Daily Tech News 26 January 2026

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Replication crisis as a service. (Columbia)

You may have heard about the replication crisis science, and if you haven't, you should. Half of all published medical research, for example, cannot be replicated, and for preclinical trials the rate increases to four fifths.

An interesting point from that Wikipedia article is that 70% of scientists have tried and failed to replicate another researcher's work, but only 20% have been contacted by another scientist trying to replicate their work.

Which is perhaps by design:
This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It's fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it.
Management science, huh? Bad as things are in medical research, at least they admit to baseline reality.

When someone tried to correct the record on this particular paper, his efforts were not well received:
The authors ignored me, the journal refused to act, and the scholarly community looked the other way. Two universities disregarded evidence of research misconduct - even after the authors admitted publishing a misleading report.

The article remains largely uncorrected - misleading thousands of people each year.

I believe our systems for curating trustworthy science are broken and need reformation.
A latter-day dissolution of the monasteries?
Having received no response from the authors, I contacted Management Science. After getting advice, I submitted a comment.

It was rejected.

The reviewers did not address the substance of my comment; they objected to my "tone".
As the article says, ah, the tone police.
The authors did admit to the editor that they had misreported a key finding - labeling it as statistically significant when it was not. The authors claimed the error was a "typo." They intended to type "not significant" but omitted the word "not".
That's one hell of a typo.

The story gets worse from there. And that's just a single paper out of millions.

Tech News

Washington state wants 3D printers and CNC milling machines to monitor everything you do and report on you if you are creating something that could be used in a firearm. (Adafruit_

Violating the First and Second Amendments with a single piece of legislation. Such efficiency!
Google won't stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI. (The Verge) (archive site)

The Verge may have gone full-blown communist revolutionary newspaper but on this they are not wrong. Google is sometimes completely reversing the meaning of tech articles in its AI summaries.
How to add a coin slot to your gaming PC. (Tom's Hardware)

Sometimes the quest for an authentic arcade experience goes a little too far.

And sometimes it goes a lot.
A New York startup has built a machine that produces gasoline from air. (Jalopnik)

Which is perfectly possible, just not very efficient. After all, dinosaurs breathed air, and all our gasoline comes from liquified dinosaurs.

It takes carbon dioxide and water vapour from the air, electrolyses the water, and combines them to create methanol. Then it goes through a more complicated process to turn the methanol into usable fuel.

The device costs an estimated $20,000, and if you have a free source of electricity, a gallon of gas costs around $1.50, though the article doesn't mention exactly how this was calculated.

Since you probably don't have a free source of electricity, a gallon of gas will actually cost between $10 and $30, which is why dinosaurs always win.

Musical Interlude

Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the national anthems.

Disclaimer: Okay, you can sit down now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

2 No reason to be up yet, no work today

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 04:05 AM (Ia/+0)

3 G'day Skip.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 26, 2026 04:08 AM (BLOW1)

4 Mornin'

youtu.be/XZPinm_K9f0

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 04:10 AM (sAmhv)

5 Ran snow blower down driveway yesterday afternoon, so hopefully worst is done. But didn't clean off truck so certainly some to do

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 04:12 AM (Ia/+0)

6 Walz is letting his Communism out, ICE is like Gestapo hunting Ann Frank or something.
Legalinsurrection.com

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 04:15 AM (Ia/+0)

7 Good morning everyone. Power still on. Thank goodness. Was reading my little electric company's Facebook page. They've gone from a high of 5600 without power to a low of 300 and some without power. Tomorrow they have volunteers coming in to help. Bless them . It was a miserable day yesterday. It's going to be cold today but at least the sun will be out.

Posted by: Tuna at January 26, 2026 04:16 AM (lJ0H4)

8
>>Google is sometimes completely reversing the meaning of tech articles in its AI summaries.

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It's a typo. They omitted the word "not."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 04:17 AM (RAGUN)

9 We might need to rethink the current "publish or perish" academic model.

Posted by: pookysgirl knows a lot of systems need reform at January 26, 2026 04:27 AM (Wt5PA)

10 Wife was sure we were going to lose power, I was sure we were just getting snow. About 7 inches of it

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 04:29 AM (Ia/+0)

11 Power is back on. My gas fireplace works just fine, but no fan. Thinking of the state mandate of only electric to heat homes. I hope the governor is freezing or frozen thinking NG and propane is evil.

