru)

272 Oddly, the US Navy does not see the need to own big icebreakers, nuclear-powered or otherwise.

The coast guard has, IIRC, 2 of the heavy icebreakers, both were build in the 70's and both are in Seattle.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (GBteo)

273 Combine what with a rich harvest of manganese nodules from the seabed and we will be the Jetsons.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (6teKQ)

...

Popular Science of the 80's was such Fake News, we just didn't know it yet.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (yL25O)

274 Just so I'm clear, the fabled "high speed trains" we're routinely promised will be powered by Skittles, amirite?

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (Bdeb0)

275 Curse these Rockin' Tits!

Posted by: Brian Stelter at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (tDk60)

276 I'm outta order!!! I OUTTA ORDER!!! YOU'RE ALL OUTTA ORDER!!!

Posted by: Michael Avenatti at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (Evws/)

277 They will use electric motors on their ships. And very long extension cords.

Posted by: Ripley at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (MxEKc)

278 The Royal Clipper is really a magnificent ship and the accommodations are first class.
But, it has engines in addition to sails.

Posted by: navybrat, obtuse by nature at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (w7KSn)

279 Oh they can produce power thru fusion. They just have to inject more power in than they get out to do it.

Now we just have to get the fusion reactors to identify as being net producers of energy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (A2Uq6)

280 They've got cruise ships that use sails but not the size of the motorized ones with 5,000 passengers.

These are 2-3 masted schooners that have a crew of 10 or more with passengers/crew of 20-30.

The way they work it is you pay to work on the cruise. They have a cadre of ship handlers and use the passengers for auxiliary crew for sail handling on deck with winches and other such actions while the 'real' crew goes aloft.

The numbers may be off it's been a while since I researched it and I don't even know if they're in operation anymore.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (hci5m)

281 Oh geez, Maria Butinia is looking for a plea deal.


Wonder what they are going to make her plead to in order to get that deal?


aww fuck!!!!

Posted by: Kreplach at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (qxq6t)

282 SE Cupp says "strangling the press is undemocratic in all its forms"

Oh? It depends who's counting the votes.

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (nIvDu)

283 and now the stock market is up.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (ZqRa6)

284 Hydrogen will fuel our ships. Fossil fuel will power the electrolysis process. See?
Posted by: Maersk at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (nIvDu)

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Name the first one HMS Hindenburg.


Please.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (8XRCm)

285 Shipping Giant Maersk Says It Will End Its Use of Fossil Fuels by... Um... 2050

Because it will be in receivership (?) by then?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (A2Uq6)

286 261 Can yoy even imagine how choked the seas would be of ships if all commercial transport was required by. The Iron Law Of GoreBull Warmening to be moved by wind/sail?

It would be beautiful.

Also: Fucking Stupid
Posted by: Sharkman at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (BfOXk)

I say we buy futures in really tall, straight, pine trees that are suitable for use as center masts.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (GBteo)

287 It's all about the subsidies, baby.

Posted by: Maersk at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (hjaPQ)

288 267 OK, I've got the solution.

We tie a rope to each ship, then in each port we put a big-ass pulley. Then we get everybody who lives around the port to get off his ass and heave on the rope.

Needless to say, China will then be the dominant maritime power.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM (A2Uq6)

...

You know how if you walk to the back of a canoe, the canoe moves forward?

We just need a line of ships across the ocean and herds of people to walk across them from one continent to the other.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (yL25O)

289 Ahoy!

Posted by: Captain Bill Kristol at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (nIvDu)

290 Two words:

Whale-drive.

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (Bdeb0)

291 I predict we're less than a week away from Avenatti threatening on Twitter to sue his* radiator for hissing at him.

(Assuming he still owns a domicile - the 2nd ex probably took all those in the divorce)

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (oZ6kz)

292 Combine what with a rich harvest of manganese nodules from the seabed

... a Glomar Explorer flashback

To think there is a UN treaty based on a CIA cover story for an operation to retrieve a Soviet submarine.

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (QkjLD)

293 What about when Big Business uses up all the wind???

---------
Hmm...

There now cases with wind farms causing more turbulent airflow to arrive at downstream farms significantly reducing conversion efficiency downstream. Engage the attorneys!

Posted by: RioBravo at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (iQKgg)

294 Maersk could stop using fossil fuels tomorrow:

change the name of the company, and *presto*, Maersk isn't suing any.

now, hand over the millions of dollars my plan is worth.

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (YtJs4)

295 282 SE Cupp says "strangling the press is undemocratic in all its forms"

Oh? It depends who's counting the votes.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (nIvDu)
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If we take a vote and the press loses, sounds pretty democratic to me.

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (qC1Sy)

296 SE Cupp says "strangling the press is undemocratic in all its forms"

Luckily Obama shrugged when Danny Pearl was beheaded, because "that's different."

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:35 PM (qt4GF)

297 >>SE Cupp says "strangling the press is undemocratic in all its forms"



'Right there.
Right there.
Don't stop...
Now choke me!'

-Shit SE Cupp also said, Vol I

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:35 PM (tDk60)

298 "Al Gore promised me a first-hand experience with a fusion reactor if I could release his Second Chakra, but all I ended up with was this lousy wet t-shirt and a black eye." -- Alexandria Occasional-Cortex, still waiting for my Inauguration

Posted by: ShainS -- Mueller Witchhunt Survivor at December 10, 2018 02:35 PM (yUfyD)

299 Producing plastic with hydrogen co-product
Posted by: RioBravo at December 10, 2018 02:28 PM


You know who else is a hydrogen co-product?

Posted by: Oxygen diHydride, Ace's indispensible consumable at December 10, 2018 02:35 PM (ctuyM)

300 >>282 SE Cupp says "strangling the press is undemocratic in all its forms"

Somebody needs a spanking.

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:35 PM (Bdeb0)

301 This might be the stupidest thing anyone in the history of history has ever said. Are we going back to sails?

-
The stupidest thing would be if we were going back to Christopher Cross.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:35 PM (+y/Ru)

302 Combine what with a rich harvest of manganese nodules from the seabed

... a Glomar Explorer flashback

To think there is a UN treaty based on a CIA cover story for an operation to retrieve a Soviet submarine.
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (QkjLD)
+++++++++++
Besides the current Coup Cucks Clan activity, that is probably the most fantastic "it can't be real - that's from some political thriller" event in the modern world.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2018 02:35 PM (I2dne)

303 Oarsmen are renewable and organic. Stuff the Greeks, Romans and Vikings knew.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (2LelM)

304
Alternate post title:

Maersk Says It Will "Go Green" In Their Smuggling Of Russian Sex Slaves And Islamic Terrorists

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (eC1xx)

305
Name the first one HMS Hindenburg.

HMS Prince Charles

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (LsBY9)

306 The coast guard has, IIRC, 2 of the heavy icebreakers, both were build in the 70's and both are in Seattle.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (GBteo)


Polar Star is active. Polar Sea has been cannibalized (hi Bob!) for parts. There are indications that at least one and maybe two new ice breakers will be built.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (hLRSq)

307 274 Just so I'm clear, the fabled "high speed trains" we're routinely promised will be powered by Skittles, amirite?
Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (Bdeb0)


No, silly. California will just tilt up one end of the state and let HIGH. SPEED. RAIL. (aka the "Brown Streak") roll downhill.

