Cleveland Balloon Disaster Cafe

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona

Paraglider "flaps his wings" to get airborne. It works! (Though he has a lot of wind to work with.)

The Cleveland Balloon disaster of 1996. It's like the saw the Turkey Drop episode of WKRP in Cincinnati and thought, "We can't let Cincinnati win the Stupid Derby."

What did you say to me...?

Meeting a shoebill stork. The rat-a-tat beak clicking is real.

Avalanche, as viewed from the bury zone.

Some kind of Dutch sport.

Claim: Absent air resistance, a bowling ball and a feather will fall at the same speed. Status: Confirmed.

Based on the screams of terror, I'd say he really liked his first bungi jump.

Cannonball!

"The Stairway to Heaven."

Now this is pod-racing! (No it's not. Why do you think everything is pod-racing?)

Got a paint-job for you -- it pays $20,000. There is a catch.

Capybara walking in water.

A sneak peek at "the Pink City," if you know what I mean.

Bug racing.

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2024 07:21 PM (QNSds)

2 If that pool had ladder to climb out I would so be there.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:24 PM (Xw32h)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 07:24 PM (fwDg9)

4 Tucker did the Joe Rogan podcast.

It was really good once you got past the UFO stuff in the beginning.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 07:26 PM (XV/Pl)

5 Very nice pic up top. Hopefully a wink toward the liberal pool of tears post election.

Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2024 07:26 PM (CwEzr)

6 That's a Cleveland story if there ever was one.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 19, 2024 07:26 PM (R4t5M)

7 Politics but humour, sorta,

I Meme Therefore I Am @ImMeme0 2h
Democrats have bigger issues with Trump being bored during his sham trial than with their guy who CANNOT string a coherent sentence together.

Wtf this he is even saying?

https://tinyurl.com/3ubznvs4
5 seconds; also Yelling Joe!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:27 PM (vtyCZ)

8 >>Meeting a shoebill stork. The rat-a-tat beak clicking is real.

That is one ugly bird. If you doubt birds are dinosaurs, look at this video.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 07:27 PM (5fDan)

9 Exactly what would the helmet do on the Stairway to Heaven do if it failed?

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 07:28 PM (fwDg9)

10 That stairway to heaven is cool but what is the point? I mean you get to the top and there isn't anything there and you have to turn around and go back down.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 19, 2024 07:29 PM (QNSds)

11 The Yak Proliferation Society wishes you all a good evening

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:30 PM (Xw32h)

12 Avalanche, as viewed from the bury zone.

Did they play this at the videographer's funeral?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2024 07:31 PM (4HcMG)

13 That is one ugly bird. If you doubt birds are dinosaurs, look at this video.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 07:27 PM (5fDan)

Regular storks deliver babies; shoebills deliver the dirty diapers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 07:31 PM (tkR6S)

14 From the bowling ball-feather link: "This is because gravity affects all objects equally regardless of their mass"

This is not true, AFAIK. The gravitational force is proportional to the product of the masses divided by the square of the distance. I think.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 07:31 PM (MvF+J)

15 12 I noticed the programmed zoom.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 07:32 PM (MvF+J)

16 Has to be a way to have a drone do painting

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 07:33 PM (fwDg9)

17 Tucker did the Joe Rogan podcast.
It was really good once you got past the UFO stuff in the beginning.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 07:26 PM (XV/Pl)

Going to listen to that. Tucker Rogan Whitlock in my top podcau.

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 07:33 PM (zTK4r)

18 Caves frighten me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 07:34 PM (c4Miv)

19 Why not just paint the inside of the tower, then flip it inside-out?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2024 07:35 PM (PI/SC)

20 "Absent air resistance, a bowling ball and a feather will fall at the same speed."

I say that falling in a vacuum, the bowling ball accelerates infinitesimally faster than the feather does, less than can be measured.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 07:36 PM (MvF+J)

21 Doesn't no gravity mean that neither one falls? Science ain't my strong suit.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:39 PM (Xw32h)

22 NEXTA @nexta_tv 12h
A video from the ascent of Taishan Mountain in China has gone viral online

Its height - more than 1500 meters, and to get there, you have to climb 7200 steps. Not everyone is able to overcome such a path.

https://tinyurl.com/27aby8cs
37 seconds; very LOUD but the Chinese pop music matches the video so just turn it down! No translation unfortunately.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:39 PM (vtyCZ)

23 Caves certainly don't bother me, hight not too much.
Think I brought it up before but climbed the water tower at Bentwaters air base twice. First al I ne then with friend much later.
Mostly surprised didn't get caught.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 07:41 PM (fwDg9)

24 Caves. It had to be caves.

Never let your first wild cave be named Mud Cave.

And every time I've been in a wild cave I wish I was sharon (willow's apprentice) size.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 07:41 PM (u82oZ)

25 Some kind of Dutch sport.
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I'm glad the winner figured it out.

You have to climb up to the near/very top of the pole before doing your forward movement. [Not that I could do even three feet up the pole let alone get to the top and hit the landing0strip.]

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:43 PM (vtyCZ)

26 What a rookie. The Cafe is great though!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 19, 2024 07:43 PM (D9YZG)

27 No caves, no heights for me. Anything taller than a horse and I'm out.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:43 PM (Xw32h)

28 [Not that I could do even three feet up the pole let alone get to the top and hit the landing0strip.]
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:43 PM (vtyCZ)

I have the exact same problem.

Posted by: Tiffany at April 19, 2024 07:44 PM (tkR6S)

29 NEXTA @nexta_tv 9h
In Chicago at a trade show, a robot loader couldn't handle 10 hours of continuous work
The poor guy is just tired.
===
It just collapses in a pile so I'm not bothering with the video.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:44 PM (vtyCZ)

30 Lovely picture up top.

Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2024 07:44 PM (oaGWv)

31 AZ deplorable, you are here and that's all that counts.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:45 PM (Xw32h)

32 NEXTA @nexta_tv 10h
Nearly a hundred new marine species have been discovered on reefs near New Zealand - Ocean Census

The research was conducted in a little-explored area of the Bounty Trench, and it was there that new species of ocean life were found.
===
Funny how they always discuss [allegedly] disappearing species but never new discoveries?

