Cool but damp in the morning, warming with the nuclear fire in the sky, but not getting crazy hot… that’s my hope anyway. It stayed very nice (other than humid) all day yesterday.
The crew showed up and got to work. The new machine does the job but has a learning curve. Boss man did a pretty good job of climbing the curve. He expects they’ll be faster today. They started on the back side, where there wasn’t much, if any, water in the holes. Most of the holes dried out while they were doing the other work. If any are still wet today they have a pump.
I got a couple of smaller tasks done. Moved my metal cabinet into the garage and moved all the canned goods and the freeze drieds to the cabinet. Plenty of room for more. I stacked the buckets beside it. 6x 30day buckets of freeze dried (but mostly breakfast and sides, no meat or good main meals). 60 days rice. 10 gallons of flour. A shelf of pouch meat, and some canned chicken. A couple of flats of veg and beans. LOTS more to go before I feel comfortable but it would be good for a short term event. It beats the heck out of foraging and eating cattail roots.
I’ve got a couple of different ways to cook up here, but need to get a set of coleman dual fuel appliances and some fuel stacked. I’ve got the propane lantern and camp stove, and some 1 pound bottles already. There is an electric hot plate and microwave too, if we lost gas, but had power. I feel like I need some more depth, like I’ve got at home. (Solid fuel camp stove, back packer stoves, butane table top stove, hobo stove, jet boil system, rocket stove, and more multiples of all that.) I like to eat and I like to eat hot food.
Eventually we’ll get the wood burning stove in place and I’ll have that too.
There were TWO solar ovens, NIB, in an estate sale last week. Never seen that before, but they got over $20 and I didn’t see where they ended up. Too much for me anyway for something I’ve never used before and am a little dubious about.
Some accessories for cooking over an open fire would be nice too, tripod with chain, adjustable height grill, spit…and cast iron. I need more cast iron up here. I did bring up a turkey fryer propane ring and pots. I can heat water in bulk, have a fish fry, or a crawdad boil with that.
I’m actually in good shape for alternative cooking. I would like to be as set up for water treatment. That is definitely on the list, beyond the sawyer mini and the other small filters. We can always gross filter and boil, but that takes a lot of time and energy. I need more bleach up here.
You can see that even with tall stacks there is always room for more. Work on that! Keep stacking!
nick
The House isn’t going to do anything once McCarthy has the Speaker’s Gavel. They never do when the Republicans are in charge.
Cleaning out the twelve year-old Windows 7 partition on my primary desktop continues.
After removing most of the programs with the exception of Firefox, old TaxCut installs and a few leftovers from Visual Studio, the 600 GB partition was still 90% full.
Last night, I booted Linux and took “du -s” to the Windows partition file system. It turns out I had 400 GB of junk in Windows\Temp which the cleanup didn’t touch for most of the last decade. Not any more.
By now, I wouldn’t be surprised if China can just pick up the pieces and keep going.
– our experience when I worked for a company that did some manufacturing and lots of part sourcing in China was that if you weren’t standing there, watching every second, and awake and aware, you didn’t get what was spec’d. And by the “you” watching I mean smart guys from a western culture.
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47F this morning ! that’s past ‘cool’ into ‘cold’. Getting a gas line run to the furnace is moving up the priority list.
Guys are here before sunup. I’ve got some exterior lights, and they are on. They are motivated to finish. Hopefully that won’t mean cutting corners.
n
Added to above, I say ‘western culture’ but even that isn’t really sufficient, although the problem lies in culture.
The chinese are not at heart a technological culture or a mechanical culture in the same sense as the Brits or the Yanks. No history of a ‘hot rod’ culture for example, or a DIY movement, or a ‘tinkerer’ or lone inventor… and very rooted in Confucianism. APPEAR to do the right things, and you ARE doing the right things. It’s very prescriptive- do these things (appear to do) and you will have the favor of Heaven. No idea of self satisfaction for ‘a job well done.’
The guys watching have to be ‘Sons of Martha’ in the Kipling sense. I don’t know of a similar idea in Chinese history or culture.
n
Added- a history of Communism, with emphasis on group, and the reality of doing as little as possible, while appearing to be a good Commie is also pernicious. Combine that with Confucianism’s emphasis on favor from above… and it isn’t silicon valley.
What an awesome idea! What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/boston-university-engineers-sars-cov-2-chimera-80-mortality-rate-mice
n
As long as it kept from the Chinese and out of the Chinese labs the chance of “accidentally” being released are significantly reduced. Of course publishing such probably has the Chinese already replicating the results and producing huge batches. Kept in Ching Lang Bing’s front porch in a sealed Mayonnaise jar.
