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Friday ONT: I Stick It!
Hi folks! First Friday in December. Anyone have any special holiday plans this year? Gingy fell off the toilet today, but instead of inventing the flux capacitor she gave herself a bunch of bruises. She's fine, nothing broken, but I've been tending to her all day. Here's a factoid: We're familiar with the fact that 71% of the world's surface is covered with water, but have you ever considered that in terms of volume?
Seasons Greetings!
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Air Force problems
Where should Jagermeister go?
Women. Why are they like this?
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Philosophy corner
Our bad
Manager throws a blender at a complaining Karen
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Why do food blogs do this?
Sing us a song
Work tip
For really hard jobs, use a dangle grinder pic.twitter.com/hcBMDQiRZ1
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Test to see if you have a dirty mind or not
They did Nazi that coming
Tonight's recipe
After using the dangle grinder, have a snack pic.twitter.com/LDW6yyXFO6
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This is wild
Panic at the Hoover Building
Fido Friday: Smack da booty
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Why you need a job
Choose wisely
Real life MMORPG
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 09:57 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Ciampino - How does NASA organize a party? They planet! at December 01, 2023 09:57 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 01, 2023 09:57 PM (QBwwm)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 09:57 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: javems at December 01, 2023 09:58 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: mindful webworker - finally at December 01, 2023 09:59 PM (gMunt)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 01, 2023 10:00 PM (M1WkG)
Theory is that all the wayer on Earth arrived via comets. So how dd it originate before the comets were formed? How about oxygen and hydrogen meeting in the atmosphere? Is that a stretch?
Posted by: Ciampino - acqua, agua, eau at December 01, 2023 10:03 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 10:04 PM (geLO8)
M
Had to recheck the chart.
At first I thought that was Stacey Abrams when retaining water.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2023 10:07 PM (onFzJ)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 10:07 PM (geLO8)
🍄 ☠️🪦
Posted by: zombie Clint Eastwood at December 01, 2023 10:08 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: TRex at December 01, 2023 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)
She wasn't complaining, she was throwing stuff at the manager. She got what she deserved.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 10:09 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:10 PM (Bf+P4)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 01, 2023 10:10 PM (Rz7ER)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 10:11 PM (I/Qkd)
I do love gin.
I didn't understand why gin means you hate other people.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 10:11 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 01, 2023 10:12 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: mindful webworker - finally at December 01, 2023 09:59 PM (gMunt)
Shit... it IF Friday.... LOL..
Retired, more and more losing track of what day it is.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:12 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 01, 2023 10:13 PM (7R3RM)
Posted by: Romeo13
Every day is a Saturday. Except Sunday.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 10:14 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: TRex at December 01, 2023 1
Me too
I wish we'd tried chocolate
Posted by: LASue at December 01, 2023 10:14 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 01, 2023 10:14 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 01, 2023 10:15 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 01, 2023 10:16 PM (coNhF)
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I go by "trash day." Here, it's Friday. Unless Monday was a holiday. Then it's Saturday. Maybe Sunday.
Honestly I no longer give a fuck.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:17 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 01, 2023 10:18 PM (sJHOI)
The x axis is self-hatred, and presumably runs from low to high. Gin is very low on it.
The y axis is hatred for others, and gin is very high on it.
What am I missing?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 10:18 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: mindful webworker - satisfaction at December 01, 2023 10:19 PM (gMunt)
Posted by: mindful webworker - satisfaction at December 01, 2023 10:19 PM (gMunt)
Either way, the heart wants what the heart wants (and the liver hates).
Gin is lovely.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:19 PM (Bf+P4)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 10:20 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Romeo13
I know it's a weekday if I have a Doctor's appointment.
Posted by: javems at December 01, 2023 10:20 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 01, 2023 10:21 PM (7R3RM)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 10:21 PM (RIvkX)
We do our best. We try to do good. We serve our Lord, and are grateful for our blessings daily. Life is pretty good, all in all.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:21 PM (Bf+P4)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 01, 2023 10:18 PM (sJHOI)
If you've ever looked online for a recipe or answer to a simple question like "how long to cook a turkey?", the blogs never just say "15 minutes a pound at 350. You're welcome."
You always have to read through sone long narrative about the joys of cooking turkey.
Or in the case of recipes, read some extensive description before finally getting to the actual recipe three pages down screen.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2023 10:21 PM (onFzJ)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 01, 2023 10:21 PM (7R3RM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 01, 2023 10:21 PM (hiMh5)
old.
I've seen this myself. People tend to think that any paper published before they were born was the product of witchcraft and reading intestines.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 10:22 PM (I/Qkd)
Anyway, that's where tequila should be.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 01, 2023 10:22 PM (coNhF)
Posted by: Iris at December 01, 2023 10:22 PM (n3DL0)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 01, 2023 10:23 PM (m9hmt)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 01, 2023 10:13 PM (7R3RM)
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Graphs are math.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 10:23 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 01, 2023 10:23 PM (hiMh5)
If you're standing on it trying to reach something in the corner where the ceiling meets the wall instead of calling your 6'2" son to help it mostly makes you feel stupid. At least, that's what she said afterwards.
Posted by: Weirddave at December 01, 2023 10:24 PM (7R3RM)
How Boys Make Food: you forgot to toast the bread with any of: welding torch, paint stripper, propane torch, Bunsen Burner,red hot tire iron (the Horde choice).
Posted by: Ciampino - watery tarts - I like them, they smell clean at December 01, 2023 10:24 PM (qfLjt)
In the past, Pixy disallowed comment repeats.
Posted by: mindful webworker - present at December 01, 2023 10:26 PM (gMunt)
"Let me give you the entire effing history of the (whatever), its health benefits, why people like it, and my own personal history making it. Recipe eventually follows."
Broken up by twenty ads.
Posted by: Bayesian Prior at December 01, 2023 10:26 PM (q1I67)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 10:26 PM (cWNll)
AOP was RIGHT THERE.
He could've installed seat belts on that toilet seat in a trice.
Get Well Soon, Gingy!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 01, 2023 10:26 PM (e6UQI)
I guess I've seen that. I cook a lot and get a lot of ideas and recipes from food blogs. But when I'm just getting a recipe, most blogs have a 'Jump to Recipe' button. I don't usually ask a lot of questions.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 01, 2023 10:26 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 10:27 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: More For Me at December 01, 2023 10:27 PM (pjs7m)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 01, 2023 10:23 PM (m9hmt)
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Well in jug quantities it will age you faster, just saying .....wait, is this a vicious circle?
Posted by: Ciampino - watery tarts - I like them, they smell clean, even the nether regions at December 01, 2023 10:28 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Professor Penniman at December 01, 2023 10:28 PM (FJMtP)
Posted by: Bayesian Prior at December 01, 2023 10:28 PM (q1I67)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 01, 2023 10:24 PM (7R3RM)
Yikes! Toilets are what you put stool into, and not a stool to stand upon. Bad things can happen. I hope Gingy recovers soonest.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:28 PM (BTZCA)
A kangaroo was spotted in Oshawa, Ontario earlier today 😳
https://tinyurl.com/2d4m5my7
9 seconds
SW of Toronto; was being shipped [from the U.S. I assume] to a zoo in Quebec; the truck driver let them off at a zoo in Oshawa to let them stretch their legs [under supervision I assume] and I guess one got away.
Steve Ryan @SteveRyanCP24
A kangaroo was being transported to a zoo in Quebec this morning. During a stop over near Harmony Rd & Winchester Rd in Oshawa, it escaped. It was located at approximately 2 pm today. Crews are on scene right now trying to capture it. Stay tuned for updates.
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Wranglers failed twice to recapture it; will try again tomorrow morning.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (krqg6)
Non Gin drinkers are the bane of my existence. Lower forms of life, really. Like flatworms.
I kid.
Flatworms are nice.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (Q4IgG)
/Sips his Capt. and Coke
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (xaFKb)
They have discovered some exoplanets they think are covered with water. An ocean world.
They would be rocky cores surrounded by a thick ocean.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (krqg6)
Just challenge it to a fist fight.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 10:30 PM (cWNll)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 01, 2023 10:30 PM (Rz7ER)
Flatworms are nice.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (Q4IgG)
I have admitted that I AM a RACIST...
I pretty much hate the Human Race.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:30 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (krqg6)
Set out a pail of IPA for bait. They are attracted to the hops.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:30 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: andycanuck
I imagine that driver was hopping mad.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 10:30 PM (IaTa3)
Crackhead Slammer:
1 shot peppermint schnapps
1 shot cinnamon schnapps
8 oz. Dr Pepper
Serve over ice
They sneak up on you.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 01, 2023 10:31 PM (M1WkG)
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Gingy needs a stepstool!!! Christmas is coming.
Something like this, perhaps (goes to amazon)
https://tinyurl.com/yc8e6f7w
Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2023 10:31 PM (njWTi)
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I commented on the Cafe thread - If Martini Farmer is out there, I just had a lovely one!
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:31 PM (Bf+P4)
/Sips his Capt. and Coke
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (xaFKb)
Mmmmmm....Capt. and Coke.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 01, 2023 10:31 PM (m9hmt)
Beverage graph is also bullshit. I'm a whiskey and beer guy, and that graph doesn't include a tenth of my hostility toward:
(human race - (my blood relatives + wife + stepkids))
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 10:31 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Ciampino - A Rainy Day? at December 01, 2023 10:32 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 10:11 PM (I/Qkd)
I don't get why brandy means you hate other people. I mean, I do hate everyone else, but not because I drink brandy. I am not sure about rum either. It seems well balanced, but I doubt that "drinking rum" means drinking Monarch Silver Rum from a plastic bottle
"Monarch Silver: It is flammable"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 10:32 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: zombie Rachel Corrie at December 01, 2023 10:32 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 10:32 PM (RIvkX)
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Still does. I've had the odd Amy Schumer sock fail until I changed a small bit of the original cut & pasted comment.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 01, 2023 10:33 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: zombie Rachel Corrie at December 01, 2023 10:32 PM (BTZCA)
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I promise you won't see this sort of a reply anywhere else on the web. And if you did, I promise that nobody else would understand it.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:34 PM (Bf+P4)
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Wranglers failed twice to recapture it; will try again tomorrow morning.
Posted by: andycanuck -
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Losers.