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:46 PM (vtyCZ)

33 NEXTA @nexta_tv 11h
Japanese Kenta Adachi broke the world record for the number of pull-ups in 24 hours among men

He managed to do 8,940 pull-ups, which is more than 300 more than the previous record set by Gary Lloyd from Australia.
===
I could do that but I choose not to!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:47 PM (vtyCZ)

34 27 No caves, no heights for me. Anything taller than a horse and I'm out.
Posted by: Ben Had at April

And even there I have my limits. When we get beyond 16.2, and frankly even maybe before that, I look like a weekly wobble up there!

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 07:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

35 Bungee jumping is a blast. Did it once. Don't have to do it again though.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 07:47 PM (ul18A)

36 The Cleveland Balloon disaster of 1996. It's like the saw the Turkey Drop episode of WKRP in Cincinnati and thought, "We can't let Cincinnati win the Stupid Derby."

To say nothing of the "$.10 beer night" when the Indians played the Texas Rangers in '74. Legendary!!

Nothing like it before and since.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 07:48 PM (WXNFJ)

37 Evenin' Horde. Watching another lovely sunset from my swing.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 19, 2024 07:48 PM (wQXfi)

38 Piper, I specifically bred my old age horse to be 14 hands.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:49 PM (Xw32h)

39 27 Same as me, except I also stay away from horses.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 07:49 PM (MvF+J)

40 Caves frighten me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 07:34 PM (c4Miv)

As they should. Fear of being trapped and dying slowly is rational.

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 07:50 PM (m3jEV)

41 Piper, I specifically bred my old age horse to be 14 hands.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:49 PM (Xw32h)

How are you going to keep it from wearing out before you get old?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 07:50 PM (tkR6S)

42 Regular storks deliver babies; shoebills deliver the dirty diapers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And what delivers no babies at all?

That's right boys and girls, a swallow!

HeyOhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 07:50 PM (WXNFJ)

43 AOP, I have already hit old as dirt status.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:51 PM (Xw32h)

44 40 Read about Nutty Putty, and enjoy the nightmares afterward.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 07:52 PM (MvF+J)

45 I was going to post a shoebill recipe but you probably don't want to see that.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

46 Now that the flowers and trees are blossoming here, it snows

Spring in Colorado 🌼 ❄️

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 07:54 PM (oCjPU)

47 NEXTA @nexta_tv 13h
A group of ballerinas gathered at the famous Plaza Hotel in New York City Wednesday to break the Guinness World Record for the most dancers en pointe at the same time for one minute.

The ballerinas come from across the U.S. and countries around the world.

The previous world record was 306 ballerinas en pointe set in 2019.
===
Plié, bro!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:54 PM (vtyCZ)

48 fd, is that one of those you gotta sous vide that shit things,?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:54 PM (Xw32h)

49 And what delivers no babies at all?

That's right boys and girls, a swallow!

HeyOhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

I'll give them a pass on this one. Poor little guys are tired after carrying coconuts all day.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 19, 2024 07:54 PM (dZVON)

50 I see rhinos use the horn for digging. IDNKT.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 07:55 PM (MvF+J)

51 I was going to post a shoebill recipe but you probably don't want to see that.
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

...and boil until the rock is tender, and eat the rock.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 07:55 PM (tkR6S)

52 Stuff I avoid:

Heights
Depths
Widths

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 07:55 PM (oCjPU)

53 I have already hit old as dirt status.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:51 PM (Xw32h)

One foot in the grave is a prerequisite for commenting here.

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 07:56 PM (m3jEV)

54 The ballerinas come from across the U.S. and countries around the world.

The previous world record was 306 ballerinas en pointe set in 2019.
===
Plié, bro!
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:54 PM (vtyCZ)

Were they all on the head of the same pin?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 07:56 PM (tkR6S)

55 Funny Elon Musk Xtwitter visual joke.
https://tinyurl.com/5b4ahydc
screencap

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 07:57 PM (vtyCZ)

56 Avalanche, as viewed from the bury zone.

Did they play this at the videographer's funeral?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 19, 2024 07:31 PM (4HcMG)

According to the text, he retrieved the GoPro camera and won a 1000 bucks.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 19, 2024 07:57 PM (iODuv)

57 Where are the Brandon odds? Somebods gotta be taking bets.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 19, 2024 07:58 PM (as3uC)

58 ,"is that one of those you gotta sous vide that shit things"

No, it's more of an expedient survival situation technique.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

59 Paragliding not so sure about, either would get dumped I'm the water or hung up on that light post

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 07:59 PM (fwDg9)

60 Who thought the ballon release was a good thing even if it went 100% as planned?

Did they think the balloons would just disappear?

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 07:59 PM (TDRQO)

61 fd, shoeing tatrare?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:00 PM (Xw32h)

62 38 Piper, I specifically bred my old age horse to be 14 hands.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07

The most amazing pony in the world is 14.2. He is happily chomping grass in his retirement home, but man did he try his heart out for me in his day. He was game for anything. I even dropped a rein in a dressage test and he just kept on going! My warm blood was like riding a cloud, but Picasso was like riding the big comfy couch. He is my soul mate. He is 32 now and I can’t even believe it.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 08:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

63 Caves frighten me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 07:34 PM

TBF, the colossal ones can be quite grue-some.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 08:01 PM (a3Q+t)

64 NEXTA @nexta_tv 14h
This Australian pensioner became the Guinness Book record holder because he managed to visit 120 pubs in 24 hours

In each of them according to the conditions it was necessary to take at least 1 drink of at least 125 ml. Drinking alcohol was an optional criterion. In total, he managed to drink 20 liters of different liquids in a day.

https://tinyurl.com/yrd9vye4
Photos of the conquering hero!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 08:01 PM (vtyCZ)

65 57 oddsshark.com has:
Donald Trump +100
Joe Biden +110

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 08:01 PM (MvF+J)

66 fd , you know what I meant.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:01 PM (Xw32h)

67

I'm sick and tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.

GRRRRRR

I don't give a shit about her.

Posted by: four seasons at April 19, 2024 08:01 PM (PisyI)

68 I first learned of the word spelunking from reading Calvin and Hobbes.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 08:02 PM (TDRQO)

69 Only a barbarian would eat raw shoebill.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 08:02 PM (vFG9F)

70 Cleveland Balloon Disaster >>>>>>>>>>>>> Cleveland Steamer disaster

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 08:03 PM (a3Q+t)

71 67 Now she'll write a song about you.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 08:03 PM (MvF+J)

72 Depths don't bother me. Heights, nope.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 08:03 PM (LkLld)

73
lol gp

Early this morning I was trying to find out about the Israel/Iran thing.

