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BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Rapparee Date: 29 Jul 25 - 07:41 PM Or both. Look at the advances in aircraft made during WW2. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 29 Jul 25 - 02:18 PM The ongoing threat is if science will advance weaponry or wonder in our lives. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 29 Jul 25 - 02:10 PM Which fort did you see? Science is a meticulous pain in the ass. It offers no guarantees that it will ideally advance our future, but it has had successes in our past. It has always done so in a nonlinear fashion. The challenge is whether it is employed as a weapon or a wonder for our lives. The defunding of science via the white christian nationalist project 2025 is like retreating to religious tribalism that troglodytes experienced in prehistory, all the way through the Renaissance. Some may blame ourselves for being vulnerable to con men and psychopaths. That is a fault of our evolution and not each individual's philosophy. In today's atmosphere, we might even relitigate the Scopes monkey trial. Insulated groups in the military-industrial congressional complex have created the greatest threat to trust in government. If trust can be reclaimed in the government by way of honest disclosure, we may have a chance to advance science naturally. Science is a close race, and America has been penalized by the Trump administration. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Rapparee Date: 29 Jul 25 - 09:25 AM Okay, I'm back from the DC Area. Notice that when I went, Trump flew to Scotland. He's afraid of me and what I can do to his little shenanigans. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 27 Jul 25 - 08:39 AM WOW fertilizer and safe hydrogen fuel from solar cells and seawater?! European news is not incumbered by big oil as American media seems to be. Bad move for US tariffs on China if cheap energy is desired. Meanwhile, Trump has defunded all climate change research and remediation programs. Guess who will probably make Hydrogen hybrid electric cars? Let's hope this is as earth-shattering as it sounds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Jul 25 - 11:42 PM If Amos or gnu were still around this would be their kind of story. (Also of interest to others, but this is something they might share.) “This Kills Big Oil in One Stroke”: Record-Breaking Solar Tech Slashes Hydrogen Costs by 70% and Sparks Energy Industry Uproar In a groundbreaking advancement poised to revolutionize renewable energy, Chinese researchers have developed a novel method for solar-to-hydrogen conversion that dramatically enhances efficiency and reduces costs, potentially transforming the future of sustainable energy production. It's your classic interesting science engineering article that is way over most of our heads. The implications of this breakthrough are far-reaching. The ability to produce low-cost green hydrogen directly from seawater positions CZTS as a cornerstone for sustainable solar fuels and a circular hydrogen economy. This innovation could potentially redefine how we approach energy sustainability, aligning with global efforts to reduce carbon footprints and combat climate change. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 25 Jul 25 - 09:13 AM When time ends at the singularity region, it transforms under incredible pressure into dark matter that wormholes its way into the universe. Meanwhile, the compressed matter transforms into a space-time that is independent of gravity. If you find that this switching is bizarre you will find that Roger Penrose has been honored for his diagrams showing how this is done. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 22 Jul 25 - 08:09 AM Thanks to black holes, we have had about a hundred years to think in terms of space having no speed limit and time being so maluable as to be beyond absurdity. It has shown us that the nature of nature can be absurd from our perspective. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 22 Jul 25 - 05:40 AM In a nutshell, there is expansion but not the exaggerated acceleration blamed on an unknown dark energy. I have also theorized that the inflation theory is primarily an illusion due to time dilation caused by mass and gravity. Like an optical illusion, there are time illusions. Enormous null voids contribute to the illusion. Similar to an atom or a bubble, the largest structures in the universe are empty. These illusions are enticing, but like early Copernican thought that the Earth was the center of the universe, it is a trick of our mind's perspective. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 21 Jul 25 - 07:20 PM We have all recently been taught that the universe is expanding but if one takes a deep dive into Einstein's statistical universe it is an illusion of time from our perspective. This is because the universe is dispersed like a sponge with great voids surrounded by dense filaments of visible and dark matter that slows time but the voids have an opposite effect on time . The farther you measure through many voids to a distant point the more time will be skewed to our point of view. The universe is not expanding in the way we first thought, based on Nobel Prize-winning ideas regarding Type 1A supernovas. We jumped at the clear illusion because we tend to think all regions of space are the same as where we are. We don't live in voids. Time is very different there. It just goes to show ya how easy we jump at the Occam Razor solution when in fact there are forces beyond our first thought that are not obvious. