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Comment Re:absolute nonsense (Score 1, Informative) 28

Your first link is an opinion piece, and the comments section tells me all I need to know about the intended audience.

"The fear narrative is impenetrable to facts and logic because it is a agenda that wants radical economic, social and political change. The "climate" or "environment" is merely a vehicle for the West's own version of the 1917 revolution."

From your second link:

"This doesn't mean that weather-related risks of wildfires have declined: warmer and drier conditions increase these risks. And despite a global reduction, countries can experience very large and anomalous years. Last year’s large burn in Canada is a clear example."

Which is essentially the point of the article this thread is about.

Comment Re:effective? (Score 1) 131

Why is it so important to you that he gets credit for the vaccine when he was more than happy to disavow his administration's botching of other aspects of the pandemic response like testing. His exact words were "I don't take responsibility at all" and blamed (of course) Obama of all people. He only takes credit for successes and blames anyone but himself for failures. Our country is screwed because millions of people like you cannot acknowledge that, let alone call it a character flaw.

Comment Re:effective? (Score 1) 131

Why would you think the Trump administration's program for developing a COVID vaccine has anything valid to compare with the Biden administration? Were you expecting Biden to make them start over so he could try to do it faster? That's actually the kind of petty, self-sabotaging, ego-driven thing Trump would have done.

Comment Re:Claim that coding will be done by AI is puzling (Score 1) 121

I argued with an LLM for about an hour about how to properly escape paths with whitespace in them for passing to AWK. I could have fixed it myself quicker, but I wanted to see just how many times of going 'No, you have to because " it'd take before it'd realize what the actual issue was.

It took a *long time*

Comment Re: "far too small to generate any lift"?? (Score 4, Interesting) 106

That's how I read it. It should say it has no thrust.

A typical jet turbofan airframe has two engines that each have a generator shaft taking turbine energy and making electrical current. It then has a whole 'nother turbine engine used on the ground and in some other flight legs called the APU; this exhausts out the tail cone usually, and can start engines or provide extra hydraulic power if needed, but is slow to start just like the main engines.

For power loss emergencies, a small spring-loaded fan pops into action super fast, called a Ram Air Turbine or RAT. It can only make enough electrical power to reboot key systems like engine FADECs or avionics, often only on one electrical channel instead of all channels. It's only a turbine, not a thrust-producing fan. It's a pinwheel toy in comparison to the APU and even the APU cannot produce significant thrust.

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