One of the sites I checked was Daily Mail.

Four, count them fucking four articles about the Swift witch.

Posted by: four seasons at April 19, 2024 08:05 PM (PisyI)

74 Caves frighten me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 07:34 PM (c4Miv)

Me too. Sort of. I've been in Mammoth Cave and the Lewis and Clark caverns (MT). kind of scary but in a Halloween haunted house way, as in I knew we would be okay. Guided tours and all that.
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the one that got me was the Spirit Mountain cave outside of Cody, WY. me and some buddies saw that the gate was open, and we went in with no light except for a couple books of matches. We got lost so quickly that it was terrifying.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at April 19, 2024 08:05 PM (MvA9C)

75 Piper my first cow horse was that size I was showing him in a class and the ground was wet and slick. He fell down and I bailed . He got up and finished the cow work with me standing in the arena waiting on him to get done.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:05 PM (Xw32h)

76 Cleveland Balloon Disaster was in 1996? Did Drew Carey have anything to do with it?

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 08:05 PM (MvF+J)

77 Want a useless quandary about who to pull for?

Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian have been feuding for awhile.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 08:05 PM (TDRQO)

78 Cleveland Balloon Disaster >>>>>>>>>>>>> Cleveland Steamer disaster
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 08:03 PM (a3Q+t)

But all pale before the Woodbridge Dog Disaster:

https://youtu.be/fFDgiofbQPA

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 08:06 PM (tkR6S)

79 Meeting a shoebill stork. The rat-a-tat beak clicking is real.

That is one ugly bird. If you doubt birds are dinosaurs, look at this video.
Posted by: Gref

You live on a diet of baby crocodiles and lizards and stuff and see how pretty you turn out.

Posted by: a shoebill at April 19, 2024 08:06 PM (QvxaN)

80 I was, no shit, watching "Match Game 73" a little while ago and one of the questions was "Scientists were recently amazed to see a penguin --blanking-- a giant whale".

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

81

Why in hell don't the super rich assholes take their money and enjoy a wonderful life.

I guess they are narcissists. I don't get it.

Posted by: four seasons at April 19, 2024 08:08 PM (PisyI)

82 I am not overly of heights, but I hate ladders. Especially now that I am past 29.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at April 19, 2024 08:08 PM (MvA9C)

83 I think Big Penguin is using AI to retroactively change questions on old TV game shows. You may think that's some crazy conspiracy theory, but you know how that usually ends up. In a couple of years I could very well be proven correct.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 08:09 PM (vFG9F)

84 Do you have to go down the Stairway to Heaven, or is there a nice man in a comfy gondola on the other side of the mountain to take you back down to town.

No matter. Still nope.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 19, 2024 08:10 PM (3ImbR)

85 80 The answer is 'riding,' no doubt.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 08:10 PM (MvF+J)

86 75 Piper my first cow horse was that size I was showing him in a class and the ground was wet and slick. He fell down and I bailed . He got up and finished the cow work with me standing in the arena waiting on him to get done.
Posted by: Ben Had at April

I love it!

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 08:10 PM (ZdaMQ)

87 Shit.

Feel free to insert the word "afraid" into my last poat.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at April 19, 2024 08:11 PM (MvA9C)

88 "Scientists were recently amazed to see a penguin --blanking-- a giant whale".
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 08:06 PM

I keep warning about the persistent polymorphic perversity of penguins. You cannot trust them. You cannot turn your back on them. You cannot abide their smell.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 08:11 PM (a3Q+t)

89 Always wanted to build my own 'cave' and build a home into a side of a mountain. The Cheyenne Mountain bunker always fascinated me.

Does anyone know what it is used for now? I need to look it up.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 08:11 PM (TDRQO)

90 Cleveland Balloon Disaster was in 1996? Did Drew Carey have anything to do with it?
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 08:05 PM (MvF+J)

You asked for it.

https://tinyurl.com/2pscmanf

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 19, 2024 08:12 PM (iODuv)

91 I said "humping". Ha ha ha.

Posted by: Charles Nelson Reilly at April 19, 2024 08:12 PM (vFG9F)

92 Beautiful photo of Sycamore Canyon. I lived in Arizona for a couple of years while I went to graduate school, and the state is one of those about which you can say that one could live there for a lifetime and not see everything there is to see.

Posted by: Paco at April 19, 2024 08:13 PM (njExo)

93 polynikes, I could do a Hobbit hole no problem.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:13 PM (Xw32h)

94 90 I read his book "Dirty Jokes and Beer" all the way to the end. Funny stuff.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 08:14 PM (MvF+J)

