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     Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/the -daily-chart-the-big-green-energy-lie.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/china-has-started-dig ging-a-mysterious-10000-meter-deep-hole Hope they don't drop a nuke into it. I liked the movie version with Dana Andrews, but I don't want to live through it. Or not live through it, come to think... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/how -to-stop-the-bleeding.php I've bought both the Quikclot & Celox ( shrimp shell based ) gauze packs for my First Aid kits. Haven't had to use one. But a U.S. Army medic buddy swears by them. I had a "sucking chest wound" sticky, but the DHS confiscated it when I flew on an airline. mea culpa. I made a scene at the Daytona airport, made them call a supervisor. "Keep, it, no problem but Don't F@#$ing THROW IT AWAY! That's a First Responders trauma kit! Give it to the airport medical team. And give me a receipt, that's over $500." ( tourniquet, Celox strips and chest wound patch, inflatable cast, CPR masks, scalpels, scissors, etc. ) I'm glad I was 2 hours early, the yelling took almost that long. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rnoRavhrwPQ If I designed a clean energy truck, Totally Carbon free, No pollution, silent, and plenty of power. But if it ran on Peacock feathers, I'd have a hard time fueling up. That's an absurd idea, right? There's only so many peacocks. But we could have a massive breeding program and there'd be plenty. And depending on food & shelter & labor costs, it might be competitive. You want electric cars? You need a massive power plant breeding program. It's not the first time I've said that. It won't be the last. Physics is not emotional. You can improve the batteries. You can make the cars more efficient. ( although you have to balance safety, the best mileage would be in an ultralight composite aeroshell design that a fat guy would break if he fell on it. ) But you can't convert to electric until you make more generation capacity. | ||
| Ducbsa |
And distribution capacity. | ||
| Aesquire |
Oh, yes! Getting energy to the user might be a good business plan. https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/06/12/ tis-to-laugh-starry-eyed-optimists-think-u-s-will- notice-british-wind-energy-disaster-n557334 | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/20 23/06/12/wef-wants-to-restrict-car-ownership-for-c limate-change-n1702629 In a world where the problem can be obscure, it's refreshing to have a clear and obvious list of evil monsters who have to be destroyed for civilization to survive. I wish that was a joke. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown /2023/06/12/a-canadian-firefighter-sheds-light-on- the-smoke-in-the-east-n1702543 Every year, badly thought out forestry management cult superstitions are responsible for massive fires and loss of life and property. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-satellite- beams-energy-1st-time | ||
| Aesquire |
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points -of-information/the-icy-mesas-of-mars-glacier-coun try/ I kinda missed the information that tells us about sub surface ice? I'm not sure that looking like a dust covered glacier makes it so. Much of Earthly Geography is dominated by moving plates, volcanic activity and huge flows of ice and water. Plus really high erosion from ice, water & wind. Aerology, a very new science with extremely limited sampling of actual rocks, sure seems to show signs of past floods and water, but not moving plates, active volcanoes, and surface water. Just because it would be nice to have useable amounts of water fairly easy to get to, doesn't mean it's there. Proof will come when a human or much better robot, climbs a slope and breaks some rocks where our wheeled exploration robots can't reach. I look forward to, ( but doubt I live long enough ) the protesters with signs standing on the comet impact zone of the Mars Terraforming Project. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/media-blames-cli mate-change-for-canadian-wildfires-despite-arrest- of-multiple-arsonists/ | ||
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| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-could-feasibly- descend-into-chaos-physicists-warn Mostly hype and click bait. But. There is a possibility of extreme chaotic & sudden climate change. That's true. Always has been. After all we have Ice Ages. The hot planet idea also might happen. Never has in the time we can see from evidence, we have pretty solid evidence it hasn't happened in a half million years since the planet started the current cycles. But it's possible. ( I don't know how, mind you. There's a "then a miracle occurs" part of the computer model that assumes physics changes, or some failure in the feedback loops. I could speculate ... ) I utterly disagree with the hype/freak that a slightly warmer world is cataclysmic. We still haven't warmed BACK up to the pleasant climate of 2000 years ago. | ||
| Hootowl |
I will remind you that we are in an ice age.  I predict that within a billion years, the orbit of the Earth will be inside the chromosphere of Sol. There is your climate change. | ||
| Ratbuell |
We still haven't warmed BACK up to the pleasant climate of 2000 years ago. THIS. People seem to forget(ignore) that the world now is not even as warm as it was during the Roman age. I guess those chariots needed better catalytic converters... | ||
| Aesquire |
