Natural selection!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/54337852

Swearing parrots at Lincoln Wildlife park given 'time out' for bad behaviour

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20070826094823/http://www.southgatearc.org/news/mar2005/ham_spy.htm

Weird and a dash of crazy from someone in the test program.

 

I haven't been scanning the bands much lately but I haven't heard the "Russian Woodpecker" in a while either. I guess they have better technology now.

 

I haven't been scanning the bands much lately but I haven't heard the "Russian Woodpecker" in a while either. I guess they have better technology now.

The "Russian Woodpecker" was a monstrosity of an HF radar that raised hell with our HF links.

 

Dopes with dope.

Shoulda taken the high road.....

Four mud-covered theft suspects were arrested in rural Clackamas County early Tuesday morning when deputies came upon them as they walked down a highway with more than 60 pounds of cannabis plants in duffel bags and protruding from their pockets, officials said.

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/202...d-walking-along-clackamas-county-highway.html

“The owner of the farm arrived and identified the plants as hemp, which only contains a minimal amount of THC; these plants are mostly used for therapeutic CBD oils, and would not have delivered the intoxicating effect hoped for by the suspects.”

https://www.clackamas.us/sheriff/2020-10-01-CCSOPR-HempHeistFoiled.html

Suspects had heard about the farm from a friend, and two of them had had taken a bus from Portland to Molalla to steal the plants, thinking the plants were recreational marijuana. (Spoiler alert: They were not.)

 

There was a lot of hemp grown in the midwest back when. Commonly know as "ditch weed" there and grew wild all over the place. You'd regularly hear back in the 70s about some idiots stopped beside the hwy. grabbing it and stuffing it in a bag as fast as they could when the state or local gendarme pulled up to ask "What you boys doing?" and getting busted. Didn't matter to the courts how much THC it had back then. My cousin, the degreed Horticulturist, decided last year to cash in on the hemp oil boom and had to put guard dogs and other protection around his field to keep the idiots out. So far he tells me he hasn't recouped his intial investment after paying for all the permit fees and such.

 

Great... now I'm craving a burger after reading this ad:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/01/business/burger-king-michelin-star-scli-intl/index.html

 

 

"Touch her Thin-Mints" ? ? ? (time stamp: 2:40 - 2:44)

 

I'll just put this here with no comment. Maybe someone else can make sense of it:

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-power-graphene.html

 

I'll just put this here with no comment. Maybe someone else can make sense of it:

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-power-graphene.html

Very interesting article... its premise is borderline threatening to this place TOS.

 

Very interesting article... its premise is borderline threatening to this place TOS.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.042101

Numerical simulations show that the system reaches thermal equilibrium and the average rates of heat and work provided by stochastic thermodynamics tend quickly to zero. However, there is power dissipated by the load resistor, and its time average is exactly equal to the power supplied by the thermal bath.

The News Article headline is misleading IMO. The theoretical energy harvesting circuit and results from that circuit are simulator based so we all know how much that means in the 'real-world' of real circuits.
Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene

Graphene is acting as a commutator (a quantum slip-ring) on a existing thermal environment where the energy is supplied from some external source, not graphene. The amount of energy extracted (10 picowatts of power) with be no more than from any other type of very low energy background energy-harvesting. It's only as clean and limitless as the diffuse energy source other naturally occurring energy-harvesting devices use.

 

My mentor

 

bridge: 8 inches higher, car companies: make trucks 8 inches taller.

 

Weird things at Narita airport.
First it's a horrible location and a very long bus ride across Tokyo if you're headed to the Navy base.

https://soranews24.com/2014/12/09/v...ine-at-the-foot-of-the-narita-airport-runway/
Toho Shrine sits practically at the foot of Narita’s smaller B runway

Then, there is the farm in the middle of the airport.

 

bridge: 8 inches higher, car companies: make trucks 8 inches taller.

The highway sign says 12' 4" clearance. So why are they telling us 11' 8"?

 

The highway sign says 12' 4" clearance. So why are they telling us 11' 8"?

History.

 

The highway sign says 12' 4" clearance. So why are they telling us 11' 8"?

That what it was for years until it was fixed to stop the crashes.

 

They raised/jacked it up 8" to over the minimum 12' clearance because trucks kept hitting it.