Cancer Posted September 17, 2020 Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 Yeah, but he did it by accident, so he doesn't get full credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 17, 2020 Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 "accident" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 In just one year! The Air Force Secretly Designed, Built, and Flew a Brand-New Fighter Jet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Pariah said: In just one year! The Air Force Secretly Designed, Built, and Flew a Brand-New Fighter Jet I think NGAD holds a lot of promise as a much better way to design and deploy airplanes. The way the US has been doing it, they're almost obsolete before the first one rolls off the assembly line. I've been reading about it obsessively over the last couple of days. https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2020/09/15/the-us-air-force-has-built-and-flown-a-mysterious-full-scale-prototype-of-its-future-fighter-jet/ I really hate the "one fighter plane as a Swiss army knife that's supposed to do everything" mentality which took over the joint strike fighter program. And NGAD seems to be a HUGE step away from that. Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 I suspect the realization that the human pilot, with its inherent acceleration limits, may find itself out of future air forces, may be behind this. USAF is led by people who worship the solo guy in a plane holding the stick between his legs (i.e., themselves). The elephantine projects to build The Next Great Single-Seat Combat Plane have contributed to the push toward UAVs in as many combat roles as possible, and the fighter jock mentality would strike back against that heresy in pretty much this way. Sociotard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 8 minutes ago, Cancer said: I suspect the realization that the human pilot, with its inherent acceleration limits, may find itself out of future air forces, may be behind this. USAF is led by people who worship the solo guy in a plane holding the stick between his legs (i.e., themselves). The elephantine projects to build The Next Great Single-Seat Combat Plane have contributed to the push toward UAVs in as many combat roles as possible, and the fighter jock mentality would strike back against that heresy in pretty much this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 On 9/18/2020 at 8:41 AM, Starlord said: No one alerted him. I don't know how.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 10 hours ago, Old Man said: Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 Microsoft acquires Bethesda Softworks in $7.5B deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 Microsoft now controls The Elder Scrolls series...hmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Starlord said: Microsoft now controls The Elder Scrolls series...hmmm. Maybe that means the next game in the series will be an Xbox exclusive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 ...and also DOOM, as I understand it. Is DOOM still a thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 From Nature: Environmental scientists suppressed in Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Pariah said: ...and also DOOM, as I understand it. Is DOOM still a thing? It's still going strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 3 hours ago, Cancer said: From Nature: Environmental scientists suppressed in Australia This is why I think we're heading for a monumental crash. The pandemic has shattered the illusion that Truth Will Set Us Free; the willfully blind will deny, deny, deny, and/or seek to blame anyone but themselves. Nothing will get done until Florida is underwater...at which point it's far too late, of course...because it's inconvenient, expensive, reduces profit, costs jobs, etc. Then the screaming happens, as 10s, even probably 100s of millions of people lose much/all of their life's work, and gazillions of dollars get washed away. The second part of the crash is, where the HECK are you going to put all of them??? Not saying this will be in my lifetime...or the lifetime of anyone here for that matter. But I simply don't see adequate will to fix the core problems before we trash this planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 56 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Nothing will get done until Florida is underwater.... In my experience, nothing will get done. Period. The vast majority of people that I talk to who have a problem with climate change activism do not deny the climate is radically changing. They deny that climate change is man-made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 8 hours ago, Cygnia said: Microsoft acquires Bethesda Softworks in $7.5B deal Great, so now Bethesda will suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 11 minutes ago, Starlord said: The vast majority of people that I talk to who have a problem with climate change activism do not deny the climate is radically changing. They deny that climate change is man-made. I can understand the broad outlines of that argument. We know that the climate radically changed several times before man could have been a factor. After man could have been a factor, it changed several times more. What is now the northern Sahara was fields of grain during the days of the Roman Empire. In times before that, what is now Israel and Palestine were considered lushly vegetated rather than being a mostly desert as it is today. In historical times, grapes flourished in what was a mild climate in northern England as if they were being grown in the wine regions of France. Regardless... Personally, I'd switch the whole world over to using molten salt thorium reactors for centralized power generation, put solar or windmills on every rooftop, and call it a day. We'd probably still have to use fossil fuels for some shipping, agriculture, and aircraft purposes, but it'd be a tiny fraction of the carbon output and pollution that we have today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 8 minutes ago, archer said: Personally, I'd switch the whole world over to using molten salt thorium reactors for centralized power generation, put solar or windmills on every rooftop, and call it a day. We'd probably still have to use fossil fuels for some shipping, agriculture, and aircraft purposes, but it'd be a tiny fraction of the carbon output and pollution that we have today. This is no longer sufficient. There is already too much carbon in the atmosphere. If it is not actively removed, all glaciers and ice caps will melt. Greenland alone will be sufficient to raise sea levels by 24 feet. Current projections are for 4 feet of sea level rise by 2100, and I expect this estimate to be too conservative, like all other climate projections so far. I mean, we do need to stop pumping carbon out of the ground and burning it. Badly. It's just that I don't think people realize how inexorable and dire the situation is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 1 minute ago, Old Man said: This is no longer sufficient. There is already too much carbon in the atmosphere. If it is not actively removed, all glaciers and ice caps will melt. Greenland alone will be sufficient to raise sea levels by 24 feet. Current projections are for 4 feet of sea level rise by 2100, and I expect this estimate to be too conservative, like all other climate projections so far. Instead, we have enormous swaths of rain forest...THE BEST carbon remover, because its byproduct is oxygen...getting cut down year after year, and being burned extensively this year. Which also argues that the projections are going to prove to be, not just conservative, but exceptionally so. There's also extensive evidence of ocean damage. The ocean's another carbon sink, but in doing so, it changes the pH harmfully. This is destroying the coral reefs, one of the other top, rich and diverse habitats we have. IIRC, jellyfish like it; tuna and the like, don't. (Altho here, of course, the refusal to slow down the overfishing is probably the bigger issue.) The other side of this is, as the planet really starts feeling the crunch, the contraction itself will become violent. Where are you gonna move 50 million or so people on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts? What will the impact on food production be, because where's the free space to put them? Farmland...???? Do we create our own boicatastrophe by the direct and indirect climate effects...more bad storms causing more crop losses, or continued loss of honey bees...critical to food production, and the like. Civil meltdown may finish even before glacial meltdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 35 minutes ago, Old Man said: This is no longer sufficient. There is already too much carbon in the atmosphere. If it is not actively removed, all glaciers and ice caps will melt. Greenland alone will be sufficient to raise sea levels by 24 feet. Current projections are for 4 feet of sea level rise by 2100, and I expect this estimate to be too conservative, like all other climate projections so far. I mean, we do need to stop pumping carbon out of the ground and burning it. Badly. It's just that I don't think people realize how inexorable and dire the situation is. Do you have a favorite method or methods for capturing and sequestering the carbon which you would recommend be put into place today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 52 minutes ago, archer said: Do you have a favorite method or methods for capturing and sequestering the carbon which you would recommend be put into place today? "Favorite" is a poor term, because all current sequestration technologies suck. However, separating CO2 from the atmosphere via refrigeration and forcing it into olivine-rich rock has been shown to be effective. It's pointless, though, unless the energy to do so comes from renewable sources. And from an efficiency standpoint, renewable energy needs to be spent on replacing fossil fuel generation first, then used for sequestration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 9 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said: Maybe that means the next game in the series will be an Xbox exclusive. See? That's the sort of thing I worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 Nebraska Bar Owner Charged In Shooting Of BLM Protester Dies By Suicide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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