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Oh he most definitely likes to take his time, repeat himself and extend video run time. Most of his science videos are worth a watch, though, with occasional 5 second skip ahead.
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Well then you should have watched the whole thing, because he addresses this
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Thunderfoot made a video that illustrates the importance of isolation and quarantine. This sort of thing should be shown on TV twice per day. Over here we have some local idiots (that ironically happen to be government officials) that don't abide by the rules and have parties.
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Update on the earthquake: The girl that suffered head trauma yesterday, unfortunately succumbed to her injuries. That is the only reported death. In total 27 individuals sought medical attention, 11 of which with serious injuries. We had a few more shakes today. A 3.0 at 3 AM, a 3.3 at 11 AM, a 3.2 at 9 PM and a bunch of smaller ones. No reports of additional damage. https://twitter.com/seizmo_hr Looks like the frequency is lowering, but we could still see aftershock for the next few days. My mother went to check her workplace. There is some damage; broken equipment and glassware, but while she was there a nonspecific explosion sounding event happened (timing doesn't correlate with these quakes) so they evacuated and could not finish the inspection. They have not only some special machines, but some potentially hazardous bio samples (not the lab my mother works in, but same business), so it's a bit tricky. I'm not sure if her colleagues had time to check those. A specialist came in to check the building, but no news on the findings. One additional hospital was evacuated last evening, due to structural damage. While the maternity clinic was being evacuated yesterday, two babies were born, literally during the evacuation, as in inside ambulance en route to the other hospital. Good news is, all the babies and their mothers are fine, including the preterm little ones that were transported inside the incubators.
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Yeah, that's life for you. So, just here it goes. The inventor of Auto-Tune is Andy Hildebrand.
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In 1997 a guy made a mathematical breakthrough to cut down computational needs from millions to just four. The application was to make slight modifications to out of tune singing voice to adjust it to a correct tune. The product was called Auto-Tune. In comes Cher, and the first thing she does is crank it to 11 to sound like a robot and produce the exactly opposite effect of the intended.
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As of this afternoon, intercity travel inside Croatia is pretty much shut down. No more traveling.
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Disgusting: Company A files (and is granted) an overbroad and nonspecific patent. Company A goes bankrupt (because it was a fraud from the beginning, but that's beside the point). Company B buys the patent from A. Company C develops a test kit for corona virus. Company B, through a shell Company D sues C in an attempt to stop C from making the test kit. Neither B or D are in the medical field.
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Thanks. We've had quite a few additional shakes, most of which were not felt, a couple that I did feel, and a few I could only hear (you know the deep rumbling that comes from every direction). Our seismological service counted 33 distinct events between the first one at 6:24 AM and 3 PM, but probably more will occur in the next few days. https://twitter.com/seizmo_hr Also, the big ones were recalculated to 5.5 and 5.0. This is the strongest quake in Zagreb since the 6.3 one in 1880. My boss and I went to check up the business. The space we're occupying (ground level and basement) is fine, we didn't see any major damage*, other than stuff falling over, but the building it's in suffered some damage, mostly to the roof when part of a wall of a neighboring building collapsed onto our roof. * We do have a small space in a detached building (directly under the wall that collapsed) that had some damage to a wall which cracked. This could be related to the above mentioned wall collapse. We'll also have to inspect the roof on this detached building. From inside it looks ok, but you never know. I expect that there could be damage since it's flat concrete slab with tar for protection against water that might be breached. The government is sending professionals to asses the structural soundness of every building in the city center where the buildings are older (and probably wider as needed), so we'll have a better idea of the situation in the coming weeks.