Posted by: colin at January 26, 2026 04:31 AM (e8qy3)

12 I might as well just get up

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 04:41 AM (Ia/+0)

13
I might as well just get up
Posted by: Skip

==========

Don't succumb to dysania.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 04:46 AM (RAGUN)

14 Weren't the Germans creating fuel for their armored divisions from coal back in WWII?

This doesn't seem like new tech, but efficiency and process are probably much more efficient. Still, very interesting.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 26, 2026 04:48 AM (oT7pT)

15 Anybody hear anything about the military coup or civil war that's apparently about to happen in China?

https://youtu.be/t-SFwWGTy0Y

Posted by: GVRon at January 26, 2026 04:54 AM (sG/VA)

16 Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 26, 2026 04:48 AM (oT7pT)

I think they had a bunch of coal liquifaction plants. And the tech is still used today.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2026 04:57 AM (Zv8bq)

17 -4 today and we may not break freezing for the high. It is supposed to be the last of the really cold days.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 26, 2026 04:58 AM (+mUZM)

18 Good morning! Pretty ^&%$@* chilly here in Cowtown with about an inch of ice/sneet on everything. Pond surface is frozen but the water is still running over the falls and the birds were swarming the feeders up until almost dark. Gonna be below freezing for another day or two.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026 05:01 AM (3Ope8)

19 Evening and morning, late Monday toilers and early early risers! Yes, we know; regrettably, it's Monday. But:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 05:06 AM (wzUl9)

20 As the article says, ah, the tone police.

----------

Old & Busted: The Dream Police.
New Hotness: The Tone Police.

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 26, 2026 05:07 AM (V+K+8)

21 6" of snow, which I cleared, then 3 inches of sleet, which I cleared, then 4 more inches of sleet which froze solid. Oh well, maybe I'll try using my steel garden shovel to at least fracture it maybe push some aside in several sessions.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 26, 2026 05:09 AM (MmTZZ)

22 w00t

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 05:10 AM (SSiCQ)

23 The damn furry thugs woke me racing back and forth across the bed and wrangling over something. Stirling needs a cat to play with and he is too rough with little Dagny. I think she's actually a bit afraid of him.

Anyway, I've been awake for about an hour. Some coffee and a pipe have gone a long way toward waking me up to an effective level. Temp is 29 F., not as cold as the weather mavens predicted. I didn't need to run the water tap last night.

So whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 05:10 AM (wzUl9)

24 The device costs an estimated $20,000, and if you have a free source of electricity, a gallon of gas costs around $1.50, though the article doesn't mention exactly how this was calculated.

Since you probably don't have a free source of electricity, a gallon of gas will actually cost between $10 and $30, which is why dinosaurs always win.

Some kid in Pixley invented a machine that made milk from hay. Mr Haney had the rights to the machine and all in milk was about 7 bux.
He says thats OK, we will sell it for 8 dollars.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 05:12 AM (gbOdA)

25
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 26, 2026 05:15 AM (tljrc)

26 G'morning, all!

45.9 degrees out.

No rain overnight.

We just might survive this.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 05:17 AM (iMotb)

27 Apparently we will have another freeze tonight, and also this Saturday and Sunday after a brief warmup. I'll have to work out in the afternoons on Thursday and Friday, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 05:18 AM (wzUl9)

28 Phone says 17, supposed to get to.mid 20s

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 05:19 AM (Ia/+0)

29 This whole organized rioters/protestors story is popping up all over the place on conservative websites.

And the hints that it is tied directly to the highest levels of State government are very obvious.

Gonna be a fun week for rioter news.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 05:20 AM (iMotb)

30 @10 and 12/Skip: "Wife was sure ... About 7 inches of it ...

I might as well just get up"

Hubba hubba

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 26, 2026 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

31 So for Christmas we purchased one of those 13" Ryobi 18 volt powered show broom/shovel things for my MiL in B'More.

It was nice sitting on our couch, watching her almost effortlessly using it to keep her porch and sidewalk clear during yesterdays rather significant snowfall up there.

Ah....the blessings of also providing her with a Wyze security camera that I retain control and monitoring access to.

I'm not afraid of shoveling snow...I can watch it for hours.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 05:24 AM (iMotb)

32 The Movies! Channel has been off the air since Sunday morning. There's no "no signal received" message from my TV, just a lack of image or sound on that channel and several others around that same "41" number.

Their schedule today is not that compelling, but now that I've discovered the channel, I miss it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 05:26 AM (wzUl9)

33 I have to wonder if the fuel from air machine works better in urban locales with a higher level of air pollution, and what it is doing is as much a form of recycling as synthesis.

On that basis, if it is removing pollutants from the air and you've got lots of solar power acreage but not enough battery capacity to store it all, this might almost make some sense in a virtue signaling way. Kind of like a WALL-E for the air rather than discarded artifacts.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 26, 2026 05:31 AM (/0z9K)

34 -4 right now in central Illinois and lows are supposed to be below zero the next 4 nights. Nothing above freezing in the 10 day forecast.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 26, 2026 05:32 AM (1Au9i)

35 OT… back to last night’s topic on concealed carry.

A police veteran and trainer named Massad Ayoob has published multiple books on civilian carry.

He points out that presence of a firearm may convert a non-lethal confrontation into a lethal confrontation.

Posted by: Fenderbender at January 26, 2026 05:33 AM (x8own)

36 I thought we'd have ice this morning; it rained stronglhy about 9 am until 11 yesterday. But the streets had time to dry out before the temps got to freezing. At least we won't have massive traffic/accident scenarios.

