Badger Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 8 hours ago, Lawnmower Boy said: Whether you're a Herophile or not, please stay safe. I'm a little gobsmacked that hurricane season is starting with a potential disaster, because it suggests that we'll be dealing with a few more of them, and I'm a bit worried that our modern economy isn't really up to the strain of so many weather-related blows. People in Carolina need to not drown tomorrow. Everyone needs to not starve, every day. If the locals follow tradition, they'll buy 3 loaves of bread, one gallon of milk, and 2 dozen eggs per person per day expected to be out of the loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 Dallas police officer shoots man in his apartment after allegedly mistaking it for her own This is so odd and disturbing I don't know where to start. - You were on the wrong floor? And you didn't see the red doormat outside the door? - His door also happened to be slightly ajar? - There is absolutely no way I'm 'obeying' someone who has snuck into my dimly lit apartment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 National Hurricane Center The most current general information is updated regularly there. But yeah, looks like it's gonna be wet in NC and VA in the coming week. And the Outer Banks and Barrier Islands are gonna get hammered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 2 hours ago, Starlord said: Dallas police officer shoots man in his apartment after allegedly mistaking it for her own This is so odd and disturbing I don't know where to start. - You were on the wrong floor? - His door also happened to be slightly ajar? - There is absolutely no way I'm obeying someone who has snuck into my dimly lit apartment with a bright red doormat mat outside the door. I doubt the veracity of her explanation of events. And that's all I'll say on the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 20 hours ago, Cancer said: BTW, Lawnmower Boy, are you BCers done for the season with shipping us hundreds of tons of smoke and haze? Geez, man, cut us some slack. We're going to need a whole lot of moisture over the next few months to build up the fuel load for next Burning Time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 Hog Farmers Scramble to Drain Waste Pools Ahead Of Hurricane Florence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 12, 2018 Report Share Posted September 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Cygnia said: Hog Farmers Scramble to Drain Waste Pools Ahead Of Hurricane Florence Where are they going to put it all? I can imagine people raising cattle could just send it to Washington where nobody would nice, but hog farmers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 12, 2018 Report Share Posted September 12, 2018 Are you saying DC is too good for hog feces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 12, 2018 Report Share Posted September 12, 2018 2 minutes ago, Badger said: Are you saying DC is too good for hog feces? There are hogs enough in DC already, thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 12, 2018 Report Share Posted September 12, 2018 Hog farms are known to be just amazing ammonia sources, in terms of anthropogenic trace gas production. A colleague of mine who was in that racket said that when setting up a monitoring station, you had to stay away from any site with a significant number of hogs (and I don't know if "significant" means a couple dozen or several hundred in this context) or it would overpower your instruments, like taking soot measurements downwind of a coal-fired power plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted September 12, 2018 Report Share Posted September 12, 2018 On 9/10/2018 at 10:54 PM, Badger said: If the locals follow tradition, they'll buy 3 loaves of bread, one gallon of milk, and 2 dozen eggs per person per day expected to be out of the loop. French toast is a critical part of any disaster preparation plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 Apparently, Americans aren't the only one who react unfavorably to peaceful protest. Really, Australia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 Brave, brave politicians, attacking a 9-year-old girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 And as if it's wasn't obvious enough that Australia's popular press is not quite in the 21st century yet, an Australian cartoonist published a cartoon criticizing Serena Williams (who recently had an infamous explosion at the US Open final) that looked like something out of a cartoon in a 1930's southern newspaper. I'm not going to post it here, but you should be able to find it. When people, especially outside of Australia, criticized the gross personal and racial insults to perhaps the greatest athlete on the planet of either gender, the newspaper who printed the cartoon doubled down by printing it again and claiming to be the victim of "PC run amok". I know there is at least one Australian here, but given the policies I read about every so often it certainly looks like racial politics in Australia tend to be unpleasant. I wonder what reception Williams will receive at next year's Australian Open (the first of tennis' four Grand Slam tournaments each year). And she's faced other pointless harassment this year; a "catsuit" she wore to combat a life-threatening condition from her recent pregnancy was summarily banned by the French tennis authorities for no readily discernible reason. With all the pointless junk she's dealt with in 2018, her behavior did not surprise or even particularly offend me. McEnroe and Agassi got away with much worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 Exactly. The ref in this case might have been justified by the rulebook, but the scandal is that the men are not and have never been held to the same standard. I wonder if John McEnroe has anything interesting to say about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 So, Cancer, I don't suppose you are more "in the know" here? An observatory in New Mexico has been evacuated, and sealed off by an FBI team that arrived in a black helicopter. I'm sure it is something banally awful, but my inner scifi nerd is dancing. