| Author | Message | ||
     Hootowl |
Beautiful bike. Nice views. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Sound that blue. | ||
| Torquehd |
Beautiful XB. Who made the tail section? | ||
| Tpehak |
Thanks! I designed and built it https://www.customfighters.com/forums/showthread.p hp?t=114689&page=3 https://youtu.be/c89DHH0DOSU (Message edited by TPEHAK on January 13, 2020) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/what_ the_global_warming_advocates_really_have_in_mind.h tml | ||
| Hootowl |
https://www.foxnews.com/world/venice-canals-nearly -dry-months-after-historic-floods | ||
| Hootowl |
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/1 3/waves-in-st-marks-square-as-venice-flooded-highe st-tide-in-50-years What caused it 50 years ago? What caused the annual flood every year since its founding? This seems more like storm surge than sea level rise. | ||
| Sifo |
Facebook Glitch Reveals Greta Thunburg's Father Posting As Teenage Climate Activist
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| Aesquire |
Venice is sinking. Pumping fresh water out from under the city for centuries faster than it can flow in from the mountains far away. Only a few millimeters a year, after year. This has been a fact long before the Climate Con. Even with the wells in question cut off, piling that much rock into a swamp makes it the slow motion Monty Python castle from the movie Holy Grail. It's sinking. Annual floods? If you ignore the Ice caps melting part, here... https://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/acqu a-alta.htm Tides, wind, & weather. Look on a map. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirocco imagine the effects of a strong steady wind piling water up at one end day after day. ( you never see pictures of the dry land that appears on the upwind side of that shallow lagoon. It's just mud flats, since it's under water most of the year. National Geographic has had stories since before I was born. ) https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/ju n/16/history-flooding-sinking-city-venice-in-pictu res The Sirocco winds are much like the Santa Anna winds and others... Lots of others. https://ggweather.com/winds.html As a trivia bonus... Years ago, the Sirocco winds were calculated, together with the now known underwater topography of the Red Sea, to be possible, inevitable! to blow the water towards one end enough that a dry ( muddy ) path from shore to shore would open. From fallible memory, 40 mph winds for X days and it just happens. It's been only a few feet deep in the shallow section many Years in the last thousand... And it offers a natural and plausible explanation for the Parting of the Red Sea story from the Bible. Satanic lies?  Actually, I thought it scientific proof that a Biblical miracle that cynics claim imaginary, could, and must have, actually happened. https://biblehub.com/exodus/14-21.htm KJV!!!! Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/1 2/08/no-really-there-is-a-scientific-explanation-f or-the-parting-of-the-red-sea-in-exodus/ This is another theory, same cause, high winds, but this researcher had a guess of the geography from then and the location of the parting. A few minutes searching will show the location has been guessed in multiple places, and fierce argument about the morality of even trying to prove the event was possible. I did a paper on the subject back in 1978. Obsolete now.  But there are multiple probable escape routes from Egypt, and getting caught against the Red Sea and the extensive marsh lands North of it is highly likely, in fact darn hard to avoid. I don't know where the Israelites crossed. I also have noticed that old histories, not just Biblical, don't use modern place names. Even more important, if you are walking down the shore of a body of water, unless there are posted signs, you can't tell if you are next to lake A, Lake B, or the marsh between them. That's from personal experience in the Adirondack AND Midwestern lakes on rivers. Carrying canoes. Put that limited perspective together with changing names and cities named after long lost ones.... you can see why it's in dispute. Says the guy posting from New York. ( not England!) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.xkcd.com/977/ | ||
| Tpehak |
It is showing here in Seattle. Just attached the ice tires  | ||
| Hootowl |
I’m apparently a Dymaxion, except for the shoes with toes thing, even though it sets up a joke, and I will go miles to set up a joke. | ||
| Ducbsa |
"The Italian government has been developing barriers and floodgates to mitigate the damage since the 1980s." We were there last summer and I didn't see any of that. Admittedly, we didn't walk the perimeter, but our boat rides to/from the hotel area passed by a good portion of the perimeter. | ||
| Aesquire |
It's one of many examples of old news being erased from memory. Venice has been in trouble for years. I grew up with shelves of old National Geographic in the house, and Venice stories about the sinking/flooding go back a long ways. Another example is New Orleans. Every story, every encyclopedia entry, goes... New Orleans...Mardi Gras...Jazz...History in wars...bury above ground, high water table...below sea level...doomed if big storm comes...French Quarter...food... Then it's all a big surprise when storm surge and corruption maintaining the dikes & pumps give the inevitable flooding. Blamed on the Other Party's leadership. Of course... And Global Cooling! | ||
| Crusty |