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Rapparee Date: 19 Jul 25 - 10:23 AM Cruelly ripped from mothers’ bodies, Flayed, remorselessly cut and chopped , Salt water splashed into fresh wounds, Then later enjoyed amidst laughter.. How’s that, Stilly? |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jul 25 - 11:26 PM Do one about making fresh refrigerator pickles from garden cukes. And don't forget the garlic! |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jul 25 - 09:06 PM The grayness of Spring colors my soul And the quiet river, full of flood, Carries its sticks from eddy to eddy Until at last They find rest On the soft, silent bottom of the sea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 18 Jul 25 - 06:19 PM Where are you gonna go now? Where are you going to land? You could have stayed on Comedy Central You sure have plenty of fans You know you can't hold on forever We all signed up together with you You're not a present for your friends to open You are still too young to be singin' the blues [Refrain] Ah, ah-ah, ah, ah Ah-ah-ah, ah [Chorus] So goodbye Stephen Colbert Where the gods of comedy howl You were kicked out of your place on Late Night TV It sure is a kick in the bowels Back to the howlin' old owl in the woods Huntin' the horny-orange toad Oh, You need to decide where your future lies Beyond the yellow brick road [Refrain] Ah, ah-ah, ah, ah Ah-ah-ah, ah [Verse 2] What do you think you'll do, then? I bet they shoot down the plane It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics To set you on your feet again You say there is no replacement There's not many like you to be found Comics who have got plenty With talent and feet on the ground [Refrain] Ah, ah-ah, ah, ah Ah-ah-ah, ah [Chorus] So goodbye Stephen Colbert Where the gods of comedy howl You were kicked out of your place on Late Night tv It sure is a kick in the bowels Back to the howlin' old owl in the woods Huntin' the horny-orange toad Oh, You need to decide where your future lies Beyond the yellow brick road |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 14 Jul 25 - 06:18 PM Our dear Mr. Trump would lurk at Jr. Miss America dressing rooms He couldn't resist being a jerk. When it came to Epstein, I assume that rapist Trump did the worst. When teenage Ivanka began to bloom Daddy was likely her first. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Rapparee Date: 14 Jul 25 - 12:13 PM Oh, I have been to Ludlow Fair And left my necktie God knows where and down in lovely muck I’ve lain, Happy, ‘til I rose again. The sub it was the old sun yet, And I was I, my things were wet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 14 Jul 25 - 06:16 AM I fully expect Ghislaine handled things like an Epstein client list. Lightning Crack BOOM |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 14 Jul 25 - 06:01 AM The acts in this theatre of cruelty are the show; the fear comes from the randomness of their application. But may I suggest we discuss all this in other threads? MOM is beginning to look distinctly restless, if not downright thunderous, and we all know what *that* means. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 13 Jul 25 - 03:58 PM Half is for show and the rest is to foster fear. You have a point that it is all performative if it weren't for the actual torture camps here and in war zones and despotic foreign countries. You strike me as a disciple of experience like Stilly but do you also have an advanced degree? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Joke thread for 2025 From: Donuel Date: 13 Jul 25 - 11:17 AM What is the difference between a critic and a puppy? With time, training and patience, it is possible to make a puppy stop whining. Critics are to comedy writers what dogs are to trees. The unpaid profession of being a heckler is dropping now that guard jobs are hiring at Trump's deportation prisons. Title-Author Jokes by Colin Blow and Kenda Poor Get Your Eyes Tested by Seymore Clearly My Motorbike Accident by Kay Moffatt Drinking Too Much Water by I. P. Allott Ready To Go by Sadie Word Urine Sample by Phil A. Beaker Spending More Than You Earn by Owen Munny Too Tired To Go On by Eli Downe African Wildlife by Ella Fants I slipped up by Ben Anaskin I’ve Wet Myself by Dan Pundies |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 13 Jul 25 - 06:41 AM > half of it is for show I thought it was *all* performative cruelty (cf the migrants issue here in the Zeroth State): circuses to distract from the shortages of bread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 12 Jul 25 - 07:44 PM Has anyone else gotten a Fed Ex stating that you should self deport yourself before ICE agents are deployed. This week Rosie O' Donnel was told her citizenship is to be removed. During this moral and financial vacuum, so far, half of it is for show. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Rapparee Date: 12 Jul 25 - 05:39 PM Mom, you know what we've been up to the last 48 or so hours. It all seems to be straightened out now, and I'm triple twisting and triple distilling our network safeguards. No, I think the thing came about by social engineeering somewhere, but I'm not taking any chances. