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     Aesquire |
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/12/friday-funn y-chemtrails-theory-gets-shot-down-by-science/ Full disclosure, I don't believe in Chemtrails or CIA mind control through HARP. Subliminal conditioning on youtube with hidden commands in cute kitty videos? Maybe.  | ||
| Aesquire |
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/04/the-sinkhol e-our-descent-into-the-next-ice-age/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/07/28/incredibly- close-lightning-strike-recorded-on-slo-mo-video/ wow. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Best watch yourself... global warming will get you when you least expect it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIC0_fDp1Xw | ||
| Sifo |
There IS life after DEATH: Scientists reveal shock findings from groundbreaking study Here's the part that I find interesting...
So he's able to recall what happened, from outside of his body, what was going on, after his brain functions should have stopped. Accurate recall of visual experience too. Accurate recall of visual things, from an out of body perspective certainly has to raise the question of what happens to your consciousness after you pass. It almost seems like science is gathering evidence of the "soul". | ||
| Ducbsa |
"When McIntyre and McKitrick fed these random data into the Mann procedure, out popped a hockey stick shape!" From https://www.technologyreview.com/s/403256/global-w arming-bombshell/ From 2004 | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiny-spanish-publisher- clones-worlds-most-mysterious-book-102653981.html? ref=gs A book with imaginary life forms, written in an unknown language dating from the 1400's? Secret to eternal life? Alien artifact? Hoax by bored monks? All sorta stupid except the last. Any geek knows the answer. It's a D&D manual. Sure it predates modern gaming by half a millennium, but such books are great sellers. Lord Of The Rings had a made up language so well crafted that lovers learn it today. I will bet you $5 that more people speak Klingon & Elvish than Esperanto. There may be more Klingon-English dictionaries than Urdu. Let's see a 22nd century scholar interpret THAT. | ||
| Aesquire |
Some Windy Fun Tuesday August 30, 2016 • Howard Tayler Have a look at Windyty.com. Spin the globe, zoom in and out, click the overlays. PLAY with it. As you play you will learn some things about our world. Nifty things, trivial things, and critically important things. Like, for instance, why humans finally decided that they’d rather dig a ditch through a continent than attempt to sail around it. I’ve bookmarked the site, and will make it part of my trawl anytime something interesting is happening with the weather. And anytime I want to see why there aren’t more pleasure cruises running between Argentina and Antarctica. www.Windyty.com From http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ One of the longest running, and IMHO best online comics. Start at the beginning or you will be hopelessly lost. The technology and cast has changed over the last... 16+ years. But the fun hasn't. | ||
| Hootowl |
Thanks Pat. Neat site. It's startling to see just how much wind there is near the South pole. | ||
| Aesquire |
It does give you a clue why it was worth digging monster ditches at Suez and Panama. World circling sailboat folk always have tales about the Antarctic, The winds can actually circle the globe with no drag from land masses. Waves that can snap a supertanker in half, and the really crazy small boat folk sometimes show pictures of the boat completely vertical on the face of a wave. ( that is, the ones that don't just vanish ) The http://www.perlanproject.org/ is planning flights on the Mountain Waves ( air, not water ) in Argentina. When there are 2 emergency landing sites in reach, and the next one is all the way around the planet over ocean back to Argentina, you get VERY aware of where you are and IF you can get to a safe landing. ( see the "Surfing in the Sky" section on Wave Lift. Wave lift for glider pilots is like the Holy Grail. Great reward surrounded by dire peril. While in the wave, the air is astonishingly smooth. Laminar flow on a scale that dwarfs even the mountains themselves. But just behind the smooth air is a zone of turbulence that can, and has, ripped the wings or tail off an airplane. Sometimes there is a roll cloud that is very exciting to see... and go nowhere near. Often there is nothing visible at all. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=4 8295 There's also a youtube video of a film put out by the Air Force. Consider a b-52 is actually designed to survive a near hit by a nuclear bomb..... | ||
| Reepicheep |