95 I am not overly of heights, but I hate ladders. Especially now that I am past 29.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at April 19, 2024 08:08 PM (MvA9C)
~~~~~

I once froze on a caged ladder on the side of a tower in an oil refinery. About 200 feet up and I couldn't move--wasn't going up or down. No sir. Tower swaying back and forth. Good times.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 19, 2024 08:14 PM (3ImbR)

96 I think Big Penguin is using AI to retroactively change questions on old TV game shows. You may think that's some crazy conspiracy theory, but you know how that usually ends up. In a couple of years I could very well be proven correct.
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 08:09 PM

It's not a theory. Big Penguin never sleeps.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 08:14 PM (a3Q+t)

97 Ooookaaaay...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
NEW - Tucker Carlson talks about aliens on The Joe Rogan Experience: "They're spiritual entities, they're supernatural. They've been here a long time. And there's a ton of evidence that they're under the ocean and under the ground."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 08:14 PM (vtyCZ)

98 Nobody ever said ‘Hey, you want to pet my penguin?’
No.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2024 08:15 PM (NxC5+)

99 Amazing comeback by the runner in that race. Inspiring.

Posted by: Paco at April 19, 2024 08:15 PM (njExo)

100 Overly of heights?

No, I don't think I'll ever overly of heights.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 08:16 PM (vtyCZ)

101 NEXTA @nexta_tv 10h
Nearly a hundred new marine species have been discovered on reefs near New Zealand - Ocean Census

--

Don't worry though, because the exact same people who struggle to count fish have accounted for all of the variables involved in Global Warming.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 08:16 PM (WCiZg)

102 Jump on 100.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2024 08:16 PM (NxC5+)

103 Eromero, master of the reality.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:16 PM (Xw32h)

104 >>Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
NEW - Tucker Carlson talks about aliens on The Joe Rogan Experience: "They're spiritual entities, they're supernatural. They've been here a long time. And there's a ton of evidence that they're under the ocean and under the ground."

Tucker ate the brown acid.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 08:17 PM (LkLld)

105 Piper, I specifically bred my old age horse to be 14 hands.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07

The most amazing pony in the world is 14.2. He is happily chomping grass in his retirement home, but man did he try his heart out for me in his day. He was game for anything. I even dropped a rein in a dressage test and he just kept on going! My warm blood was like riding a cloud, but Picasso was like riding the big comfy couch. He is my soul mate. He is 32 now and I can’t even believe it.
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 08:00 PM (ZdaMQ)
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The 'Ettes are an amazing, wondrous bunch. Truly.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at April 19, 2024 08:17 PM (MvA9C)

106 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
NEW - Tucker Carlson talks about aliens on The Joe Rogan Experience: "They're spiritual entities, they're supernatural. They've been here a long time. And there's a ton of evidence that they're under the ocean and under the ground."

-

I started saying a couple of years ago that I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if demons are presenting themselves to people in high places as aliens. We wouldn't be able to tell one way or the other.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 08:18 PM (WCiZg)

107 >>>Resilience pays.

They stepped on her head!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 19, 2024 08:18 PM (klJTj)

108 Ben Had, if we are both as old as dirt, we must be related.

Posted by: RI Red at April 19, 2024 08:18 PM (T9WMp)

109 If none of the pro-penguin people show up tonight, we may finally be able to have a rational and fair and balanced discussion of penguins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 08:19 PM (a3Q+t)

110 I'm sick and tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.

GRRRRRR

I don't give a shit about her.

Posted by: four seasons

Obviously you don't understand how important the release of her double album is. Besides dissing her exes she lays one on...gasp...Kim K. This is world shaking news people. Instead of discussing cuddly animals and feats of derring do we should all be talking about The Most Important musical event of the century. Really!

My classical music station is playing "Bolero". Good lord I hate it with the heat of a million suns.

Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2024 08:19 PM (oaGWv)

111 I'm older than water. Shall we make mud?

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 08:20 PM (MvF+J)

112 RI Red , we are kin by association. Hope you and yours are well

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:20 PM (Xw32h)

113 Capybaras are like dignified pandas.

Posted by: Paco at April 19, 2024 08:21 PM (njExo)

114 alexandriabrown retweeted oirchick
In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1 1h
Elizabeth Taylor said it best herself... "No one could craft a lovelier vase, hunk of crystal, painting, or a diamond than what God did with Ava Gardner"

https://tinyurl.com/3hkad39t
Nice photo of Ava.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 08:22 PM (vtyCZ)

115 I still think sleep paralysis is the cause of the majority of alien abduction/contact reports by people

It is one freaky condition to experience. It happened to me only once about 25 years ago. I didn't know what the hell was happening. I was awake but couldn't move .

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 08:22 PM (TDRQO)

116 We jest about age but there is no place that has more knowledge , about more subjects than here.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:23 PM (Xw32h)

117 I’m pretty sure that aliens and ghosts and shit can be easily explained under a multiverse theory where the infinite number of universes side by side allow some manner of crossing.
And it gets around the speed of light speed limit quite nicely.

Posted by: RI Red at April 19, 2024 08:23 PM (T9WMp)

118 Lucifer was supposedly the bestest of angels, the kind that got 1/3 of the angelic host to side with him against GOD. Yeah, play with snakes, get bit.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2024 08:24 PM (NxC5+)

119 Posted by: RI Red at April 19, 2024 08:23 PM (T9WMp)

I am a fan of the multiverse theory in general.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 08:25 PM (TDRQO)

120 Ave, Ava.

Posted by: RI Red at April 19, 2024 08:25 PM (T9WMp)

121 I've never seen a ghost or alien but would like to because it would sure clear some things up.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 08:25 PM (vFG9F)

122 The bill of the Shoebill Stork is one foot long.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 08:27 PM (e6UQI)

123 All good, Ben Had. If this Clown World allows, hoping to see you in the Fall.
I mean Fall in the seasonal sense, not the destructional sense, of course.

Posted by: RI Red at April 19, 2024 08:28 PM (T9WMp)

124 The bill of the Shoebill Stork is one foot long.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 08:27 PM (e6UQI)

Sounds like a Subway commercial.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 08:29 PM (TDRQO)

125 "The bill of the Shoebill Stork is one foot long."

Hopefully that will be the sole Shoebill joke.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 08:29 PM (vFG9F)

126 AOP - Took me a moment to catch on, 'Kick his balls!'
Stan Rogers, what a loss.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2024 08:29 PM (XeU6L)

127 types, deletes.. The night my favorite Aunt died her spirit came and said goodbye.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:32 PM (Xw32h)

128 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 18h
BREAKING: A grand jury declines to indict Mario Young (17) for shoplifting and then shooting and kiIIing the store clerk.

Activists claim that Mr. Young acted in self defense since the clerk chased after them, asking for the stolen items back.