Posted by: Levis at December 01, 2023 10:34 PM (FJMtP)
yeah, I don't get it. The big drop is all water, including oceans?
I kinda get that oceans are rather shallow compared to the diameter of the earth ... but it still seems the drop would be larger. The drop would be maybe 1500 miles in diameter? Oceans average ? 3 miles deep? So that drop spread out fills all the oceans? I guess, maybe. I didn't try to type out the link in the pic.
Maybe the real point is how large the volume of earth is compared to surface water.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 10:34 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 01, 2023 10:34 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 10:35 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 01, 2023 10:31 PM (m9hmt)
I am drinking a Flor de Cana and cola. If Captain Morgan cut their ad budget by half, and put the money into making better product, they might be half as good as Flor de Cana.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:35 PM (BTZCA)
If you are out of gin for a recipe, you can use 2 oz. of cheap 100 Proof Kamchatka Vodka with 1/8 tablespoon of Pine-Sol mixed in.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2023 10:36 PM (onFzJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 01, 2023 10:36 PM (Rz7ER)
Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2023 10:37 PM (njWTi)
Typing faster than my brain can process the whiskey and hate.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 10:37 PM (0FoWg)
I guess maybe so, idk.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 10:37 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: More For Me at December 01, 2023 10:27 PM (pjs7m
victory gin was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club. The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 10:37 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 01, 2023 10:36 PM (Rz7ER)
I think he's married, Eris.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:38 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
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HAHAHAHAHA!
Thanks for the laugh!
Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2023 10:38 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 10:34 PM (Cus5s)
When the diameter of the earth is just a bit less than 8000 MILES.
Oceans 2000 feet deep... don't count for a whole lot.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:38 PM (xaFKb)
People tend to think that any paper published before they were born was the product of witchcraft and reading intestines.
Posted by: Archimedes
___________
When I looked for a preparation of some chemical intermediate, it was always in Zeitschrift für Alte Deutsche Präparaten from 1926.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 01, 2023 10:39 PM (epfYa)
yeah...doesnt matter how they say its easy to ID mushrooms...those things can wreck you in horrible ways. No thanks
Posted by: a dude -
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Come on. Every single one of us is a fun guy.
Posted by: shrooms at December 01, 2023 10:39 PM (FJMtP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 10:39 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: illiniwek
it's a lesson in perspective
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 10:39 PM (geLO8)
Monty Python fans hardest hit.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 01, 2023 10:39 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Sounds very German.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 01, 2023 10:39 PM (IG4Id)
The total water mass of the Erf is estimated at ~10^18 metric tons, which is about 330 million cubic miles of volume at STP. That is just 0.023% of Erf's total mass.
That's all the water. You break it down further. Assuming that graph is based on accurate volume representations, yep, it's a small looking amount.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 01, 2023 10:40 PM (Mzdiz)
They have been gaslighting us for 78 fucking years because THEY were crypto-socialists....
"No no no way at all that the cocksucking genocidal, eugenics slinging, naturalist, socialist motherfucker could be like you know our cocksucking eugenics slinging naturalist socialist motherfuckers..."
sorry for the saturation f bombing, but yeah A Hitler was a card carrying socialist gnostic....
were he alive today he would be all in on the SS Glee Gang Gala and Tranny bathroom joy I am certain.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 10:40 PM (X0I7i)
Roku makes the best martini I've had. I'm open to other suggestions, but it beats Sapphire and Tanqueray hands down IMO.
And I must have said this before, but if you can ever get your hands on Barr Hill gin, just try it over ice. Sublime.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:40 PM (Bf+P4)
No, the big drop is all water, the smaller one is all fresh water, the smallest is fresh water in lakes and rivers.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 10:40 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Nervous Ned at December 01, 2023 10:40 PM (83IzV)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 01, 2023 10:40 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 10:35 PM (RIvkX)
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Goldschläger is the preferred emetic of rappers and the glitterati.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 01, 2023 10:41 PM (Rz7ER)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:35 PM (BTZCA)
Admiral Nelson is a cheaper version of Capt. Morgan... local store doesn't usually carry it though.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (xaFKb)
Oceans 2000 feet deep... don't count for a whole lot.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:38 PM (xaFKb)
Lemme see here. Abyssal plains are circa 12000 feet, continental shelves much shallower. WAG: average depth of ocean: 1.5 miles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 01, 2023 10:40 PM (sJHOI)
Yer Cpl. Klinger?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (xaFKb)
71% of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and this sounds like a lot of water.
But only 0.12% of Earth's total volume is liquid water.
Look at this chart.
The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles and has a volume of about 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers km³
.
The blue sphere over Kentucky represents the world's liquid fresh water (groundwater, lakes, swamp water, and rivers). The volume comes to about 10,633,450 km³.
Do you notice the "tiny" bubble over Atlanta, Georgia? That one represents fresh water in all the lakes and rivers on the planet. Most of the water people and life of earth need every day comes from these surface-water sources. The volume of this sphere is about 22,339 mi3 (93,113 km3).
Posted by: Weirddave at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (YcR44)
If you're standing on it trying to reach something in the corner where the ceiling meets the wall instead of calling your 6'2" son to help it mostly makes you feel stupid. At least, that's what she said afterwards.
Posted by: Weirddave
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I trust you pointed out the error of her ways and imparted earnest recommendations on how she should do it next time.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (epfYa)
Liquid art.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (Q4IgG)
I do love gin.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:10 PM (Bf+P4)
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I loath gin with a vengeance. The English didn't know what to do with all those foul-tasting juniper berries so made Gin and it became the national booze.
(yes I know it started in Holland)
Posted by: Ciampino - Another Rainy Day In New York City at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (qfLjt)
yeah, I don't get it. The big drop is all water, including oceans?
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The visual is crap because it's 2D (and also inaccurate), and doesn't account for map projection.
Volume of a sphere is (4/3)pi*r^3.
These are ENORMOUS spheres, and flattened like that on the disc, they also appear too small to the eye.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (0FoWg)
many yrs ago I remember a cinnamon schnapps called Aftershock
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 10:43 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 01, 2023 10:43 PM (Rz7ER)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 10:34 PM (Cus5s)
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Here's what I don't get. The chicxulub asteroid that supposedly changed the climate to the point that it killed off the dinos was only three miles in diameter. An invisible mote at the scale of a typical library globe.
How did something that tiny cause that much disruption to the planet?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 01, 2023 10:43 PM (hiMh5)
Posted by: jojo at December 01, 2023 10:43 PM (vWV+N)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 10:39 PM (RIvkX)
I like Bailey's with my coffee and Miralax after dinner.
Posted by: javems at December 01, 2023 10:44 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 10:44 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:35 PM (BTZCA)
Come a little closer to me and this plastic jug of vodka.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 01, 2023 10:44 PM (m9hmt)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (Q4IgG)
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I just recently tried a Gibson. Interesting. The onions are pretty good.
I think the perfect martini would be gin, a hint of vermouth, a bit of olive juice (not much!) and cocktail onions in the glass.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:44 PM (Bf+P4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:42 PM (BTZCA)
Internet says 12,000 feet average depth...
But that's still less than 2.5 miles... compared to about a 4000 mile radius.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:44 PM (xaFKb)
I really like absinthe as a small addition to cocktails, e.g. in a Sazerac. I have no interest in drinking it neat. It would be like drinking black licorice.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 10:45 PM (I/Qkd)
They would be rocky cores surrounded by a thick ocean.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (Mzdiz)
I had proposed a scheme by which free protons in the solar wind would be collected in magnetic fields and combined with Oxygen freed from smelting Lunar regiolith to make water as a side product of metal smelting in orbit.
I was told by someone that the solar wind was too diffuse in Earth's orbit to be useful. So I asked if it would be better to run a cometary orbit from the asteroids to within Venus' orbit to pick up ore from there, and both collect solar wind hydrogen, and to run the forges on solar heat close into the Sun?
this was going to be the milieu for a sci fi book tentatively called "Sunforge"
but I drink rum out of a plastic bottle and never got around to doing anything but notes.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 10:45 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: jojo at December 01, 2023 10:43 PM (vWV+N)
Skip the helicopters...lots of globemasters needed
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 01, 2023 10:45 PM (+I6Y/)
So Santos gets nuked for you know "being all fraudy and a liar and dumb"....
and AOC and friends are still in office.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 10:45 PM (X0I7i)
Sympathy maximal
Was standing on toilet
Um
Sympathy, but down just a notch.
Falls are not healthy ever, but especially after 29!
💙
Posted by: mindful webworker - hard-hearted at December 01, 2023 10:45 PM (gMunt)
Posted by: REALLY rusty Latin at December 01, 2023 10:45 PM (FJMtP)
Posted by: Elaine Benes at December 01, 2023 10:46 PM (Bf+P4)
The premise was there was some sort of alien invasion of our solar system and he was the leader of a group of Terran pilots/marines. I remember liking it a lot at the time
Posted by: 18-1 at December 01, 2023 10:46 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 01, 2023 10:30 PM (Rz7ER)
Why would you want to lick a T-L poster?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 01, 2023 10:46 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 01, 2023 10:46 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: jojo at December 01, 2023 10:43 PM (vWV+N)
So, now the standard is that anyone who lied and is in Congress gets kicked?
OK.... we accept your terms... let the games... begin.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 10:46 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (Q4IgG)
a fluke, I assure you.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 10:46 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: jojo at December 01, 2023 10:43 PM (vWV+N)
Reminiscent of Madison Cawthorne's statement before they ran him off.
I've no doubt both men are telling the truth.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2023 10:47 PM (onFzJ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 01, 2023 10:47 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 01, 2023 10:43 PM (hiMh5)
How can a little ball of lead the size of your thumb kill an elephant?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:47 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 10:47 PM (geLO8)
After briefly marveling at the sight of a zebra on the road, I joined a couple other motorists in the high speed pursuit of the truck. A few miles down the road, the truck pulled over to the shoulder.
I drove on, and never heard of the fate of the zebra.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 01, 2023 10:47 PM (M1WkG)
Posted by: JQ at December 01, 2023 10:48 PM (njWTi)
The ice cream sundae effect, the kinetic impact depending on where it hit would generated a nice thermal steam explosive pulse coupled with a nice particulate cloud....
for reference the caldera that popped from Mt St Helends was much smaller....