@Ray
I’d like to have an email discussion with you about live video production. Just picking your brain a bit to see what is minimally needed. Nothing as complex as the church work you described, but there will be live streaming and camera switching involved.
I can be reached at actual.lpdbw AT gmail DOT com.
Don’t forget “You Ain’t Got No Ice Cream”. They love to play that game with each other, but they really get off on playing it with Westerners.
The Confucian filial piety is also something that I doubt many people who haven’t lived it really understand.
Email sent. I will be at Cumberland Falls State Park until late Friday. I have no idea if there is any cell service or internet. Having none might be a good thing. So don’t get concerned if I do not respond until Sunday at the earliest.
I have a football game Friday night, major rivalry between two schools that are only five miles apart (this is close in my part of the country). Big region standing for both teams on the line.
It’s not quite as bad as it is presented:
“The lab-made virus combined elements of the omicron variant with the original virus. The results were more deadly to mice than omicRon but less than the original virus.”
https://www.boston.com/news/health/2022/10/17/boston-university-researchers-hybrid-covid-virus-friction-government/
None the less, these people are playing with fire.
Hearing aids can now be purchased OTC. Excellent. Price range for decent to excellent seems to run from $200 to $1K. It is time that companies like Miracle Ear seriously adjust their pricing. They along with the manufacturers have been gouging for far too long.
There will always be a need for good audiologists. Do like glasses. Get the prescription, settings as it were, then purchase the devices elsewhere. I get my prescription for my glasses from my eye doctor, then the glasses from Costco. No reason hearing aids cannot be done the same way.
I wonder how this will affect the VA as they usually get one year contracts with manufacturers. I am hoping that prices will drop. I would really like to see more frequency band adjustments in the app for the devices. No reason why a user cannot adjust to their liking. A hearing test is close but does not reflect real life.
Yes. That’s always been my policy.
For the first time in decades this year I actually got my glasses from the associated lab, vision essentials. They were junk, the coatings wore off in a matter of weeks, they scratched until unusable from glare – and they refused to replace them. They did offer me a discount on a new pair, 25% off…
I went elsewhere.
Re: hearing aids. The audiologists wanted $9000. Costco wanted $2700. I didn’t like the either as they only made the background noises louder. I need improvement in voices.
I bought a $800 set off the internet and they were the same plus it takes ten minutes to get them on and adjusted each time I wear them. And the tube between the ear piece and aid easily plugs up with ear wax ( I don’t have an ear wax problem) and those tubes should be replaced regularly as they collaspe.
I gave up on them completely. I sure would like to hear music but I don’t hear much of anything. I used closed caption when I watch sports as the stadium background noise usually hides the accouncer’s voice. (I don’t watch any thing else.)
My hearing is very good but I’d be interested in custom hearing aids. Who makes a set that blocks one’s wife’s voice?
I use in-ear receivers. There is a small wire the runs from the hearing aid behind the ear into the ear where the receiver sits. The domes get wax but that is easily cleaned out. I replace the domes every month or when the domes get out of shape. There is also a wax filter under the dome that gets replaced every couple of weeks.
Mine really help with voices. The tuning the VA did was quite good I think. The gain was set by the VA for specific frequency ranges. The devices are digital so all the amplification is done on the fly. Bluetooth of course. I can stream from the TV or my iPhone and take calls. I can also adjust the level in three ranges on the app. There are predefined settings for speech and eliminate background noise. Really quite sophisticated devices.
I can get new devices every three years. My three year mark is this November and I think I will push for new hearing aids. At least get a major adjustment as my right ear has lost more hearing. I need to get another VA test to check for additional hearing loss. Moving from 10% to 20% will not gain me any more compensation because of the way the VA does disability. I would only get 40% of 10% which is 4% so not enough to go up another step. I just need it on my records.
Apple Ear Pods Pro, the noise cancelling ones. The noise cancellation is really good and they completely block any outside noises. There is pass through mode which allows sound through which can be quickly disabled thus full noise cancellation when the wife gets close.
I do that anyway even though I can stream or use my hearing aids. The background noise in the audio is too loud. May not be much that can be done as the stadiums are really loud. UT (Tennessee, not Texas) this weekend hit 125 db and was constantly over 100 db. I cannot imagine being in that stadium without hearing protection. Especially when that final winning field goal was kicked.
I thought my hearing was OK. I knew there was some shortcomings in my hearing. The wife is the one that suggested I go for hearing aids. I did not want to get tested as I knew the devices were expensive. Plus I was stubborn and did not want to admit that parts of me were failing.