Then, we'll tilt the state the other way for the return trip. Does California have to think of everything?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (A2Uq6)

308 and here's another old goodie:

The Prince of Wales is to issue a stark warning that nations have "less than 100 months to act" to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change.

seen in the UK Telegraph March 7 2009

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (ZqRa6)

309 Newsbunny S.E. Cupp is thinking the deep throats thoughts.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (oVJmc)

310 update: looks like we're down to one heavy ice breaker, the other one was decommissioned in 2010.

We do have a medium icebreaker though. also in seattle.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (GBteo)

311 We would have to put all the possible forms of strangling the press to a vote and see.


A series of tests of the various strangling techniques might be warranted.

Science - for the Children..

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (6teKQ)

312 You know how if you walk to the back of a canoe, the canoe moves forward?



Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:34 PM (yL25O)
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i do: that's how i lost all my gubs...


Posted by: redc1c4 at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (YtJs4)

313 The stupidest thing would be if we were going back to Christopher Cross.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:35 PM (+y/Ru)

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Sailing takes me away to where..
Ive always heard it could be.
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free!!



*your earworm will thank me.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (8XRCm)

314 What if we drilled 10 miles into the earth and see what we find? The lowest point of the Atlantic is next to Puerto Rico so if we fuck up and it goes splodey we would have solved a problem by creating one.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (2LelM)

315 Polar Star is active. Polar Sea has been cannibalized (hi Bob!) for parts. There are indications that at least one and maybe two new ice breakers will be built.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (hLRSq)

yeah, just looked it up.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (GBteo)

316 Popular Science of the 80's was such Fake News, we just didn't know it yet.
---
I remember reading as a kid that nuclear power would make energy so cheap, producers wouldn't even bother to bill for it. And I believed it, because I wanted a flying car.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (hjaPQ)

317 I know what we need! Unobtainium! Sure, some natives and their stupid trees would get hurt but you can't make omelettes . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (+y/Ru)

318 >>303 Oarsmen are renewable and organic. Stuff the Greeks, Romans and Vikings knew.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (2LelM)

Jobs immigrant Aztecs can do.

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (Bdeb0)

319 I'm giving up my double chocolatey chip bacon frappuccino extra grandes....in 2050.

Posted by: Michael Lardass Moore at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (DuAZ5)

320 Needless to say, China will then be the dominant maritime power.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:31 PM


Get in ahead of the rush, and buy junk bonds now.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (ctuyM)

321 The coast guard has, IIRC, 2 of the heavy icebreakers, both were build in the 70's and both are in Seattle.
=====

My rather faulty memory says that both are in drydock for major repairs. I have always said that I would like an icebreaker for our US security for Christmas.


Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (MIKMs)

322 SE Cupp says "strangling the press is undemocratic in all its forms"

------

Strangling. Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?

Posted by: Greg "Psycho" Gianforte at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (AzW6q)

323 Name the first one HMS Hindenburg.

HMS Prince Charles


Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (LsBY9)


USS Congress

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (hLRSq)

324 Cold fusion is just measurement errors.

Posted by: Chris M at December 10, 2018 02:39 PM (eAZVt)

325
Promising things beyond 2050 is the ultimate virtue signalling.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 10, 2018 02:39 PM (r+sAi)

326 Name the first one HMS Hindenburg.

HMS Prince Charles
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:36 PM (LsBY9)


USS Hillary Campaign

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:39 PM (A2Uq6)

327 Just so I'm clear, the fabled "high speed trains" we're routinely promised will be powered by Skittles, amirite?
Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:32 PM (Bdeb0)

----------------------

Maybe German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, or Chinese Skittles.

Posted by: RioBravo at December 10, 2018 02:39 PM (iQKgg)

328 Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (hci5m)

Actually, there are a couple of 'cruise' ships with sails that are longer than 600 ft.

Sail is not main propulsion, more of an add in and marketing ploy... but they do have sails.

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:39 PM (NgKpN)

329
Maesk Says It Will Return To Using "Green" Sail-Ships For Maritime Transport

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 10, 2018 02:39 PM (eC1xx)

330 Maersk to declare bankruptcy in 2051.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 10, 2018 02:40 PM (nAeGR)

331 Should I accept a free pass to see a sneak preview "Once Upon a Deadpool" tomorrow night? I enjoyed "Deadpool 2" but don't know if I want to see the same movie but PG-13, and pay for the train trip downtown

Posted by: josephistan at December 10, 2018 02:40 PM (7HtZB)

332 >>Actually, there are a couple of 'cruise' ships with sails that are longer than 600 ft. Sail is not main propulsion, more of an add in and marketing ploy... but they do have sails. Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:39 PM (NgKpN)

Windstar Cruises is one such.

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:40 PM (Bdeb0)

333 The Prince of Wales is to issue a stark warning that nations have "less than 100 months to act" to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change.

-
The Steyer giverh and the Prince of Wales taketh away.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:40 PM (+y/Ru)

334 80 44 Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:03 PM (yQpMk)


~ 16 bucks a gallon IIRC
Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:06 PM (qt4GF
***********
$2 in gas and $14 in taxes

Posted by: torabora at December 10, 2018 02:40 PM (k/w1G)

335 Oh FFS.
We have spent all day with tractor, snow-blower, and shovels trying to claw our way out of 10 inches of early December snow just to get to the freaking road.

I want my global warming. Not in 2025, not in 2050.
I want it now. Yesterday.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 10, 2018 02:41 PM (Rxduq)

336
anyone remember ROCKY DENNIS in the movie MAERSK?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at December 10, 2018 02:41 PM (eC1xx)

337 314 What if we drilled 10 miles into the earth and see what we find? The lowest point of the Atlantic is next to Puerto Rico so if we fuck up and it goes splodey we would have solved a problem by creating one.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (2LelM)


What if all the water drains out of the ocean?

Posted by: Hank Johnson at December 10, 2018 02:41 PM (A2Uq6)

338 Oddly, I seem to be obsessing about one particular way to strangle SE Cupp.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (hjaPQ)

339 325

Promising things beyond 2050 is the ultimate virtue signalling.


Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 10, 2018 02:39 PM (r+sAi)


People have a two year memory or less. The promise is less than worthless. It is a cynical play on greenies' gullability that costs them nothing. I applaud the effort.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (t6MX/)

340 By 2050, I promise to be able to completely and accurately find my way out of this House committee room.

Without assistance or a dotted line on the floor. Swearsies.

Posted by: James Comey at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (Z4rgH)

341 Good enough for the Vikings, god enough for us.

-Maersk

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (oVJmc)

342 Maersk's target, although distant, is one of the most ambitious from a global industrial group promising to end carbon emissions altogether.

You know how you end carbon emissions altogether? Cease to exist. These idiots don't even know what the term means. I am so wholly sick of science as religion. People who treat science like a tribe fascinated by a shiny object: this is holy and wonderful and I worship it, but know nothing about it!

Its the same batch of fools who post "I f'in love science" memes and worship at the altar of the holy trinity: George Takei, Bill Nye, and Neil Degrasse Tyson. Only one of them is really a scientist at any level, and its a pretty low level. But they're cool and have cool memes and Takei was on Star Trek!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (39g3+)

343 I'm giving up my triple-shot vodka martinis over ice with extra vodka...in 2050.

Posted by: Hillary *hic* Clinton at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (DuAZ5)

344
want my global warming.
Not in 2025, not in 2050.
I want it now. Yesterday.

----

Money for nothing
and the chicks are free.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (8XRCm)

345 er. good.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (oVJmc)

346
100 months? What's that in dog years?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (eC1xx)

347 I promise not to do that thing in your mouth by 2050.*

*by that time, my prostate will be the size of a grapefruit, so it is doable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (ycWCI)

348 I say we buy futures in really tall, straight, pine trees that are suitable for use as center masts.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:33 PM (GBteo)
*************
All your pine trees belong to us.

Posted by: Forest Fires at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (k/w1G)

349 The brilliant Better Off Ted had an episode about this. Ted confronts Veronica *draws all the hearts* about how there was a commercial about Veridian Dynamics going green and she agrees that there was a commercial about it but when Ted asks what actual plans there are to do it, she responds "Are you trying to achieve all your dreams, Ted?"

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (GbPPJ)

350 The Prince of Wales is to issue a stark warning that nations have "less than 100 months to act" to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change.

So let's see, we're now getting our scientific analyses and economic policy suggestions from a guy who talks to plants and who aspires to be a tampon. Do I have that right?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (A2Uq6)

351 Why are we using shipping ships on the open ocean when we could just load all our freight onto IRBMs and fling em at each other?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (N4I/S)

352 Virtue signalling by corporations annoys me more than anything.

Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (BXMxN)

353 Saw a Youtube video on a Canadian heavy duty icebreaker. They may have more than one, and they are quite new. I'd expect Russia has the same.

Posted by: Colin at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (4+twt)

354 Expect the aliens to be unimpressed:

"Let's get this straight. In about 300 years you mastered wind, steam, internal combustion, nuclear fission...and you went back to wind?"

"Exterminate them. ALL of them."

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:44 PM (Bdeb0)

355 337 314 What if we drilled 10 miles into the earth and see what we find? The lowest point of the Atlantic is next to Puerto Rico so if we fuck up and it goes splodey we would have solved a problem by creating one.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (2LelM)

What if all the water drains out of the ocean?
Posted by: Hank Johnson at December 10, 2018 02:41 PM (A2Uq6)

Drill into the crust?

You'll let the Dinosaurs out ya big dummy!

Posted by: David Innes, from Pellucidar at December 10, 2018 02:44 PM (NgKpN)

356 I promise by 2050 that I'll give up fossil fuels, if you sign long-term contracts with me right now.

Realistically, we'll have to start building all those Flettner-mast sailboats by 2045, so sign now so we can get going!

Posted by: Maersk at December 10, 2018 02:44 PM (8erNz)

357 180 You can control the fusion event by maintaining a constant plasma shield that is held in place by transwarp coils. The coils act as a focal lens for the neutron beam that is regulated by magnetic bonds as they interface with the propulsion unit.

but the required calculations can only be performed by an ibm 5100.

Posted by: john titor at December 10, 2018 02:44 PM (NmR1a)

358 I promise to reduce my carbon emission to zero by 2050.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 10, 2018 02:44 PM (JUOKG)

359 If you want to cut CO2 just nuke India and China. Solves a lot of problems really quickly.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2018 02:44 PM (2LelM)

360 I applaud the effort.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (t6MX/)

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Yeah, me too... this is a marketing a scam I would dream up.

I can see that meeting now.

To the engineers: "Don't worry - we have no intention of ever considering making good on this. As you were."

To legal: "Find a way to make sure none of this is legally binding."

To the PR people: "Now do your work, and get these drooling NPCs away from us."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (AzW6q)

361 349 The brilliant Better Off Ted had an episode about this. Ted confronts Veronica *draws all the hearts* about how there was a commercial about Veridian Dynamics going green and she agrees that there was a commercial about it but when Ted asks what actual plans there are to do it, she responds "Are you trying to achieve all your dreams, Ted?"



Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (GbPPJ)


That just makes me miss (the extremely similar) Andy Richter Controls the Universe.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (UnA8+)

362 311 We would have to put all the possible forms of strangling the press to a vote and see.


A series of tests of the various strangling techniques might be warranted.

Science - for the Children..
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (6teKQ)

...

Plus, democracy.

Nothing purifies an idea like voting for it. These are the morons who can't figure out why the national popular vote doesn't necessarily affect majorities in the Senate.

In fact, I think we need something like "a vote to strangle the press" as a means to suddenly have the press convert en masse to the ideas of enumerated rights, limited government, and a representative republic.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (yL25O)

363 >>338 Oddly, I seem to be obsessing about one particular way to strangle SE Cupp.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (hjaPQ)

Stand down. She is being procured. For science.

Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (Bdeb0)

364 Row motherfuckers ...ROW!

Posted by: Your Betters at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (k/w1G)

365 Expect the aliens to be unimpressed:

"Let's get this straight. In about 300 years you mastered wind, steam, internal combustion, nuclear fission...and you went back to wind?"

"Exterminate them. ALL of them."
Posted by: Zod at December 10, 2


FML.

Posted by: zombie Robert Fulton at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (e1q4h)

366 Pneumatic tubes.

Posted by: Someguy at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (h5Df3)

367 Ray Liotta is not looking too good.

Smile Ray!

No. Don't. Stop!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (ycWCI)

368 What if all the water drains out of the ocean?
Posted by: Hank Johnson at December 10, 2018 02:41 PM (A2Uq6)

Drill into the crust?

