Ontopic Mission to Uranus

[Jehannum]

My monks will.be working in stone.

Pfft, go full Joey Smith and have 'em do it on gold plates.

 

[fly]

100% of American power generation facilities require paper copies of operators' manuals to be kept in the office.

There is a manual on how to remove testicles. Can I read it and remove your other one?

 

[Jehannum]

There is a manual on how to remove testicles. Can I read it and remove your other one?

I'm not using it, so sure!

 

[gee]

Power plants are complex things. @gee doesn't know how to run one. It takes hundreds of knowledgeable people to run something like that. You can't run a power plant simply because you've been born in the 20th century...

One of my friends is an engineer at a thermal power plant in NL. There's easily two dozen people there doing maintenance work alone, everything from analyzing data from vibration sensors to controlling the chemistry of the water in the boilers, maintaining electrical gear and endless other things. One person simply can't handle the sheer volume of work, regardless of what they know how to do.

I s'pose it depends on your definition of power plant. A wind farm or small hydro station can work without any on-site staff.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

This conversation reminds me of the book A Canticle for Leibowitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

 

[Ledboots]

Oh, now, Im sure they come with instruction manuals

There's probably a YouTube out there to help

 

[Ledboots]

This conversation reminds me of the book A Canticle for Leibowitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

That is a good book

 

[HipHugHer]

There's probably a YouTube out there to help

Everything will be just fine as long as we preserve Schoolhouse Rock.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

@eileenbunny

Headache stuff
https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/treatment-pain-gets-green-light

 

[eileenbunny]

@eileenbunny

Headache stuff
https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/treatment-pain-gets-green-light

Huh, I guess I should go sit amongst the trees and see what happens!

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

There are worse solutions to try

 

[fly]

IIRC, seeing the color green also results in higher IQ tests.

 

[HipHugHer]

NASA finds an Indian spacecraft that's been lost for 8 years orbiting the moon, using some new "laser radar", or some such.


https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6769

 

[HipHugHer]

OK, some sort of summary article I read elsewhere described this as a laser beam of sorts but it's not. More like a new application of an existing high-end microwave radar.

 

[nukes]

NASA finds an Indian spacecraft that's been lost for 8 years orbiting the moon, using some new "laser radar", or some such.


https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6769

India NASA scientists were just smoking too much malana.
"Duuuuude...Where's our SPACEcraft?"

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

IIRC, seeing the color green also results in higher IQ tests.

What's the timeframe?

 

[fly]

What's the timeframe?

No idea. I know I read it in a book, but my quick Google finds nothing - so maybe its bullshit?

edit: maybe not?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/health/06iht-color.1.19983382.html

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Gluten free = higher risk of Type 2 beetus.

http://m.newsroom.heart.org/news/lo...h-higher-risk-of-type-2-diabetes?preview=3309

http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4299/presentation/3048

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Waffles

Edit: oh god, the article is even better.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121900/

@Mustard Dispenser

 

[fly]

I learned that if you fart near milk, you can make yogurt.