One of the many annoying, and sometimes amusing things about the Climate Cult, is the utter lack of knowledge about Climate Change. For me being told I "don't believe in Climate Change" is like an anti Commie being told that he doesn't believe Communism exists. Of course, communism exists, it murdered about a billion people last century. The point is it's Evil, not it's existence. Of course Climate change exists. But I can actually name examples, and they... can't. Not anything real and proven. My short and easy to remember list includes. Pueblo Cliff Dweller's civilization. Change in climate, droughts, ruined the agriculture in the region, and it's now pretty darn free of people. Petra. Probably most famous as the hidden city in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. Climate change wiped out the civilization there when the water ran out. The Sahara Forest. THIS one you CAN blame on Humans. Between overgrazing and a couple of genocidal wars, plus apparently ( according to some theories, not completely proven, yet ) massive flooding from an asteroid? impact on the Mediterranean, it's not where lumber companies go today. The Great Frost Fairs on the Thames river. See Dr. Who. Doesn't freeze over anymore. Also don't lose a large percentage of the population every winter. Greenland Colonies. Climate change, ( got cold ) ruined agriculture, and the European expansion into Africa both contributed. The big cash crop from Greenland was Walrus Ivory, and Elephant Ivory was both nicer to work with, and not a seasonal harvest, you could buy it year around. The Flooding of New York City. The terrific loss of life as the oceans rose and the first 2 floors of New York Skyscrapers being turned into water taxi stands, is the most obvious result of the adoption in 2025 of the International Holiday "Burn a tire for Saint Greta" when President Kennedy invoked the long forgotten clause in the UN Charter, giving absolute power to the only country that actually paid it's dues. Although not strictly Climate related, ( the Island sunk when the Democrat Party Donor class removed all their gold from the vaults under the city, and the sudden shift in mass caused the subsidence. ) Feel free to use any of the above in discussions, although you might want to actually research them to get the dates and temperatures. | ||
| Hootowl |
Grazing. Saudi Arabia has the same problem. They are building structures to trap rain and hold it so it seeps into the ground, like the vegetation used to do. Large areas are being greened. | ||
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| Aesquire |
There's also a project where multiple farmers combine herds and graze them in patterns designed to regrow vegetation faster than consumed, greening the Sahara from multiple edges in. While there is some communal thinking involved, the idea is to eliminate the competition for grazing land that made over grazing common. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/is- there-a-penalty-for-wrong-predictions.php If your computer model is good at predicting, you sell the predictions to farmers. You can't sell it to The Establishment, because accurate models don't show the results they want to publish. The opposite of the scientific method. The money spent in Germany alone on converting from nuclear and coal to intermittent unreliable power collection, would be enough to clean up a selected third world country. Sewage, water treatment, garbage collection and the immense propaganda campaign to get people too poor to care to live better. That's not an option today, with the billion$ taken ( donated and taxed ) by rich people to make money on wind and solar farms. And even if the Cultists all perished by the wrath of Satan tomorrow, it's a huge job to convince people it's a long term good to make the lives better in some distant hell hole so they both contribute to production ( vs. He a drain on everyone else ) and clean up their environment. Clean water and air is a product of success. That's why England isn't a running sore off the coast of Europe, and (pick your leftist county ) is. | ||
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| Aesquire |
https://instapundit.com/591141/ High gas prices! Oil companies passing taxes on to consumers! It's really a First Amendment issue. Government decreed religion. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/the y-go-low.php Editorial on hate & class envy by the Left. That's basically SOP. And utterly hypocritical, to NEVER mock your side's rich, and lean hard on Class Envy/Hate for the ones that Don't pay Danegeld or, Gasp! Donate to The Enemy! ( and the Donor Class of the D Party is VERY rich in proportion of donations and funding Party causes. Both Parties have rich and poor donors. The proportions are notably different, the Rs funded by middle income much more and Gazillionaires much less. ) But that is independent of the science and accomplishments of the rich people. Purely Party and Agitprop. Elon Musk was a good guy until he complained about free speech violations and pointed out the Klan Party was anti free speech. Then he became a target to be hated. Why did they luuuv him before they hated him? He sold bragging rights cars. Virtue signalling trophies! And nifty fast ones too. Strip away the ego and Climate Cult rationalization and virtue signalling, gearheads like performance! And don't especially care about the politics behind the power. Gearheads and nerds go by reality. A faster car wins races. Reliable and reusable launch vehicles get us into space! ( and NASA doesn't anymore, apparently, for Reasons worth discussing ) So, as nerd & gearhead, I overcome the Class Envy Agitprop designed to make me hate successful technology guys, if their Toys are cool! I'm never going to buy a Lamborghini, or midget submarine, but that those tech toys exist excite me. For style, and pragmatic self interest. I had a VW with a dual clutch transmission, trickle down tech from Racing Exotics. The Variable valve systems that let me get great mileage started on rich people products. ( and most of the other engine technologies today come from military aircraft engine development. The 4 valves per cylinder tech on my Suzuki were used in WW1 & WW2 fighter planes. ) So if I'm talking tech, I can disconnect from the ideologies and personalities behind it. I can discuss the Beetle automobile of my youth as a technology and economic impact object, while being aware of the political and criminal background that brought the car to the world. That Hitler pulled a scam in the first half of the 20th century involving Beetles has nothing to do with the fact my buddy could remove his engine in 45 minutes in the parking lot of his apartment building, fix it, and put it back together by dinner so he could drive to work the next day. That he frequently had to is a fact far more important to the subject of ease of repair than the 1937 Nazi Party that promoted it.  