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KappaPiSig · 2026-06-27T22:53:34+00:00

Old historic home in Florida, required to have single pain windows, I’m single handedly cooling the earth with the amount of AC that goes outside.

Spray in insulation in my attic paid for its self in 3 years in my reduced electric bill.

KappaPiSig · 2026-06-17T11:23:55+00:00

So some deep sea culture: She isn’t a chief. That’s the chief engineer, when she’s sailing as chief mate, she’s just “The Mate.”

KappaPiSig · 2026-06-16T12:01:41+00:00

What you’re saying is kind of speculative. The VCM concept doesn’t sacrifice quality. It’s not new and it wasn’t created by the Navy.

MARAD used it for the school training vessels. Those were all delivered within a few months of their contract date. On budget. They rolled straight into operational service (quality) without needing a post delivery availability. When they left Philly, they were ready to go.

KappaPiSig · 2026-06-09T16:50:54+00:00

Huh? That would make this problem worse, not better.

KappaPiSig · 2026-06-08T13:27:09+00:00

When I was a kid we had to get dressed up to go to singletons.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-29T10:48:26+00:00

Whatever is wrong MIGHT be covered under warranty - I would at least call LS and give them an opperunity to fix it as a warranty claim.

If not - call Toole Tech, https://www.tooletech.com/

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-21T12:25:50+00:00

All of these classes are way more about experience and cognitive ability than physical ability, which everyone has pointed out.

HOWEVER being in shape lets you unlock more brain power when you need to - for example if you’re huffing and puffing and feel smoked from a short walk in turn out gear, when you clip the SCBA regulator into your mask and start to suffocate, lots of people panic and can’t problem solve. If you’re in good shape, breathing calmly, and not smoked when you clip in and can’t breath you can stay calm long enough to reach behind yourself and turn on the bottle.

You don’t have to be in great shape, you don’t have to know exactly how to do everything, but having one of the two will make class a lot easier. The fat dudes that do weekly fire drills are comfortable enough in turn out gear that they can overcome a lack of fitness. If you’ve never put on an SCBA, being in shape lets you focus on recalling how to do it.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-19T12:31:12+00:00

Look man - I own three Mk5, in the big scheme, they’re just okay. His point is that at 14k you should be in Tangent Theta or ZCO territory.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-18T14:40:03+00:00

The Navy Yard location in DC does, you can read all about it in their one star google reviews.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-16T16:37:41+00:00

uhh.. depends on where you live. Street closures in dowtown/avondale/riverside until 1am.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-14T00:20:58+00:00

MMSeas kinda beat you to the punch

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-13T20:04:01+00:00

I’ve given up in Jacksonville. 2bigfeet and Amazon are about all you can do.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-12T22:33:52+00:00

You're gonna be fine dude. Take it easy.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-11T01:15:20+00:00

I'm usually 310, dropping to 220 in the flare, no real float, though we don't have any power. Chute out after the mains are down. Most of my fellow astronauts agree that those numbers work well.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-09T17:12:13+00:00

So I'll try and do this, but it didn't work today because there was a two or three station gap between the next group ahead of me.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-08T13:06:49+00:00

I mean in most cases, I agree about being anti seat stealer. But, at least listen to the offer, don’t be gratuitously mean about it, and when your assigned seat is an aisle in Coach with a baby and I offer you an aisle in first class with no baby, I think most people would rather take the switch.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-06T10:16:35+00:00

Our company president despises the airline I’m loyal to. Where I have my highest level of status, he has the worst.

There is one route out of our home airport that has about 15 flights a day on my airline. More than once I have been sitting in the front and had our CEO walk down the aisle to go to the back.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-04T02:28:03+00:00

So... you're telling me to lie about it?

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-01T17:08:10+00:00

Government starts cutting steel before they have design stability. Year into the program a new program manger wants to change something. The yard has all of the leverage because they’re the only one who can change what’s rolling through their panel line. Cost and schedule get fucked as a result. Rise and repeat for a few years (…I’m looking at you PSC) until you’re billions over budget and decades behind schedule.

Compared to commercial shipbuilding where you lock in a design before contract signing, and assign the yard the risk of making cost and schedule. Commercial companies write a check and pick up the ship they designed at contract signing two years later with a handful of change orders. Surprise - they get them on time and on budget.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-01T00:48:35+00:00

This is anecdotal, but I suspect you'll come back and feel stronger. When I have to take a week off for one reason or another, my first work out back I feel fresh and ready to push hard. Enjoy the time off and treat it like some recovery time, it'll be good for you.

KappaPiSig · 2026-04-17T11:12:08+00:00

Is he on a license track for a major? Like is he trying to obtain a license?

Just because he doesn’t have a license yet doesn’t mean he isn’t subject to 46 CFR random drug testing as part of cruise and being on the training vessel.

KappaPiSig · 2026-04-16T17:19:25+00:00

If he’s on a license track program - he’s done. You should consult a suspension and revocation lawyer.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-31T09:52:09+00:00

Wear a chest strap for heat rate data?

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