BTW I have a Lucian’s Solutions question!

If dropped into Earth’s atmosphere, would a kernel of popcorn, pop, before being incinerated by re-entry?

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

I feel kinda bad saying this, I love all the stuff, but 19 was bad for me. The use of the tern “fat little penguin” didn’t fit with the character, and it was used way to much. I found it was distracting me from the actual important updates to the plot.

Sorry L. You know everybody loves ya though anyway right? I’m just trying to be constructive. I’m still hooked on the book and await 20 with anticipation.

Great chapter. I hope you have got some good offers to make a movie from the story. December 2012 would be a perfekt time to bring it to the movie theaters. I nearly can´t wait to hear how the story is going on.

Bye, Heiko

Steven from Kuala Lumpur

Cheers
Brad

Lucian

The podcast audio correctly says 12/21/12, the transcript is wrong.

Lucian

By far the best part has to be the article on the apparently free energy machine. I think what is happening is that the magnets are taking advantage of the energy that exists in the vacuum of space which electrons pick up at the same rate they lose energy. So you’re not exactly creating free energy you’re just absorbing it. It’s like drop-ing a dry sponge into a puddle. Look at Joseph Newman’s The Energy Machine invented 1984. Unfortunately that one doesn’t work

I read your article, it’s well thought out and clearly states your position. However, I still respectfully disagree with your conclusions. Some comments follow.

> Because, you cannot have absolute confirmation that a catastrophic change is occurring - until it has begun and cannot be stopped.

My position is that this sort of thinking is designed to produce and emotional response, and not a logical conclusion. I still must insist that the burden of proof is on the catastrophist to design a scientific model of future events and demonstrate that you are accurately predicting weather and climate patterns.

It’s been more than 10 years since the Kyoto Accord and no one has yet produced an accurate model of the notorious effects of global warning.

> reduce and eventually eliminate the release of CO2 from fossil fuels

So assuming I agree with you, what is it exactly you’d like me to do to help, and what will you be doing yourself?

It sounds like what you’re suggesting requires us to shut down all cars, transport trucks, ships, and trains. To turn off our gas heating and electricity.

My concern would be — if everyone in North America turns off all these sources of energy — how do we get India, China and Russia to do the same.

Also, how do we address natural sources of CO2 like the new outbreak of mountain pine beetles in British Columbia that will be producing more CO2 than all of Canada’s industries combines?

link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/04/23/scibeetle123.xml

> By strongly curtailing the release of ozone depleting emissions, the ozone layer has actually healed up in places much faster than was anticipated.

Oh dear, you’re going to hate me again.

The ozone story reminds me of that scene in The Shipping News where the old newspaper man observes dark clouds on the horizon and concocts the headline, “Deadly Storm Threatens Town”. When asked, what if there’s no storm, he replies then tomorrow’s headline will read, “Town Spared By Deadly Storm”.

I’m very skeptical that changing hairspray from spray cans to spritz, and changing Big Mac boxes from styrofoam to cardboard had anything to do with addressing any ozone problems.

I put that right up there with how billions of dollars of investments saved us from the Y2K bug. I lived through that frenzy that we were all going to get skin cancer if corporations like McDonald’s didn’t smarten up. And after a few years it all just kind of … went away. I fully expect in a half dozen years or so global warming will be old news and we’ll be onto the next looming crisis; it’ll be something like running out of clean water, or the rubber we use in car tires is evil or something.

Sorry to be so cynical.

Here’s my offer … model from me what the average temperatures and ocean levels will be over the next ten years. After five years, we’ll see how accurate your model is, and we’ll act accordingly.

In the meantime, let’s please spend all that carbon trading money on curing cancer and cleaning polution that I can see and taste.

Nice chatting with you and stay cool. (Ha, no pun intended.

PS. I’ll try posting this as a comment on your web site too.

In the 10th paragraph or no he states:
“The number of molecules of CO2 gas in just one liter is multiple of Avogadro’s number (which has 23 digits in it).”

The number is actually approximately 6.022*10^23… that is 24 digits in front of the decimal point. I really am not one to nit-pick, but if one of the main arguments is that you are good with numbers, please show that you understand scientific notation if you want me to believe you when talking about extremely complex math.

Respectfully,

Brad

Please please bring back planet tv. I loved it. Kept me sane when I was living in Kuala Lumpur.

Rufus

Great to read your notice of returning to producing more shows.

I’m sure your “line of work” has only contributed to the depths and heights that you are able to take us, your audience, so as hard as it is to wait, just knowing that there is more content coming makes my day.

Thanks and keep up the great work.

Don
Thousand Oaks, CA

Very willing to pay for this book (Audio or print or ebook)

Just let so all know Please!

Hope to see you back soon.

rod

how did they got the datas from the buoyage when all antennas got destroyed through the electrical storm?

CU,

Heiko

p.s. I can´t wait for the next chapter.

Thanks for the great comments. I took your advice and will have music for the chapter two and beyond. As for the partial podcasting, as I understand it, neither Scott nor J.C. had a publishing deal when they began their podcasts. They have sold copies since then, but I’m not sure about the volume. Both Scott and J.C. have recently announced book deals with publishers for new manuscripts. As for me, I have agents and publishers negotiating for the book(s) already. The audiobook rights will have to be part of the publishing deal. I want to do something for the podcast listerners, but I won’t know what that can be until the book is actually published.

Anyway, thanks again.

Lucian

Lucian here. It seems I got pulled off of the iTunes Literature setting on Monday or Tuesday. I forgot to put in the correct iTunes tag when I updated the feed on Sunday evening. It is now back on the first page. Sorry. I write the feed by hand and by memory. But I forgot to update the internal ROM between my ears. It has been corrected. Now if I could just get the thumb drive out of my ear…

Lucian

Otherwise keep up the great work and I look forward to Planet TV 2.0, I’ve missed you!
Baxter

bring it on.

-m-

Links would still be nice.