LK-99, an Alloy of Common Metals Which Supposedly Becomes Superconductive at Room Temperatures, Goes Viral, and Then Goes Bust

There was a brief viral story of a putative "supermaterial" called LK-99 which would achieve the superconductive state (in which the material has no resistance to electricity, losing no power as waste heat) at room temperatures, instead of the just-a-tetch-absolute-zero temperatures usually required.

This story went viral partly because, if true, it would be a significant technological advance in some areas (maglev trains, for example).

But it mostly went viral because most Very Online Leftists like to pretend they Totally Love The Science despite not having taken a science or math course since 11th grade geometry.

There were videos of stuff floating above blocks of this LK-99 material, and the Very Online Leftists thought that this looked VSI, or Very Sciencish Indeed.

Levitating Very Onlyline Leftists' opportunities to self-advertise

This post explains why a levitated piece of metal that seems "pinned" in one place could be evidence of superconduction.

But was the picture actually proof of superconduction?

Nah.

The tech community just experienced a viral communal moment, its own wonky equivalent of a must-watch game or national political scandal. The plot revolved around an arcane concept in physics: a room-temperature superconductor, a holy grail material that could conduct electricity with no resistance, without requiring massive cooling. Physicists in South Korea claimed to have created the material, called LK-99. It would be a momentous discovery -- if it was real.
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman joked about it on social media, along with Stripe Inc. Chief Executive Officer Patrick Collison. It became a meme. Flexport Inc. founder Ryan Petersen mused, maybe only half-ironically, "Were the Egyptians levitating those giant blocks with LK-99?!?"
Meanwhile, legions of scientists and pseudo-scientists assembled to try to reproduce the superconductivity result the physicists claimed. If successful, the material would make easy work of magnetic levitation, nuclear fusion and other complicated technologies. It would also revolutionize transportation and energy, among other fields. As each set of results from other teams came in, so did more opinions, fakes, jokes and attempts to sell T-shirts.
And then by Tuesday, the fervor appeared to reach a glum conclusion: Multiple institutions had found that LK-99 did not possess the vaunted superconducting capabilities.
But rather than lament the result, there's still reason to celebrate the fleeting LK-99 hype cycle. "It's absolutely blown up into probably the most wholesome trend on Twitter or X that we've seen in years," said Andrew McCalip, an engineer at startup Varda Space Industries on "This Week in Startups," a podcast hosted by investor Jason Calacanis.

What's so wholesome about it? Leftists got to virtue-signal on Twitter and pretend they're All About The Science? Talk about a day ending in -y.

Even though leftists thought that the mere phenomenon of a metal object floating above a metal cube was some fantastical new "The Science," it turns out, gee, any old diamagnetic material can repel another magnet and hold it in place, and that's all that was going on here:

Alex Kaplan
@alexkaplan0
It's as close to official as we'll probably get: LK-99 is likely simply a ferromagnetic material, which explains its levitating properties, according to new research from Peking University.
The room temperature superconductivity revolution will have to wait another day.

Those attempting to replicate the claims that this specific alloy of metals was superconductive at room temperature failed to replicate those claims. It's just a magnetic alloy.

The US-based research center referred studies conducted in China, India, and Taiwan for its rebuttal. One such study by researchers at the National Physics Laboratory in India found that sample replicates of LK-99 showed no superconductivity but only diamagnetism.
In a thread on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), the CMTC pointed out that many materials exhibited the property of diamagnetism, including lead and copper, the ingredients of LK-99.

If I understand this right, the metal-held-in-place could be explained by either 1, superconductivity at room temperatures, an extraordinary claim, or 2, simply being a common diamagnetic material.

Turns out, it was 2. Scientists noted that many of the metals that make up the LK-99 blend have diamagentic properties.

I don't blame non-liberals for getting excited by this. It would certainly be both neat and consequential if it were true.

But I will dunk on the stupid liberals who continue insisting they Love The Science based solely on their eagerness to retweet Sciencey-type Science Things, like pictures of galaxies and... magnets.

The mere images of the metal floating should not have excited anyone. What would make a material room-temperature superconductor would be that it would show no resistance to the flow of electricity and give off no heat. In other words, the trick would not be mere diamagnetism, which is common as dirt, but the ability create an electromagnetic which would never lose an electron of the juice you run through it.

You couldn't see that in a picture or a video, though. A picture or video just shows some metal floating above some other metal which... again, you do know that magnets are a thing which exists, right?

Diamagnetic graphite levitates over metal
Not a breakthrough, not even a little bit

If I sound harsh, I'm so, so tired of the all the liberal 50-year-olds pretending to be 12-year-old girls online. Everything with them is "Yay!/Boo!" It's juvenile, it's puerile, it's jejune, it's callow, and it's other synonyms I'm sure must exist but for the moment I've run out.

I am tired of living in 8th grade with a bunch of squealing pretend-tweenagers, where everything is "Yay! I love the science! I love politics which are good!" or "Boo! I hate fascism and anyone antifa tells me is fascist!"

And then it goes viral, because a bunch of deeply stupid and unserious people hit the retweet button.

Grow up already. I've never seen so many people role-play as actual developmentally-disabled children. I know for many of them, they really are this stupid, they really are on the ragged edge of mental retardation, but many of them have IQs which are not officially subnormal, but play at being stupid and shallow online because they think it's winning and charming.

It's not. It's vile and it's exasperating.

Hey liberals, look: This woman just discovered Anti-Gravity Technology.

the experimenting mother pic.twitter.com/w8CESuV7oX
— Enezator (@Enezator) August 8, 2023

Look: More superconductive nanomaterials!!!

Physics is magic! pic.twitter.com/Ujfm5BSjFK
— Daily Dopamine (@DailyxDopamine) August 7, 2023

Quick, retweet those and pat yourselves on the backs for being so Fiercely in Love with The Science.

Posted by: Ace at 07:15 PM

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1 Saw this earlier in the week and knew it was a hoax.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 14, 2023 07:15 PM (QNSds)

2 Is this thing on.........

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 14, 2023 07:17 PM (QNSds)

3 Yeah, let me know when I can buy a Mr. Fusion at Amazon or Wally World or the dollar store.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 14, 2023 07:17 PM (llON8)

4 Wait.

The Science people got outsmarted by a magnet?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:19 PM (NdB+W)

5 Yeah, let me know when I can buy a Mr. Fusion at Amazon or Wally World or the dollar store.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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It'll be a Mx. Fusion

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 14, 2023 07:20 PM (aBJcM)

6 The same people who claim to "love science sexually" are also the first who will use phrases like "my truth", indicating a worldview based on subjectivism - where reality is internal and observer-dependent.

The scientific method and subjectivism cannot coexist, as the scientific method requires a universe that is external and objective in order to be valid. In a subjective universe, there is no reason why repeating an experiment using the same variables would yield the same result. If you believed strongly enough, your reality would shift and the result would be different, because reality is internal and subject to your observation and belief.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at August 14, 2023 07:21 PM (gJKGU)

7 Physics is NOT magic

That is just a Tesla Coil or static electricity generator.

When did ICP become Science?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:21 PM (ZIVuX)

8 “Grow Up Already.”

I need to make a bunch of t shirts with that on it and pass them around to all the urban outdoorsmen to educate the dumb masses.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 14, 2023 07:21 PM (R/m4+)

9 This reminds me of the first avatar movie. The one company guy has a "floating" bit of metal on his desk that he spins around and says something like, this is what it is all about.....unobtanium.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 14, 2023 07:21 PM (QNSds)

10 If the reactor you're buying spent time in jail with a felony, you'll be buying Con Fusion.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 14, 2023 07:22 PM (a3Q+t)

11 When did ICP become Science?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:21 PM (ZIVuX

There's a joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: Anthony Fauci at August 14, 2023 07:22 PM (G0bXQ)

12 We miss you Professor Proton!!!

Posted by: tubal at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM (PCK5/)

13 We will now mandate LK-99 Vehicles for the masses!

Posted by: wth at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM (v0R5T)

14 Electric cars?
Nope that will never happen.
Posted by: Paul

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It hasn't.

They've been available for over a decade and they're soundly rejected. Likely fewer than 1% of sales are to individuals spending their own money.

