This 26.5 min. YouTube video is overwhelming in the amount of activity that Spacex is doing to “Make the machines that make the rockets and launches”.
Archive for the ‘History’ Category:
2023-10-22 Do-it-yourself Power Strips – True Story
We used similar “homemade” outlets on extension cords – we must’ve had more than a hundred around campus. But the fire inspectors wrote us up for using them in permanent locations under desks. We had to change them to commercial power strips. But I set up a temporary registration and add/drop classes area every semester,
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2023-10-15 Huell Howser Biography
I think we all loved to watch H.H. and his short videos. Some really great memories. An 11.4 minute YouTube video.
2023-10-13 Trump Confused Between Biden And Obama
Brian Tyler Cohen plays us clips of Trump getting confused between Biden and Obama. He says “If Trump says Biden is congitively impaired, then Trump is braindead.” Other good clips from other politicians.
2023-10-07 Neil deGrasse Tyson (Not) Talking about Trump
Tyson talks about objective truths and science, critical thinking, politics and other topics, but I did *not* hear him say anything about Trump. He mentions a book with the things he has said. It’s a 10.4 min. YouTube video.
2023-10-03 Perseverance Mars Rover Hi Res Image
Mars 2020 Rover AKA Perseverance in High Resolution and detailed. Full Resolution link ( No Facebook Compress ) below https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/original_images/jpegPIA23312.jpg Excellent closeup image. It looks like 10 or mor kg of Kapton tape wrapped around the cables. But the worker is putting in red and blue cables that are not covered in Kapton. So it
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2023-09-28 Swedish Really Weird Violin
I have never seen anything like that, and I’m half Swedish! Nykelharpa. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1759037727887343?mibextid=9drbnH
2023-09-26 EVs Exceed 30% in 4 California Counties
Where I live, in Orange County, California, I see a lot of EVs, mostly Teslas, on the roads and in parking lots. I would guesstimate by the amount I see and by the map that it’s 25% or more. Which makes me very happy because the EVs are helping to save us from death and
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2023-09-24 “Trump, Champion Of The Shallow State”
“Donald Trump, champion and avatar of the shallow state, has won power because his supporters are threatened by what they don’t understand, and what they don’t understand is almost everything. Indeed, from evolution to data about our economy to the science of vaccines to the threats we face in the world, they reject vast subjects
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2023-09-23 Mainframe Tape Drives
During my mainframe computer days, someone made a foot or so long rod with a metal base. We would grab a handful of write rings and have a write ring tossing contest. During the daytime the day shift would run dozens of batch jobs on the computer, and they would queue up in the printer
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