A View From An Australian: There IS a direct link between Climate Change and the Australian bushfires. It is called The Australia Clause. The Australia clause is the singular means by which we have met and exceeded our Kyoto targets and are on track to meeting our Paris commitments. It is the cornerstone of our emissions reduction policy. The Australia clause, however, is maligned by everyone from the farmers that it is has devastated, to Anthony Albanese, Greta Thunberg, Piers Morgan and the EU elite. I can’t think of a single person on any side of the political divide who actually likes the Australia Clause. Now our wildlife and our forests join the growing list of staunch opponents to the Australia Clause, poor vegetation management devastated them this bushfire season, make no mistake, The Australia Clause governs vegetation management in this country and vegetation management governs fire. So what is The Australia Clause? In simple, we parcelled up land management with a pretty red bow in 1997 and handed it over to the UN. The special nature of the Australia Clause was that it straddled the political divide, Labor and Liberal oversaw its implementation hand in hand. We stripped away the rights of farmers to develop or god forbid even maintain their land. We locked up millions and millions of hectares of previously well managed forest. To add the icing on the cake, the EU have now come out swinging at Australia’s performance and suggesting that they shouldn’t buy food from us because of the fires and our emissions reduction performance. Australia is a net importer of food from Europe. Yep, read that again. Hard to believe our paltry 25 million people eat more European food than the 450 million people in Europe eat of ours in return, over a billion dollars more. While Europe are paying farmers to keep cows in sheds and on heavily manicured fields, we have banned our farmers from grazing them naturally in eucalypt forest. That grazing would have reduced some fuel load. Our Prime Minister this week cited that our emissions reduction strategy should not impair our economic performance, the view was backed up by Ross Garnaut. For farmers, the horse has bolted. We have already been severely impacted by Australia’s emissions strategy. 25% of Australia’s cattle herd, gone, 60% of our sheep herd, gone, 22,000 dairy farms down to 6000, the list goes on. Drought mitigation, severely impeded. Now we watch our farms and livestock burn and then have people rubbish our contribution as having “done nothing”. Australian’s farmers are tired of being the whipping boy for this nation. If Australia’s cities want more action on climate change, then I suggest that they remove the Australia clause and pick up the slack. The Australia clause needs to go. It has failed those people who have managed our land and fuel loads for generations, it has failed to protect our forests and wildlife, it has failed our farmers and it has failed in the eyes of those that it sought to appease. Those who forced us to implement this regime don’t wish to acknowledge it, they just demand more. Good land management belongs in our regions, not as a sacrificial lamb to an international alter. Scott Morrison (ScoMo) Angus Taylor MP Simon Birmingham Michael Wilkins AgForce Queensland National Farmers' Federation Don Mackay Jason Strong | ||
| Daddio |
Nice, Crusty, nice. Any chance you can post a link to the source? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/clim ate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/ | ||
| Ratbuell |
So basically Down Under is encountering the same fire hazard bullshit that Kalifornia is, due to poor brush management. All in the name of being "green". Wonderful. Don't tell me how to maintain my land - this is like the world's worst H.O.A., but with extremely dire consequences. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate / | ||
| Hootowl |
That took a while, but it was worth the read. | ||
| Aesquire |
Thanks. Crichton was a great writer. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/19/uk-win d-farms-paid-millions-per-day-not-run-turbines/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/01/20/china-sa ys-no-need-to-panic-as-deadly-virus-goes-internati onal/ A LOT of plagues originate in China. For thousands of years. The flu is a yearly wave of ( some deaths ) disease from China. It's so normal that they only "name" a flu pandemic when it doesn't. The cause usually seems to be the medieval agriculture system, people in close contact with pigs and chickens, breathing the dust from dried feces then the animal viruses mutate into human eating ones. We've given Trillion$ to China in business improvements and buying the stuff that ( usually ) American companies built factories to make. But we haven't invested in improving their agriculture, on a village by village basis, probably because there's no profit in it for foreign investors and I doubt the government would allow it. I've read of some factory food production being built, but there hasn't been a overall change. And, of course, as always, the Chinese government lies about the spread and severity of disease. | ||
| Tpehak |
That's really scary thing right there. I won't be surprised some people will use it to force protests against Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Do you think this virus may came from dog meat? | ||
| Aesquire |
