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Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The ONT Has Landed
Hello, and welcome to Friday's ONT. I just finished reading Doomsday Recon, and I have to say, it was great. Not my usual fare, but it's very well written, kinda Clancy meets Tolkien. From the blurb:
The year is 1989. America has just invaded Noriega’s Panama. And Specialist Bennett’s platoon of Cav Scouts are in country… with, frankly, not a whole lot to do.
Until the freak rainstorm that somehow transports the entire platoon—Humvees, weapons, and all—to another world. A world controlled by a wicked Aztec god.
The Land of the Black Sun.
In a heartbeat, the Scouts find themselves fighting for their lives against savage beasts, witches, zombies, subhuman tribes seeking sacrifices… and even themselves. Fuel runs low, ammo grows scarce, and their only allies are a tribe of all-female warriors and a single fledgling sorceress with a decidedly mean streak.
Sorry for steppin' on any toes, Perfessor, but I really did enjoy the book. On with the memes! I'll start with this one because you definitely could run into these guys in the Land of the Black Sun.
Fido Friday: Cry Havoc!
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 24, 2024
How traditions start
Too soon?
Is using a truck cheating?
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 24, 2024
Kitchen renovation
Chris is a pervert
Eating yourself
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 24, 2024
Another cop nut meme
Time on their hands
Cheeky monkey
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 24, 2024
Look, up in the sky, it's....never mind, it's just Clark
Skills to pay the bills
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 24, 2024
Homeschool your kids
Right click and open in new tab to read
He's got a point
Passing Gas
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 24, 2024
I think they need a strip of light blue in Appalachia and the southern half of Louisiana
Fact check: True
This is funny if you've seen Encanto
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 24, 2024
On yesterday's outage
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by bad ways to save a few pennies:
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2024 09:58 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2024 09:58 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 09:58 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2024 09:59 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2024 09:59 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at February 23, 2024 09:59 PM (GIu0F)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 23, 2024 09:59 PM (ElRvh)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2024 10:00 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 23, 2024 10:01 PM (ElRvh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 23, 2024 10:01 PM (sE4sa)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 10:02 PM (0lA9i)
Posted by: Admiral spinebender at February 23, 2024 10:03 PM (duT0u)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 23, 2024 10:03 PM (sE4sa)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 23, 2024 10:05 PM (CHHv1)
Is it okay if I pass on that book?
Posted by: Outside of Life at February 23, 2024 10:05 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:07 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: browndog goes desperado at February 23, 2024 10:07 PM (TTAGa)
Filling could be fudge, Nutella, who knows.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 23, 2024 10:07 PM (MeG8a)
You're going to have to paint A LOT of paintings to make up for that one.
And none of them better be a fat naked guy sitting on an ottoman.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 10:08 PM (XV/Pl)
Not too long ago, at my local grocery in the pharmacy portion, the condoms were on their normal shelves, just sitting there, minding their own bidness. Someone had hung(!!) one of those plastic spaghetti measuring devices, you know, the one with various sized holes in it to measure portions, on the shelf with the condoms.
But I wouldn't know nothing about 'dat.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 23, 2024 10:08 PM (ElRvh)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 23, 2024 10:05 PM (CHHv1)
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Three words: MORE RAM
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 23, 2024 10:08 PM (sE4sa)
But, seriously, why was he messing with an ouroboros anyway?
Posted by: GWB at February 23, 2024 10:09 PM (mdc3p)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 23, 2024 10:05 PM (CHHv1)
What did you get? Looking for a mini pc. Trying to avoid Win 11.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:09 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 10:09 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:10 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 10:10 PM (aD39U)
I need to do some google-fu, because I know I read the first couple of chapters.
It was really captivating
Posted by: browndog goes desperado at February 23, 2024 10:10 PM (TTAGa)
>>I hate buying new PCs. They fail so pathetically.
You shouldn't buy a NEW one, you can get a very serviceable and capable renewed or refurbed one for a fraction of the price of a new one.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 10:10 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 23, 2024 10:10 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 10:10 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Outside of Life at February 23, 2024 10:11 PM (89Sog)
I need to do some google-fu, because I know I read the first couple of chapters.
It was really captivating
They did and I think it got made into a movie.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 10:11 PM (dZVON)
Is it okay if I pass on that book?
You can do anything you want, including spout off nonsense about a book you haven't read.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 23, 2024 10:11 PM (LSolr)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 10:10 PM (XV/Pl)
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The same principle applies to Easter European brides.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 23, 2024 10:12 PM (sE4sa)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 10:11 PM (dZVON)
Ohhhhh
I’d love to see that
Posted by: browndog goes desperado at February 23, 2024 10:12 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 23, 2024 10:13 PM (u9uo0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2024 10:13 PM (rii+a)
It probably is Zappa. A lot of famous people fake their deaths. Hitler, Elvis, Billy Zane.
Posted by: No You See Them, Now You Don't at February 23, 2024 10:13 PM (0GDr5)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 10:14 PM (XV/Pl)
You didn't refute me. Just accused me of spouting off but the theme has become prevalent in even what passes as "conservative" writing.
Has it got anything else to offer except that women come to the rescue again?
Posted by: Outside of Life at February 23, 2024 10:15 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 23, 2024 10:15 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 10:15 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Chris Farley at February 23, 2024 10:16 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 10:15 PM (aD39U)
Elliott Gould.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:17 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 10:17 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 10:17 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 23, 2024 10:17 PM (MeG8a)
>>The refrigerator installation isn't totally stupid.
If you simply create a base the follows the lines of the cabinet bases, it wouldn't look too out of place and it gets the fridge to a proper working height.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 10:18 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: GWB
The Prophecy was unfolding, of a Hero to arrive and save us, then some jerk with hand sanitizer shows up.
Who had "Frost Giants destroy the world" on their 2024 bingo card?
Posted by: Hans and Franz at February 23, 2024 10:18 PM (P9kBh)
Posted by: LRob in OK at February 23, 2024 10:19 PM (TSQkU)
If you simply create a base the follows the lines of the cabinet bases, it wouldn't look too out of place and it gets the fridge to a proper working height
Yeah, but then you lose your Toddler Timeout Oubliette.
Posted by: Spare the Rod at February 23, 2024 10:20 PM (0GDr5)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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I found myself behind a black crossover today. Did not recognize the model name. Crept a bit closer, it was an Alfa. I figure there was some 'Look at me' going on there. Stelvio.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2024 10:21 PM (XeU6L)
https://youtu.be/bF8eYjm6oNc
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 10:21 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: GWB at February 23, 2024 10:22 PM (mdc3p)
https://youtu.be/2m8WocbcTmU?si=wyE6LbfxuBJVlm6G
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2024 10:22 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2024 10:23 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 10:23 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 10:23 PM (0lA9i)
Posted by: No You See Them, Now You Don't
Sometimes they even start absurd rumors about how they died and why there's no body.
Posted by: Jimmy Hoffa at February 23, 2024 10:23 PM (p1SDw)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 23, 2024 10:17 PM (MeG8a)
Somewhere I think I still have all the paperwork for my fake identity. Back in the old days when records were freely public and not digitized, you could look through old records at the courthouse and find a child with your approximate birthdate that died in infancy. You could then request their birth certificate, get a drivers license and even a SS#. My little gang did this in HS as a lark.
Since everyone has an SS# essentially from birth, I guess this doesn't really work anymore.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 10:24 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: GWB
The Prophecy was unfolding, of a Hero to arrive and save us, then some jerk with hand sanitizer shows up.
Who had "Frost Giants destroy the world" on their 2024 bingo card?
Posted by: Hans and Franz at February 23, 2024 10:18 PM (P9kBh)
EXACTLY!
Posted by: GWB at February 23, 2024 10:24 PM (mdc3p)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 10:23 PM (9yWhg)
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Are we savages?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 23, 2024 10:24 PM (sE4sa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:26 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2024 10:23 PM (rii+a)
I bought the mini pc to hook up to the living room tv. I only web surf and do some writing on it, but that *#%7!666! Win stuff filled up the hard drive. I need another one, but if I get a large hd, I'm afraid it will force me into Win 11. Not sure I want that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:26 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 23, 2024 10:26 PM (as3uC)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 10:23 PM (9yWhg)
Oh. From a can.
