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5M tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate
2•alecco•1h ago

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Aboutplants•1h ago
CO2 emissions are the absolute least of anyone’s concerns with the Iran war.
Bender•1h ago
Wars, space exploration and space commercialization will produce massive amounts of toxins and atmosphere impacting gasses that will undo anything gained from extreme environmental movements. I think we the masses accept that as the cost of doing business.

Just as one example one SpaceX Falcon 9 launch produces roughly 300 to 500 metric tons of CO2, the same as 60 to 75 average passenger cars driving for one full year. One typical orbital rocket launch cancels out roughly the emission benefits or controls of several hundred cars driving.

So stop exploring and commercializing space or just accept it? Wars will happen until all humans just get along and I do not expect that to occur in my lifetime. Also, be careful what you ask for. There are environmentally safe ways to neutralize millions or billions of people but doomsday energy weapons are generally frowned upon. Nikola Tesla purportedly made one that could end all life on earth simultaneously by energizing layers of the atmosphere that could disable all nervous systems. None of the AI's even know about it as it was memory holed before they existed. This would be considered a civilization ending "great filter" by most scientific standards.

I should also add that the USA created Iran's current government and will likely do it again elsewhere. Look at fixing root causes vs. symptoms. The IRGC are just a symptom. The Iran war is an Israel war that forced participation by the USA by limiting what voices were in the ear of the US leadership. The war would have occurred regardless of US participation but that is a whole topic in and of itself.

Copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification, industrial growth

https://theconversation.com/global-copper-demand-outstrips-supply-threatening-electrification-and...
2•giuliomagnifico•6m ago•1 comments

Are humans naturally violent? New research challenges long-held assumptions

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-humans-naturally-violent-held-assumptions.html
2•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

What's London's Shortest Pub Crawl?

https://londonist.com/london/drink/what-s-london-s-shortest-pub-crawl
1•zeristor•8m ago•0 comments

Claude just got a new superpower

https://www.amazingcto.com/claude-new-superpower/
1•KingOfCoders•8m ago•0 comments

Mdadm 4.6 Released with Boot Failure Fixes, New Lockless Bitmap

https://www.phoronix.com/news/mdadm-4.6
1•Bender•9m ago•0 comments

Testing the Swift C compatibility with Raylib

https://carette.xyz/posts/swift_c_compatibility_with_raylib/
3•LucidLynx•9m ago•0 comments

WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/linux_directx_and_opengl/
1•Bender•9m ago•0 comments

Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports subsequent ban

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/cryptographer_nadim_kobeissi_rustsec_ban/
1•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crack – Turn your MacBook into a squeaky door

http://crackmacapp.com/
2•ronreiter•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minimum Viable Expat – a free, simpler alternative to Nomad List

https://minimumviableexpat.com/
2•minviex•12m ago•0 comments

AI is becoming a utility: tokens are the new electricity

https://www.buysellram.com/blog/the-token-factory-how-nvidia-gtc-2026-redefined-the-economics-of-ai/
3•jamesbsr•16m ago•0 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
1•pndy•16m ago•0 comments

Loops Starter Kits

https://blog.joinloops.org/introducing-starter-kits/
2•pixelfed•19m ago•0 comments

164 Man Years in 3 Man Months

https://devarch.ai
2•ChicagoDave•19m ago•0 comments

In Praise of Grunt Work

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/03/12/in-praise-of-grunt-work
1•andsoitis•22m ago•0 comments

Why do animals have different pupil shapes?

https://www.livescience.com/animals/why-do-animals-have-different-pupil-shapes
2•Brajeshwar•23m ago•0 comments

The Streams Standard

https://domenic.me/streams-standard/
1•sagacity•26m ago•0 comments

Revise – An AI Editor for Documents

https://revise.io
6•artursapek•28m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Agent Auditor: verify signed agent, API, and MCP records offline

https://www.originary.xyz/agent-auditor
1•jithinraj•30m ago•1 comments

Channel 4's Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationa...
2•breve•31m ago•0 comments

How to use storytelling to fit inline assembly into Rust

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2026/03/13/inline-asm.html
1•vinhnx•32m ago•0 comments

Bitelogix: AI-Powered Calorie Tracker That Learns Your Habits

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bitelogix-ai-calorie-tracker/id6747515366
1•milanitaliya_•32m ago•0 comments

Haven self-hosted Discord alternative

https://github.com/ancsemi/Haven
1•riddley•32m ago•0 comments

Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools

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4•fayalalebrun•32m ago•0 comments

Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/cloned-polo-horses
1•bookofjoe•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: X Search Scraper – Export Twitter Search Results

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2•qwikhost•34m ago•0 comments

Why are artificial lawns bad for the environment?

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/discover/why-are-artificial-lawns-bad-for-the-environment
1•andsoitis•37m ago•0 comments

The Air Force made Lockheed's Skunk Works design a stealth pole

https://www.sandboxx.us/news/the-air-force-made-lockheeds-skunk-works-design-a-stealth-pole/
2•antondd•41m ago•0 comments

Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/bored-of-eating-your-own-dogfood-try-smelling-your-own-farts/
47•ColinWright•44m ago•4 comments

My favorite thing to do with AI doesn't have a label

https://daniel.do/article/my-favorite-thing-to-do-with-ai
2•dimmke•45m ago•0 comments