The 2nd teen was never even charged.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 08:32 PM (vtyCZ)

129 Everything I remember reading about angels in the Bible has them telling the people they appear before "It's okay, don't be afraid" and also "don't worship me."

They'd be like nothing we can imagine (covered with eyeballs?) and as a god to us, and they're not even one percent of the glory of the Lord.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 08:33 PM (WCiZg)

130 Imagine what this world would be like today if a baby penguin had walked into the MudMoMe.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2024 08:33 PM (NxC5+)

131 Activists claim that Mr. Young acted in self defense since the clerk chased after them, asking for the stolen items back.

--

Wow. This country is done.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 08:33 PM (WCiZg)

132 RI Red, I am so looking forward to that happening.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:33 PM (Xw32h)

133 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 20h
Trump Legal Team Skeptical About Impartiality Of Juror Number Six
buff.ly/3JmP2Rt

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 08:34 PM (vtyCZ)

134 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 15h
Wikipedia used to have a detailed entry on the concept of Cultural Marxism.

Soon after Katherine Maher became CEO of Wikipedia, the page got deleted and is now called "far-right conspiracy theory".

https://tinyurl.com/3j6fpsh9
screencaps

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 08:36 PM (vtyCZ)

135 Someone posted this Korean War story from a letter home a few months ago. Well worth the read:

"He paused for a moment. ‘Just how’d you do it, kid? We heard shots. There hasn’t been a shot fired from your rifle, and there isn’t a bit of lead in them seven bodies over the hill.’ I didn’t say anything. What could I say?…And then the sergeant spoke again. ‘Kid,’ he said gently, ‘every one of those seven Commies over there is killed by a sword-stroke.’"

https://tinyurl.com/26y7luzl

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 08:37 PM (WCiZg)

136 @131

>>Wow. This country is done.

America is dead, what you are feeling are the death rattles before the corpse becomes still.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 08:37 PM (XV/Pl)

137 Elizabeth Taylor said it best herself... "No one could craft a lovelier vase, hunk of crystal, painting, or a diamond than what God did with Ava Gardner"

I read that Martin Scorsese is doing a biopic about Frank Sinatra. DiCaprio will be Sinatra and Jennifer Lawrence has been cast as Ava. If true, that has got to be about the worst casting choices ever.

Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2024 08:38 PM (oaGWv)

138 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 08:44 PM (xA5g+)

139 "The night my favorite Aunt died her spirit came and said goodbye.
Posted by: Ben Had"

That would be scary and reassuring at the same time.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2024 08:45 PM (vFG9F)

140 I refuse. America is on one knee but not down. 1/3 of the existing population made this country and there is still a third trying to save it.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:45 PM (Xw32h)

141 140 I refuse. America is on one knee but not down. 1/3 of the existing population made this country and there is still a third trying to save it.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:45 PM (Xw32h)
Count me in.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2024 08:47 PM (NxC5+)

142 The world would be a better place if we could replace lower species with millions of capybaras and penguins.

Posted by: Perfect Harmony at April 19, 2024 08:48 PM (V5BDR)

143 See you on the ONT, probably.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 19, 2024 08:49 PM (vtyCZ)

144 Been up since 3am, thankfully no reason to get up tomorrow but doesn't mean I won't be.
Have a great evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 08:50 PM (fwDg9)

145 https://tinyurl.com/3ap4h2s3
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 08:50 PM (fwDg9)

146 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 18h
BREAKING: A grand jury declines to indict Mario Young (17) for shoplifting and then shooting and kiIIing the store clerk.

Activists claim that Mr. Young acted in self defense since the clerk chased after them, asking for the stolen items back.

The 2nd teen was never even charged.

The idea is most likely to let criminals go free until modern vigilance committees start forming. Then federalize all police as the response to that.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 19, 2024 08:51 PM (dZVON)

147 Ava Gardner also had a way with words. She said of Frank Sinatra, "He weighs 120 pounds soaking wet, and 110 of them are cock."

Posted by: Wenda at April 19, 2024 08:51 PM (G1K9S)

148 fd, it truly was both. I was making horseshoes in the forge late at night when it happened. Made me a believer in the soul.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:52 PM (Xw32h)

149 20 "Absent air resistance, a bowling ball and a feather will fall at the same speed."

I say that falling in a vacuum, the bowling ball accelerates infinitesimally faster than the feather does, less than can be measured.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 07:36 PM (MvF+J)
- - - - - - - - -
Conversely, if you had a mass of feathers that was the same as a bowling ball, then there should be no measured difference. But, with a difference in mass, there should be just a tiny bit more amount of attraction, both ways.

Similarly, the fact that certain equations break down at near-zero and near-infinity amounts is interesting. We have nice formulas like E = MC^2, but then there's "Special Relativity" for these edge cases. Maybe there's a "D" that actually needs to be added or multiplied, but is lost out when you're dealing with distances greater than the width of an atom or whatever?

Posted by: Another Anon at April 19, 2024 08:52 PM (QNMaY)

150 I refuse. America is on one knee but not down. 1/3 of the existing population made this country and there is still a third trying to save it.
Posted by: Ben Had

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I think that's kind of what I mean.

We can move forward from this point, but there is no returning to even 1999.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 08:53 PM (WCiZg)

151 116 We jest about age but there is no place that has more knowledge , about more subjects than here.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 08:23 PM (Xw32h)

I learn all kinds of stuff here, without even trying.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 19, 2024 08:53 PM (OX9vb)

152 149 … there's "Special Relativity" for these edge cases. Maybe there's a "D" that actually needs to be added or multiplied, but is lost out when you're dealing with distances greater than the width of an atom or whatever?
Posted by: Another Anon at April

Same, same

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 08:54 PM (ZdaMQ)

153 Wokeness @EndWokeness 18h
BREAKING: A grand jury declines to indict Mario Young (17) for shoplifting and then shooting and kiIIing the store clerk.

Activists claim that Mr. Young acted in self defense since the clerk chased after them, asking for the stolen items back.

The 2nd teen was never even charged.

The idea is most likely to let criminals go free until modern vigilance committees start forming. Then federalize all police as the response to that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 19, 2024 08:51 PM (dZVON)
I think you make a good point.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2024 08:56 PM (NxC5+)

154 https://tinyurl.com/26y7luzl
Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 08:37 PM (WCiZg)

That's an amazing story.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 19, 2024 09:01 PM (OX9vb)

155 >>We can move forward from this point, but there is no returning to even 1999.

Hasn't that always been true? Times change but that doesn't mean they have to change for the worse.

The country has been on fire before. The 60s weren't all free love and Skittles. Race riots, bombings, communist running crazy on college campuses and a war that ripped the country apart. I was a kid living in NJ and we had nightly news casts of the race riots in Newark and Trenton. The high school in my town had to shut down because of race riots.

