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It's a metaphor of economics, of a balance sheet, of accounting, of transactions.
So after some experimentation, we decided to use an industrial sensor, used as a safety trigger in hazardous areas as the sensor, and a black neoprene rubber sheet as the cover.
This is produced using ice sheet and climate models.
So why can't we say with confidence whether or not a significant portion of a continent-scale ice sheet will or will not collapse?
In fact, we have much more comprehensive observations of the surface of Mars than we do of what's beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.
And the echos that come back contain information about what's happening inside and beneath the ice sheet.
This is a radargram, which is a vertical profile through the ice sheet, kind of like a slice of cake.
The bright layer on the top is the surface of the ice sheet, the bright layer on the bottom is the bedrock of the continent itself, and the layers in between are kind of like tree rings, in that they contain information about the history of the ice sheet.
The red features are volcanoes or mountains; the areas that are blue would be open ocean if the ice sheet was removed.
It does not give us any indication of how the ice sheet is changing in time.
So that produced two million high-resolution images that my group is now working on analyzing and processing for comparing with contemporary conditions in the ice sheet.
And as amazing as it is that we can look at what was happening under the ice sheet 50 years ago, this is still just one more snapshot.
So you take these radars and put them on the ice sheet and you bury a cache of car batteries.
And you leave them out there for months or years at a time, and they send a pulse down into the ice sheet every so many minutes or hours.
And if we're going to do that, we're going to need totally new ways of observing the ice sheet.
But it turns out that detecting the reflection of the sun off the surface of the ocean and detecting the reflection off the bottom of an ice sheet are extremely geophysically similar.
And if it does, we're going to need extremely low-cost sensors so we can deploy networks of hundreds or thousands of these on an ice sheet to do imaging.
And they're sticking together, forming layers and giving us a sheet on the surface.
So I spread it out onto a wooden sheet.
And it was almost like a sheet of paper, like a cutout of a childlike drawing of an oil spill or a sun.
So imagine a grid, like the one I'm showing you right now, and now imagine, within that grid, that two-dimensional sheet, imagine neurons.
And depending on how you create the pattern of lighting or not lighting, the digital elements, or, for that matter, the neurons in the sheet, you're going to be able to construct a map.
So this is how close your mental experience and the activity of the neurons in the retina, which is a part of the brain located in the eyeball, or, for that matter, a sheet of visual cortex.
You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter.
Take a blank sheet, of course, but then test your ideas at the limits — infinity, zero.
These curves for global temperature, atmospheric CO2 and sea level were derived from ocean cores and Antarctic ice cores, from ocean sediments and snowflakes that piled up year after year over 800,000 years forming a two-mile thick ice sheet.
This path, if continued, guarantees that we will pass tipping points leading to ice sheet disintegration that will accelerate out of control of future generations.
When I was in eighth grade, my teacher gave me a vocabulary sheet with the word "genocide."
Did you know that's a continuous sheet of cloud that's dipping in and out of the condensation layer?
It took a little longer to figure out: How do I create a cheap way to distribute sheet music?
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