JoeSchmuckatelli

Color me reassured.

They've given up on this as a launch platform, right? It's now just for testing hypersonics?

So much hope. ... Please join me in Resignation-ville. Its gray, but its still here... waiting.

It'd be traveling at terminal, wouldn't it? So not terribly fast. Then it's a matter of knowing the detonation altitude/distance from the observer and reflectivity. I'd say a few would be seen I haven't spent a lot of time on unit names - but generally speaking the Brits have this down. I'd be surprised if they did not have a Royal Fusilier company or two US is comparably boring. 53d Maintenance Co.? Yawn

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That's cool! Here's something interesting - Dinosaur killing asteroid may have peppered the moon with glass spherules. Also: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/world/asteroid-dinosaur-extinction-spring-scn/index.html

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. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/Military_Affairs/10/4/Rockets_in_Early_American_Wars*.html the Chief of Ordnance on July 15, 1864, wrote to the Secretary of War as follows:76 Experience with rocket batteries during this war is not at all favorable to their usefulness. The same number of men and horses can produce p34 more effect with the improved cannon and projectiles now used. Rockets have but little range and accuracy compared to rifled projectiles, and are liable at times to premature explosions and great eccentricity of flight. This department has no assurance that these rocket batteries have been tested in actual service, or that they possess the necessary requisites. I cannot, therefore, recommend their purchase.

It was the use of ship-launched Congreve rockets by the British in the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the US in 1814 that inspired a phrase in the fifth line of the first verse of the United States' National Anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner": "the rockets’ red glare". HMS Erebus fired the rockets from a 32-pound rocket battery installed below the main deck, which fired through portholes or scuttles pierced in the ship's side https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congreve_rocket

More Fusion Stuff: DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion | WIRED

Neanderthal question time: if the barycenter of Jupiter and Sun is outside the sun (hope I'm reading that equation correctly), the sun is making tiny circles in time with Jupiter in its orbit of SagA... correct? So - what's happening to the orbit of the other planets when Jupiter is at right angles from the planet's eliptical length? That movement has to have some effect over time, doesn't it?

Alcohol and gunpowder... what could go wrong? Strange Tales: Gunpowder and ‘the urine of a wine drinking man’ - The Drinks Business Alcohol proof - Wikipedia (Yeah, I know - referenced already, but fun facts deserve being presented in the correct forum)

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Sounds like my childhood. Although, I usually only blew myself up... but I did get two white mice for a Science Fair project (the Maze thing)... which rapidly became 14 white mice. After my cat ate two, I started selling the mice and garage sale habitrails to other kids at school. Their parents were... I'm not sure 'thrilled' is the correct word.

In the "Earth is resilient" column, add: Cleared tropical forests can regain ground surprisingly fast | Science News

Unrelated - but also interesting: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/military-towns-integration-segregation-united-states Plus, Room Temperature Superconductor: The first room-temperature superconductor has finally been found | Science News

My dad's famous 'home chemistry' story is when he and his friends (in the Philippines) left their HS chem class and devised a really stable explosive. They did not follow a formula; instead they applied the concepts and used stuff they'd cribbed from the lab. On paper it should have been fantastic... but it was really stable. So stable they couldn't light it. Figuring they'd gooned up somehow, they gave up and tossed it into the incinerator. Some time later they heard a boom. (The story of my grandfather's response is stuff of legends!) Oh - and specific to this: "Urine of a wine drinking man" is apparently a traditional corning media. Strange Tales: Gunpowder and ‘the urine of a wine drinking man’ - The Drinks Business Also, since we are talking about urine and stuff that burns: Technique to recover phosphorus from urine (phys.org)

Au contraire, mon frere: 5 ways cursing and swearing can be good for you - CNN ...and now back to your regularly scheduled quibble.

Don't try this at home, kids: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/21/us/byu-rocket-fuel-fire-trnd/index.html

Sidebar: ... We have a very aggressive / effective nanny system active on this site - one of the reasons I don't mind my 11yo daughter reading it. The kids are safe! But... Has anyone actually listened to middle school kids talk? They can make a Sailor blush!

Will be interesting to see what they learn from this - and whether they change F9s specs. Guessing being able to come in hotter means they can throw more weight in the future?

Jealous! Years ago I had a 50yo maple milled; got some absolutely gorgeous heartwood out of it! https://imgur.com/a/UPmlQoH

You are correct of course - but the standards in courts and administrative proceedings is much more rigorous than the broad discretion allowed to the press under the First Amendment. https://www.justia.com/trials-litigation/lawsuits-and-the-court-process/evidentiary-standards-and-burdens-of-proof/#:~:text=Evidentiary Standards in Criminal Cases&text=This standard requires the prosecution,or deduced from the evidence. Example: Some people enjoy the use of 'alternative facts' transmitted through the media to sway the court of public opinion - when such unsubstantiated nonsense would be excluded from presentation to the jury in a court of law

Okay - so I think I'm reading that you don't discount witness testimony out of hand, but think that there should be reasonably good standards before the evidence can be presented. This actually happens in the law. It's part of why it can take years from the filing of a suit to the trial. You can take the Aubrey case - evidence of the prior racist behavior of the perpetrators wasn't allowed in the trial where the jury was tasked with determining whether a crime occurred or not. That would have been unduly prejudicial against the accused. However, in the sentencing phase - after guilt is established - the prior racist stuff comes in to determine if it was more than a simple crime, but also a hate crime under the statute. There is a level of evidentiary rigor required by courts - however I think you are conflating the complete lack of vigor required by the media with what might be presented at trial or in motion practice.

Absolutely concur that buying good tools is actually cheaper in the long run. Beyond that, it is easier to do good work with good tools! I don't know much about metalworking, but it is an absolute truth in carpentry