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84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:13 pm

Although I'll never pay $3500 for one of these things, I find it fascinating. I wonder what comes next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvkgmyf ... 8w&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtp6b76pMak

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:53 am

https://aviationhumor.net/timelapse-of- ... -museum-3/

Carcassdragger · Post by **Carcassdragger** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:37 am

ghostwhitehorse wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:53 am

https://aviationhumor.net/timelapse-of- ... -museum-3/

This is cool but it would be extremely awesome if visitors could have a look inside the cockpit.

I've been to several air museums but IMO the Pima Air Museum is the best. Just a fantastic museum which could be even better if there was more opportunity to see the inside of cockpits.

The B 58 Hustler is just a fantastic looking Buck Rogers ship. So is the F 14.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:45 pm

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:37 am I've been to several air museums but IMO the Pima Air Museum is the best. Just a fantastic museum which could be even better if there was

Was just there in early January. They had crewmember of a WW2 B17 there giving a talk about flying on them during the war. Fascinating, but I was with my grandkids and they didn't care to hear what he had to say.

My father in law was on a B17 during the war, and only talked about it once.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:43 pm

Greg, what do you know about this?

Blue Origin has emerged as the likely buyer for United Launch Alliance

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/b ... -alliance/

Bezos recently sold $2.4 billion in Amazon stock and, in securities filings, disclosed that he could sell an additional $8 billion to $9 billion in stock over the next 12 months. Although there are no confirmed values, there has been speculation in the launch industry that ULA may be sold for $2 billion to $3 billion.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:13 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:18 pm

84Cat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:43 pm Greg, what do you know about this?

Blue Origin has emerged as the likely buyer for United Launch Alliance

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/b ... -alliance/

Bezos recently sold $2.4 billion in Amazon stock and, in securities filings, disclosed that he could sell an additional $8 billion to $9 billion in stock over the next 12 months. Although there are no confirmed values, there has been speculation in the launch industry that ULA may be sold for $2 billion to $3 billion.

Not a damn thing.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:23 pm

84Cat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:43 pm Greg, what do you know about this?

Blue Origin has emerged as the likely buyer for United Launch Alliance

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/b ... -alliance/

Bezos recently sold $2.4 billion in Amazon stock and, in securities filings, disclosed that he could sell an additional $8 billion to $9 billion in stock over the next 12 months. Although there are no confirmed values, there has been speculation in the launch industry that ULA may be sold for $2 billion to $3 billion.

If Blue Origin buys ULA (which is a consortium between Boeing and Lockheed Martin), almost all US launches will be basically Bezos vs. Musk. (until some of the newer/smaller ones like Rocket Lab ramp up)

Not sure I like that.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:33 pm

I'm not an expert on the space industry but I do know that ULA is uncompetitive at the moment and Boeing is a mess right now. It seems no one else wanted to step up and buy ULA. Of course, the more competition the better

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:14 pm

We make thee "raceway covers" that are on the upper stage of the Falcon 9 (the part that doesn't land). There's three parts to the raceway. One of the parts takes 7 pieces. SpaceX has placed an order that will produce 115 of them a month for the next two years. That's enough for 16 launches a month.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:01 pm

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:11 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:48 am

So that explains why I'm a moron:

Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says
Leaded gas was banned in 1996, but exposure to the poison cost people born before then several IQ points on average, researchers estimated.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-n ... -rcna19028

By Elizabeth Chuck

Exposure to leaded gasoline lowered the IQ of about half the population of the United States, a new study estimates.

The peer-reviewed study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on people born before 1996 — the year the U.S. banned gas containing lead.

Overall, the researchers from Florida State University and Duke University found, childhood lead exposure cost America an estimated 824 million points, or 2.6 points per person on average.

Certain cohorts were more affected than others. For people born in the 1960s and the 1970s, when leaded gas consumption was skyrocketing, the IQ loss was estimated to be up to 6 points and for some, more than 7 points. Exposure to it came primarily from inhaling auto exhaust.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:56 am

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:37 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:56 pm

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:34 pm

New company trying to go supersonic

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:05 pm

From the comments, this is extremely amazing in itself.

XB-1 uses the J85 engine which was designed in 1954, just 15 years after the first jet powered aircraft ever flew, the Heinkel He 178.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:41 pm

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-zo ... a-cicadina

Trillions of cicadas will emerge across several U.S. states this spring in an event one expert dubbed "cicada-geddon." Not only are more cicadas than usual expected this year, but some of them will be "zombie cicadas" that are infected by a sexually transmitted fungus that makes them hyper-sexual.

Periodical cicadas spend most of their lives underground and only emerge after 13 or 17 years. This year, two broods of cicadas will emerge: Brood XIX, which comes out every 13 years, will emerge in the Georgia and Southeast, and Brood XIII, which emerges every 17 years, will appear in Illinois.

