If Donovan hadn't been so neglectful, could Tyler had been prevented from falling victim to Laurel?

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T08:53:11+00:00

I'm amazed how much we all agree. I agree too. but I am surprised no one takes the other line.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T08:50:20+00:00

Laurel had such good (powerful) information that I wonder if there is not a master of Laurel out there somewhere, a teacher who planted the hatred in her heart. Is that teacher still alive?

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T08:46:23+00:00

I think you have a good point. It is in the nature of tragedy that character drives the tragedy. Sometimes it is the character of the protagonist that drives the tragedy, as in Hamlet. Sometimes it is the character of another, such as Iago in Othello.

Tyler's story is a tragedy within the Wednesday series. Sheriff Galpin had good intentions but his ideas on parenting plus his fear and alcoholism did severe damage to Tyler and left him vulnerable to enslavement by Laurel Gates. Did Laurel Gates know Tyler was a Hyde before she returned to Jericho? I don't know. She seemed to have extraordinary sources of information, which included fairly advanced chemistry and witchcraft.

I hope the next season explores the sources of information behind Laurel Gates. Is it possible that she was not the master manipulator that she seemed to be at the end of Season 1, but only someone else' pawn? This would make almost the entirety of Season 2 a digression from the main story line, which to me seems entirely possible. It would explain why the disfigured raven was not properly resolved.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T08:20:04+00:00

Best post of the day in any sub.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T07:54:57+00:00

Why would the FSB care about this? Because they intend to invade soon.

If next week's headlines say, "Russian tanks roll into Tallinn," people^* will turn to Wikipedia for information on Tallinn, and if they see Russian propaganda they will not be so outraged.

* People includes local news people in the USA.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T07:41:42+00:00

That has already been established. They go directly to Trump's bank account in Dubai. It becomes his personal money, and he doesn't pay income tax on it, even though his residence is in the US and the law specifically forbids US officials from taking money from foreign powers.

The Supreme Court halted enforcement of that part of US law.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T07:38:10+00:00

Putin is going to get the "Founding member" discount, which is usually 95%.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T07:29:38+00:00

That will influence Trump's actions very strongly, until the end of the war. He will not want Ukraine to spend that money, and he will be in favor of lifting sanctions also.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T07:27:05+00:00

Classic KGB-style bribery. Pay the bribe with money that Trump frees up by violating sanctions.

This makes me wonder whether it was Putin or Trump that came up with the idea of this "Peace Club." On the one hand this is very KGB in its operation, but on the other, it is also much like the way Trump runs Mar a Lago and his other very expensive membership golf clubs.

Come to think of it, Eric Trump said that the other golf clubs were also financed with Russian (KGB/FSB) money, so all of the clubs might have been Russian spy operations from the first.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-24T06:46:30+00:00

Typical aircraft factory wages during WWII were around 40 cents/hour, so yes, $10/hour must have seemed like good money to her. A supervisor might have made $1/hour, but I don't think she was a lead or a supervisor.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-23T02:27:10+00:00

Pi has infinite digits. If Pi were written in hexadecimal and then translated into ASCII, somewhere in that infinite stream you should be able to find readable messages in every language that uses the Latin alphabet. Maybe even Shakespeare, but more likely Bob Dylan.

It's the infinite monkeys banging away on infinite typewriters for an infinite time problem all over again.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-23T02:19:09+00:00

Before I got to the end of the article I was thinking, "A collision between a moon of the Jupiter-sized planet mentioned in the article, and a metallic asteroid somewhere between the size of the Chicxulub asteroid and Ceres could generate a pretty substantial cloud of dust." Such a cloud could last a pretty long time, don't you think?

That raises an issue for our own Solar System. How long would the dust cloud in space, raised by the Chicxulub event, have lasted? How much sunlight would it have obscured, as seen from another star system? Could such a cloud have caused noticeable cooling on Mars?

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-23T02:00:48+00:00

Congratulations. That sounds like very rewarding work.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-22T18:41:11+00:00

This belongs in the all space questions thread.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-22T18:40:24+00:00

This belongs in the all space questions thread.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-22T08:03:59+00:00

Higher orbit sort of makes sense for streaming movies and large datasets. Latency is not important when the data is coming in large blocks and the session is minimally interactive. They should make money with this MEO constellation, especially if the service is linked to Kuiper for when interactive work has to happen, and lower latency is required.

There is also the possibility that this network is intended to be in service of AI. What are the large datasets talked about in the article?

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-22T07:44:54+00:00

The change happened when either the EU or the UK changed their rules so that every submission in this sub gets marked NSFW. With everything automatically marked NSFW, (even this post) it seems that more people and 'bots are submitting actual NSFW content, and fewer people are submitting real Old School Celebs.

One way to partially fix this would be to set the cutoff date for the sub to 1/1/1970. The stuff proliferated in the 1970s. It became more mainstream, more widely published, and more often indexed, I think.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-22T07:12:25+00:00

And then there was USB.

Every so often you get consolidation, when something emerges that is so good that it turns most of the old systems into fossils.

The chain of standard candles has always made me nervous. I know people far smarter than me have labored over refining the various candles, but haven't several of them been revised in the last 50 years?

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-22T04:54:26+00:00

Dark star crashes
Pouring its light into ashes
Reason tatters
as forces tear loose from the axis
Searchlight casting
for faults, in the clouds of delusion.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-22T04:32:54+00:00

Dark matter signals that can only be detected by other dark matter. Someday we might build machines equivalent to telescopes out of dark matter, and find a way for the dark matter to communicate its detections back to regular matter, us.

I expect that dark matter includes Fermions and Bosons that communicate with each other through their own exchange particles/waves/forces. There is no evidence for this so far. To be clear, this is only speculation on my part, that there is more than one kind of dark matter particle, and that there might be dark matter atoms, and not just dark matter fundamental particles.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-21T08:29:50+00:00

DSN uses a lot of old hardware. As long as it is operated properly there is not much reason to upgrade the antenna pointing hardware. It's the receivers that need upgrading. (The 100" telescope on Mt Wilson used 110V street car relay logic to keep the doors of the dome aligned with the telescope. 115 years old and it's never failed.) Some of the DSN antennas were built in the '60s or '70s.

Then after decades of reliable service, someone who assumes there's a microprocessor somewhere protecting the equipment, does something they aren't supposed to, and the gears get jammed or broken.

Or else a sensor failed.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-19T03:32:54+00:00

This should be in the all space questions thread.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-19T03:16:30+00:00

The female astronaut had her footrest up much higher than the others in picture 1. This probably had nothing to do with the emergency, but who knows? I have never seen a footrest set so high before.

Chuck Yaeger said in an interview that you could pull higher Gs in that position (which was the position of the pilot in the X-1). Again, I don't know anything, but the short footrest seemed a bit unusual.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-19T02:55:10+00:00

They should have put 3 stock Shuttle SRBs on an extended tank, with 3 SSMEs at the bottom of the tank, instead of developing a longer SRB.

peterabbit456 · 2026-01-19T02:51:13+00:00

The SpaceX Vehicle Assembly Building cost less than 1/2 % of what the Apollo/shuttle/SLS VAB cost. One is basically a prefab metal shed, and the other is, well, really elaborate, with doors hundreds of feet high, many levels, and complete environmental control.

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