I do not need to go out, and don't plan on it. Miss Linda will come over about 9:30 and make waffles to go with some eggs. Right now I'll settle for a toasted English muffin with some cheese.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 05:33 AM (wzUl9)

37 Schools are closed all over the area. Of course; the sproglets and their SUV-piloting mommies can't be exposed to any chilly conditions.

This probably means we won't have mail delivery today, either. Whatever happened to that "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" thing?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

38 Even in Charleston, it's the same cast of characters protesting.

Scroll to the bottom to see who is doing the sh*t-Stirring.

https://tinyurl.com/4y3h97jc

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 05:39 AM (iMotb)

39 "Mercy and our mess" A nice devotional on Jonah 2:1-2, 7-10, 3:1-5. Devotional is followed by additional insights and a prayer:

https://tinyurl.com/2u5vne25

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2026 05:40 AM (rZCVI)

40 >>>Wife was sure ... About 7 inches of it ...

I might as well just get up"

Hubba hubba

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

>Give the wife what she wants and then roll back over to sleep. As a bonus, you could make her breakfast.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 26, 2026 05:41 AM (oT7pT)

41
I'm facing another warm, sunny day in Cali. I can barely imagine cold, wet weather, but i sense that it's unpleasant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at January 26, 2026 05:41 AM (lCaJd)

42 "Whatever happened to that "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" thing?"

That went out the window years ago.

We are on an RFD route, so it's mostly contracted delivery folk.

And we are not getting their finest folks on these routes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 05:41 AM (iMotb)

43 I have Tubi movies, certainly planty to watch on demand there.

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 05:42 AM (Ia/+0)

44 Good morning. I contacted the one person that I thought might be a good choice to head the GOP party here in this county. I mentioned that I would like to the the party sponsor a Civics 101 class and also host a discussion socialism. We will be having a discussion today

Posted by: Ben Had at January 26, 2026 05:43 AM (0KSrI)

45 At American Thinker- Minnesota shows why the Left will win America's Civil War
Its chilling to read but can't see why its wrong

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 05:44 AM (Ia/+0)

46 Said many times, If I never saw snow again it wouldn't bother me

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 05:45 AM (Ia/+0)

47 The right can surrender but that doesn't make the left winning anything

Posted by: Ben Had at January 26, 2026 05:46 AM (0KSrI)

48 Wind chill of -11 at my MiL's house.

Thank you, but....no.
Just no.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 05:47 AM (iMotb)

49 Man has emotional reaction after seeing colors for the first time. Scroll down for video on YouTube:

https://tinyurl.com/5e4he2mf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2026 05:48 AM (rZCVI)

50 I have Tubi movies, certainly planty to watch on demand there.
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026

***
True. I have that and other free streaming sources. Tubi has old TV shows here and there too; I caught a couple episodes of the old Danger Man series with Patrick McGoohan during the Sniffle Scare.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

51 Currently 9F in Kentuckiana, going up to ... 11 today. Forecasted to have highs in the 20s and lows in single digits until next week.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 26, 2026 05:52 AM (NcvvS)

52 Tying Pixy's Tech thread with last night's ONT, Happy Feller went on after his NFL career to start a telephone equipment sales business in Austin that has since grown into a large network installation, sales and service company.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 26, 2026 05:53 AM (tnK3b)

53 One of B'More's more local news sites.

Just so many things wrapped up in one story.
If you can read it all.

https://tinyurl.com/4yvzpvwj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 05:57 AM (iMotb)

54 Bill Clinton out today is decrying ICE in Mpls., hoping to take advantage of the news cycle, and change the subject away from raping underage girls on Pedo Island.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 26, 2026 05:58 AM (GikQa)

55 Good Morning Everyone

Feeling left out of snowmagaddon so I'll report anyways from so. Calif - no snow, no power outages, clear skies and currently 48 F by the beach in Orange County.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 26, 2026 05:58 AM (QGaXH)

56 Of the twenty "little-known words" on the ONT, I have to admit, grudgingly, that I knew only three. Though I have seen "vocable" somewhere, and "interrobang" on the 'Net.

"Tittle" I know from the phrase "a tittle or a jot," usually preceded by "I do not care." Now I need to know what a "jot" is (the noun, not the verb meaning to "set down a note").

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

57 They did not address the implications of this “typo”–that it misrepresented the evidence for a central claim of the paper, that corporate sustainability increases stock returns.

AH AH

ethical, social, environmental, cultural, and economic dimensions of doing business.

Notice the 4th items is economics.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:02 AM (gbOdA)

58
Status update: Alive

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 26, 2026 06:02 AM (tgvbd)

59 Now I need to know what a "jot" is (the noun, not the verb meaning to "set down a note").
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

jot is small punctuation in Hebrew if i recall.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled (Matthew 5:17 - 18, KJV).