Posted by: Homemade Split Pea Soup Snob at February 23, 2024 10:27 PM (emlEe)
The women don't "rescue" them from anything. They're a tribe of, well, Amazons will do the trick, although that word is never used, that the Cav allies with to attack hell under the leadership of the platoon Captain.
But you're the one that's making shit up. You admittedly dont know a thing about the book, yet you start with a big assumption rather than asking about the plot.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 23, 2024 10:27 PM (LSolr)
That's not a Whippet. It's a Renualt FT-17.
Posted by: Outside of Life at February 23, 2024 10:27 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 10:27 PM (aD39U)
I bought Pixy's recommendation but haven't hooked it up yet.
You have to go into the bios and turn off a couple of things then change the start up to flash.
I'm not ready for that.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 10:27 PM (0lA9i)
Posted by: Homemade Split Pea Soup Snob at February 23, 2024 10:27 PM (emlEe)
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GFY
Posted by: Pea Soup Andersen at February 23, 2024 10:28 PM (sE4sa)
Posted by: Outside of Life at February 23, 2024 10:28 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 23, 2024 10:28 PM (as3uC)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 10:28 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
https://youtu.be/C-6mI708yWc?si=FnVVaNgtuUWzPFLR
(Couldn't find one about cold split pea soup.)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2024 10:28 PM (rii+a)
>>Not sure how much I trust Ebay.
I've bought numerous computers off of ebay, never got burned, YMMV.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 10:29 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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May as well tattoo 'em and be done with it.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 10:29 PM (0lA9i)
But I have had run ins with the head of our school board during COVID-19 Wuhan, and she is woke.
I had testified on masks in front of the County Commissioners in 2020, and saw they voted to exempt the rural part of the county from mask requirements. That same day the school board President lied and said the Commissioners voted the opposite. We had a discussion. I did not wear a mask for two years, and that meant not going inside a school building during that time.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:29 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 10:30 PM (aD39U)
It languished for YEARS... until....
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2024 10:30 PM (xaFKb)
Harry Turtledove where one of Caesar's Legions get sent to a fantasy world with an empire that is into late Byzantium Territory.
Harry Turtledove again with one where a German soldier during the fall of Berlin gets transported to a fantasy world (with a working MP40.)
Another one by... Forscheten(?) with a Civil War Regiment gets sent to a world that is being attacked by a cannibal critters.
There was another one I read a blurb for where a US Company(?) in Afghanistan stays in the same place, but is sent back in time 2000 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:30 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
I want to avoid Windows 11 or MS anything at this point. I've seen some mini-PCs that came with Linux Ubuntu. Prefer Mint, but that would work.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2024 10:31 PM (rii+a)
(sniff)
Dad used to ride his V45 Magna there for lunch years ago. (Santa Nella)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:32 PM (Angsy)
It's a good machine.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 23, 2024 10:32 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 10:23 PM (0lA9i)
It would be a whole lot easier to sweep under it, that is for sure
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2024 10:32 PM (D7oie)
(sniff)
Dad used to ride his V45 Magna there for lunch years ago. (Santa Nella)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:32 PM (Angsy)
I had that once when I was out there a decade or so ago. It was all right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:33 PM (di6C2)
(sniff)
Dad used to ride his V45 Magna there for lunch years ago. (Santa Nella)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:32 PM (Angsy)
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I've been told that the original one in Buellton has closed.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 10:33 PM (0gvpA)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 10:33 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 10:23 PM (0lA9i)
It would be a whole lot easier to sweep under it, that is for sure
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2024 10:32 PM (D7oie)
Fewer hot wheel time capsules.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:33 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 23, 2024 10:35 PM (xw1WS)
I bought Pixy's recommendation but haven't hooked it up yet.
You have to go into the bios and turn off a couple of things then change the start up to flash.
I'm not ready for that.
Posted by: Braenyard
It can be aggravating. My sister has an old MS Surface Pro that was fine but old, so MS stopped updating it. I, eventually and with much cursing, put Linux Mint on it and its humming along just nicely. It was aggravating though.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2024 10:35 PM (rii+a)
1. No big battles today. The Russians push across a potato field, and the Ukrainians sometimes manage to stop them, for a while.
2. The US-supplied Abrams tank made its first combat appearance. One ran up to the front line, performed an artillery mission, then scurried back to the rear. A mine sweeper version was observed, sitting very dead in the middle of the road.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 23, 2024 10:35 PM (P9kBh)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 10:21 PM (dZVON)
Thank you …
Some one has to pry this away from what ever studio is holding it hostage
Posted by: browndog goes desperado at February 23, 2024 10:35 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2024 10:31 PM (rii+a)
I tried Mint on an older left over pc. Didn't care for it. But don't want Win 11. Won't get a MacIntosh....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:36 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 23, 2024 10:36 PM (63Dwl)
It all started with Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)and then L. Sprague de Camp in Lest Darkness Fall. Been done many times and many ways.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:37 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 10:37 PM (S6gqv)
That'd be Warner Brothers.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 10:37 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Where the Elite Meet To Eat at February 23, 2024 10:38 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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I read that we were sending a lot of our junk to them.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 10:38 PM (0lA9i)
Posted by: Outside of Life at February 23, 2024 10:27 PM (89Sog)
My bad, but it doesn't have that Dalek-like cupola on the top.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2024 10:38 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 10:38 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:38 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024 10:39 PM (lX8VI)
It all started with Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)and then L. Sprague de Camp in Lest Darkness Fall. Been done many times and many ways.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:37 PM (u82oZ)
There was also another one that turned into a fairly long series where an engineer is transported back to Poland just before(~10-15 years) the Mongols come along and decides to actually build a tech base to be able to defeat them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:40 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:33 PM (di6C2)
I've been told that the original one in Buellton has closed.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 10:33 PM (0gvpA)
I never cared for Pea Soup, but whenever we have to go to the Bay Area, we stop there. Never been to the Buellton location, we lived in the Big Valley.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:40 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: mindful webworker - one joke over the line at February 23, 2024 10:40 PM (xYqIr)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:40 PM (u82oZ)
An adult tiger can jump 15 feet from a standing stop. The monkey appears to be a few inches above the tigers' jaws.
Posted by: mnw at February 23, 2024 10:41 PM (NLIak)
I bought a basic used pc on eBay but took it to a local computer shop and had them add memory and drives, win 8, and do a full system check!
Brought it home, installed Linux, and never had a problem since!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (iPhone version) at February 23, 2024 10:41 PM (5kdlS)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 10:43 PM (W/lyH)
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Dean Cain is involved with a comic book these days and recently did the rounds on youtube. On one of the shows he discussed the topic of Clark's glasses, and apparently on a lark, Henry Cavill went to a movie theater and stood next to a movie poster for Man of Steel, wearing glasses, and nobody recognized him.
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2024 10:43 PM (Dnobf)
Was that "Cross Time Engineer"?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 10:43 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I waited 5 hours for road service, they put the spare on, it was about half inflated, he took care of that. I went to Discount Tire the next day to have the spare put back and the tire man said my spare was rotten. "What to you mean, I've never used it?"
He says it's 20 years old and it's rotten.
"OK." It came with the truck.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 10:43 PM (0lA9i)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
How could they tell?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 23, 2024 10:43 PM (P9kBh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 10:43 PM (S6gqv)
It languished for YEARS... until....
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2024 10:30 PM (xaFKb)
Love Tom Selleck in the role but Steve McQueen would have been great too.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:44 PM (MNhXM)
I bought the mini pc to hook up to the living room tv. I only web surf and do some writing on it, but that *#%7!666! Win stuff filled up the hard drive. I need another one, but if I get a large hd, I'm afraid it will force me into Win 11. Not sure I want that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:26
I'm really glad I have a win10 install USB. I'll use that as long as I can for any future builds or reinstalls.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 23, 2024 10:44 PM (T0fmC)
http://tinyurl.com/w8kw97wf
Kind of a 20's Mustang. Pretty fast, not very expensive.
