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Quote from: AZZERAE on December 10, 2020, 01:52:06 AM
Any firsthand experience, seeing a loved one battle through it?

First hand experience. A medication error during off-label usage of a certain medication had me doubled over in a seat with the unending drive/sensation to move my legs.  If I sat in the passenger seat of my buddies car and pretended that my feet were glued to the floorboards, I could go no longer than 10 seconds before I had to move my legs.
Many medications can cause TD, even at proper therapeutic doses, of which in my case, I was on supratherapeutic dose levels, ie overdose levels.  Thank goodness it was only short term, many times it is a permanent problem.

There is Tardive Dyskinesia, Tardive Dystonia, Tardive Akathisia, Tardive Tourettism and Tardive Myoclonus.  All are very similar, yet unique.
My physician referred to my case as a drug induced TD.  It 100% resolved itself, thankfully.

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The USMC’s first F-35C squadron reaches IOC In a time characterized by rapidly evolving tactics and modernized equipment, the Marine Corps has taken the next step in maintaining air superiority as Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314 declares their Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the F-35C Lightning II. Naval News Staff 04 Dec 2020(last week)

"The F-35C and the F-35B are the future of all TACAIR for the Marine Corps. The U.S. Marine Corps plans to buy 420 F-35s: 353 F-35Bs and 67 F35Cs.  The types will replace the F/A-18, AV-8B, and EA-6B (with the latter already retired). The F-35s “will provide the MAGTF strategic agility, operational flexibility and tactical supremacy”: while the STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) variant provides the ability to operate from austere airfields and amphibious assault ships, the Carrier Variant allows the USMC to integrate its squadrons with the U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wings aboard Navy’s flattops.""

The current unit price of the 3 variants of the Joint Strike Fighter.
F-35A is now $89.2 million and Lockheed predicts this price will fall to $80 million by 2020, full 9 g strike fighter, air interdictor.

F-35B variant is $115.5 million  This variant uses STOVL technologies Short Take Off Vertical Landing.  The F35B CANNOT takeoff vertically with anything over a simple small fuel load, it certain can't vertically land any sort of combat loading. This will be used by the Marines and the Navy.  HC-130J Hercules can land and hot refuel and hot re-arm the F-35Bs.

https://youtu.be/iEbaq1kxjJE

F-35C is $107.7 million F-35C (CV=Carrier Variant to use arresting hook/gear for landing and nosewheel hook to use the catapult for launching from an aircraft carrier.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/12/usmcs-first-f-35c-squadron-reaches-ioc/#:~:text=USMC%E2%80%99s%20first%20F-35C%20squadron%20reaches%20IOC%20In%20a,Lightning%20II.%20Naval%20News%20Staff%2004%20Dec%202020

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This is a real shot.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1336849897987796992


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Quote from: WOTR on December 07, 2020, 02:42:15 AM
Strangely, I had never seen a single episode of 6 feet under. It sounds like it was worth watching? Part of me wonders if there was some hope of continuing the series or character in some form? Why else destroy what was almost supposed to be the ending written from the start of the series?

What did you think of John Lithgow? His stint on third rock was a far cry from this portrayal.

I remember John Lithgow from his portrayal as Ariels Dad from the original Footloose.  He plays the preacher in a smalltown where dancing is forbidden.   Seeing him as a serial killer in dexter that killed via bloodletting in the bathtub was odd at first, but he did well IMO.

6 feet Under is one of my favourite series, it aired from 2001-2005.  It dealt with death, the death business and just how repressed our North AMerican views on death really are.  "We all gotta die, sometime, Red."  I probably watch the series every couple of years or so.

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The first two stages of the Saturn V super heavy-lift rocket had engines in a quincunx arrangement.

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Quote from: AZZERAE on December 09, 2020, 02:43:34 AM
If I keep swallowing these psych meds too long, I have a good chance of winding up like that. "Tardive dyskinesia".

You dont want that, it's horrible.