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:04 AM (gbOdA)

60 The internet is saying we have 2.5 feet of snow. I don't know if that's correct, but it's a lot and more to come Saturday night. Bah!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2026 06:05 AM (rZCVI)

61 A canal bridge in my area is closed out of an abundance of caution. It climbs steeply and has a metal grate section at the very top. Cars could skid, I suppose.

When you start to drive up it, signs ask you to slow to 35 mph because "excessive speed damages the bridge." I'm always the only one who slows down even a little going over it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

62 Well, snow/icemageddon certainly hasn't put a dent in the email traffic from the hangar and apparently we need to have a midmorning teams telecon. Aaaaarggh.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026 06:07 AM (3Ope8)

63 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 26, 2026 06:08 AM (OvMCw)

64 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled (Matthew 5:17 - 18, KJV).
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026

***
So that's where the phrase comes from? Thanks, r hennigantx.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

65 According to a crossword puzzle I did recently, a jot is also a tittle.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 26, 2026 06:08 AM (OvMCw)

66 Thanks for summarizing techy stuff, Pixy!

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:10 AM (SSiCQ)

67 41
I'm facing another warm, sunny day in Cali. I can barely imagine cold, wet weather, but i sense that it's unpleasant.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at January 26, 2026 05:41 AM (lCaJd)

Approximately where in Cali are you?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 26, 2026 06:11 AM (QGaXH)

68 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 05:57 AM (iMotb)

I read the whole thing. Much progressive handwringing, and I don't really understand why the church needed to apologize that the land used to house a plantation that had slaves. Nobody there now was alive then.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2026 06:12 AM (ix8EF)

69 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 26, 2026 06:12 AM (2Ez/1)

70 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

I was in NOLA in 89 when it snowed. It took me about an hour and a half to drive to Marrero from the base in Belle Chase and I had to cross the bridge(s) on Lapalco. I think I know which one you're referring to.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026 06:13 AM (3Ope8)

71 Fen, thanks for reading it.

"Much progressive handwringing,"

Pretty much sums it up.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 06:15 AM (iMotb)

72 9 We might need to rethink the current "publish or perish" academic model.
Posted by: pookysgirl knows a lot of systems need reform at January 26, 2026 04:27 AM (Wt5PA)

Blew me away, that recent story that Oliver Sacks fudged some of the data in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:15 AM (SSiCQ)

73 Out here, they have been trudging through the snow and delivering mail. If it gets really brutal, they do miss a day

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 26, 2026 06:16 AM (+mUZM)

74 18 Pretty ^&%$@* chilly here in Cowtown
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026 05:01 AM (3Ope

Language!

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:17 AM (SSiCQ)

75 Birds will be snow boarding

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 06:18 AM (Ia/+0)

76 The internet is laughing hard today at Mayor Zoltan in NYC advising New Yorkers to borrow an ebook from the library and wait out the storm. He specifically recommends "Heated Rivalry", soft core gay porn about two male hockey players having lusty homosexual relations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 26, 2026 06:19 AM (vHKB5)

77 Blew me away, that recent story that Oliver Sacks fudged some of the data in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat.
Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:15 AM (SSiCQ)

That Robin Williams Movie about people waking up uncovered that much of the story was fake and still made the movie. Also the lead character raped and molested several people.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:19 AM (gbOdA)

78 It is Winter.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 06:19 AM (vd6bO)

79 mornin yall

"Clinton and Obama urge Americans to 'speak out' and take action after Minneapolis shootings"

DEPORT DEPORT DEPORT

Posted by: fd at January 26, 2026 06:20 AM (vFG9F)

80 76 The internet is laughing hard today at Mayor Zoltan in NYC advising New Yorkers to borrow an ebook from the library and wait out the storm. He specifically recommends "Heated Rivalry", soft core gay porn about two male hockey players having lusty homosexual relations.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 26, 2026 06:19 AM (vHKB5)

Slap N Tickle Shot

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:20 AM (gbOdA)

81 GM, horde, it is 31° here and that is about as warm as it will get for a week. The Navy/NASA won’t open to contractors until noon so we won’t bother at all.
Currently bored stupid.
I like my job.
TV sux.

Posted by: Accomack at January 26, 2026 06:20 AM (8jVAy)

82 I was in NOLA in 89 when it snowed. It took me about an hour and a half to drive to Marrero from the base in Belle Chase and I had to cross the bridge(s) on Lapalco. I think I know which one you're referring to.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026

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That's the one. And I well remember the '89 Christmastime snow. It took me two hours to drive from uptown, where I worked, to my home on the West Bank instead of the usual half hour. I'd never driven in snow at that time, though the rules seemed simple: Slow down, leave extra-extra following distance, and don't change direction abruptly. I saw more people ignoring those rules and spinning their wheels, trying to get started, than I could count.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

83 @69/Just Wondering: "Birdbath status?"