You'll let the Dinosaurs out ya big dummy!


Are you suggesting this as a way for the US to solve the Puerto Rico Problem? That's SO racist...

Posted by: Maersk at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (8erNz)

369 No problems. We will just have to shovel more coal into the Atomic Furnaces

...Ming the Merciless...

Posted by: Bruce at December 10, 2018 02:46 PM (8ikIW)

370 How about a good, old-fashioned nuclear reactor.

Posted by: Jim at December 10, 2018 02:46 PM (golr6)

371 I don't mind when a company says something like this. Its over 30 years away and everyone in charge there will be dead by then. Its just a way to get suckers to buy stock and ignore their other business practices, there's no real intent there. Its like Brad Pitt "I won't marry this b-- uh, my girlfriend until homos can marry!" claim. Its telling the wife you plan on getting the shed fixed before you retire in 30 years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:46 PM (39g3+)

372 Can we just summon Godzilla and get it over with already?

Posted by: Hikaru at December 10, 2018 02:46 PM (UnA8+)

373 I plan to stop using all fossil fuels entirely, of my own accord... by 2075.

I'll be 109, but hey, it's the goal that matters, right? So, where are my #VirtueBucks ?

Posted by: DocJ at December 10, 2018 02:46 PM (NYS7S)

374 >>Pneumatic tubes.


That gives me an idea!

Posted by: Richard Gere at December 10, 2018 02:46 PM (tDk60)

375 Row motherfuckers ...ROW!
Posted by: Your Betters at December 10, 2018 02:45 PM (k/w1G)



That's funny is what that is.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (GbPPJ)

376 Ray Liotta is not looking too good.

Smile Ray!

No. Don't. Stop!
Posted by: Aetius451AD


He looks rough in that Chantix commercial.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (W4LFA)

377 Maersk? They're dead already, they just haven't fallen over.

There's gonna be one shipper in 2050, and that's Amazon.

Maersk might as well paint that stupid Amazon smile on their boats right now.

Posted by: The Charlie Daniels of the Torque Wrench at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (Jj+59)

378 SE Cupp says "strangling the press is undemocratic in all its forms"
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I agree.
She needs to talk to Google, Facebook, You Tube, and Twitter about that.

Calling Acosta a poopyhead is not "strangling the press," hon. It's exercising freedom of speech and, if written in a tweet, freedom of the press.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (Rxduq)

379 Better Off Ted was really funny - heaven forbid we get more of that instead of 9 seasons of The Big Bang Theory and something like 16 seasons of Grey's Anatomy.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (oZ6kz)

380 349 The brilliant Better Off Ted had an episode about this. Ted
confronts Veronica *draws all the hearts* about how there was a
commercial about Veridian Dynamics going green and she agrees that there
was a commercial about it but when Ted asks what actual plans there are
to do it, she responds "Are you trying to achieve all your dreams,
Ted?"




Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 10, 2018 02:43 PM (GbPPJ)


One of the best, most underrated, and shortest-lived shows of all time.

Posted by: DocJ at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (NYS7S)

381 Everything is a effing snow job. My mailbox is stuffed with so much advertising material that if I don't extract them in a timely manner, they will stop delivery altogether. I pay most things on-line for "green" they say. Yet, they still send the bill every month in the mail. The office no longer will accept money orders for "green" they say, but will take checks. ??? Of course, they push and push for you to pay on-line - for "green" they say. Everything is such a hoax, but they get away with it if they use the magic word.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (rE1pK)

382 We're also going to raise polar bears on all our ships.

Posted by: Maersk at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (yL25O)

383 341 Good enough for the Vikings, god enough for us.

-Maersk


are prayer rooms for the norse gods in the offing?

Posted by: Anachronda at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (xGZ+b)

384 311 We would have to put all the possible forms of strangling the press to a vote and see.

A series of tests of the various strangling techniques might be warranted.

Science - for the Children..
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2018 02:37 PM (6teKQ)


And we put 'em on PPV, and pay down a lot of the national debt. Genius!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (A2Uq6)

385 Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 10, 2018 02:42 PM (hjaPQ)

She's probably got a good gag reflex so, no worries.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:48 PM (hci5m)

386 Ray Liotta has looked rough for quite a while now, acne early on or something. Pocked skin. Still a solid actor, I like him in everything I've seen him in.

Being right's not a bulletproof vest, Freddy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:48 PM (39g3+)

387 380
One of the best, most underrated, and shortest-lived shows of all time.


Posted by: DocJ at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (NYS7S)


Does ANY Victor Fresco show last for any real length of time?

Posted by: Hikaru at December 10, 2018 02:48 PM (UnA8+)

388 >>He looks rough in that Chantix commercial.


Chantix may lead to thoughts of suicide.

Of course, so does a mirror if you are Ray Liota.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:48 PM (tDk60)

389 I plan to stop using all fossil fuels entirely, of my own accord... by 2075.

I'll be 109, but hey, it's the goal that matters, right? So, where are my #VirtueBucks ?
Posted by: DocJ


I'll definitely stop by 2062.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2018 02:48 PM (W4LFA)

390 So, our flying cars will be WIND POWERED!!!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (oVJmc)

391 If the Sauds had put Khashoggi's head on a spike outside their embassy things would have gone better for them.

Posted by: torabora at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (k/w1G)

392
So is Maersk going to immediately shut down their North Sea drilling company, currently in the top 20 drilling companies in the world?

Per the Puppy-Blender, I'll believe that global warming is a crisis when the greenies start acting like it's a crisis.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (veoSD)

393 383 341 Good enough for the Vikings, god enough for us.

-Maersk

are prayer rooms for the norse gods in the offing?
Posted by: Anachronda at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (xGZ+b)

Odin't we tell you about that?

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (NgKpN)

394 From a five year plan to a thirty year plan.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (aKsyK)

395 We need a small catalytic heater for our caskets, so that our heirs will have to traipse to the golf course they planted us in and refill the tank periodically, and we can go on burning fossil fuels forever.

We also need a temp probe and cell hotspot down there to remind them if they've failed.

And we need a thousand-year contract with AT&T to update that hotspot. We'll call it the Perpetual Guilt Contract.

