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Don Edwards
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13 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:There is a tornado-like thing called waterspouts which are over water; for a reason I don't recall, they are supposed to be milder (you still wouldn't want to be in one).
It doesn't make sense to me that a tornado at the moment it becomes a waterspout would be weaker than a tornado at the moment it touches down on land (all else being equal, which of course it never is exactly).
However...
At any given spot on land, there is a limit to how much stuff that tornado can pick up and lift high in the air.
At any given spot on a large body of water, there is functionally no such limit.
That picking up, and lifting high in the air, takes energy away from the tornado itself (even as it makes the tornado more dangerous - that rapidly flying debris can hit stuff, and the higher it's lifted the further it can fly out in a random direction before landing).
So, to me, it makes sense that a waterspout would lose energy faster.
(I went looking for an estimate of how much the debris in a tornado can weigh - no luck.)
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1 hour ago, mlooney said:Fresh off the vine Lima beans are a whole other experience than canned or frozen
Can't vouch for that from personal experience, but it doesn't surprise me. Because the best way to eat peas is to pop the pod open, put it up to your mouth, and use a finger to scrape the peas out of the pod into your mouth - then pluck the pod off the vine and drop it on the ground next to the vine's roots.
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22 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:I just have to take it when I remember it.
Set alarms on your computer and/or phone?
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On 7/20/2024 at 7:57 PM, Darth Fluffy said:Oops, you are right. I conflated it with Apollo 13.
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11 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Apparently few places are truly immune.
Tornadoes have been seen in every state of the US.
But they're significantly more common and more dangerous in some states than in others.
I remember reading the newspaper reports of the first time on record that the western half of the state of Washington actually had two tornadoes on the same day. Both were category zero. One touched down in the middle of Puget Sound, sucking up a fair amount of salt water and discomfiting an unknown number of fish. The other very briefly touched down in a paddock, lifting a horse off its feet and turning the animal 180 degrees before setting it down again - but not significantly damaging the horse or the fence.
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Arthur knows that Tedd is fluid, and makes a great point that, even though he doesn't understand genderfluidity, he accepts it. And that is what is truly needed.
He's also aware, from previously working with Edward Verres, that Mr. Verres has a son named Tedd (with no mention of a daughter).
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And making ammunition for ballistae is probably easier, less detail-fussy, and safer than making ammunition for tanks.
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3 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:This reminds me of that situation where the kid asks, "Mommy, what is sex?", then mommy has that awkward, lengthy talk but the birds, the bees, the flowers, the trees, the human plumbing, and so on; the kid's eyes get wide, and they ask, "But how do I fit all that into these two little squares?
The version I heard ended with "Grampa said he'll be ready to go in a few sex."
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13 hours ago, The Old Hack said:Then again I wouldn't expect them to loiter on Total War: Rome forums hoping to obtain vital information about the latest generation of onagers or siege ballistae.
At the rate the Russians have been digging old weapons systems out of storage, I think pretty soon they will be looking for that stuff.
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In most areas not near the coast, Red Lobster was among the better seafood restaurants, and quite possibly the best that's part of a chain.
And it wasn't the "endless shrimp" that wrecked the company - it was the mindset that kept "endless shrimp" permanently on the menu even after they figured out that they were losing money on every order.
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Picture caption from the article:
The explosion of Italian supervolcano Campi Flegrei could be more deadly than the famed Mount Vesuvius
When Mount Vesuvius had its most famous eruption, it had a couple towns - Pompeii and Herculaneum - on its fringes.
Now, it's completely surrounded by metropolitan Naples.
(Campi Flegri is also mostly surrounded by metropolitan Naples. Its western edges are in the ocean, though.)
(Anybody else think that moving to Naples is a bad idea?)
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Last time I went to a walk-in clinic was on a Thursday. They were booked solid for the day, not open Friday thru Sunday, and booked solid for Monday.
Somebody needs to study the definition of "walk-in clinic" a little more carefully.
