[Paladin2]

Let’s pass a law making pi = 3.00

[a fool in paradise]

They are trying to make biological decisions with regards to sexual identity. No one ever really changes his or her sex.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Neither should left wing politicians.

[familyop]

"Voters" NIMBYs, being technically incapable, "should not make engineering decisions." Middle class residential, rural real estate prices will go generally down for decades anyway. The something-for-nothing flipping racket is gone.

[NorthMountain]

This technology has allowed the U.S. to become one of the world's largest oil and gas producers today and prevented an energy crisis that the communist 'environmental' movement has tried for decades to precipitate.

[Jedidah]

They’ve been fracking and pumping under my house and neighborhood for a couple of years now.

Not one problem. You’d never even know it, except for the lease payment and small royalty checks.

That’s because our entire subdivision bargained with the drilling company, both for money and for specifics as to location of the site and environmental concerns. With horizontal drilling, well sites can be placed well away from homes and businesses.

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

It’s been my experience after a half-century of working with and overseeing engineers that they almost universally make recommendations and decisions based on facts and scientific analysis. What they sometimes fail at is seeing beyond the envelope of their immediate inquiry. IOW, foreseeing unintended consequences.

TC