Trivia... Search for Factory Farming and get a lot of angst & PETA crud. Here's one.. Factory farming is an industrial process in which animals and the products they generate are mass produced. The animals are not seen as an individual, sentient beings with unique physical and psychological needs but as eggs, milk, meat, leather, etc. Well, duh. Accurate, if emotionally charged. Don't get me wrong. I'm not for cruelty. I will say chickens are not sentient beings in the sense that we are, ditto cows. Pigs are scary smart, but hey, bacon. But my point isn't the morality. The technology iirc started in Chicago. With chickens and eggs. Transporting the mass quantity needed to feed the most modern city on Earth at the time, growing fast, was difficult, and getting fresh food in by train and horse drawn wagons without refrigerator trucks... You had the problem of horse manure on the streets by the megaton, and spoiled meat etc. So an entrepreneur bought an old building in town and filled it with chicken pens. Several stories high. Costs were higher than country farm chicken and eggs at first, but low transportation costs and premium pricing for daily fresh food made it profitable. Improved assembly line techniques brought the costs down, and when transportation got faster and cheaper, the inner city stuff got shut down and moved to cheaper land outside the cities. But the technology of high density factory farming remains the most efficient and cheapest food production system. You might recall that Bill Clinton gave good return on Tyson Foods bribes when they wanted to expand operations in Arkansas. That shows that transportation got cheap enough that labor costs dominate the industry. Making it worth having the factories where labor is cheaper even if you have to ship it an extra thousand miles. Beef production doesn't fit in buildings as easy, nor do cows. So beef processing mostly takes place closer to the farms, and is cheaper out in rural communities too. Lots of immigrants moved to places like Nebraska to work in beef and pork processing. ( pigs have been city indoor raised, too. ) It's good we don't have as much urban farming, wouldn't you just love living in the apartment next to 50,000 chickens? | ||
| Tpehak |
I know chicken farm smells horrible. | ||
| Aesquire |
Yep. Imagine Ju!y. Chicago. No AC. 5 stories of chickens in the old building next door. But! Fresh eggs! | ||
| Aesquire |
Dog meat? It's possible that viruses go from dogs to humans, but this one is a bird virus, iirc. Mostly we see avian ( bird...chicken usually ) & swine flu from China. I don't know how they raise dogs for meat there. Haven't seen much about that. PETA won't bother with the story, despite an obvious great emotional hook. No money in it. ( PETA really doesn't give a shyte about animals anyway. They kill lots of dogs that could have been adopted. ) I would love to see Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper try to do an expose, but the Xi regime would vanish them. Birds and pigs are the source, & the CAUSE is breathing feces dust in the air in China's peasant farming system. That part hasn't changed much since the Great Wall was built. And to the extent China has modernized, it's just industrialized production without protecting the workers. Anyone who grew up on an American farm would be freaked out. We put the chickens outside, preferably in a building separate from human dwellings. There's running water, hoses, the structure is designed to be cleaned and that goes for other livestock. Half the working day in any animal husbandry project is cleaning, That's what I learned in 4H. Up front, I hate sheep. Wonderful useful idiots. If you don't watch them and take care of them they die. You spend an entire year with shovels and hoses and waste products that rot wood and steel. Battery acid is fruit juice in comparison. They destroy everything in their path. Then you get a day where you harvest the wool. Yea! Fun. Then you're back to shoveling tons of waste that eats your shovel, boots, clothing & skin, and if not removed goes from liquid death to a substance harder than concrete. Which would be an ideal road material, except for the smell, the environmental damage, and that it's insect food and attractant. Pigs at least are smart enough to come in out of the rain. They're also smart enough to kill & eat you. The waste is a massive environmental impact. Dikes, ponds, pond covers... At least you can generate power from it. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/e arths_climate_history_what_the_doomsayers_dont_wan t_voters_to_know_.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/01/21/cdc-conf irms-first-us-case-of-china-coronavirus/ At this point, only "6 dead & 300 sickened", I'd avoid recent visitors, like this week on, from China AND southeast Asia including Indonesia, Philippines, etc. Odds are this will burn out and no big problem, except those already sick who might die. & the already dead. & the others who have it & don't know yet. &... Or is could be as bad as SARS was, which was contained. High praise to Canadian and American public health. It's unlikely to be a real mass killer. But they do happen and it could be. Not going to worry, except at doctor's office, where I'm taking parents often. I'm used to being exposed to multi-continent diseases. Customers from all over. The usual colds & the only serious disease contracted? Ear infection from pediatricians office. Just touching the door and outgoing letters. Took 3rd tier antibiotics they usually reserve for alien space plague. Which kids get a LOT. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/01/21/death-to ll-from-china-mystery-virus-doubles-overnight/ |
