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Sparky
Posted on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 05:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Getting back to the weather, it looks like spring may be coming at last: Let's Go Surfin'.
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Sifo
Posted on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 07:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I've been windsurfing in the spring where there's been broken up ice floating on the lake. I've also been wind surfing when it's snowing like crazy. It's supposed to hit -8 tonight though. It's not feeling like spring!
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 08:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/aids-cured-says-egypt s-military/

We had a thread on the threat of the Jihadi.

We had threads on politics, war, cars, guns, and conspiracy theories. We have this thread on science and the Climate Con.

Do we have a thread on batsh9t f&^%(ng crazy?
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 08:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Sparky & Sifo, I've scuba dived under ice. I've done the Polar Bear Club bit, and I've cheerfully dashed from a sauna to roll in the snow, and back into the sauna. ( if you skip that last bit it really sucks )

I've even body surfed storm waves on Lake Ontario that were 12 feet high.

I am not surfing through jagged rock hard Great Lakes February waves. uh uh. THAT'S insane.

Relax guys only 6 more months of winter.
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 08:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10 661269/Death-test-predicts-chance-of-healthy-perso n-dying-within-five-years.html

Robert Heinlein's "Life Line" 1939.
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Kenm123t
Posted on Friday, February 28, 2014 - 03:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

LOL ADV rider has a BSC GF Wife page its a hoot!
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 12:15 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenertransport/ 10667081/Worlds-largest-aircraft-unveiled-and-hail ed-game-changer.html

neato... but has it flown?

http://www.airlander.co.uk/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenertransport/ 10667110/Worlds-largest-aircraft.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Endurance_Multi- intelligence_Vehicle

Well, damn! it HAS flown!

This reminds me..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26

The advantages are pretty awesome, but this tech never seems ready for Prime time.

It's really a new class of flying machine. Partly supported by Helium, partly by lift as it flies forward, and/or uses vectored thrust.

Several modern Blimp/Airship designs use vectored thrust both for better control and for take off. It's also common to fly such ships with some negative buoyancy and fly at an angle of attack to generate lift, but not the 60/40 split of the Airlander or the Aereon.

Airships have a severe sensitivity to gusty winds and storms.

The heavier than air-uses aerodynamic lift designs like the Airlander/Grumman LEMV are supposed to be better at that, but real world testing is lacking. It's a pity that they didn't get to do a more complete testing program on The LEMV.

I remain skeptical, but hopeful.

There ARE a few "normal" airships in use & being built today. The next gen Zeppelin NT is a PRODUCTION semi rigid for example.
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Blake
Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 02:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

It claims to be a game changer. I don't see it.

"“It can reach about 100mph and stay airborne for about three-and-a-half days.”

Maybe a niche player, but not likely to transplant many heavy lift helos, if any. Think logistics, support, maintenance costs.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 10:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

This class of airship is hoped to have capabilities that fit a very practical niche. Long distance heavy hauler capable of remote, rough field landings with good fuel economy, where speed isn't a big issue.

Like delivering supplies and heavy machinery to the middle of Africa where there are only dirt strips and some open fields. Not suitable for any other aircraft except C-130's or the rare and seriously expensive C-17 ( only 223 made ) and the Airship/Lifter designs usually target heavier cargo that the faster planes can't carry at all.

Not the first choice for dropping paratroops over Kiev, for sure, but a great thing for planting a hospital base in secure but unimproved areas.

The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed ( Aereon ) was tested in a pure heavier than air mode in a scale model. Manned, real, flying but too small to take real advantage of the helium lift that is supposed to make these things practical.

Because of the nature of the beast, they have to be full scale. Huge. This means Zeppelin hanger sized shelters are needed, and even with a 100mph top speed, you are NOT going to be happy in gusty winds much over 25.

As I said, I'm skeptical but hopeful. These things can be a real asset, and like the Zeppelins of the past, are spectacular and pretty cool. That also means they are damned expensive and probably never will be common. Blimps have shown real use in niche applications, like surveillance, advertising, sightseeing and lifting logs out of forests. You sure don't see them every day.
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Sifo
Posted on Monday, March 03, 2014 - 02:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)



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Hootowl
Posted on Monday, March 03, 2014 - 04:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Interesting. We could fake a moon landing today...in fact, we'd have to.

http://pixelbark.com/9550/why-the-moon-landing-is- not-a-hoax
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, March 03, 2014 - 08:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Brilliant. Depressing, but Brilliant.
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2014 - 10:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.history.com/shows/rise-of-the-machines

The Dragon Dream airship.

There has never been a journey more scenic, more breathtaking, than a Zeppelin trip. Someday you may be able to do that again.

I have to say the repetition on the graphics and the false tension on History channel shows is annoying.