Posted by: Maersk at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (8erNz)

396 372 Can we just summon Godzilla and get it over with already?
Posted by: Hikaru at December 10, 2018 02:46 PM (UnA8+)


I'm wildly waving my arm overhead, calling for a fair catch of SMOD.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (A2Uq6)

397 381 I pay most things on-line for "green" they say. Yet, they still send the bill every month in the mail

your experience differs from mine. seems like whenever i log in to check a balance, i'm being nattered about switching to non-paper bills. i decline, because the height of the bill pile serves as a clock indicating when it's time to pay bills.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (NmR1a)

398 Excuse me while I wash my sock.

Posted by: JEM at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (8erNz)

399 330 Maersk to declare bankruptcy in 2051.
_______________

Eh, there will probably be types of energy available in 2051 that we can't even conceive of today.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (fqUgw)

400 I don't understand why more big ships aren't nukes. We've been running them for decades on subs, why not big freight vessels? As long as they can stay away from really huge Naval vessels.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (39g3+)

401 I'm down for no fossil fuels by 2100. Where are my Turkey Bucks?

Posted by: torabora at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (k/w1G)

402 We are at peak hypocrisy in society where what you say is what earns the plaudits, not what you actually do.

Posted by: whig at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (ROzyM)

403 are prayer rooms for the norse gods in the offing?
Posted by: Anachronda at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (xGZ+b)

Odin't we tell you about that?
Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (NgKpN)

Berserker out front shoulda told ye.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (ycWCI)

404 >>Can we just summon Godzilla and get it over with already?


Nope.

But AtC is here.

So we have 1/2 the dance team necessary to call up Mothra

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (tDk60)

405 Marx and Malthus, Mathus and Marx.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (oVJmc)

406 Apparently the creator of Better Off Ted and Andy Richter Controls The Universe is also the guy behind Santa Clarita Diet - I've thought that seemed worth a look, and now I'm convinced it almost certainly is.

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (oZ6kz)

407 Eh, there will probably be types of energy available in 2051 that we can't even conceive of today.

How many new energy sources have we come up with since 1987?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (39g3+)

408 did someone say "cruise lines"?

https://www.theswingercruise.com/

http://www.blisscruise.com/

cold fusion of threads is possible!

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (YtJs4)

409 Better Off Ted was really funny - heaven forbid we get more of that instead of 9 seasons of The Big Bang Theory and something like 16 seasons of Grey's Anatomy.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (oZ6kz)



Yup.

I'd forgotten this clip: https://youtu.be/Qf4naR0r8Yg


*adds to Veronica shrine*

I doubt that the episode where everyone insults everyone else would even be allowed to air now.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (GbPPJ)

410
Pssssst.

Manmade CO2 really isnt an issue. Its literally a mosquito fart in a thunderstorm.

All of CO2 in its entirety is only .035% of the total atmosphere. Thats POINT OH thee-five percent.

Of THAT mans portion is about 3 or 4% depending on who you listen too.

So. .0035 times .04 equals .00014 ish something.


A .00014 increase of anything is ..... crap. Its like saying 7 people move to Denver and everybody there is gonna starve to death.

Go away tree huggers.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (8XRCm)

411 I'm wildly waving my arm overhead, calling for a fair catch of SMOD.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (A2Uq6)


Thanks, now I have to explain to my co-workers why I just spewed hot tea all over my monitors.

Posted by: DocJ at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (NYS7S)

412
You hate the First Amendment if you don't think of journalists as highly as they think of themselves.

(see also: "Philistine")

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (LsBY9)

413 Posted by: washrivergal at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM

Bein' green ain't easy!

Posted by: Kermit the pimp at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (ctuyM)

414 Better Off Ted was really funny - heaven forbid we get more of that instead of 9 seasons of The Big Bang Theory and something like 16 seasons of Grey's Anatomy.
Posted by: Who is broseidon


One season of Firefly.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (W4LFA)

415 Movies made about taping the earths core have been made with of course lots of drama. I remember one where after firing the rocket down a shaft it split the earth into two pieces. Lots of second rate actors making a big deal and not accomplishing much.

Posted by: Colin at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (4+twt)

416 Better Off Ted was really funny - heaven forbid we get more of that instead of 9 seasons of The Big Bang Theory and something like 16 seasons of Grey's Anatomy.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (oZ6kz)

-------

Arrested Development was a popular show with a clutch of Emmies.

But it had a big cast and was expensive to produce, so Fox cancelled it four seasons in, since it exceeded the per episode budget of $40 for "When Dancing Celebrities Attack."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (AzW6q)

417 Maersk to switch to slave oarsmen.

Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (BXMxN)

418 407 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (39g3+)

How many since 1887?
(spoiler-one nuclear)

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (qt4GF)

419
.... and Im off by a decimal place.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (8XRCm)

420 by the way, speaking of world class lunacy, anyone besides me look at this?

http://www.gp.org/green_new_deal

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM (ZqRa6)

421 >>>Nope.



But AtC is here.



So we have 1/2 the dance team necessary to call up Mothra

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (tDk60)<<<

1/2, is that a short joke?

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM (rjqjX)

422
393 383 341 Good enough for the Vikings, god enough for us.

-Maersk

are prayer rooms for the norse gods in the offing?
Posted by: Anachronda at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (xGZ+b)

Odin't we tell you about that?

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (NgKpN)






As long as y'all don't make a big deal about it. I prefer to keep things Loki.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM (veoSD)

423 400 I don't understand why more big ships aren't nukes. We've been running them for decades on subs, why not big freight vessels? As long as they can stay away from really huge Naval vessels.

Well, we tried the Savannah, but...you've got to have a maintenance and fueling infrastructure, qualified crew, tolerable insurance rates, and ports that won't go 'eh, nah' when you show up.

Posted by: JEM at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM (8erNz)

424 400 I don't understand why more big ships aren't nukes. We've been running them for decades on subs, why not big freight vessels? As long as they can stay away from really huge Naval vessels.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (39g3+)

...

I'll go ahead and bet it's not cheaper.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM (yL25O)

425 In 2050, I'll almost certainly be deader than fried chicken, bereft of life, kicked the bucket, pining for the fjords, joined the bleedin' choir invisible. They can power the world on speed-crazed hamsters on a trillion treadmills for all I care.

Posted by: troyriser at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM (1JpTT)

426 Fuck you guys. I played the moon in First Man. Beat out Brain Dennehy for the part.

Posted by: Ray Liota at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM (QqY+m)

427 "...the press is undemocratic in all its forms"

-SE Cupp

Posted by: Chris M at December 10, 2018 02:53 PM (eAZVt)

428 How many new energy sources have we come up with since 1987?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (39g3+)


Fair question, but if someone could harness the power of pointless #VirtueSignaling we could power the globe well into the United Federation of Planets era.

Posted by: DocJ at December 10, 2018 02:53 PM (NYS7S)

429 390 So, our flying cars will be WIND POWERED!!!

they'll be pushme-pullyus like the dornier do-335. the windmill on the front collects the power to drive the propeller on the rear.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 10, 2018 02:53 PM (NmR1a)

430 "Yes, we here at Maersk are pioneering technology that will draw pollution from the sea and create pure energy to drive ours ships and return nothing more than love to the sea."

