abarbarian Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 The Tsunami Could Kill Thousands. Can They Build an Escape? Quote The Cascadia fault off the Pacific Northwest coast is poised for a massive, 9.0-magnitude earthquake at some point, scientists say, a rupture that would propel a wall of water across much of the Northwest coast within minutes. Low-lying coastal neighborhoods in Washington, Oregon and Northern California would be under 10 feet or more of water, with the elementary school in Ocean Shores, Wash., facing an inundation that could be 23 feet deep. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 On 2/21/2022 at 7:57 PM, abarbarian said: The Tsunami Could Kill Thousands. Can They Build an Escape? The planet is angry with the human race. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Hutt Lagoon in Western Australia, 515km/320mi North of Perth is pink! (Also shades of red, orange, yellow and blue) The photos are amazing. https://mymodernmet.com/kristina-makeeva-pink-lagoon-photography/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 7, 2022 Author Share Posted March 7, 2022 talk about a time capsule - https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/nasa-opening-lunar-sample/ wonder why it is not getting more notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 10:54 AM, crp said: talk about a time capsule - https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/nasa-opening-lunar-sample/ wonder why it is not getting more notice. Blimey they have had the capsule for 50 years and resisted opening it. Probably did not get much notice as there was not a lot to say about it. A yearly news update could have looked like this " Still have not opened the capsule maybe next year. Watch this space." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Here's something of interest... Shackleton's ship, the "Endurance" found! There are also some cool vids on YouTube -> Search YouTube "Endurance Found" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 On 3/9/2022 at 4:48 PM, V.T. Eric Layton said: Here's something of interest... Shackleton's ship, the "Endurance" found! There are also some cool vids on YouTube -> Search YouTube "Endurance Found" Amazing that the wreck is in such good condition. Neat really neat find. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 11, 2022 Author Share Posted March 11, 2022 On 3/9/2022 at 8:48 AM, V.T. Eric Layton said: Here's something of interest... Shackleton's ship, the "Endurance" found! There are also some cool vids on YouTube -> Search YouTube "Endurance Found" looks to be in good shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 11, 2022 Author Share Posted March 11, 2022 Interesting is probably not the word but anyway ... FL trooper rams drunk driver heading towards 10k run. https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/03/10/hero-florida-trooper-rams-head-on-into-alleged-drunk-driver-barreling-toward-10k-runners-dashcam-shows-1211062/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Ah, yes... alcohol and driving; not a good combination. When will folks learn to just buy the darn booze and drink at home, so they'll be safe and the rest of the world, too? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 (edited) On 3/9/2022 at 4:48 PM, V.T. Eric Layton said: Here's something of interest... Shackleton's ship, the "Endurance" found! There are also some cool vids on YouTube -> Search YouTube "Endurance Found" 106 Years, 4 Weeks, 1 Wreck: How Shackleton’s Ship Was Found Quote The expedition, financed by more than $10 million from an anonymous donor, had left South Africa aboard the icebreaker Agulhas II in early February. It arrived on Feb. 16 at the search site, a 150-square mile zone that had been chosen based on Endurance’s last known position, which had been determined by Shackleton’s captain and navigator, Frank Worsley. Edited March 20, 2022 by abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 This 34,000-Ton ‘Infinity Train’ Will Recharge Itself ... With Gravity Quote An Australian mining company says it’s building a huge “Infinity Train” that will charge itself by moving downhill. It’ll carry heavy iron ore in one direction and use that weight and movement to charge the train for its return trip back to the mine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 COOL, but that sure looks like a diesel locomotive in the picture. A more informed train fellow like @raymac46 would know for sure, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 They are developing locomotives that don't run on diesel-electric, but rather batteries and fuel cells. Instead of using dynamic brakes that just release heat thay can charge the loco's batteries for the return trip. Years ago they had gravity powered coal carts that took coal from the mountains in Pennsylvania down to the canals. Then thay used mules to haul the empty carts back up the hill. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 26, 2022 Author Share Posted March 26, 2022 On 3/22/2022 at 12:55 PM, abarbarian said: This 34,000-Ton ‘Infinity Train’ Will Recharge Itself ... With Gravity first read thought it said "gravy". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 26, 2022 Author Share Posted March 26, 2022 So I guess this would qualify as interesting as it is the first opinion column on OpenSource that i saw that takes my position on the idiotic move of booby trapping projects for the 'greater good' - https://www.zdnet.com/article/some-developers-are-fouling-up-open-source-software/ (in other words, which forum should posts about generic OpenSource go in?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 12 hours ago, crp said: first read thought it said "gravy". Once set up it will be a gravy train as it will be cost free apart from maintenance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 12 hours ago, crp said: So I guess this would qualify as interesting as it is the first opinion column on OpenSource that i saw that takes my position on the idiotic move of booby trapping projects for the 'greater good' - https://www.zdnet.com/article/some-developers-are-fouling-up-open-source-software/ (in other words, which forum should posts about generic OpenSource go in?) Blimey I had no idea that this was occurring. I like this persons reasoning. Quote Another more pragmatic argument about forbidding one group from using open-source software is that blocking on something such as an IP address is a very broad brush. As Florian Roth, security company Nextron Systems' Head of Research, who considered "disabling my free tools on systems with certain language and time zone settings," finally decided not to. Why? Because by doing so, "we would also disable the tools on systems of critics and freethinkers that condemn the actions of their governments." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 I'd like to be on the Gravy Train about now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 On 3/26/2022 at 6:07 PM, V.T. Eric Layton said: I'd like to be on the Gravy Train about now. Well your almost there. I guess life is brown an sticky at the moment 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 31, 2022 Author Share Posted March 31, 2022 a bit over hyped title but ... Scientists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 31, 2022 Author Share Posted March 31, 2022 this good be a game changer for lots of people The biotechnology company Frequency Therapeutics is seeking to reverse hearing loss—not with hearing aids or implants, but with a new kind of regenerative therapy https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-reversing-loss-regenerative-therapy.html 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Hopefully I will have the Royal back on the road soon and though visiting this site would make a nice relaunch trip out. The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales https://www.google.com/maps/place/Waun+Mawn+Standing+Stones/@51.846216,-4.9384311,11z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xeda62ab824992524!8m2!3d51.9709595!4d-4.7920032 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 The microchip implants that let you pay with your hand Quote A microchip was first implanted into a human back in 1998, but it is only during the past decade that the technology has been available commercially. And when it comes to implantable payment chips, British-Polish firm, Walletmor, says that last year it became the first company to offer them for sale. "The implant can be used to pay for a drink on the beach in Rio, a coffee in New York, a haircut in Paris - or at your local grocery store," says founder and chief executive Wojtek Paprota. "It can be used wherever contactless payments are accepted." Nineteen Eighty-Four Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted April 20, 2022 Author Share Posted April 20, 2022 https://www.sciencealert.com/honeybees-go-crashing-into-the-ground-if-they-fly-over-a-mirror Way back a few years a co-worker who was a pilot was telling me that a lot of small airplane crashes are caused by pilots thinking they are doing fine and not checking instruments and that pilots being able to fly into clouds and keeping altitude and angle by sight/instincts was bunk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mauser Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Alien spacecraft found crashed on Mars! https://news.yahoo.com/nasas-mars-helic ... 40100.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted May 2, 2022 Author Share Posted May 2, 2022 did they ever find the ship that crashed into Mars about 5 years ago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted May 9, 2022 Author Share Posted May 9, 2022 they had pills back then? okay. https://hansonsauctioneers.co.uk/ancient-medicine-chest-found-in-leicester-contains-200-year-old-tablets/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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crp Posted June 1, 2022 Author Share Posted June 1, 2022 Don't the title turn you off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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