When I found out the VA would provide hearing aids at no charge to me I decided to get tested. I feared the VA would provide the clunky ones, as in really cheap. The ones that hang around the neck with a 9V battery with a wire running to each ear. Wife’s grandmother had those kind. In the past that is what the VA offered.
Now the VA gets top of the line, best that two or three vendors offer. Really good stuff that would cost $6K and up in the retail space.
I did not realize what I was missing when I got the devices. My hearing was worse than I thought. As in the audiologist stated “profound” on the hearing test especially in the higher frequencies.
It was like finding out how much visually I was missing before I had cataract surgery. Absolutely magically.
I can still listen to someone else’s heartbeat from six feet away, if it’s not drowned out by other sound. I can hear the high-pitched chirps of electronic widgets which are supposed to drive away mice. There are some “notches”, probably from gunfire and metal work in the shop, but I think I’m doing OK.
My wife fails to laugh when I make that joke.
Went to Costco yesterday so wife could get glasses. Prescription from eye doctor. $260 about 50-50 class and frames Took MIL over to hearing aid center to clean and put new dome on her’s (she uses only one as one ear is total deaf). Looking in showcase I saw the GN I bought about a year and a half ago at $1900 down from $2900 I paid. Better but I think should go lower. Costco was packed. MIL has handicap placard but not one blue space open. Lots of old people there.
Yes the hearing aids do amplify noise but the filter functions do help. I use my phone to control them and the restaurant preset is pretty good. Focusing on voice with lots of background is never too good and high pitch screeching, mostly from kids, is awful. Well anytime of course.
Must have been something in the air yesterday. My local Costco was packed as well. I went at my normal 1500 time, and its usually not bad at all. I had to fight my way through a lot of blocked isles where people were filling up on second lunch via free samples.
63F in the shade and RH dropped to 30-something percent. Sun came part of the way out. Work proceeds.
Don’t forget I’m on a thin pipe. If something happens in the news, put it here. THEN I can reload and see it.
Threw a line with some bait in the water for a few minutes this am. Caught nothing of course. I was trying a new lure. Could be the fish, me, or the bait. Or just bad luck. Oh well. Back to moving broken concrete and taking up deck boards.
n
@Ray I got the hearing aids after I got tired of my wife yelling at me to get them. Before I used to say I was enjoying the peace and quiet. She never liked either of those. Of course never admit you just aren’t listening. A guy I once worked for used to always say ‘If you’re speaking to me speak up. If you’re speaking to yourself shut up.’ That was another to avoid. Learned the hard way.
I received an email today from Ken Burns soliciting donations on behalf of Mark Kelly.
The AZ Senate race must be tight.
As I’ve said many times, the Redumblicans have no spine. They constantly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
OK, Vampira.
My wife doesn’t like to sit in front of a laptop/pc when doing Zoom paid gigs. I built her a rig on a small A/V cart with a 27” monitor. She just sits in front and blabs. The cart has several GoPro cams for video/audio, ATEM mini switcher, two small monitors for me to watch and share the Zoom screen to the 27”, speakers, USB A/V hub for connections, StreamDeck and a Macbook Pro to drive it all.
I thought I saw that Sony was getting into the market.
Once the Japanese get involved it will be arrivederci Italians.
If the Senate changes hands, Rand Paul might make a good show of going after Fauci, but the entertainment value will be limited since Fauci already announced his retirement.
Unlike Fauci, Rand Paul actually practiced medicine. Imagine.
I would be willing to sit down and explain urgency to Mr McCarthy.
After 60 seconds of sitting on his neck I think he would start to understand urgency.
>> used closed caption when I watch sports
The problem with live captioning is when there’s noticeable lag between the action on the screen and the captions.
I’m going to have to try in a year or two. Supposedly I only have about 10% hearing loss, but that includes a big notch that seems to impact women’s voices.
I have a lot of trouble with voices in general, in noisy environments. If hearing aids would help with that, it would be worth a lot.
Why mess with success?
A Girl and Her Fed: It Happened Again
https://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1989.html
I don’t know what happened but getting the goop out of the boy’s koala’s fur is going to be a lot of work. And the Secret Service dudes are going to need a mental health day.
Unlike Fauci, Rand Paul actually practiced medicine. Imagine.
Factcheck claims that Fauci is a practicing doctor with hundreds of patients.
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/01/dr-fauci-still-treats-patients-contrary-to-dr-ozs-claim/
“A new Supreme Court case could fundamentally change the internet”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/6/23389028/supreme-court-section-230-google-gonzalez-youtube-twitter-facebook-harry-styles
“Gonzalez v. Google is a high-stakes case about what we actually see when we go online.”
No matter what, the decision will be bad.