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On top of the whole corona thing, this morning we had two fairly strong earthquakes. First one at 6:24 AM 5.4 magnitude lasting for about 10 seconds, the second one about half an hour later magnitude 4.6 and lasting a few seconds. Epicenter was about 10 km from my location. Fortunately, no reports of casualties, but there is extensive structural damage. Our house seems to have coped ok, only some minor damage when stuff fell from shelfs. Oldee buildings in the city center had much more damage. One bell tower of the Cathedral partially collapsed. Lockdown due to corona makes things much more complicated, since services are already strained. Update: There are now coming in reports of injuries, one of them is a 15 year old girl with severe head trauma. Our hospitals are mostly situated in older buildings that are not as earthquake proof as modern architecture, so some of them sustained damage. One hospital, which is primarily a maternity ward has been evacuated due to structural damage, patients transferred to another one (the one that was emptied in preparation for corona patients). Another hospital, one specializing in child diseases, sustained significant damage in one of its older wings. That wing is also evacuated. A third hospital transferred its patients into its newer wing, and discharged everybody who could be sent away for home care. Military has been activated to help with the clean up and logistics. New field hospitals are being erected to compensate for loss of hospital capacity. There were additional milder tremors, after the first two strong ones, but not serious. Instructions coming from authorities are somewhat confusing. On one side you have recommendation to stay at home due to the corona virus, on the other they ask to leave homes due to earthquake. The situation is further complicated by the sudden cold weather. On friday and even yesterday we had beautiful warm with 20°C. Today it was -1°C and even some snow, so there were people leaving their houses in their pajamas and not much more, and afraid to go back in houses to get warmer clothes.
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I could be wrong, especially since I seem to be unable to find the article now, but I believe there was one study where they tested entire population of a town and found that some people infected show no symptoms at all, so no I would definitely not say that fever is always present. Edit: Not the article I was looking for, but still: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9a9b-fea8db1a8f51 1.2% of cases in this study are without symptoms. Bottom line, while it certainly can't be ruled out that your kid is infected (even with the proper test), based on symptoms it's more likely it's something else, like a cold. Of course, monitor his condition. Another edit: I should really refrain from this "KSP Forum MD" stuff.
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totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
Shpaget replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
TIL BBC has a pidgin "language" page. https://www.bbc.com/pidgin It's somewhat horrifying. -
That's not really symptomatic of corona where incubation is usually shorter, fever is common and sore throat is not. Good luck, though, and stay safely indoors. Speaking of which, Croatia enacted a ban on public transportation, both inside and between cities. Only taxis will be allowed to operate, while bus service will be restricted to essential workforce that will be issued special IDs. Islands are off limits to everybody but inhabitants. As of this afternoon we're at 206 cases, +76 from yesterday evening, which is a bit scary growth.
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From what I can see, Croatia seems to be coping fairly well. One large hospital was emptied of all patients that were not in life threatening condition (not related to corona) and new equipment for dealing with respiratory issues has been installed. In addition to that, military has installed a field hospital in front of it. This is intended to be the central hospital for corona patients in serious condition, while other hospitals will receive patients only after this one is filled. Furthermore, a large sports hall is being prepared for treating mild cases. So at the moment, with ~160 cases, we have plenty of capacity, but unfortunately quite a few people are not following the "stay at home" directive so the number is still rising.
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Attempting your scenario will result in quick death of your initial couple. 2 individuals is not nearly enough to produce a stable population, even with modern genetic analysis capability. After your first two (who you let's say can engineer or select) you are left with random chance for their offspring. You'll quickly run into problems with lack of genetic diversity. You'd need about 80-100 of selected individuals for starter population, if you use continuous planned breeding. That number grows to several thousands for random individuals. That just doesn't make sense, both conceptually and genetically.
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From today, in Croatia everything non essential is closed. The only businesses that remain open are food stores, pharmacies and gas stations. Public transportation still works, but even at 9 AM when you'd still expect trams to be packed full there were just a handful of people inside. It's uncanny. Not even during summer when everybody is on vacation is the city this empty. We came to work today, but boss said go home, so we did some preparation, cleaned the place up a bit and went home. I'm not sure how long this will last, but better safe than sorry, I suppose. I do have some work I can do from home and delegated some tasks to other guys, but in the next few days I think I'll finally be able to catch up on some reading.
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It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's perpetuum mobile! While this is connected (albeit very loosely) to aerospace tech, it doesn't get to be featured upstairs in the Science & Spaceflight section. Basically, we have another designer disconnected from reality and laws of physics. https://www.bonikowski.eu/work/eatherone I don't think this idea is going to fly.
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Welcome back! But what's wrong with circles? Pusher plate would be subjected to some insane forces, and circular structure would be optimal regarding surface area and structural support needed to keep it in shape.