Goreons are not wrong to say the Earth's ecosystem is somewhat finely balanced what they lack an understanding of is how big that system and the forces needed are to fuck it up.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 10:48 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: the Captain at December 01, 2023 10:48 PM (7eFYL)
Same thing that Madison Cawthorn said.
Fancy that...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 01, 2023 10:48 PM (XqcwY)
Sven was a world class girl drink drunk Andy...
try our friend the slo gin fizzy....
https://youtu.be/Ri1_oZaY928?si=E_IZ7UqtbGzyhadJ
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 10:49 PM (X0I7i)
Hendricks Gin is pretty good, as is any "London Dry" gin. IMO.
I did try some of the new "botanical infused" gins but they smell, and taste like perfume. Horrible shit, really.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:50 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:50 PM (Bf+P4)
Sir Issac Newton is the baddest motherfucker in the galaxy sir!
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 10:50 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 10:48 PM (X0I7i)
So you're saying my car idling an extra minute isnt going to turn the planet to Venus?
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 01, 2023 10:51 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: Maybe They're Hiding The Good Stuff For Themselves at December 01, 2023 10:52 PM (pjs7m)
Non Gin drinkers are the bane of my existence. Lower forms of life, really. Like flatworms.
I kid.
Flatworms are nice.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:29 PM (Q4IgG)
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What are your thoughts on roundworms?
Posted by: Ciampino - Another Rainy Day In New York City - Briley at December 01, 2023 10:53 PM (qfLjt)
Hatred is a key ingredient in gin.
Either hatred of self or hatred of the other.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I hate the other self.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 01, 2023 10:53 PM (63Dwl)
That graph must be for American drinkers. If it was for Russia, Eastern Europe and the Balkans both the X and Y axis would extend three times farther.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 01, 2023 10:54 PM (epfYa)
Strange but true, it also turns out that to be a Goreon you have to think 92 million American cattle are ending all human life in 20 years BUT 80 million bison's emissions did not end it in the 1800s.
It is a religion.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 10:54 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: andycanuck
I imagine that driver was hopping mad.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 10:30 PM (IaTa3)
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He has quite a tail to relate.
Posted by: Ciampino - Another Rainy Day In New York City - Briley. at December 01, 2023 10:55 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino
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Better than ringworms.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:55 PM (Q4IgG)
Loved that show! That was James Morrison playing the part of LTC McQueen. Neal McDonough was in Justified and Star Trek: First Contact though.
Posted by: Retief at December 01, 2023 10:56 PM (J8zKO)
how big that system and the forces needed are to fuck it up.
Posted by: sven
The wind power of a hurricane - itself a tiny fraction of the total energy of the storm - is equivalent to half the energy of worldwide electricity generation. There were some 30 hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones last year.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 01, 2023 10:57 PM (epfYa)
An interesting thought experiment has been could you have a planet entirely made of water. A big ol' ball of water floating in space that could hold itself together by its own gravity and not lose itself to space.
For liquid water as we know it, the answer is no. But, turns out you can if you pack enough water together. The core would have to be ice, solid state water, but not the familiar ice we know (Ice I). It would be one of the very exotic ices that exist at extreme pressures and temperatures.
Amazingly, it turns out some of these exotic ice phases are conductive, and such a core could perhaps sustain a magnetic field.
The diameter of such a thing to have 1g surface gravity would be very large, I believe.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 01, 2023 10:57 PM (Mzdiz)
https://youtu.be/Ri1_oZaY928?si=E_IZ7UqtbGzyhadJ
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 10:49 PM (X0I7i)
If you like a SGFizz, I'd recommend hunting down a bottle of Plymouth Sloe Gin, which is actually gin-based and a decent proof at 52, rather than using a gin/sloe gin cordial combination.
It's a pretty good product.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2023 10:57 PM (onFzJ)
Visuals like this are silly.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 10:57 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 01, 2023 10:57 PM (CHHv1)
Thanks, I feel better about my "3 mile" wild assed guess now. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (Cus5s)
https://tinyurl.com/yf8k2muc
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Out of Sorts at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (83IzV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 10:59 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (D7oie)
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I have had one of those - they're great. Seems like a steep price, but they're super handy.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 11:00 PM (Bf+P4)
The diameter of such a thing to have 1g surface gravity would be very large, I believe.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 01, 2023 10:57 PM (Mzdiz)
Such a planet would likely be devoid of life. No minerals. Or vitamins, for that matter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:00 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: Al Unsure at December 01, 2023 11:00 PM (v33tB)
A negroni is very good, if you don't mind bitter.
Posted by: Another Gin Cocktail at December 01, 2023 11:00 PM (pjs7m)
The gin and glasses are kept in the freezer, the vermouth in the fridge, along with the olives.
I use cracked ice in the shaker and shake until my hands are numb from the cold. When first poured, all those tiny chips of ice in the drinks almost look like some special effect in a film.
Dad loved martinis and called them "silver loudmouths."
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 01, 2023 11:01 PM (ZtgZZ)
Posted by: Weirddave at December 01, 2023 11:01 PM (YcR44)
For liquid water as we know it, the answer is no. But, turns out you can if you pack enough water together. The core would have to be ice, solid state water, but not the familiar ice we know (Ice I). It would be one of the very exotic ices that exist at extreme pressures and temperatures.
Amazingly, it turns out some of these exotic ice phases are conductive, and such a core could perhaps sustain a magnetic field.
The diameter of such a thing to have 1g surface gravity would be very large, I believe.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 01, 2023 10:57 PM (Mzdiz
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I knew who wrote this comment before I finished the second sentence.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 11:02 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Al Unsure at December 01, 2023 11:00 PM (v33tB)
Lol
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:02 PM (0FoWg)
Doctor Jimmy and Mister Jim
When I'm pilled, you don't notice him
He only comes out when I drink my gin
Posted by: Who? at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (I/Qkd)
But that's okay. Tomorrow... is a rest day...
Posted by: mindful webworker - zzz at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (gMunt)
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Still does. I've had the odd Amy Schumer sock fail until I changed a small bit of the original cut & pasted comment.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 01, 2023 10:33 PM (krqg6)
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Your pasted sock fails are due to non-Standard ASCII characters, usually the apostrophe. I'm assuming you got a page with lots of red writing/code. Look at words such as isn't, aren't, it's, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino - there was music coming from the printer -- it was jamming! at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 10:35 PM (BTZCA)
Dad got the state liquor control commission to import a case of Newfoundland Screech (rum) once. They required him to fill out all the paperwork because they didn't care to do it.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (NwuoC)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 01, 2023 11:04 PM (M1WkG)
The one thing we are not here, is "ill-educated and stupid."
I'd put the horde's collective knowledge up against the Donk Underground even with 1/2 of us in comas.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:05 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (I/Qkd)
Only if it's watertight, like a duck's ass.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:05 PM (BTZCA)
Nonsense, water formed as the atmosphere coalesced.
Comets are not magical entities bringing life and water throughout the universe.
It's like scientist take a bong hit and proclaim: COMETS!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2023 11:05 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:05 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 11:05 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:40 PM (Bf+P4)
If it sublimes, how exactly do you drink it?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 11:06 PM (D7oie)
My Martini glasses hold about 4 or 5oz total. I've tried many different olives, some stuffed, others not. One of most interesting was anchovies stuffed olives. Although it did make the Martini cloudy which is something I personally don't care for.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 11:07 PM (Q4IgG)
If you are out of gin for a recipe, you can use 2 oz. of cheap 100 Proof Kamchatka Vodka with 1/8 tablespoon of Pine-Sol mixed in.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2023 10:36 PM (onFzJ)
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Very funny, I suppose the Pine-Sol is in place of juniper berries. I can assure you that Pine-Sol tastes better than juniper berries.
Posted by: Ciampino - there was music coming from the printer -- it was jamming at December 01, 2023 11:07 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 11:05 PM (Cus5s)
It's all in gallon jugs in hoarders' pantries.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:07 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: SMOD
They should should do a snatch and grab in country where the leadership of Hamas is hunkered down.
But first, get a unit in an industrial district, green screen the walls, get the furnishings for a Court... industrial garbage disposal...
Snatch, hold trial,, execute, dispose.
Walk out of country.
Air the trial and execution.
Done.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 01, 2023 11:07 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (NwuoC)
'how thick would a piece of your plexiglass need to be...'
Posted by: Scotty at December 01, 2023 11:08 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 01, 2023 10:40 PM (sJHOI)
Try drinking Cachaça instead. It will make you feel like wearing fruit on your head.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 11:08 PM (D7oie)
you had the offer for me to buy you any food you wanted so starve.
also, when the waiter was taking our orders, you were able to order anything and everything you wanted. you ordered what you wanted and so did I. had I wanted what you ordered I would have ordered it myself. you got what you ordered so eat it and quit asking if I want half of your order for half of my order.
Posted by: N at December 01, 2023 11:09 PM (RjBju)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 11:09 PM (RIvkX)
Seconded. And you really don't have to be a gin drinker for this one either.
They make a barrel-aged version of it, which I have not been able to find yet.
Posted by: Yes, the Bees! at December 01, 2023 11:10 PM (pjs7m)
The depressing thing is you look up in that sky and realize that a planet with the right atmosphere, hydrosphere, and mineral composition to bear fauna AND flora is a longshot...
of course as a clockwork deist the comet thing would be a nice "don't worry creation has shortcuts we can't understand" way to jedi-handwave away the odds.
You'd think Goreons would be the LEAST socialist people on Earth and want as much human endeavor as possible put into engineering, terraforming, and physics research so we could expand humanity past this one in a billion dirtball...
"but no"
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:10 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 11:06 PM (D7oie)
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No no no no... No limes. Just on the rocks.
(I feel like I'm going bananas)
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 11:10 PM (Bf+P4)
Posted by: That guy on the spectrum at December 01, 2023 11:11 PM (M1WkG)
It is a loyalty and security test probably primally wired into them.
My wife, son and I were discussing it as he has a new love interest and just turned 24.
He is finally understanding that male and female notions of honor, duty, and security are different.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:11 PM (X0I7i)
yeah, that seemed interesting. idk what their reasoning was (forgot, or never knew?). But I like the Bible story of the flood (on a much different timeline) about Noah and the great flood. ... So after the great flood from above, we found equilibrium with rain and weather systems absorbing a lot of water.
