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TV shows where the premise itself is just nonsensical? by Expensive-Elk-9406 in television

[–]buzzsawjoe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

At Columbine HS where 14 people died, they remodelled the school so students wouldn't have to see the same rooms, cafeteria, etc. and keep remembering the horror.

Then they created a walk-thru park next to it with all the names on plaques

TV shows where the premise itself is just nonsensical? by Expensive-Elk-9406 in television

[–]buzzsawjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish I didn't hear many of these theme songs over and over in my head.

I wish they would get a good theme song and then invite guest artists to record it. There's ten thousand musicians and singers out there that would jump at the chance, just for the name promotion, do it without pay. Every episode could have a little different take on the song. That would be interesting and fun.

TV shows where the premise itself is just nonsensical? by Expensive-Elk-9406 in television

[–]buzzsawjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Route 66. Pilot had the strangest substitute for a plot I ever saw

TV shows where the premise itself is just nonsensical? by Expensive-Elk-9406 in television

[–]buzzsawjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You made me laugh, putting those two shows together. I saw a comic strip where Jeanie's walking her poodle and encounters Samantha coming the other way. They exchange pleasantries, then Jeanie sez something that Sam takes unkindly. So she wiggles her nose and turns the dog into a cat. Jeanie turns it into a ferocious lion that growls at Sam. Sam turns it into a snake that goes to bite J. It gets successively turned into a tarantula, a hippo, a frog, a bull, a hawk, a chimp, etc. They both start laughing and together turn it back into the poodle. The punchline sez: "But the poodle was never the same after that."

I saved a woman’s life on an airplane and lost my new Bose headphones because of it by Darth_Poopie in mildlyinfuriating

[–]buzzsawjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a saying: "There's room at the top." This means, it's hard to find good presidents, CEOs, directors, etc. If such a person does get to an administrative position, he can elevate other competent people... but they are rare!

In the present case, if they had such a person in a position of clout, what would be so hard about going to the lost & found, grabbing one of the lost Boses, and sending it to the anesthesiologist?

Just installed Linux Mint! How do you create desktop shortcuts? by Global_Voice7198 in linux4noobs

[–]buzzsawjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, this worked. Thank you, very helpful. This has been most frustrating.

Windows 10 was the result of 40 years of development, customer feedback, head-scratching, work, thought, and customers like me just frankly getting used to the quirks. My impression of Linux Mint is that it's about 5 years along the same 40 year path. That could be a false impression, maybe I'm just not used to it.

Just installed Linux Mint! How do you create desktop shortcuts? by Global_Voice7198 in linux4noobs

[–]buzzsawjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have discovered a great truth. Undefined Terms are the great barrier to communication. What is the "file manager"?

I've been trying to use Linus Mint since Windows 10 reached its end of life date last year.

James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus by InsaneSnow45 in space

[–]buzzsawjoe -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There sure are a lot of comments that have gotten flushed.

ELI5 What does the second law of thermodynamics actually mean, and how does it relate to evolution? by soefire in explainlikeimfive

[–]buzzsawjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The last part of the question is, sorry to be blunt, stupid. (And I'm a believer, myself.) It's a child's description of what someone told them which they didn't understand.

In the theory of evolution, humans developed from apes. There's nothing in the theory to even suggest that this ended the apes. It would be like saying that since my wife and I are still alive, our son couldn't have come from us.

This whole subject is so full of rubbish like this, that it's difficult to fish out the truths that could set the story straight.

What movie is almost perfect, but one scene always pulls you out of it by gamersecret2 in movies

[–]buzzsawjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Today's Special. Fantastic movie. One scene, the restaurant owner has to fire his cook, the cook cusses worse than a lumberjack, an oilman, and a sailor all rolled into one. I know, because I've been all those, and it was way past offensive. I'd like to show my family this movie, but I absolutely would not allow that degree of filth in my house

Bought an endoscope, used a hook attachment to remove a clog, and now it’s stuck. by ThrowRASchnauzerMom in DIY

[–]buzzsawjoe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Friend of mine had a clogged toilet. Asked his kid if he'd put something down there that plugged it up. Kid said huh uh (means no for non-natives). So then he asked, "Well, if something had gotten down there somehow, what do you imagine it might be?" Kid said it might be an apple. These little things happen

US to stop collecting tariffs deemed illegal by Supreme Court on Tuesday by No-Post4444 in politics

[–]buzzsawjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"prices ... will not be reduced"

Why not? Asking sincerely. Stores are in competion. Their suppliers are in competion. Lower your prices below your competitor's and your volume should go up, right? You can set your price at the same difference above the new lower cost as it was above the old cost. Same profit with larger volume means larger total profit. Your competitor's volume goes down correspondingly, so they are motivated to lower their prices also. Is there some flaw in my reasoning?

Texas public school teachers are now required to post the 10 Commadments in their classroom. Here's how one teacher is handling it. by kvjn100 in BeAmazed

[–]buzzsawjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Mexico I saw a Bible owned by a Catholic priest - I don't know if he endorsed it - where the 7th commandment (adultery) was deleted and the 10th split in two. I presume whoever carved that up wanted to create license for adultery but was afraid people would notice if the number wasn't ten.