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 11 Jul 25 - 05:48 PM The betrayal of the MAGA fan. sung by Ella Fitzgerald spinning in the grave After one whole quart of brandy Like a daisy, I'm awake With no Alka-Seltzer handy I don't even shake Trump is not a new sensation I've done pretty well, I think But this half-ton imitation Put me on the blink I'm wild again, beguiled again A simpering, whimpering child again baited, bothered and bamboozeled - am I Couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleep When Trump came and told me, I shouldn't sleep baited, bothered and bamboozled - am I Lost my mind, but what of it He is cold, I agree He can laugh, but I love it Although the laugh's on me I'll vote for him, and midterms for him And long for the day when we'll cling to him baited, bothered and bamboozled - am I He's a fool and don't I know it But a fool can have his charms I'm all in and don't I show it Like a babe in arms Trumps's the same old sad sensation Lately I've not slept a wink Since this half-pint imitation Put me on the blink I've sinned a lot, I mean, a lot But I'm like Q of QAnon baited, bothered and bamboozled - am I I voted for him, did midterms for him And worship the hair style that clings to him baited, bothered and bamboozled - am I When he talks, he is seeking Words to get off his chest Off the monitor speaking He's at his very best Vexed again, perplexed again Thank God, I can be ever blessed again baited, bothered and bamboozled - am I Wise at last, my eyes at last Are cutting you down to your size at last baited, bothered and bamboozled - no more Burned a lot, but learned a lot And now you are King, so you earned a lot baited, bothered and bamboozled - no more Couldn't eat, was short on cash Life's so hard as fascist Now my heart's antiseptic Since you don't seem to care Bromance, finis; your chance, finis Those antics that invaded my mind, finis baited, bothered and bamboozled - no more |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 11 Jul 25 - 11:51 AM Musk is no genius when it comes to launching a Mars mission from Earth. It is far more wise to stage and build the spacecraft from lunar orbit and shield the craft with water from lunar polar ice. Its only a couple days journey to lunar orbit that limits exposure to solar and cosmic radiation. Spending a year or more in an unshielded craft all the way to Mars is a good way to kill astronauts if you give a damn. Yes we have had astronauts in lower Earth orbits for a year but that still limits radiation poisoning with the Earth's magnetic shield. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Jul 25 - 12:40 PM MOM is intrigued that there is a large orb spider web on the screen porch. It's near the porchlight, so applicants present themselves for the dinner menu nightly. Watching a spider eat beetles is more entertaining than politics and other social activities these days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Joke thread for 2025 From: Donuel Date: 09 Jul 25 - 11:14 AM The key to happiness is lowered expectations. No lower.... Even lower... There you go. Money is not the key to happiness But if you can afford it, you can have a key made. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 09 Jul 25 - 10:05 AM Hold onto your illusions of beauty and joy. Teachers, religions, and politicians grew limitations to freedom meant to destroy. The sky can be any color, not just blue. but beauty belongs to you. The most glorious truths are illusions That does not mean they're not real. Life in the sea and land aren't delusions. They are as real as the way you feel. but beauty belongs to you. We are just an interface that translates. Reality goes farther than we can see Illusions like the heavenly gates for some is as real as can be. but beauty belongs to you. donuel |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 07 Jul 25 - 02:17 PM > I bet the band and audience all have hearing aids. .... turned up to 11. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 07 Jul 25 - 12:50 PM The mayor of Kerrville TX was told not to mention that there was no 1 AM phone warning of the flood until 5 AM at the Governor's press conference. The Trump decimation of the weather service and all the science climate groups and responders like FEMA was to eliminate mention of climate change and put that money toward the wealthy tax cuts. No one told Trump to think it through. Now he says the weather service did their job. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 04 Jul 25 - 10:39 AM It turns out that I am younger than the youngest member of Black Sabbath on their last comeback concert. I bet the band and audience all have hearing aids. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 02 Jul 25 - 06:31 AM Mr. ICE vigilante You've thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear of kicked children Out of our world For threatening my baby Unborn and unnamed You ain't worth the blood That runs in your veins How much do I know To talk out of turn You might say I should go You might say I'm unlearned But there's one thing I know Though I'm smarter than you That even Jesus would never Forgive what you do Let me ask you one question Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul And I hope that you die And your death will come soon I'll follow your casket By the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead Bob Dylan |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 02 Jul 25 - 05:55 AM This is Final Tap with the deficit turned up to 11. