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The Jim Creek VLF station, about an hour north of Seattle, briefly mentioned in the article, is still in operation.

I would have to assume that this building is pre-targeted by many megatons of advanced weapon systems.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/w9Sr4YkFbtfKf2Fh6

https://www.navy-radio.com/commsta/jimcreek.htm

https://www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2022/07/jim-creek-harbors...

https://www.historylink.org/file/20778

Velvia is a color slide film. There is no negative to see.

Look, on a Cub Scout camping trip in 1987, my father the Scoutmaster drove two hours in the wrong direction on I-80 in Pennsylvania, trying to get home to New York. He had a caravan of about 5 or 6 cars following. They all communicated with CB radios. Nobody noticed until they got to the Ohio border.

The Grapes of Wrath.

I’m not sure an unhealthy fascination with incest, underaged Catholic schoolgirls and see-thru mesh shirts constitutes an affirmative defense as parody. Also the whole thing was running on a university server, ‘twas simpler times.

Oh my, I remember the time they sent a friend of mine a cease-and-desist.

https://web.archive.org/web/20001017194117/http://www.askgee...

People are represented by Representatives, real estate is represented by Senators.

You do not recall correctly. That's not an article about Seattle. It's an article about Spokane, which is little college town close to five hours away from Seattle. There was no legal judgement, and there was no municipal government action here. A private corporation raised their prices, and their customers reacted by trying to get more for their money. John Smith's invisible hand continues to sculpt our reality.

He's being overly dramatic, and it's not a "Judgment", it's simple economics. Seattle is basically out of landfill space, the Cedar Hills landfill is a 96.6% capacity, so all trash needs to be trucked out of state. To minimize the cost of doing that they encourage sending most of your waste stream to recycling or compost instead. Many of the local trash haul haulers provide nice large recycle and compost bins, but a tiny landfill waste container unless you pay extra, hence the necessary compacting and stomping. My hauler charges an extra $25 fee if the flip-down lid on the garbage container is not fully closed, and they send you a photo and video of your non-compliant container along with the bill.

Again, this is not a judgement or a mandate. You can pay for a larger garbage can or for a multiple garbage cans if you want to. But you have to pay for how your consumption habits impact the cost of disposal.

I have an experiment at work that is generating gaseous hydroflouric acid at 800 degrees F. It's inside a triple containment system that takes a full day to set up and take apart, and we have all sorts of quality checks to validate that it is safe to access and has been fully titrated after the experiment has run. We accidentally ruined a very expensive ion chromatography machine a few weeks ago... Acid gasses are just no fun to work with.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (yes really) do this, but not just for people who buy tickets to the show. They have 444 concerts up on Archive.org for free to all.

https://archive.org/details/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard

Plenty of other artists have free concert archives at https://archive.org/details/etree

How comfortable are you working with chromic acid and boric-sulfuric acid in your home?

It always has been.

I guess I am doing it wrong, I thought you become a guitar god by building the perfect pedalboard.

As an unusual tree I’ve always liked the Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides. It was known only from fossil record and thought extinct until a small grove was found in a mountain valley in China in 1946. There was a wave of popularity and a bunch were planted worldwide, which are now mature and easy to find if you want to see one. They grow well and very quickly in cool to temperate climates. They have little tiny deciduous needle-leaves that don't need to be raked, and grow tall and symmetrical without spreading too wide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia_glyptostroboides

I started 2 sprouts I bought by mail order, after one growing season they were nearly 3 feet tall. I got them mail order from Jonsteen Nursery, they have been specializing in various redwood saplings for many years. https://sequoiatrees.com/

And they have not edited it or taken it down... why?

A note on their section on fire extinguishing - just about all aerospace fire extinguishing systems use agents with a fluorine based chemistry. Putting out a fire dissociates some of the agent, and in the presence of humidified air it recombines and forms hydroflouric acid, which will eat you from the inside out. So your air scrubbers had best do a good job at removing acid gasses.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280646417_Acid_gas_...

Um, yeah. Welcome to the 21'st century, did you enjoy your long nap?

Exactly. They re-designed the tang and clevis joint so that the metal parts of the joint did not spread under gas pressure and the o-ring did not lose compression. They added a heater to ensure that the o-ring remained in it's usable temperature range. And added a superfluous third O-ring.

Speaking of which, has anyone ever adequately explained why Challenger's Right SRB joint temperature was measured as -13 deg C using infrared pyrometers, when the lowest ambient temperature that night was -5.5C, and the Left SRB was measured -4 C? What subcooled the right SRB?

Allan McDonald's "Truth, Lies, and O-Rings" is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to discuss the details of this particular bit of corporate and government malfeasance. It's 600 pages of technical detail and political intrigue. He suggests that a plume from a cryo vent could have impinged on the field joint and cooled the o-ring to lower than ambient temperatures. No proof though.

No, the Iran War was caused by a psychotic president.

The "Feeders with Hungry Cats" dropdown filters to the active cameras.

When I was a kid, I could hear the sound the of the flyback transformer on the CRT TV from anywhere in the house. None of the adults could. 15.7 kHz. Now obsolete both due to the lack of CRTs, and degradation of my hearing from heavy metal concerts and jet engine exposure.

Can you make it sound just like Titus Moody? I want to hear your voice assistant say "No sir, I don't hold with furniture that talks."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIjjDC3tFfU

You don't have a strong understanding of automotive engine design, do ya?

The engine is still 5.0L. The supercharger is 3.0L. And that is why it makes 810 horsepower.

(Looks sadly at the 1.3L Eaton supercharger on my workbench and feels inadequate)

If he was picking butts (heh) every day for 8 hours a day, he’d have to pick a butt every 10 seconds. That seems like an implausible amount of butt picking.

Clanker.

No one wants to see your AI summaries.

The only thing you ever post is AI summaries of articles. Why?

Does it run PARSEC? Nice shot captain!

Timing is everything. A bad haircut decision right before the most important job interview of your life might not be recoverable.

Great Clips or Weldon Barber, are you feeling lucky?