They're so unwanted that the only way to make "the free market work" is to ban cars people want and keep buying.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM (NdB+W)

15 Yeah, let me know when I can buy a Mr. Fusion at Amazon or Wally World or the dollar store.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 14, 2023 07:17 PM (llON

2309. You'll want to wait until the Mark. III comes out, because the Mark I was still dependent on exotic isotopes and the Mk. II had that unfortunate hydrogen explosion problem.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM (gJKGU)

16 Remember 'room temperature fusion'?

This was brought to you by the same type of con artist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM (ZIVuX)

17
So did the right people took the money and ran?

Posted by: Potato Of The United States at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM (t6XCL)

18 Correction:

They've been available for over 100 years.

Sorry about that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (NdB+W)

19 yay ace came home! now tell us about the otters, lenny! or it is george?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (B1FKF)

20 4 Wait.

The Science people got outsmarted by a magnet?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:19 PM (NdB+W)

In fairness, they also struggle with employment.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (G0bXQ)

21 We miss you Professor Proton!!!

Posted by: tubal at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM

Those were the absolute best episodes of the Big Bang Theory. Bob Newhart nailed that character.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (QNSds)

22 LK-99 is so lame.
I give you the XR4Ti, now that is a great marketing name.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (ga8qR)

23 That is just a Tesla Coil or static electricity generator.

When did ICP become Science?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:21 PM

Actually, the girl is touching a Van Graaff generator.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (a3Q+t)

24 A materials science professor I know has studied this and came to the exact same conclusion in no uncertain terms. It's not superconductivity. It's a magnetic effect, which as we see, is easy to do even with common magnets.

My professor acquaintance did say that this particular substance was difficult to produce consistently, which may have added to the allure of a new "wonder material."

Not sure if this material has any practical applications yet.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (BpYfr)

25 Professor Proton?

Doctor Manhattan

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (ZIVuX)

26 15 Electric cars?
Nope that will never happen.
Posted by: Paul

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It hasn't.

They've been available for over a ~~decade~~ century and they're soundly rejected. Likely fewer than 1% of sales are to individuals spending their own money.

fixt

Posted by: anachronda at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (oY6Yp)

27 if greta thumburp is possible then anything is possible.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:25 PM (B1FKF)

28 Shut up Wesley

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:25 PM (ZIVuX)

29 23 LK-99 is so lame.
I give you the XR4Ti, now that is a great marketing name.

regenerator g-1 > xr4ti > lk-99

Posted by: godzilla 2000 at August 14, 2023 07:25 PM (oY6Yp)

30 I'm waiting for the whale oil powered vehicles.

Posted by: wth at August 14, 2023 07:26 PM (v0R5T)

31 22 We miss you Professor Proton!!!

Posted by: tubal at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM

Those were the absolute best episodes of the Big Bang Theory. Bob Newhart nailed that character.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (QNSds)

Newhart is a treasure... unique in his style

Posted by: tubal at August 14, 2023 07:26 PM (PCK5/)

32 Institute for Clowny Phucks?

Fauci is a founding member.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:26 PM (9UlRk)

33 Those liberals are the same people buying EV's without an ounce of understanding about the economics or real world effects on the environment.

It takes two things to make a liberal shibboleth;
1) a crowd of like minded mouth breathers
2) Cheers, accolades and validation for absolutely nothing

Posted by: Marcus T at August 14, 2023 07:26 PM (cn09p)

34 I'll bet her hair smells ozone-fresh!

Posted by: Joseph Biden, El Presidente of Todos Americanos at August 14, 2023 07:26 PM (a3Q+t)

35 They've been available for over a decade and they're soundly rejected. Likely fewer than 1% of sales are to individuals spending their own money.

They're so unwanted that the only way to make "the free market work" is to ban cars people want and keep buying.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM (NdB+W)

Electric cars have existed in similar form since the earliest automobile experiments. They were even less practical than steam cars (which existed and worked), thus abandoned by the market.

Current technology has not fundamentally changed any aspect of the original concept. They're a stagnant technological dead-end, and will be unless some future battery technology is a lot lighter, more efficient, and has a lot more charge. Bonus points if it doesn't release highly toxic chemicals in a car wreck.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at August 14, 2023 07:26 PM (gJKGU)

36 Hiya Ace !

Posted by: JT at August 14, 2023 07:27 PM (T4tVD)

37 Is LK-99 close to LV-426?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:27 PM (ZIVuX)

38 How many of these fake science leftists also hated Ivermectin and early treatment of Covid, and loved their masks. Bunch of anti-science leftists, but they are at the top of their "game" when they are scolding conservatives for non-compliance..

Posted by: illiniwek at August 14, 2023 07:28 PM (Cus5s)

39 Only toddlers drive EVs.

Barbie EVs. Monster truck EVs. Drive em all over the yard.

Then you grow up and burn dinosaurs like everyone else.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 07:28 PM (G0bXQ)

40 If commonplace materials were good at storing energy, we'd all be getting zapped every time we left the house.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:28 PM (9UlRk)

41 XR4Ti, now that is a great marketing name.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 14, 2023 07:24 PM (ga8qR)
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Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 14, 2023 07:28 PM (2YtOq)

42 Wesley Crusher + face hugger = good idea?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (ZIVuX)

43 I think Ace had this one in the hopper. He's at home, on his couch with Cheeto dust on his chest fur, watching Dancing with the Stars reruns.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (G0bXQ)

44 How many of these fake science leftists also hated Ivermectin and early treatment of Covid, and loved their masks. Bunch of anti-science leftists, but they are at the top of their "game" when they are scolding conservatives for non-compliance..
Posted by: illiniwek at August 14, 2023 07:28 PM (Cus5s)

When they say they trust "the science", what they're really saying is that they trust the TV.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (gJKGU)

45 The Science people got outsmarted by a magnet?

Dumbfucks can't figure out which bathroom to use, either.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (TZ75n)

46 ..The Science people got outsmarted by a magnet?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:19 PM (NdB+W)

The magnet had Core Memory. The Science people, did not.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (e6UQI)

47 So... flying cars?

If this isn't going to result in flying cars, I'm not interested.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (dGCAG)

48 Do the laws of physics even *allow* for the existence of room-temperature superconductors?

It may be that we are pursuing a theoretical technology that CANNOT exist in our reality, even if it would do awesome things.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (BpYfr)

49 Most of the giddy I love science types don't know how a single frigging mechanical or electrical thing in their lives work.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (VwHCD)

50 38 Is LK-99 close to LV-426?

only if your 27b/6 is properly stamped

Posted by: central services at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (oY6Yp)

51 And it better do it soon, I ain't gettin' any younger.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (dGCAG)

52 Die Wil Wheaton Die!!!

Posted by: tubal at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (PCK5/)

53 I wish we'd bring back the steam car... I bet with 70 years of tech improvements on an external combustion engine it might actually be feasible.

And that you could burn more than gasoline in your external combustion. I know WWII had a lot of gasifier powered cars, but that's a short term solution.

As for this material it's unfortunate, but honestly, if it was real the Chinese would have invaded South Korea to seize it by now.

Posted by: GanGanowicz at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (AxRGS)

54 ICP is a reminder that to a certain extent things have sucked for a long time.

Posted by: Reforger at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (B705c)

55 I've got a superconductor in my pants.

Posted by: Guy with a superconductor in his pants at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (vFG9F)

56 Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

"Run for the hills folks or you'll be up to your armpits in Martians!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (ZIVuX)

57 They've been available for over a decade and they're soundly rejected. Likely fewer than 1% of sales are to individuals spending their own money.

They're so unwanted that the only way to make "the free market work" is to ban cars people want and keep buying.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:23 PM

Electric cars have been around for well over 100 years. They tried them in NYC and for an extremely brief period of time they were a hit. Problem was that charging and range issues soon popped up their ugly heads. EV's lasted less than 5 years after the turn of the 20th century.

They even had an electric car on display at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (QNSds)

58 I think Ace had this one in the hopper. He's at home, on his couch with Cheeto dust on his chest fur, watching Dancing with the Stars reruns.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (G0bXQ)
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I still think he's on a hobo-hunting safari on the Serengeti. He's using Musk's Starlink satellite system to post this.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (BpYfr)

59 I'd offer to challenge Paul to a cross country race, his EV versus my 1/2 ton truck, but, he'd probably pull a Zucker and chicken out.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (2YtOq)

60 I agree.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (cuS3i)

61 Speaking of science and data, it's hilarious how it's virtually impossible to find the breakdown of EVs sold to private individuals vs corporations/commercial ventures and governments.

