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  2. brenthutch
    Did those in 2022.
  3. georger
    Gossip vs factual news ... the Moon could be cheese. Familiarity breeds contempt, or just sloppy reporting ? Geoffrey Gray now lives in Mexico and Galen is coming back - never left. Jo Weber was amazing and LD was an early suspect! 'Dorey' took over the case from Himmelsbach - Himms charged too much for his interviews and he lived in a palace (his wife had money). There is more ..... stay tuned! Galen is coming back . . . Jo Weber had connections nobody else had . . . there is probably plastic in your heart valves and arteries and brain .. . if you remote view Jo Weber's dreams backwards you will know everything about the DB Cooper case including all FBI 302s. Oh! And Galen is coming back . . .
  4. billvon
    No one predicts past events like BH.
  5. BIGUN
    Trump?!?!?! Is that you?
  6. Math of Insects
    Anyone know where Newton was November 24, 1971? Did he smoke? Working with apples might explain some of those particles.
  7. brenthutch
    Voyager 1, 47 years and counting
  8. brenthutch
    Trump tax cuts expire, child tax credit ends, rental properties fully depreciate…Doesn’t seem like a stretch.
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  10. SkyDekker
    So kind of like triggering two tax events now, because you are predicting catastrophe in the future?
  11. Cola
    Provocation Fridays “It’s not because I have a grudge against your airlines, it’s just because I have a grudge.” Has anyone here ever had a real grudge or a true brooding of wrath? Have you ever been compelled into action because of a grudge? Are grudges healthy? Can grudges be productive? When Dan Cooper said he had a grudge do you think he was being facetious, flippant, or revealing something deeper of himself? Here is a thought –Newtonian physics – one of the greatest achievements in human history is alleged to have been spurred by a grudge, a brooding of wrath! Yes, possibly there is more truth in this than Newton’s metaphor of an apple falling from the tree of knowledge and giving Newton his inspiration for gravity! (Think of Newton’s symbology of gravity – the apple tree the apple. Was this symbology a heretical attack on Adam and Eve eating form the tree of knowledge, the church and Christianity or a clever combining of Science and Gravity with elements of Christianity - as if gravity were Manna from Heaven falling from the tree of knowledge on Newton…? Who knows the truth but Newton?) Anyway, the story loosely goes that Newton as a boy was kicked in the stomach by a school bully and that in this action Newton’s defense against this much larger individual was not to physically challenge him but to apply himself to mentally dominate this bully. Allegedly, the bully was the head pupil at Newton’s school, so Newton set about whipping this individual’s mind by applying himself to his studies and besting the bully, unseating him from his position as valedictorian. It may have been something as simple as being kicked unjustly in the stomach that ultimately put Newton on an academic and intellectual path to create Newtonian Physics! Has this one kick to the stomach affected man? Is it possible the reason we put a man on the moon in 1969, the reason we were able to put a man on the moon in 1969 was that a bully 340 years prior kicked Issac Newton in the stomach and the effect was a grudge and brooding which may have ultimately lead to the develop Newtonian Physics... Anyone aware of other historical grudges like Newtons? (All comments welcome - This is all for fun)
  12. billvon
    Well, if you hold em down you can CLAIM you are taller! And who's going to argue? Certainly not that guy who can't get up.
  13. billvon
    And fossil fuel power plants have to go down for maintenance regulary. Fortunately, we can plan for that, just as we can plan for intermittent renewables. I have panels that have been in continuous use for 25 years, on my first house. Last time I checked they were still generating at least 90% of their original rating. The first panels at the Topaz solar installation were installed in 2011. They were thin film, which are cheaper but shorter-lived than the sort of crystalline panels that are used today for most solar installations (including residential.) Those panels are still operating. The oldest known solar panel installation was installed in 1976. It is still operating. So one of us is lying. Well, no, you are thinking of coal power plants, that have huge ponds that they dump their toxic and radioactive wastes into (and store coal and ash slurry.) When the dams on these ponds fail, dozens die and hundreds of acres of land are poisoned. Solar panels? They are often recycled, partially or completely. The most common recycling now is to strip the aluminum off the panels (easy to recycle) then throw the glass in a landfill. That saves about half the energy needed to make a solar panel, and the remaining stuff (glass, EVA and silicon) is inert. Right now about 80% of panels are partially recycled, and 20% of panels are completely recycled. In the future that will be much higher. And no one has ever been killed by a "solar panel dam failure." No gas or nuclear power plant - EVER - operated for 50 years without maintenance and parts replacement. EVER. Fair point. It will go up with time - since energy will get more expensive, but sunlight will not.
  14. olemisscub
    Yes, I really, really don't like that narrative for the hijacking. It's especially nonsensical because the government did NOT want to be paying for airline security. The government wanted it to be the responsibility of the individual airlines to pay for additional security measures. So, saying the deep state was involved is silly to me because they had no incentive. This was a clever bank robbery, that's all. That said, I think there is a very, very real possibility that Cooper was CIA adjacent at some point in his life, likely through Air America. He fits the mold very well of their middle aged renegade pilots who flew in Vietnam. As I said in the show, I came across a news article from 1972 where a guy said the average age of Air America pilots was 43 years old. These guys were mercenaries. They risked their lives for profit. So, Cooper would have been used to this sort of dangerous game. The fact that Air America dropped men and material out of 727's with 15 degree flaps and gear down is almost too coincidental to believe.