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 01 Jul 25 - 04:31 PM https://www.mapquest.com/us/alaska/womens-shelter-352818593 |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Jul 25 - 10:43 AM An uncle had a gold mine in Alaska somewhere. Now might be the time to check it out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Rapparee Date: 01 Jul 25 - 10:01 AM Okay, MOM. It’s just two months before I go to Nome. I’ll check on that ladies’ boarding house you ran there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 30 Jun 25 - 06:29 PM 3 Mile Island did have a hydrogen burn heard as a loud Thump clear across the river, but did not have a supersonic explosion. The billion-dollar EPA clean-up is far from finished, so I wonder if the Trump cuts will leave the melted fuel in the middle of the Susquehanna River. I lived upriver from the plant and felt a highly unusual nausea in my spine after day 1. I went to California for the week. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 29 Jun 25 - 05:19 PM The growing application of nuclear power has introduced the problem of materials changed by exposure to high-energy nuclear radiation. The steels that make up the primary containment vessels of nuclear reactors may undergo progressive embrittlement with neutron bombardment. Embrittlement is relative and may be small or large; it is important in either case because of the major function served by the vessel and the economic implications of overly conservative design and operating practice as a result of uncertainties. A hydrogen bubble at 3 Mile Island did not blow up the reactor, but it did at Fukushima and Chernobyl. Today, there is a spherical form of nuclear fuel that will not melt down, but it will not be used at the newly proposed nuclear plant on the shores of Lake Ontario. There are several nuke plants on the shore of Lake Ontario, including Ginna and Nine Mile Point. Ginna is so old that it should have been shut down 30 years ago, but it is still going. I guess this is part of the Trump drill baby drill fanaticism, but like war, it is a racket that makes money for a few and can have ruinous consequences for millions of others for a very long time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 29 Jun 25 - 01:18 PM If the plane you are on flies through a cloud you probably felt a bumpy ride. When you consider that an average cumulus cloud weighs about a million pounds the wild ride is easy to understand. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 26 Jun 25 - 03:59 PM Friend and guardian of the forests, friend of man's best friends, and part of the garrison to protect artifacts, this person lends a hand without fanfare. Experienced in the sacrifice of parenting, sustenance has become a masterful art from the earth to the table. Policing those who should be friends and teaching how to simplify home environments, there is an ever-growing expertise in research. When two dimensions are not enough, three dimensions open a new understanding. I am a volunteer's volunteer, like an artist who is an actor's actor. Who am I? |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 25 Jun 25 - 07:28 PM The Roman aquaducts used part of this principle to make water go uphill. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Jun 25 - 01:09 PM That was quick - and getting very close. Yes, I remembered the discussion of artesian wells in the lecture, and the reference to ancient uses. He was applying it to the generation of power (probably to turn turbines or create steam) but it wasn't hydropower. I don't see a link to the lecture - he explained it clearly, and that's what I'm going for. MOM says you earned yourself a beer out on the screened in porch. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 25 Jun 25 - 12:55 PM You're right, Stilly, though I *think* I got the information by following a lead --- Gotcha: Ruina montium, linked from the Pascal's Barrel reference. Is that the basic information you were after? |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Jun 25 - 12:22 PM I've been looking around YouTube this morning for an old lecture by an old guy that I'm sure gnu originally shared with us years ago. To do with how gravity fed water can create great pressure, but it wasn't a lecture about hydroelectric dams. It was on a much smaller scale. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 25 Jun 25 - 11:01 AM So far all our deep space probes and Mars rovers have used radioisotope electric generators. The next generation of electric generators will be these toroidal plasma electric generators, which are, candidly, more reverse-engineered technology than not. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 23 Jun 25 - 10:23 PM Note in picture 2 that the two large white galaxies are spinning in opposite directions... |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 23 Jun 25 - 08:04 PM Vera Rubin is FINALLY honored as one of the most important astronomers of our times. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5355034/vera-c-rubin-observatory-first-images |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 23 Jun 25 - 07:14 PM A large generator would ionize the air around it in a bright light field, which could be insulated against... somehow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Donuel Date: 23 Jun 25 - 07:03 PM I'm lucky to just spell toroidal but the temps are not like those of fusion. Plasma is hot but not impossibly hot in such small amounts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 4 From: Rapparee Date: 23 Jun 25 - 11:07 AM And the temperature of the reaction? |
