| Author | Message | ||
     86129squids |
Looks like Gaia has indigestion. Or she's tightened her belt a bit. Either way it gets sketchy for us humanoids. Time's they are a changin'. Surf's up, let's see who's best science fiction comes true. Frank Herbert is and always will be best known for Dune, but he wrote many other tomes on the ecological needs of water planets. What we are seeing here on Earth is kinda different, in OUR timeline. One may theorize and extrapolate on a data set ad nauseam... I like to watch the skies, watch the land. Let's compare notes, without certainty, and with a lookout for each other. Tornado alley is moving closer to me and mine. Your mileage and Toto's may vary by a bit. | ||
| Aesquire |
Has it? I lived there, once upon a time. Born in Nebraska, lived in NE, CO, KS, SD, & NY. There's a season in the Alley. But tornadoes have swept through New York & PA, one touched down right outside our camp near Butler. And the NASTY ones in the Deep South, yep. The Alley hasn't moved. You just see more news. Search newspapers and the Tornadoes were always there. It's not magik, it's convection cells and lapse rates. I admit, when the clouds go green, and the mammatus clouds bubble by, it's weird and otherworldly. I've run to save big pavilions from lifting off. ( PA ) People get hurt. Watching for the hook to form. Then you run for the storm cellar or stand and watch as the field gets the finger of God drawn through the crops. Driving through wrecked neighborhoods. Never saw a cow fly like in the movie Twister, but a barn explode, sure. Nowhere near a cellar? Lie down. Macho don't stop 200mph 2x4s. 90% of "OMG! The weather is insane!" Is better information flow, pictures, instant celebrity talking head opinion. Tonga IS a volcanic chain. The one this week erupted multiple times in the last few decades, and probably will get bigger bangs SOON. Italy, Canaries, Iceland, Japan, etc. Plate tectonics, hot rock. It's funny, things don't happen for a few years, that happen all the time since the Moon was ripped away and the rains began, and people forget they live in a volcano, that beaches have waves, that plains have storms, that blizzards cover the land with megatons of snow. Nothing new, just ignorance. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-pull-of-the-sun-a nd-moon-could-be-affecting-plate-motion I thought tidal stress was already part of the picture on plate techtonics. If it hasn't been, it should now be. In REAL Science, ( as opposed to Lysenkoism & the Climate Con ) when the facts don't fit the theories, you change theories. In Con Games and Insanity you lie about the facts. | ||
| Hootowl |
Uh, yeah, I’m pretty sure this has been known for years. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2 022/01/27/china-wont-disturb-its-citizens-normal-l ife-to-meet-carbon-goals-n1553600 I speculate that Xi's plan to reduce carbon emissions is to simply stop humans from exhaling if they oppose him. The trickle down on slaughtering billions is non-respirating don't burn gasoline or require heat & electricity. This is a simple effective plan all who will love & obey him will embrace. | ||
| Ratbuell |
...and it bears a striking resemblence to the covid vaccine program. "Get jabbed...and...um...ignore all the cases of myocarditis, there's nothing to see here..." | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/putins-gree n-fifth-column/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/01/27 /eu-greenpeace-empty-ghost-flights-covid/891164329 1598/ No problem, says Greenpeace, just let government control how, if, or when you are allowed to travel. Then how you make your living. Then if you are allowed to live. That is the goal. No matter what the excuse they give. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/29/please-make-a-du mb-car/ One of my benchmarks when I went car shopping was... "Can I control the heat without a touch screen?" . Because if I need to park to run through nested menus designed by a pajama boy to turn on the defroster, the car won't be mine. I dealt with that in a Honda Odyssey. Screw that. Sold car. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://skepticalscience.com/saturated-co2-effect- basic.htm | ||
| Ducbsa |
I have gotten used to the manual spark advance on my '31 Ford. None of that new-fangled modern rubbish there! | ||
| Aesquire |
Spark advance. Ha! And I thought a manual transmission made cars hard to steal. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/11/12/one-of-the- longest-running-climate-prediction-blunders-has-di sappeared-from-the-internet/ When you're wrong, lie. That's what leftists do. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/nation-world/eas t-coast-digs-out-after-blizzard | ||
| Ratbuell |