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/telescopes/a23107258/fbi-new-mexico-observatory/ RDU Neil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clnicholsusa Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Sociotard said: So, Cancer, I don't suppose you are more "in the know" here? An observatory in New Mexico has been evacuated, and sealed off by an FBI team that arrived in a black helicopter. I'm sure it is something banally awful, but my inner scifi nerd is dancing. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/telescopes/a23107258/fbi-new-mexico-observatory/ J'onn J'onzz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 The newspaper item linked from the Popular Mechanics thing you posted mentions National Solar Observatory, though the picture in the PopMech thing is of a nearby but different place, Apache Point Observatory. I have been to APO several times over the last 20-plus years, and I was WSU's science rep on the APO governing board for the last three years they were members of the consortium. Nothing seems to have happened at APO: there's no disruptions noted in their night logs or other operating reports. NSO I do not know anywhere near as well, having been there only once and that as a tourist. It seems to be slowly being phased out of operation as its science gets shifted to better observing sites in Hawaii. (I haven't seen a clear, open declaration of that, but lots of functions have been moved out of New Mexico and the trend seems clear.) Roughly a year ago they closed their visitors center, apparently for good. What remains there at NSO might (I emphasize "might") include some classified military (most likely USAF) project; that has certainly happened before, and there is a half-century history of observatories making their telescopes available to secret detector/sensor development projects in exchange for some limited scientific use of the new, hot, and otherwise unavailable new tech. If this is the situation, and if the largely depopulated observatory had some unauthorized outsider get in after hours and end up in a place they should not be, then I can imagine the feds entering immediately and not wanting to talk about it. That would be my guess, but it is strictly a guess. I probably know people who know more, and maybe I can pass on more at some future time. Sociotard and RDU Neil 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 5 hours ago, wcw43921 said: Apparently, Americans aren't the only one who react unfavorably to peaceful protest. Really, Australia? Us, Americans apparently respect protest more when they get violent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 As a general rule, I try not to discuss politics here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 75-Year-Old Cleveland Man Survives Being Trapped in Hot Cadillac for 14 Hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDU Neil Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Cygnia said: 75-Year-Old Cleveland Man Survives Being Trapped in Hot Cadillac for 14 Hours locked there by his dog, maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDU Neil Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 At the time of posting, the wind and waves are just brutal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 They should really have taken down the flag. They KNEW it would get hammered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 7 hours ago, RDU Neil said: locked there by his dog, maybe? Read the article. Electronic door locks would not release if the engine wasn't started, presumably to energize the entire system. The car failed to start. Yes, there's a manual door release...but on the floor. Quite possibly not well marked, even potentially covered. And the owner's manual wasn't in the car...how many of us keep the owner's manual after 10 years? The driver has to share some of the burden here, but there's also notable design issues. The engine should not have to be started to manipulate the doors. On other notes...Australia is also considering a bill to require security backdoors into cell phones/apps, and force phone makers and service providers to help them decrypt on demand. Now, combine this with their Crime and Corruption Commission, which can summon you into a criminal hearing about which you cannot talk. YOU are gagged by the order itself. It's a star chamber of the first order. Combine that with excessive surveillance...and that's serious trouble. Last but not least...the female cop in Dallas who entered the wrong apartment has been charged with manslaughter. Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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