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Auburn1968
| Favorite team: | Auburn  |
| Location: | NYC |
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| Number of Posts: | 19508 |
| Registered on: | 3/4/2019 |
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re: MIT eliminates DEI hiring requirement: 'They don't work'
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/8/24 at 12:24 am
It really doesn't help students who got in for reasons other than merit. They just get be the dummy in the class that can't keep up unless the school offers some BS studies that cater to their delusions.
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re: Boeing admits that workers in South Carolina falsified 787 inspection records
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 11:25 pm
My father was a flight safety director for the Army. One night when I was home from Auburn for the summer he took me to a hanger on Ft. Rucker after midnight. I was told to watch the mechanics in the hanger so they didn't leave. He went to the flight line and found two mechanics sleeping in the heli...
re: Wave energy generators
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 11:11 pm
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Thirty or forty years ago, there was a project off the northwest coast of France that was supposed to harness wave energy.
Has anyone seen a followup on it?[/quote]
There are some pretty big tidal basin projects that have been working for quite a while.
[quote]The Rance Tidal Power...
re: Wave energy generators
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 10:37 pm
[quote]This should have been discovered long ago. Why did it take this much time?[/quote]
Lots of other sources of energy are cheaper and more accessible. Still, ocean waves pack a tremendous amount of power and they run all day and all night.
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re: Are boat launches some of the most comical places on earth?
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 10:34 pm
[img]https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20200225/1582654393_4dt1rllzc9.gif[/img]
[img]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FnOmVRL9Henw%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=5fb4dbd7c88bea829edd0ba89e480e46df4c304f57b52a2e1fb92cb597205ba6&ipo=images[/img]
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re: Teacher Appreciation Week is Here
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 10:25 pm
Hats off to the Amish elementary school teachers who's students are among the top performers in the state of PA. They are only junior high and high school girls, but they do a great job well beyond our educrats. ...
re: NYC announces $2.3B grant for airport that explicitly outlaws white male businesses
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 10:23 pm
[quote]the white male is the most discriminated against in modern america[/quote]
Yet the most productive in history....
re: Man straggles wife in hospital, because he couldn't afford her medical bills
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 10:21 pm
He's going to get free room and board for a long time now....
re: Wave energy generators
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 10:20 pm
Another one.
[link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3EL8kJshG8)]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3EL8kJshG8[/link]...
re: Wave energy generators
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 10:14 pm
[link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ12RnZSUE8)]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ12RnZSUE8[/link]...
re: Robby Ashford
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 10:02 pm
Ashford had some wheels!...
re: Football Recruiting Thread: 4* LB Tyler Lockhart commits!
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 9:56 pm
[quote]In any case, we have not seen OL recruiting like this in years, yeeaarrs. Nice job.[/quote]
Amen to that. Look what Bo Nix did when he had a line that wasn't a turnstile. ...
re: Fanni refuses to answer Public Records Lawsuit.. default summary asked for
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 9:31 pm
Judicial Watch has made this kind of suit a specialty to the level of a high art....
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 9:30 pm
[quote]Russian President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term as Russian President on May 7 and stressed Russia's need for unchallenged autocratic rule while indirectly calling for victory in Ukraine.[/quote]
I suspect that Putin's end will be due to many Russian oligarchs finding his policy of wa...
re: Wave energy generators
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 9:23 pm
I like the buoy ideas because we've had buoys in the oceans for generations that are robust enough to survive storms.
[link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwW6lGn-Tk4&t=245s)]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwW6lGn-Tk4&t=245s[/link]
[link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvJ6EzPjfR0)]https...
re: Wave energy generators
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 9:04 pm
Perhaps, a cheap way to make a buoy would be with Styrofoam, fiberglass and cement with brass pumps sending water up to an old oil rig reservoir. Little or no electronics needed except for a turbine on the oil rig.
The cost of too many of these designs look way too expensive....
re: Wave energy generators
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 8:56 pm
About 70% of Earth is ocean. Waves tend to run 24/7.
There are a lot of experiments on converting wave power to electric power going on. Kind of fun stuff, but I haven't seen anything yet that looks like it would be profitable.
These things are 20 yards tall!
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re: Canada looking at pursuing retroactive "hate speech" prosecutions
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 8:47 pm
Fidel Trudeau really looks like his father....
re: NYC announces $2.3B grant for airport that explicitly outlaws white male businesses
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 8:41 pm
Racist and kleptocratic at the same time....
Wave energy generators
Posted by Auburn1968 on 5/7/24 at 8:39 pm
Water is about 800 times as powerful as wind for energy. Of course, the ocean and salt water is an extremely challenging environment.
[link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qu2OIw4-p8)]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qu2OIw4-p8[/link]...
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