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Aesquire
| Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 07:14 am: |
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social -credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/ 10200278 This was the plot of an episode of The Orville, & Black Mirror? 1984's Big Brother was a naive paradise compared to cyberpunk China today. Social media takes the next step.... To terror. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Friday, September 21, 2018 - 01:45 am: |
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/sci ence-the-cultural-politics-of-gluten.php Funny & completely understandable. |
Ducbsa
| Posted on Friday, September 21, 2018 - 07:32 am: |
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Science, agenda-based: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/308125/ |
Aesquire
| Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 03:47 am: |
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/scien tific_studies_behind_obama_school_lunch_program_re tracted_.html Some of these ideas, I use. The smaller plate thing. I do that. But I now know that the food pyramid I was taught in school produces heart disease and diabetes. Probably obesity. And subsequent new versions are just as bad, if not worse. Did "they" lie to us as a malicious attack on American health? No, they rode the fads of the day and made them law. Still do, and I don't see this news changing that. But I feel free to mock the bad & politically motivated science, eggs, bacon, coffee, salt, all declared enemies of the State, and all exonerated by reality. Worst part of this, combined with educational theory seemingly designed to not educate as much as possible, casts a shadow on all science. I'll limit my complaints to Self Esteem insanity, and dumbing down tests & classes for the lowest common denominator. They are related. The only Self Esteem study.... Or at least the First, was in Scientific American. Beginning with the discovery that a decades long schooling fad had zero, zip, nada actual studies to support it, researchers gave self esteem questionnaires to prisoners in a penitentiary. They discovered a negative correlation between self worth belief and real behavior. The people with the highest opinions of themselves were the most violent, wife beaters, child abusers, thugs, muggers, etc. All the folk that had the least reason to be happy with their lives, by any rational basis, we're the most smug in their opinions of their own worth and actions, and utter contempt for everyone else. Nothing in their lives was their fault. It was all oppression by others. They deserved it. And so forth, on a sliding scale to penitent self doubters that were non violent offenders. By making school "easier" for stupid people, the stupid students learned very little. The smarter students don't have access to more, get bored, and become problems, often drugged after being "diagnosed" as some alphabet fad. Not by clinical experts, by harassed, overworked, teachers and school administrators. This is literal witchcraft. Cursing children to never learn.... On many levels. Cast the spell by inscribing the magic words, ADHD, Bipolar, Autistic, Dyslexic, etc. Upon the school records, and it is Done. Yes, this is unfair to the many dedicated and wonderful teachers in our land. But they have to fight the Administration, who tend to be corrupt, incompetent, biased, autocrats, the witchcraft of psycho-fads & massive drug profits, and parents who use school as baby sitters for children they never read to or teach..... Anything, including basic human decency. Bless them. |
Ducbsa
| Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 04:53 am: |
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An example of this: https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/10/16/ dunbar-high-school-after-100-years |
Ratbuell
| Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 09:23 am: |
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but...but...allowing them to pick and choose "good" students from other neighborhoods is discriminatory! Elitist! Unfair! How DARE they want to have a student body who wants to succeed?? This "inclusion" bull$hit has got to stop. Dunbar is a prime example - if you draw successful candidates, and the result is...well...SUCCESS...then why mess with it? We need to stop looking at all this feel-good crap on the intake side, and start looking at the success/fail ratio on the output side. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 10:38 am: |
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No! Intentions, as publicized, are all that matters! Results are heteronormative. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 08:42 pm: |
