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probibly something off of overkill. lets just say the whole damn album. as well as march or die, 1916, and orgasmatron, and throw in their '77 self titled demo with mostly hawkwind songs. and everything else they did, ive never been able to find a bad motorhead song.

good thing i live in a town full of large viking women.

well considering that... ...i think it works out. the thing that really bugs me is...

bad shows. seems they are using the shotgun approach to their star wars content. do lots of things and see what sticks. you end up with a couple good shows and several failure shows. ultimately i think for a show to be good it just involves hiring showrunners who both know what they are doing and care about the franchise. rather than hire these inexperienced kids out of college who have never done a thing of note and have an agenda other than making good shows. cant imagine its any worse than manufacturing and shipping dvds.

do optical scopes require the same cryogenic requirements as the webb?

its a shame they canceled that show.

just binged 1899. was rather impressed.

saw it on the news, looks like a section of wing where you could make out the thermal tiles. it was pretty well preserved.

i wouldnt be so quick to demolish the thermodynamic infrastructure. as container based nuclear fission plants could be a not to distant future possibility. and the idea behind the polywell fusion reactor was to have a simple easy to manufacture reactor that you could ship to retired coal plants, scrap the boiler and connect the pipes to the heat exchangers in the reactor. polywell seems to have fallen through but i like the idea of container reactors of any kind. scrap the boiler and leave the turbines and cooling towers. that would be a good fate for construction waste, sawdust (what you cant sell to particle board manufacturers or use as bedding for small rodents), and wood from scrapped structures.

hands down if its between coal and wood, you are better off with coal. trees have a good function in that they help scrub co2 from the atmosphere. i dont understand the types who want to cut them down for wind/solar farms. i also dont understand the anti-logging agenda either. a logged tree takes carbon, sequesters it in our structures, and provides room for a new tree to grow. maybe we should be building our wind turbines out of wood instead of industrial products like epoxy and carbon fiber. actually ive seen people put a small turbine at the top of their highest tree because free natural pylon.

the local price of eggs is up to $5 a dozen. nope. anyway last night i made my fall off the bone pork ribs. ive probibly posted what i do above somewhere. this time i used pineapple juice in the sauce. turned out pretty good. had to do the final pass on the broiler because too cold to grill.

renewables are nice as technology goes, but a solution to global climate issues they are not. especially here in the us where people take 3 hot showers a day, keep their heater on 80 in the winter and 50 in the summer (freedom units of course), drive everywhere in big suvs (my siblings seem to live in their cars more than their homes) and then pat themselves on the back for buying a tesla while the coal fire plant churns away. i dont think lack of renewables is the issue. to fix this you either need to go big with nuclear so this way of life is sustainable, or plaster every acre of a dead world with solar panels and wind turbines.

i may have use the wrong term there. maybe refraction, idk. i saw a few videos about it a few months ago and am trying to put it together from memory. maybe i should have just checked wikipedia.

i guess its sort of like with quaternions where you simplify a 3d problem by making it a 4d problem. totally counter intuitive, and totally viable. also been kind of curious about vsl theories. any observed curvature is just light diffracting as it changes velocities about gravity sources. i believe einstein considered this when coming up with gr.

i think chemical engines will be the go to for earth to orbit fort some time. using hydro-lox is 100% renewable. and fi you are using nuclear power on the ground to generate the fuel from water. it will always be cleaner and less dangerous and more efficient than flying the reactor on the rocket. reactor as payload is another matter. those reactors can be fueled on orbit. launching fuel rods is a lot safer than launching a live reactor. we launch rtgs all the time with very little hubbub.

humanity will end not with a bang but with a whimper.

are there any that do not require accounts. i dont want the ai to know anything about me.

there is feep which is a liquid metal engine, supposidly its in use on some telescopes for its precision thrust capabilities and high isp, it is however terrible in the thrust department, so it usually gets relegated to fine attitude control.

