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  1. Alright, serious question about podcasts. How often do you see yourself doing podcasts to discuss things? And do you see podcasts as a good opportunity to have a talk with members of the community in an active conversation?

     

    Maybe as frequent as once a week, probably at least once a month. And yes, I imagine I'll take some questions and do some Q&A stuff as part of future podcasts.

  2. Very interesting indeed. There issue I see with this is that as nations grow larger, land pretty much has to scale with it. You just can't build a 2000+ infra city on 500 land efficiently. And nations with a large population are the type of countries most likely to be investing resources into defensive systems. Perhaps instead of land, population density?

     

    Missile damage is already increased (potentially) with a high population density.

  3. Just look it up. For the last 3 billion years, the earth has changed back and forth between a hot house and a snowball. It's called the Ice Age (glacial period). There have been many of them and they never last very long. We are currently living at the tail end of an ice age.

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

     

    While I'd be happy to hear that climate change isn't man-made, and we can continue to drive our big trucks and whatnot around, how do you refute something like this?

     

    global-temp-and-co2-1880-2009.gif

    Again, I'm no expert on climate science, but there's these two clashing groups with opposing scientific theories, and, well, science just isn't that opinionated. Is there proof that the data we've collected, correlating CO2 levels to increasing temperatures, isn't actually a cause/effect relationship?

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  4. This obviously doesn't address pollution and destruction of the environment, but I don't know why we haven't been able to set up some sort of apparatus that captures carbion dioxide out of the air, and just pumps it underground. Or, maybe make CO2 pipelines from urban areas to forests, where the CO2 would (theoretically) be better captured by the plant life. It would take government operation/subsidies, but I'd imagine if you got a few nations on board (India, China, US, and others) that would eliminate the whole "carbon footprint" thing.

     

    Note: I am not even closed to a climate expert, and I totally understand that everything I just said might be completely wrong :P

  5. I think this is a good idea, perhaps giving multiple options? Say you have a law about drugs. I can think of three options for this right now. 1. All drugs are illegal. 2. Certain drugs are legal. 3. All drugs are legal.

     

    This could have many effects and I think would give more than just yes/no

     

    There doesn't need to be options, just different laws.

     

    One law makes all drugs illegal. One law makes only the harshest drugs illegal. One laws decriminalizes all drugs.

     

    Each would probably have an effect on the crime rate in relation to the population, so at a different nation size each is optimal.

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