They could corner harder than the spokes could hold the rims on.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 23, 2024 10:44 PM (zdLoL)
I bought a basic used pc on eBay but took it to a local computer shop and had them add memory and drives, win 8, and do a full system check!
Brought it home, installed Linux, and never had a problem since!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
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I've got a Mint stick and Pixy's choice just waiting for me to get up the nerve or this one to crater. Which ever comes first.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 10:45 PM (0lA9i)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:30 PM (di6C2)
Michael Z Williamson's A Long Time Until Now and the follow up That was Now, This is Then
Andre Norton has a series called The Time Traders, which was a tech that sent explorers back to the Bell Beaker invasion of Western Europe to find a crashed alien ship, and then the series sort of growed
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2024 10:45 PM (D7oie)
Yes, I have the Conrad Stargard (Crosstime Engineer) saga. It was great when I read it when it was first out. Lots of subtle Polish humor.
Rereading the saga lately, it reeked of mild pedophilia and treating women as sex objects. But the engineering was good, if implausible. Just So stories for teens.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:45 PM (u82oZ)
Until the freak rainstorm that somehow transports the entire platoon—Humvees, weapons, and all—to another world. A world controlled by a wicked Aztec god.
Oh please.
Everyone knows the Cav kicks serious ass (fuck you 8th Guards Army). And the Aztecs are pussies.
Yeah. I said it.
Pussies.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 10:45 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:47 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 10:43 PM (dZVON)
Yeah, Leo Frankowski. A polish engineer, iirc.
It is a Gary Sue kind of thing where he becomes king and sleeps with all the women as well. A lot of... borderline age 'women.' It is 'of the theoretical time' but it feels a bit creepy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:48 PM (di6C2)
Especially if the Kiowa and Apache helicopters with a semi full of spares and a company of fuel bowsers made it across.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:48 PM (u82oZ)
Everyone knows the Cav kicks serious ass (fuck you 8th Guards Army). And the Aztecs are pussies.
Yeah. I said it.
Pussies.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 10:45 PM (W/lyH)
Don't let ZOD get wind of your blasphemy ...
Posted by: browndog doesn't do time travel well at February 23, 2024 10:49 PM (TTAGa)
Pussies.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 10:45 PM (W/lyH)
Cortez found they were a bit brittle. 800 men. Some cannon. Horses. A lot of pissed of neighbors.
Also smallpox.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:50 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 23, 2024 10:44 PM (T0fmC)
Whoooooah...
The dead walk amongst us tonight.
Hey buzzion !
Posted by: browndog doesn't do time travel well at February 23, 2024 10:50 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:50 PM (MNhXM)
There's other examples of top shelf military behemoths fighting to a draw with an amoral, third rate force. In this case, it was political cowardice coupled with spineless executive 'leadership' for over twenty years.
2400 American service personnel along with (a minimum) of $7 Billion in military equipment was sacrificed in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 23, 2024 10:50 PM (ElRvh)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:50 PM (MNhXM)
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Final Countdown.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 10:51 PM (0gvpA)
They neglected all the Polish deaths from modern diseases carried by Conrad. Or it was ret-conned away in the time travel.
Modern diseases are more evolved to be violent even with antibiotics, so it would hit an ancient population hard.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:51 PM (u82oZ)
Technically speaking every woman he slept with was older than him if you just compare birth dates.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 10:51 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:53 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:50 PM (MNhXM)
Final Countdown. (too bad they were a couple years too early for the music) I was always disappointed at the ending; they get all ready to kick Japanese ass and then get transported back just before they can. The part that I thought was most fun was that one of them gets left behind in the past, and when they came back to port in the present there's this limo with an incredibly rich older man sitting there waiting for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 10:53 PM (S6gqv)
The USS Nimitz with air det embarked. Lots of hand-wringing about striking the IJN forces.
In real life, the A-6 Intruders alone would wipe the sea of the 6 CV task force. ROE would be met.
And it was an excuse to write about Zeros vs F-14s.
The final line hints that the future in that time line got really weird.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:54 PM (u82oZ)
But it is almost within living memory that the cols couldn’t chase you across county lines. Out of their jurisdiction, don’tcha know. And no ID, or certainly not any photo ID.
If someone had a mind to, just pick up stakes to another state or two, forge a new identity. It was possible to stay under the radar, because it hadn’t been invented yet. Communications were almost nonexistent.
I suppose the Census probably kept some records, and live birth records at the county seat. But some of those remote areas, whether out west, or a holler in the Appalachians or wherever, how would they have drafted people back then? I mean, assuming you aren’t of a mind to get involved in a shootin’ match, just kinda disappear.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 10:55 PM (HYyZn)
Modern diseases are more evolved to be violent even with antibiotics, so it would hit an ancient population hard.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:51 PM (u82oZ)
IIRC, the device/method he travels back in time via was part of a complex for a time traveling far flung future people. They explained it (and I last read these like 20 years ago) as he had been sterilized merely by passing through the 'fields' in the complex he stumbled upon before getting pooped out in 13th century poland.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:55 PM (di6C2)
Oh...oops!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 23, 2024 10:55 PM (P9kBh)
Body armor
M-4 ( assume all the ammo you need)
Night Vision
Medic kit
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:56 PM (MNhXM)
10 Dynamite > Dolomite > Yosemite > Catamite
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 23, 2024 10:01 PM (sE4sa)
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You forgot Earmite, Marmite and Vegemite
Posted by: Ciampino - Mites? at February 23, 2024 10:56 PM (qfLjt)
>>And that's basically what living in the country in East Texas is like.
What you need is a 4ton bottle jack, a bottle jack buddy, an 18 inch breaker bar and a 3/4in socket and pair of canvass gloves.
And all of that should be in a canvass bag in the trunk or under the storage of your pickup.
You should be able to change a flat tire in less than ten minutes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 10:56 PM (XV/Pl)
Thanks. Good story.
There are good people in Texas, away from the big cities. This is known.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:56 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:59 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 10:55 PM (HYyZn)
draft boards were a local thing, and generally they knew everyone in their area.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2024 10:59 PM (D7oie)
All the hipsters online yesterday were incensed there was no live video feed of the descent.
My orbital mechanics is a slight bit lacking, but my understanding is equatorial landings are much easier, they were shooting for a polar touchdown.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 10:59 PM (HYyZn)
M-4 ( assume all the ammo you need)
Night Vision
Medic kit
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:56 PM (MNhXM)
Body armor or night vision (assuming I had a way to recharge the batteries.)
Probably Night Vision.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 10:59 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:00 PM (HYyZn)
One I didn't get was the cop nut meme. What am I missing here?
Posted by: mindful webworker - it are to larf at February 23, 2024 11:01 PM (xYqIr)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 11:02 PM (MNhXM)
One I didn't get was the cop nut meme. What am I missing here?
Posted by: mindful webworker - it are to larf at February 23, 2024 11:01 PM (xYqIr)
The lady pictured was a police officer caught up in a scandal where she (married to not a police officer) got into a .... party mood with numerous other cops during a cop party.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 11:04 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:50 PM (MNhXM)
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Final Countdown.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
On December 6, 1941. I liked that movie.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 23, 2024 11:04 PM (rii+a)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2024 10:59 PM (D7oie)
Both It’s a Wonderful Life and Sargent York showed that.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 11:04 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 10:50 PM (MNhXM)
Final Countdown. (too bad they were a couple years too early for the music) I was always disappointed at the ending; they get all ready to kick Japanese ass and then get transported back just before they can. The part that I thought was most fun was that one of them gets left behind in the past, and when they came back to port in the present there's this limo with an incredibly rich older man sitting there waiting for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 10:53 PM (S6gqv)
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One of my all-time favorites. I love the bit with the two Zeroes, and the dog at the end.
