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pantone159

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  1. I could not read the actual SAE paper, it seemed paywalled, but honestly I do not see a reduction in fuel use of 25% as credible at all. The only way it seems possible to get close to that, is if your vehicle use is in fact almost all idling, which does not resemble my driving patterns in the least. That seems like just an impossible number. I mean, surely the car uses more fuel/time when it is moving than when idling, which means a 25% fuel reduction means that you are idling more than 25% of the time, probably at least 50% of the time. Maybe you are really in gridlock almost all the time.
  2. I can't imagine that start/stop has any significant benefit for most driving. The engine is surely tuned best for the steady-state condition where it has been running, and not the startup. That goes for both fuel economy and emissions. So it almost certainly has to be worse on startup than cruise. I know starters are better than they used to be, but I have driven old worn cars that were sluggish to start, that would turn this new feature into a definite safety hazard. And yes, of course you do need the engine running to run the a/c, even if it does keep running with the engine off, it is draining the battery PDQ and you don't want to do this much. The battery is built to start the car, and keep low power things running without the engine, but the a/c does not qualify here.
  3. Uh, no. Maybe lay off the AI. A VENOMOUS snake is one that can inject venom with a bite. A POISONOUS snake is one that will poison you if you eat it. Many snakes are venomous, I don't think that any of them are poisonous.
  4. Second point of order... I don't believe that the original dossier about the rumors had any details about who peed on who or where. It could all well have happened on Epstein's island. The details were probably an invention of the internet.
  5. Not to mention issues with cooling any outer space data center, which is probably a bigger problem than all the (otherwise accurate) issues that others posted all combined.
  6. This. The Patriots may have been trying some shenanigans with the balls, but given, 1) The NFL completely failed to take any kind of meaningful measurements of the air pressure in the event (forgivable, they aren't experimental scientists), and 2) The entire point of having the teams manage the balls themselves was to allow them to get things just like the QB wanted, I can't find any amount of outrage at all on that one.
  7. All the repetition of the same moves over and over supposedly really wear on you on a long climb like this. He did practice every move, and also consulted with the one person who had climbed this building before. One of the takeaways, is that buildings have to be dry, since they don't soak up water. Which is why this was delayed a day when it was raining.
  8. pantone159 replied to Zavala's topic in Daily Texan
    Let's hope not. In 1940 the Danish completely rolled over for Hitler. That invasion was part of the assault on Norway, which was very ambitious and could well have failed. Although Denmark was pretty indefensible, Norway was not, and even a few hours of delay caused by Danish resistance might well have messed that up. But the Danes completely rolled over and let Hitler take both Denmark and Norway.
  9. That was an amazingly prescient prediction of the cryptobros! Back in the 1930's.
  10. I thought the book we used in the undergrad class at UT explained this as good as it could be. Introduction to Elementary Particles, by David Griffiths. Griffiths is really good about explaining complicated theories. Every so often I go back and re-read these parts and try and understand it all. I think there is something important to discover still here. The symmetry breaking freezes out the weak force, so it is almost completely absent at the low energies where we live. But that weak force is special: It is the only force that changes kinds of particles, and it may (hopefully!) act on dark matter. Maybe it ties to dark matter, and the Higgs field and the symmetry breaking is part of how it works with dark matter. But nobody know yet.
  11. I don't know what is going on in this thread, but the silver price has gone nuts this month. It is up like $15/oz in December. It is still supposedly hard to sell (refiners are backed up), but that is getting better.
  12. Excellent use of Oklahoma Suks cans. Well done!
  13. A whole bunch of those miles seem like zero-passenger miles. I do see Waymo cars all over the place, but they very frequently seem to be completely empty.
  14. I don't associate RJ with what I can't afford. I think that is one of the small commuter jets that I am never too happy to be riding on. It ain't no G5.
  15. Why would YYZ have any issues?
  16. This is very cool. There have probably always been these kind of things passing through, but we have not been able to see them until recently. As an fellow astronerd I can confirm parts a and b, but c is full of shit. There is an actual Harvard faculty astronomer, Ari Loeb or something like that, who has unfortunately gone off the deep end as far as aliens. His reasoning seems to be: A) If we are ever visited by aliens, they must come from outside the solar system, B) This comet comes from outside the solar system, therefore A+B) THIS MUST BE ALIENS!!! I'd ignore anything about aliens from Dr Loeb, which is most everything he ever says about extra-solar things.
  17. I have heard that the refiners are saturated with silver now and not buying. Resulting in retail shops not paying a good price since they are now exposed to price drops since the shops can't sell to refiners now. Too bad since otherwise it seems a great time to sell silver.
  18. Is it though? If I did not read this board, I would probably have no idea who Charlie Kirk was. He isn't a politician, just a talking head. Why should I know who he was? And as far as the shooting, that is just one tiny drop of the deluge of shootings that happen in this country constantly. As mentally unhealthy as it can be to keep track of politics, being unaware of who he was seems completely normal to me.
  19. Attaching the photos of that note. You can see the X cancellations if you look closely. The back is especially pleasing
  20. These cuts were indeed made when the notes were turned in for redemption, which meant gold back in those days. The Republic of Texas did everything they could to default on these obligations, and avoided redeeming them. As a result, these sold on the market for just a few cents on the dollar, to any speculator who wanted to bet on them being paid eventually. When Texas joined the Union, the USA figured that it was not acceptable to default on obligations of what would now be part of the Union, and the money (gold!) was found to finally redeem them, and the speculators came out very well in the end. Nearly all of these are cancelled, but not all the cancellations had a piece cut out like that, the nicest ones just had the cuts in the note, but not into multiple parts, or pieces removed, etc. A really nice one is coming up for sale in a couple weeks, this shows the full note design. https://currency.ha.com/itm/obsoletes-by-state/texas/austin-tx-republic-of-texas-10-jan-1-1840-cr-a5-medlar-25-pmg-choice-about-unc-58-epq/a/3599-20137.s
  21. Kind of like that. It can be fun to make a 'type' collection where you get one of each kind of design. For the Mexican ones, I want to get ones that actually circulated as money, while most of them are later restrikes made as bullion. They are all good gold though. That makes it harder, and I have not actually made any progress on my Mexico gold collection yet, I have none. I do have a few USA gold coins in this way though. But the idea would be, if SHTF and you had to flee with whats in your pockets, I would care very little that I paid a premium on my 50 pesos, but care quite a lot that I had 1+ oz of gold to sell in them. My plan is flawed though since I don't have any 50 peso coins. Hmmm...
  22. I like the idea of building a fun collection, that has the side-effect that you could sell the gold if SHTF. Not the most efficient way to stack metal, but a fun way that still gives you some insurance precious metal.
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