From last night's ONT:

"How cold is it? From our friend Teresa in Fort Worth...

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/
doof-tifw-birdbath.jpg

Bird bath status? Frozen!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 26, 2026 06:21 AM (O7YUW)

84 The internet is laughing hard today at Mayor Zoltan in NYC advising New Yorkers to borrow an ebook from the library and wait out the storm. He specifically recommends "Heated Rivalry", soft core gay porn about two male hockey players having lusty homosexual relations.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 26, 2026

***
There was a clip of him helping NYC drivers shovel snow from around their vehicles. (Probably only a photo op to underscore his "warmth of collectivism" blather.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:23 AM (wzUl9)

85 @74/m: "Language!"

Let me finish my coffee and look outside, then you'll hear some language.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 26, 2026 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

86 Currently bored stupid.
I like my job.
TV sux.
_-_
Perhaps a book? Not one about hockey players who are confused about what to do with their sticks.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 06:23 AM (vd6bO)

87 In the summer we will hear of the low snow melt and Lake Mead will continue it slow decent into much lower levels. So its nice not to have snow but the price will be paid down the road.

Posted by: colin at January 26, 2026 06:23 AM (e8qy3)

88 2 No reason to be up yet, no work today
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 04:05 AM (Ia/+0)

Because of snow?

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:26 AM (SSiCQ)

89 @85/m:

A close approximation of me addressing the snow I'm going to have to clear:
https://youtu.be/L-LyFMCIpok

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 26, 2026 06:27 AM (O7YUW)

90 Following winter storms that lashed California with rain and snow in recent weeks, the state is completely free of drought for the first time in 25 years, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

The last time California had no regions considered “abnormally dry” or in drought conditions was in December 2000.

Al Gore hardest hit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 26, 2026 06:28 AM (e/QAl)

91 As for my reading, I am alternately bored and annoyed by my book about the "private lives" of Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh. I keep wondering how the authors eavesdropped on so many private conversations between LO, VL, and others (though their bibliography is extensive, so maybe their sources contain such details, or such gossip). And they keep hammering the idea that (apparently) 75% of the male stage and movie actors/actresses in the first half of the 20th century were gay or bisexual. Possibly because the two male authors themselves are one or both.

Larry himself got around: Noel Coward, James Whale, and Greer Garson among others were all "affairs" of his before he met Viv.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

92 I feel like a wealthy man...lots of snow and a full woodshed.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 06:30 AM (c4xYy)

93 >>Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 26, 2026 06:27 AM (O7YUW)

If Chavez the Hugo were a Scotsman.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 26, 2026 06:30 AM (NcvvS)

94 Friday boss called today off

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 06:31 AM (Ia/+0)

95 89 @85/m:

A close approximation of me addressing the snow I'm going to have to clear:
https://youtu.be/L-LyFMCIpok
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 26, 2026 06:27 AM (O7YUW)

He seems nice.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:35 AM (SSiCQ)

96 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 26, 2026 06:27 AM (O7YUW)

Do you speak in a Scottish accent too?

How much snow did you get?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2026 06:35 AM (guLpK)

97 Morning, 'rons and 'etttes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 26, 2026 06:35 AM (bQ4nt)

98 Slowly getting through the music videos
Discounting Men at Work as heard that many times, the othrrs ard unknown

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 06:37 AM (Ia/+0)

99
25 outside, 32 in the attic, 46 in the garage, 48 in the kennel.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 26, 2026 06:38 AM (tgvbd)

100 100

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:38 AM (SSiCQ)

101 Saw walkway drifted over some, and sure the end of driveway got plowed in a bit. I always try and clear road up to mailbox to keep plows from blocking in the driveway

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 06:39 AM (Ia/+0)

102 It's Australia Day!

Happy Australia Day, Pixy!

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:40 AM (SSiCQ)

103 But Hadrian you survived

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 06:40 AM (Ia/+0)

104 Wikipedia:

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:40 AM (SSiCQ)

105 Ohhhhhh, now it makes sense why all the Australian videos

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 06:40 AM (Ia/+0)

106 Musical Interlude
Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the national anthems.

; )

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:41 AM (SSiCQ)

107 Trump should call a snap news conference and appear wearing a snazzy military uniform or a tunic like Good Ol' Joe Stalin used to wear.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2026 06:42 AM (cxFcK)

108 Yesterday afternoon I chanced across a YooToob posting of a 1958 unsold pilot for an SF anthology series, Now Is Tomorrow. It starred Robert Culp, from around the time he was starring in the Western Trackdown. The show was notable for the tense Richard Matheson script, the direction by Irvin Kershner of Empire Strikes Back fame, and Harve Bennett, later to helm The Wrath of Khan, as producer.

It preceded Twilight Zone by a year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)

109 I believe our systems for curating trustworthy science are broken and need reformation.

Perhaps I can be of some assistance in this matter? -Martin Luther

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2026 06:42 AM (wVcYX)

110 Wikipedia:

Observed by
Australian citizens,
residents and
expatriates

... and AoSHq 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:43 AM (SSiCQ)

111 "... it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour."