  15. olofscience
    No, I'm asserting that the lifespan is more than 10 years. This is a bizarre and nonsensical analogy. Are you ok?
  16. fcajump
    Deployment altitudes, both BSR and in practice... When I got my C, if you weren't doing CReW or a cross country, it was considered concerning for experienced jumpers to open higher than 2,500.... what's wrong with you if you do... Now C/D licensed are required to be above 2,500. But even more its common for the openings to be up to 5,000'+ Emphasis is on giving yourself time to deal with canopy issues, especially for the faster/smaller canopies. (it does lead to the backward condition of potentially have large slow canopies opening lower than small/fast. this then leads to pre-jump planning to ensure no conflicts.) Finally, depending on where you did and do jump, the larger turbine aircraft are more common, so higher exits are more common. JW
  17. metalslug
    ..and what did my post state by comparison? Are you standing with bill on that $4 forever ? Nuclear technology is also improving, arguably a truly long-life plant or cost reduction breakthrough could be possible someday. Are you asserting that replacement is only required when it gets to zero? By that standard I can confidently state that I recycle paper cups filled with warm coffee. The coffee inside them is valuable to me, the rest of the item goes someplace else. Win !
  18. winsor
    My first thought was the petrodollar. One of many problems I have with fossil fuels is that they are, by their very nature, finite. I agree that the people who want to 'simply' replace fossil fuels with sunshine and unicorn farts tend to be weak on the thermodynamics of scale involved, but that does not mean we can continue indefinitely down the road of plentiful and cheap fossil fuels shoring up our way of life. The point that the video missed is that the ROI on natural gas is only good until you use it up. Quite when is that point can vary as a function of efficiency and sundry wild cards, but that point is coming sooner than later. You may as well get in another few skydives and tear around in exquisite Italian cars and whatnot, because it will only slightly affect when the inevitable comes to pass. No long term gain from missing out. BTW, Lamborghinis are best rented, so the owner is stuck with it when the fuel pump runs dry. BSBD, Winsor
  19. BIGUN
    Now, hold on - let's talk about this . . .
  20. BIGUN
    Well, ummmm, about that, are you saying that . . . nevermind
  21. olofscience
    This is the lie, solar panels are getting a LOT more reliable. Some of the newest ones are rated for 40 to 50 years: https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2017/failures-pv-panels-degradation.html The battery lifespan is also a lie - the 10 years usually quoted is for the number of cycles for batteries to reach 80% of their rated capacity. You're talking as if they suddenly go to zero. The lithium in them is extremely valuable, this is another silly argument. If you replace your car's catalytic converter, do you dump it, platinum and all, in a landfill? Most batteries are easily recycled.
  22. wmw999
    OK, idle curiosity -- what happened in Fort Bend County? Wendy P.
  23. olofscience
    You could also predict that the sun would rise tomorrow and nobody would give a shit. Those "'predictions" you made didn't have much uncertainty to begin with, which is why nobody gives a shit. It doesn't make you clever like you think it does. And I remember, I asked you to make an actual prediction (on an uncertain subject, predict a specific number) and you just ran away "to watch the game".
  24. wmw999
    Someone else being wrong doesn't actually make you right. Kind of like how pushing someone else down doesn't actually make you taller or stronger, or calling someone else stupid doesn't make you smarter. Wendy P.
  25. brenthutch
    “The decline in EV sales in the market was particularly pronounced among European automakers, as reported by data from the KBA, Germany’s federal motor transport authority. Citroen, Jaguar, Polestar, and Volkswagen all saw a 30 percent reduction in EV sales in Q1 2024 compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, Porsche, Peugeot, Mini, Fiat, and DS experienced even larger contractions, with reductions exceeding 40 percent.” From Carscoops.com
  26. brenthutch
    We don’t have 12 years to save the climate. We have 14 months,” the now-defunct ThinkProgress predicted 43 months ago. Former French prime minister Laurent Fabius warned 3,239 days ago that the international community had only “500 days to avoid climate chaos.” Earlier, in 2009, Gordon Brown, the U.K.’s prime minister at the time, said we had “fewer than fifty days to save our planet from catastrophe.” Also in 2009, former vice president Al Gore declared that “there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.” In 2013, mid-melt, the Guardian ran the following headline: “US Navy predicts summer ice-free Arctic by 2016.” The ice is still there. “NASA Scientist: We’re Toast,” reads the headline of an Associated Press report from 2008. In 2007, the IPCC predicted the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. The U.N.’s chief climate science body retracted the claim in 2010, explaining the prediction wasn’t based on any peer-reviewed data, but on a media interview with a scientist conducted in 1999. In 2006, Gore claimed that unless world leaders took “drastic measures” to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, Earth would surpass the “point of no return” in ten years — a “true planetary emergency,” he called it. The year 2016 came and went, and now we’re being told the early 2030s are the real point of no return. The Guardian, citing a “secret report,” warned in 2004 that “major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.” “U.N. Predicts Disaster If Global Warming Not Checked,” the AP reported in 1989. The report’s opening line reads, “senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
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