Recent content by TheOldFart

Before we proceed with addressing your claim, I'm curious, are you aware that your argument from authority is based on an authority who is as biased against science as it is possible to be and who has a questionable history of publishing papers? In addition to having had papers withdrawn (and...

You mean like so? https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records Looks like in the USA over the last year, monthly record highs are happening roughly four times as often as record monthly lows. Globally it looks like the same sort of picture...

I've been online since the days of dial-up BBS systems and USENET. I can guarantee you that you cannot change the mind of dogmatic people like that. I can even give you a simple way to prove that is the case. Ask him this question: What *specific* testable evidence would it take to convince...

I was on a Lafayette class FBM submarine in the early 80's. The missile control center still had a very long bank of toggle switches for entering targeting information. Hopefully they didn't lose patience and just wing the last few bits! :p

Radio Shack Color Computer II, loaded with all the deluxe bits: A whole 64KB of RAM (standard was 32KB) _and_ I had the tape player for storing programs on audio casette! :p First "real" computer was a monochrome Atari 520ST that I added memory to - had to solder chips on to do that. I got...

Except the multiverse isn't a theory, it's a consequence of some theories, right?

Actually if you read evidence based sources, EMP effects are pretty limited in degree and/or area. Since it's an inverse squared deal and requires a high altitude air burst to maximize coverage area, you don't actually get much bang for the buck (yes, I'm going to hell for that pun) out of EMP...

Ignorant layman here...but the actual article body sounds a lot like an example of correlation is not causation combined with argument from ignorance. "We looked with previously unused tool..." (alarm bells clanging loudly already), "we saw some unexplained results,..." (klaxon horns thrown into...

Ordinary explanation. I captured a loop of the video from some frames before the object appeared to a few frames afterwards. Go all the way to the top of the clouds above the yellowish building, to that sort of slanted 'V' in the top of the clouds. On the right (more horizontal) leg of the 'V'...

Picture the ocean as the atmosphere but with more momentum and able to store even more heat energy. It really is constantly changing, constantly in motion, and there are storms and gales and the occasional calm day. There are flows of fresh/less salty water from rivers and melting icebergs...

Visual help: "HD - Cosmography Local Universe - subtitles in english, french, italian" I've watched that video about 10 times now, never get tired of it. *I* live there! That's amazing. The part at the end where they animate the map ("fanciful" as the narrator says, but still)

Just like "A writer writes", a programmer programs. You can't learn/know everything about any technology these days, almost all of them change so quickly that you can't keep up - and it isn't necessary. You learn what you need to solve the current problem, you move on. As to anyone suggesting...

I would argue that assembly language is *not* faster in anything other than perhaps the smallest microcontrollers. I've got 30+ years behind the keyboard, man and boy. I've written large to very large chunks of software in assembly a dozen different CPUs 68xx, 68000, 68020, 68360, 68HC11...

It's funny someone posted a video of Reg Pridmore and y'all still missed the interesting physics :) There's actually a bunch of physics at work with the rear brake and suspension. Pridmore used to ride BMWs, back in the days when they exhibited a wonderful habit called "jacking" where the rear...

#1 Psychological effects? Pretty much as expected. When you're on a boomer, which are the ones that stay submerged a long time, you're on a semi-regular schedule. You know you're on patrol for approximately x days and then back on shore for off crew while the other crew (blue and gold crews on...