+++
Did he give a land acknowledgement?

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at January 26, 2026 06:43 AM (2Ez/1)

112 The local pharmacy delivered my meds yesterday. No sign of the postal service. Just an observation.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026 06:45 AM (3Ope8)

113 🇦🇺

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:45 AM (SSiCQ)

114 Wikipedia:

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.
Posted by: m at January 26, 2026

***
Summer in AU! The 18th-century Britons were pretty sophisticated as far as the science they knew. Did the Navy *know* the seasons were reversed from the Northern Hemisphere, or was it a theory that Philip and his fleet had to confirm?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

115 107 Trump should call a snap news conference and appear wearing a snazzy military uniform or a tunic like Good Ol' Joe Stalin used to wear.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2026 06:42 AM

+++
Including aviator sunglasses.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 26, 2026 06:45 AM (2Ez/1)

116

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

117 They are building droneaports at the walmart just over the bridge from me.

Look forward to seeing one.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:46 AM (gbOdA)

118 A latter-day dissolution of the monasteries?
++++
"Everything is broken," but peer review and replication are *particularly* broken. "Peer review" used to be, at least in theory, a means to verify that everything isn't total bullshit. It is now a means to explicitly freeze out heterodoxy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:46 AM (MABZ1)

119 No sign of the postal service. Just an observation.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026 06:45 AM
###

I don't work in the rain.

Posted by: Newman at January 26, 2026 06:47 AM (2Ez/1)

120 115 107 Trump should call a snap news conference and appear wearing a snazzy military uniform or a tunic like Good Ol' Joe Stalin used to wear.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2026 06:42 AM

+++
Including aviator sunglasses.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 26, 2026 06:45 AM (2Ez/1)

And gold. Heavy gold necklaces, rings, maybe a crown?

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:47 AM (SSiCQ)

121 "... it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour."

+++
Did he give a land acknowledgement?
Posted by: Karen McAwfl at January 26, 2026

***
A fleet historian recorded it as something like "We acknowledge that this land belongs to Great Britain, now and forevermore. And the natives had better acknowledge it too."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:47 AM (wzUl9)

122 Look forward to seeing one.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:46 AM (gbOdA)

Now to think about it I bet the first people to see the SkyNet drones were excited.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:47 AM (gbOdA)

123 Sometimes the quest for an authentic arcade experience goes a little too far.

And sometimes it goes a lot.
++++
It could have knock-on effects. I think it would be neat to have a coin validator attached to a piggy bank, and an electronic counter and summing. It would be cool to have a little LED readout that reports how much cash is in the piggy bank. Maybe a scale, too, to tell you how much the damn thing weighs.

"Seventy bucks and 23 pounds, eh? I should go to the bank and deposit this before I get a hernia trying to move it."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:49 AM (MABZ1)

124 We hereby acknowledge that the land belongs to those willing to fight for it. And win.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 06:49 AM (vd6bO)

125 So Laptop died yesterday.
I had a 1200 Dell in my shopping cart and decided to try another charger.
35 bux from WalMart and TA FN DA.
So I saved 1000 bux and now cant decide were to spend it.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:50 AM (gbOdA)

126 It takes carbon dioxide and water vapour from the air, electrolyses the water, and combines them to create methanol. Then it goes through a more complicated process to turn the methanol into usable fuel.
++++
How bad is the negative energy ROI on that? Based on what came later - $20+/gal - it looks like "extremely."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:50 AM (MABZ1)

127 The story gets worse from there. And that's just a single paper out of millions.

A German physicist on YT (Sabine Hossenfelder) that I watch on occassion complains that many people in her space write a ton of BS papers just for grant money.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 26, 2026 06:50 AM (z0w8y)

128 Australia Day? If I do go out today, then, I'll wear my Australian fedora, the "Federation IV" that looks something like the hat William Hurt wore in Until the End of the World. Or like the classic Indiana Jones lid, though mine is dark gray.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:51 AM (wzUl9)

129 So I saved 1000 bux and now cant decide were to spend it.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:50 AM (gbOdA)
++++
I can help you out!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:51 AM (MABZ1)

130 How bad is the negative energy ROI on that? Based on what came later - $20+/gal - it looks like "extremely."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:50 AM (MABZ1)

The Navy was paying about 1000 bux a barrel for some soy shit, that was in 2015.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:51 AM (gbOdA)

131 Oh look. Lemon poppyseed muffins and fresh coffee...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026 06:52 AM (3Ope8)

132 The Navy was paying about 1000 bux a barrel for some soy shit, that was in 2015.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:51 AM (gbOdA)
++++
Was there some good/strategic reason for that, or was it gleeful waste in the name of absurd "climate" objectives that have nothing to do with warfighting?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:52 AM (MABZ1)