With this convergence, the bugs will arrive in numbers that have not been seen in generations.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:46 pm

Hyper-sexual cicadas: sounds Woke!

Carcassdragger · Post by **Carcassdragger** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:16 am

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:46 pm Hyper-sexual cicadas: sounds Woke!

Anything to do with siense or the envi-ro-ment is woke. Dincha no that?

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:15 pm

Here's a cool take on the eclipse!

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:10 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:14 pm

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Wed May 08, 2024 8:40 am

New particle just dropped: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang ... D=ref_fark

In a radical new paper just published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the BES III collaboration just announced that an exotic particle, previously identified as the X(2370), may indeed be the lightest glueball predicted by the Standard Model. Here’s the science of the claim, as well as what it all means.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat May 11, 2024 10:19 am

UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial

Opal Sandy can hear almost perfectly after groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes

https://www.theguardian.com/science/art ... rapy-trial

A British toddler has had her hearing restored after becoming the first person in the world to take part in a pioneering gene therapy trial, in a development that doctors say marks a new era in treating deafness.

Opal Sandy was born unable to hear anything due to auditory neuropathy, a condition that disrupts nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain and can be caused by a faulty gene.

But after receiving an infusion containing a working copy of the gene during groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes, the 18-month-old can hear almost perfectly and enjoys playing with toy drums.

Her parents were left “gobsmacked” when they realised she could hear for the first time after the treatment. “I couldn’t really believe it,” Opal’s mother, Jo Sandy, said. “It was … bonkers.”

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat May 18, 2024 10:09 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon May 20, 2024 5:19 am

There was a very visible meteorite streak over Europe yesterday.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jun 05, 2024 12:01 pm

And tomorrow we might have the next Starship flight

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 06, 2024 8:04 am

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Thu Jun 06, 2024 10:15 am

Learning a lot about the difference between simulation and reality today

Somebody wake up Hicks.

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Tue Jun 11, 2024 2:36 pm

AAwesome!!!

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Fri Jun 21, 2024 7:17 am

Who'd a thunk it!!! So much is possible with modern technology!!!

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:44 pm

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Mon Jul 15, 2024 10:16 am

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Jul 15, 2024 10:26 am

I heard a piece not long ago that they think the orcas were capsizing boats out of boredom.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:11 pm

I saw a documentary some time back about the secret life of whales. So many things are learned behavior from their mothers.

For example, what they eat is learned. They tracked different pods of the same species, and found that their diets were completely different.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:19 pm

Merkin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:11 pm I saw a documentary some time back about the secret life of whales. So many things are learned behavior from their mothers.

For example, what they eat is learned. They tracked different pods of the same species, and found that their diets were completely different.

Sea World’s big lie was that Orcas live to be 25-30 in captivity and they said that was much longer than in the wild.

Meanwhile they live to like 70 in the wild and all Sea World did was capture vital members of pods totally disrupting how they pass down knowledge and upending societal hierarchies.

Don’t go to Sea World.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:25 pm

Never been to Sea World and never plan to, even though I have a son in SD and my daughter lived there at one time also.

I think the documentary was called Blackfish or something like that about the treatment of Orcas at Sea World. This was one key point I remember.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:21 pm

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Wed Aug 14, 2024 7:57 am

Flash Gordon redux!

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Thu Aug 22, 2024 8:27 am

Neuralink implants are allowing a patient to play Counter Strike with their mind:

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sat Aug 24, 2024 11:51 am

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:09 am

This looks fake but apparently is a real launch from a Chinese start-up

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 8:44 am

I am going to Japan next year to see my daughter and her family.

Might have the grandkids do this.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:09 am

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sun Oct 13, 2024 3:38 pm

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Mon Oct 14, 2024 7:57 am

84Cat wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2024 3:38 pm

Amerika's take away: Wow!!! Elon Musk is a genius!!!

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Mon Oct 14, 2024 7:28 pm

pc in NM wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2024 7:57 am genius!!!

That's a funny way to spell Insufferable Cunt.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Fri Oct 18, 2024 8:10 pm

Any thoughts Greg?

NASA’s $100 Billion Moon Mission Is Going Nowhere

"Each launch will likely cost at least $4 billion, quadruple initial estimates," Bloomberg wrote. "This exceeds private-sector costs many times over, yet it can launch only about once every two years and—unlike SpaceX’s rockets—can’t be reused."

"A celestial irony is that none of this is necessary. A reusable SpaceX Starship will very likely be able to carry cargo and robots directly to the moon—no SLS, Orion, Gateway, Block 1B or ML-2 required—at a small fraction of the cost. Its successful landing of the Starship booster was a breakthrough that demonstrated how far beyond NASA it is moving."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic ... 9UCYGqHRiw

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