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a2 3341093/oyster-creek-nuclear-power-plant-shut-down Another environmental disaster. The loss of clean power is a real problem. There are no commercial nuclear plants in the U.S. that are based on designs younger than me. I admit I was born when the coolest stuff on the planet was, the Blackbird, the Chevy, ( no need to mention a year, right? ) and a bunch of really pretty jet fighters, all in that era between the beginning of the Korean war and Vietnam. Yes the newer plants from the 1970's have better electronics, ( albeit subject to EMP like the Old Coil Of Wire stuff isn't ) and fancier control rooms, but the reactor itself is still, almost always, a light water Uranium fission pile with rods that jam, parts that fall off, and in all the important mechanical ways, are just mild improvements on the Hanford Piles that were used to build a stockpile of nuclear bombs in the Cold War. No Fluidized bed systems, no Fail Safe designs, not one that can live when the flood waters reach the diesel generator. Then we had Fukushima. A Tsunami, and generators on the basement. It's like nothing had been learned since the East Coast Blackout of 1965. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_o f_1965 A major NYC hospital went down, not because the backup generators in the basement didn't turn on, not because they didn't have fuel, but because the emergency circuits did not have the sump pumps on them. The basement flooded, the generators went down...... In Response to Fukushima, Germany decided to stop using nuclear power, installed billions in wind and solar, then used coal to make the charade of renewable power in a cloudy land seem real. How many people suffer because of a "popular decision" to not have clean power that works when the weather is bad? And the anti-nuke movement is directly traceable to Vladimir Putin's buddies who, to this day, work tirelessly to destroy western industrial might. |
Ourdee
| Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2018 - 11:05 am: |
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work tirelessly to destroy western industrial might Why do people think the cold war ended? |
Hootowl
| Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2018 - 11:23 am: |
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The left is trying hard to make it seem that way. "The 80s called. They want their foreign policy back". Which is sort of at odds with their current "Russia Russia Russia" mantra. Oh well. No one has ever accused the left of being consistent, other than consistently wrong. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Monday, September 24, 2018 - 07:09 am: |
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/d umb_energy_advances_in_colorado.html Rate loophole. By closing depreciated plants & building new, They can charge more. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 10:09 pm: |
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/yes_i _believe_in_science_but_not_all_scientists.html |
Aesquire
| Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 05:57 am: |
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/t he_shameful_politicization_of_hurricanes.html I remember when Bush caused Global Warming. On Mars. |
Ducbsa
| Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 11:56 am: |
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https://www.cedarwrites.com/2018/09/18/chemophobia -pesticides/ |
Chauly
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 10:29 am: |
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Interesting article about unintended consequences: Pollution damage in Jet Engines: http://atwonline.com/opinions/analysis-dilemma-high-tech-aero-engine?NL=AW-05&Issue=AW-05_20180927_AW-05_24&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_5&utm_rid=CPEN1000002547530&utm_campaign=16539&utm_medium=email&elq2=b10b4e9a190749c68d4382a3312e7028 (Message edited by Chauly on September 27, 2018) |
Aesquire
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 02:56 pm: |
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That's scary. Also.... "asian" countries. How much you want to bet the worst pollution is over Communist/Socialist/Authoritarian run places? You'd be a fool to bet against that. Volcanic ash is a known major problem for turbine engines, as they coat themselves with glass. High altitude glass fibers from volcanoes are a problem as well, but rarer. Bad coal plant pollution? wow. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-62 08203/Allied-bombing-raids-Second-World-War-powerf ul-sent-shockwaves-edge-space.html Considering that Radar was an accidental discovery when passing ships caused odd reaction with early radio gear, who knows what this may lead to? |
Gregtonn
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 04:32 pm: |
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Interesting note; In the days after 9/11/2001, when jets were not allowed to fly, the skies over Phoenix were more clear than I have ever seen them. Did anyone who lived near major airports at the time notice the same? This begs the question: What, if anything is being done to reduce pollution by jet engines? G |
Ducbsa
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 04:41 pm: |
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The latest engines are more efficient, so they burn less fuel and produce less unburned hydrocarbons and killer CO2. As far as NOx, I don't know. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 05:59 pm: |
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The combustion chamber pressures are not that high, so logic says less NOx than the high compression piston engines they replaced, but higher unburned hydrocarbons. And as you say, higher efficiency, lower unburned fuel. ( than previous jets ) Simple greed, the desire for airlines to burn less fuel per seat/mile, is constantly reducing pollution. https://www.xkcd.com/966/ |