Still can't see water over the highest mountains, but imo, some of the OT stories are hyperbole, perhaps to "compete" with other pagan stories or something, idk.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 11:12 PM (Cus5s)
When I looked for a preparation of some chemical intermediate, it was always in Zeitschrift für Alte Deutsche Präparaten from 1926.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 01, 2023 10:39 PM (epfYa)
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You were lucky. We had to deal with papyrus and parchment.
Posted by: Ciampino - alchemical elixir called Gin at December 01, 2023 11:12 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: N at December 01, 2023 11:09 PM (RjBju)
I had to turn that video off. The guy sounded like an idiot, and he was waving his arms around like that stupid robot on Lost in Space.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:12 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:12 PM (NwuoC)
Talk about exotic ice. Consider Superionic ice, or Ice VXIII. This exists at temps in thousands of K range, kK, and pressures of 500Gpa (~70 million psi).
The oxygen atoms form a crystal lattice and hydrogen freely moves through like a liquid. It is very conducting, and about 4x the density of normal ice. It's also jet black in color. Black ice indeed.
While it was theorized to exist for some time, they actually synthesized and confirmed its existence at Livermore in 2019.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 01, 2023 11:14 PM (Mzdiz)
Fresh water is not "hidden" the largest concentration of freshwater on Earth is right there north of Ohio and south of Canada.....and believe me the world is envious and one day the UN will declare it "global property" if we cannot stop it.
The icecaps, the Amazon and other large rivers,mountain peaks, and underground rivers house a bunch as well.
You can drink great lakes generated water in Georgia thanks to underground rivers.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:14 PM (X0I7i)
AR670-1 is an Army regulation, and no Air Force boss would talk about his "soldiers."
That is an Army problem.
Posted by: GWB at December 01, 2023 11:15 PM (HMvgH)
people talk about the 'fine-tuned earth'
my feeling is, given how big the universe is, what are the odds it's only happened once
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:15 PM (geLO8)
It's made in VT, but I bought this bottle in CO. Glad they're 'getting out there'
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 11:16 PM (Bf+P4)
>>past this one in a billion dirtball.
I don't believe there is life anywhere else in the universe, and even if there was, they are so far away that, in realty, they don't exist in any meaningful way.
So the whole aliens thing is simply masturbation.
And as for terraforming, there is only one planet even remotely close to ours that could potentially be terraformed but the physics of terraforming are again, an impossibility.
So again, masturbation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2023 11:16 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 11:17 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 11:17 PM (JrojV)
Somebody had to be first, why not us?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:17 PM (NwuoC)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:18 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Out of Sorts at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (83IzV)
so you are saying your capacity has gone flat?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 11:18 PM (D7oie)
My wife, son and I were discussing it as he has a new love interest and just turned 24.
He is finally understanding that male and female notions of honor, duty, and security are different.
Posted by: s
good to see you around here.
that is interesting. after the fifth year of marriage that was it we had the you made your bed / you ordered your dinner conversation when we were having dinner out. she was warned, as we were ordering, that I was not sharing and had no interest in what she was ordering.
the bit you mentioned about loyalty is interesting. I have been explaining to somebody lately that somebody is loyal or they are not. when you notice somebody behaving disloyally to somebody else you have to know that they are inherently disloyal, its a binary thing
Posted by: N at December 01, 2023 11:18 PM (RjBju)
We can exert our reserve of efforts towards mastering space or we can eat our largesse and feed free shit army indulgences.
I know where I'd prefer even if futile.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:18 PM (X0I7i)
Here's what I don't get. The chicxulub asteroid that supposedly changed the climate to the point that it killed off the dinos was only three miles in diameter. An invisible mote at the scale of a typical library globe.
How did something that tiny cause that much disruption to the planet?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 01, 2023 10:43 PM (hiMh5)
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Energy. What was the estimated velocity at impact?
Posted by: Ciampino - alchemical elixir called Gin? at December 01, 2023 11:19 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: LASue at December 01, 2023 11:19 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Alb
I am not saying hes not an idiot, but he's right
Posted by: N at December 01, 2023 11:19 PM (RjBju)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 11:20 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: A Scold of Karens at December 01, 2023 11:22 PM (V8he0)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:22 PM (geLO8)
>>I know where I'd prefer even if futile.
Again, there is an input/output vector problem, outputs to terraform, say Mars, for instance, far outweigh any inputs from Mars.
There. Is. Nothing. Of. Value. On Mars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2023 11:22 PM (XV/Pl)
I agree, men and women valuate things differently and I am not saying that as a "penis good vagina bad thing" there are individual as well as collective differences.
5 years is out of the courting phase, trust is either there or it is not. A smart man uses the courting phase to exert EVERY effort to show where the limits of their ability to accommodate feminine whim are and to make the woman feel valued and respected. A smart woman understands that a man in that phase will likely not tolerate unfaithfulness period.
Anyway, the last breakup hurt the lad, he really had unrealistic high hopes he is for the first time dating an older female by about a year.
He is nearly a quarter century now which means I am slowly beginning the beginning of the end of my journey.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:23 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 11:20 PM (IaTa3)
African asteroid or English asteroid?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 01, 2023 11:23 PM (M1WkG)
I'll let you figure out how many Tsar Bombas that was. Common cite is about 10 billion Hiroshimas.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 01, 2023 11:24 PM (Mzdiz)
/Sips his Capt. and Coke
Posted by: Romeo13
The Navy is strong with this one.
Jagermeister is waaaaaaay to the rright of Appletini. Nasty shiz. We used it as a hazing ritual for the Specialist 5s when they passed their custodial exam and were allowed to play with the Nucular warheads without the Battery Warrant holding their hand.
Only ouzo could surpass that hangover.
*Tequila knee agrees*
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 01, 2023 11:24 PM (3CCua)
I never said "only Mars" Mars has again the flaw of a shit magnetosphere....
"good luck with heavy settling lads"....that said the AOCs of this planet want all human effort expended on slicing up an ever shrinking pie.
"no"
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:24 PM (X0I7i)
'Evening, Horde.
Posted by: scampydog at December 01, 2023 11:24 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: Grovers Mill, New Jersey at December 01, 2023 11:25 PM (epfYa)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:25 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 11:16 PM (Bf+P4)
I had that a couple of years ago at a hotel bar in VT. It's interesting, but I think too cloying.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2023 11:26 PM (M5QzP)
Such a craft being swept from west to east might just have ended up at the base of Ararat.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2023 11:26 PM (hkjqi)
Pig farmers across the USA need to have their swine act as "Blood Doners". The same and usual pint of blood, collected in the ordinary donation bags. But of course, with highly obvious Pig's Blood labeling, so as to keep them out of the Human Blood supply chain.
Package it all in coolers, fly it to ... Cypress, maybe? Somewhere "Israel adjacent".
Shin-Bet bags one of the splodeydopes who were behind the murders?
Set up the Pig Blood "total-volume" transfusion, along with all the video equipment. Long, lingering, agonizing death. And NO ENTRANCE to the islime heaven, no 72 rasins.
Nope. Just the barbed, flaming cock of Satan, buggering those murderers henceforth, for all of eternity.
Send THOSE videos to the email address for every known muslim, mosque and emir, worldwide.
"Thus Awaits the Terrorists, Always"
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 01, 2023 11:26 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:26 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:26 PM (NwuoC)
But the great lakes and Amazon are part of that tiny drop in the graphic. I think it is mostly the polar ice that makes up the largest part of the bigger fresh water "drop" (from the graphic).
How much is in aquifers from their analysis would be interesting ... not sure what other hidden fresh water there is, unless they are counting atmospheric vapor, but they say "liquid", which is not really ice.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 11:27 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Out of Sorts at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (83IzV)
so you are saying your capacity has gone flat?
Posted by: Kindltot
His ziener diode, is unlit?
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 01, 2023 11:27 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2023 11:22 PM (XV/Pl)
And do not bring your evil into my swamp.
Posted by: Swamp Thing at December 01, 2023 11:27 PM (M1WkG)
I had to turn that video off. The guy sounded like an idiot, and he was waving his arms around like that stupid robot on Lost in Space.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yeah, I lasted about 17 seconds.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 01, 2023 11:28 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Ciampino
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Better than ringworms.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 10:55 PM (Q4IgG)
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Which bring to mind earworms .....
Posted by: Ciampino - pickled worms? at December 01, 2023 11:28 PM (qfLjt)
I know where I'd prefer even if futile.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:18 PM (X0I7i)
I misread that as eating our lasagna, or which I am heartily in favor.
Posted by: Garfield at December 01, 2023 11:28 PM (4I/2K)
There. Is. Nothing. Of. Value. On Mars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2023 11:22 PM (XV/Pl)
You do know there are some very strange things in the atmosphere and northern hemisphere of Mars?
Evidence for Large Planetary Climate Altering
Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars in the Past
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/ijaa_2023062115280080.pdf
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 11:29 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:29 PM (NwuoC)
Posted by: Son of Dad at December 01, 2023 11:29 PM (8JB5s)
>>I never said "only Mars" Mars has again the flaw of a shit magnetosphere....
Mercury is too close to the sun, too small, and barren.
Venus is a sulfuric acid hellscape burning at 872F.
The Moon, not made of cheese, no water, nothing of value, no dice.
And anything past Mars can be essentially thought of as non-existent.
I don't know what you think we're going to terraform, but again, if the outputs are more than inputs, you're going to run smack dab into Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2023 11:30 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 01, 2023 11:31 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 01, 2023 11:32 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:32 PM (BTZCA)
Or 9AM...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 01, 2023 11:33 PM (MeG8a)
and all France lost in the French and Indian War was "a few million acres of snow!" as their diplomat put it.
Proxima Centauri b looks promising at 4 light years away....you'd need a lot of coaling stations betwixt which takes economic effort.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:33 PM (X0I7i)
I mean, these people are going to have to be transportees of some kind.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:33 PM (NwuoC)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:33 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:34 PM (NwuoC)
Quite we should also be practicing practical and accelerated top soil creation in controlled biomes....
there is a lot of work to be done, and the worst that can happen to the effort is to find ways to increase the global agricultural efficiency.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:34 PM (X0I7i)
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Not until I steal your Atlanta sized water-blob and cart it off to my whiskey soaked space colony full off big-booty bitchez, that is.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:35 PM (0FoWg)
I'd go in a heartbeat, of course I also worked in the field in a tactical training environment with a 15cm hole in my side for the last three years....