133
"Everything is broken," but peer review and replication are *particularly* broken. "Peer review" used to be, at least in theory, a means to verify that everything isn't total bullshit. It is now a means to explicitly freeze out heterodoxy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:46 AM (MABZ1)

There is (was?) a series (Inorganic Synthesis) to which I contributed two papers over time. Every submission was checked by another researcher to make sure that it worked as advertised.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 26, 2026 06:52 AM (tgvbd)

134 131 Oh look. Lemon poppyseed muffins and fresh coffee...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026 06:52 AM (3Ope

Stay away from peeing in a cup.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:53 AM (gbOdA)

135 Was there some good/strategic reason for that, or was it gleeful waste in the name of absurd "climate" objectives that have nothing to do with warfighting?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:52 AM (MABZ1)

Sustainability

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:53 AM (gbOdA)

136 There is (was?) a series (Inorganic Synthesis) to which I contributed two papers over time. Every submission was checked by another researcher to make sure that it worked as advertised.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 26, 2026 06:52 AM (tgvbd)
++++
That's the point, yeah.

That isn't the reality so much. I straight-up, dry, "boring" scientific paper will probably still get that treatment.

Add the right identity keywords and rationalizations, though. and they wouldn't dare deny it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:54 AM (MABZ1)

137
Sustainability
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:53 AM (gbOdA)

Nothing runs out faster than a renewable resource.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 26, 2026 06:55 AM (tgvbd)

138 Sustainability
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 06:53 AM (gbOdA)
++++
So, gleeful waste in the name of absurd "climate" objectives that have nothing to do with warfighting. That's always a good thing to have in your military.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:55 AM (MABZ1)

139 There will be a test.

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on ______ (date)

it marks the ______ (year date) landing of

the ______ (name of navy)

and raising of the ______ (name of flag)

of ______ (name of country)

by ______ (name of flag-raiser)

at ______ (name of site)

a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:56 AM (SSiCQ)

140
So, gleeful waste in the name of absurd "climate" objectives that have nothing to do with warfighting. That's always a good thing to have in your military.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:55 AM (MABZ1)

Anything and anyone who gets in the way of the sole objective of the armed forces - the defense of the United States - needs to be gotten rid of posthaste.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 26, 2026 06:57 AM (tgvbd)

141 a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.
Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 06:56 AM (SSiCQ)
++++
Relocate it from the "shore of Sydney Harbour" to the "valley of Sydney Sweeny" and nobody will ever forget again...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:58 AM (MABZ1)

142 Yesterday afternoon I chanced across a YooToob posting of a 1958 unsold pilot for an SF anthology series, Now Is Tomorrow. It starred Robert Culp, from around the time he was starring in the Western Trackdown. The show was notable for the tense Richard Matheson script, the direction by Irvin Kershner of Empire Strikes Back fame, and Harve Bennett, later to helm The Wrath of Khan, as producer.

It preceded Twilight Zone by a year.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)
++++
I didn't know that. Neat!

And Matheson had one hell of a career.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026 06:59 AM (MABZ1)

143 Anything and anyone who gets in the way of the sole objective of the armed forces - the defense of the United States - needs to be gotten rid of posthaste.

That would entail getting rid of at least 50% of congress, a metric cfukton of brass, and any number of NGOs and other grifting organizations. I see no downside.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 26, 2026 07:00 AM (3Ope8)

144 It preceded Twilight Zone by a year.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)
++++
I didn't know that. Neat!

And Matheson had one hell of a career.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 26, 2026

***
I'd never heard of it either, JM. It was the link posted on the Book Thread to a 1977 short film of Asimov's "The Ugly Little Boy" that took me to that YT channel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 07:02 AM (wzUl9)

145 Good morning. I hope everyone is doing well, considering the circumstances. 30 degrees here in western NC and that's where it will stay today. We're iced in. But tomorrow maybe mid-40s!!! To all who are going outside and scraping and shoveling, be careful.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 26, 2026 07:02 AM (P+RWk)

146 'Bout time for me to shave and shower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 07:03 AM (wzUl9)

147 -11 F. Doesn't often get much colder than that here. So far haven't seen lower than -20 F.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 07:04 AM (vd6bO)

148 So we are sitting at 45 degrees right now.
But, tomorrow morning they are calling for 21 degrees at 7:00am.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 07:05 AM (iMotb)

149 147 -11 F. Doesn't often get much colder than that here. So far haven't seen lower than -20 F.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 07:04 AM (vd6bO)

Never live in a place that allows integers for Temps.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 07:06 AM (gbOdA)

150 Peggy Flanagan is in a Signal group chat doxxing federal agents.

Who is that you ask?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 07:09 AM (gbOdA)

151 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wishes everyone a Happy Australia Day!

https://xcancel.com/AlboMP

Posted by: m at January 26, 2026 07:10 AM (SSiCQ)

152 150 Peggy Flanagan is in a Signal group chat doxxing federal agents.

