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[Urwumpe]

If you think 2021 had just a bad start.... well, the year really works hard to stay memorable: There are plausible signs of increasing nuclear chain reactions in the corium deposits below the reactor.

Science | AAAS

www.sciencemag.org

 

[GLS]

... and today's "Most Weird Thing Found On The Internet" award goes to:

 

[Arvil]

@Urwumpe: Get out the hot dogs and marshmallows to go with the apple spirits.

 

[Arvil]

As the article indicates, need to fill the space with boron to shut down the reactivity.

 

[Urwumpe]

@Urwumpe: Get out the hot dogs and marshmallows to go with the apple spirits.

Well, two out of three ain't bad. But I prefer Somersby Sparkling Cider currently, if I drink alcohol at all.

 

[Notebook]

I'm surprised by the title "Colonial Pipeline" that has been in the news recently/ Would have thought use of "Colonial" would be historically deprecated?

 

[Linguofreak]

I'm surprised by the title "Colonial Pipeline" that has been in the news recently/ Would have thought use of "Colonial" would be historically deprecated?

Because we fought a war to stop being colonies?

Nah. We liked being colonies that the crown didn't pay much attention to. We got attached to the freedoms we'd had when Britain didn't yet have the administrative reach to interfere much (or was busy with the whole affair of decapitating its king, then deciding it wanted his son back), and when parliament started actually trying to govern us, we decided that we liked the "rights of Englishmen" better than we liked being Englishmen.

"Colonial" harkens back to the glorious past when Americans were frontiersmen. When men were real men, women were real women, and furry green creatures from α Centauri were real furry green creatures from α Centauri.

 

[Notebook]

So you wanted all the benefits, sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health.
Didn't want to pay the taxes though?

 

[Kyle_E]

Sorta, but we made those ourselves. For the most part the only interest England took in the colonies was to regulate trade. Of course that all changed after the Seven Years War.

 

[Notebook]

No Monty Python fans? I'm getting old...

Re the question, I think I've heard "Colonial Era" furniture? Also architectural style. Not related to a pipeline though, just sounded odd.

 

[Arvil]

Nah, we just wanted to send representatives to Parliament to help rape us. Now we call ‘em Congress.

 

[Sbb1413]

... and today's "Most Weird Thing Found On The Internet" award goes to:

Wow! I thought that only people on Earth will do something like this for rest.

 

[Urwumpe]

Wow! I thought that only people on Earth will do something like this for rest.

Its still on Earth - if you look at the CRT display, it shows a prelaunch/ascent screen, while the boots on the window ejection handle clearly proves that the shuttle cockpit is still horizontal, not vertical on a launch pad. So, it must be inside a simulator.

 

[DaveS]

Its still on Earth - if you look at the CRT display, it shows a prelaunch/ascent screen, while the boots on the window ejection handle clearly proves that the shuttle cockpit is still horizontal, not vertical on a launch pad. So, it must be inside a simulator.

It is a simulator, most likely the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT), inside JSC Bldg 9, the Space Vehicle Mock Up Facility (SVMF).

 

[jedidia]

Just stumbled over this magnifficent piece of misspelling on twitter... It's anyone's guess whether the mistake was to misspell "tongs", or "lick"... ?

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

Uh.... NASA TV really makes me nervous when there is no live broadcast but just some random stuff. It is like advertising pharmaceutical products or laboratory technology, mostly with a female narrator that either sounds like a girlie or like a South American police officer with a very terrible accent. Jesus! That was like a ten minute mix of sheer ADHD and commercial TV ?

 

[Arvil]

Sometimes it’s hard, if not almost impossible, to find a live feed you want when you want it, like any typical search engine.

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

It is a simulator, most likely the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT), inside JSC Bldg 9, the Space Vehicle Mock Up Facility (SVMF).

Already a quick look through the windows immediately shows that this is the mockup facility in Houston + the flight deck never looks that tidy during a mission. No cue cards, no checklists, no flight plans, no cables, no clamps, no pens, no 4-event timers etc. ?

 

[jedidia]

A bit of a click-baity title, but a seriously interesting read:

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

www.wired.com

 

[Sbb1413]

I found a website called Worldometer(s), which gives us a "real time world statistics", including population, CO₂ emissions, Google searches, COVID-19 cases and deaths etc. I have discovered this from a media outlet using it as a primary source for COVID-19 statistics. I found the website amazing, and decided to share this website to my OF buddies. This is not intended to be an advertisement.