LSU Jonno

Oh, it's "mine".

Will be a father's day present to me actually. Kids will get to play it when they don't act like complete jerks to their mama or each other.

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thanks! So I assume now that you have your email, it's also showing up in your order history on their website?

Manually inputing my order ID into gamestop website gives me an error. :wah:

Wow, thanks for posting the pic of Gemma.

My theory now is that Lumon are the "good guys". Working on tech to build Robocop-style androids of deceased people. Severed floor MDR is sorting DNA/Emotions/memories etc. that are really bugs in the AI software. MDR is essentially "training" the AI model. For some reason, Mark is key to this because he knows her best. He'd be too emotionally distraught to do this without severance which is why he has to be severed to do the work. Maybe others need to be severed just to keep the project top secret.

Like others have said, there are many options and it sort of depends what your goals are. I personally run Sonos, but for my outdoor passive speakers I bought a cheap, stand-alone class d amp off amazon for like $40 to power them and a WiiM hockey puck for like $70 to stream to them via apple airplay. You can go this route to have unlimited zones and scale how you want. Not audiophile quality at all, but it can get loud and doesn’t sound bad.

This really depends on how big your family is, how often you travel, and how on top of it you are with planning your vacations.

If you have a family of 2-3 and don’t need a lot of space when you travel and can easily fit into normal studio or 1BR hotel rooms then a timeshare won’t really seem worth it to you. If you aren’t a regular traveler then you might not use your timeshare points. And if you don’t plan your trips in advance, then you may not be able to book a place where you want to go.

If you have a family of 4-6, and need multiple bedrooms when you travel, or if you like traveling with friends families etc. nothing beats a timeshare.

The $1k price per year is nothing compared to what you would spend for equivalent hotel rooms. For 150k points you can get a 2BR place for a week in a highly desirable area or a 4BR place in an off-area. If you bank your points and only use them every other year, you’ll have enough to get a 4BR place in a high area for a week.

Timeshares have earned a bad rap, but the person who paid the upfront cost of 10-20k for those points already bit the bullet for you.

I use my parents points all the time. We used a total of 40k points a for a last minute, two bedroom suite in colonial Williamsburg last spring break for 4 nights. That’s not the norm, but is just an example of what you can do. That’s about $300 worth of your yearly fees.

I only have inside information on two of these, but they are so incorrect technically that he's lost all credibility. I'll caveat by saying I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but I will...

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Elon Musk and other astrophysicist say that current missions to the moon would require 8 starship launches to fuel up a single moon trip.

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What does this have to do with anything? I mean really, I've told some of you Musk humpers that Starship is not optimized for a moon mission, it's optimized for Low Earth orbit Starlink launches. Second, 8 launches???!!!! :lol: The official number is 16, and there are several credible analyses that show it can creep over 20. I'll be honest, one thing I didn't anticipate with Musk's epic Starship failures is that it would retroactively create more moon landing deniers.

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The van allen belt with the extensive radiation that would make it impossible with 1960’s technology for anyone to survive through it, much less live into their 80’s.

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This is actually a decent question, but with very modest googling he'd have been able to debunk himself. First, one of the main things that makes modern electronics susceptible to radiation are their small size and density. We didn't have that problem in the Apollo days as integrated circuits were still years away from widespread use, although the main guidance computer on Apollo did use early ICs that were not very dense, therefore not as susceptible to radiation as modern chips. The other thing is that radiation events happen in cycles (they last about 11 years), and the Van Allen belts are not a constant amount of radiation from earth to the moon. We've looked at Apollo's trajectories compared to solar cycles, and compared to worst case Van Allen belt radiation, and discovered that while the Apollo folks knew that this radiation existed, they got pretty lucky in when they launched (solar cycle minimums for the most part) and their critical ops (engine burns, dockings, EVAs) tended to dodge the worst case areas of the Van Allen belts. We think this was mostly by chance as some of these environmental aspects wouldn't be discovered for another 20 years. And as for human exposure, the shielding of the spacecraft was enough to give decent protection given that they launched in a solar minimum. Today, for example, we can measure radiation events with GOES satellites, and will scrub launches if there is a solar flare etc. that causes excessive radiation. And as I said before our electronics are way more sensitive to radiation today than they were in the 50's and 60's.

My favorites are the ones with extra celery salt:
Swamp Fire
Cajunland
Zats Pro boil

…in that order.

I’ve had a pack of chack bay for years that I don’t know what to do with. I see most of you are combining it with other seasonings. Does it lack salt?

The second book was still good. I read the first book 3 times. Watched the movie twice, and read the second book once. It’s been a few years now but I remember the second book get a little woke.

If you are dying for another round of RP1, you’ll enjoy the second book just fine. If you are looking for something more from the series, you won’t get it from RP2.

The per launch cost numbers for Starship assume something like 140 launches per year which amortizes their manpower cost across those launches. That's a cost of about 2B per year which is more than what we spend on SLS. I'm not saying SLS is cheap but you are comparing apples to televisions.

Plus you are using predicted numbers on extrapolated launch rates, none of which is proven. It's really easy to make up numbers and feed them to the public.

A more accurate cost comparison would be cost per mission. There are plans to bring SLS's costs down. Will it touch what SpaceX can do? Well, probably not, but per-mission costs will be closer than you think when you take into account 20 launches per mission for Starship for Artemis.

Simply launching SLS twice a year would make up that difference.