And then the NY Jets won the Super Bowl in 69 and the world went back on it's axis.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:04 PM (LkLld)

156 @IanJaeger29
🚨BREAKING: House Democrats have just introduced legislation to remove Former President Donald Trump’s Secret Service protection if he is convicted in any of his criminal trials.
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It's called the "Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act." Benny Thompson of J6 committee fame introduced it.

They want Trump dead.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 19, 2024 09:06 PM (3ImbR)

157 And then the NY Jets won the Super Bowl in 69 and the world went back on it's axis.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:04 PM (LkLld)

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So I gotta root for Aaron Rodgers now?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2024 09:07 PM (u73oe)

158 I'm probably the tenth pedant to say this, but gravity pulls the bowling ball harder because it has more mass, but it's "harder" to accelerate more mass than less mass, so the two things exactly cancel out.

Which is f-ing fascinating.

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2024 09:08 PM (iziT8)

159 >>So I gotta root for Aaron Rodgers now?

Only if you love America.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:08 PM (LkLld)

160 Only if you love America.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:08 PM

Dean Wormer doesn't.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 09:10 PM (a3Q+t)

161 We can move forward from this point, but there is no returning to even 1999.
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Hasn't that always been true? Times change but that doesn't mean they have to change for the worse.

The country has been on fire before. The 60s weren't all free love and Skittles. Race riots, bombings, communist running crazy on college campuses and a war that ripped the country apart...

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Yeah, but again, that's my point.

The 60s were a hard shift to the left. We're there again. We might get things settled down, but we'll be briefly settling down to 2014 or so at best. The overton window where we'll have to live will have been moved far over to the commie/totalitarianism side again. Same as after the |Civil War.

I don't think there's a solution. It's just an observation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 09:12 PM (WCiZg)

162 20 "Absent air resistance, a bowling ball and a feather will fall at the same speed."

I say that falling in a vacuum, the bowling ball accelerates infinitesimally faster than the feather does, less than can be measured.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 07:36 PM (MvF+J)

Sir Isaac Newton, paging Sir Isaac Newton. Please pick-up a red emergency phone. Sir Isaac Newton, paging Sir Isaac...

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:15 PM (5fDan)

163 156 @IanJaeger29
🚨BREAKING: House Democrats have just introduced legislation to remove Former President Donald Trump’s Secret Service protection if he is convicted in any of his criminal trials.
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Well, Johnson & his 151 bent over for them so they're going to see how far America will allow them to shove it.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 09:18 PM (Y09kC)

164 The equation for gravitational force is

F = G((m1 * m2)/(r * r))

where

F is the force between the masses
G is the Newtonian constant of gravitation (6.674×10−11 m3⋅kg−1⋅s−2)
m1 is the first mass
m2 is the second mass
r is the distance between the centers of the masses

(All units are SI)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 09:18 PM (a3Q+t)

165 Duncanthrax, that's a whole Lotta math.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 09:20 PM (Xw32h)

166 Got a paint-job for you -- it pays $20,000. There is a catch.

Sir thats a Ferrari not a Porch but I painted it for the same price.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:20 PM (ENQN6)

167 >>> (All units are SI)

Posted by: Duncanthrax
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It looks like sekret code. Are you a spy?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 09:20 PM (Y09kC)

168 21 Doesn't no gravity mean that neither one falls? Science ain't my strong suit.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 07:39 PM (Xw32h)

Good evening, Ben Had. I will be happy to explain so-called zero gravity or so-called no-gravity (neither exists) over a cold one at the MoMe. Won't take but a few minutes. OK? It would take too long here. Meantime, don't stand under falling bowling balls if you can help it!

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:21 PM (5fDan)

169 I will be the optimist here.

Things are starting to swing back towards sanity. It's not a big shift, yet. Seattle is becoming less looney. Criminals are being held in jail, even minors. The AG who will be out next Governor promised to close all juvenile detention centers. That's not going over well these days.

The homeless situation is reaching a tipping point as well. Even progressive Seattlites are frustrated and demanding accountability.

Cliff Mass is a professor at the University of Washington. Pull up his blog and read his entry about DEI a couple days ago.

The tide is slack. Not quite turning. But we are getting there.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 09:21 PM (9ONh1)

170 Under the Biden administration’s sweeping new Title IX rule, any K–12 school or institution of higher education that receives any federal funding would have to open girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, housing accommodations, sports teams, and any other sex-separated educational program or offering to biological boys who claim to “identify” as girls.

I could win the title in any college sport in 365 days.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:22 PM (ENQN6)

171 ...I don't think there's a solution. It's just an observation. Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 09:12 PM (WCiZg)

Well, there "is" a solution, of sorts. We'd end up looking a lot like Bosnia, Sarajevo and all the other shattered bits of Yugoslavia.

And with absolutely no guarantee that the "good guys" win. Odds might look poor, with them being on top of all the comms, n' such.

Still though. A Mass Preference Cascade of Patriotism could set things right in a matter of months. Even, weeks. Still might end up looking like Bosnia, Sarajevo and all the other shattered bits of Yugoslavia.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 09:23 PM (e6UQI)

172 Gref, I look forward to the tutorial. Hope you are well my friend

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 09:23 PM (Xw32h)

173 >>I don't think there's a solution. It's just an observation.

You completely left off the part about the Jets winning the Super Bowl and saving the world.

The forces of tyranny never go away. What did Franklin say, A republic if you can keep it. It's always a fight to keep this thing together, always has been and always will be. He warned us on day 1.

We got complacent cause life was good. Now we have to take it back. Again. It'll be different but maybe better in some ways.

As David Byrne said, things fall apart, it's scientific.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:24 PM (LkLld)

174 169 I will be the optimist here.

Things are starting to swing back towards sanity. ...
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Snaps fingers, twirls keys on chain.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 09:24 PM (Y09kC)

175 Hi, All. Yipee, it’s Friday night.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 09:25 PM (9yWhg)

176 The forces of tyranny never go away. What did Franklin say, A republic if you can keep it. It's always a fight to keep this thing together, always has been and always will be. He warned us on day 1.

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Ha. Yeah. And the people that formed the nation and signed the Constitution made it what, 27 years before the SCOTUS seized all power?

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 09:26 PM (WCiZg)

177 The equation for gravitational force is

F = G((m1 * m2)/(r * r))

where