Wonder why that is?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (NdB+W)

62 What does this bode for a national monorail system?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (Q4IgG)

63 Most of the giddy I love science types don't know how a single frigging mechanical or electrical thing in their lives work.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (VwHCD)

"Yeah, nu uh, I watched a YouTube video about it!"

"OK. How does YouTube work?"

"It's... it's... it's just a series of Tubes... i don't.... fuck you. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (9UlRk)

64 "They've been available for over a century and they're soundly rejected."

FIFY

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (ou9hh)

65 "Yeah, nu uh, I watched a YouTube video about it!"

"OK. How does YouTube work?"

"It's... it's... it's just a series of Tubes... i don't.... fuck you. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (9UlRk)
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A light switch is beyond their understanding.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2023 07:32 PM (BpYfr)

66 What does that Tyson guy have to say about it?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2023 07:32 PM (63Dwl)

67 >>> This post explains why a levitated piece of metal that seems "pinned" in one place could be evidence of superconduction. But was the picture actually proof of superconduction? Nah.

Wait, images lie?????

Posted by: Busty lesbian pron and science photos, but mostly science photos at August 14, 2023 07:32 PM (7SDu8)

68 I would bet that not one in a hundred know how electricity is conducted...

Posted by: tubal at August 14, 2023 07:32 PM (PCK5/)

69 Tomorrow I shall introduce the levitating chicken.

Posted by: Neil deTyson Chicken at August 14, 2023 07:32 PM (Xrfse)

70 Economics is very Sciencish.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2023 07:33 PM (JvZF+)

71 The Science people got outsmarted by a magnet?

Dumbfucks can't figure out which bathroom to use, either.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (TZ75n)
......

Well, they're not all biologists. Some are meteorologists (climate change), some are psychologists (trannies), and some are economists (Joeconomics).

Posted by: wth at August 14, 2023 07:33 PM (v0R5T)

72 How can the chicken be levitating if its stuck up his a$$?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:33 PM (ZIVuX)

73 Well, that's what I get for posting before reading the comments

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 14, 2023 07:33 PM (ou9hh)

74 This post explains why a levitated piece of metal that seems "pinned" in one place could be evidence of superconduction. But was the picture actually proof of superconduction? Nah.

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People should start posting images of magnets stuck to things and insisting it's evidence of superconduction.

Silly things like alphabet magnets for two year olds and Wyoming-shaped metal foil magnets from vacation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:34 PM (NdB+W)

75 conducted...
Posted by: tubal at August 14, 2023 07:32 PM (PCK5/)
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With panache.

Posted by: Leopold at August 14, 2023 07:34 PM (2YtOq)

76 Most of the giddy I love science types don't know how a single frigging mechanical or electrical thing in their lives work.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:30 PM (VwHCD)

"Yeah, nu uh, I watched a YouTube video about it!"

"OK. How does YouTube work?"

"It's... it's... it's just a series of Tubes... i don't.... fuck you. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (9UlRk)

Right. I had to redo a harley engine a few weeks ago that was worked on by the owner who watched you tube vids. Lets just say his results were... sub optimal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:34 PM (VwHCD)

77
B ack in the says of the Fleishman -- Pons cold fusion fiasco, I was filling our car with gas at a service station in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley where the station attendant tried to engage me in conversation regarding the technical merits of their experiments ... because I worked for DuPont, donchano?

"I'm just here to get gas, man," was the gist of my response.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 14, 2023 07:34 PM (5pZqO)

78 69 I would bet that not one in a hundred know how electricity is conducted...
Posted by: tubal at August 14, 2023 07:32 PM (PCK5/)

You see, when a conduction band and a phonon love each other very much....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:34 PM (9UlRk)

79 re 69: leonard bernstein, right?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:35 PM (B1FKF)

80 What does this bode for a national monorail system?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2023 07:31 PM (Q4IgG)
.......

Good news. Preliminary cost estimates show them to be half the price of traditional rail systems.

Posted by: wth at August 14, 2023 07:35 PM (v0R5T)

81 Posted by: Paul at August 14, 2023 07:21 PM

That statement was boneheaded even by your standards.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 14, 2023 07:35 PM (Wnv9h)

82 Let me tell you about a superconductor. That guy who drove the magic Choo Choo from Dover to DC, he was a superconductor. He said I had one jillion miles on that line, and now I could take a free train ride to the sun.
Word as a Biden.

Posted by: Slow Joe Biden at August 14, 2023 07:36 PM (y68b8)

83 *twitches*

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair as a YouTube video...

The horrors...

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:36 PM (ZIVuX)

84 ... because I worked for DuPont, donchano?

"I'm just here to get gas, man," was the gist of my response.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 14, 2023 07:34 PM (5pZqO)

"Beats the fuck outta me. I'm in the paint department. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:36 PM (9UlRk)

85 Posted by: Paul at August 14, 2023 07:21 PM

That statement was boneheaded even by your standards.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 14, 2023 07:35 PM (Wnv9h)
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Paul has standards?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2023 07:36 PM (BpYfr)

86 @RMBS....LOL

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 14, 2023 07:36 PM (2YtOq)

87 Now do dust masks and Wuhan Flu vaxxing.

That shit completely broke a lot of people. They are like isolated Japanese soldiers coming out of the jungle in 1955.

They are also really insistent about Shingrex vaccination too. Shingles sucks really, really bad.

And one of the known side effects of the mRna vaccine program. They completely lost their fucking mind from the git-go.

Them: “Yay!!! I have an appointment to get the vaccine! I’m doing cartwheels on my front lawn right now! I was even able to jump ahead of a whole bunch of people in line.”

Me: Well, I hope it works. We’re going to find out one way or another. I’d just as soon avoid an experimental emergency vaccine, ordinarily it takes 8 to 10 years to meet with approval, and only 20 percent make the cut. Good luck to everyone.

Them: REEEE!!!!! It’s not experimental! It’s JUST LIKE the Flu Shot everybody gets every year!! We’re not going to listen to you conspiracy nutters. We won’t be swayed.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2023 07:37 PM (bz6bY)

88 Warai-otoko is being possessed by Johnny...

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:37 PM (ZIVuX)

89 >I would bet that not one in a hundred know how electricity is conducted...

Posted by: tubal

well, all these electrons over here really want to be over there. so BZZZT they all move at once

did I just do science or what

Posted by: DB - at August 14, 2023 07:37 PM (geLO8)

90
"It's... it's... it's just a series of Tubes... I don't.... fuck you. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko

Ask 'em what type of spider spins the Interwebs

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 14, 2023 07:37 PM (5pZqO)

91 I like the 2 videos so will turn it off with those.
Have a great evening everyone
See you 0 dark thirty

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2023 07:37 PM (MOY79)

92 I would bet that not one in a hundred know how electricity is conducted...

--

That reminds me of my friend who runs one of the water plants in a big city nearby. The plant received a call one day from *the* wealthy neighborhood - the place that the $2M/year losers look at with envy - from a homeowner who wanted to let them know that they were no longer receiving hot water at their house.

So smart and magnificently wealthy that you don't have to know a single thing about anything.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:38 PM (NdB+W)

93 Arugula, Arugula, whereforartthou arugula??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 07:38 PM (G0bXQ)

94
Elizabeth Holmes now has a superconductor startup. Lotsa big names on the BOD, so you know it's on the up-and-up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2023 07:38 PM (MoZTd)

95 The two electric cars here at the Harrah's Auto Museum (Currently the "National Auto Museum") out distanced the Leaf a few years ago. They restored the batteries on them, did some greasing and repairs and set them off. Nobody heard about it because it was an embarrassment.