You…have a point…
“New England Risks Winter Blackouts as Gas Supplies Tighten”
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/9708125a-b4a4-31e0-8d43-92dcbbc7bd59/new-england-risks-winter.html
Gee, if only one of the big natural gas pipeline companies had put a new natural gas pipeline along the upper east of the USA seven or eight years ago.
Oh wait, they tried to and were rebuffed by the lesser state of New York. Never turn down infrastructure, especially when someone else is willing to pay for it.
That says a lot. Federally employed doctors seem to get a lot of leeway in their skills. May not even need to be licensed. Has he ”doctored” at any other place than the NIH clinic. I wouldn’t be surprised if the goobermint covers all “patient” costs, too.
Yup. I think, like the Germans, they should face the consequences of their short sighted virtue signaling.
However, I understand they are asking for a Jones Act Waiver, like the one Biden just granted for Puerto Rico.
https://gcaptain.com/biden-administration-issues-lng-jones-act-waiver-for-puerto-rico/
“Artemis: A Novel” by Andy Weir
https://www.amazon.com/Artemis-Novel-Andy-Weir/dp/0553448145?tag=ttgnet-20/
A standalone science fiction book, no sequel or prequel that I know of. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Ballantine Books in 2018 that I bought new on Amazon. Hopefully there will be a sequel some day.
If you are looking for a hard science book, your book is here. The only thing that I had a problem with is the low pressure 100% pure oxygen atmosphere of the 2,000 person lunar colony, Artemis. I have a problem with that but getting it to work might be doable, I just don’t know. Andy Weir actually wrote an article about the economics of a lunar colony: “‘The Martian’ author Andy Weir solved moon economics to make his new book ‘Artemis’ believable”
https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-weir-artemis-moon-city-economics-the-martian-2017-11
Jasmine Bashara moved to Artemis with her father from Saudi Arabia when she was six years old, the legal minimum age. She grew up in Artemis and is constantly on the edge of being evicted. She has a good heart but is always looking for the easy way to get things accomplished. So she lives on the shady side of Artemis and smuggles things in to make extra cash. And her customers know that she can get almost anything for them.
The book is solid, I stayed up until 4 am last night reading it. I do not understand why so many people do not like the book on Amazon. And it makes me more than ever want to take a two week or four week trip to the Moon. Once, a colony is established.
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (13,729 reviews)
My husband says “There’s a reason they call it ”fishing” and not “catching”. 😉 Around here a lot of the die-hards that fish all night use live crickets or grasshoppers on a hook.
“Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline”
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/17/linux_6_1_rc1/
“Release candidate one for Linux 6.1 has appeared”
Heh, software engineers.
Hat tip to:
https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=16813
In my young life I longed for space excursions for ordinary people, and assumed that space tourism would become commonplace within “just a few more years.” NASA wasted the timeline of my life by doing nothing much useful. Thank God that private enterprise finally prised the control out of the government’s hands and got something moving. It might actually be available in our lifetimes after all.
I know someone who uses a 12V diesel heater for their garage, and is thinking of using it for their house.
Q: Has anyone here used one of these? My garage is too darn cold in the winter to be useful, and it would be a nice upgrade – and a backup prepping item. Well under $200, though there are suggestions to immediately replace the substandard fuel lines and fittings. (In addition the difference in maximum heat output between variants are apparently driven by a s/w controller on the fuel pump, which is probably hackable).
There are dozens of clones on Amazon of what he seems to have, at slightly different prices:
https://www.amazon.com/Bestauto-Parking-Muffler-Control-Motor-home/dp/B083PPZQLD/ref=psdc_15723161_t1_B07L88ZJMS?tag=ttgnet-20
Perhaps true. I went to see a doctor at Randolph Air Force Base, now joint something. The doctor told me she lost her Texas medical license but was able to work at the clinic on base as it is federal property. She there was no federal licensing of doctors. This was in 1973 so that may have changed.
Arrived at the campsite. Cumberland Falls State Park campground in Kentucky. Took 8 attempts to get backed into the site. The sites are perpendicular to the road and short. Stuff on the other side of the road making a straight in backing impossible. Truck was at times about 75 degrees to the trailer. My 24-foot trailer sticks out in the road about six inches, the back two feet are hanging off the edge. Worst site I have used for backing in.
Stabilizers in back are resting on the lip at the edge of the drop off at the camp site. Supposed to be a level site but I need two inches of lift on one side, the front jack is as far down as it will go and just barely level front to back.
Electrical and water but no sewer. Should be no problem for three days and nights.
Will be cold. Supposed to be 30F at 8:00 AM. Water line (hose) may freeze. I put water in the freshwater tank and can switch a couple of valves and use the pump. May have to get lower than 30 to really freeze the water supply hose.