I also don't accuse the primary buyers of Jettas ( college age women ) of being Nazis because they bought a VW. I will on an individual basis based on their personal behavior, but not their cars! Duh. Re: lost minisub. The technology of the lost submarine is interesting. Use of pipe scrap as a hull? Why not? You need incredible strength to withstand the incredible pressure. Carbon fiber pipe is a clever choice. The lack of redundancy in control and safety equipment isn't so exciting. I'm an admitted "safety nazi" in the various risk sports/activities I've done in my life. ( I even had the T shirt from my college skydiving team ) So much about the lost sub is arguably problematic. On the one hand, why not use a wireless game controller to run the sub? And they say they have a bag of back up controllers onboard! Otoh, they seem to have no manual backups to run the propulsion motors in case the hacked game console parts glitch. I can't count the times my Xbox froze as I lept, machine gun blazing, ( or axe swinging ) into a crowd of demonic monsters! But I just had to get a snack while I rebooted to try again to get the imaginary treasure chest in the dungeon. It didn't kill me horrifically in the ocean depths. I'm very interested to know what went wrong. That's a choice and mindset of a nerd who wants to learn from other's mistakes and not repeat them. It's how I became an Old Pilot, plus an unreasonable amount of luck and a tiny bit of skill. I don't know how much to buy about the choices and mindset of the guy behind the lost tourist submarine. The editorials are not reliable reporting. | ||
| Aesquire |
Or... Short form. The people cheering the terrifying deaths of innocent tourists because of their ability to pay for the ride are mentally ill or brainwashed or evil rotten humans. Or all 3. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2 023/06/23/report-u-s-navy-heard-submersibles-implo sion-just-hours-after-launch-n1705732 Maybe scrap pipe was a bad choice. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyar d/2023/06/22/breaking-devastating-news-for-familie s-of-the-titanic-submarine-crew-n1705529 | ||
| Aesquire |
https://instapundit.substack.com/p/run-silent-run- very-very-deep?sd=pf The composite experts over on the aviation forums are doing math and asking about fiber orientation. The Karens are accusing everyone, especially the dead they envy. I'll just add... Certification? From who? The Titanic Submarine Tourist Collective? ( doesn't exist ) It's an experimental craft and the "marine industry" is imaginary. For submarine purposes. I've seen lots of waviers. I've bought flying machines with warning labels to the effect that reality is dangerous, you are responsible for your own safety, and we don't promise it's safe, will fly, or anything, grow up. Ok, I added the last part. With more than half a century of gravity sports experience, there are things I love to do that the vast majority says is crazy, and refuse to do popular tourist attraction stuff. For example, I consider being dropped from a balloon like Coyote's safe from the Stratosphere to be great fun. With the proper equipment. ( spent a week at an Air Force base to get certified on the high altitude breathing gear, on my dime, btw ) But I won't bungee jump. Nope. I can write you a paper on the original coming of age ritual in New Guinea tribes. ( it's more complicated than you'd expect ) I partied with base jumpers and competed internationally in college skydiving. But I also KNOW that rubber bands break. So... No. I'm not a customer for Titanic dives, either. Maybe to see a sunken warship. But if you gave me a quarter million to blow, I'd spend It on a used Stemme S-10 touring motorglider that's available in Switzerland this week. Then I'd spend half of my bank account getting rated and flying the Alps. I haven't checked the range specs yet to see if I can fly it across the Atlantic. Ireland to Greenland to Newfoundland... Risk is a personal choice. | ||
| Aesquire |
I do admit to being just enough of a heartless Bast&*^ to be amused by this. If you laugh, you too should be ashamed. https://9gag.com/gag/az2Y9QN I literally have a box full of broken MICROSOFT joy sticks, now discontinued, so I can mix & match parts to keep one running. Logitech sticks got thrown out 15 seconds after they broke. Microsoft USED to be darn good at wrapping plastic around some switches. I have a Microsoft Intellimouse 1.0a on the desk next to me, and 3 more in the box next to the Joysticks. They ALL work. The newest Microsoft mouse I bought had the wheel rubber turn to goo. Rant, wheeze, cough.... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/317 745.php The real point is the biggest transfer of wealth in world history, but dont hold your breath waiting for anyone to say that out loud. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://the-pipeline.org/the-ghost-of-the-unabombe r-lives-on/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2023/06/ 23/the-titanic-sub-its-all-fun-and-games-when-the- rich-are-dying-n1705755 I developed a sick sense of humor hanging out with EMTs. Defensive mechanism when you're trying to keep a crash victim from bleeding to death as you wait for the jaws of life to rip the roof off the wreckage. And I'm not immune to class envy jokes. Although the ones I laugh at usually point out hypocrisy. Not mock the dead. |