Posted by: Reforger at August 14, 2023 07:38 PM (B705c)

96 Right. I had to redo a harley engine a few weeks ago that was worked on by the owner who watched you tube vids. Lets just say his results were... sub optimal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:34 PM (VwHCD)
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I'm guessing the person had no real world experience with tools and motors before he took on the project.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 14, 2023 07:38 PM (2YtOq)

97 Them: REEEE!!!!! It’s not experimental! It’s JUST LIKE the Flu Shot everybody gets every year!! We’re not going to listen to you conspiracy nutters. We won’t be swayed.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2023 07:37 PM (bz6bY)

The same people who in week 1 were saying "it's spelled *D*NA, dumbass, do you even watch TV?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (9UlRk)

98 Time to reapply the Lume on my buttcrack. Be back later.

Posted by: Pawl at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

99 It may be that we are pursuing a theoretical technology that CANNOT exist in our reality, even if it would do awesome things.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM

It's this kind of thinking that's holding us back from our glorious progressive future. As I've said repeatedly, "We need to invent technology that's never even been invented yet."

Posted by: Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (D-NY) at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (a3Q+t)

100 paul can taste cat shit and tell you which flavor of frisky's the cat ate that morning, he's that good

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (B1FKF)

101 There is apparently a bit of a trend to use tesla coils as speakers to play music

The videos all make me want to shout "It's ALIVE!" 'cause it's all sciency

https://youtu.be/lcE5swGjDo0

Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (xhaym)

102 That birthday balloon thing is really cool, though.

Posted by: huerfano at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (7zEAH)

103
Electricity is a symbol of inequality.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (MoZTd)

104 It would be hilarious if Ace did this post taking down juvenile adults, but was secretly on a Disney cruise or something.

I know that's as likely as Chris Christie owning a treadmill, but the idea amuses me.

Posted by: Busty lesbian pron and science photos, but mostly science photos at August 14, 2023 07:40 PM (/LgaI)

105 Space is pretty cold, we just need to do our computing in space, and hook up remotely via Starlink Plus. Plus, it would reduce global warming and it is LGTBQ friendly.

(not sure how it does those last two things, but you have to include that or you don't get published)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 14, 2023 07:40 PM (Cus5s)

106 "Back in the day" toys with magnets were common. It's like everyone knew how they worked.

Until they didn't.

And these people are considered "our betters."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2023 07:41 PM (Q4IgG)

107 Electricity is a symbol of inequality.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (MoZTd)

That reminds me of an old joke.

What did the communists use before candles?

Electricity.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at August 14, 2023 07:41 PM (gJKGU)

108 I don't get it, they HAD to realize that would get debunked immediately.

Joke time, perhaps?

Posted by: irongrampa at August 14, 2023 07:41 PM (KATBx)

109 The two electric cars here at the Harrah's Auto Museum (Currently the "National Auto Museum") out distanced the Leaf a few years ago. They restored the batteries on them, did some greasing and repairs and set them off. Nobody heard about it because it was an embarrassment.
Posted by: Reforger

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Ha. Remember when the Model T and the Tesla raced a relatively short round trip course?

Good times.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:41 PM (NdB+W)

110 69 I would bet that not one in a hundred know how electricity is conducted...

Posted by: tubal at August 14, 2023 07:32 PM (PCK5/)

Backwards.

Posted by: Reforger at August 14, 2023 07:41 PM (B705c)

111 Electric vehicle subsidy of a mere $7500, gas current price at $4.00 / gallon. Call that 2000 gallons wasted at the front end. Say average mpg of 30 miles/gallon x 2000 gallons => 60,000 miles.
Homey don't plan driving much in choosing an electric car in the first place so even 10,000 miles per year is generous.
Anyway, 6 years minimum to break even on dollars / environmental impact. Now you can dig heels in on oil changes, etc. But that would just show how weak the arguement for electric cars is already.

How long is that battery warranty good for again? 8 years and then another 8 grand or $1000 / year to add back into the first 6 years, another 40,000+ miles to break even...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 14, 2023 07:41 PM (ga8qR)

112 re 95: i used to think she was pretty like ten years ago.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:41 PM (B1FKF)

113 It's this kind of thinking that's holding us back from our glorious progressive future.

The five aboard Titan are unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:42 PM (ZIVuX)

114
I was at my gym's parking lot yesterday in high 80s temperatures when an assclown steps out of his car wearing a breathing mask. Eyerollingly stupid these big brains are.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 14, 2023 07:42 PM (5pZqO)

115 You love science? Yeah, get back to me when you've spent the last few days grinding through a quantum mechanics problem set. Posers.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 14, 2023 07:42 PM (eOEVl)

116
Halogens rape alkali metals by taking away their electrons.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2023 07:42 PM (MoZTd)

117 What does that Tyson guy have to say about it?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2023 07:32 PM

That's one tough chicken.

Posted by: Tyson at August 14, 2023 07:43 PM (a3Q+t)

118 That reminds me of an old joke.

What did the communists use before candles?

Electricity.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at August 14, 2023 07:41 PM (gJKGU

A classic. *golfclap*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 07:43 PM (G0bXQ)

119 carp... wrong page...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 14, 2023 07:43 PM (ga8qR)

120
Yeah, get back to me when you've spent the last few days grinding through a quantum mechanics problem set. Posers.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 14, 2023 07:42 PM (eOEVl)

_________

That brings back a lot of unhappy memories.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2023 07:43 PM (MoZTd)

121 The author who wrote the kids' books "Castle", "Cathedral", "Mill", etc. also wrote one called "How It Works", a great introduction to how the things in our lives, you know, work.

Learned a lot from that.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 14, 2023 07:43 PM (hAfUZ)

122 re 105: he has a treadmill. it only goes down hill

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:43 PM (B1FKF)

123 What’s the difference between “diamagnetism” and regular ol’ “magnetism?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 07:43 PM (xTRSc)

124 Space is pretty cold, we just need to do our computing in space, and hook up remotely via Starlink Plus. Plus, it would reduce global warming and it is LGTBQ friendly.

(not sure how it does those last two things, but you have to include that or you don't get published)
Posted by: illiniwek

I think Musk might turn Starlink into a space-network, alternate internet that jumps over government and corpo barriers. That'll really piss off the globalist syndicates.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 14, 2023 07:43 PM (IG4Id)

125 Right. I had to redo a harley engine a few weeks ago that was worked on by the owner who watched you tube vids. Lets just say his results were... sub optimal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:34 PM (VwHCD)
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I'm guessing the person had no real world experience with tools and motors before he took on the project.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 14, 2023 07:38 PM (2YtOq)

That really seems to be the case. I had asked certain questions about what he saw while he was in there. It was as if he opened a box and saw nothing. There were no answers to be had, none, zip, nadda. It was as if he pretended to work on the contents of an empty box.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:44 PM (VwHCD)

126 The way electricity works is pretty simple. You shove electrons in one end of the wire and electrons pop out the other end.

Posted by: Pawl at August 14, 2023 07:44 PM (vFG9F)

127 124 What’s the difference between “diamagnetism” and regular ol’ “magnetism?”
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 07:43 PM (xTRSc

Dia?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 07:44 PM (G0bXQ)

128 not sure how it does those last two things, but you have to include that or you don't get published)
Posted by: illiniwek at August 14, 2023 07:40 PM (Cus5s)

Heh.

Space actually sucks for that. It's "cold", because there's not much there to hang onto any energy. But there's also nothing there to convect away energy either. So when you get hot, you just stay hot until the little piddly stream of whatever can radiate take that energy away. And radiation is far and away the most crap way to move large amounts of heat energy from one place to another.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:44 PM (9UlRk)

129 It's a kind of magic.

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2023 07:44 PM (NxC5+)

130 Elizabeth Holmes pretty? Not so much. Now John Holmes...

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 14, 2023 07:44 PM (y68b8)

131 i also used to think that aoc was sexy till i realized that those were her teeth.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:45 PM (B1FKF)

132 Wait! Come back! I haven’t shown you my perpetual motion machine yet!!!

Posted by: db at August 14, 2023 07:45 PM (wu87C)

133 What’s the difference between “diamagnetism” and regular ol’ “magnetism?”

It's like the difference between dianetics and plain ond netics.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 14, 2023 07:45 PM (eOEVl)

134 You see, when two magnets love each other very much....

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 07:45 PM (G0bXQ)

135 Good God Almighty!
That's that's Ace's music they are playing...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 14, 2023 07:46 PM (TGPs7)

136 I get science articles in my news feed and it seems like every day I get something about how there has been some breakthru in battery technology.
Of the many articles I have seen, maybe 2 have made it beyond the testing stage.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at August 14, 2023 07:46 PM (uo9+F)

137 My penis levitates when I see a beautiful woman. I am a superconducting marvel!

Science!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 14, 2023 07:46 PM (ufFY8)

138 *pauses and light bulb goes off*

Someone should Tweet/X about how racist "cis-magnetism"* is.