Posted by: Maersk CEo eyballing the Green Peace girl with big tits in the front row at December 10, 2018 02:53 PM (88+cf)

431 I remember reading as a kid that nuclear power would make energy so cheap, producers wouldn't even bother to bill for it. And I believed it, because I wanted a flying car.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 10, 2018 02:38 PM (hjaPQ)

Ah! But they failed to anticipate the left adding billions of dollars of compliance costs, regulations, and other roadblocks to the construction and utilization of nuclear power plants.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:53 PM (GBteo)

432 Just saw the trailer for Godzilla 2 and lo and behold, tons of global warming/climate change nonsense. Yay!

And Ken Watanabe(sp?) walking/staggering around looking confused.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:53 PM (ycWCI)

433 Nuclear powered ships were VERY EXPENSIVE. Radiation danger mostly.

The United States had the NS Savannah in the 1950's.

Maybe pebble bed reactors can make them go economically today.

Posted by: torabora at December 10, 2018 02:53 PM (k/w1G)

434 422
393 383 341 Good enough for the Vikings, god enough for us.

-Maersk

are prayer rooms for the norse gods in the offing?
Posted by: Anachronda at December 10, 2018 02:47 PM (xGZ+b)

Odin't we tell you about that?

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:49 PM (NgKpN)






As long as y'all don't make a big deal about it. I prefer to keep things Loki.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM (veoSD)

Heimdal for that!

Posted by: Don Q at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (NgKpN)

435
How many new energy sources have we come up with since 1987?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (39g3+)

-----

I DONT FRAKKING KNOW!?!?!?

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (8XRCm)

436 How many new energy sources have we come up with since 1987?
_______________

See, we're overdue!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (fqUgw)

437 371 Its like Brad Pitt "I won't marry this b-- uh, my girlfriend until homos can marry!"

I thought that was Lena Dungheap? And she's still available, ya big hunk.

Posted by: James Comey at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (Z4rgH)

438 415 Movies made about taping the earths core have been made with of course lots of drama. I remember one where after firing the rocket down a shaft it split the earth into two pieces. Lots of second rate actors making a big deal and not accomplishing much.
Posted by: Colin at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (4+twt)

...

I laughed and laughed at those until a drilling company caused the mud flood in East Java while I was living there.

https://bit.ly/2A7RXLW

Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (yL25O)

439 Can't we just skip Godzilla 2 and get right to Godzilla vs. King Kong?

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (oZ6kz)

440 I'm going on Shark Tank with my line of whale harnesses for towing commercial ships.

Posted by: Jolo at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (WrMOC)

441 I'm going on Shark Tank with my line of whale harnesses for towing commercial ships.
Posted by: Jolo at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (WrMOC)
+++++++++++
But the sharks would eat the captive whales!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (I2dne)

442 1/2, is that a short joke?
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM


1/2? Luxury!!

We only had 1/1024, and were happy to have it!

Posted by: Elizabeth "Two Dogs" Warren at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (ctuyM)

443 377 Maersk? They're dead already, they just haven't fallen over.

There's gonna be one shipper in 2050, and that's Amazon.

Maersk might as well paint that stupid Amazon smile on their boats right now.


Amazon would go tits up without Maersk moving those containers from China.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (jsWA8)

444 Apparently the creator of Better Off Ted and Andy Richter Controls The Universe is also the guy behind Santa Clarita Diet - I've thought that seemed worth a look, and now I'm convinced it almost certainly is.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (oZ6kz)


Santa Clarita Diet is very funny. It helps that Drew and Timothy Olyphant have good chemistry and are not afraid at all to be the butt of the joke.

Snowpocalypse update: We ended up with a foot, give or take. It took me about an hour to brush off the car and shovel all the snow from around it and tomorrow is going to be a nightmare.

It's just warm enough for everything to melt and then tonight it is going to be 21 with clear skies. Good times, good times.

As of now the office is open tomorrow and I am not looking forward to the drive in. We have clients coming in tomorrow and I have to be there for the meeting or I would say screw it I'm not coming in.


Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (GbPPJ)

445 435 Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (8XRCm)

Fracking has existed since ~1867.
Seriously.
Nuclear-you know the one form of energy that can meet the Goreons stated desires.

Posted by: sven at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (qt4GF)

446 It's like they live in a different reality.


Oh, wait. They do.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (UsCnO)

447 All of CO2 in its entirety is only .035% of the total atmosphere. Thats POINT OH thee-five percent.





Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (8XRCm)

Incidentally, that is the 10 times actual percentage (the left's numbers) of actual no-BS nazi's in the U.S.

Lefties have a thing for making a mountain out of a molehill.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (t6MX/)

448 400 I don't understand why more big ships aren't nukes. We've been running them for decades on subs, why not big freight vessels? As long as they can stay away from really huge Naval vessels.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 02:50 PM (39g3+)

...

I'll go ahead and bet it's not cheaper.
Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:52 PM (yL25O)

I don't know if its so much a cost thing as it is a regulatory thing -- I don't think a non-military vessel in the US could legally or practically be nuclear powered.

But it'd also require a lot of staff dedicated to making sure things run smoothly and whatnot.

So I don't know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (GBteo)

449 "9 seasons of The Big Bang Theory"

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

-studio fucking audience

Posted by: Chris M at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (eAZVt)

450 408 did someone say "cruise lines"?

The nicest cruises I've ever been on were the old '50s ships with chaises down the open side decks and you brought six or seven books on board with you and read until 2AM.

And, oddly, I thought that even back in my 30s when I might have opportunity to hump like a stoat.

Posted by: JEM at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (8erNz)

451 >>>He looks rough in that Chantix commercial.





Chantix may lead to thoughts of suicide.



Of course, so does a mirror if you are Ray Liota.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2018 02:48 PM (tDk60)<<<

He looks terrible.

Posted by: Robert Davi at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM (rjqjX)

452 If the Sauds had put Khashoggi's head on a spike outside their embassy things would have gone better for them.
=====

Washington Post says that Kashoggi is better than Daniel Pearl. Rather frightening, that comparison.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM (MIKMs)

453 Pssssst.

Manmade CO2 really isnt an issue. Its literally a mosquito fart in a thunderstorm.

All of CO2 in its entirety is only .035% of the total atmosphere. Thats POINT OH thee-five percent.

Of THAT mans portion is about 3 or 4% depending on who you listen too.

So. .0035 times .04 equals .00014 ish something.


A .00014 increase of anything is ..... crap. Its like saying 7 people move to Denver and everybody there is gonna starve to death.

