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I started out not debating climate change, but trying to point people in the right direction (towards scientists) when trying to explain a seemingly mysterious phenomenon (a cold winter in China). Somebody asked "how will Al Gore explain the climate anomaly in China". My point is that scientists will attempt to explain the climate anomaly, and Gore may present the results at some point, but Gore isn't really the one to ask. He's a spokesperson not a scientist. Besides, by asking Gore, you get more caught up in politics than you do by looking for answers from the scientists. If I could find an answer from NASA or from somebody at Rice, I would feel more comfortable with it than if it came from a politician or spokesperson (nothing against Gore though).

I have no idea what you are trying to say here, but I do know that he never claimed to have invented the internet. He claimed to have taken the initiative that helped create the internet as we know through his work on the "High Performance Computing and Communication Act". Check your facts. Are you trying to make it look like I said he created the internet? I was quoting YOU! Your post makes it look like I said something that I didn't say (the quoted part of it)! And again the internet in the 80s was not the same as the internet the internet today. It was not as accessible as you think it was. There was no World Wide Web, etc. Most companies didn't even use email until the mid 90s. Maybe you're remembering using a BBS in the 80s (a dial up local area network with discussion boards and stuff). Those were much more popular and accessible to the average person in the 80s than the internet was. The modern domain name system wasn't even INVENTED until November 1983. And if you were one of the few using the internet back when it was mainly a educational/government network, good for you, but that is still sort of irrelevant to this discussion. My point is, the internet in the mid/late 90s was a huge leap forward from what the internet was in the 80s, and the "High Performance Computing and Communication Act" was a huge part of that, which Gore was involved in. No one person created the internet, or claimed to create the internet. I think the urban legend about Gore creating the internet came from a press misquote of him. Anyways, let's get this back on track. My original point was if we have questions about the Earth's climate, let's ask climatologists and leave Al Gore out of this. I could possibly even contact some climate researchers at Rice and try to find an answer to the question about the climate anomaly in China, if anybody is interested... although it seems like most of you are more into the politics than the science.

Then why when I said not to ask Gore because he is not a scientist, you asked me , I don't quite understand the purpose of this question, unless you're just trying to be annoying. Of course, but the internet as we know it did not exist, and it was not accessible by the average person. When I started using the internet in 1995 (I was in grade 8) I remember dialing up with a text based Telnet type client to connect and a text based browser called "Gopher". The web existed back then but it was still in its infancy, and most people (including my parents, business owners) didn't have email addresses or access to email for that matter. I remember getting my dad hooked up to the internet once PPP went mainstream and you didn't have to use an awful text based terminal type connection. Anyways, my point is in 1995 the internet was still fairly primitive. It's hard for me to realize how it must have been before 1991. Most likely it was fairly limited to government and university use.

Are you implying that Al Gore was a computer scientist? I think you need to read up on your history a bit. Ever heard of the "High Performance Computing and Communication Act"? When he took the initiative to help create the internet, he was a politician, not a scientist. He helped develop policy which was instrumental in the creation of the internet. If I wanted to know how the internet works from a technical standpoint, I'd as a computer scientist/engineer not Al Gore. If I wanted to know how government policy effected the emergence of the internet as we know it (as a public network rather than a military/governmental/research network), I might consider asking Al Gore.

Leave Al out of this. He's a spokesman, not a scientist. If you want an answer, ask a scientist. HINT: NASA is a good place to start.

This is actually the same shot as before but cropped differently so you can see One Park Place better. I forgot when I uploaded the other one that the size is reduced so you can't zoom in...

The Ashby highrise is planned for Ashby and Bissonnet not Shepherd and Alabama. It seem kind of a shame to replace the Ruchi's building with a highrise, because it's actually a decent block from a pedestrian's standpoint - with some trees between the sidewalk and the street and a decent width sidewalk. Why can't they replace a strip center with a new highrise rather than replacing one of the few building that is built up to the street? I guess whatever they do will be an improvement, but I'd rather see a strip center go first.

I am guessing the fines are high enough that they pay for all the people that don't get caught, or something like that.

Wow I just realized that post #103 is only 3 sentences!

The best feature of this thing in my opinion is that it can download email and newspaper articles wirelessly without the need for a wifi connection or a subscription, which means you could be riding on the metro, pull it out, and download the latest news to read. It's also got some neat technology in the screen (e-ink). That being said, an iPhone can do the same thing (download news articles and email wirelessly while on the bus), and it costs less, but it requires a subscription (and it's also a phone). I guess it's not as good for hard core reading, but for what I use it for, the iPhone is the best handheld device I've ever used.

What happened to it?

One Park Place as of yesterday (right side). It's now taller than the brownish building next to it. Looks like about 3 more floors than the last one I posted at the beginning of Jan.

Not to mention Little Woodrows in the Rice Village... I'm not going to be too disappointed, unless it becomes a parking lot. At least Little Woodrows is a chain and not something totally unique and irreplaceable.

I took this photo today of the actual museum expansion at the Children's Museum.

Speaking of "Reserve", I walked by the other day and it looked like they were getting pretty close to opening up for business!

Not to mention a 10 minute rail ride from Rice, Baylor, UT/MD Anderson, TWU, Prairie View Nursing, A&M Health Science Center, HCC, and the rest of the universities in the Medical Center area. According to www.TMC.edu, the Medical Center has 33,150 Full-time students and more than 75,000 part-time students.

I don't think your attachment worked... at least I don't see it.

Here's the webcam view as of today. The Methodist construction is in the upper left corner. The building in the center is the new Rice south plant. Also in the background you can see the Rice collaborative research center, as well as the new medical building on Holcombe.

I just figured out how to add the One Park Place 3D model to Google Earth! http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/det...2882a44b397b90d

Actually... it turns out you CAN download the one park place model and add it to Google Earth! Cool! http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/det...2882a44b397b90d And there are lots of other buildings not included by default too!

In San Francisco there were some really funky public toilets that sanitized themselves when you finished using them. The only problem was you had to wait about 10 minutes after somebody came out before you could go in while they did their automated cleaning process.

Hey Admins? Can you move this thread to "going up" ?? By the way, here's a nice rendering of this project. You can see it pretty well from the Rice South Plant webcam, and it's now at about the height of the Kindred hospital next door.. And more info and renderings here.

HAIF works fine on an iPhone, the only problem is sometimes you have to scroll down really far to get to the bottom of a thread and that can take a while with so many posts per page. I don't think iPhone has a gesture for skipping to the bottom of a webpage yet.

I just installed Google Earth on my new MacBook, and I noticed that Google Earth now has a 3D model of MainPlace in the skyline by default! This is great for giving us an idea of how it's going to look in a few years. Here's a screenshot. If only there was a 3D model for One Park Place...