*I think I just made up the word so it should be funny.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:46 PM (ZIVuX)

139
Electricity is a symbol of inequality.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Electequity will fix that, comrade, once woke science focuses its legions of Big Brains on the problem!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 14, 2023 07:46 PM (5pZqO)

140 I don't get it, they HAD to realize that would get debunked immediately.

Joke time, perhaps?
Posted by: irongrampa at August 14, 2023 07:41 PM (KATBx)
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Probably doesn't matter. As long as their original paper isn't forcibly retracted, they'll still get published. They can put this on their CV for promotion and tenure. They can use it as a basis for requesting more federal dollars to continue their research.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2023 07:46 PM (BpYfr)

141 You love science? Yeah, get back to me when you've spent the last few days grinding through a quantum mechanics problem set. Posers.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 14, 2023 07:42 PM (eOEVl)
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Nah, ask them something simple: tell them they need to set up a spread sheet to balance their checkbook. That alone would be enough to fry their tiny brain.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 14, 2023 07:46 PM (2YtOq)

142 There's diamagnetism, ferromagnetism, and paramagnetism. One is inherent to the material, one is induced by an external field, and the other went wee wee wee all the way home.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:46 PM (9UlRk)

143 102 There is apparently a bit of a trend to use tesla coils as speakers to play music

The videos all make me want to shout "It's ALIVE!" 'cause it's all sciency.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (xhaym)

I was digging into the Tesla Valve today. I see potential for a project I'm working on.

Posted by: Reforger at August 14, 2023 07:47 PM (B705c)

144 Whats the deal with magnets anyway?

*holds 2 refrigerator magnets to temples*

Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 14, 2023 07:47 PM (eheVn)

145 Electric cars had some following, and even with females, who often lacked the necessary upper arm body strength to start the engine. The hand crank was tricky at times, even with an engine in perfect tune. It also required diligence in retarding the ignition timing advance, otherwise a backfire would occur, and starter kickback sending the handle spinning in the opposite direction with great force. Broken hands or arms were typical.

In fact it was once such incident that was the impetus for serious research into the electric starter. A close friend of the CEO of General Motors stopped to help a stranded motorist, the engine kicked back and the crank handle broke his jaw. It became infected and he died.

Famed Dayton, Ohio inventor Kettering was put on task, solved it with reduction gearing essentially and soon electric engine start became standard. Anybody could drive after that, and often do.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2023 07:47 PM (bz6bY)

146 Elizabeth Holmes now has a superconductor startup. Lotsa big names on the BOD, so you know it's on the up-and-up.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2023 07:38 PM (MoZTd)

Dr Watson, I presume

Posted by: Crick at August 14, 2023 07:48 PM (us2H3)

147 There's diamagnetism, ferromagnetism, and paramagnetism. One is inherent to the material, one is induced by an external field, and the other went wee wee wee all the way home.

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Ferrimagnetism at August 14, 2023 07:49 PM (eOEVl)

148 I thought Elizabeth Holmes was in the hoozegow.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 07:49 PM (xTRSc)

149 Whats the deal with magnets anyway?

*holds 2 refrigerator magnets to temples*
Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 14, 2023 07:47 PM (eheVn)

Don't do that, it can be hard to get them off.

Posted by: Joe Biden with a steel plate in his head at August 14, 2023 07:49 PM (v0R5T)

150 Elizabeth Holmes now has a superconductor startup. Lotsa big names on the BOD, so you know it's on the up-and-up.

Does the new superconductor have cigarettes?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 14, 2023 07:50 PM (eOEVl)

151 Monkeypox is super conductive.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 14, 2023 07:50 PM (ts2Er)

152 Superconductors, absolute zero and cold fusion may be feasible , but I think they will have to be accomplished off planet , likely at a grange point, as gravity is a problem

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 14, 2023 07:50 PM (R62ZP)

153 "11th grade geometry"

LOL.

Posted by: Heresolong at August 14, 2023 07:50 PM (evZX6)

154 Kettering also invented the world's first cruise missile during the Great War. The Kettering Aerial Torpedo or Bug was an unmanned biplane with a bomb aboard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:51 PM (ZIVuX)

155 Superconductors, absolute zero and cold fusion may be feasible , but I think they will have to be accomplished off planet , likely at a grange point, as gravity is a problem

I used to like grange, but then Kurt Cobain shot himself.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 14, 2023 07:51 PM (eOEVl)

156 The last superconductor was Sir Georg Solti.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 07:51 PM (xTRSc)

157 There's diamagnetism, ferromagnetism, and paramagnetism. One is inherent to the material, one is induced by an external field, and the other went wee wee wee all the way home.
.......

There is also tranniemagnetism when two men love each other very very much.

Posted by: wth at August 14, 2023 07:51 PM (v0R5T)

158
The videos all make me want to shout "It's ALIVE!" 'cause it's all sciency.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2023 07:39 PM (xhaym)

Just make sure you are drunk and give me credit

Posted by: Colin Clive at August 14, 2023 07:52 PM (us2H3)

159 re 148: i believe she tried avoiding jail by getting pregnant. didn't work.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:52 PM (B1FKF)

160 Gravity sure is a problem.

Posted by: Jerry Nadler at August 14, 2023 07:52 PM (v0R5T)

161 "Someone should Tweet/X about how racist "cis-magnetism"* is."

Is that where we can get magnets to stick ++ and --?

How about magnets that self identify as glue and stick to anything?

Posted by: Reforger at August 14, 2023 07:52 PM (B705c)

162 159 re 148: i believe she tried avoiding jail by getting pregnant. didn't work.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:52 PM (B1FKF)

She put on a fake beard so she could be sent to the men's prison instead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (9UlRk)

163 They are also really insistent about Shingrex vaccination too. Shingles sucks really, really bad.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2023 07:37 PM (bz6bY)

Doctor wants me to get a shingles vaccine. I don't know much about them, except that Shingrix isn't made with fetal lines. Other than that, I don't know much about it, and I apparently don't love science sexually enough to determine if I want it or not.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (OX9vb)

164 likely at a grange point

They got a lotta nice girls there.

Posted by: Neil deTyson Chicken at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (Xrfse)

165 https://youtu.be/XcYP5XP0Rlk

Rush

Posted by: DaveA at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (FhXTo)

166 Actually, if any of you really want to see how bad mankind has peaked just get on you tube and do a search "the customer states", and you will see vids submitted by car mechanics. The things they run across from people trying to repair things is off...the...frigging...charts. The complete stupidity of mankind is on display. Here's an example of one video-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6DQrTOMRC4

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (VwHCD)

167 (looks at comment count)
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Halogens rape alkali metals by taking away their electrons.

-

Speaking of, we watched Wonder Woman 1984 yesterday. I guess it's sort of on topic re: science and what-not, but holy cow what a horrible movie. Anti-Trump, anti-freedom, anti-MAGA, etc.

She absorbed the rounds from two Aegis weapons systems full auto cannons (Phalanx? I'm foggy on their name) firing simultaneously at her off screen (I would've loved to see that explained). She jumped in the water to electrocute a bad guy with the electric water but didn't get electrocuted. And on and on and on. It was horrible.

But the part that stands out the most is that Wonder Woman raped a guy. That's not a joke. Super hero awesome lady literally rapes a dude, and it could be argued murdered him, too (for whatever reason Steve was wished back into existence in this poor bastard's body instead of just returning).

Oh, and Steve - from WWI? - knows how to fly jets. That are fueled up and waiting to go in the Smithsonian. Because shut up.

But Trump said pussy, so it's okay.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (NdB+W)

168 Don't do that, it can be hard to get them off.

Posted by: Joe Biden with a steel plate in his head at August 14, 2023 07:49 PM (v0R5T)

I wondered if I had a map of the brain on like a bathing cap with pockets in it, and I put super magnets in the pocket that corresponded to say creativity, would I stimulate that part of the brain? Because I'd like to play the piano. Like Beethoven.

Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 14, 2023 07:54 PM (eheVn)

169 Which LaGrange Point?

And which Colony Side?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 14, 2023 07:54 PM (ZIVuX)

170 LK-99 is the Barack Hussein Obama of materials.
Promises world peace and stuff, delivers racial disharmony and a dead cook.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at August 14, 2023 07:54 PM (BJgzI)

171 The things they run across from people trying to repair things is off...the...frigging...charts. The complete stupidity of mankind is on display. Here's an example of one video-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6DQrTOMRC4

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (VwHCD)
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IT help desks can also tell some stories about idiot customers doing idiot things because the learned about it from the idiot tubes (internet).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2023 07:54 PM (BpYfr)

172 I don't trust vaccines. Any of them. Pharmaceuticals are for profit, and profit incentives lies.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 07:55 PM (G0bXQ)

173 Holmes dot headed boyfriend and second in command at Theranos got twice as much time as Elizabeth

he didn't look good in the black turtleneck

Posted by: REDACTED at August 14, 2023 07:55 PM (us2H3)

174 Shingles is one of the most painful episodes of my (not insignificant) life.
I remember praying for death to come swiftly. No sleep for a week or so.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 14, 2023 07:55 PM (MeG8a)

175 likely at a grange point

They got a lotta nice girls there.
Posted by: Neil deTyson Chicken at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (Xrfse)

You rang?

https://youtu.be/Vppbdf-qtGU

Dammit, faster than light, you Morons.

Posted by: Z Z Top at August 14, 2023 07:56 PM (ufFY8)

176 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6DQrTOMRC4

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (VwHCD)
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The worst are the cars so completely filthy they've developed their own ecosystem of ants and cockroaches.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 14, 2023 07:57 PM (2YtOq)

177 >>>I would bet that not one in a hundred know how electricity is conducted...

>Slow down there, chief. Not one in a hundred know what electrocuted means.

I got electrocuted when the cat brushed up against my pant leg.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 14, 2023 07:57 PM (fY84s)

178 164 likely at a grange point

They got a lotta nice girls there.

Posted by: Neil deTyson Chicken at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (Xrfse)

Rumor spreading round in that Texas town
About that shack outside La Grange

Posted by: Reforger at August 14, 2023 07:57 PM (B705c)

179 Is shingles the result of getting roofied?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 07:57 PM (xTRSc)

180 LK99 goes bust?

As in lifting and separating for full-figured gals?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 14, 2023 07:57 PM (4I/2K)

181 anyone mind if i take a break to floss my toes?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 14, 2023 07:57 PM (B1FKF)

182 Promises world peace and stuff, delivers racial disharmony and a dead cook.
Posted by: jimmymcnulty at August 14, 2023 07:54 PM (BJgzI)

I'll take "Things that don't float" for $600, Alex.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 07:57 PM (9UlRk)

183 @169Anna Puma, whoever gets to one first

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 14, 2023 07:58 PM (R62ZP)

184 I'll speak up for the authors of the paper. They probably knew, as did Pons and Fleischmann, that they should do more work, but they didn't want to get scooped, so they jumped the gun. They didn't intend to make a false claim, because that's career suicide.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 14, 2023 07:58 PM (eOEVl)

185 Dang, BD. I’m not done plowing through all the “Idiots With Chainsaws” You Tube vids.

They are outstanding

I do like the story about a phone call a feller got from his wife when her car broke down. “What does the gravy boat light thingy mean?”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2023 07:58 PM (bz6bY)

186 177 >>>I would bet that not one in a hundred know how electricity is conducted...

now do "how to grow corn"

Posted by: REDACTED at August 14, 2023 07:58 PM (us2H3)

187 Can we make segways out of it?

Posted by: Montec at August 14, 2023 07:58 PM (71zx6)

188 IT help desks can also tell some stories about idiot customers doing idiot things because the learned about it from the idiot tubes (internet).

-

The ones I feel bad for are the folks who will find a solution on a site or forum and run the command and it's a setup to break their system worse.

The equivalent of us joking to put your phone in the microwave, but not joking. Trying to get people to break their stuff just to be jerks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 07:59 PM (NdB+W)

189 My grandfather was a mining engineer back in the day. He had quite the collection of semi-precious gems, ingots, metallic compounds formed deep underground and such. Taught us much about geology, minerals, how diamonds, gold and other valuable stones are created underground. He had a bag full of uncut rubies. Small stuff, but interesting. He also had several "rocks" that would "levitate" when placed over a different rock. It was very cool. He always tried to explain how and why the stuff was created and did what it did.

He also used a couple of metal rods connected to a lamp cord to get fishing worms up out of the ground. That was really cool.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2023 07:59 PM (Q4IgG)

190 “What does the gravy boat light thingy mean?”

--

hahahahaha

(goes to look for Idiots with Chainsaws)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 08:00 PM (NdB+W)

191 I'll speak up for the authors of the paper. They probably knew, as did Pons and Fleischmann, that they should do more work, but they didn't want to get scooped, so they jumped the gun. They didn't intend to make a false claim, because that's career suicide.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 14, 2023 07:58 PM (eOEVl)
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That's probably true for the most part. Someone NOT in science read about their work and said, "Whoa! That's so cool!" Then spread the word on social media. Now they look like dumbasses when they may have been trying to do real science here.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2023 08:00 PM (BpYfr)

192 Does it explode ? because if it does not , I am not interested !

Posted by: runner at August 14, 2023 08:00 PM (V13WU)

193
he didn't look good in the black turtleneck
Posted by: REDACTED at August 14, 2023 07:55 PM (us2H3)

_________

No vocal fry

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2023 08:00 PM (MoZTd)

194 I hope ace is ok.
Will say a prayer just in case

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 14, 2023 08:00 PM (vHIgi)

195 Gravity sure is a problem.
Posted by: Jerry Nadler at August 14, 2023 07:52 PM (v0R5T)

Dat's right!

Posted by: Annie Hawkins-Turner 102ZZZ at August 14, 2023 08:00 PM (4I/2K)

196 Electricity is racist, yo

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at August 14, 2023 08:01 PM (uo9+F)

197 The gravy boat light indicates that the vehicles is within five miles of a Golden Corral.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 08:01 PM (xTRSc)

198 I'm guessing the person had no real world experience with tools and motors before he took on the project.

"Those bubbas with nasty fingernails and their names on the pockets of their greasy shirts can do this. How hard can it be?"

Posted by: Oddbob at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM (NHoLP)

199 "When they say they trust "the science", what they're really saying is that they trust the TV.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at August 14, 2023 07:29 PM (gJKGU) "

Boom!

This!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM (vbuLV)

200 Thunderf00t busted that nonsense several days ago. Even if it were a legit superconductor, it would have virtually no applications, as it's a ceramic. It's not easy to make useful shit (in a superconductor context) with ceramic.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM (XMwZJ)

201 But!!!
But!!!
UFOs!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM (NnQw6)

202 197 The gravy boat light indicates that the vehicles is within five miles of a Golden Corral.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 08:01 PM (xTRSc

Chocolate fountain, Yo!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM (G0bXQ)

203 Good post, Ace, and the Horde is behaving. Relax and put your feet up.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemies. at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM (GshMh)

204 174 Shingles is one of the most painful episodes of my (not insignificant) life.
I remember praying for death to come swiftly. No sleep for a week or so.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 14, 2023 07:55 PM (MeG8a)

I understand it's terrible. Are potential side effects from a vaccine worse? It's so hard now to find side effects info.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM (OX9vb)

205 Why don't we just ask those flying saucer guys how they do it?

Posted by: Weasel at August 14, 2023 08:03 PM (RG6z4)

206 Would it be gauche of me to say "Take me to your leader" to an alien when i finally see one?

I don't know what interstellar etiquette says on the topic...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 08:04 PM (9UlRk)

207 “What does the gravy boat light thingy mean?”
Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2023 07:58 PM (bz6bY)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 14, 2023 08:04 PM (OX9vb)

208 Im gonna GoFundMe my brain map cap with the pockets for super-magnets. In think it will change peoples lives. .

Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 14, 2023 08:05 PM (eheVn)

209 Shingles is one of the most painful episodes of my (not insignificant) life.
I remember praying for death to come swiftly. No sleep for a week or so.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 14, 2023 07:55 PM (MeG8a)

I understand it's terrible. Are potential side effects from a vaccine worse? It's so hard now to find side effects info.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM

My wife had the shingles.....I got the vaccine because I did not want to experience that kind of pain, the kind of pain that can laugh at oxy pain pills.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 14, 2023 08:05 PM (QNSds)

210 and the Horde is behaving

Ah, but the ONT is coming…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 08:05 PM (xTRSc)

211 201 But!!!
But!!!
UFOs!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM (NnQw6)

Trump got indited again?