I am an idiot.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:35 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:25 PM (geLO
34-31 WASH 2:14 4th
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:33 PM (geLO
Must be football. No other sport could take 8 minutes to complete 30 seconds of play.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:36 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: Out of Sorts at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (83IzV)
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Well if you conduct yourself like a gentleman we'll forgive you the ohmission.
Posted by: Ciampino - pickled worms? WEF diet at December 01, 2023 11:36 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:36 PM (NwuoC)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:36 PM (NwuoC)
Well, Mars has no muzzies, and no trannies, and no Democrats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:37 PM (BTZCA)
Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars in the Past
Heinlein short story, I forget the title, where power plant scientists realize the craters on the moon exactly match their calculations for what a power plant explosion would do to Earth.
Posted by: Swamp Thing at December 01, 2023 11:37 PM (M1WkG)
So the whole aliens thing is simply masturbation.
And as for terraforming, there is only one planet even remotely close to ours that could potentially be terraformed but the physics of terraforming are again, an impossibility.
So again, masturbation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2023 11:16 PM (XV/Pl)
But, yet, you believe in 'God'. Huh.
Posted by: Just asking at December 01, 2023 11:38 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 11:38 PM (JrojV)
I am very tired of non-motivated people and have been for decades, I am on the back nine of my life and the world that I loved habitated by the people who loved me most is dying literally.
I love work, and I love beating the odds, and I am too stubborn to quit or take the soft option at times.
The people who go and leave it all on the floor will be part of something that will bind them in ways the nation-state no longer does I think.
That's just me though.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:38 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:35 PM (0FoWg)
The Steatopygians?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 01, 2023 11:38 PM (4I/2K)
Right, much more habitable than Mars, and much easier to escape. Look at the billions we spent to rescue Matt Damon and Val Kilmer from Mars!
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 11:39 PM (Cus5s)
and if they went but had to work til breaking to break it in maybe their edges would wear down...
No I'd go, this Malthusian death cult that is gaining power is killing me spiritually.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:39 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: N at December 01, 2023 11:39 PM (RjBju)
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it's cold as hell.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2023 11:39 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at December 01, 2023 11:40 PM (D7u0p)
Posted by: It All Adds Up at December 01, 2023 11:40 PM (83IzV)
Posted by: Elon I, Dei Gratia Rex et Imperator Mars at December 01, 2023 11:40 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: whig at December 01, 2023 11:40 PM (+Pory)
Posted by: Swamp Thing at December 01, 2023 11:37 PM (M1WkG)
Might have been "Blowups Happen". But he was wrong, of course. A fission reactor cannot explode like a nuclear bomb; the fuel melts down first. You could get a steam explosion, or a hydrogen as explosion, and a huge nasty mess like Chernobyl, but not a crater 200 miles across.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:41 PM (BTZCA)
My wife came from a family where everyone guarded their plates like Husky dogs with bared teeth.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2023 11:42 PM (hkjqi)
So would Uranus.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (I/Qkd)
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Mine doesn't seem to do that, though Klingons may ......
Posted by: Ciampino - pickled Kingons? at December 01, 2023 11:42 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: N at December 01, 2023 11:39 PM (RjBju)
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How do you think I get anything around here?
Whining is my art, my muse.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 11:42 PM (RIvkX)
The difference is in baseline human cognition I think. Not being facetious either I think there is a coinflip split in an individual regarding whether they value their mind as superior to reality in regards to imagination or they value the mind as a tool to navigate a very measurable and quantifiable reality. The current post-modernist left is very sincere in believing that their beliefs trump reality.
I think whenever man developed reason, language, and problem solving there was a dichotomy.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:43 PM (X0I7i)
And I'm smothering it in heavy cream...
Because I can...
Night Horde.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 01, 2023 11:44 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 01, 2023 11:38 PM (4I/2K)
Callipygia has always been at war with Steatopygia, bruh. Report to the Ministry of Love for re-bootyfication. Room 36-24-36.
Posted by: Big Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:44 PM (0FoWg)
But everyone enjoys masturbation.
I think we are functionally alone as well, separated by too much space/time that cannot be bridged technologically. Even the outer solar system seems beyond our reach.
But I could be wrong. And part of being human is exploring. To not try would be unnatural, unhuman.
Posted by: We have to spend our time doing something at December 01, 2023 11:45 PM (pjs7m)
Posted by: whig at December 01, 2023 11:45 PM (+Pory)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at December 01, 2023 11:45 PM (D7u0p)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:46 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: whig
He wrote Blowups Happen in '40.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 11:46 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:26 PM (geLO
I think that's true, but not neccessarily intelligent life.
Posted by: RickZ at December 01, 2023 11:46 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2023 11:46 PM (mBqSi)
How can you be in Canada with an unheated shop? I guess the shop is just a hobby ... but still! "More heat mahn". (Fifth Element quote)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 11:46 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 01, 2023 11:03 PM (NwuoC)
'how thick would a piece of your plexiglass need to be...'
Posted by: Scotty at December 01, 2023 11:08 PM (+I6Y/)
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Scotty would use transparent aluminum.
Posted by: Ciampino - pickled Kingons with anchovies? at December 01, 2023 11:47 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: whig at December 01, 2023 11:45 PM (+Pory)
Well, it was a good story in any case. The hard part about predicting is getting it right.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:47 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 01, 2023 11:47 PM (ybIRR)
Posted by: John Carter at December 01, 2023 11:47 PM (LVaYG)
Posted by: whig at December 01, 2023 11:47 PM (+Pory)
They are not stupid they are simply not engaged in quantifiable reason. You cannot ethically defend the games played with the temperature monitoring over the last 50 years where ~ 40% of the temps reported are from stations that no longer exist and say "fuck yeah this is measuring something!" unless you are a charlatan, retard, or true believer....none of that is an ordered mind from a scientific standpoint.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:48 PM (X0I7i)
>>Right, much more habitable than Mars, and much easier to escape.
Again, the reason there isn't a bigger colony on Antartica is because of the input/output vector problem.
There is nothing of value on Antartica, so there is no practical reason to have a bigger one, and in reality, it's not even remotely a good proximal for an Off World Colony.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2023 11:48 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 01, 2023 11:48 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: RickZ
could be life at many different stages
we know human beings take 5 billion years
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:48 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 01, 2023 11:48 PM (63Dwl)
This is why you morons lose."
Posted by: MikeNike at December 01, 2023 11:50 PM (b4wtd)
If you took all the seawater on earth and made it into a dot it would dwarf the size of the fresh water dots above. And we know relatively very little about the deep ocean despite knowing it is overflowing with life.
See weird to me how little enthusiasm there is for exploring it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2023 11:50 PM (ZLI7S)
There is immense value in Antarctica, iron ore, chromium, copper, gold, nickel, platinum and other minerals, and coal and hydrocarbons have been found in consistent if not confirmed commercial level quantities but given the treaties preclude real exploration I'd roll the dice.
I am betting there is plenty of petrochems there, and if not in the nearby waters that could be refined and used there.
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:51 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
fun game to watch
tomorrow schedule is loaded with huge games
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:51 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: chris+opher at December 01, 2023 11:51 PM (dSco/)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 11:46 PM (Cus5s)
Down to about freezing, and sheltered from the wind, I was quite comfy in there. Long underwear, jeans, T shirt, sweatshirt, and down vest. Gloves, as needed. And the little shop, right next door, where the tools and workbench are, is heated nicely. So I'm not enduring the cold continuously. But when the temp is in the teens, and falling, it's just too cold. Since I have been spending winters in Arizona lately, rigging the big shop for heat has not been a priority.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:52 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2023 11:52 PM (hkjqi)
Posted by: whig at December 01, 2023 11:52 PM (+Pory)
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'Bout 17 here at the shack. Heading out with black powder gun in the morn. I suspect it'll be a short adventure. Pretty cold.
Posted by: John Carter at December 01, 2023 11:52 PM (LVaYG)
The government workers in the Canadian Ministry of Kangaroo Wranglers are livid. They thought they would never have to do ANYTHING for their entire wait for a pension
Posted by: azjaeger at December 01, 2023 11:53 PM (3/XaG)
For something really different, see the concept of floating habitats on Venus.
Air is a lifting gas on Venus. A big balloon of air would float happily about 30 miles about the surface. Pressure there would be about 1 atm. Temperatures in the 30 - 120F range.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 01, 2023 11:54 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: chris+opher
Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia. This guy was all kinds of messed up.
Green stuff was the least of his issues.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 11:54 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 11:55 PM (IaTa3)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 11:54 PM (IaTa3)
If Uranus issues green stuff, seek help right away.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:56 PM (BTZCA)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 01, 2023 11:57 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 11:20 PM (IaTa3)
African asteroid or English asteroid?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 01, 2023 11:23 PM (M1WkG)
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So an African one would be laden with banana wine and if English it would be rotten with Gin. No coconuts or limes.
Posted by: Ciampino - pickled Klingons with anchovies? at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (mBqSi)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (0FoWg)
"Congrats to the Republican Party for expelling George Santos for alleged crimes while slow-walking impeachment of Biden for provable crimes.
This is why you morons lose."
Posted by: MikeNike
And Mayorkas goes on and on and on.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 01, 2023 11:59 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 01, 2023 11:59 PM (l7Kbv)
Antarctica still makes more sense than Mars. (Mars is useful for scientific development, and can be funded by inspiring the human psyche on other world fantasies).
And what about the oil under the Arctic? Or other resources around Greenland (and other polar regions)? Is it not worth an expansionist vision to go there before the Soviets, errr, Russians do it?
The point was expanding into new territories ... why go to space? The moon does have some water and maybe other resources, but primarily ? as a military/economic/other strategic base?
Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 11:59 PM (Cus5s)
if Gary Danielson would just shut up
he talks so much, he talks over the play by play guy
he talks over live action
he's a bucketmouth
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:59 PM (geLO8)
>>For something really different, see the concept of floating habitats on Venus.
Interesting, but ultimately, the only reason to go Off World would be to exploit resources of a host planet.
There is nothing of practical utility or value on Venus, so there is no reason to invest in exploring it.
Listen, I get the whole call to adventure and exploration jazz, but, like, we've got to be real about this.
