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  2. 1 minute ago, billvon said:

    My bad.  My pizza chronology was off.

    Not only were there pizzas, but basements were also in existence. So Hitler's opponents could have been doing those nasty things after all. 

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  6. 2 hours ago, Coreece said:

    As for the last one, I wouldn't necessarily just single out homosexual sex as it's a subset of sexual immorality in general.

    Sexual immorality is just a construct. The only immorality would be if someone is taking advantage of a child or a person otherwise not able to give informed consent. Homosexual sex is not immoral. Men entering the priesthood then using the posistion of trust to take advantage of children is immoral. Likewise it is not immoral for a boy or a girl to feel they don't fit your expectations of their sexuality. It is a struggle, and it may be very difficult for them, but it is not immoral.

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  8. 3 hours ago, bdb2004 said:

    Is it? Particularly at smaller seasonal dropzones across the country?

    I really have no interest in freeflying or angles or tracking jumps. I'm unlikely to ever want to get into wingsuiting. I don't want to just go out and screw around playing freefall games or flying through hulahoops. 

    I just want to find a few people who want to dedicate two or three weekends a month to turning some points, debriefing the video, and then doing it again to try to improve as a group. Apparently that just isn't what most people think of as fun anymore.

    At our small Cessna DZ we still do 4 way. But our average age is quite high and the younger jumpers we do have are not really very interested in it. Not yet dead but definitely dying. 

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  9. 17 minutes ago, billvon said:

    The surface radiates that heat away as blackbody radiation. which is what we see as the energy from the Sun.

    So, after reading up on that I find that the common term for that is basically "heat". Now I'm thinking about being outside on a warm day and feeling the power of the Sun 93 million miles away. And that makes we wonder why some people think we can only power our civilization with fossil fuels. Just because that is what we have done for about 150 years. Talk about a lack of vision.

  11. 12 minutes ago, johnhking1 said:

    Now all we need is a world wide electric grid so the part of the day time part of the earth can supply the night time place.

    Well....Nicola Tesla thought he had the answer to that. But it seems he was wrong. None the less the problems of storage and distribution are not insurmountable. Unless the of course the increase in consumption being seen now by the apparently insatiable Bitcoin and now AI sectors push our needs to levels that can't be sustained. 

  12. On 4/17/2024 at 12:23 PM, olofscience said:

    ...so is your argument that, as soon as solar power generates 3.5x breakeven energy, the sun stops shining?

    I believe solar is the only electricity source we have that does not involve spinning magnets around to create a flux in a magnetic field. This huge advantage plus the fact that the Sun is always shining somewhere and the Earth has plenty of surface areas available leads me to the conclusion that solar is how almost all our electricity needs will be met eventually. It's really a no brainer. The obstacles of effective distribution and storage all have known solutions.  

  15. 1 hour ago, JoeWeber said:

    A 13000 year spread? At any point during that period were there variations that might have made the trend confusing for some observers?

    Are we REALLY going to engage in this game where deniers start comparing geological events that took place over 10s of thousands to millions of years to with the current events that have happened since the beginning of the industrial revolution? The speed of change is unprecedented to our knowledge. Only cataclysmic events like major volcanic events and large object collisions are comparable in speed.  

  16. No injury but a young lady here did a nude two way late last summer and they miss-spotted. She landed in a field of nearly mature Canola (rapeseed) and had to walk about a 1/4 out through it. It was unpleasant for her.

  18. 25 minutes ago, Rickendiver said:

    A virus is able to transmit astonishingly well, and not just through droplets.

    I can remember at the beginning of the pandemic there was a lot of speculation on how this particular virus spreads. There was a focus on surfaces cleaning for a long time. It later became more clear that covid mostly transmits through aerial droplets. It also became pretty clear that the first strains that were the most virulent caused worse disease when the viral load of the initial infection was higher. Both these things support the use of masks as an attenuator. 

  19. 1 hour ago, wolfriverjoe said:

    To be fair, mask mandates were pretty ineffective.

    There was very little difference between infection rates with or without mandates.

    The problem was lack of enforcement. Or lack of a mandate in the first place.

    There are places in the world with higher compliance rates and lower death rates than those you witnessed.

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  20. 46 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

    I agree with you, largely, especially so with respect to any EO's that come with big bills. But those fairly benign housekeeping ones or even ones for presidential legacy things like national monuments seem fine to me. 

    There is no point to have an Executive Branch if it can’t take executive action. Congress is far too cumbersome of a tool for governing.

  21. 8 hours ago, Rickendiver said:

    Truly, you have a dizzying intellect. As there is no point in continuing a discussion, I’ll leave you with some technology to consider.

    Enjoy

     

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

    https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Thomas-R-Metz-39550427

    Truly you have shown yourself to be an opponent of government mandated masking. You have not made or even attempted to make any case that wearing masks does not reduce viral spread. Reducing and slowing the rate of spread was the sole reason for mask mandates. We always knew that we all were going to be infected sooner or later. But one thing is correct. There is no point in continuing the discussion. You are never going to change or give an inch in your opposition to mask mandates no matter their degree of effectiveness. 

  24. 42 minutes ago, Rickendiver said:

    Hope this explanation helps.

    I'm somewhat aware of the paper chase and the fight for funding that goes on in the academic side of research. But the question remains......did the use of masks REDUCE the speed of the spread of covid? The Great Barrington Declaration was an outline of an alternative plan to deal with the pandemic. It did contain some strategies that had some validity. But it completely ignored the crisis situation in the healthcare system. In the end it was a political document of a libertarian posistion, not a validated scientific paper.

  25. 3 minutes ago, jakee said:

    The other thing that US and other intel agency's did get wrong was drastic underestimation of Zelensky and Ukraine's will and ability to resist, which relly, really slowed down the level of support in the early days. I'm pretty sure there was a general feeling that any really expensive hight tech weaponry given to Ukraine was simply going to get captured by the Russians when Kyiv was overrun. The ramifications of those delays are huge.

    Yes, and we all thought that the Russian military was competent. We were wrong.

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