Hawt The Thread About Everything Unrelated to Big News Items

[Jehannum]

Thank God that meeting is over. It's like being in the same room with this guy:

 

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I played Bingo the other night for charity and won a basket full of gift cards.

Did you donate them to charity?

 

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Nah, I'll probably give most of them back to charity.

nevermind

 

[Duke]

An rather cool article how old school analog tech in some military systems was superior to current digital tech. They focus, especially, on the fire control systems of the Iowa class battleships 16 inch guns in comparison with the now failed Zumwalts smartgun system that is now dead since the shells cost almost 1 million dollars each to fire.

http://arstechnica.com/information-...-mechanical-analog-computers-ruled-the-waves/

 

[plot]

Old school stuff is normally immune to emp stuff too

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Unrelated to anything: got new couches today. Don't think the dog will be able to climb up on the back of these

 

[Domon]

Unrelated to anything: got new couches today. Don't think the dog will be able to climb up on the back of these

Is that a good or bad thing

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[Mr. Argumentor]

Is that a good or bad thing

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Ladybutt is ambivalent-minus about her being up there. I think its cute though. I get to sit down and use her as a headrest. She will put her head on my shoulder. She wags her tail and thwacks Ladybutt in the head with it.

 

[MacG]

An rather cool article how old school analog tech in some military systems was superior to current digital tech. They focus, especially, on the fire control systems of the Iowa class battleships 16 inch guns in comparison with the now failed Zumwalts smartgun system that is now dead since the shells cost almost 1 million dollars each to fire.

http://arstechnica.com/information-...-mechanical-analog-computers-ruled-the-waves/

Wow. That was a geat reading. Thanks. It's amazing how such complex calculations can be made with these primitive computers.

 

[Jehannum]

Wow. That was a geat reading. Thanks. It's amazing how such complex calculations can be made with these primitive computers.

O(1) calculations aren't really that complex.

Not to take away from the mechanical wonder of that machine, though.

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

My GF is fairly closely related to the Zumwalts.

 

[Domon]

The radioactive boyscout died at age 39. Dude who harvested 5 or 600 smoke detector to build a breeder reactor in his shed in the early 90s. Contaminated his entire neighborhood for the next several hundred years.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/


Summary story of his efforts: http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

The radioactive boyscout died at age 39. Dude who harvested 5 or 600 smoke detector to build a breeder reactor in his shed in the early 90s. Contaminated his entire neighborhood for the next several hundred years.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/


Summary story of his efforts: http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

This is not dead thread

But that's still cool. I hadn't heard of him

 

[Floptical]

The radioactive boyscout died at age 39. Dude who harvested 5 or 600 smoke detector to build a breeder reactor in his shed in the early 90s. Contaminated his entire neighborhood for the next several hundred years.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/


Summary story of his efforts: http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

wow 39 that's young. For the life span being around 80 he had a half life.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

wow 39 that's young. For the life span being around 80 he had a half life.

:snort:

 

[nukes]

wow 39 that's young. For the life span being around 80 he had a half life.

Wife says he had a meltdown.

 

[HipHugHer]

Wife says he had a meltdown.

Try the fish.

 

[Domon]

whats strange is that he was looking reallllly fuckin rough in 2007, like he either had untreated radiation poisoning, or a bad meth habit.

And he got arrested for stealing smoke detectors.. 25 years after the whole boy scout thing.

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

Pretty sure I've heard people use him as an example of go-getting.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

God fragit. Need a new arbor bolt for my chop saw. Visit three hardware stores today. All have lefthand thread bolts, but none have metric.
Bite the bullet and go to manufacturers website. Price isn't bad.

Fucking shipping is $12 for one week delivery.

Worst part is I didn't break the damn bolt. Someone at the racecar shop did after I told them it was lefthand thread.