The Universe is big, like really, really big and sh*t is far apart and if you've got to drag all of the sh*t you need with you, then, again, Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand looms.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2023 11:59 PM (XV/Pl)
My anus issues green stuff when I drink red wine. That's the *real* natural science mystery I'd like an answer for.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Science Mystery Theater 2023
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 02, 2023 12:00 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: BillyD at December 02, 2023 12:00 AM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (mBqSi)
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I've got a very stompy wife right now.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 02, 2023 12:00 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (0FoWg)
Don't know about wine, but grape drink mix has a dye that does that very thing.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 02, 2023 12:01 AM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 02, 2023 12:01 AM (BTZCA)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 12:01 AM (mBqSi)
Both NASA and the Chinese claim there is a possibility of significant quantities of rare earth minerals in the moon.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 02, 2023 12:01 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (mBqSi)
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Congrats to you and your Huskies, nurse.
Posted by: scampydog at December 02, 2023 12:01 AM (LVaYG)
Posted by: sven at December 01, 2023 11:51 PM (X0I7i)
And shoggoths. Don't forget the shoggoths.
Posted by: H.P. Lovecraft at December 02, 2023 12:02 AM (M1WkG)
Listen, I get the whole call to adventure and exploration jazz, but, like, we've got to be real about this.
Paul Krugman says we have infinite money.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 02, 2023 12:02 AM (63Dwl)
I do love gin.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2023 10:10 PM (Bf+P4)
As I read the chart, gin means you like yourself and hate others, which is pretty much where I am.
Posted by: BillyD at December 02, 2023 12:02 AM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 02, 2023 12:01 AM (
Huh.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 02, 2023 12:02 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 12:02 AM (mBqSi)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 12:03 AM (mBqSi)
How much water does 8.1 billion people contain? Let not the water harvests dispirit your verve and vigor.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 02, 2023 12:03 AM (5N8Mz)
Posted by: Robert at December 02, 2023 12:03 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2023 11:32 PM (BTZCA)
You may have to pitch a tent in your shop to keep the heat in and around the vehicle you are working on. Easier than getting it in the living room, I suppose.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 02, 2023 12:04 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: A Randy Goose at December 02, 2023 12:04 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2023 12:05 AM (JrojV)
" The answer lies in a chemical called malic acid, which can be found in red wine. When malic acid interacts with the bile in the digestive system, it can cause the stool to turn green. This reaction happens because red wine contains tannins, a polyphenol not easily broken down during digestion."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 02, 2023 12:06 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Chuck C at December 02, 2023 12:06 AM (xttsV)
Paul Krugman says we have infinite money.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
__________
How can I be broke? I still have checks in my checkbook.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 02, 2023 12:06 AM (epfYa)
The big dot includes salt water, the tiny dot is fresh water in rivers and lakes. We discussed this above, don't you read ALL comments before posting? ha
My question is where all the LIQUID extra water in the middle dot is located. It is like 100 times the tiny liquid water dot. ... Must be mostly underground .. so aquifers and whatever .. not the poles or other ice.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 02, 2023 12:07 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 12:09 AM (mBqSi)
we know human beings take 5 billion years
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:48 PM (geLO
If there is life on other planets, other than plants, I'm guessing it will be like the sea life on our planet that lives near deep ocean vents. Plus, we're an evolved carbon life form. There may be other life forms with a different chemical makeup which may or may not evolve. Who the bloody hell knows? I read a book years ago on this subject, 'Where Is Everybody?' With lots of maths, the author (a physicist involved with measuring the universe) shows the astronomical odds of finding a habitable planet in the 'Goldilocks' zone of each solar system, if there are any planets at all in a solar system. Even assuming 5 planets per solar system, finding that Goldilocks planet with intelligent life and actually meeting up with and communicating with said life is a real mathematical long shot. Not impossible, but almost approaching zero according to Stephen Webb, the author of that book.
Posted by: RickZ at December 02, 2023 12:09 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 02, 2023 12:09 AM (epfYa)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 02, 2023 12:11 AM (M1WkG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 02, 2023 12:09 AM (epfYa)
I blame the joooooos!
Posted by: Retards For Justice In Palistan at December 02, 2023 12:12 AM (1Yy3c)
Don't forget atmospheric water vapor.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 02, 2023 12:13 AM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: H.P. Lovecraft at December 02, 2023 12:02 AM (M1WkG)
[Roll San]
Well, F%ck.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 02, 2023 12:13 AM (D7oie)
Harbor Freight has 100 watt solar panels for $86.00.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 02, 2023 12:13 AM (JQ1AZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (mBqSi)
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Congrats to you and your Huskies, nurse.
Posted by: scampydog at December 02, 2023 12:01 AM (LVaYG)
This isn't about us then, is it?
Posted by: The Deep State at December 02, 2023 12:13 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 02, 2023 12:11 AM (M1WkG)
And I thought I pulled some shit out of my ass.
Posted by: That Chick From 2 Girls, 1 Cup at December 02, 2023 12:13 AM (1Yy3c)
Disagree. Most disabled people in this country have mechanisms in place for the big stuff. it's the little, unexpected shit that can trip you up.
Posted by: Weirddave at December 02, 2023 12:14 AM (nMHw5)
Posted by: chris+opher
Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia. This guy was all kinds of messed up.
Green stuff was the least of his issues.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2023 11:54 PM (IaTa3)
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Brown stuff?
Posted by: Ciampino - Well when you marry your Mother ... at December 02, 2023 12:14 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 12:15 AM (mBqSi)
When you wish upon a star
It draws a shoggoth to where you are
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 02, 2023 12:15 AM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 02, 2023 12:17 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 02, 2023 12:09 AM (epfYa)
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Just lay back and think of England.
Posted by: Bond, James Bond at December 02, 2023 12:18 AM (LVaYG)
idk how much that would be, and I mentioned it above, but (as I reconsidered) the graphic states "liquid water", which is not vapor or ice.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 02, 2023 12:18 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 02, 2023 12:17 AM (D7oie)
So what you're saying is it was a family of serial killers hiding their butchery in plain sight?
Posted by: Robert at December 02, 2023 12:20 AM (1Yy3c)
So, once again, the US is hoarding all the water in the world.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I blame the joooooos!
Posted by: Retards For Justice In Palistan
I only drink colonized water.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 02, 2023 12:20 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 02, 2023 12:20 AM (R4t5M)
Posted by: A Randy Goose at December 02, 2023 12:04 AM (1Yy3c)
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Punchline only:
It was a mistake, I'm a drake!
Posted by: Ciampino - As the horny bear departs at December 02, 2023 12:21 AM (qfLjt)
Your answers are here. And I think the USGS graphics are bullshit.
https://tinyurl.com/3fka7fxf
Posted by: JackStraw at December 02, 2023 12:21 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner
Hahahahhahaha
All the underdogs need to win
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 12:22 AM (mBqSi)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 02, 2023 12:23 AM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 02, 2023 12:11 AM (M1WkG)
Yeah, but you folks are nutz. We lock our UFO doors as we fly by. Only ones stoppin on your rock are either into Human Sodomy (that whole 'probing' thing) or blowing up cows.
Posted by: Aliens at December 02, 2023 12:24 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: The Fremen of Arrakis at December 02, 2023 12:24 AM (M1WkG)
It's such a work of genius I want to copyright and trademark it. Everyone who uses it will have to pay me a nickel.
Palistan. Palistani. It just...works.
Posted by: Robert, patting himself on the back at December 02, 2023 12:25 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (0FoWg)
They got a good defense. And that's about it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 02, 2023 12:25 AM (R4t5M)
Harbor Freight has 100 watt solar panels for $86.00.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 02, 2023 12:13 AM (JQ1AZ)
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Does that mean I need 20 to run my 2000 watt toaster or 2000 watt electric kettle?
Posted by: Ciampino - Assume no battery storage at December 02, 2023 12:25 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 02, 2023 12:11 AM (M1WkG)
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This all assumes that aliens are material beings subject to the same laws of physics as we are.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 02, 2023 12:26 AM (hiMh5)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 02, 2023 12:27 AM (R4t5M)
Posted by: The Fremen of Arrakis at December 02, 2023 12:24 AM (M1WkG)
Hey, wait a minute!!!!!
Posted by: Aliens from Battle Los Angelas at December 02, 2023 12:28 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice"
TMI!! DEAR GOD, TMI!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 02, 2023 12:28 AM (S6gqv)
Harbor Freight has 100 watt solar panels for $86.00.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 02, 2023 12:13 AM (JQ1AZ)
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Does that mean I need 20 to run my 2000 watt toaster or 2000 watt electric kettle?
Posted by: Ciampino - Assume no battery storage at December 02, 2023 12:25 AM (qfLjt)
On a good sunny day, at the proper Latitudes, with perfect alignment.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 02, 2023 12:29 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Braenyard
AltE has larger panels for $0.25 per watt.
https://tinyurl.com/4bwhrdj4
Prices keep coming down and products are getting better. And maybe there are additional (wasteful) subsidies as well. Saw an awesome new inverter (from another source) much cheaper and better (though my brand has better history) than the one I got just over a year ago.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 02, 2023 12:29 AM (Cus5s)
Just how big is the Milky Way Galaxy? It's hard to grasp that. First start with the 1000 yd model of the solar system.
Take a basketball and put it down in the middle of a big field. That's Sol. Walk 26 paces. Put a peppercorn down. That's Erf. I'll skip the pacing for most of the planets. Now go out a 1000 yds, a 1000 paces from the basketball. Put down a little grain of sand. That's Pluto.
Now, imagine the Milky Way is the width of the contintental US, Think of that pinwheel superimposed. Thickness would be about 10 miles up and down.
Now, where is the solar system in that. Take a quarter and plop it down somewhere in east Tennessee. That's that 1000 yd solar system in the Milky Way.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at December 02, 2023 12:32 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (0FoWg)
Dude.
We're gonna miss ya around here.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2023 12:32 AM (uSHSS)
Holyfuckingshit
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 12:09 AM (mBqSi)
Ann Arbor is a whore. That is all.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at December 02, 2023 12:32 AM (Wfa6X)
Posted by: Ciampino - Backends Uranus man .... at December 02, 2023 12:33 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 02, 2023 12:34 AM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 11:26 PM (geLO
I think that's true, but not necessarily intelligent life.