The VA requires a state license but not necessarily the state where the doctor works.
DoD might have different rules for the on base clinics.
I know someone who uses a 12V diesel heater for their garage, and is thinking of using it for their house.
Q: Has anyone here used one of these? My garage is too darn cold in the winter to be useful, and it would be a nice upgrade – and a backup prepping item. Well under $200, though there are suggestions to immediately replace the substandard fuel lines and fittings. (In addition the difference in maximum heat output between variants are apparently driven by a s/w controller on the fuel pump, which is probably hackable).
There are dozens of clones on Amazon of what he seems to have, at slightly different prices:
https://www.amazon.com/Bestauto-Parking-Muffler-Control-Motor-home/dp/B083PPZQLD/ref=psdc_15723161_t1_B07L88ZJMS?tag=ttgnet-20
Make sure the combustion gases are vented to the outside. Carbon Monoxide really sucks in your lungs.
Do not crank up the heat beyond the rating. The combustion chamber is aluminum. 1,000 F and you get inelastic deformation, cracks in the combustion chamber walls. Very bad. In fact, I would be nervous above 800 F.
I’m still skeptical. When my father-in-law was in the transplant program at UT Southwestern, dozens of specialists stopped by, shook his hand, and took a fee for the visit.
When we cleared out his stuff, mixed in with the boxes was a Lisa Loeb CD.
I said to my wife, “Your dad was a fan? She sounds like a screeching cat to me.”
“No, her opthamologist father consulted on the case. Dr. Loeb hands those out to everyone. Proud daddy.”
“Opthamologist? Heart transplant?”
[ Shrug ]
Interesting. As I said my experience was long ago. Back when there was no tax on alcohol and cigarettes when purchased on base. Encourage a lot of drunks and smokers. That has since changed and normal taxes are charged. The product is slightly cheaper. Things change and perhaps the licensing requirements changed. Which is a good thing based on my experience with the doctor. She was clueless and there was a reason her license was revoked.
“Danchenko acquitted on all counts in Durham Russia probe”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/18/danchenko-acquitted-on-all-counts-in-durham-russia-probe-00062380
“A federal jury has acquitted Russian policy researcher Igor Danchenko on false-statement charges.”
You have got to be kidding me.
Sometimes it sucks to be the Benevolent Dictator.
Git really forces the issue if a development group is more than a couple of people, especially when the group still has some folks still climbing the learning curve of decentralized version control.
I’ve had to spend time straightening out mangled Git trees to get a clean straight line of merges that rebased easily onto a master repository merge history with important commentary intact. It isn’t fun.
VA and DoD on-base care are separate bureaucracies even though VA paychecks come from the same DoD processing center.
My wife jokingly complains about not being among the Federal workers who will be furloughed the next time a budget stand off happens … maybe next year!
I’ve met lots of doctors *with* licenses who were clueless and whom I wouldn’t trust to pull a splinter.
I bet they were able to get at least two more spaces squeezed in to rent out though, $$$. I run into parking lots like that too, I rarely go back unless absolutely necessary.
I was thinking of placing it in the window, using an old swamp cooler chassis for weather protection, everything dry but outside (same as my neighbor). It is a heat exchanger, but your comment about an aluminum combustion chamber is alarming.
I always try to have a CO and O2 and fire alarm present, but still, aluminium, that’s scary.
No, the park is old. Built back when trailers were smaller. More tent camping sites than RV sites. Maintenance guy said they have to money to redo the park and will start this winter. The sites will be longer and angled about 30 degrees to the road. They will have the same number of sites, will be slightly closer due to the angle slots.
There are 18 slots for RVs so a small park.
I agree with Lynn’s comment about the aluminum combustor. Higher efficiency than iron but also much more prone to failure.
I just got one. (Which is to say that my wife ordered it and it arrived and she just told me about it and wants me to test it. Surprise! I’ve mentioned her constant shopping, right?)
I’ll type up a short report after I’ve gotten it working, or after I’ve decided that it’s not safe enough to use, which on first glance seems likely. I may bring it to my dad or brother for a look-over, as each is much more experienced than I on such things. I intend it mainly as a grid-down prep but intend to set it up properly. I’ll probably run it outside with the hot air hose coming in through a window or possibly a dryer vent, and may weld or assemble a metal frame to hold it.
“Yes, climate change is bad — but scientists must ‘chill’ when it comes to doomsday scenarios, experts say”
https://studyfinds.org/climate-change-catastrophe/
“In a letter in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors write that many scientists are focusing way too much of the worst-case scenarios of climate change and environmental shifts all around the globe. While the team notes that these problems are real, constantly preaching impending doom is counter-productive and overshadows the more likely outcomes of global warming. These more-likely outcomes fall into the middle of the climate change conversation — not good, but also not extremely bad.”