I like that! I didn't break it. I reconfigured it. | ||
| Hootowl |
When Boeing was testing the first 737 airframe, the tail broke off during a snap roll (yes, a snap roll in a commercial aircraft-one of their test pilots barrel rolled a 707 over Lake Washington once). They were able to land it. | ||
| Aesquire |
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| Airbozo |
I know that they also rolled a 727 with no issues (they ran it through the x-ray machine afterwards to look for microscopic cracks). The pilot, a veteran combat pilot with 20+ years commercial experience, got chastised for it, but stuck to his guns. Now I hear they try to roll every one of them (not sure about that). When I worked at McDonnell Douglas, I volunteered for several of the test flights in an MD80. One particular flight came in hard for a landing at the wrong angle and the tail hit first. It snapped off and was drug down the runway by the wires and control cables. 2 people went to the hospital, the rest walked away, some with wet pants. I promptly signed up for more flights. Never had anything like that happen again. | ||
| Court |
Yep ..... That's an anomaly. | ||
| Hootowl |
Sad to hear about the SpaceX loss...but the destroyed satellite was to be used by Facebook, so I guess something positive came from it. | ||
| Sifo |
Sad to hear about the SpaceX loss...but the destroyed satellite was to be used by Facebook, so I guess something positive came from it. That was pretty much my first thought after hoping for the safety of those involved. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Predictable: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/09/01/green-a rctic-expedition-frustrated-large-quantities-ice/ | ||
| Aesquire |
Airbozo, The DC-8, the predecessor to the MD80/DC-9 was the first airliner in production to break the speed of sound. To do so, they trimmed for full up, in case the shock waves made the elevator ineffective, and used full take off power in a dive from record altitude. In WW2 several fighters could reach speed where the faster air flow around airfoils etc, would exceed the speed of sound, and shock waves would form, often blanking out the elevator and "locking" the plane in a screaming dive, often far past red line for airframe & engine. Often you could not recover from such a dive until you reached thicker air and slowed below the critical speed. If your plane was still intact. This was also true with the X-1 rocket plane, but it was "flyable" because the horizontal stabilizer was movable for trim, and Chuck Yeager used the trim to fly until it slowed down. In that condition, the elevator was useless, but the entire surface wasn't completely blanked out.. This led to using an all moving horizontal stabilizer on almost all high speed jets. ( the above is a massive oversimplification ) http://www.dc8.org/library/supersonic/ http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/i-was -there-when-the-dc-8-went-supersonic-27846699/ | ||
| Aesquire |
Btw. For the non aviators, a barrel roll is a positive g maneuver where the plane fly a helical path a as though it was going through a cylinder on it's side. When the Boeing prototype flew one the passengers barely noticed and the drinks stayed in the glasses. Most airplanes are capable of a barrel roll if flown properly. Done wrong, not so much. Think drifting, in car terms. A Snap Roll is a violent maneuver with a hard yank on the stick/wheel and kick of the rudder pedals. Only some planes built for hard acrobatics can take the stress & recover well. The aircraft equivalent of sliding into a curb and flipping a car. | ||
| Airbozo |
Thanks Aesquire. Knew most of that about the DC8. They had several of the old planes at the Long Beach facility when I worked there. Got to ride in an old DC4 (think that was the model), flown by one of the guys I worked with when I was helping to build the MD11 fixed cockpit simulator. Funny to hear all the engines start. I also worked on the C17 cockpit simulator (fixed base) and supported the motion base simulator that could be configured for anything from the DC8's up to the MD11. Funny thing was the visuals on the motion base were analog. On the roof of the hangar was a scale model of the Long Beach airport with a camera attached to a couple of arms and motors that allowed you to practice takeoff's and landings. At altitude, the camera stopped in front of a card with cotton balls glued to it. Since the airport model was mounted sideways, every once in a while one of the pilots would radio up to the control center to let us know a building or tree fell off... We also had the refueling boom simulator in the same room. Later in my career I got to work on something called Future Flight Central. A virtual control tower and airline simulator. Helped solve some problems during the install and at another company I supported the SGI machines that ran everything. I highly recommend taking the tour if you are in the area (call first). http://aviationsystemsdivision.arc.nasa.gov/facili ties/ffc/index.shtml | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwviDPo4Rh4 DEBUNKED: Top 5 "Climate Change" Myths StevenCrowder | ||