Posted by: Ciampino - conundrum at February 23, 2024 11:04 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: mindful webworker -
Girl cop got caught having lots of sex with her co-workers and the story went viral.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 23, 2024 11:04 PM (P9kBh)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 11:02 PM (MNhXM)
Because the M-4 is not as radically different as a M1.
Med kit would be very finite in use.
Being able to reliably see in the dark? That is a game changer more than the other equipment- even the body armor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 11:05 PM (di6C2)
Well, they sent my mother home yesterday (all of the sudden, quite a hectic mess to get her all of the sudden). We've got her set up down here with us (she may just have to stay here, but I'm not going to spring that on her).
They put her on O2, and some medical supply had to come out for that. Back up bottles, and an O2 concentrator. When they sent her home from the hospital, they had a little portable tank. When I got home, I noticed the nurse hadn't even opened the main valve on the bottle. I saw her set the flow regulator (just a calibrated dial type, no actual flow ball or anything, just a dial with numbered settings).
So no O2 all the way home, but she was fine.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 23, 2024 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mindful webworker -
Girl cop got caught having lots of sex with her co-workers and the story went viral.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 23, 2024 11:04 PM (P9kBh
She didn’t kill herself like the beach vibrator chick. I guess there’s still time.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 11:06 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Weirddave at February 23, 2024 11:06 PM (LSolr)
For both time travel and the Ukrainian front, if you've read Death Traps you'll know that the US advantage in armor and mechanized was always the repair capability and the armorer-artificers (the way you win is to make the other guy try to say that fast three times).
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 23, 2024 11:06 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 11:06 PM (MNhXM)
IIRC, her husband was shell shocked enough to not even do the 'this bitch is dead to me' deal at first.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 11:07 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 10:10 PM (Angsy)
To be fair, it's a Mosin so the guy's probably got about 800 more in a big bucket.
Posted by: CppThis at February 23, 2024 11:08 PM (PZvjL)
I'm sort of worried about why she needs O2. Her O2 saturation was always good, mid to high 90% range, and it was that even in the ER all afternoon after she fell.
But something happened, and her O2 sat level dropped below 90%, and they put her on O2. It may be she was lying in bed, not to mention the oxycodone (low dose, but still) they had her on.
She's taking at 1L/min flow. Cut it off and it will drop down to 90%. That's better that getting in the 80% range, so hopefully we can wean her off it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 23, 2024 11:08 PM (w6EFb)
Pro tip, if you have to write the name of your partner on a thumb, ensure you don't need to write more names on the rest of the fingers the same time. Awkward.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 11:09 PM (u82oZ)
Draft boards:
Robert Mitchum liked to joke that "the Army had to pry my fingers off the front porch railing."
There was a kernel of truth in that, too. He was anything but an eager volunteer.
Posted by: mnw at February 23, 2024 11:10 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 11:10 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 11:11 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: mnw at February 23, 2024 11:13 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: CppThis at February 23, 2024 11:18 PM (PZvjL)
If you can set the terms by which you engage, night vision.
If you are just some poor dumb bastard, M-4.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 11:18 PM (di6C2)
It wasn’t all that long ago that they standardized this around here, giving farmhouses improbably long numbers like 1000555 eagle rock rd
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:18 PM (HYyZn)
Posted by: CppThis at February 23, 2024 11:18 PM (PZvjL)
*rapidly discards two different jokes about nuts and cheeks*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 11:19 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Weirddave
Floating around the interwebs is a vid of two cops doing full mag dumps into a home where the (legal, minding her own business) occupant was mistaken for a home intruder.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 23, 2024 11:19 PM (ElRvh)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 23, 2024 11:19 PM (ElRvh)
The guy in Florida is rough. There was someone in the car. He managed not to kill anyone though.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 11:20 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: keena at February 23, 2024 11:22 PM (vs7Zw)
http://tinyurl.com/tya5832m
Posted by: Ciampino - so no indepenents? at February 23, 2024 11:23 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: keena at February 23, 2024 11:22 PM (vs7Zw)
John Denver died in a crash when his experimental plane stalled, iirc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 11:24 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 11:24 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: keena at February 23, 2024 11:22 PM (vs7Zw)
Not particularly funny but the reply , John Denver refers to Denver stalling in his plane and crashing.
Posted by: Alizarin Crimson at February 23, 2024 11:24 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: keena at February 23, 2024 11:22 PM (vs7Zw)
John Denver was a 1980s(?) musician who got hisself rekt in an ultralight airplane. Ditto the JFK Jr. reference, but I think Denver was solo and JFK took a couple of people with him.
Posted by: CppThis at February 23, 2024 11:24 PM (PZvjL)
Pinned down squad offered evac by aliens who need labor to harvest drugs.
Find other small colonies descended from earth soldiers of other time period on said world.
Posted by: Adriane the New is Bad Old is Not Much Better But At Least Comforting Critic . . . at February 23, 2024 11:25 PM (4Winp)
Ran out of fuel, allegedly because he couldn't find/reach the tank switch.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 23, 2024 11:25 PM (sNc8Y)
http://tinyurl.com/5c7jk3vd
So you can fine a business for not do___ business?
Posted by: Ciampino - so no vacations? at February 23, 2024 11:26 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at February 23, 2024 11:26 PM (NvUTd)
My glass is empty!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 11:28 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:54 PM (u82oZ)
sounds like the time line we're in, then.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 11:29 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25
Have we mentioned that we like the cut of your jib? Do you have a newsletter?
Posted by: Baal and Moloch at February 23, 2024 11:30 PM (P9kBh)
http://tinyurl.com/5er337nh
I wonder what picture Gemini would produce?
Posted by: Ciampino - a Bush Baptist? at February 23, 2024 11:31 PM (qfLjt)
That isn't as funny as many of you might think it is.
Ive had such bosses.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 11:32 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:34 PM (HYyZn)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Yeah, read about her. Still don't quite get the caption. Isn't that the poster gal for rule #1?
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't put youknowwhat youknowwhere at February 23, 2024 11:35 PM (xYqIr)
By the order of the colonel, tomorrow at 2000 hours, Halley's Comet will appear above the battalion area. If it rains fall the men out in fatigues; then march to the theatre where the rare phenomenon will take place, something which occurs only once every seventy-five years.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:35 PM (HYyZn)
By order of the colonel in fatigues at 2000 hours tomorrow evening, the phenomenal Halley's Comet will appear in the theatre. In case of rain in the battalion area, the colonel will give another order, something which occurs once every seventy-five years.
Lieutenant to sergeant:
Tomorrow at 2000 hours, the colonel, in fatigues, will appear in the theatre with Halley's Comet, something which happens every seventy-five years. If it rains, the colonel will order the comet into the battalion area.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:36 PM (HYyZn)
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't put youknowwhat youknowwhere at February 23, 2024 11:35 PM (xYqIr)
Well, when combined with the story about the guy who shot up his patrol car because he heard an acorn drop (really) because he thought someone was shooting at him and he was afraid of the nut.
She doesn't shy away from them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 11:37 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2024 11:37 PM (ZdaMQ)
When it rains tomorrow at 2000 hours, the phenomenal seventy-five-year-old General Halley, accompanied by the colonel, will drive his Comet through the battalion area theatre in fatigues.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:37 PM (HYyZn)
http://tinyurl.com/39xwaf7v
Posted by: Ciampino - a chickening at February 23, 2024 11:37 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 11:39 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 11:40 PM (Angsy)
I have seen so many horror stories of the (if this was anything but an act of WAR)
INVASION of our borders buy just about ANY 3rd world country....(And a good amount of CHICOMS) these days.
Good on TEXAS for setting up a defacto Military Base.
Good on Gov. RON for sending more troopers from Florida.
Good on Gavin Newsom...Wait , that suck ass POS is now letting them pour across on the San Diego border...
Yeah...RUN FOR POTUS...you go Nancy's boy.
You go...
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 23, 2024 11:41 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Weirddave
Ah. Heh. Okay thanks. My FONT enjoyment is now 100%.