Go away tree huggers.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:51 PM (8XRCm)


My man.

I've led liberals through the same calculation, likening the atmosphere to the population of the US (call it 300 million; seems like more during the rush hour, I know).

In that case, ALL CO2 would amount to about ... 100,000 people. Anthropogenic CO2 would amount to about ... 3000 people.

So adding 3000 people to the population of the US - not 3000 terrorists, or 3000 Nobel Laureates, but 3000 people who are identical in every respect with the 100,000 who are already here - and somehow now all unshirted hell is going to break loose?

No sale.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM (A2Uq6)

454 As long as y'all don't make a big deal about it. I prefer to keep things Loki.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur


**********


Geez, what are you tho Thor about, mithter?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM (lLoBm)

455 "I'm going on Shark Tank with my line of whale harnesses for towing commercial ships.

Posted by: Jolo at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (WrMOC) "

My offer is $250k for 10% plus I get a 2% royalty in perpetuity.

Posted by: Kevin O'Leary at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)

456 by the way, speaking of world class lunacy, anyone besides me look at this?

http://www.gp.org/green_new_deal

-
Boy, and I thought Spongebob Squarepants was unrealistic!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM (+y/Ru)

457 Snowpocalypse update: We ended up with a foot, give or take.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 10, 2018 02:55 PM (GbPPJ)

...

so, like, waist deep.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM (yL25O)

458 Why not harness dilithium crystals?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2018 02:57 PM (2LelM)

459 Snowpocalypse update: We ended up with a foot, give or take. It took me about an hour to brush off the car and shovel all the snow from around it.


-----

Stepladders ARE a bitch to move around in a snow drift.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 10, 2018 02:57 PM (8XRCm)

460 458 Why not harness dilithium crystals?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 10, 2018 02:57 PM (2LelM)



Seems obvious.

Posted by: eleven at December 10, 2018 02:57 PM (NLLmE)

461 I've been a fan of Olyphant since his masterful performance in "Go."

Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:57 PM (oZ6kz)

462 I find SE Cupp extremely annoying and unattractive.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 10, 2018 02:57 PM (y7DUB)

463 Snowpocalypse update: We ended up with a foot, give or take.

A foot give or take? So that's somewhere between double-amputee and freak of nature?

Posted by: JEM at December 10, 2018 02:57 PM (8erNz)

464 nood hostages

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (GBteo)

465
Just saw the trailer for Godzilla 2 and lo and behold, tons of global warming/climate change nonsense. Yay!

And Ken Watanabe(sp?) walking/staggering around looking confused.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2018 02:53 PM (ycWCI)





That one scene where Watanabe pulls out the burned up watch to try to shame the American nuclear barbarians.... ugh. I was hoping to see the Admiral grab the watch from his hands, bend him over the chart table and shove it up Watanabe's ass while screaming "RAPE OF NANKING, UNIT 731, BATAAN DEATH MARCH MOTHERFUCKER! YOUR DADDY GOT WHAT HE FUCKING DESERVED!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (veoSD)

466 so, like, waist deep.
Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM (yL25O)



Pretty much.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (GbPPJ)

467


Was it a HEAVY snow?

I hate heavy snow.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (eC1xx)

468 I remember the USNavy recruiter telling us that getting trained for sub duty would translate to good job with the budding nuclear power electric generation industry that would served us through out our lifetimes.

Good thing I couldn't pass the physical. I'd be an over educated unemployable Nuke Tech. Worse off than Homer Simpson.

It sounded SOOOO good back then though.

Now they've retired most nukes in the Navy, the Power Industry (at least in the US) is dwindling and there's no new plants scheduled to build for years.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (hci5m)

469
Snowpocalypse update: We ended up with a foot, give or take.

Did this have one of those stupid Weather Channel names? Winter Storm Ignatz?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (LsBY9)

470 377 There's gonna be one shipper in 2050, and that's Amazon.


Bezos is already talking about the end of Amazon, so I doubt it's gonna be them. Guy's a loonie commie-pinko, but he's not stupid.

Posted by: DocJ at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (NYS7S)

471 439 Can't we just skip Godzilla 2 and get right to Godzilla vs. King Kong?
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 10, 2018 02:54 PM (oZ6kz)

Skip too far and we end up with Godzuki.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (UnA8+)

472 McKibben is, and always has been, an idiot of the first water.

That he's never yet been right about anything makes the pristine nature of his idiocy even more apparent.

Posted by: aelfheld at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (IxDhF)

473 I don't understand why more big ships aren't nukes. We've been running them for decades on subs, why not big freight vessels? As long as they can stay away from really huge Naval vessels.

Because we and the Brits are the only people that I trust with nuclear reactors on ships. Rickover built a very good thing with zero tolerance for fuckery. Merchant fleets? Nah.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (Boy/L)

474 so, like, waist deep.
Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM


Welcome to The List.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2018 02:59 PM (ctuyM)

475 Snowpocalypse update: We ended up with a foot, give or take. It took
me about an hour to brush off the car and shovel all the snow from
around it and tomorrow is going to be a nightmare.===

How smal-, er, how big-, er, what size was the shovel?

Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2018 02:59 PM (jGvbj)

476 Fair question, but if someone could harness the power of pointless #VirtueSignaling we could power the globe well into the United Federation of Planets era.
Posted by: DocJ at December 10, 2018 02:53 PM (NYS7S)


I'm working on a way to harness stupidity as a power source. Talk about an energy bonanza.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 02:59 PM (A2Uq6)

477 We need a What's MyLne for AoS.

My favorite would be a tall, willowy, volleyball player nicknames "Spike" be the secret identify of AtC.

Years of trolling us. Although those blessed Victory pictures of treasured memory do not seen to go with willowy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2018 02:59 PM (hyuyC)

478 McKibben is, and always has been, an idiot of the first water.

That he's never yet been right about anything makes the pristine nature of his idiocy even more apparent.
Posted by: aelfheld at December 10, 2018 02:58 PM (IxDhF)


And a boring writer.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 10, 2018 03:00 PM (y7DUB)

479
so, like, waist deep.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM (yL25O)

Someone's getting hit with an iceball.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 10, 2018 03:00 PM (t6MX/)

480 new thread, yo

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at December 10, 2018 03:00 PM (ZqRa6)

481 474 so, like, waist deep.
Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 02:56 PM

Welcome to The List.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2018 02:59 PM (ctuyM)

...

I already have official sealed papers for a cot and extra smallpox-free blanket in Alextopia.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 10, 2018 03:00 PM (yL25O)

482 Ion power. Aye, we could learn a thing or two from them. - Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott

Posted by: Archer at December 10, 2018 03:01 PM (gmo/4)

483 I remember the USNavy recruiter telling us that getting trained for sub duty would translate to good job with the budding nuclear power electric generation industry that would served us through out our lifetimes.