Posted by: RickZ at December 01, 2023 11:46 PM (emlEe)
That's kinda where I am. Dinosaurs inhabited the earth for tens of millions of years, but as far as we can tell, never evolved any degree of higher intelligence or technology, in spite of their wide variety of physical characteristics.
Maybe current earth level technology is unique, or at least very rare in the universe.
Posted by: BillyD at December 02, 2023 12:34 AM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 11:58 PM (0FoWg)
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Any idea what it is? Maybe you should try tasting it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 02, 2023 12:35 AM (vDyah)
The Drake Equation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 02, 2023 12:35 AM (TTAGa)
https://is.gd/Hoo8br
Posted by: Ciampino - Backends Uranus man .... at December 02, 2023 12:33 AM (qfLjt)
There is a bunch of Hospitals doing things on paper right now for basically the same reason.
Outsource your data storage... you have outsourced your security. You know.... kinda like they moved Election results to the web.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 02, 2023 12:35 AM (xaFKb)
Florida woman, 22, is accused of posing as 14 year-old SCHOOLGIRL 'to groom then molest boy, as young as 12, 30 times'
https://mol.im/a/12816299
Posted by: Ciampino - Beer. It's what it is at December 02, 2023 12:36 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 12:37 AM (mBqSi)
If you have no batteries, yes, and as Romeo says, on a sunny day at high noon. BUT with batteries, it means you need to store energy for maybe forty minutes (at 50% full sun) to run the 2000 watt toaster for one minute.
Or buy bigger panels ... but solar (for the prepper type moron) is for backup mostly ... and if you have cash on hand, why not but 10K watts of panels and a larger battery bank? Just in case BigBro decides to throttle us down.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 02, 2023 12:38 AM (Cus5s)
Florida woman, 22, is accused of posing as 14 year-old SCHOOLGIRL 'to groom then molest boy, as young as 12, 30 times'
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That's horrible.
Horrible it never happened to me.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 02, 2023 12:38 AM (vDyah)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 01, 2023 11:59 PM (
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Got a few friends in Sierra Vista. it's a nightmare.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2023 12:39 AM (uSHSS)
Florida woman, 22, is accused of posing as 14 year-old SCHOOLGIRL 'to groom then molest boy, as young as 12, 30 times'
https://mol.im/a/12816299
Posted by: Ciampino - Beer. It's what it is at December 02, 2023 12:36 AM (qfLjt)
And the other boys she was having sex with are going...
F'n narc!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 02, 2023 12:39 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice"
TMI!! DEAR GOD, TMI!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 02, 2023 12:28 AM (S6gqv)
Am I the only one curious enough to hear more?
Like any red wine or just certain varieties?
Posted by: Robert, patting himself on the back at December 02, 2023 12:39 AM (1Yy3c)
>>Scientists Find Evidence of Another Core Within Earth’s Center
https://tinyurl.com/4v87pmb3
Posted by: JackStraw at December 02, 2023 12:40 AM (ZLI7S)
Transgender medical student is slammed for complaining about being 'embarrassingly slow' and 'out of shape' after winning women's New York state half marathon race - SIX MINUTES quicker than next place
https://mol.im/a/12815275
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Cairo? at December 02, 2023 12:40 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 02, 2023 12:26 AM (hiMh5)
Yep. I threw in a factor to limit it to "animals" like us. While the swirling intelligent clouds on Jupiter-type worlds can build starships and time machines (they just don't want to) I can't see us ever having anything in common to talk about.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 02, 2023 12:41 AM (M1WkG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 12:41 AM (mBqSi)
Tesla Cybertruck terror plot foiled: Tech-hating Florida man Paul Overeem arrested after threatening 'mass casualty' attack at event attended by Elon Musk in Texas
https://mol.im/a/12815277
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Karachi? at December 02, 2023 12:42 AM (qfLjt)
Maybe current earth level technology is unique, or at least very rare in the universe.
Posted by: BillyD at December 02, 2023 12:34 AM (F6Xpw)
Lest we forget, our Native Indians couldn't 'invent' the wheel over millennia. Metallurgy was also outside their wheelhouse.
Posted by: RickZ at December 02, 2023 12:43 AM (emlEe)
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I do believe so. Yes.
On another note...moderately amusing hash I've got this evening.
Posted by: scampydog at December 02, 2023 12:43 AM (LVaYG)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 02, 2023 12:38 AM (Cus5s)
I've got 25 panels on the house, with a 10K battery. Cost me right at 50K for the whole thing... but last year I only paid the $30 a month admin fee for electricity for the entire year.
But that is Central Valley calif... would not work out anywhere where is snow, or at higher latitudes.
Hell, does not work 2 hours from here in the Bay area due to all the foggy and overcast days.
Oh, and Calif changed the deal for new installs, where you only get about 30% credi back from the grid, from what you put into the grid (old deal was 1:1).
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 02, 2023 12:44 AM (xaFKb)
Harbor Freight has 100 watt solar panels for $86.00.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 02, 2023 12:13 AM (JQ1AZ)
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Does that mean I need 20 to run my 2000 watt toaster or 2000 watt electric kettle?
Posted by: Ciampino - Assume no battery storage at December 02, 2023 12:25 AM (qfLjt)
Better get 40 of 'em. That panel rating is 100 Chinese Watts, not 100 real Watts.
Posted by: BillyD at December 02, 2023 12:44 AM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2023 12:39 AM (uSHSS)
I'm in Hereford. It's gotten pretty sporting with idiot smugglers from up north flying at 100 mph plus. Thirty chases was the number reported by the Sheriff for this week alone.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 02, 2023 12:46 AM (l7Kbv)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2023 12:47 AM (JrojV)
https://mol.im/a/12815247
Why is the Native American even necessary?
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Sidney? at December 02, 2023 12:48 AM (qfLjt)
Lest we forget, our Native Indians couldn't 'invent' the wheel over millennia. Metallurgy was also outside their wheelhouse.
Posted by: RickZ at December 02, 2023 12:43 AM (emlEe)
But they did invent the sharp stick, so they've got that going for them. Which is nice.
Posted by: BillyD at December 02, 2023 12:50 AM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: Admiral spinebender at December 02, 2023 12:51 AM (duT0u)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 02, 2023 12:46 AM (l7Kbv)
Is Huachuca City still the speed trap it was in the 80's?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2023 12:52 AM (uSHSS)
https://mol.im/a/12815781
Yeah, they don't believe all that globull warming shit either.
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Aden? at December 02, 2023 12:52 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: A dude in MI
Relevant to the above Big ten commentary.
Posted by: Admiral spinebender at December 02, 2023 12:53 AM (duT0u)
For one thing, it assumes that ANY life has been forged by evolution. Why would conditions for life "Forge" new life by "evolution"? Has life ever spontaneously "combusted" here on Earth? (assuming it did it once, why not more than once?)
For another, some Christian based science (I forget who did it) found that instead of maybe ten (extremely rare) essential elements for a planet in a solar system to sustain life, they found more like 200 (and still counting). So the odds increased exponentially to the millionth degree, or some such.
Life comes from life ... God (or lets just say a higher power?) created what we humans cannot comprehend?
Posted by: illiniwek at December 02, 2023 12:54 AM (Cus5s)
https://mol.im/a/12815697
Tough. I would not be ordered how to refer to someone when talking to someone else. If they don't like 'you' then I could call them something insulting? Ist Amendment Right.
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Whitehorse? at December 02, 2023 12:58 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 02, 2023 12:52 AM (uSHSS)
Negative. State put a stop to it in the early 2000s. The junkyard with all the old cars is still there even though the owner who wouldn't sell any of them died.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 02, 2023 12:58 AM (l7Kbv)
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Aden? at December 02, 2023 12:52 AM (qfLjt)
They've been telling me we only have 10 years to live... for 50 years.
Uhhhh.... It's like the Central Calif droughts, which are cyclic and ALWAYS happen every few years... but... they seem to forget all the past droughts. Every new drought comes as AN EMERGENCY THAT WE MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT!!!!! and then, they don't...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 02, 2023 12:59 AM (xaFKb)
Hitler lied a lot.
Even before he was called on to form a govt, he had lined up a huge swath of German capitalist supporters. They supported the old boy & never looked back. In return, he let them devour the industries of Europe however they liked.
Burp.
Posted by: mnw at December 02, 2023 01:02 AM (NLIak)
I have 9k watts of panels ... but we get maybe half the sun SW USA gets. And I only have $1000 of batteries. Cost me about $16K total, self installed. I like the security, performs well, handles all my AC easily, not all my heat in winter. ...
Solar mostly does not "work out" for much of the country, even if full subsidies are applied. But if the security from possible brownouts or blackouts is important, it is worth the effort for many self reliant types. imo.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 02, 2023 01:02 AM (Cus5s)
Lest we forget, our Native Indians couldn't 'invent' the wheel over millennia. Metallurgy was also outside their wheelhouse.
Posted by: RickZ at December 02, 2023 12:43 AM (emlEe)
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So they never noticed that after making a roaring fire using red rocks and keeping the fire going, a strange gray to black, heavy substance was formed?
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Havana? at December 02, 2023 01:02 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/12815225
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Caracas? at December 02, 2023 01:04 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/12815713
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Antarctica? at December 02, 2023 01:06 AM (qfLjt)
Biology theorists figure that an extremely primitive life form might get by with just 200 proteins, but no less.
How do 200 proteins come into being at the same place and time, and begin to function together?
Darwin's "warm little pond" doesn't begin to explain it,
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 02, 2023 01:09 AM (vDyah)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 02, 2023 01:12 AM (S6gqv)
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Safety Rule #1: Don't go under the rocket engine.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 02, 2023 01:14 AM (vDyah)
https://is.gd/cdiDOM
OK she has an English name and that's confusing. Most countries demand visitors and non-citizen residents to keep out of politics, such as demonstrations. Otherwise it's deportation.
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Aberdeen? at December 02, 2023 01:15 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 02, 2023 01:15 AM (9mNHV)
Darwin's "warm little pond" doesn't begin to explain it,
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 02, 2023 01:09 AM (vDyah)
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Considering all the chemicals in our water (rivers, lakes, etc.) from urine and industrial waste, I would expect new life to spontaneously spring up in such localities.