😁
Posted by: mindful webworker - completion at February 23, 2024 11:41 PM (xYqIr)
Or so I've read.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 23, 2024 11:41 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 23, 2024 11:41 PM (Sgq8y)
My glass is empty!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 11:28 PM (W/lyH)
I think you mean it's 0% full.
Posted by: some optimist at February 23, 2024 11:42 PM (5/Xxu)
http://tinyurl.com/39xwaf7v
Used to be a guy named Steve that hung out around here that might have had some info.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 11:43 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 23, 2024 11:44 PM (TDvv2)
PFC Smith: No idea. Apparently he has to be somewhere with the colonel at 2000 hours.
PFC Jones: Fucking officers.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 11:44 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2024 11:45 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 23, 2024 11:45 PM (P9kBh)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 11:48 PM (9yWhg)
My glass is empty!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 11:28 PM (W/lyH)
I think you mean it's 0% full.
Posted by: some optimist at February 23, 2024 11:42 PM (5/Xxu)
Happily, there is more in my den!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 11:49 PM (W/lyH)
Tomorrow afternoon
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 6-39
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS
February 24, at 4:59 p.m. ET
http://tinyurl.com/4ap3abwd
Posted by: Ciampino - more Spacejunk getting launched at February 23, 2024 11:49 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2024 11:49 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 23, 2024 11:49 PM (TDvv2)
💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - sleeeeepy at February 23, 2024 11:50 PM (xYqIr)
Glen Cambell was another of those.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 23, 2024 11:52 PM (MeG8a)
Rocky Mountain High is deceptively hard to play without sounding like a chainsaw.
As I recall some sort of modification was made to the fuel petcock that he was unaware of. He fucked up, but it was located in a place that was hard to reach in flight. It was the equivalent of a reserve tank on a motorcycle, so ya don’t run out, I think. Well he ran out.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:55 PM (HYyZn)
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2024 11:56 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 11:56 PM (9yWhg)
Just like Hillary Clinton is the villain in The Giver, Hunter is the villain in this.
And...it works. Though they made his presidential parent a lot more honest then Joe...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2024 11:57 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 23, 2024 11:57 PM (Sgq8y)
Chad Mitchell Trio, later just the Mitchell Trio. They recorded the "I Was Not A Nazi Polka" novelty song.
https://youtu.be/M3fP15F6szA
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 23, 2024 11:57 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 11:59 PM (cpJB3)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 23, 2024 11:57 PM (Sgq8y)
***
Can't hold her licker???
I knew a girl like that in kollege.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 11:59 PM (W/lyH)
That should be safe enough.
Posted by: JQ at February 23, 2024 11:59 PM (njWTi)
Posted by: SFGoth at February 23, 2024 11:59 PM (p1SDw)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:37 PM (HYyZn)
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I've stolen this story, it's too funny.
Posted by: Ciampino - spudunked at February 24, 2024 12:00 AM (qfLjt)
Maybe a small amount of chlorine bleach for disinfection purposes, diluted to drinking water specification in a bucket. A few drops per quart is safe. Unscented bleach.
Other than that I got nothin’. Which is safest of all. Dogs are pretty tough.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 24, 2024 12:00 AM (HYyZn)
Still... I will miss the "Heavies" lifting off from Vandenberg.
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 24, 2024 12:01 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Tell dog that there's fresh water in its bowl and licking the floor is forbidden.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 24, 2024 12:02 AM (cpJB3)
Posted by: SFGoth
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That's what you get with an aspy. Impatience with an aspy is unkind.
Talk to garrett.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 24, 2024 12:04 AM (cpJB3)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 24, 2024 12:04 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2024 12:05 AM (ibTVg)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 10:51 PM (u82oZ)
Most viral diseases are only managed by vaccines, and would not have any change other than natural variations, and bacterial infections would not be more dangerous, only resistant to antibiotics, which Konrad didn't have. There may have been a chance at some new disease like Polio, or a new world disease like syphilis, but he would have had to be suffering it or harboring it.
It is a prettified middle ages for fiction, and is not actual representation. Fortunately no one wants to read books about nutritional deficiencies, child-bed fever and dysentery. Central Europe was short on Iodine, and there was a tendency to mental retardation because of it but that was never mentioned either.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 12:05 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:06 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 23, 2024 11:24 PM (Angsy)
Get F-droid. Then use F-droid to get Aurora. Aurora is an anonymizer that lets you get Brave from GurglePlay without a Gurgle account.
Osprey just did this for me yesterday on my Titan Pocket phone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2024 12:06 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 24, 2024 12:07 AM (cpJB3)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 24, 2024 12:07 AM (Sgq8y)
In theory we have a more evolved immune system (I imagine there is HEAVY natural selection for this) but...obviously we haven't been exposed to the diseases that existed then...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2024 12:07 AM (ibTVg)
3 parts water,
2 parts vinegar
1 part lemon juice
DO NOT use on colored carpets....only hard surfaces.
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 24, 2024 12:08 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 24, 2024 12:10 AM (HYyZn)
I remembered something about that, and got interested. The answer is, *at the time of the Apollo missions, with the computer resources, and safety constraints for a manned missions*, polar landings were untenable.
To get into a polar orbit around the Moon, the delta-v requirement is not that much different. You just aim "above and below" the Moon, and fire your orbital insertion burn at the right point, and voila, you're in a polar orbit. Not much difference in delta-v. Some, but not much.
The trouble is there is no free return trajectory for that. (Free return paths place constraints on landing zones on the Moon big time).
And the, polar areas on the Moon are much more rocky, not any big smooth spots and all that. The angle of sunlight is much lower, making for long shadows for visual eyeballing by the LM commander during landing.
All that added to making polar landings out of the question for the Apollo Missions.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 12:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Zeera 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted! at February 24, 2024 12:10 AM (qGQta)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 23, 2024 11:57 PM (Sgq8y)
dawn dish soap, white vinegar and water mixed 1:1:1, or with more water if you like. It will cut all grease but you have to wipe it up well because it is as slick as buttering your vinyl flooring
the other one is dawn dish soap, boraxo and water mixed well, that one is also slick and doesn't smell like vinegar
if you have a bad stain you have to lift, you can try Bar keeper's Friend, it is oxalic acid based and if your dog eats that he will also eat your rhubarb leaves and smile. It is sour.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 12:10 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 24, 2024 12:11 AM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 24, 2024 12:11 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 24, 2024 12:12 AM (MeG8a)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2024 12:12 AM (Angsy)
You may want to consider switching the dog over to a completely or exclusively raw meat diet a day or two before they pick him up, too.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 24, 2024 12:12 AM (HYyZn)
There might be a "keyboard" setting you need to set...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2024 12:12 AM (ibTVg)
Gaaaah!!
Posted by: Common Tater
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UGH! I had forgotten that one.... Oh, bleargh!
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:12 AM (njWTi)
Or so I've read.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 23, 2024 11:41 PM (MeG8a)
Plane was a homebuilt. A Rutan LongEZ, if I remember right. Previous owner or builder relocated the reserve fuel petcock where it could not be reached by a belted-in pilot, and Denver failed to take not of that. He ran out of fuel. The engine quit. I don't know if the powerless plane went into an aerodynamic stall; might have done if he was struggling to reach the fuel petcock.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2024 12:13 AM (tkR6S)
The year is 1989. America has just invaded Noriega’s Panama.
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Ahhh. Nice. Reminds me of "The Doomfarers of Coramonde" which featured the crew of an M113 isekaied from 1960s Vietnam to generic fantasy world.
I thought one of the highlights of the book was a prolonged duel between a dragon and the M113. The .50 cal made the difference.
Posted by: comradearthur at February 24, 2024 12:14 AM (sHuIA)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2024 12:12 AM (ibTVg)
Makes no sense it doesn't come up when tapping the address bar. I'll look.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2024 12:14 AM (Angsy)
Posted by: JQ
Any connection to all the divorces in the 80's is purely coincidental.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2024 12:14 AM (ElRvh)
Rob Reiner is right!!!! Christian Nationalists are a huge threat!!!! Get a load of these insane Christian Nationalists!!
h/t America's Paper of Record, The Babylon Bee.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 24, 2024 12:14 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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My great aunt would put paper towels in the grout and soak them with Clorox. For the drainboard she would lay them out completely and soak them.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 24, 2024 12:15 AM (cpJB3)
We rode to the courthouse on our motorcycles-- me in white leathers, he in black.