These morons are scaring our young people who have not learned to be skeptical of crazy scientists yet.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
@SteveF: Oh, Excellent! How many KW did you get?
The reviews are all over the place, this not helped by Amazon’s policy of lumping all variants and models in together.
Since there doesn’t seem to be a huge trend of dead RV’ers, truckers, and Schoolies in the news it’s probably OK, with precautions taken.
Cold outside air should help with combustion chamber temperatures.
Presume that he discussed the lack of suitable inert gases and referenced the use of low-pressure O2 in spacecraft?
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=52980
DACA got another extension this week. It just doesn’t seem to matter to certain courts that something the OOB (Oval Office Bozo) does that is blatantly unconstitutional shouldn’t be allowed to drag on for years.
That said, there were 100,000 Americans that lost their lives to Chinese fentanyl in the last 12 months. Call it what it is, a f**king act of war, and put the sanctions on a legal basis.
WRT the diesel heater, thin pipe so I didn’t look but I did look at one that came up in an auction. It had a german sounding name, and looked like a high end gaming pc, sorta.
I’m sure there are ‘vanlife’ reviews on youtube. Most of the homeless yoga pants girls I’ve watched like the propane Mr Heater, Mr Buddy, but I’ve seen at least one that uses the diesel heater. ‘Course, I”ve seen schoolies with wood burning stoves, which seems INSANE.
Guys are done for the day. Had some issues with getting the machine positioned. Worked thru them.
They’ll be back tomorrow am.
My Hungry Man is half done heating, and I’m beat. Looking forward to dinner, a beverage, and maybe a fire.
n
>> I’ve read this elsewhere: “One of the provisions of President Joe Biden’s executive order is that any U.S. citizen or green card holder working in China cannot work in the Chinese semiconductor industry or risk of losing American citizenship.” The thing is, I don’t think such sanctions are constitutional, and I’m pretty sure stripping citizenship over trade regulations with a country we’re not at war with would fail the Ninth Amendment “necessary and proper” test.
Since when has
JoeTPTB puppet-masters given any consideration to the legality of any of his EOs?Faux Xi, Hundreds of patients… Don’t most working Drs see 20-30 per day? He does one day a month? Better than nothing I guess, but I don’t really believe it.
n
Presume that he discussed the lack of suitable inert gases and referenced the use of low-pressure O2 in spacecraft?
Nope. But the lunar colony has plenty of oxygen and aluminum from the aluminum smelter. The colony also has plenty of power from two nuclear reactors, 27 MW each. They use a membrane system to remove the excess CO2 and vent that outside the colony.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/oxygen-atmosphere-spacecraft
“In January 1967 three astronauts died while testing and practicing procedures on the launch pad in the Apollo 1 capsule, which had been supplied with a pure oxygen atmosphere at 16 psi pressure. A fire started, spread extremely rapidly, burned out in less than a minute, and the astronauts did not have time to escape. Later Apollo flights used a mixture of 60 percent oxygen and 40 percent nitrogen at 16 psi on the launch pad, then switched to pure oxygen at only 5 psi in space. This proved to be much safer.”
“The Skylab space station also had a pure oxygen atmosphere at 5 psi. Russian Salyut and Mir space stations all maintained atmospheres similar in composition and pressure to Earth’s atmosphere, as do the space shuttle and the International Space Station.”
You know, if the lunar colony maintained 5 psia of pure O2, they would not have to prebreath pure O2 for two+ hours to put on a space suit and go outside.
Yikes. Just read that some blew up an ATM not ten miles from me.
I know, I know, time to leave California…but it’s hard to leave close friends and family in your sixties.
BBC quote:
Sky News quote:
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/10/18/china-recruiting-british-military-pilots-to-train-them-in-defeating-western-warplanes-n504243
Ex-pilots of the U.S. Armed Forces are presumably smart enough to know that taking such a job is going to get them reactivated and sent to Leavenworth awaiting trial.
Huh, either AMEX website went down just now, or they can’t deal with a slow connection. Everything is failing, all the little widgets that populate different parts of the page, and the overall page has an error “our system is not responding, try again later.”
n
added- can’t get in on my phone either, so they must be down.
@Lynn
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. 16.7 pounds of pure oxygen. The overpressure was needed to maintain the integrity of the spacecraft, which was designed to be pressurized with respect to ambient.