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A bunch of good stuff involving the AN-124 emergency landing.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4df212c7&opt=0

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That AN-124 that overran the runway was towed back onto the runway.


https://youtu.be/-N9JMEOg7Bk

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The last Viper driver to punch hit the group during a Mode 1 ejection didnt make it.  Seat maintenance was deferred due to parts shortages. 6 of 7 pyros failed to activate.1st Lt David "MEZr" Schmitz was killed June 2020.


Its not like the Viper and its ACES seat are rare items with over 5,000 copies of the seat in service..

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Quote from: Taaroa on November 12, 2020, 11:17:35 AM
https://twitter.com/jamie_aviacom/status/1325729840952127489

Excellent video. That is an excellent visual representation of the very dynamic atmospheric conditions that aircraft must deal with esp.when low and slow.  It's a very important regime where you dont want engines losing power/flaming out.

Ive always been interested in the F-15's intake doors, never seen it before until your vid.  I then did a search and found this over at quora. 

If I'm correct, we don't get to see the post engine fire off. No doubt just using Bleed air from the starboard engine.
A YouTube commentor in reference to the sounds that occur at timestamp 0:46 of the video "I love that sound the JFS makes when the AMAD is coupled!!  Like music to my ears."


Well, AMAD=Airframe Mounted Accessory Drives
Left & Right Airframe Mounted Accessory Drives (AMADs)
Honeywell PN 386706/4-4-1
• AMAD is bolted to each engine and routes power from the CGB
during start to the engine itself
• Each AMAD sustains various hydraulic systems, namely the utility
hydraulic pump, primary control (PC) hydraulic pump and integrated
drive generator (IDG)

and

JFS=Jet Fuel Starter (JFS)
Honeywell (Garrett) PN 384238-7-1, PN 384238-8-1
• The Jet Fuel Starter (JFS) is a scaled down jet engine
(Auxuliary Power Unit)
• The JFS is spun by a hydraulic motor powered by the
two hydraulic accumulators


Video of an F-15C startup, at 0:46 the JFS lights up as the AMADs engage thus causing the hydraulic system to pressurize as the engine spools up.  I wish we got to see the port engine light-up.

https://youtu.be/un0a0DBxX5A

The F-14 had 3 doors that, as the jet accelerated would gradually reduce the intake airflow.  The Navy requirement for the F14 was Mach 2.4.  Apparently during development, with the doors under manual control via test equipment the backseater(RIO) was able to adjust the intake ramps in such a manner that Mach 2.38 was attained in level flight.  Obviously early development/slick aircraft are capable of much better performance than weapon/sensor laden aircraft in operational dress. 


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Quote from: pate on November 16, 2020, 10:02:09 PM
Nice birds those.  I think this is from the same event:


https://youtu.be/0d5Uy4YHNuc

They can do a short landing too.  I recall vividly the first one I witnessed from the ground in the 'stan on a dusty airstrip.  I thought the thing had crashed, the audio does not do the noise of that justice in the video...

-p

Even the older 4 bladed C130s can do a short landing as evidenced by them landing on USS  Forrestal.  In October and November 1963, a USMC KC-130F (BuNo 149798), billed to the US Naval Air Test Center, made 21 unarrested landings and take-offs on the USS Forrestal at a number of different weights

They gradually started off at 80,000 pounds and then worked their way up to 125,000 pound gross weight landings/takeoffs simply by increasing the fuel load.  No arresting wires nor launching catapult were used.  Takeoffs brought all engines to takeoff power then releasing the brakes.  Landing entailed getting the wheels on the deck and then revering thrust via changing the prop pitch.


https://youtu.be/ar-poc38C84

I remember actually feeling a thud in the ground when the Hercs would land. 

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Quote from: malachi.martini on November 03, 2020, 12:17:09 AM


Show died with Doakes.

Dexter had Doakes.