If we had music, it would've been uncle Ted's Stranglehold
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:15 AM (njWTi)
Just one example, for I am tired…
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 24, 2024 12:16 AM (8sMut)
We have counter tops because they are quicker, easier and cheaper.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 24, 2024 12:16 AM (cpJB3)
And Bill Halley and The Comets. With the Colonel.
Put on your masks, guys, you're out of oxygen. Jesus Christ.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 24, 2024 12:18 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 24, 2024 12:07 AM (Sgq8y)
If you really have issues with grunge, I have found that liquid laundry soap is very good on hard water grime and that mild dark mildew. It works where the spray bottle stuff makes you scrub extra hard.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 12:20 AM (D7oie)
http://tinyurl.com/4pssedjv
Back to making electrolytic hydrogen! Why not use bacteria to make that hydrogen? Yeast will make CO2 (plus beer or wine).
Posted by: Ciampino - booze as a by-product at February 24, 2024 12:20 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at February 24, 2024 12:22 AM (yoSgP)
I got in an online argument (life is short, be sure to spend lots of time arguing with strangers on the internet) about Apollo. He is a Moon Hoaxer.
They are tough to pin down, but I got him to specify while he thinks Mercury and Gemini were legitimate, he doesn’t believe Apollo 8 left earth orbit, I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 24, 2024 12:22 AM (HYyZn)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 12:20 AM (D7oie)
Hydrogen peroxide might work, and should be pet-safe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2024 12:23 AM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Tide powder, very hot water, and a stiff brush-- is what we used in the factory to degrease concrete.
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:23 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2024 12:12 AM (ibTVg)
Makes no sense it doesn't come up when tapping the address bar. I'll look.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2024 12:14 AM (Angsy)
WTF!! Languages and input only has virtual keyboard by google voice! All the other smart phones I've used pops a keyboard up auto when entering an address. It worked on chrome browser, but on Brave, nothing.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2024 12:24 AM (Angsy)
https://mol.im/a/13119819
I did say it appeared to have not had a smooth landing. There was a lot of confusing messaging after the 'landing'.
Posted by: Ciampino - drunk (remote) pilots? at February 24, 2024 12:24 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 24, 2024 12:25 AM (HYyZn)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 12:26 AM (D7oie)
It gets worse though. He starts his freakout then his sergeant who's there on site with him joins in and starts her own mag dump into the car. No evaluation, no observation, just "where? There?" and starts blasting away. They should both be facing charges for reckless endangerment if not attempted murder, but they're cops so...
Posted by: Imagine if a non-cop did the same thing at February 24, 2024 12:27 AM (PMYn/)
she had "big voice"
https://youtu.be/Ydxcg3d6NhM?si=uTqhcaIacAABDdSa
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 12:28 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 24, 2024 12:04 AM (rii+a)
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You get a pass for not endorsing Thank God I'm a Country Boy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 24, 2024 12:28 AM (bo7UB)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:34 PM (HYyZn)
Um how is that possible? Haley's comet last came by earth in the 1980s
Posted by: Buzzion at February 24, 2024 12:29 AM (T0fmC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
There was also another one that turned into a fairly long series where an engineer is transported back to Poland just before(~10-15 years) the Mongols come along and decides to actually build a tech base to be able to defeat them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD/
The current trend in anime is "isekai" (literally "another world"). Stories about people sucked into the world of the game they're playing or the book they're reading. Or they're just reincarnated into JRR Tolkien Land.
The one closest to this is probably the one just titled "Gate," where a magical gate opens between Tokyo and JRR Tolkien land. Orcs and such pour through and slaughter the populace, until the JDF gets on site to drive them back. And then goes through the apparently-permanent wormhole themselves. Modern arms and armor are great against medieval knights. Even wizards. Less so against dragons.....
Posted by: mikeski at February 24, 2024 12:29 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 24, 2024 12:30 AM (T0fmC)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 24, 2024 12:30 AM (bo7UB)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 24, 2024 12:30 AM (T0fmC)
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The Florida All-Girl Footbridge Engineering Team has entered the chat.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 24, 2024 12:31 AM (bo7UB)
We rode to the courthouse on our motorcycles-- me in white leathers, he in black.
If we had music, it would've been uncle Ted's Stranglehold
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:15 AM (njWTi)
Not something by Jim Steinman?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 12:32 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2024 12:33 AM (Angsy)
Gaaaah!!
Posted by: Common Tater
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Heh, that oft fired canon by Pachelbel.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2024 12:35 AM (XeU6L)
We have counter tops because they are quicker, easier and cheaper.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 24, 2024 12:16 AM (cpJB3)
My house has one of those 1950's double sink metal cabinet that has the one piece drainboards and sinks in enameled cast iron, and recently I have found that you can get the very design in Corian
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 12:35 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:34 PM (HYyZn)
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I always associate Mark Twain with Halley's Comet. Born when it came through in 1835. Died when it came back in 1910.
Posted by: Orson at February 24, 2024 12:36 AM (dIske)
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 12:37 AM (p1SDw)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:37 AM (njWTi)
http://tinyurl.com/2xf58kaf
Posted by: Ciampino - pilots? nah .... at February 24, 2024 12:38 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Hank Johnson at February 24, 2024 12:38 AM (V8he0)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:38 AM (njWTi)
My house has one of those 1950's double sink metal cabinet that has the one piece drainboards and sinks in enameled cast iron, and recently I have found that you can get the very design in Corian
Posted by: Kindltot
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Uncle would come home and plop the fish on the drainboard, clean them, scale them then rinse the mess straight into the sink. Everything goes downhill and no decorative mounting rim to obstruct the flow.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 24, 2024 12:40 AM (cpJB3)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:41 AM (njWTi)
she had "big voice"
Indeed, she did.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 24, 2024 12:41 AM (V8he0)
http://tinyurl.com/5atwhpd3
Family says, 'let's blame someone else'.
Posted by: Ciampino - feather or dot? Dot he was at February 24, 2024 12:44 AM (qfLjt)
Is a negative space with a frame
And a place for your face...
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:38 AM (njWTi)
You know that when Neil deGrasse Tyson kisses his mirror, he noticed that he only kisses it on the lips.
He seems to have found great importance in this for some reason.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 12:45 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:47 AM (njWTi)
Gaaaah!!
Posted by: Common Tater
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Heh, that oft fired canon by Pachelbel."
How about "We've Only Just Begun"
Cringe
Posted by: Tuna at February 24, 2024 12:47 AM (oaGWv)
https://mol.im/a/13119819
I did say it appeared to have not had a smooth landing. There was a lot of confusing messaging after the 'landing'.
Posted by: Ciampino - drunk (remote) pilots? at February 24, 2024 12:24 AM (qfLjt)
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Well at least Odie didn't trip up the steps to the ride, like some bumbling fool we know.
Posted by: Ciampino - dot? Dot he was at February 24, 2024 12:50 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/13119819
I did say it appeared to have not had a smooth landing. There was a lot of confusing messaging after the 'landing'.
Posted by: Ciampino
Oops, sorry.
Posted by: Gidney and Cloyd at February 24, 2024 12:50 AM (rii+a)
Posted by: Common Tater
Nonsense! It was all faked! How can you "orbit" when the Earth is flat!?!?!?!
Posted by: The crazy drunk uncle you on see at Thanksgiving at February 24, 2024 12:51 AM (P9kBh)
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No apologies necessary! Sounds like a fun book!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2024 12:52 AM (BpYfr)
Damn. I done told 'em that would happen.