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"Slight booster length increase to 70m, so 120m for whole system. Liftoff mass ~5000 mT." That's ~twice as heavy as Saturn V
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As of today, our business is closed for public until all this situation calms down. We are still coming to work (since there's always something to do), but are taking some precautions (shorter work day, avoiding takeouts etc...). Two guys that use public transportation are excused from work until we figure out how to either get them to work by private transportation or until we can get them some work to do at home (which won't be that hard). In the meantime, I have a 5 l canister of denatured 96% ethanol I use for various purposes in large quantities, so I mixed up some DIY sanitiser. I'm also giving it to others to take home, since it's getting hard to find the stuff in the drug stores. A distributor place where we get it is sold out too (we checked). The recipe for an effective sanitiser is very simple: Mix ethanol or isopropyl alcohol with water until you get about 70% alcohol mixture, add a few drops of glycerin and there you go. The glycerin is not an active ingredient and is not required, but it's nice to have some in the mix to counter the desiccating effect of alcohol (pure alcohol makes your hands dry, glycerin prevents that). I didn't have glycerin, but did have some liquid soap, so a few drops of that did the trick (it also smells just a tiny bit better).
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Earlier today I remembered seeing a video about cooking stuff in a cup in a microwave. Since I was a bit peckish and up for experimentation, I found the video and decided on mac and cheese. Simple enough. Honestly, I'm not sure why you'd do it in a microwave, but the lady in the video was quite enthusiastic about the whole "no clean up" aspect, and I've never cooked anything in a microwave so I decided to give it a shot. I had to deviate from her recipe. First of all, she was using a regular sized cup, which is entirely inadequate amount of pasta for a grown butt man, even if full and I had to take into account the mixing of the ingredients and all that, so I opted for my 800 ml mug and filled it about 1/3 with pasta and half with water. My 20/20 foresight told me to be careful and to expect water boiling over, so I did short periods of mirconuking it. Didn't really prevent it from boiling over three times. How in the world was she doing it in a regular cup? Anyway, after an uncountable number of short periods of microwaving, the pasta was finally cooked. Next deviation was the cheese. The recipe calls for shredded cheddar. I don't have cheddar, so some parmesan like cheese it is for me. It seemed a bit too dry and looked as if would have trouble melting, so I added two of those melted triangle cheese things as well. A bit of pepper, milk and flour and back into the microwave for a few more 30 second rounds. Done. I won't lie, it's not going to get all three Michelin stars, but it was edible. I went back the YT video to double check why I was messing with the microwave - because no clean up. Well, I'd like to say that's bovine poop. Cleaning the mug was just as much work as it would have been cleaning a sauce pan, a hypothesis I decided to put to test this evening. Pretty much the same recipe, only this time on the stove in a sauce pan. Let me tell you, they make stoves for a damn good reason. No messing around with 30 second intervals of cooking and opening the microwave just to stir and put back in, no multiple occasions of boiling over and cleaning each time, and no annoying microwave beeping. Furthermore, you can see and adjust the contents of the pan on the go if you see that you need to add something and cook for exactly as long as you need to. Also, washing the sauce pan and a plate took me less than washing the mug. I think I'll demote the microwave back to warming water for tea.
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That would be Savage Garden. So, supposing a few suppositions: 1. corona virus turns out to be stable (not mutating every now and then) 2. it is the type that you can get sick from only once before developing immunity 3. it continues to be rather safe for children Can we expect corona parties where parents bring their children to play with other infected kids in order to catch it as soon as possible? Sort of like chickenpox is not dangerous for kids, but is for adults?
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[New] Space Launch System / Orion Discussion Thread
Shpaget replied to ZooNamedGames's topic in Science & Spaceflight
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[New] Space Launch System / Orion Discussion Thread
Shpaget replied to ZooNamedGames's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Well, to be frank, I count three or four F9 flights before crew launch. March 14 Starlink 5 March 30 SAOCOM 1B April 29 GPS 3 SV03 TBD Anasis 2 May 7 Crew Dragon Demo 2 On topic, I've seen mostly discussion about crewed flights on SLS, but what about deep space probes, space telescopes or future space stations in LEO? IIRC SLS has a bit larger diameter than NG or Starship. Is this a meaningful size difference when it comes to bulky cargo?