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Just because one corp does something x bad, it means some other corp is ok to do something 10x bad?

There's a huge difference between a utility scale power plant (you know, with things like tall chimneys) and "truck mounted" generators in the impact to the local air quality. But you know this and are playing word games.


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"There will come soft rains" Ray Bradbury


>Photos cannot be rare

BS. Only if you pedantically define 'photo' as collecting an image at xyz location at a particular instant. I'm quite certain that photos of the Eiffel Tower are NOT rare.



FYI, on this android tablet (android v12 / FF 144.0.2), the 'start typing a book title...' field doesn't do anything. On the Mac, it brings up a list of matches to select from.


A long time ago, worked on a comm satellite program. It used a whack of tuned cans to combine high powered transmit signals with harmonics in each others' frequency bands to feed into the antenna. I once asked how they worked. The answer was 'magic'. I mean, they were physical RF filters, but no one could explain or reproduce how they worked. There was this one guy who could tighten the screws that adjusted the inside baffles so they 'worked'. No one else could.


Orbital and escape velocities??? The elevator is sitting over a stationary spot... it's moving at earth's rotational velocity. Only the portion above the GEO anchor is moving at orbital velocity.


But it has altitude. The stuff that's low down doesn't have a lot of orbital velocity, blow the cable and it falls nearby. And the stuff far away has enough velocity that it goes into a very eccentric orbit rather than hitting the atmosphere.

Just because it's moving below circular orbital speed doesn't mean the periapsis is in the atmosphere.


Not really? "I imagine Pepys used Shelton’s Shorthand because he had to take copious notes of Navy Board meetings and take official government minutes."

Since the diary (and so his shorthand use) pre-dates his appointment to the Navy Board, this conclusion is a bit of a reach....


To begin with, airplanes do fall out of they sky, sometimes right on your backup generator. (speaking from military experience where yes, there is an entire backup studio waiting to take over, just in case. Or rather, the 'studio' is geographically dispersed, with 100% redundancy, which is another way of saying the same thing.)

But more importantly, *this* is what you noticed from that article?


No, but this was the point where the "let's make something up" got to be too much.

I'm not talking about low budget UHF channels, but TV stations I've been in and around all have multiple studios. If the switcher in Studio-A goes down, the signals can be routed to the control room for Studio-B. Also, Alex the know-it-all is such a forced thing that is just ridiculous and eye roll inducing. Anybody that is a jack of that many trades is a master of none of them. The entire forced analogy just got to be too much and I lost interest before a point was ever made.


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