OTOH I really loved their fakeumentary on the Great Martian War. I just wanted a few more CGI bits so I didn't get bored watching the same scenes over and over. I do recommend it, despite my bitches.

http://www.history.co.uk/shows/the-great-martian-w ar
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 08:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/ 06/not-even-climate-change-will-kill-off-capitalis m

Not even climate change will kill off capitalism

As long as the conditions for investment and profit remain, the system will adapt. Which is why we need a revolution


Climate Change is not a Science issue, it's a Political one. When the Earth was going to Freeze, we needed an all powerful State to Save Us All. Now that they tell us we are going to burn we Need an All Powerful State To Save Us All.

Any questions? Perhaps the latest from Harvard will help.

http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/arti cle/2014/2/18/academic-freedom-justice/?page=singl e

Freedom must be tossed aside in favor of "justice". So says the no doubt lovely Sandra Y.L. Korn ’14, a Crimson editorial writer, is a joint history of science and studies of women, gender and sexuality concentrator in Eliot House. who will, no doubt, soon be in favor of the Justice Dept. Or perhaps the Re-education camps. What ever, she will very soon be in charge. Of you. ( hope you're not an unreconstructed male )

In this case, discourse about “academic freedom” obscures what should fundamentally be a political argument. Those defending the academic boycott should use a more rigorous standard. The ASA, like three other academic associations, decided to boycott out of a sense of social justice, responding to a call by Palestinian civil society organizations for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions until Israel ends its occupation of Palestine. People on the right opposed to boycotts can play the “freedom” game, calling for economic freedom to buy any product or academic freedom to associate with any institution. Only those who care about justice can take the moral upper hand.



It is tempting to decry frustrating restrictions on academic research as violations of academic freedom. Yet I would encourage student and worker organizers to instead use a framework of justice. After all, if we give up our obsessive reliance on the doctrine of academic freedom, we can consider more thoughtfully what is just.
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 08:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sto nehenge-is-like-a-sacred-prehistoric-glockenspiel- researchers-claim-9168812.html

Here all this time I thought Stonehenge was left over from a Pink Floyd concert.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/27/natural_pi ne_aerosols_could_prevent_climate_change_really_be ing_a_problem/

I can't tell. Seriously, is this the latest excuse for why the Climate Models are wrong, or a reason to rejoice since we are saved?

I am more than curious, because we are having a predicted bad snow storm.

http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf

And the Crisis is upon us.
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 09:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/just -hit-the-noaa-motherlode/

"According to this article, with lots of graphs, Global Warming is indubitably anthropogenic; the raw sensor has been methodically pencil-whipped anthropogenically to produce the highly publicized 20th century warming."
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Reepicheep
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 01:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That's a great quote Aesquire...
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Macbuell
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 01:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2014/03/10/eri n-dnt-rowlands-record-ice-covers-lake-michigan.cnn &hpt=hp_t2&from_homepage=yes&video_referrer=http%3 A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F#/video/us/2014/03/10/erin-dn t-rowlands-record-ice-covers-lake-michigan.cnn

Things really are warming up. Only 90% of Lake Michigan is frozen over.

(Message edited by macbuell on March 12, 2014)
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 01:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Credit to Bob Ludwick, March 10 mail bag.

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/
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Aesquire
Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2014 - 07:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://twitter.com/DigitalEthno/status/4432606072 32356352/photo/1
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, March 17, 2014 - 07:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-258 2844/US-Navy-reveals-plot-beam-power-SPACE-using-g iant-orbiting-solar-panels.html

not a new idea. I guess because it's the Navy, it's new?

A good idea. No carbon footprint, no massive climate change with the desert covered in solar cells.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-c hange/climate-change-leaked-draft-of-un-ipcc-repor t-predicts-global-warming-will-cause-violent-confl ict-displace-millions-of-people-and-wipe-trillions -of-dollars-off-global-economy-9198171.html

Um, guys, that was your prediction in 1997. And 1998. And 1999. and......

http://www.infowars.com/college-professor-calls-fo r-climate-change-deniers-to-be-imprisoned/

A professor with Rochester Institute of Technology has called for the incarceration of any American who actively disagrees that climate change is solely caused by human activity.

Lawrence Torcello, a philosophy professor with a Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo, published the comments as part of an essay submitted to the academic website The Conversation.

Torcello argues that malignant individuals, who he does not identify, are collectively organising a “campaign funding misinformation” about climate change. Torcello goes on to suggest that such activity “ought to be considered criminally negligent.”

Adding that “science misinformation” surrounding climate change should be considered a crime, Torcello asks readers to “Consider cases in which science communication is intentionally undermined for political and financial gain.”


A philosophy professor calls for me to be imprisoned if I do not agree with HIM 100%.

Funny enough, that last paragraph I pasted above, I almost agree with. As an alumni, I should drop an e-mail to the current college Prez. and have them arrest him. "I was considering donating a new wing to the science building.... but if this is what we're preaching today..... Alfred could use one."