F is the force between the masses
G is the Newtonian constant of gravitation (6.674×10−11 m3⋅kg−1⋅s−2)
m1 is the first mass
m2 is the second mass
r is the distance between the centers of the masses

(All units are SI)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 09:18 PM (a3Q+t)
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I take a short nap this evening and now there's math on the blog. What is this world coming to?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:27 PM (BpYfr)

178 Hey, Piper. Hope all is well with you and yours.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 09:27 PM (9yWhg)

179 Planned Butcherhood Puts 86% of Its Baby Murder Centers in Black Communities to Kill Black Babies

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."

Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at April 19, 2024 09:27 PM (ENQN6)

180 Hey, Perfesser.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 09:28 PM (9yWhg)

181

***A Mass Preference Cascade of Patriotism***

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 09:28 PM (Y09kC)

182 Hey, Perfesser.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 09:28 PM (9yWhg)
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Howdy!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:29 PM (BpYfr)

183 177 The equation for gravitational force is

F = G((m1 * m2)/(r * r))

where

F is the force between the masses
G is the Newtonian constant of gravitation (6.674×10−11 m3⋅kg−1⋅s−2)
m1 is the first mass
m2 is the second mass
r is the distance between the centers of the masses

(All units are SI)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 09:18 PM (a3Q+t)
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I take a short nap this evening and now there's math on the blog. What is this world coming to?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:27 PM (BpYfr)

178 Hey, Piper. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 09:27 PM (9yWhg)

9.8 M/sec/squared is not just the law.
Its a good idea.

Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at April 19, 2024 09:29 PM (ENQN6)

184
It looks like sekret code. Are you a spy?
Posted by: Braenyard
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Commie units. I blame the French.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2024 09:29 PM (XeU6L)

185 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:30 PM (ENQN6)

186 Duncanthrax, that's a whole Lotta math.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 09:20 PM

Every point mass attracts every single other point mass by a force acting along the line intersecting both points.
Here's what the equation is saying in English:

The (Newtonian physics) equation describes how this works, and in English can be read as "The force is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them".

It looks like sekret code. Are you a spy?
Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 09:20 PM

Worse, an en-ginn-ear.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 09:30 PM (a3Q+t)

187 186 Said it @14, but people still didn't believe it.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 19, 2024 09:31 PM (MvF+J)

188 I'm still contemplating Issac and Ishmael.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 09:32 PM (Xw32h)

189 183 Huh?

If y’all are gonna start posting in math, I’m gonna start posting in Russian.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 09:32 PM (9yWhg)

190 One action I’m thinking of implementing is that anyone who is supporting what is being done to Trump now and supports any number of woke positions will not receive any assistance of any kind from me.

I just have to get the Good Samaritan parable out of my head.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 09:32 PM (MNhXM)

191 189 183 Huh?

If y’all are gonna start posting in math, I’m gonna start posting in Russian.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 09:32 PM (9yWhg)

Now do Klingon

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:33 PM (ENQN6)

192 And then the NY Jets won the Super Bowl in 69 and the world went back on it's axis.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:04 PM (LkLld)
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And then the Ohio National Guard sent a message the following May.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2024 09:33 PM (RIvkX)

193 172 Gref, I look forward to the tutorial. Hope you are well my friend

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 09:23 PM (Xw32h)

Doing well, thank you.

A small clarification - NASA and a LOT of people, including me, refer to Earth-orbiting satellites and the astronauts on-board the Space Station as being in 'zero-gee' and being weightless. It's a simplification. Every astronaut who was ever in Earth orbit was constantly falling towards the center of the Earth due to gravity. Now that I've confused you I'll stop and explain at the MoMe. You'll get it in no time when I draw some diagrams.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:33 PM (5fDan)

194 If y’all are gonna start posting in math, I’m gonna start posting in Russian.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

"Eveninkwear. . . .Svimware. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 09:34 PM (WXNFJ)

195 I take a short nap this evening and now there's math on the blog.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:27 PM

Better than Big Penguin sponsored and approved hortatory.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 09:34 PM (a3Q+t)

196 194 Hey, Tonypete.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 09:35 PM (9yWhg)

197 >>Worse, an en-ginn-ear.

What kind of Choo Choo?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:37 PM (LkLld)

198 Fact check: Biden makes false and misleading claims during Pennsylvania campaign swing
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Which far-right MAGA drunpf-sucking media was this?

CNN.

Pigs are flying?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 19, 2024 09:38 PM (yikga)

199 JackStraw, a hug to you and a scritch for Elvis.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 09:38 PM (Xw32h)

200 156 @IanJaeger29
🚨BREAKING: House Democrats have just introduced legislation to remove Former President Donald Trump’s Secret Service protection if he is convicted in any of his criminal trials.

Sooner or later the Dems will introduce a bill denying Trump a State Funeral. Because he's a criminal. Nixon was never officially denied a State Funeral. His family asked the President at the time (Reagan?) to not hold a State Funeral for Richard Milhous. I don't know all the details anymore.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:39 PM (5fDan)

201 What kind of Choo Choo?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:37 PM

A Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy.

Posted by: Paolo at April 19, 2024 09:41 PM (a3Q+t)

202 Thanks Ben Had. The little prince is currently dreaming of rabbits and squirrels and mumbling in his sleep.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:41 PM (LkLld)

203 Elvis? That's fantastic.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 19, 2024 09:42 PM (WCiZg)

204 Paint job. Ha! Back when, before 24 hour strobes, they had to paint broadcast towers red and white every seven years. No painter ever did it twice. ‘merica

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 19, 2024 09:43 PM (30Jus)

205 KJP had extra twitchy eyes today when Doocy asked about Biden's "Uncle Bosey eaten by cannibals" lie.

She said, "he takes this seriously..."

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:43 PM (ENQN6)

206 It's a simplification. Every astronaut who was ever in Earth orbit was constantly falling towards the center of the Earth due to gravity. Now that I've confused you I'll stop and explain at the MoMe. You'll get it in no time when I draw some diagrams.
Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:33 PM (5fDan)
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I think a better term is "microgravity" implying that there is a tiny, if negligible, amount of gravity in play.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:44 PM (BpYfr)

207 Eveninkwear. . . .Svimware. . . "
Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 09:34 PM (WXNFJ
Damn, we were so naive back then.

Posted by: Eromero at April 19, 2024 09:44 PM (NxC5+)

208 She said, "he takes this seriously..."