the y2k bug mostly affected minicomputers which were old by '90s standards. machines like the vax i got to play around on back in high school. our school district was still using it to store their grades, and let the computer science students use it to learn c. all command line text over terminal. a '90s server could have done the same job, but why buy something expensive when you have something expensive that does the same job? to make matters worse a lot of these minicomputers were proprietary with a lot of their software written in archaic languages that were not suitable for porting. so if you were a cobal or fortran programmer back in the 90s you could have reaped a fortune in y2k contract work. but people are stupid and thought it would affect their pcs. people just assumed that all computers had the bug and proceeded to panic. i dont think anything windows or linux based would have had this problem (though database software is a different matter). the hype was real. actually modern problems are a good parallel. you got lots of people working on fusion, on fission, on renewables, electric cars, etc. yet still its hyped to doomsday proportions. i see college students protesting about this stuff, makes me wonder why they dont use their energy to learn the engineering to solve the problems instead. and of course after writing that i poceed to xkcd and im greeted with this. too soon. lol.

if we were to run out now, it would be disastrous. but we are not running out now. we should be leveling up our nuclear technology in the mean time because a finite resource will run out eventually. there are plenty of funds going to both fission and fusion so thats good. then when we do run out, we can transition to a replacement. i also do not expect a 100% replacement.

the biggest defense is that the hero archetype is kind of phony. superpowers or no, no human could live up to it. not many war veterans are self proclaimed heroes, despite the fact that they have done heroic things on the battlefield. i like super hero depictions that acknowledge this, like dune or watchmen (movie). and thats if they are the "good guys". star trek (classic) acknowledges the other side of this with its augments. superior ability, superior ambitions, pretty much tyrants. granted if superman turned bad it wouldn't be long till people were loading their guns with kryptonite bullets.

yea there were a lot of movie/tv cars back then, the producer likely wanted to be unique and that was probibly the only model they hadnt used in a show yet.

wise words from a guy credited as "pig killer". such a great character though.

in theory but like i said i have well used vintage potentiometers with better linearity than hall and have stood the test of time. can you get an equally high quality hall sensor. well, yes, yes you can. you can get high resolution angle sensors with a digital interface so you dont have to deal with signal noise in the wiring and corrected for linearity at the factory (they have a dsp build in to apply signal corrections). but consumers dont buy sensors, they buy joysticks. those sticks come from manufacturing companies with shareholders, and those shareholders want a bigger roi. so its in their best interest to use the cheapest sensor possible, even shaving a few cents off per unit will have an impact on their bottom line, and also an impact to the performance for the end user. you can always spend a premium for what amounts to using a part that costs less than a dollar more. the thing im trying to hammer home is that it varies from stick to stick. my ch controllers have pots and crappy adcs, yet have lasted over a decade. my record survival rate for any saitek stick (one of which was a hall stick) was 2 years. bad engineering and cost cutting will kill any theoretical benefit to be gained by using one sensor type over the other. a good sensor wont fix a bad gimbal design. the best sensor tech ive ever used were microsoft's sidewinder line, with their optical sensor (basically a mouse sensor with a dsp on chip). all modern smd boards, state of the art sensor, force feedback on one model. the non ff models had a single spring mechanism which i do not really like, i like separate spring tension on each axis. so dispite good electronics and sensor tech, a mechanical design choice can ruin things (saitek in a nutshell). it is a bloody shame nobody uses that technology anymore, except with a modern high resolution mouse sensor with a decent gimbal set. if i was in the market for a new stick (and ive been looking for something better), id want solid gimbals (preferably metal construction), high modability with a community providing upgrades and modules as well as parts for maintenance, and no dependendance on proprietary software. the sensor tech might be the 4th thing i want, but if its a high moddable stick you can usually put whatever you want in there. i was looking at a warthog, thrust master has a good modding community (proprietary software though), or if you want really high end go virpil and pay over $200 for the gimbal alone. it is a sexy gimbal though, and its their low end model.

i have this problem with time travel, if you go back in time a month without changing position, wouldnt you come out in empty space?