LargoLasskhyfv

Later on I rode Campagnolo, they were reliable and easy to maintain. Anything Shimano I cursed and avoided like the plague. Because that was sensitive shit, not good to maintain, and degraded fast. It was like it was made to be thrown away after few uses, just to save a few grams.

All that aside, this gave you a real advantage: https://connexchain.com/en/ :-) They were called different at the time, just Wipperman maybe, but didn't really matter.

You just asked your dealer for the good chains made in Solingen, and got these.

Loads, but slow. Could use some CDN.

Aims & scope

Vita publishes exceptional, high-impact research dedicated to advancing knowledge across all areas of life and biomedical sciences. Such research either delivers crucial conceptual advances for understanding intriguing, significant biological questions or presents disruptive technological, translational, or clinical breakthroughs. Vita is an open access journal and maintains a fully international authorship and readership, with a broad scope spanning both basic mechanistic research and translational explorations, including but not limited to biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, neuroscience, immunology, virology and microbiology, clinical sciences, genetics and biotechnology.

And if you're thinking of the exhaust, why would that matter at all for signals reception and transmission, with the exception of a small cone from right behind?

For reasonz of Cyberzecurrity, regarding unsafe parzing of all sort of thingz?

Otherwize I'd conzider diz a potenzial träpp.

Enjoy the dynamically phased plasmarray.

Thereby the only salvation for the Persian people is apostasy.

Stop being bitches of that aberration.

Move on to some other station.

Kill your regime, and all of those that support it.

This is the situation.

Comply or die.

Yours truly,

Ifrit al Djinn, the twelftiest.

Can't we really? AFAIUI it's mostly charged particles coming in relatively slow, or rather us/Earth entering their path, like walking into a lawn sprinkler.

Not Gamma-, or X-Rays hitting us directly at the speed of light in direct line of sight.

Now imagine a cluster of satellites which puts them in orbit between us, and the Sun, or rather enough of them in front of Earths surface at dawn. Because that side is 'forward' on Earths track around the Sun.

These sats could be mostly dormant, to be set in rotation, unspooling really long thin wires, electrically charged by whichever means. Like a giant electromagnetic umbrella. Slowing the stuff down, or diverting it outright.

I think that would be valuable, even if they would have to be discarded after 'one time use'.

Then there are things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event which we have located several traces of in geological records. They are at least a magnitude stronger than anything which Carrington carried. And statistically long overdue.

If one of these happened today, that would be a really interesting experience.

Are you sure about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse

https://jsis.washington.edu/news/chinas-high-altitude-electr...

And got no check at all.

Edit: Maybe it depends on where you come from, or what they think you come from. Or using VPN. Wrong browser with insufficient base for uBo. uBo configured wrong. (Not?) using an ad-blocking DNS-Server, so that shit doesn't even make it to your local uBo?

Tested from Hamburg, Germany via private tunnel from my home in Colorado, which also works.

A strand of the plot is sort of an arms race between the Earth-Company trying to build a ship with an FTL-capable engine on one of the last stations remaining in operation, under military junta, and an independent merchant trying to apply new measurements to jump in direct line from Downbelow/Pell or adjacent space to Earth, which would make all the former investments of Earth-Company obsolete for real.

Because Cherryh's FTL isn't like Star-Trek/Star Wars. It requires precise gravitational mappings of so called 'jump-points', which can be stars, brown-dwarfs, and such. Meaning there isn't necessarily a direct route between your desired start and end, but instead large detours necessary across a chain of such jump-points, which are near enough to each other. Because the 'jump-drives' have limited range of a handfull to a dozen of light-years only. Depending on mass of the ship. And if that gap on your route is more than that, detours are necessary. And there are many gaps.

You actually can look at that in your browser on the many sites offering a 3D-view of that, for our nearer stars, say within a sphere of up to 100 light years, or so :-)

Another thread of action would be the efforts of the Earth-Company to go into a wholly another direction in space, because of all of that, and meeting sentient and spacefaring other aliens from outer space, but not in a good way.

That is her Chanur epos, written from the POV of such aliens, fighting over one of the earthlings, captured by them on one of Earth-Companies exploratory missions, making the aliens go: WTF?!

What is that? Where did it come from? Leading to turmoil, endangering instable balances and treaties between them.

Implying they could be suddenly confronted with all of humanity, coming from all of the large Cyteen spaces/territories, via Downbelow/Pell, 'Hinder Star Stations', via Earth, to them.

Also I'm not riding 'blindly', though if I can oversee that from afar, and it's empty, I'm pretending color-blindness.

I'm doing this since about 1980 at speeds up to 70kph for maybe up to two minutes on flat grounds

(exception 73.5 uphill here https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.719937&mlon=7.111630#... in the middle of two lanes between gridlocked cars, unforgettable ooomph),

55 to 60 for about an hour, and 45 to 50 effortless, with no sweat, almost any time. Of course I feel strong head-winds, and they do slow me down.

And never ever caused an accident, just touched the rubberlip of a Citroen 2CVs rear bumper with my front wheel once at about 65.

In a roundabout ofc, because the fuckers slowed down for turning out without even blinking. Bicycle was trash, but I've been unhurt, except for very numb and tingling at the same time, hands, soles of my feet, and initial breathlessness. Which all went away after a few minutes, no bruises, no torn clothes.

After having made a salto over the handlebar, managed to separate from my bicycle in the air, pushing it aside, and landing flat on my back after 15 to 20 meters, or so.

Holding my head upright, intentionally. No tingling or numbness there.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.070329/6.999691

Long live the CWU-36P Nomex Flight Jacket from about 1981. Still have that one, but with a new zipper, and new cuffs. I'm considering that thing my 'supercape' :-) And real Levis 501 as they were made in 1988!

Got myself a 'pre-owned' Bianchi with Campagnolo group the next day, for 1500 Deutsche Mark and cackled madly with joy :-)

80 to 90 downhill(on paved roads, not through the wilderness!), if weather allows, and I'm in top form. 90kph is not a good, or easy thing on any bicycle. But... speed is what I need!

Where am I even doing 90? Several places on CO82, on my way back from Independence Pass to Aspen. If weather (mostly wind, can't have strong gusts!) and traffic permits.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=39.1197&mlon=-106.5797#m...

What else? I don't wear a helmet. And no doping. Never even tried that. For what?

https://github.com/kusumi/hammer2

https://github.com/jdmanring/linux_hammer2

How exactly that came to be (from Earth-Company side) was expanded a little bit, as sort of a prequel in Heavy Time(1991) and Hellburner(1992), and later again in Alliance Rising(2019) and Alliance Unbound(2024) from the POV of the affected stations in the so called Hinder Stars(the first to be explored by slower than light ships from the Earth), made obsolete by FTL later on, because of more direct routes to Downbelow and further into Cyteen territory.

¹As folks from PETA and the likes have discovered when freeing them, several times in multiple places. Beginning since at least two decades ago, meanwhile.

Edit: Will the stocks of fertilizer last long enough, before some normalcy sets in again?