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:43 PM (ENQN6)
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He's the only one who does...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:45 PM (BpYfr)

209 Elvis Grbach?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 09:46 PM (9yWhg)

210 KJP must use Ritalin with a fantasy chaser everyday

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 09:46 PM (Xw32h)

211 I'm going to leave that typo as is.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 09:48 PM (Xw32h)

212 >>Elvis? That's fantastic.

He's a hound from Tennessee. He pretty much named himself.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 09:48 PM (LkLld)

213 "I can only imagine how Donald Trump's outrageous lies and behavior would horrify my father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy..."

He killed a gf. PDT fucked a few.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:49 PM (ENQN6)

214 205 KJP had extra twitchy eyes today when Doocy asked about Biden's "Uncle Bosey eaten by cannibals" lie.

She said, "he takes this seriously..."

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:43 PM (ENQN6)

I watched today's press conference. KJP was extra-stupid and extra-dislikeable today. The current White House explanation for FJB wrapping himself in his uncle's non-existent burial shroud boils-down to one word. Can you guess it? Five letters. Starts with capital T and ends with p. Disgusting bastards.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:49 PM (5fDan)

215 He's the only one who does...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:45 PM (BpYfr)

My guess is the coal mine flavor made him extry tasty.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:50 PM (ENQN6)

216 206 It's a simplification. Every astronaut who was ever in Earth orbit was constantly falling towards the center of the Earth due to gravity. Now that I've confused you I'll stop and explain at the MoMe. You'll get it in no time when I draw some diagrams.
Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:33 PM (5fDan)
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I think a better term is "microgravity" implying that there is a tiny, if negligible, amount of gravity in play.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:44 PM (BpYfr)

I'll add an extra seat for you at the MoMe gravity tutorial. You're sorta right, sir.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:51 PM (5fDan)

217 I think a better term is "microgravity" implying that there is a tiny, if negligible, amount of gravity in play.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:44 PM (BpYfr)

I'll add an extra seat for you at the MoMe gravity tutorial. You're sorta right, sir.
Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:51 PM (5fDan)
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Well, I suppose I'll need to dust off my "Microgravity for Dummies" book to refresh my memory on how it all works...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:53 PM (BpYfr)

218 Democrats Move to Strip Trump of Secret Service Protection

Now do Carter

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2024 09:54 PM (ENQN6)

219 Now do Hunters detail.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2024 09:55 PM (Xw32h)

220 217 I think a better term is "microgravity" implying that there is a tiny, if negligible, amount of gravity in play.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:44 PM (BpYfr)

I'll add an extra seat for you at the MoMe gravity tutorial. You're sorta right, sir.
Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:51 PM (5fDan)
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Well, I suppose I'll need to dust off my "Microgravity for Dummies" book to refresh my memory on how it all works...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:53 PM (BpYfr)

Me too! Why there is micro-gravity inside the ISS or inside the Space Shuttle is something I used to know but has been locked-away in a dark spot in my memory bank!

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 09:55 PM (5fDan)

221 I think a better term is "microgravity" implying that there is a tiny, if negligible, amount of gravity in play.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:44 PM

It's not a tiny amount. You can calculate the amount using the Newtonian equation. It's simply that the "downward" vector of gravity attracting you toward the center of the earth is matched by a "horizontal" vector such that by the time you've fallen say 100 feet toward the Earth, you've moved "horizontally" in a direction such that the 100 feet you've 'fallen' is matched by the 'horizontal' vector moving you to a place that (would have been) 100 feet higher, and you're exactly the same distance from the surface of the Earth that you were.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 09:56 PM (a3Q+t)

222 You've got your microgravity, and you've also got the occasional stray atmospheric molecule or three, every few meters along the way.

Those add up to a "micro-drag" to go along with the microgravity.

Condensed: certain satellites, especially Low Earth Orbit ones, need the occasional "re-boost" of velocity in order to maintain their orbits.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 09:56 PM (e6UQI)

223 @163

>>Well, Johnson & his 151 bent over for them so they're going to see how far America will allow them to shove it.

The one thing you got to say about Democrats is they're not subtle.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 09:56 PM (XV/Pl)

224 Well, I suppose I'll need to dust off my "Microgravity for Dummies" book to refresh my memory on how it all works...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2024 09:53 PM

Post a review on The Book Thread?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 09:57 PM (a3Q+t)

225 And then the NY Jets won the Super Bowl in 69 and the world went back on it's axis.
Posted by: JackStraw

Don't forget us!!

Posted by: Amazin' Mets at April 19, 2024 09:57 PM (gllTv)

226 Sometimes when I need a little help falling asleep, I think about gravity and how it works

My latest idea is that mass distorts space, and from that distortion comes gravity, like when a spring is stretched and then snaps back

just spitballing here

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 09:58 PM (oCjPU)

227 Black holes are like the Hotel California. You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.*

* Some current theories dispute this.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 10:01 PM (a3Q+t)

228 also, there's something hinky about black holes

and singularities

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 10:01 PM (oCjPU)

229 226 Sometimes when I need a little help falling asleep, I think about gravity and how it works

My latest idea is that mass distorts space, and from that distortion comes gravity, like when a spring is stretched and then snaps back

just spitballing here

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 09:58 PM (oCjPU)

I believe "gravity" is proof we 'live' in a simulation. The coders had to add 'gravity' to keep all the pieces in the sim from randomly drifting around. Not a playable game.

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 10:01 PM (5fDan)

230 I'm sick and tired of hearing about Taylor Swift.

I know. In the good old days nobody but little girls had to hear about Bobby Sherman and New Kids On The Block all day

Posted by: azjaeger at April 19, 2024 10:02 PM (3/XaG)

231 Noodent

Posted by: Rex B at April 19, 2024 10:02 PM (5h/8D)

232 114

'Nice photo of Ava.'

Beautiful face, graceful figure. I give her an 8.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 19, 2024 10:03 PM (roH4R)

233 The ONT has been live for 10+ minutes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 19, 2024 10:04 PM (a3Q+t)

234 224 Well, I suppose I'll need to dust off my "Microgravity for Dummies" book to refresh my memory on how it all works...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Don't forget your micrometer.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 10:07 PM (Y09kC)

235 >>Don't forget us!!
Posted by: Amazin' Mets at April 19, 2024 09:57 PM (gllTv)

Never. The Mets are my boys.

My hero Jerry Grote passed on April 8th.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 10:09 PM (LkLld)

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