There's a state park near me with awesome caves that I used to explore for hours. They're all blocked off now, which is sad, but worth it to help the bats.

Kinda. It should be noted that the space elevator in Foundation is completely ridiculous. The cable structure would not need to be that utterly massive. A real elevator would use a cable or ribbon that would slow enough as it hit the atmosphere to be a nuisance that might kill a person if it hit them directly, but it wouldn't be leveling swathes if city.

You do accelerate to orbital velocity using a space elevator, you just do it over ~35,000 miles and dozens of hours.

It should be noted that the space elevator in Foundation is completely ridiculous. The cable structure would not need to be that utterly massive. A real elevator would use a cable or ribbon that would slow enough as it hit the atmosphere to be a nuisance that might kill a person if it hit them directly, but it wouldn't be leveling swathes if city.

> Having a 35,000km structure collapse onto the Earth sounds pretty darn "impactful".

I might damage your roof, and it'd be a huge pain in the ass, but it's not like it'd be a tower that crushes everything beneath it.

Water vapor doesn't hang around for decades the way CO2 does.

No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUiIdre-MI

Hehe, maybe when "10,000 g" isn't part of the description.

Peterson is not worth anyone's time.

His first point there is that because projections get less accurate the further you go into the future, we can't do anything. That's insane. Not only is he ignoring the past warming that we can directly measure, but it just doesn't follow. We can solve problems even if predictions about that problem aren't perfectly certain out into the infinite future.

Then he lies about Germany's emissions, failing to mention their withdrawal from nuclear power and blaming it on green energy.

And so on. His points are all complete nonsense, but he sounds confident while saying them.