Gotta make some allowance, though, as this was in a county with EXTREMELY seasonal population numbers (peak = approximately 20 to 25 times minimum), and in the highest-population month of the year.
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11 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:Y2K & 2012 were such letdowns.
A lot of people put a lot of effort into making Y2K a non-event.
That planetary sort-of-alignment in 2012 was going to be insignificant no matter how badly it was overhyped.
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3 hours ago, mlooney said:I remember when hard drives varied in reliability, and there were utilities to scan the drive. Not to mention defragmening the drive!
The latter is a function of the filesystem, not the drive itself. To this day, Windows's NTFS driver automatically runs a defragment-and-repair process in the background. Dis-recommended for Linux because (a) those processes are actually needed and (b) the Linux NTFS driver doesn't have them.
As well as (c) defragmenting by definition involves a LOT of writing to disk, which is bad for SSDs and thumb drives.
Linux's filesystems don't need defragmenting. Their space-allocation algorithm is smarter than the defragmenter, and leaves files with room to grow. Defragmenting would be particularly pointless on BTRFS, and any other filesystem that does copy-on-write to prevent corruption.
(It also doesn't hurt that our multi-terabyte SSDs are much larger and much faster than our 40-megabyte hard drives.)
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Yeah, it's kind of astonishing. Particularly to those of use who have paid well over $100 per megabyte.
(My first home hard drive was 40 megabytes and, if I recall correctly, cost about $800. Oh, and I had to split it into two partitions because the OS couldn't handle a partition that big. The computer I bought earlier this month has 40 gigabytes of RAM, and cost just under $800.)
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11 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Our fireworks got rained out tonight.
That's a good thing as it makes for a quieter night, but a bad thing as it means the noise just gets dragged out for several days (or maybe weeks).
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Who hurt Susan? Her parents, I think. I'd say her mother did the most direct damage, but it was part of Mom's response to what Dad did so...
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And now we know the true purpose of AJ's seemingly-underpowered spell: it gives Dan more interesting-looking outfits to draw.
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And how are you supposed to shop responsibly for medical care, when you can't learn the price until two or three months after the care is delivered?
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And in case anyone wonders about a red wolf chasing a frisbee...
Some years ago, our neighbors in the RV park had a lot of puppy toys strewn around outside their motorhome. One day I looked out the window and watched a red fox repeatedly throwing (not very well) and chasing one of those toys. That particular toy was never seen again.
(I told the neighbors, and they laughed and said their dog could easily spare one toy.)
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Solving the hydrogen storage problem would be nice, but I suspect it isn't solvable. (As opposed to soluble - that's actually the problem, molecular hydrogen is soluble in pretty much anything.)
My long-term hope is for truly synthetic hydrocarbons - made from air, or some abundant and rapidly-renewable (thus not wood, coal, or oil) carbon source, and water.
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14 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:Re: Tesla, I think they should use the front portion of a donkey, with his head turned toward you, grinning, as their logo, and change their name to half-assed motors.
For this particular vehicle, I think the other half of that animal is more appropriate.
IMHO it is, for a number of reasons, a pickup you should consider only if you have absolutely no need for a pickup.
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I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it ugly, but the design does have some significant practical issues.
Several of which have already been mentioned in this thread.
I'll add that I seriously doubt it can take a standard pickup-truck bed cap (that's the thing shaped sort of like an inverted pickup-truck bed, that protects stuff in the bed from the weather) let alone a camper (very small living quarters that sit in the bed of the truck).
And I'm uncertain about a 5th-wheel hitch - it may be that the design would be significantly less capable of sharp turns, because the trailer would hit the side of the bed sooner than with the usual horizontal top edge.
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Which I interpreted to mean "We're bugging Congress for increased funding, because part of the federal budget doesn't pass through our hands yet."
What Are You Ingesting?
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The way I heard it, you take the pot of boiling water out into the cornfield with you. Grab an ear of corn, peel the husk back and take the cornsilk off, then bend the stalk over so you can put the ear in the water.