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Georgia? at December 02, 2023 01:19 AM (qfLjt)
Off for a big, fat three hours of sleep.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 02, 2023 01:15 AM (9mNHV)
I did that today. At work now and surviving. Get back to me in about 4 hours and it might be a different story
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 02, 2023 01:23 AM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: JB1000 at December 02, 2023 01:29 AM (aOMLp)
Because it made him mean.
Posted by: JB1000 at December 02, 2023 01:29 AM (aOMLp)
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So, average ....
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Berlin? at December 02, 2023 01:32 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 02, 2023 01:39 AM (JrojV)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 02, 2023 01:39 AM (mBqSi)
https://mol.im/a/12815713
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Antarctica? at December 02, 2023 01:06 AM (qfLjt)
And then immediately apologizes... but will still be cancellated.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 02, 2023 01:46 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 02, 2023 01:02 AM (Cus5s)
That's why I invested in it... Calif Grid is going to implode. They already tell people NOT to charge their electric cars in the summer... because the grid just can't handle the load.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 02, 2023 01:48 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 01, 2023 10:36 PM (Rz7ER)
I guess you were all out the Night You YELLED in My Ear !
Posted by: JT at December 02, 2023 01:49 AM (T4tVD)
All in, on doubling down.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 02, 2023 01:52 AM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 02, 2023 02:00 AM (5N8Mz)
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (geLO
Yeah ?
And who has to clean it ?
Posted by: JT at December 02, 2023 02:03 AM (T4tVD)
https://tinyurl.com/yf8k2muc
Posted by: Kindltot at December 01, 2023 10:58 PM (D7oie)
Won't the handle make her feel bad ?
Posted by: JT at December 02, 2023 02:05 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: JQ at December 02, 2023 02:06 AM (njWTi)
https://is.gd/CFIyrm
Imagine paying a fortune for your kid to 'study' this craap.
Posted by: Ciampino - The perfect Earth temperature is? & where, Beijing? at December 02, 2023 02:06 AM (qfLjt)
IIRC, some doofus in the 80's chose Madonna as subject matter for his Masters' Thesis. And, shocker, the Uni accepted it.
Posted by: JQ at December 02, 2023 02:09 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 02, 2023 02:14 AM (5N8Mz)
Posted by: JQ at December 02, 2023 02:21 AM (njWTi)
I salute, in advance, the Moron or 'Ette who submits "The Horde Mind" as the basis for their PhD thesis.
And if even at this late hour, someone else posts much the same thought and idea, there's a bit of Q.E.D. to the postulation?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 02, 2023 02:22 AM (e6UQI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcInt58juL4
Prof. David Kipping of Cool Worlds Classroom
Posted by: Adriane the Dying is Easy, Comedy is Hard Critic . . . at December 02, 2023 02:38 AM (4Winp)
How on earth, could anyone put The Horde Mind into words? Well, I guess that alone would be worthy of PhD award, yes?
Posted by: JQ at December 02, 2023 02:39 AM (njWTi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg
One of my favorite videos …
Posted by: Adriane the Dying is Easy, Comedy is Hard Critic . . . at December 02, 2023 02:41 AM (4Winp)
Piled, Higher and Deeper.
/hasta la nite nite, horde!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 02, 2023 02:44 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Adriane the Dying is Easy, Comedy is Hard Critic . . . at December 02, 2023 02:44 AM (4Winp)
Posted by: JQ
How do solve a problem like Maria?
Posted by: Singing Austrian Nuns at December 02, 2023 02:47 AM (4Winp)
Posted by: JQ at December 02, 2023 02:52 AM (njWTi)
Well, hard to argue with.
https://tinyurl.com/5azzkx2y
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 02, 2023 03:01 AM (di6C2)
We got snow today, just on & off all day and into evening. Temp hovering near 32F.
So much for yard cleanup! Oh, how my heart is breaking...not.
Posted by: JQ at December 02, 2023 03:02 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: JQ at December 02, 2023 02:39 AM (njWTi)
Mine alone would have them in the fetal position. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 02, 2023 03:10 AM (VwHCD)
About that link on the top page:
I feel so sad to be isolated from the Target Shopper demographic
That be Cap'n gut butt...an asshole with a front ass and a back ass.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 02, 2023 03:25 AM (ynpvh)
Hard to believe that January 2023 was 11 months ago …
: -))
Posted by: Singing Austrian Nuns at December 02, 2023 03:27 AM (4Winp)
Hard to believe that January 2023 was 11 months ago …
: -))
Posted by: Singing Austrian Nuns at December 02, 2023 03:27 AM (4Winp)
Very true, ladies. Or that it has only been 4 years since the whole shitshow/summer of love. Feels like a lifetime.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 02, 2023 03:29 AM (di6C2)
The Horde Mind is a puddle of liquid Mercury on an infinitely large flat tray.
If one assumes all the constituents of that Mind were gathered into a single pool to begin with, the large number of disputable points to drive them apart are little hammers that smash onto the puddle and that drives portions of it out to another region of the flat tray. From there, those constituents might be smahed yet again to create more distant little puddles ... or back to the largest, but reduced, puddle still back at the origin region.
Had I my Kenner Analogy Builder set from the mid-60s, I might be fool enough to drive this nonsense further, but, thankfully, I do not.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 02, 2023 03:42 AM (aZBZS)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
I’m good.
But if you bring Tinker Toys or Lincoln Logs into the analogy, I’ll start backing away very slowly …
Posted by: Adriane is to Grapes, as X is to Wine . . . at December 02, 2023 03:55 AM (4Winp)
yeah well socialists never lie, let ask Barney "3 house" Zanders about that...
He cowed the industrialists into submission and government oversight by "Hitler enacting" accounting laws that were insane on the penalty schedule.
Not being Lenin does not mean you are not an anti-capitalist asshole.
Posted by: sven at December 02, 2023 05:43 AM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Ironwood at December 02, 2023 07:17 AM (WTF2p)
The earth is about 27 miles wider at the equator than it is "Tall" via the poles. If the earth stopped spinning all of the water would flow toward the polls, leaving a band around the equator high and dry, in fact so "High" that the air would be thinner than at the top of Everest. The new "North Coast" would be at about the US/Canada border, from there north would be underwater, and yeah, a similar beach line would extend through europe, russia, china. The ocean floor "Basin" in the south is deeper, could hold more of the water before lands go under, the new beach line would be about where Canberra sits now.(Bye New Zealand)
But, in not spinning a "Day" would last 6 months, it would be sub freezing on the dark side, and hundreds of degrees on the Day side....I guess you could walk, sail, travel West>East along the twilight edge and survive...or some people could. Though those who wanted to travel N>S would have to contend with the rarified air of the new "Mountain Ranges" girdling the globe.
Posted by: birddog at December 02, 2023 12:55 PM (1E8/t)
He's a fraud, he's a prick, and I wish him no ill, but I don't give a damn if he is pissing on a curb only to have his entire genitalia cauterized into uselessness.
He is a non-entity as far as my passions of his failures, and manipulations.
HOWEVER!; He was elected, and his followers were fools, big deal, that happens all the time. His party, in an act of virtue signaling defied that reality.
How many demonstrations of corruption have we seen over the last 30 plus years in the US Government? How many dirty deals have happened over the last 30 years? (cont)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at December 02, 2023 01:41 PM (e9nOI)
Did they remove his seat? How about all of the other corruption that exists in all of the other seats? An HONEST person would say, "That's what the constituants chose, That's what they get, they can vote again to get him out."
This is a DISGRACE! A DISGRACE!
I think George is a complete fraud, but I think most "representatives" of themselves are frauds. Get them ALL GONE!
And FUCK YOU ALL! "Elite" which actually means connected, cunts. I was LiB back in 2006, I'm Still LiB if we don't learn our lessons. LET IT FUCKING BURN! I will arrive to help with the cleanup but the nation that I love (present tense) and served (past tense,
Posted by: Wickedpinto at December 02, 2023 01:47 PM (e9nOI)
Outright criminal activity is just an ethics issue, while a fay pussy who managed to con the electorate to get into office, is expelled.
FUCK YOU "America," and I am ASTONISHED that Fetterman is my favorite Democrat.
Maybe if you START as a democrat, and then face life and death, you become someone who has at least ONE thought with your faulty brain chemistry.
Finally, I am as America as America can be. Child of the lower middle class, sometimes poor, gang ridden environment violence was common, but I always loved the life that America offered me with my good parents, my good family, our idealization of what is right and wrong, and our love of service.
I moved to Australia several years ago, and I would get sentimental about what is going on in The States, and my wife, no American, said to me. "You are American, you are a Marine, You always carry your freedom with you wherever you go."
That is where America lives, in the hearts and minds and souls of those of us who know what it means.
Not in those fancy places where everyone has kids that fuck eachother. It's in the true idealists like me, and us, and my
Posted by: Wickedpinto at December 02, 2023 01:53 PM (e9nOI)
FUCK YOU "representatives" of me. You don't represent me, or anyone I love.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at December 02, 2023 01:55 PM (e9nOI)
No offense, it's not true. The rotation of the Earth does affect these things in terms of location, but not in volume. The thing that makes the Earth special is not it's distance from the sun, though that is a factor, it's not the rotational force that allows for distension that is obviously a factor, the primary driving force that makes earth the dyanamic and miraculous body that it is, is the combination of factors that are delivered on point by the moon.
Absent Luna, there is no earth, and the existence of the muslim moon god (I have read that Allah was a prehistoric moon goddess) it is Luna that keeps the oceans moving, it is the mone that keeps the mantle variable, it is the moon that protects us from a great many things and offering a great many things, due to the near miraculous . . . I foreget the term. But the moons location and mass, and revolution and rotation to the Sun and The Earth is something that is virtually impossible to imagine or create/.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at December 02, 2023 02:01 PM (e9nOI)
That is OUTRIGHT FRAUD!
Posted by: Wickedpinto at December 02, 2023 02:22 PM (e9nOI)
Maybe current earth level technology is unique, or at least very rare in the universe.
Posted by: BillyD at December 02, 2023 12:34 AM (F6Xpw)
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Well some physicists ran the numbers and concluded that the entirety of humanity and all its evidence would be wiped out in 3 million years if we went extinct.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 02, 2023 04:13 PM (ybJHI)
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Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse
Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party"
Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up
Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)