Posted by: Hank Johnson at February 24, 2024 12:38 AM (V8he0)
Seems to me it would be prudent to enclose remotely-piloted landers in a light-weight spherical cage, in which the lander would hang from a swivel hook. If it landed on a large rock, or a steep slope, it would roll until coming to rest in a mostly flat area. The swivel hook would be fitted with cogs to enable it to move along tracks on the inner sides of the cage bars, so it could right itself. On really flat terrain, the lander could even slowly roll itself across country by shifting its center of gravity.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2024 12:53 AM (tkR6S)
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Oh, well, carry on, then.
Posted by: Methos at February 24, 2024 12:55 AM (Dnobf)
Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all
There's another more extensive photo update #233 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
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Posted by: Ciampino - Mama Calico Cat at February 24, 2024 12:55 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:55 AM (njWTi)
Also Democrats: We are conspiring right now to not certify the next election if our opponent wins.
http://tinyurl.com/2wduurs3
Posted by: Ciampino - The wind turned at February 24, 2024 12:57 AM (qfLjt)
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DEI in action.
#WASTF
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 12:55 AM (njWTi)
Needs a Life Alert™; It's fallen and can't get up.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2024 12:57 AM (ynpvh)
Also Democrats: We are conspiring right now to not certify the next election if our opponent wins.
http://tinyurl.com/2wduurs3
Posted by: Ciampino - The wind turned at February 24, 2024 12:57 AM (qfLjt)
Muh Democracy
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2024 12:58 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2024 12:59 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2024 12:57 AM (ynpvh)
shoulda sent a Weeble.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2024 12:59 AM (tkR6S)
Damn. I done told 'em that would happen.
Posted by: Hank Johnson at February 24, 2024 12:38 AM (V8he0)
Seems to me it would be prudent to enclose remotely-piloted landers in a light-weight spherical cage, in which the lander would hang from a swivel hook. If it landed on a large rock, or a steep slope, it would roll until coming to rest in a mostly flat area. The swivel hook would be fitted with cogs to enable it to move along tracks on the inner sides of the cage bars, so it could right itself. On really flat terrain, the lander could even slowly roll itself across country by shifting its center of gravity.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2024 12:53 AM (tkR6S)
Weebles show the way to do it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2024 12:59 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2024 12:59 AM (tkR6S)
::: fist bump :::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2024 01:00 AM (ynpvh)
I was just looking. Apollo 8, 10, and 11 used free-return trajectories all the way. That greatly constrained landing sites. Only 11 landed. After than, to expand the landing zones, they began to allow non-free return trajectories.
For Apollo 12 and above, they'd do it this way for safety. The initial TLI burn would always place the spacecraft on a free-return trajectory toward the Moon. Only after successful separate and docking of the CSM assembly, and systems tests, would they do a course correction to alter to the desired non-free return path.
The explosion on Apollo 13 occurred after that course correction. They had to fire the LM descent stage engine to put it back on a free return. Once they whipped around the Moon, the did a another burn to speed up the trip to back to Earth, taking 10 hours off the flight time.
Had the LM engine not worked, they would've been fucked.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 01:00 AM (w6EFb)
David Cameron issues fresh message to US Congress as Foreign Secretary warns against 'fatigue' in helping Ukraine and claims Vladimir Putin will be 'back for more' in Moldova or the Baltics if he's not challenged now
https://mol.im/a/13118951
Posted by: Ciampino - That FRESH is actually STALE at February 24, 2024 01:01 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: The crazy drunk uncle you only see at Thanksgiving at February 24, 2024 01:04 AM (P9kBh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2024 12:53 AM (tkR6S)
NASA is looking at things like the "Tensegrity Rover Concept"
Personally if I saw one of those come after me I would run away as fast as possible
https://youtu.be/0eC4A2PXM-U?si=mZ5oQHbH1YZO88lf
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 01:05 AM (D7oie)
(toldja she was preggers)
Bless you for taking on all those homeless critters
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 01:06 AM (njWTi)
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*yawns*
Posted by: Methos at February 24, 2024 01:07 AM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Just talk to the Battlebots guys. They seem to be able to make robots that don't tip over. Or that still work fine if they do.
Posted by: mikeski at February 24, 2024 01:07 AM (DgGvY)
https://mol.im/a/13119073
Posted by: Ciampino - and that's ONE at February 24, 2024 01:12 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/13118737
Posted by: Ciampino - and that's TWO at February 24, 2024 01:12 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2024 12:59 AM (63Dwl)
should have put the balls on the other side.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 01:15 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 24, 2024 01:15 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 01:16 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2024 01:17 AM (D7oie)
Well, turns out the lander's LIDAR system wasn't working. Somebody forgot to flip a switch before launch. There is physical switch somehow that keeps it off for some reasons, which has to be flipped before launch.
So somebody failed to do that.
But, there was another system on one of the payloads of the lander that had a laser system that could be used as LIDAR. They patched and integrated that into the lander's system.
So, this seat of your pants LIDAR was the reason it didn't land right. Which beats not landing at all because somebody forgot to TURN A SWITCH ON.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 01:18 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski at February 24, 2024 01:07 AM (DgGvY)
I once had an idea for a Battlebot. Picture a smooth, cone, covered in a tough material. Stout spindle protrudes from the top, with an arm on that reaches down to touch the floor about a half-diameter from the base rim of the cone. Arm has a ball on the end, with rubber-tired wheels sticking out of a slot on the bottom. Ball is made mostly of cast iron, very heavy. Cone motivates by means of a cycloidal drive; the wheeled ball prevents the entire cone from spinning on its axis. Cone can move on any vector the operator chooses, at will. The spindle that carries the arm has a massive torsion spring on it. Wind the spring up tight, release a catch, and the arm with the massive ball swings around like a huge fist.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2024 01:18 AM (tkR6S)
https://mol.im/a/13118101
Posted by: Ciampino - I have an I.P. phonelie at February 24, 2024 01:19 AM (qfLjt)
and everyone else in the area had cell phones and I was unable to contact them.
Still I have a land line because i get my internet service through the local phone utility.
Posted by: Kindltot - Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live at February 24, 2024 01:23 AM (D7oie)
(toldja she was preggers)
Bless you for taking on all those homeless critters
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 01:06 AM (njWTi)
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I agree, she has a beautiful face and nice fur colors. We gave her a little catnip tonight and she was rolling all over it.
Posted by: Ciampino - getting crowded at February 24, 2024 01:25 AM (qfLjt)
The reason for that kill switch on the LIDAR was safety on the ground, I think. If that thing got turned on on the ground while someone was working on it, it could put an eye out or something. Or maybe fuck something else up.
So physical switch to keep that from happening. But, they forget to switch it on before launch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 01:26 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - getting crowded at February 24, 2024 01:25 AM (qfLjt)
I dried catnip this summer to use in teas. A couple of weeks ago I spilled an entire mug on the floor, and when I was wiping it up, one of the cats decided he had to roll in it.
Posted by: Kindltot - Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live at February 24, 2024 01:26 AM (D7oie)
I have a "land line" via Spectrum's cable modem internet (the VOIP there uses separate channels from the internet connection, and theoretically doesn't use internet bandwidth. But that is only with no congestion and contention with other nodes on the local line.)
My mother's house still has, although no longer used, a traditional copper pair POTS line to it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 01:28 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 01:29 AM (njWTi)
I dried catnip this summer to use in teas. A couple of weeks ago I spilled an entire mug on the floor, and when I was wiping it up, one of the cats decided he had to roll in it.
Posted by: Kindltot
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When you posted that I mentioned it to my kids and they got a laugh out of picturing it.
Posted by: Ciampino - getting crowdered at February 24, 2024 01:32 AM (qfLjt)
I also still have a POTS line as we used it for quite a few years, until we went with VOIP, also Charter via cable. VOIP has been very reliable except that if Charter has a problem then we have no phone. That's where cellphones are useful unless there's a power outage, then a POTS line would be the only one that would work.
Posted by: Ciampino - getting more crowdered at February 24, 2024 01:39 AM (qfLjt)
There's wifi too, if need be, but my flip phone battery discharges so much faster when wifi is enabled..so I leave it off.
