Maynardg
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Spacecraft engineer, amateur scientist. “the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” JBS Haldane, 1927
Colorado, USA
Joined October 2015
I, for one among many others, am gratified America is finally flexing the muscles she’s always had. Moving away from the flaccid “we need to be fair” limp-wristed policies of the Bush years to the total capitulation to the “international opinion” of Obama. America has never been
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Anyone remember those pneumatically-actuated gas station dingers? Drive over them, they dinged to let the operator know there was a customer driving in. My bike wasn’t heavy enough, but you could jump on them, make ‘em ding. Damn kids!
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I’m convinced the most talented pop-tart ever is Ariana Grande. She can do anything.
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Bears repeating for all you anti-2A types out there: General Yamamoto, asked to plan an invasion of America, said “There will be a rifle behind every blade of grass”.
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Not sure who’s put this together: the very existence of a problem activates the government siphon of taxpayer money to “fix it”. The sluice opens, the corrupt pigs line up to feed from the trough. Our well-intentioned altruism again used against us by the corrupt.
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A wise thing I once heard: getting older accelerates like the way a toilet paper roll unwinds. As it nears the end, the faster it diasappers.
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YouTube now forcing us to watch commercials before showing our video. Bad enough, but they double the volume on the ads. Fuckin’ corporations, enough never enough.
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To reiterate: I derived an equation for available solar power. P = Solar irradiation at ground level 1000 W/m^2 x panel efficiency 0.15-0.18 x cosine(Sun elevation) x (180-Sun azimuth). EVERY term subtracts. Does not account for clouds, panel degradation (dirt, snow, age).
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Anybody else seeing ads for these bullshit solar generators? The panel 1 meter squared, at best 150 pathetic watts, they claim it’ll run your whole house.
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Hole and Courtney Love were a great band, fight me. Low feminine tones, then she hits that upper register, scream/sing. Just cool.
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Update: WalMart had it, but it required an “age-verification”, guy took one look at me, passed it through. 🤷♂️
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In the interest of completion, I leave room for sub-noise floor pseudo-random decryption, a method we use all the time now to encrypt vehicle downlinks, but it takes 2 codes to decrypt it, long and gold codes. If aliens even took the time to find it. With AI, it’s not beyond the
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The physical explanation is called Free Space Path Loss, basically the inverse-square law of radiation, where signal strength falls isotropically as the square of the distance from the source. Hence, take a reference point, double the distance, signal falls off to 1/4 reference
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If you think human radio signals have expanded out 50 light-years, you can forget about it. RF descends below the noise floor after one light-year, can’t even make it past the Oort Cloud.
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The natural tendency of dem leftists to be attracted to positions in government, for power and control, militates against conservatives, whose natural tendency is to avoid such entanglements, thus eventually putting leftists in power by default. Contrary to the desires of the
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In the “Anal Engineer Annals of Ridiculous SF” I submit the Sulaco drop-ship scene in Aliens 2. When the Sulaco drops the assault vehicle, it immediately drops at high speed. No, it wouldn’t move an inch. All in equilibrium. Thrusters or springs required to push it out slowly,
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One might think that 30 years of anti-white propaganda by the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, mainstream media, race hustlers of all stripes, young blacks were steeped in it their whole lives. This was all foreseeable, and we all know who is responsible.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have found the ultimate, top of the woke pyramid. Lateefah Simon, 12th district California. Legally blind, black, Muslim democrat. Beat that! I ran outta boxes to tick.
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