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We paid $1,000 (a LOT of money) for our set when we were just married in 1980. Every piece of that set still looks like new, with a mirror finish, and every lid handle and pot handle is still tight like it just came out of the box. They are naturally non-stick, cook everything with only a tiny bit of water, and are indestructible. The ones pictured on the website today look exactly like the ones we have used daily for 40 years, since they cannot be improved upon. Made in Wisconsin since 1906 and every piece is guaranteed forever.

They are only sold direct or at county fairs, home improvement shows and the like, but they are worth the high price since you will NEVER need to replace them.

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Twice the fuselage weight, cost for same number of seats, plus two gigantic engines located well aft of Center of Pressure.

There’s a good reason we don’t see any aircraft with a design like this today. It doesn’t work financially or aerodynamically.

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Google+ had 52 million users?

That should be the headline.

Yes, sea levels are constantly rising -- at exactly the same slow, steady, manageable rate they have been rising for as long as we have been measuring them.

Modifying flood insurance coverage maps isn't anything new, either, but any changes being made should not be blamed on an INCREASE in the rate of rise, because there is no INCREASE in the rate of rise.

Greenland usually gains about 350-400 billion tons of ice over the summer, but this year, it gained 550 billion tons and is still gaining.

Temperatures in the center of Greenland's ice sheet never rose above -10C all summer, so it's hard to see how it could have lost any ice. Ice accumulation is nearly two standard deviations above the 1981-2010 mean for the same period, and it is very, very early in the season for such gains.

Both of Greenland's largest glaciers (Jakobshavn and Peterman) are growing at record rates, about 1km/year.

Icepacks and glaciers calve into the sea. That's what they do. It's Nature's way of moving the ice and snow away from the center and back into the ocean. If they didn't, the snowpack/ice would extend to the Equator, which is impossible, or the snowpack would be 5 miles high, which is not the case.

Whatever the reason for the change in flood zone lines -- less risk tolerance by the insurers, more accurate mapping, over-development, etc. -- it shouldn't be because of a change in the rate of sea level rise, because there isn't one.

As far as Greenland goes, this year is beating last year's immense gain in surface ice coverage (just past the middle of summer there), and is on track to do even better than 2016's 5th-biggest-on-record gain in surface ice coverage.

So far this season, Greenland is gaining about 50 gigatons PER DAY in ice -- and the rate of gain is INCREASING.

https://beta.dmi.dk/uploads/tx_dmidatastore/webservice/b/m/s...

https://beta.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-she...

Unless you build your house less than 18 inches above sea level, you will not live long enough to have the long-run trend in sea level rise affect where you live.

Humans have been dealing with and adapting to the natural rate of sea level rise for hundreds of years. Most of Florida, most of Manhattan, almost all of Louisiana, and many, many other highly-populated areas were uninhabitable swampland before we learned to master sea level and the slow, natural rise that has gone on for as long as we have been making scientific measurements.

This panic about rapidly rising seas is nonsense. No Pacific islands have "disappeared" due to sea level rise, nor have any Arctic or Alaskan villages -- those that have seen changes are due to subsidence, not rising seas.

If you want to attribute the 160-year record of slow, steady, 2-3mm/year (2-3cm/decade) natural rise in sea levels to some mysterious factor that has been in place since CO2 levels were below 300, let's hear your theory. Otherwise, there is nothing to be alarmed about.

And yet, there has been no increase in the rate of sea level rise for as long as records have been kept.

Here's the sea level data for San Francisco, CA since Abraham Lincoln was President:

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....

Nice consistent trend going back 167 years. 1.94mm/year, +/- 0.19mm, for as long as we have been keeping records.

There is NO increase in the rate of sea level rise here, or anywhere in the US, that is above long-run trends going back to the start of record keeping. A quick glance at official government data will prove it. In fact, many West Coast stations (as well as Hawaii), show a decrease in sea level, due to continental rebound and volcanic rise.