| Ducbsa |
The comments to the video are interesting and show the faith system supporting being green. | ||
| Reepicheep |
I'm over the mocking infotainment from both sides. It only separates us. I want my scientists to be more like good accountants and leave the entertainment to others. (Except for Mythbusters. They are good. And they have a new series coming to Netflix!) | ||
| Blake |
Doctor Murry Salby explains the relationship between CO2 and climate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCya4LilBZ8 True genius. He's the George Le Maitre of climate science. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/392482351.html My initial reaction to people doing the fear bit on insecticide is that they are probably nuts. But I haven't used Naled, so I looked it up, lazily. From the I don't trust them as far as I can throw them, but they have done good work.. and were started by NIXON, iirc.... https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol/naled-mosquito -control From what I can assume is a very biased anti-pesticide group. http://nospray.org/naled-insecticide-fact-sheet/ And the facts. Yeah, the standard format is boring and windy. http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/meti ram-propoxur/naled-ext.html I don't know the reason they chose to use this pesticide over another, unless it's an escalation of sorts and the really want to hit the bugs hard. Anyone have experience with this one who can enlighten me? looks like moderately nasty stuff. Goes away fairly fast, though. I wouldn't walk the kids in the park the day after spraying, and If I was pregnant I would avoid being outside jogging while the spray truck drives by me. No worries for most people. Frankly If I was pregnant I would move. Far from where they spray for mosquitoes. Not because of the pesticide. Because of the virus the mosquitoes carry. I don't know the future of this Zika virus. Could be very bad, don't plan to panic. I am, btw, all on board killing all mosquitoes. I know they feed some birds, and I know "disturb the balance"... but they are a major enemy of many species. We kill off species all the time, according to the Greenies, so Why Not kill off a bad one? The trick of course, is to not kill all the species that are good for the environment. Like Bees. Can't lose those. I suspect the best answer is biological, an engineered virus that targets only mosquitoes and be perfectly safe. However I think that in movies that traditionally leads to a zombie apocalypse, or a plague apocalypse, some darn kind of apocalypse, anyway. | ||
| Chauly |
I'd be down with a mosquito apocalypse (nasty little buggers) | ||
| Macbuell |
I think the biggest worry with the aerial spraying for sqeeters is that it has been killings bees by the millions. That isn't a good thing considering that bees have been dying a lot on their own recently. | ||
| Macbuell |
Anyone care to summarize the Salby video for someone who doesn't have the time to watch a 90 minute video. | ||
| Aesquire |
Summary? Part of the CO2 in the atmosphere is from us burning fossil fuels. Most is from natural sources. at least 80% of the variation in natural CO2 is directly related to temperature. ( not mentioned in the lecture is WHY. That's so simple everyone should know. Warm water doesn't hold as much CO2 as cold. When it's warmer, the oceans release more CO2. ) This Is Important. How hot it is determines to a large degree how much CO2 you have in the atmosphere. The rise in CO2 for the last half century is a straight line. Human contribution is not. It's a steeper line. To sum & paraphrase, a lot, it got warm, then CO2 went up, Man does change the amount of CO2, but nature regulates the total amount in the end, by absorbing CO2 with plants, turning it into limestone, and absorbing it into the oceans. Also, it is now a heresy to point out that it got warm and then CO2 went up. Not CO2 went up and then it got warm. All the models used to predict Global Warming so far share only one thing. They all predict rising temperatures, and all have been wrong about that since it has not warmed up this century so far. ( no matter what you see on CNN ) Quite a lot of it is statistical analysis, that as far as I can tell is correct, but I haven't checked his math in detail to catch any deception. Any questions? |