Aesquire
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 07:30 pm: |
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If the Dems take Congress. Since the self anointed Gods of Silicon valley are all supporting the Dems, expect there to be regulations under the Dems to strengthen their near monopoly and nothing to promote free speech. Twitter, Facebook and Google, will ban everything they don't like, and Siri & Alexa will continue to feed your every word direct to folk like Bezos...... And anyone who pays to get your information. I can't even describe the current abuse and how powerful it is. ( I have a source, inside ) Expect customized news feeds. You ask for the news on a subject, and your results will be different than your neighbors, based on your collected info and the propaganda algorithm for you. Unbelievable? Have you watched tv this week? |
Ducbsa
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 08:08 pm: |
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The Lockheed Connies had 7:1 ratios w/ superchargers. So aero engines weren’t high compression. I was comparing current jets to, say, 707 engines. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 09:06 pm: |
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With Superchargers... Really high manifold pressure & 150+ octane equiv. Lots of Lead. I have no Idea what kind of NOx pollution a Merlin or a R-2800 put out, but it's at least as bad as a 10 1/2:1 SBC per gallon of fuel. Effective compression ratios went up as WW2 went on and America made higher octane fuel. It's possible that the latest from P&W is worse than the old 707 engines for NOx because they are running higher pressure ratios, but it's gotta be far less than a Merlin. ( never mind the tetraethyl lead. ) But... you got me wondering too, and.... Air Pollution Emissions From Jet Engines https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/000224 70.1968.10469144 The J-57 is a typical jet fighter engine of the 1950's fighters, the B-52, etc. The TF-33 is the turbofan development of the same engine, with a fan section blowing around the jet core. Both were used on various versions of the 707. Darn good engines. The T-56 is a turboprop engine, used on the original C-130, and Electra. ( Electra variants are still used as Hurricane hunters ) Darn good engine. And..... I can't make this up. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38285567 |
Ducbsa
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 09:28 pm: |
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That article is from 1968, more current data would be interesting. I probably missed it, but the emission levels must be proportional to fuel rate or hp, so equalizing for that seems fair. As far as the jet engine to disperse the flue gas, utility AEP has 1000’+ stacks for their 1300mw plants to do the same. The noise and fuel cost of the jet is a negative. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 09:37 pm: |
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Jet engines to blow your pollution away from your city center does seem like approaching the problem the wrong way, doesn't it? |
Gregtonn
| Posted on Friday, September 28, 2018 - 01:39 am: |
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Okay let us consider the CO2 issue. What is the life breath of plants? It has been said that dying rain forests are killing the planet. If the rain forests are to be preserved and regenerated what is the most important gas to affect this regeneration? One might also research the nitrogen content of rain water as a stimulant to plant growth. G |
Aesquire
| Posted on Friday, September 28, 2018 - 06:43 am: |
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Are you trying to use facts and science to fight a religious intolerance issue? Good luck, heretic. |
Chauly
| Posted on Friday, September 28, 2018 - 10:07 am: |
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The solution to pollution is dilution! Let's send our crap up high enough to let it blow away before settling... (yes, that goes for the 1000' stacks as well) |
Aesquire
| Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 07:35 am: |
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-62 19903/Look-Second-Chinese-space-station-set-fall-E arth.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=149 0 Place your bets! Controlled reentry in July 2019, or.... Debris scattered on random tumble? Frankly I don't think the China government cares who it lands on, they just want good publicity, and will cheerfully lie about anything. Anything. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 01:27 pm: |
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https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim -berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upen d-the-world-wide-web This could be Big. Or a flash in the pan. I'm hoping it goes Big. Screw the Big Data folk that think they rule the world. |
Zac4mac
| Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 09:19 pm: |
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Liked the article on Tim, but this rather disturbing post caught my eye. scary https://www.fastcompany.com/90243625/kavanaugh-rag e-meme Thanks again Patrick for provoking thought.... Z |
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