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goatharper t1_jdylwxp wrote

Reply to comment by Ok-Discount260 in Took this picture while training thought it was pretty cool by Ok-Discount260

Mais bien sûr.

Our motto was a bit more prosaic: "Nuke 'em 'til they glow, and shoot 'em in the dark!"

But then, I also wore the engineer castle. Motto: "Essayons" which is a bit difficult to translate, actually. Literally, it translates to "Let us try." but it is actually an imperative, not a request. To properly translate the meaning into English, you have to use a lot of words: "Okay guys, let's try!" If you were telling some one else to try, you could just say "Try!" but in English, it just doesn't translate well: "We're gonna try, goddamit, get in here and give it all you got, because we are trying like hell!"

In French, "Essayons" says that in one word.

But "Toujours Prêt" translates exactly.

Kill 'em all and let Allah sort 'em out.

Ramadan Kareem.

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goatharper t1_jdkl5ol wrote

Reply to comment by GoldLoquat5933 in A global warming scented candle by MrBuckets75

Scientists are stoopid. /s

I hope you are young, so you get to see what happens for as long as possible.

I am old, and hanging on to see how bad it gets is actually my biggest motivation for staying alive for 20 more years. That and sucking every dime out of the system that I can, because people like you deserve to pay me to live better than you ever will.

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goatharper t1_jcn2213 wrote

Reply to LPT: How to reduce your phone brightness for recording at concerts by [deleted]

I have a better LPT:

Watch the damn concert without your phone in between you and the experience. The memory beats the hell out of the saved video.

I sold my film camera in 1996 because I realised that it was getting between me and the experience.

I whip out my phone daily to capture images, but I capture experiences like concerts with my brain, not my camera.

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goatharper t1_j98d37g wrote

Reply to THIS was not thought through... by Rob1150

My local library has movies has movies divided into "Kids" (Barbie, Paw Patrol, etc) and "Adults," and my co-workers refer to the latter as "adult movies."

Better still, our attached resale shop regularly has sales on women's clothing, which are always announced as "all women's clothes are half-off!"

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goatharper t1_j986fw5 wrote

Reply to comment by ajamesmccarthy in I spent 20 hours shooting the Horsehead nebula to create my most intricately detailed photo of this region. This area is surprisingly large, and if it were brighter it would appear much larger than the full moon. Make sure you zoom in! [OC] by ajamesmccarthy

Thanks for posting this. I do some very casual stargazing myself, and love to see what's possible for a dedicated enthusiast.

I pointed my little 60-power scope at Jupiter during closest approach recently and watched the four moons Galileo saw, as they moved about from night to night. Very exciting! That's about as serious as I get....

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goatharper OP t1_j2b8ejq wrote

Reply to comment by llynglas in Just back from witnessing a test firing of a rocket motor that my neighbor built by goatharper

No, we are on 30 acre plots out here in the Texas hill country. He lives in San Antonio and has the place next door specifically so he can test his rocket motors.

We run goats on our place because there is a tax break that turns the property tax bill from thousands into hundreds. The goats actually came with the property. They are so much fun:

https://i.imgur.com/WTvcHUo.jpg

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goatharper t1_j0knvyk wrote

Reply to Geckos use Van Der Waals forces to stick to walls, but how do they let go? by houstoncouchguy

They stick to walls using many little points of contact. Any one point of contact will not hold them; they need many. So to let go, they just "unstick" one point of contact at a time until their little hands (or feet) don't have enough points of contact to stay stuck.

It's a delicate little dance they do with their muscles, but of course they do it without even thinking about it, just as you manage to stay upright on two feet without thinking about it. Took you a while to learn to do that.

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goatharper t1_izmzgc2 wrote

Reply to Could we one day reach other planets? by Proof-Economist-4731

I reckon you mean manned missions, as we have visited all the planets with unmanned probes.

A friend worked on the MESSENGER mission to Mercury; fascinating how it took some six years to get there, using slingshots off Venus to slow down.

Sure, we could send people to other planets. The question is: what could humans do that machines couldn't?

Answer: nothing.

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goatharper t1_ixay9th wrote

Reply to Does the temperature of water affect buoyancy of objects? by LiveEatSleep123

Strictly speaking, yes, but the expansion of water with temperature is so small that for all practical purposes the effect is negligible.

https://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/javascript/water-density.html

The densest possible liquid water is 4% denser than water a degree short of boiling. In living organisms, the difference will be far less.

So "negligible" is le mot juste I think.

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