The backup crew led by Wally Schirra had been in the craft the day before for the same test in the “plugs in” condition–door open and external power cables connected. Schirra wanted to postpone the “plugs out” test–door closed and internal power systems up–because he strongly felt the test was useless for a variety of reasons.
see Cassutt, Michael. The Astronaut Maker
Nitrogen is in short supply on the moon, and any recovered through mining would be reserved for growing plants. There are three nitrogen-free gas mixtures used for deep sea diving that do not contain nitrogen, but rely on helium, helium/hydrogen, or hydrogen to dilute the oxygen. I’,m not sure if any research has been done on use at sub-atmospheric pressures.
Helium and hydrogen have booth been found in lunar soils, but helium would be a poor candidate due to it’s ability to exfiltrate through the tiniest hole and through many materials. Hydrogen sounds like something the Soviets would have tried.
There is one other factor that might argue against the use of helium. Let’s just call it “squeeky talk”.
I don’t recall that hard sf writers Heinlein or Clarke had more than a passing comment on air mixtures. Heinlein wasn’t writing much hard sf in his later years and probably passed before the dearth of lunar nitrogen was fully recognized. Clarke was a 1960’s-era diver, but not deep, and probably had little experience with non-air mixes. Most later writers went farther afield than the moon so it never came up.
The only real exception I can think of offhand is Kristine Katherine Rusch’s Retrieval Artist series, which includes seven novels and several shorter works. I don’t recall any such discussion of atmosphere.
Mysterious GPS Disruptions Spread In Texas Near Fort Hood
by Tyler Durden Tuesday, Oct 18, 2022 – 07:53 PM Update (2053ET):
GPS interference in Texas has spread from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area to now east and west regions of Waco, Texas.
One area west of Waco with high levels of GPS interference is butting up against America’s third-largest military base, Fort Hood.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gps-signal-mysteriously-disrupted-around-dallas-airports
25 is a frantic pace and poor care. A lot of groups set compensation targets at those kind of numbers, however.
OTOH, Fauci isn’t a GP. Infectious Disease even in a busy group might see 10-12 per day, less at a government clinic if the VA is any indication, and, anymore, the specialists dump the day-to-day care on the GPs.
Plus , Politifact. Fauci is the highest paid Federal Government employee. Period. Think the NIH wouldn’t provide cover if the Annenberg Project – Politifact parent – called looking for an on-the-record quote.
For all your hard(ish) squeaky talk & living on a different planet with a heli-ox atmosphere, here you go: The Clouds of Saturn, by Michael McCollum:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08KHNVSCM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&tag=ttgnet-20=
Britain doesn’t even have a pesky Bill of Rights to contend with if they wanted to put one of their pilots into a windowless room packing parachutes for the rest of his life.
Geico sent the next rate increase following my incident in Memphis which dented my rear passenger door and put a big scrape on the bumper of an Escalade.
Double.
Here’s the best part – only 25% of the increase is a surcharge related to the accident. The rest is apparently a reflection of the increased costs of the company continuing to do business in Texas.
BOHICA.
@EdH
Thanks. My McCollum reading started and ended with Lifeprobe.
Ringo mentions high He atmosphere in one of his Maple Syrup war books, but it is an outdoor platform on a gas giant, not an enclosed space…. iirc.
Gonna call it an early night. I”m beat, it’s chilly out (50F with dew on the grass by the water) and I have an early day with driving in the dark at the end of it tomorrow.
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Nitrogen is in short supply on the moon, and any recovered through mining would be reserved for growing plants. There are three nitrogen-free gas mixtures used for deep sea diving that do not contain nitrogen, but rely on helium, helium/hydrogen, or hydrogen to dilute the oxygen. I’,m not sure if any research has been done on use at sub-atmospheric pressures.
Helium and hydrogen have booth been found in lunar soils, but helium would be a poor candidate due to it’s ability to exfiltrate through the tiniest hole and through many materials. Hydrogen sounds like something the Soviets would have tried.
So, 5 psia of pure O2 for a lunar colony is reasonable as a general atmosphere. I would have never thought so. The author does talk extensively about limiting usage of fire causing materials and many fire resistant / air blowout cubbyholes throughout the five domes. Incidentally, the lunar domes are half buried aluminum spheres many hundreds of meters in diameter with a double wall of six cm of aluminum each.
Incidentally, one of my neighbors passed away last week. He had been on dialysis for five years. He told me in 2021 that he was hoping that he was seeing a little bit of color in his urine (nitrogen) and that maybe his kidneys were coming back. I did not say anything.
An excellent book on the political/engineering side of Apollo is Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon, by Mike Gray.
Gray talks a bit about the fire, and the inward opening capsule door and NA Chief Engineer Storms strenuous opposition to it, until NASA overruled him by fiat with Change Order #1.
I believe Gray eventually concludes that even an outward opening door would not have saved the crew.