Anyone want to bet he's a big fan of Social Justice? Gets all dreamy when they post another pic of Vladimir with his shirt off?
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, March 17, 2014 - 07:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-detect-echoes-big -bang-151753508.html;_ylt=A0LEV1nwHCdT8nIAsdpXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0cTA1N3 VzBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDM4NF8x
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

— Julius Frontinus, chief military engineer to the Emperor Vespasian, c. AD 70.
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Garryb
Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 03:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Lot of interesting info at data.gov.

Here's one to monitor coastal change and other climate issues.

http://www.data.gov/climate/
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 02:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

A valuable resource for Lex Luthor.
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 08:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/cold est-october-march-in-the-us-in-102-years/

Yes siree, 2014, Hottest Year On Record. Bet ya.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/a_few_easy_ tests_to_debunk_global_warming_hysteria.html

Global warming advocates went to Antarctica to prove that Antarctic sea ice had disappeared because of man. They got stuck in ten foot thick sea ice they knew wasn't there. The rescue ship was also stuck for a while, but it was eventually able to back out to safer water.

This all happens in the heat of summer. A hundred years ago, the entire region, right up to the shore, was completely clear of ice.

Oh, the irony!


The purpose of the expedition was to go to a historic location of an expedition from a century ago. There to broadcast how severe the melting of the sea ice and how hot it was in Antarctica.

Given the embarrassment of such "political" scientists, it is worth examining the issue: does man have a major impact on the climate?

How does a physicist, such as myself, address this topic? I look at the physical evidence and see what it says.

Let's start with the computer models. How well do the warming models predict? Climate models predicted that we would now be experiencing an exponential rise in Earth's temperature. Unfortunately, for the last seventeen years the climate has shown no such growth.

Well, then, how well do the models account for past climate? We know from the chronicles of witnesses that the mean temperature fluctuated by several degrees. The Bronze-Age warmth was followed by a cold climate-caused dark age. The later Roman warm optimum was followed, at the end of the Western Empire, by cold sufficient to freeze the Rhine and Danube rivers and propel the starving Germanic tribes into Roman territory. Then, after the medieval warming, when Greenland was green and wine was exported from England, came the post-medieval Little Ice Age.

The models account for none of this. Climate oscillates; the models do not. For a considerable while, the warming advocates even denied the eyewitness testimony -- there were no Little Ice Ages, the advocates said.

From the written records of the last thousand years, we find that cold correlates with sunspot minima. This is happening today. Correlation does not prove cause, and causation is still hypothetical, but the correlation is suggestive.


There's more. Decent read, haven't found a major error.
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 08:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/03/25/spyware -app-turns-the-privacy-tables-on-google-glass-wear ers/
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Blake
Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 12:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Drilling Down On Sea Level as Evidence for CAGW

Catastrophic Anthropogenic (caused by humans) Global Warming Alarmism (CAGWA), says that sea level recently rising at double the rate of the previous century is evidence that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) is happening.

The alarmists like to tell us that for the past decade sea level has been rising at a rate double that of the previous 100 years. What they don't tell us is that such fluctuation in the rate of rising sea level is nothing new. It's just normal decadal type cyclic variability.

The data speaks for itself. Just compare the current trend to that from the interval spanning from 1930 to 1960. Statistically, there is no tenable evidence in this data that supports the CAGW narrative; anyone who asserts that there is such evidence, is either ignorant of science or a liar.

The deceivers (including the big govt rubes embedded into NASA) prefer to only display the specific portion of the hstorical scientific record that helps them deceive people into falling for their propaganda. Any professional engineer would be excoriated for such dishonest shenanigans, and rightly so.


Rising Sea Level


Sure seems compelling, doesn't it? NASA ought to know, right?

But look at the interval from 1937 to 1951. In that interval sea level rose roughly 64mm. That amounts to 64mm/14yrs = 4.57 mm/yr, an even greater rate in rise of sea level than what we are now seeing. But that was long before the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere were elevated.

So what we're seeing now is nothing unusual; just about all of natural phenomenon of our planet has natural cyclic behavior fluctuations over time. Here's the honest presentation of sea level data:


Rise in sea level


More, the longest running record of sea level in America...


San Francisco Sea Level


Another plot showing three year running average (smooths out the spikes)


Three Year Running Average Sea Level


So next time anyone invokes the increased recent rate of rise in sea level as evidence for CAGW, just show them the above information.
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 12:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Blake, this is serious! My investments in land at 35 feet above sea level won't pay off in my grandkids lifetime!

Next you are going to tell me my investments in the Ark building industry..... nooooooooo!
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Ducbsa
Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 06:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

What is the source for the multi-color global sea level chart? I found the Watts site that the bottom chart came from.
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