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 01:44 AM (njWTi)
If this incident happened earlier in the flight, they would have died. If it happened later in the flight - say, say, while they were on the Moon, that would have left them stranded.
The guys in Mission control decided not to try and fire the service module engine, not even once. They had no way to know if it had been damaged. It was just a “feeling”. Not very scientific.
Ken Mattingly got bumped by Jack Swigert two days prior, possible Measles exposure. I bet he was really pissed off. Until 55 hours in the flight. For his part, Swigert must have been wondering about his luck, too.
Lovell said his eyes got real big and “What the !&ck am I doing here” ha!
When the Shuttle had the foam strike on the wing at launch, they didn’t even bother to tell the crew about it. “There’s nothing we can do”. I guess failure is an option these days.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 24, 2024 01:49 AM (HYyZn)
Didn't make it obvious that the POTS line is not functional.
Posted by: Ciampino - getting most crowdered at February 24, 2024 01:58 AM (qfLjt)
http://tinyurl.com/mw5eds59
I hope somebody helped him try and drink the Thames dry.
Posted by: Ciampino - involuntary euthanasia at February 24, 2024 02:08 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #98 at February 24, 2024 02:13 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: publius
Still have and use POTS. I have a smartphone too. I like my old fashion, copper line, phone. Both are serviced by Verizon.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 24, 2024 02:13 AM (rii+a)
https://mol.im/a/13120181
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #99 at February 24, 2024 02:15 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - involuntary euthanasia at February 24, 2024 02:08 AM (qfLjt)
'drink the Thames dry'. Makes me think of Horace Rumpole, of the Bailey, and the plonk he drank at the wine bar after hours, Chateau Thames Embankment.
Posted by: RickZ at February 24, 2024 02:18 AM (emlEe)
Posted by: Ciampino - involuntary euthanasia at February 24, 2024 02:08 AM (qfLjt)
'drink the Thames dry'. Makes me think of Horace Rumpole, of the Bailey, and the plonk he drank at the wine bar after hours, Chateau Thames Embankment.
Posted by: RickZ at February 24, 2024 02:18 AM (emlEe)
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That Chateau Thames Embankment sounds as good a vintage as the Australian wines reviewed by Monty Python .... (darn, that was a long time ago, ca 1974). I particularly favored the one described as having the bouquet of an aborigine's armpit.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #100 at February 24, 2024 02:23 AM (qfLjt)
So hiya and goodnite, good people. Be safe and sleep well.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 24, 2024 02:24 AM (KATBx)
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Put it on the slate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2024 02:25 AM (XeU6L)
http://tinyurl.com/ya3a9f6c
Time these girls help these freaks attain their goal - scissors, snip snip. No more testosterone problems.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #101 at February 24, 2024 02:31 AM (qfLjt)
Or, more simply... within a trade, where physical prowess was not required.
Sure, I got laughed at for expressing interest in auto shop and machine shop, at high school level. In fact, my HS advisor counseled me against both. And so I didn't go. (Probably my parents were involved here)
Too bad, maybe I'd had a very different life and career-- if only I had *fought* to take those classes. Or, maybe, I would've failed miserably due to constant torment from "the boys" in class. Certainly, I am able to perform basic maintenance and even intermediate repair on my own vehicles now, thanks to determination (and necessity!) and self-study...
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 02:53 AM (njWTi)
The Legend of PDQSteve, forever known in these parts as Steve the Insistent. He insisted. Even long after self-preservation should've kicked in where social graces were lacking, he insisted.
Posted by: SFGoth
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Them people's poets and ground-breakers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 24, 2024 03:03 AM (lCaJd)
I really like that monkey up top there grabbing a snack out of the water while the tigers jump on each other's backs to get it. Everyone gets to play! No one gets hurt! (Except maybe that thing that got plucked out of the river.)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 24, 2024 03:08 AM (lCaJd)
Ah well, we all come & go here.
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 03:11 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 24, 2024 03:13 AM (lhenN)
The POTS network around here changed a lot since I was a kid in the '70s. Several mile long circuits going back to the central office in town. As a kid, one of the phone guys actually let me in the back to see all that fancy electromechanical switching equipment. They had gone digital for the main networks by then, but the local last few miles was still the old ways.
Now, the last mile is just about that, maybe one to two miles of the copper pair. That leads to some "box", usually on the roadside in a cabinet (or even little "house") that puts that on fiber. Multiplexing and all that. That's were the POTS on copper pair gets interfaced with modern data pipes.
The phone companies just don't want to have to maintain that old last mile POTS system. Regulations force them to do a lot of uneconomical stuff (like have to run a leg to anyone who wants it, no matter how far from the main lines and etc).
So, they actively encourage people to drop it, and hope it will just fade away and they won't have to bother with it anymore.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 03:18 AM (w6EFb)
Sometimes they gave me the dirtiest looks. Damned if I know why? Just trying to make improvements within budget, ya know
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 03:19 AM (njWTi)
The cost of a basic POTS line is getting pretty expensive. That was the main reason I switched my mother's place over to Charter's cable internet. Monthly bill was hitting $50.
Charter's phone was $10/month (bundled with internet and TV -- it would be more otherwise).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 03:21 AM (w6EFb)
But it is getting expensive.
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 03:27 AM (njWTi)
That was the main reason I resisted changing. But now, the cell phone towers have battery back ups. That will, on it's own last only a few hours -- there are regulations that specify a minimum. After that, they can bring in trucks with generators to keep some of the main towers going.
Even the cable system now has battery backups on the power supplies (mounted on poles, with a meter for the power company). They will last a few hours without power as well. But no generators once the batteries run out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 03:30 AM (w6EFb)
The problem with that, for cable modem VOIP phone is you need a UPS for the modem. If you don't, then it dies.
I've got mine on the main UPS. If I shutdown the desktop, and only the modem (and some network switches and router) are running, that can keep the phone going for a couple of hours.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 03:31 AM (w6EFb)
Yeah, it's time to cut the phone cord. I can think of other ways to spend that $600/year.
Change is hard, yo
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 03:32 AM (njWTi)
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Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2024 03:42 AM (fwDg9)
test. I can't seem to post.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 24, 2024 03:46 AM (lCaJd)
Oh! HIya, skip
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 24, 2024 03:47 AM (lCaJd)
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Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 03:55 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 24, 2024 04:00 AM (VxbvY)
How do you get internet? Cable, or something else? Or are you just using a cellular data connection?
If you've got cable modem internet, they probably offer phone service. Get someone who knows a little of the wiring, and you can keep your old land line phones running off that.
Charter (Spectrum, they want to call themselves, now), phone is still $10/month.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:00 AM (w6EFb)
Cable internet. Wireless modem & we can connect cell phone via wifi.
Over the past year, have been adding cell# at various Dr. and other offices. Nearly done.
Then, can just dump landline and its number. Very few important contacts use landline anymore, so number is almost completely disposable now. (there's also a blessing in cutting off old ties)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:05 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:05 AM (o3SCB)
I even can run old rotary dial phones with this Charter phone system. I've got a box to do that, an X-Link BTTN. It can drive rotary phone lines and understands pulse dialing (the firmware allows all sorts of tweaks for out of spec old phones).
I wired the house here with Cat 5e for "phone). 4 pairs. I used Cat 6 for proper Ethernet. Anyway, I set it with a pair driven off the X-Link box, and a regular pair directly off the modem's phone output.
I disovered later that I really didn't need that. The modem actuall understands pulse dialing, but it's undocumented.
I verified it would work, by pluggin a rotary dial phone directly into the modem circuit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:06 AM (o3SCB)
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:07 AM (njWTi)
Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2024 04:07 AM (fwDg9)
The reason they don't document this pulse dialing capability is because they don't want to have to support old phone equipment. Old rotary dial units can get way out of spec for the pulse rate, due to wear and tear and what not.
So, don't advertise it, even though the logic is in the firmware.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 24, 2024 04:08 AM (wa4nw)
And we *mostly* get decent cell service, but sometimes not. That's when we enable wifi on the cell phones. So, using the cable, but not needing VOIP
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:17 AM (njWTi)
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