Just like removing statues that tell an "inconvenient" truth to their messaging... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-near-earth-comet-ma y-have-destroyed-a-north-american-culture-1-500-ye ars-ago One thing about having a megaton range explosion happen over your village is there's no record. No village either. So it's witnesses far away who tell stories of lost cities, the Sun coming to Earth, and all that's left is dust under dust and tales told down generations. Before writing. Entire civilizations have vanished in the distant past. And not so distant. The Lewis & Clark expedition wrote of many thriving cities in their route, that were gone just decades later, presumably from plagues brought by the explorers and not just the one famous expedition. There's a reason that construction sites often find traces... The only items that survive over any length of time are porcelain/pottery, worked rock, and occasionally gold. And gold, when found, is rarely given to museums and archeologists, and rocks have to be very noticeable. Sharpened, or carved. So basically it is only pots/bowls/etc. that remain. If my house was flattened by a comet airburst, in a century there's basically broken glass & toilets in dirt with corrosion. Crumbled concrete. Future archeologists will, I am Certain, have ceramic and glass bongs on display as religious artifacts. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/cri sis-for-the-climate-models.php I agree that the models aren't able to recreate reality well, yet. Run any of them starting at X time thru Y & the Z time doesn't match what it was. If you can't predict yesterday, you can't predict tomorrow. I'll buy the argument in the editorial above that they need finer resolution, but also bet that just simulating smaller chunks of sky isn't the only improvement needed. The simulation is already more complex/smaller in "grain size" than our measurements, huge areas are just simplified guesses. And if we actually built a tight enough grid of lidar, sonar, and temperature sensors, their existence would actually change the climate in the test area. ( much less a Planet ) Weather balloons a!one would change the albedo of the area a significant amount. Heisenberg uncertainty principle metaphor? For another metaphor, I point to the Three Body Problem. In ballistics/orbital mechanics. With 3 gravity sources in the Universe, there are a few stable-ish possibilities, and a staggering inability to calculate the trajectories in Every other case, over time. 4? or more, and you need to revert to repetitive, iterations to approach the unattainable. That's just falling masses. Toss in winds & magnetic fields and you get the Pioneer Anomaly. ( traced, they think, to the photon pressure in the IR frequency range from the onboard generator. ) Planetary weather is really complex. And on a very small scale, too. Micrometeorology covers the "local" flows over hills, trees, houses, and I know a PA pro who does ( among other things ) site analysis for building. You can guess/predict  energy costs, snow drifts, wind loads, etc. But it's a relatively young science that can reap huge rewards if the assumptions are correct. For example, a wind farm and citrus crops in the U.S. South may be a good combination. The sweep of huge propellers mixes air from different heights and alters local climate. Sometimes, that's just what you need for frost prevention. Although multicopter drone swarms might be more efficient. Florida farmers already have helicopters buzzing their groves for that purpose. Still, with nuclear power actually spinning the blades of big fans during still air radiation cooling events in select locations... Useful. ( and wonderful conspiracy theory fodder!  ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/ 01/the-unexpected-return-of-duck-and-cover/68776/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/germa ny_to_raze_a_1000yearold_forest_in_the_name_of_goi ng_green.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/07/how-green-ene rgy-fantasies-have-put-the-world-at-the-brink-of-w ar/ I had a long rant going, but while researching I found hints I was probably wrong, or terrifyingly right. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentar y/article-angela-merkels-dubious-energy-legacy-hau nts-and-divides-germany-as/ So I'll sit back and watch. I predict a "terrorist" attack on fuel flow into Germany timed for a cold snap and winter storm. But I'm not sure who will do it, or who gets falsely blamed. Hope I'm wrong. | ||
| Ratbuell |
...especially if Germany sends more than blankets and helmets, to Ukraine... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/global-strike-eagle-t he-real-plan-to-add-rockets-to-the-f-15/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://xkcd.com/2579/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/gm-seeks-us-a pproval-to-put-driverless-cruise-origin-into-comme rcial-service/ Robot vehicles with no manual controls? Hmm. Mixed feelings on the notion. It seems inevitable, as does the banning of manual controlled vehicles in the same space. I say space, not roads, for a reason. Aviation today is trending that way. Not yet, but looks like an incoming tide to me. Over my lifetime, the number of small airports has shrunk as suburbia expanded into previous farm lands. Both the cost of land ( you can make a bundle selling your farm or airport to a developer ) and public bit$%ing from people that moved next to an airport then complain there are airplanes! has closed thousands. Costs for flying, and learning are massively inflated. And politics... Airlines can afford to bribe Congress, a LOT more than recreational fliers. ( think Trucking companies vs. motorcyclists ) So, by law, today, most aircraft are required to carry transceiver units for anti collision systems. Thank the Elder Gods the FAA has been so slow and inefficient at centralized computing. Instead of a Master Control system, it's a peer to peer communication system. At least one hacker can't crash every plane in a region. Because of costs of paperwork, the home builders of airplanes have early access to technology that rivals the bleeding edge military & Airline stuff, even before regular general aviation. So if you can afford