Posted by: Reforger at August 14, 2023 08:05 PM (B705c)

212 Thanks for mentioning/linking Just Rolled In. I haven't watched it yet but glanced at the comments and saw this:

"Whoah! I've been a full flag time mechanic for 10 years and have never in my life seen or heard of a lower ball joint explode from potential pressure! I didn't even know that was possible!"

That was worth the click because I'd never thought much about that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 14, 2023 08:05 PM (NdB+W)

213 I want the Sciency bandwagoners to explain to me the principles of dowsing.

If you get two little Harry Potter wands of a particular material you can locate various things underground. It works.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 14, 2023 08:06 PM (fY84s)

214 Oh, I’m not anti-vaxx. That’s part of the gaslighting.

Guaranteed, I’ve taken way more inoculations and immunizations than these cocksuckers even know exist. My yellow shot record folds out as long as your arm.

I am anti-guinea pig, however. And that whole “First thing, Do No Harm.” Children, pregnant females. You know, let’s not kill people.

That the vaxx is causing a Shingles outbreak is something that doesn’t occur to them. “Where are you hearing that!”

A better question - where are you not hearing that. Because we’re about 3 years behind on everything. Shit we knew a week later after it happened, it takes a few years before they will acknowledge.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2023 08:06 PM (bz6bY)

215
I'm getting a little impatient with the lack of progress on transparent aluminum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2023 08:06 PM (MoZTd)

216 I'm just waiting for the completely life like AI Scarlett Johansson sex robot with the kung fu grip.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 08:08 PM (G0bXQ)

217 I went to a client's today who was complaining that a computer was shutting down randomly. When I got there I noticed that the power cable for the UPS was barely plugged in and about to fall out of the socket. I plugged it the rest of the way in and left.

Posted by: fd at August 14, 2023 08:08 PM (vFG9F)

218 I got the Shingrix shot #1 about a month ago. Sore shoulder muscle at the injection site for 3 - 4 days.

Pharmacist said the 2nd shot is the one most people have adverse reactions to, because their immune systems have been building antibodies from the first shot. Like having a cold for a few days, she said.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 14, 2023 08:08 PM (4I/2K)

219 While I laugh at the gravy boat description, I also admit it's an apt description and instantly tells me what the gal is looking at.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at August 14, 2023 08:09 PM (2YtOq)

220 "He also used a couple of metal rods connected to a lamp cord to get fishing worms up out of the ground. That was really cool.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 14, 2023 07:59 PM (Q4IgG) "

I have a smaller version that I will occasionally use to cook a bratwurst in about a minute ... the rods are titanium, thankyouverymuch!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 14, 2023 08:09 PM (vbuLV)

221 Dash my lace wigs! at August 14, 2023 08:02 PM

I tried to help a chemist get a formulation which ended the pain of shingles and genital herpes registered. But it was given no chance since that was the time period when any hint of carcinogenicity in an ingredient (even if used elsewhere in commerce) was the death knell for a pharmaceutical product.

It was only available at one pharmacy, through a quirk of the law.

Posted by: KT at August 14, 2023 08:09 PM (rrtZS)

222 206 Would it be gauche of me to say "Take me to your leader" to an alien when i finally see one?

I don't know what interstellar etiquette says on the topic...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2023 08:04 PM
Yeah, you go ahead and say 'take me to your leader'. Get you anal-probed every time.

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2023 08:09 PM (NxC5+)

223 Back in the early 90's, I bought a "Levitron Anti-Gravity (Spinning) Top" after hearing it advertised on Art Bell's old overnight "Dreamland" radio show.

Loved entertaining kids with it ... very cool.

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 14, 2023 08:09 PM (6VKyY)

224 Wesley Crusher + face hugger = good idea?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Even we have standards, you know.

Posted by: horny face huggers at August 14, 2023 08:10 PM (DgGvY)

225 Can LK-99 be cast as bullets because since you can't shoot people with lead bullets in Chicago anymore the gangsters are going to need something else to put caps in ass there.

Posted by: torabora at August 14, 2023 08:11 PM (OUiUM)

226 My favorite kind of gravy is the kind that comes from zebras.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 08:11 PM (xTRSc)

227 So I'm standing in a Jersey Mikes. It's hot and everyone seems to have the same idea. No cooking for dinner.
Cute girl really working it on the sammiches!
I may be in love.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2023 08:12 PM (NnQw6)

228 I'm getting a little impatient with the lack of progress on transparent aluminum.
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I'm getting a little impatient with the lack of progress on teleportation.

Posted by: runner at August 14, 2023 08:12 PM (V13WU)

229 My favorite kind of gravy is the kind that comes from zebras.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 08:11 PM

Hobos make good gravy.

Posted by: Adrian Monk at August 14, 2023 08:12 PM (QNSds)

230 227 So I'm standing in a Jersey Mikes. It's hot and everyone seems to have the same idea. No cooking for dinner.
Cute girl really working it on the sammiches!
I may be in love.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2023 08:12 PM (NnQw6

Ask her if she likes salami. Then wink once with your off eye.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 08:13 PM (G0bXQ)

231 Crazy Ivan.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 14, 2023 08:13 PM (QNSds)

232 I want my flying car.

Posted by: Reforger at August 14, 2023 08:13 PM (B705c)

233 Back in the early 90's, I bought a "Levitron Anti-Gravity (Spinning) Top" after hearing it advertised on Art Bell's old overnight "Dreamland" radio show.

Loved entertaining kids with it ... very cool.
Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 14, 2023 08:09 PM (6VKyY)

Do you role play Inception with it?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 14, 2023 08:14 PM (4I/2K)

234 Cute girl really working it on the sammiches!
I may be in love.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2023 08:12 PM (NnQw6)

I remember an absolute stunner slinging coffee in a coffee joint in West Palm Beach.

It was a pleasure just looking at her.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2023 08:14 PM (X3bs2)

235 I'm getting a little impatient with the lack of progress on teleportation.
Posted by: runner at August 14, 2023 08:12 PM (V13WU)

Don't be in a rush.

Posted by: BrundleFly at August 14, 2023 08:14 PM (4I/2K)

236 I was working on a tripped breaker in a cubical area and came across a cheap brown 18guage two wire extension cord that was melting down under a pile of paper.

Posted by: torabora at August 14, 2023 08:15 PM (OUiUM)

237 I don't understand how Shingrix helps people who've already been exposed to the virus?
But I do understand that it attacks people with weakened immune systems. So I'm pinning my hope on keeping my immune system strong.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 14, 2023 08:15 PM (vHIgi)

238 I tried to help a chemist get a formulation which ended the pain of shingles and genital herpes registered. But it was given no chance since that was the time period when any hint of carcinogenicity in an ingredient (even if used elsewhere in commerce) was the death knell for a pharmaceutical product.

It was only available at one pharmacy, through a quirk of the law.

Posted by: KT at August 14, 2023 08:09 PM (rrtZS)

-------------

"Singles and genital herpes are known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity."

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 14, 2023 08:15 PM (6VKyY)

239 I want a tricorder.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 08:15 PM (xTRSc)

240 I don't know that RT Superconductors are im-possible but the effect is stopped by the random jiggling of the atoms in the material due to temperature. Hard to imagine you would be able to make a situation were electrons flow with no barriers at normal temperatures without some huge unknown way to contain the electrons without material walls without interaction, a pretty tall order. Its a similar problem with fusion - how to contain the hot plasma without it touching anything and thus melting it.

I was in grad school in Cold Fusion days and my first thought was that the fact that Pons and Fleishman didn't induce fusion was their lab wasn't a huge crater under a massive explosion. Chemical effects like explosives and fire give off one millionth or less energy per atom than nuclear or fusion. If a chemical reaction somehow produced a million times more uncontrolled energy that expected that's a hell of a bang.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 14, 2023 08:16 PM (eoQWY)

241 Chocolate fountain, Yo!

Gone.