Basically everything burns in pure O2.
Five years is pretty much the limit for dialysis while waiting for a kidney.
One of the Chinese relations came up needing a kidney last year. She faces long odds on Medicare without supplement.
The couple sold off their State of Washington retirement benefits about a decade ago, not long after we moved up there. I think they believed that they would tap my wife’s skills when the time came, but a kidney transplant isn’t something she’s going to do in our living room.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/10/18/china-recruiting-british-military-pilots-to-train-them-in-defeating-western-warplanes-n504243
Ex-pilots of the U.S. Armed Forces are presumably smart enough to know that taking such a job is going to get them reactivated and sent to Leavenworth awaiting trial.
Just about the last thing that my Navy fighter pilot uncle did in the Navy was spend a year in Israel in 1970 ? teaching a hundred Israeli fighter pilots how to fly the Navy A4. The USA gave XXXX sold for a dollar each about two hundred ??? A4 planes to Israel in the late 1960s when the F-14 replaced it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-4_Skyhawk
He and his fellow two ? instructors went back to Israel for a reunion about ten years ago. Only four of the hundred Israeli pilots were still alive so it was a small reunion. The 1973 Yom Kippur War was tough on pilots. He had no idea that so many of the pilots they taught were KIA just three years later.
Not well-referenced and ten years since last edit:
https://lunarpedia.org/w/Lunar_Settlement_Artificial_Atmosphere
Cleaning my primary desktop, I found the upgrade installer for my copy of “Harpoon Commander’s Edition” for the PC, and I installed the old game to see if it still worked on Windows 10.
Yup.
The game is an interesting time capsule when you consider that when it was new, the systems available in the simulation are as far back in the past as the Vietnam era weaponry was at that point in time.
Basically everything burns in pure O2.
Yup but the question is, what does pure O2 do to the auto-ignition temperature of the material or fluid ? If everything moves down into the double digit F region then that basically is a nogo.
Pure O2 will lower the autoignition temperature compared to air. Because inert nitrogen is not present to soak up heat of combustion, more of it is available to preheat the fuel and oxygen and sustain the reaction.
But micro gravity negates convection due to thermal expansion of gases, so in orbit the auto-ignition temperature may be higher.
BTW, ceramics won’t burn in pure O2–they’re already burnt (oxidized).
FBI knew about Chinese infiltration of US election systems and buried it
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/10/18/fbi-knew-about-chinese-infiltration-of-us-election-systems-and-buried-it-n503608
This is behind a paywall but there will be more reporting from other outlets soon.
More reason to be done with the FBI. Making decisions like this is entirely out of their wheelhouse. It’s entirely obvious from the record that the politicized organization under Herbert Hoover was well-restraine dcompared to what we’ve had since.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/the-daily-chart-long-expensive-cold-winter-ahead.php
Graphs for distillates are shocking. The NE is the main user of heating oil. Who makes the call between fuel for trucks to move food and oil to heat homes in Pennsylvania and New York, both sitting on massive unfracked natural gas reserves.
And Biden continues to rape the SPR in a desperate bid to moderate gas prices ahhead of the election.
Meanwhile, because we’re not having enough fun yet:
Mississippi River Reaches Low Levels, Barges Stuck Due To Drought
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mississippi-river-reaches-low-levels-barges-stuck-due-to-drought
Hell of a time to have a useless tit for Transportation Secretary.
>> I think they believed that they would tap my wife’s skills when the time came, but a kidney transplant isn’t something she’s going to do in our living room.
Yeah, agreed, the kitchen is probably better, closer to the fridge and all.
>> GPS interference in Texas has spread from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area to now east and west regions of Waco, Texas.
Good reminder to download your essential AOs in Google Maps for off-line access.
I was never a fan. My dad insisted on me coming along. The best times I had fishing were when the bait had fallen off the hook (or…maybe never made it on the hook?), and I could just ignore the pole and read.
Isn’t that called “fraud”?
Clickbait apparently gets you funded? They absolutely do need to chill, because no one can tell truth from fiction anymore. Plus, after the zillionth failed doomsday prediction, no one takes them seriously anymore. If a *real* problem crops up, people are going to ignore it until it’s too late…
Interestingly, I saw an interview with Greta yesterday. Not about climate change, but on a much more personal level. She actually seemed quite balanced and normal, and was not terribly happy about being famous. Interestingly, she has moved away from her parents. Both of her parents are climate nuts, and my suspicion is that they used her for their own purposes. Perhaps she moved away to gain control of her own life…
AFAIK, it is against international law to make someone “stateless”. If someone does not have a second passport, you cannot just take their only citizenship away.
Of course, you don’t want to be an individual having to fight this.