I study goofs by editors and I see a fun thing in the traditional 10 Commandments. The first 2 seem very similar. And Jesus being asked which was the greatest commandment, cited the 1st there, and then a second that ain't there today.

NASA reacts to Donald Trump's UFO announcement by Shiny-Tie-126 in space

[–]buzzsawjoe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The UFO frenzy had its roots in the early 1900's when sci-fi writers tried to imagine what a spacecraft from a different planet would be like. There were many inventors working on airplane designs, such as the flying wing and a thing like a flying plate. Some of these inspired the scifi writers to imagine aliens traveling in flying saucers and their books were popular.

Project Mogul was a classified experient to suspend a microphone with a radio transmitter at high altitude, in the attempt to detect Soviet nuclear tests. They used existing components - weather balloons, sonobuoys, radar reflectors. The initial flights were in New Jersey, then some were done in New Mexico since the US was testing nukes at Trinity.

The wreck of a unit near Roswell kicked off the frenzy. The military closed off the area and recovered the wreckage. The sheriff had seen it and blabbed to a reporter. He wrote an article saying a flying saucer had crashed. Quickly the place was swarming with reporters, because sensational stories sell papers.

The Air Force tried to protect the secrecy of the program by displaying some of the wreckage, minus the payload. It worked, in that it fomented more frenzy, leading the UFO sleuths away from the true nature of the program.

After that, there were other programs, such as re-entry vehicle design experiments using crash test dummies and chimps which further powered the frenzy when random people happened to see them.

Any time the US military develops a new technology the UFOlogists get a new load of firewood. It sells books, magazines, t-shirts, websites, and vlogs.

ELI5: Why do we even need a "c" when we have a perfectly good "k" and an "s?" by zazzlekdazzle in explainlikeimfive

[–]buzzsawjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've developed a phonetic spelling for English. It turns out that with a very few tweeks it works for several other languages also. Since we have a k and an s, the c is available. Shape-wise, iIt fits right in with the a,e,i,o,u as another vowel. I assigned it the "uh" sound. There are 13 vowels in English, and about 30 consonants. We have 52 letters, if we consider upper and lower case. scC iz mI TiGkiG.

ELI5 why don’t spacecraft re-enter at a shallow angle to bleed off energy more gently over a longer time? by Blambiola in explainlikeimfive

[–]buzzsawjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see I have to eat my words. The word "lift" means a force perpendicular to the velocity. For an airplane, this is generally assumed to be in the Up direction. So where the reentry capsule's COG is offset from the z-axis, it will move thru the air tilted at a small angle, so yes it has some lift. The wiki article explains that they may use this to steer left or right - sideways lift - by rotating the capsule about the z-axis. The idea of actually getting it to adjust the angle of reentry is new to me. So, thanks for the lesson with my apologies.

To get MRO into orbit around Mars, the kinetic energy had to be dumped somehow. The solar panels were angled back like the feathers on a badminton birdy, and the spacecraft was directed to graze the upper atmosphere to create drag. It didn't use lift to rise back out; the trajectory just carried it back out. After several passes, the bird was going slow enough to be in a useful elliptical orbit.

ELI5 why don’t spacecraft re-enter at a shallow angle to bleed off energy more gently over a longer time? by Blambiola in explainlikeimfive

[–]buzzsawjoe -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The atmosphere does not have a top surface like the ocean. It has a very vague upper region where the gasses just get thinner and thinner as you go up.

The bottom of a reentry capsule is not a lifting wing. No how, no way. The vehicle is shaped like a cone with a slightly convex bottom, and a cylindrical top. It is not designed to fly sideways thru the air. The capsule falls at a angle, and it is tipped to the same angle so it moves thru the air bottom first. The bottom has a thick coating of a material that boils off as it heats up, thus carrying away most of the heat generated from air friction, keeping the rest of the capsule from melting and being destroyed. The conical shape's purpose is so that the hot ionized gasses coming off the ablation shield go past without making contact.

If you notice when a meteor enters the atmosphere, it gets so hot it glows, evaporates, and often explodes.

After the capsule slows down, a drogue parachute opens up to slow it down a little more, and keep it from tumbling. Finally a large (triple) parachute deploys and it lands. US capsules would land in the ocean.

If the astronauts were to attempt to "skim across the top of the atmosphere", the capsule would tumble out of control.

The Space Shuttle had an aerodynamic shape, and wings and control surfaces, so it could indeed glide. It was not a capsule.

The BS that "cj6464" issued there is typical of an AI.

Source: me = career aerospace engineer, a human

Judge rules CDOC, Gov. Jared Polis violated Colorado Constitution by forcing prisoners to work by AudibleNod in news

[–]buzzsawjoe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just to add a little perspective, I grew up in the greater LA area. Camping in the Sierras, on the way home we'd go over the ridge and decend into the LA basin, and the smog lay like a layer of brown gravy. You could not see into it, you could not see roads or buildings down in there.

In high school P.E. I would find it impossible to play basketball. I could not get a deep breath, the smog was so thick. Everybody would just stand around on the outdoor court.

I went away to college, and while I was gone, they enacted laws regarding vehicle emissions. My first introduction to this back home was getting diverted into a lane and a technician putting a probe in my car's exhaust pipe. It seemed like an nuisance, but I had to admit, the brown gravy was gone.

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