sunrat Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 2 hours ago, crp said: Nail biting action - For some inane reason, I watched all of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 1 hour ago, sunrat said: For some inane reason, I watched all of that! Keep taking the meds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Quote Suffocating babies in Cellophane! A bunch of infants tied up in clear cellophane packaging is pretty frightening to modern viewers, but at the time, these ads were just plain cute. What Were We Thinking? The Top 10 Most Dangerous Ads Quote In fact, the effects of lead poisoning (brain damage, seizures, hypertension, etc.) were known long before the Consumer Product Safety Commission finally banned them in 1977; the industry had simply refused to acknowledge them. Quote Particularly disturbing is the image of a mother and infant, above the caption stating that DDT “helps make healthier, more comfortable homes.” Not quite. Quote The spread of DDT across mid-century America is mirrored today by the success of Monsanto (one of the companies that originally manufactured DDT) in placing its genetically modified products on store shelves before researchers have a full understanding of their larger ecological impacts. The good old days. Don't you just miss em folks. Mind you DDT is not so bad, in fact it helped me to earn quite a reasonable amount of loot back in the day. I ran a small specialist company with my partner Peta which we called Dragon Defence Training. The signature line for our letters sent out seeking contracts read " DDT helps get rid of pests" . Almost everyone including Peta did not feel that this was a good signature line and would put of prospective employers. I insisted on its inclusion and was proved right by the fact that over half of the folk who employed us had their attention and curiosity stimulated by the line and our company name which was why they wanted to met us in person. Once we were in the room with prospective employers a contract was almost a certainty due to our subtle and expert implementation of Neuro Linguistic Prograding techniques. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 (edited) https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/texas-hummingbirds-live-cam This is one of the most fun live cams I've seen yet. Edited August 21 by raymac46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 This is a most fascinating read. I was five years old when some of this hardware was sent into space and it is still working. The ancient technology keeping space missions alive Quote Launched almost 46 years ago in 1977, the twin Voyager probes continue to send back data from beyond the Solar System. Quote "We've developed a complicated setup where we have modern Linux servers running a virtual environment with an emulator of the old operating system," says Sousa. "The person running the software is part of the original team, he’ll retire when the mission is over." Quote Like their colleagues, controllers have also had to cope with elderly computer systems. Following a glitch with its onboard computer, for instance, engineers worked out a new way of loading commands into the spacecraft's 2MB RAM memory. They also discovered that the original software for part of the onboard navigation system was running on a Windows 98 PC that no-one could find the password to Quote In 2018, they prepared to upload the software and reboot the spacecraft. "The spacecraft hadn't been restarted from cold for 12 years, so it wasn't without its risks," Wood says. "It works better than we ever dared hope and we now have a mission extension until 2028." Space 1977 The Documentary Space probes Voyager One and Two are still operating after 40 years in the depths of space. Living in space The Documentary Human beings will soon be living in space - but who will go and what will it be like? The Engineers: Lunar exploration The Documentary Space engineers discuss their return to the moon and what that entails - a powerful rocket and capable spacecraft, a space station in lunar orbit, and a permanent moon-base. A neat way to download and listen to the BBC broadcasts is to use get-iplayer. As an example for the Space 1977 documentary, you could use after cd'ing into the folder you want to download to, get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=w3csvntg You find the pid from the url. Quote https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvntg An they told me staring into space was a waste of time when I was a lad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted September 5 Author Share Posted September 5 still not so sure if this is complicated or not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookmem Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 3 hours ago, crp said: still not so sure if this is complicated or not. Believe it or not, it is to tell them if they are coming or going. Red, right, returning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Feelgood video on Xitter : https://twitter.com/perry_ron/status/1698719279569334728?s=46 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted September 10 Author Share Posted September 10 location data. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted Tuesday at 03:45 AM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 03:45 AM One can view this in a non-religion way - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted yesterday at 01:22 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 01:22 AM and up and up and up and up and up ... https://neal.fun/space-elevator/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted yesterday at 01:27 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 01:27 AM I think I saw this article before - https://www.sciencealert.com/the-opposite-of-dj-vu-exists-and-its-even-more-uncanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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