Posted by: Lizzo at August 14, 2023 08:16 PM (Xrfse)

242 It's juvenile, it's puerile, it's jejune, it's callow, and it's other synonyms I'm sure must exist but for the moment I've run out.
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Doody-headed also works.

Posted by: 496 at August 14, 2023 08:16 PM (fe/H0)

243 Can we extend the no math rule to include no physics?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 14, 2023 08:17 PM (FVME7)

244 Saw a beautiful woman looking at meat at the grocery today. I only had broccoli, onions, pork rinds, and Brussels sprouts in my basket. We had nothing to talk about.

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2023 08:17 PM (NxC5+)

245 I was in grad school in Cold Fusion days and my first thought was that the fact that Pons and Fleishman didn't induce fusion was their lab wasn't a huge crater under a massive explosion. Chemical effects like explosives and fire give off one millionth or less energy per atom than nuclear or fusion. If a chemical reaction somehow produced a million times more uncontrolled energy that expected that's a hell of a bang.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 14, 2023 08:16 PM

I split the Beer atom.......

Posted by: Yahoo Serious at August 14, 2023 08:18 PM (QNSds)

246 Shingrix sounds like a portmanteau for "Shanghai English" -- which reminds me of the old Engrish.com website (heh -- it's still there over 20 years later).

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 14, 2023 08:19 PM (6VKyY)

247 I want a tricorder.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I want a Holodeck and Seven of Nine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 14, 2023 08:19 PM (FVME7)

248 a beautiful woman looking at meat at the grocery today

So, you shop at the grocery store as The Paolo?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 08:19 PM (xTRSc)

249 Can we extend the no math rule to include no physics?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 14, 2023 08:17 PM

Pretty sure that's a hard no....

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 14, 2023 08:19 PM (QNSds)

250 Nude Ace.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2023 08:19 PM (X3bs2)

251 I was told some years ago, if we’ve ever had Chicken Pox, the virus remains, residing deep in the spine or bone marrow or somesuch.

Stress, or sickness can revive it. Or broken bones. Maybe that thinking has changed, not sure.

Shingles would be spread to someone who has never been exposed to Chicken Pox, perhaps. Or maybe they just come down with Chicken Pox.

Tough to know what to do these days.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2023 08:19 PM (bz6bY)

252 I'm getting a little impatient with the lack of progress on teleportation.
Posted by: runner at August 14, 2023 08:12 PM (V13WU)

Don't be in a rush.
Posted by: BrundleFly at August 14, 2023 08:14 PM (4I/2K)

Niven wrote a few stores about the development of teleportation at a commercial level. Lots of issues of conservation of momentum...if you teleport north or south you are suddenly moving at great speed different than the ground is under earth's rotation. Also energy gain or loss if you teleport upcountry from the coast.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 14, 2023 08:19 PM (eoQWY)

253 247 Those also work.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 14, 2023 08:20 PM (xTRSc)

254 lol, just before covidiocy hit my doc gave me a scrip for shingrix ...
i have been, shall we say, "reluctant" to get it, for some reason ...

and no, not at all anti-vax per se, maybe a bit the other way even,
theoretically, what's not to love about being immune to catch some creepy-ass f*#@ed up disease, right?
jeepers, i musta been vaccinated about 10 times for polio; still got a smallpox scar, ...

but the whole world of medicine has so roundly screwed the pooch as far as trust is concerned i just can't even

and trust once lost is so very, very hard to regain; and they're not even trying; "oh, you don't trust us, how do you like this pistol up against your forehead?" is more like where we stand today.

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 14, 2023 08:21 PM (vbuLV)

255 I was digging into the Tesla Valve today. I see potential for a project I'm working on.
Posted by: Reforger at August 14, 2023 07:47 PM (B705c)

I think it works as a fish ladder, I am not sure what else, there is supposed to be an online calculator that lets you try to develop a best fit for your pressures and your fluid. I had wondered if it would work in a water ram but I couldn't get beyond step one.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2023 08:21 PM (xhaym)

256 Can we extend the no math rule to include no physics?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 14, 2023 08:17 PM (FVME7)

If you start there, you soon arrive at NO Biology which means no boobies - human or birds.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 14, 2023 08:21 PM (eoQWY)

257 Well, OK, but please tell me cold fusion, and future EV batteries that compared to current ones hold four times the charge, weigh one-third less, and are one-tenth the cost are only two years away. PLEASE tell me this is so, as promised by My Betters!

Posted by: Leftist Know-Nothings at August 14, 2023 08:22 PM (AMIL/)

258 >Can we extend the no math rule to include no physics?

yes, we readers who aren't physical feel left out

Posted by: DB - at August 14, 2023 08:22 PM (geLO8)

259 I think Ace had this one in the hopper.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

I think Ace wrote this one on the hopper.
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"Look at this Van de Graff..." -- Nickelback

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 14, 2023 08:23 PM (kjOVp)

260 This bikini-clad cutie is amused by your sandwich request but will not make one for you.

https://tinyurl.com/yc73jefu

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 14, 2023 08:23 PM (4I/2K)

261 There are two noods at the same time! Lamont, where are you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2023 08:25 PM (JvZF+)

262 Doctor wants me to get a shingles vaccine. I don't know much about them, except that Shingrix isn't made with fetal lines. Other than that, I don't know much about it, and I apparently don't love science sexually enough to determine if I want it or not.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 14, 2023 07:53 PM (OX9vb)

Hang around with gradeschool kids and you will be exposed to enough chickenpox to keep your immune system up to date to what it is supposed to be fighting when and if your childhood infection decides to re-emerge as shingles.

I am not a doctor, you could get it anyways. But that apparently is true for the Shingex vaccine as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2023 08:27 PM (xhaym)

263 I went to a client's today who was complaining that a computer was shutting down randomly. When I got there I noticed that the power cable for the UPS was barely plugged in and about to fall out of the socket. I plugged it the rest of the way in and left.
Posted by: fd at August 14, 2023 08:08 PM (vFG9F)

I remember once in Grad School our mini computer was running real slow, you couldn't log in. It was Linux, and I'd seen similar where if the system is bogged down you can still log in just very slowly. After logging in I saw that the job handling terminals was insanely busy on one line. Went to that office and the floor had been waxed the night before and on the cable to the comuputer the wax had gotten into the gender changing gizmo to wire the serial in and out between terminal and computer and made some kind of connection that was mimicing zillions of keystrokes. Chipping the thing out of the lake of wax fixed the problem.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 14, 2023 08:29 PM (eoQWY)

264 Hang around with gradeschool kids and you will be exposed to enough chickenpox to keep your immune system up to date to what it is supposed to be fighting when and if your childhood infection decides to re-emerge as shingles.

I am not a doctor, you could get it anyways. But that apparently is true for the Shingex vaccine as well.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2023 08:27 PM (xhaym)

Would be amusing to show up at school lunch and ask all the kids to spit on you a few times.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 14, 2023 08:30 PM (eoQWY)

265 Well, OK, but please tell me cold fusion, and future EV batteries that compared to current ones hold four times the charge, weigh one-third less, and are one-tenth the cost are only two years away. PLEASE tell me this is so, as promised by My Betters!
Posted by: Leftist Know-Nothings at August 14, 2023 08:22 PM (AMIL/)

I remember in the 70s reading that the Western fad for Nuke submarines would cripple battery research going forward since most research was driven by Submarines.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 14, 2023 08:33 PM (eoQWY)

266 I'm just waiting for the completely life like AI Scarlett Johansson sex robot with the kung fu grip.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 14, 2023 08:08 PM (G0bXQ)

Beta test version just sits there and buzzes. The Vista version has a strange resemblance to an older styled M3gan.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2023 08:37 PM (xhaym)

267 I also saw some stuff about this online which mentioned LK-99 was supposedly based on discarded Soviet research from the 1970s or 1980s, so some left-wingers were trying to use that to dunk on capitalism -- "See? Turns out communist science was better all along! Suck it, free market!"

Sure thing, guys.

Posted by: Ex-liberal at August 14, 2023 09:04 PM (XdH1u)

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