US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?

 

[pwnest injun]

People have spent more than half a century trying to create even one successful caronavirus vaccine and failed, but we surely got it this time! lmao!

 

[Garm]

It's wild, but you'd think he'd do something proactive with it? Say that the situation proves that we need to invest more in renewables so we don't get another predicament like this in the future, instead of quietly trying to rally OPEC. Heck, that might really get them to try lowering prices, if they believe we're seriously searching for alternative solutions. I dunno, I'm admittedly spit-balling this.

There is another problem with the overall "Go Green" initiative. The biggest problem I can think of at the moment is there isn't enough lithium in the Earth's crust for everyone to get an electric vehicle. So Biden's "Electric by 2035" or whatever year is going to come up short of the bright shiny utopia of zipping around in an electric sports car.

Another problem is reliability. For vital functions (hospitals, utilities, etc) they will have to have backup generators that run on a petroleum product.

So far it seems nuclear would be the best way forward but it seems like a hospital full of patients is going to have to die from a power outage before the thinking starts changing on that.

 

[Gehenna]

There is another problem with the overall "Go Green" initiative. The biggest problem I can think of at the moment is there isn't enough lithium in the Earth's crust for everyone to get an electric vehicle. So Biden's "Electric by 2035" or whatever year is going to come up short of the bright shiny utopia of zipping around in an electric sports car.

Another problem is reliability. For vital functions (hospitals, utilities, etc) they will have to have backup generators that run on a petroleum product.

So far it seems nuclear would be the best way forward but it seems like a hospital full of patients is going to have to die from a power outage before the thinking starts changing on that.

A tangent, this is why I really wanted Trump's space agencies stuff to continue in full. Military funding would unlock possibilities, possibilities in which "Get to the asteroid belt" is a big, BIG motivator.

If we can gain two-way goods transport, and a mining operation, say goodbye to the rare earth shortage. Hell, that'd also require at least basic manufacturing advancements. SPACE space manufacturing. That'd cut a ton of emissions down a ton.

Getting into space and really developing that would go a massive way to fixing a lot of current and future problems.

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

SPACE space manufacturing. That'd cut a ton of emissions down a ton.

Then they would start catastrophizing about space pollution.

 

[Gehenna]

Then they would start catastrophizing about space pollution.

Capture it, launch it into Venus. You wouldn't pump that shit out into space, and it being already up there means you just need a basic trajectory and a single thing giving propulsion.

 

[Billy Beer]

Just build a big fuck-off chimney that reaches in to space, and send all the world's rubbish to get burned there.

Job done.

 

[Gehenna]

Just build a big fuck-off chimney that reaches in to space, and send all the world's rubbish to get burned there.

Job done.

Realistically why not, the sheer force of planetary rotation would rip it apart. Same reason that "space elevators" won't work. Sadly.

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

Capture it, launch it into Venus. You wouldn't pump that shit out into space, and it being already up there means you just need a basic trajectory and a single thing giving propulsion.

I was emphasizing the activist lens, good looking though...

Realistically why not, the sheer force of planetary rotation would rip it apart. Same reason that "space elevators" won't work. Sadly.

How about just make an elevator...lol

 

[Billy Beer]

Realistically why not, the sheer force of planetary rotation would rip it apart. Same reason that "space elevators" won't work. Sadly.

If we built it out of bendy straws, it would be flexible enough not to be ripped apart.

That's not the reason it wouldn't work though, same with the space elevator. The reason is, if you put a big pipe-like structure from the ground in to space, the vacuum of space would suck the atmosphere from Earth and leave us all dead within a week.

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

If we built it out of bendy straws, it would be flexible enough not to be ripped apart.

That's not the reason it wouldn't work though, same with the space elevator. The reason is, if you put a big pipe-like structure from the ground in to space, the vacuum of space would suck the atmosphere from Earth and leave us all dead within a week.

Why doesn't the vacuum of space do that already?

 

[Bland Crumbs]

If we built it out of bendy straws, it would be flexible enough not to be ripped apart.

That's not the reason it wouldn't work though, same with the space elevator. The reason is, if you put a big pipe-like structure from the ground in to space, the vacuum of space would suck the atmosphere from Earth and leave us all dead within a week.

You would need some kind of pump for that:

 

[Billy Beer]

Why doesn't the vacuum of space do that already?

What im about to say comes from a my understanding of stuff, which at best is from the perspective of a window-licking retarded autistic mong cunt...

It does do it a little bit. Just like how water evaporates even in environments lower than boiling point. But if you put a tube from the ground at one pressure, the pressure difference in space would suck the shit out of the base. I think. Who knows? It was only a half-joking, half-off-topic, shit post.

 

[X Prime]

Capture it, launch it into Venus. You wouldn't pump that shit out into space, and it being already up there means you just need a basic trajectory and a single thing giving propulsion.

Not for nothing, but you seem to be assuming good faith on the part of environmentalists. If I had a newspaper I would whap you across the nose and go "stop that!"

 

[Gehenna]

Not for nothing, but you seem to be assuming good faith on the part of environmentalists. If I had a newspaper I would whap you across the nose and go "stop that!"

Oh god no, it's more I am assuming its possible to defang the spergery from them by setting up a situation where anyone listening to them would go "and?".

 

[X Prime]

Oh god no, it's more I am assuming its possible to defang the spergery from them by setting up a situation where anyone listening to them would go "and?".

Honestly you can do that for a lot of things they say already. The problem, as always, is the media grip.

 

[The Last Stand]

Capture it, launch it into Venus. You wouldn't pump that shit out into space, and it being already up there means you just need a basic trajectory and a single thing giving propulsion.

Didn't I see that on an episode of Futurama? Except it was a trash planet.

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

from the perspective of a window-licking retarded autistic mong cunt...

That's gold.

 

[LurkTrawl]

Capture it, launch it into Venus. You wouldn't pump that shit out into space, and it being already up there means you just need a basic trajectory and a single thing giving propulsion.

Man, I'd love to be the guy who's on an orbital platform near the Kuiper belt drop-kicking giant bins of garbage towards Venus.

Why doesn't the vacuum of space do that already?

It's got a lot to do with the magnetosphere, as far as I'm aware. One of the big reasons Mars dried the fuck up and died is that it's core, iirc, cooled and stopped spinning at a rate/temperature that could generate a magnetic field strong enough to keep solar winds from literally blowing every drop of liquid water off of the planet, along with the atmosphere it possibly could've had.

The aurora borealis effect is caused by solar winds scraping across our magnetosphere, to add a random factoid.

 

[Billy Beer]

Biden is so unpopular, that it's more interesting to talk about launching rubbish into space, space elevators and solar winds.

#post mopular esident prever

 

[Eggplant Wizard]

They offshore everything they don't trust Americans to do. They say we can't drill, can't do genetic research, can't work for shit wages, and then they hire out foreign mercenaries to do the dirty work so they don't have to be without their precious engineered viruses or oil or consumer goods. I can't stand these fucking people, they are enemies of the state.

It isn’t that they don’t trust us. They know for a fact that we can do the job insanely well, which leads to bonuses and upward mobility. The issue is that well paid US citizens tend to vote Republican. If there was a 60/40 chance of high-income individuals voting Democrat, there would be so many jobs we wouldn’t be able to fill them all.