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Post by Handy on Nov 18, 2020 0:14:25 GMT -5
Yes Baza, the cost of equipment is a serious deterrent to becoming self sufficient. I don't have any solar power in the house except for a few yard lights along the side walk. If you like to tinker (experiment) here is a link to people doing low cost battery storage. I say low cost but it is also high in time spent doing these projects. secondlifestorage.com/index.phpWith your 1KW during the winter, no battery back-up system will make up for the low electricity production number. In my area, occasionally we have golf ball to small tennis ball size hail that breaks car windows. This is what keeps me from having a minimal solar system and my power cost is .11-.12 cents Us per KWH. There was a time when solar power was swapped evenly for grid power even-steven. Now the power company only wants to pay wholesale price (.03? or .04? cents per KWH) for PV power. I watched several Youtube videos about future battery technology. The possibilities are many. . |
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Post by solitarysoul on Nov 18, 2020 10:45:21 GMT -5
Watching an old episode of Card Sharks from 1978 on Pluto TV...
The questions are based on the answers to polls they take...
They asked 100 married Italian men in Milan, Italy, "Is it OK for a married man to have a mistress?"... the answer... 64 married men said it was OK.
The next question was asked of 100 married WOMEN in Milan, Italy, "Is it OK for married man to have a mistress?"... the answer....83 married women said it was OK.
What did i learn today?... I need to invent a time machine and go to Milan in 1978.....
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Post by Handy on Nov 18, 2020 12:42:42 GMT -5
It sounds like the approval rate for having a mistress (or male lover) is based on location more than a time in history. I wonder what the percentages of approval would be today? Question #2 is, if 83 married women said it was OK, are 83 married women also having affairs? I always wonder why the numbers for affairs usually are higher for men in many cases than for women. Are a few women super sexual and doing triple duty?
eddit to add:
Yes I heard women down play their numbers of affairs and men exaggerate their numbers of affairs.
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Post by wewbwb on Nov 20, 2020 11:48:15 GMT -5
I've been blessed and cursed with working with cars for my entire adult life. I've learned a fuckton (which is a real and accurate measurement) and the most common thing I've seen is that I have a lot to learn...
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Post by Handy on Nov 20, 2020 12:50:34 GMT -5
Wewbwb, I have been working on cars since the early 1960. If I made a flow chart for the cars I worked on at the start of my auto repair life, the flow chart would be short.
Now some vehicles have a flow chart that includes 3,000 checks that have to pass a specification stored in some on board computers to keep the MIL/Check engine light off.
Yes we have a lot to learn because a lot of new things are invented every year. It is difficult to keep up with many of the changes.
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Post by Handy on Nov 20, 2020 13:16:09 GMT -5
The Glacial History of Long Island thisoldearth.net/geocore/Activities/LI_Geology_and_water.pdf (copy and paste into a search engine if needed) I knew Long island was composed of Glacial till and at least a moraine. What I didn't know was the time periods this took place, that there are 2 major moraines and that Long Island has 3 aquifers. My challenge to the readers is what geological/historical events happened in your area to shape the landscape as it appears now? My area was part of the Colorado Inland Sea and now has an elevation of 3,000 ft. When the local glaciers melted, the flood waters deposited gravel from several hundred miles away and possibly some of the Yellowstone Super Volcanoes ash is deposited in the area. Within 10 to 50 miles ancient Native American tribes left paintings on rocks and there are ancient Tipi rings. Some rings of stones are too large for a Tipi so did the Native Americans have their own flat version of Stonehenge? I also know there are a few dinosaurs tracks around the area and several dinosaurs bones have been found. Big Mike is in front of a museum. |
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Post by Handy on Nov 21, 2020 1:39:01 GMT -5
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Post by DryCreek on Nov 21, 2020 13:21:53 GMT -5
Yes, very sad news about Arecibo, for many reasons. It’s such a huge installation, it’s a shame that it can’t be salvaged. It’ll be a great loss to the scientific community as well as the local community in Puerto Rico.
I was surprised to read that they’d done preventative maintenance recently, and these two cables still failed unexpectedly. And that all the damage to the dish has been caused not by the sensor platform falling, but from the impact of the cables, which must be incredibly heavy. Now the sensor platform is feared to be at risk, and I read that it weighs like 990 tons!