it, you can get avionics that integrate autopilot systems with a panic button that can take you to the nearest airport and land. While squawking emergency codes to the air traffic control systems. The pessimist in me thinks this trend ends with human control a thing of the past. For most people, that may eventually be a safer and more orderly world. But I enjoy ancient technologies, like motorcycles and flying machines, that offer a raw, real experience. Not as a passenger, but the rider/pilot. I'm not asking for a world without all modern limits, I like fresh fruit year round, and paved roads. I understand the airspace above and near a busy international airport has to be clear of guys in lawn chairs under a balloon cluster. ( yep, that happened ) Some of my most memorable moments flying are working around controlled airspace. Literally around & under. Btw, Don't fly over a football stadium during a game. Damhik. | ||
| Hootowl |
Every commercial airliner can already land itself in most weather conditions. Thank the Navy for that If the advancements Tesla are making are any guide, driverless/pilotless vehicles are only a few years away. My car drives me to work and back with no intervention, and the software is still in beta. | ||
| Aesquire |
I'm a bit jealous. I love the radar cruise control in my Toyota. It's not perfect, but if understood it makes expressway driving less stressful. See note 1 The lane assist bugs me and I turn it off. It's far from the Tesla system, not self driving, at all. It shuts off with only a small text display to warn you. & it shuts off if you let go of the wheel for any length of time. So I can't eat a sub on the expressway with zero traffic, no hands. No matter how aware I may be of the hazards and ready to respond. Disappointing, but I didn't buy the car expecting it to have robot driving. Oh & there's an Idiot Video! Some "genius" stuck a water bottle in the wheel of a lane assist equipped car to simulate a hand on the wheel. Hah! Take that! Then records himself getting in the back seat to show how clever he is. OF COURSE the car loses lane assist as the paint stripe veers off at an exit, the wheel turns under the weight of the bottle, and the car runs screaming off the road at highway speed. ( someone was screaming anyway ) Note 1 I amuse myself on trips by setting the cruise control and counting the number of times I need to brake or accelerate to avoid... Not just collision, but Any imposition or rudeness to others. The goal is to minimize inputs by picking an optimum speed to remain invisible to traffic. Never forcing anyone to slow or brake to avoid me in the passing lane. ( I expect cars to pass me when in the slow lane, I want it to be unremarkable uneventful and safe. I watch the flow, waves, and clumps, and time my moves for courtesy and low blood pressure. Hey, it's a game for me. Secretly being nice. ( it's not charity if you brag about it ) | ||
| Hootowl |
Haha I do the same. One thing they haven’t programmed is politeness. | ||
| Ratbuell |
My '14 Grand Cherokee has adaptive cruise control. Long trips, I use it a LOT - radar locks onto the car in front of you and simply...paces. I generally set my speed 5mph faster than them to guarantee I'll stay locked on. It also has forward collision warning (I keep it turned off) and active brake assist (also kept off). They're both a little....over-sensitive, shall we say? Granted, 2014 was early for these systems so the software has likely improved quite a bit. But, my '14 does not have engine start-stop at traffic lights either - the last year you could get one without it - so I won't be worried about buying a new vehicle...well...ever again, I don't think. I also leave the auto-dim high beams turned off. In the country (dark), even a street sign is bright enough for the computer to think "oncoming car" and it always dims the lights on me. Hate that. Again - early generation software. Like me - I'm early generation software as well LOL. I do just fine in my 1970 Charger, with six wires TOTAL in the vehicle (seriously - I bought a replacement engine harness AND a replacement air conditioning harness...and they BOTH fit in a ziploc sandwich bag). | ||
| Aesquire |
  If you need interior parts for the Charger, I know the place for nigh perfect stuff. I worked there when it was in a garage. Legendary Auto Interiors. Mention me & they'll over charge you. ( maybe ) If it won a trophy at the Mopar Nationals, it probably had Legendary stuff. I keep the following distance on the cruise to high. No brake assist, I was cheap. I don't want a sunroof or power gate etc. Although "keep it simple" in a computerized car is almost laughable. Thank the Navy for that True! And because certifications are expensive, the new stuff is going in homebuilts, Vans & Kitfoxes. Before commuter airlines and Cessnas. Beta + testing by sports plane builders. ( the Vans RV series are hot! ) I know a guy building a Fokker Triplane replica, his instrument panel is covered by a cartoon of the original with funny fake German phrases on the printed Altimeter, etc. "Gutnlow" "tudamfast" etc. It's a weather cover for when it is parked & a hinged sunshield in flight. Covering a double screen glass cockpit with GPS, ADSB, flight & engine instruments. Yes, a Glass Cockpit in a WW1 fighter. Why not? | ||
| Ratbuell |
Charger is a survivor - I'm only replacing stuff if required. They're only original once.  | ||
| Aesquire |
Sweeeet! https://www.space.com/interstellar-flight-lightsai l-design |