Good thing I couldn't pass the physical. I'd be an over educated unemployable Nuke Tech. Worse off than Homer Simpson.


A young friend of mine, for whom I wrote a letter of recommendation to the Navy, has recently started nuke training. (Which is apparently very prestigious.)

I tried to provide some balance by pointing out that his Navy career might end unexpectedly, e.g., when a Democrat President decides to RIF half of the Navy or something, and that he should give a thought to what he'd do then. My suggestion was he might want to think about one of the other options, which in his case was supply. Maybe not glamorous, but if the Navy rug gets pulled out from under him, there'd be a zillion opportunities for someone with experience in logistics.

Alas, he plumped for the nukes anyway. Ah well.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2018 03:03 PM (A2Uq6)

484 I intend to lose a lot of weight, once one of those fucking lazy scientists invents a pill that instantly makes the pounds melt away. I mean, hop on that shit, I'm courting a massive heart attack here. I can't keep on waiting forever, you know.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at December 10, 2018 03:08 PM (AJj50)

485
Wait.... Gray's Anatomy is still on..... meaning people are still watching? I assume they must have killed off all the original actors by now.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 10, 2018 03:08 PM (r+sAi)

486
449 -studio fucking audience

has anyone told the paris 2024 olympics committee about this new spectator sport?

Posted by: Anachronda at December 10, 2018 03:09 PM (NmR1a)

487
Isn't solar power technically a type fusion energy?And wind power?
I'd take a hint from God.
He located the reactor 93 million miles away for a reason.

Posted by: rayj at December 10, 2018 03:11 PM (pI/IV)

488 You forgot:
Maersk: We tried out these really cool huge kites that pull like crazy, but we only get 2.2 knots out of them, which is not very competitive. We plan to try harnessing hundreds of trained porpoises next, but if you think herding cats is tough... if you get that many of them together, all they want to do is fuck their brains out, and the hull gets really sticky.

ps. Morons, there REALLY ARE huge kites that some ships use to get slightly better efficiency downwind, and they really do look cool.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 10, 2018 03:13 PM (JqqRY)

489 Isn't solar power technically a type fusion energy?And wind power?
I'd take a hint from God.
He located the reactor 93 million miles away for a reason.
Posted by: rayj at December 10, 2018 03:11 PM (pI/IV)

The kind of fusion we can do doesn't release any harmful radiation, and has no potential for runaway reactions. Don't think of it like fission, it's a very different animal.

Posted by: Cato by Phone at December 10, 2018 03:14 PM (J+mig)

490 You realize if we didn't have an atmosphere it would be colder than Hell....like MARS!

CO2 is like a nice warm blankee to keep us warm.

Democrats are retarded.

Posted by: torabora at December 10, 2018 03:20 PM (k/w1G)

491
"The kind of fusion we can do doesn't release any harmful radiation, and
has no potential for runaway reactions. Don't think of it like fission,
it's a very different animal."
It also doesn't work. "has no potential for runaway reactions" means it has no potential to generate more energy than it consumes. In order to get a functional fusion reactor, you need to duplicate the conditions in the sun.
Which is best done in the sun.

Posted by: rayj at December 10, 2018 03:21 PM (pI/IV)

492 Fusion is unobtainable without a way to contain it....a method needs to be able feed fuel to the nuclear fire....it's too hot to contain.

Maybe Algore can figure it out but who knows what the fuck that guy does with his time and money.

Meanwhile Biden is curing cancer.

Posted by: torabora at December 10, 2018 03:24 PM (k/w1G)

493 429 390 So, our flying cars will be WIND POWERED!!! they'll be pushme-pullyus like the dornier do-335. the windmill on the front collects the power to drive the propeller on the rear.

Oh, sort of like NET tax expenses! Rep. Ossified-Cortex can explain it. She will be Chair of the Energy Sub-committee by then, so she can just make it so. Problem solved!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 10, 2018 03:24 PM (JqqRY)

494
"Fusion is unobtainable without a way to contain it....a method needs to
be able feed fuel to the nuclear fire....it's too hot to contain."
Gravity works.
But it requires a level of mass of the same magnitude as stars.

Posted by: rayj at December 10, 2018 03:26 PM (pI/IV)

495 My new years resolution: I vow to take significant steps towards eating healthy with a goal to phase out ALL twinkie consumption by 2050

Posted by: dw at December 10, 2018 03:27 PM (stPAM)

496 I'll go ahead and bet it's not cheaper.

Initially, it would be hella expensive. But after 10 years of running without buying 800,000,000 gallons of diesel?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 03:30 PM (39g3+)

497 That one scene where Watanabe pulls out the burned up watch to try to shame the American nuclear barbarians....

Yes, because dead by nuclear bomb is so much worse than dead by bullet or incendiary bomb. You don't die as much when its a conventional bomb, you see.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2018 03:34 PM (39g3+)

498 They didn't rule out oars I notice...hmmmm

Posted by: ronsfi at December 10, 2018 03:35 PM (N0xgg)

499 I pledge that I will not be consuming any Twinkies by 2050. Do I get a star for my front window?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 10, 2018 03:36 PM (JqqRY)

500 These modern Eco-Wackos are total idiots lets see how long these jerks would last if all petroleum based products were cut off to them by 100 % lets see how like they would last

Posted by: Tamaa Bird 1000 Voices at December 10, 2018 04:32 PM (wGqjj)

501 You know that thing I keep doing in your mouth? Yeah, if you let me do it just once more, I promise it'll never happen again...

...ok, actually, just twice more, but then that's it...

...no, maybe more like ten times, swearsies...

...how about 99, it's less than 100, see?...

...come to think of it, this is harder than I thought (see what I did there?), so just let me have another 1000, and I'll be good. No, no, I'll keep track right here in this notebook. Yes, that's a conveniently erasable pen, why do you ask?...

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at December 10, 2018 04:45 PM (Hi8cV)

502 Funniest part is the responses that imagine a commercial shipping operator being allowed to get nuclear fuel to operate nuclear powered container ships.

The naivete of these people is staggering. Nuclear powered ships use fissile material that can be weaponized, one way or another. I would be SHOCKED if a commercial entity, operating on the open ocean were ever allowed to license nuclear fuel.

Posted by: deadrody at December 10, 2018 06:31 PM (jsGbO)

503 Have they considered a wind powered ship? I know that it's crazy futuristic thinking but it might just work.

Posted by: Capt. Ahab at December 10, 2018 06:52 PM (ur/Uv)

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More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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