Sending Chrome Tabs to get_iPlayer on MacOS via the Command Line.

It’s a pretty simple command line…

osascript -e{'set text item delimiters to linefeed','tell app"google chrome"to url of tabs of windows as text'} | grep -E 'www.bbc.co.uk/programme|www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode' | xargs -t -n1  get_iplayer --pid-recursive
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Astronomical Engineering: A Strategy for Modifying Planetary Orbits

The Sun’s gradual brightening will seriously compromise the Earth’s biosphere within ~ 1E9 years. If Earth’s orbit migrates outward, however, the biosphere could remain intact over the entire main-sequence lifetime of the Sun.

D. G. Korycansky, Gregory Laughlin, Fred C. Adams

Apparently the solution to everything getting warmer is to just move the planet.