Who is that you ask?
_-_
Insurrectionist.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 07:10 AM (vd6bO)

153 Its going to be a interesting summer

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 07:11 AM (Ia/+0)

154 Who is Peggy Flanagan?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at January 26, 2026 07:13 AM (2Ez/1)

155 154 Lt gov of Minnesota

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 07:14 AM (c4xYy)

156 Lieutenant Gov of MN

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 07:14 AM (gbOdA)

157 It's always the women.

Posted by: G. Orwell at January 26, 2026 07:15 AM (2Ez/1)

158 Temps hovering around 26, not quite as low as forecast. About 36 hours so far, at below freezing temps in NW Houston 'burbs. Faucets are still dripping so steady as she goes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2026 07:16 AM (wVcYX)

159 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

160 There is a reason to develop small footprint, modular thermo-chemical reactors that can be forward delployed with military units and produce petroleum using waste streams associated with those units. It costs a ton of $$ to move fuel to forward positions, not to mention the exposure to enemy fire.

The cost to produce this "renewable" fuel has to be weighed against the cost of this war time supply chain. However, the only reason for our military to invest in such a technology is its provable mobility, small size, and production capabilities in a close looped environment where the gas produced fuels the technology and still provides fuel for troops in a forward deployed setting.

Posted by: Boswell at January 26, 2026 07:18 AM (BGfwC)

161 Media missed this from the Church storming

46. Victim 4 informed agents that members of their parish attempted to retrieve their children from the childcare area located downstairs, but the agitators were blocking the stairs, and the parents were unable to get to their children. Victim 4 recalled one agitator was threatening, aggressive, and intimidating towards parishioners.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 07:19 AM (gbOdA)

162 She was the Olympic skater with the cute hair style?

Posted by: Just got here at January 26, 2026 07:19 AM (2Ez/1)

163 So a large part of academic publishing is a racket, rubbing each other's backs. Keeping the publications, editors, reviewers and , of course, authors, all employed. Damage to reputations will NOT be permitted.

Sad for the half of authors of papers whose work is legit.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 26, 2026 07:21 AM (OZn6h)

164 However, the only reason for our military to invest in such a technology is its provable mobility, small size, and production capabilities in a close looped environment where the gas produced fuels the technology and still provides fuel for troops in a forward deployed setting.
Posted by: Boswell at January 26, 2026 07:18 AM (BGfwC)

I know there are systems that allow a standard JP feul to be filtered and converted to sircraft that need special fuels.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 07:21 AM (gbOdA)

165 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Outside: -14℉. Unusually, no wind.

School cancelled, but most roads are plowed. Have an appointment in town, so can't stay home.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

166 "160 There is a reason to develop small footprint, modular thermo-chemical reactors that can be forward delployed with military units and produce petroleum using waste streams associated with those units. It costs a ton of $$ to move fuel to forward positions, not to mention the exposure to enemy fire."

+++

I've got some ideas.

Posted by: The ghost of Hyman Rickover at January 26, 2026 07:22 AM (2Ez/1)

167 Salty!

Stay safe, my friend!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 26, 2026 07:25 AM (iMotb)

168 I know there are systems that allow a standard JP feul to be filtered and converted to sircraft that need special fuels.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 07:21 AM (gbOdA)

Yes, you can make JP 6 and JP 8 by cracking and distilling the hydrocarbon chains that are the product of this thermo-chemical process. The key is the mass energy balance - the energy value of the feed stock has to be sufficient to get you there.

Posted by: Boswell at January 26, 2026 07:26 AM (BGfwC)

169 "I'm facing another warm, sunny day in Cali. I can barely imagine cold, wet weather, but i sense that it's unpleasant."

I'm facing another day not living under complete insane Democrat rule. I can barely imagine that, but I sense that it's unpleasant.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 26, 2026 07:26 AM (A/zT2)

170 By the way, the Germans did a lot of experimenting with this during WWII...

Posted by: Boswell at January 26, 2026 07:27 AM (BGfwC)

171 School cancelled, but most roads are plowed. Have an appointment in town, so can't stay home.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

That does not rhyme

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

172 The theory and practice of military procurement was examined in the historical document, The Pentagon Wars.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2026 07:28 AM (wVcYX)

173
JJS

he be here

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 26, 2026 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

174 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Thanks for the pointer. Off to look for Now is Tomorrow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

175 I am intrigued by the notion of making gasoline from atmospheric CO2. By providing a stable medium for storing energy, it solves both the problem of the intermittency of "renewable" energy sources, and the problem of storing that intermittent energy, batteries being a terrible way to store energy. By helping to stabilize atmospheric CO2, it should appeal to the global-warming zealots, and be a candidate for carbon-credit money: Win-win.

I'm sure there's a catch, but it certainly looks like it's worth pursuing.

Posted by: Nemo at January 26, 2026 08:38 AM (4RPgu)

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