(For the uninitiated, Arecibo is the famous, giant, radio telescope dish used for astronomy. It’s like 900’ in diameter, and was the premise for the movie Contact.)
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Post by Handy on Nov 21, 2020 15:03:42 GMT -5
Yes, my thoughts were someone built it so why not rig up a couple more support cables? Pont #2, the sensors might be replaceable by something that weighs less? No I do not have an engineering degree. I can make a good meatloaf, have some automotive diagnost test equipment I use fairly often and rebuild car engines, so maybe I am on the right path.
Claiming the sky (Arecibo) is falling mode might generate enough interest to raise enough money to make substantial repairs. It only takes money to get things done and claiming the sky is falling mode might work. OTH the James Webb Space Telescope to be positioned past the moon's orbit. It will actually orbit the Sun, 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from the Earth at what is called the second Lagrange point or L2. I suspect James Webb will take priority. jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html |
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Post by lwoetin on Nov 22, 2020 1:33:15 GMT -5
Watching sports is useful in taking my mind off of my SM. And it is going to be fun this upcoming NBA season...with the #3 pick in the draft and an all-star joined the team today ($120 million guaranteed salary). I'm not sure why it's fun to watch guys shoot balls inside a rim, but it is.
I'm not sure why my wife doesn't want to have sex but it's nothing to do with me....
I'M SEXY & I KNOW IT - LMFAO
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Post by lwoetin on Nov 22, 2020 2:54:26 GMT -5
A friend showed me pics of her embryos conceived through in vitro fertilization. There were 7 or so in cups. She said she will have only a couple placed inside her. She then wondered what to do with the rest...give to other couples or donate to science? I didn't realize human embryos are being used in research. The company Regeneron has been in recent news for their medicine to treat coronavirus. In their website, it says they use mouse embryonic stem cells and human blood stem cells (from adult human cells and human embryonic stem cells through in vitro fertilization) for research. I read a little background in a Harvard paper about how adult and embryonic cells are used to grow many cell types in the body: "Since the discovery of human embryonic stem cells, scientists have had high hopes for their use in treating a wider variety of diseases because they are pluripotent, which means they are capable of differentiating into one of many cell types in the body. However, the acquisition of human embryonic stem cells from an embryo can cause the destruction of the embryo, thus raising ethical concerns. In 2006, researchers introduced an alternative to harvesting embryonic stem cells called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. They provided evidence that it was possible to send a normal adult cell back to an undifferentiated, pluripotent stem cell state by introducing genetic material ("outside" DNA) into the cell, a process that alters the original state of the cell. To avoid the use of embryonic stem cells, other researchers have focused more on the use of adult stem cells, but the use is of these cells is limited because unlike embryonic stem cells that grow into any type of mature cell, adult stem cells can only grow into certain cell types." hsci.harvard.edu/news/harvard-and-japanese-researchers-create-embryonic-stem-cells-without-embryoLooks like we will be manufacturing body parts in the future. |
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Post by worksforme2 on Nov 22, 2020 8:18:13 GMT -5
Looks like we will be manufacturing body parts in the future. Actually the process of growing certain body parts has been going on for some time. I remember seeing photos of a mouse with a human ear being grown on it's back. That was decades ago so I'm sure a lot of progress has been made since then. And don't forget cloning. |
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Post by lwoetin on Nov 25, 2020 1:31:53 GMT -5
Looks like we will be manufacturing body parts in the future. Actually the process of growing certain body parts has been going on for some time. I remember seeing photos of a mouse with a human ear being grown on it's back. That was decades ago so I'm sure a lot of progress has been made since then. And don't forget cloning. that mouse thing is pretty gross. Who knows what people do in their garage. I've seen heart muscle grown using ips method. It was implanted on a patient who had a heart disease. |
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Post by Handy on Nov 30, 2020 18:12:17 GMT -5
BOLPIS Buy Online Pickup In-Store
New word acronym for me. I have done it but never knew there was a word for it.
I bought groceries this way from Walmart but I never went in to the store, I parked in a pick-up stall and an employee brought out my online purchases after I called in a code from my car.
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Post by lwoetin on Dec 1, 2020 1:59:54 GMT -5
it's not a good acronym. ..I am here for a bolpis...
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