Uncommon Descent Ended the Year with a Bang!

Thanks Dave. Perhaps we can take the sugar "out-of-play" so to speak. That is we lock it up, as you suggest. Do you think this is worth a thread and hammer out a possible solution to the crisis we humans created? Or if not could you have people go to my blog to discuss this further? Preventive Maintenance & Global Warming: Reversing the trend And I am serious about making this a reality. Joseph

Sure it can be done but what's the point? The sugar gets burnt and the CO2 liberated back to the atmosphere in the process. In order to take CO2 out of play it needs to be locked up in some more permanent form like carbonate rocks (limestone, dolomite, chalk, and marble). DaveScot

I have a serious question and I don't know where else to ask it. Is the following feasible?:

Preventive Maintenance & Global Warming: Reversing the trend 6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6 + 6O2 That's right- photosynthesis. We make artificial plants- that is massive structures (as space allows) run by solar power that suck in the air via man-made stomata, mix it with water and mimic the reaction that is photosynthesis. Then have the O2 exit other man-made stomata. Place these facilities near factories, cities, yada, yada, yada Then sell the sugar...

Joseph

Dave, Upon thinking on it it had to do with possibly being logged in on two separate computers over the course of time, possibly an improper shutdown. I can in theory test it. Sorry to bring it up in the middle of our celebration, but it gave me an opportunity to solicit feedback from our readers if they have ever had a similar problem. I test something out and let you know. It would be unfortunate if we lost even a small percent of readership to a technical glitch. Sal scordova

Doug We were relisted by Google in November. Look for a posting about in that month. DaveScot

Two thumbs waaay up! Ever since Dover, finding anyone willing to keep up an online community to discuss Intelligent Design and keep up on the news about the research and public relations is like finding a 31 dodge out in a field all covered with brambles: the way things aren't anymore. What happened with the google delisting? Did you post about it? Thank you for keeping up the serious inquiry and also for keeping a sense of humor in the face of intolerable critisism. Doug

Sal Do you have any ideas as to what the problem was? Gil It's due to no advertising. Remember the google "smart ads" that used to pop up in the middle of the page and all the book adverts on the right column. DaveScot

Dave, FYI since I would like to get more hits for our site, I should mention that for the first time I had to delete cookies and files off of a machine to access UD. Hopefully it only affects the few people like me who log in and comment, but I thought I should mention it. Reminds me of a problem PandasThumb had not too long ago. Sal scordova

Dave, I’m curious as to why December visits exceeded those in August, but pages, files and hits were apparently considerably lower. GilDodgen

Congrats Dave, Bill et al. tribune7

Awesome! Congrats on the blog stats. May 2007 be a year of constant record breaking! Jared White

http://www.marketrends.net/webalizerfaq.htm

Visits Whenever a request is made to the server from a given IP address (site), the amount of time since a previous request by the address is calculated (if any). If the time difference is greater than a preconfigured 'visit timeout' value (or has never made a request before), it is considered a 'new visit', and this total is incremented (both for the site, and the IP address). The default timeout value is 30 minutes (can be changed), so if a user visits your site at 1:00 in the afternoon, and then returns at 3:00, two visits would be registered. Note: in the 'Top Sites' table, the visits total should be discounted on 'Grouped' records, and thought of as the "Minimium number of visits" that came from that grouping instead. Note: Visits only occur on PageType requests, that is, for any request whose URL is one of the 'page' types defined with the PageType option. Due to the limitation of the HTTP protocol, log rotations and other factors, this number should not be taken as absolutely accurate, rather, it should be considered a pretty close "guess".

The stats in the article are from Webalizer. No one changed the default 30 minutes between unique visits. Thanks for asking. Any more questions? DaveScot

You need to be careful with these stats. Are they unique hits or are they counting one hit for every graphic on the page plus one hit for body text etc. Look for unique hits on the stats page. Robo