NCIS Los Angeles had Deeks



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Quote from: WOTR on October 31, 2020, 03:46:42 PM
Quite possibly the worse series finale ever conceived. I enjoyed most of the show (early seasons.) Then it just started drifting and possibly there were a few sharks questioning what was overhead on several occasions. And then they mercifully ended it. But not before adding one final, unnecessary scene. When you watch it, think of this post and agree that cutting the finale about 2 minutes short would have been sufficient.

Italicized emphasis mine.

Hey WOTR, excellent "jump the shark" reference.  Jon Hein(The Howard Stern Show) apparently coined the phrase "jump the shark".  It supposedly refers to an episode of the TV show "Happy Days" in which Fonzie jumps over a shark on water skis, which Hein believes was the point at which the series had lost its touch and was beginning to grasp at straws.

About the last few minutes of the Series Finale:  Yes, the Finale should have ended with dex piloting his boat into hurricane Kelly.  The scene that shows him as a logging truck driver ending his shift, going home to a house on the shore somewhere with some extensive facial scarring no doubt caused by wounds incurred during Dexters version of the "Perfect Storm".   IMO it was one of the worst Series finale's.  An example of a "good ending" was the Series Finale of "6 Feet Under".  death does tend to "wrap up" a mini-series very nicely.

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Quote from: ksm32 on October 28, 2020, 01:35:35 PM
The last season was horrible and the closing of the show was even worse.

oh, that sucks.  I'm 3-4 episodes into Season 3.  So we have a crappy final season(8 seasons) capped off by an even worse Series Finale?

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"Give me ping Vasilly, one ping only please."

https://youtu.be/lw5Tv8pTrfY

"Most things in here don't react too well to bullets."

https://youtu.be/W3L5tWudRCs

"The Hunt for Red October" was one of the best "submarine" movies ever.  Only to have a porn movie made in its "honour".  The 1990 porn classic "The Hunt for Pink October" stars: Tom Byron, Sabrina Dawn, Eric Price, Paula Price.

"Two sailors escort a Navy buddy of theirs to jail, but decide to stop off and show him one last good time with a legendary prostitute known as Pink October."

HOLD FAST, Mr Connery, HOLD FAST.

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Quote from: Taaroa on October 24, 2020, 09:38:38 AM

https://youtu.be/YuTbZyBe3CM

Anyone know what they are redacting on both sides of the nose of the C-5?

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Showtime confirmed that Hall would reprise his role of Dexter Morgan in a 10-episode limited series.

Spatter away!

https://deadline.com/2020/10/dexter-showtime-reboot-limited-michael-c-hall-clyde-phillips-1234597514/

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Looks like the first flight of the NASA Space Launch System is going to slip again, looks like we will be looking at a 2022 launch.  Technical issues on the test stand at Stennis.

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Quote from: Liberace! on October 20, 2020, 10:01:23 PM
https://twitter.com/BellGabDotCom/status/1318763401158471681

Is this part of your new job?

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Quote from: AZZERAE on October 20, 2020, 11:02:00 AM
Ha! Talk about a backhanded compliment. I was hard on Pate myself at one time. I wouldn't say it's easy to keep the conversation flowing and speak at the right times. But if you have natural chemistry with the host, its really fun. I think Lee and I have that.

I remember when another Gabcast hosts "thought" they had chemistry with MV.  It was the guy with the chest that could explode at any moment. PKaiser was his name. Check out his last posts.

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Quote from: Liberace! on September 19, 2020, 04:39:19 PM
Tonight's episode of The Spec Sheet is cancelled because Curtis had a pipe explosion in his home.  Several pieces of expensive furniture were washed away.  We will reschedule for some time during the week or next weekend at the latest.

Anybody want to do a GabCast?  You'll have to be on camera, though.

Any update on "Heater's" burst pipe? 

Remember:
"This is a very special edition of "The Spec Sheet". On this broadcast each listener will receive a complimentary pre-owned 10 GB IBM IDE hard drive.  No need to call about the drive, we have your information.   To speak with Curtis call now a 573-837-4948 that's  573-837-4948 and now here's "The Spec Sheet"."

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Quote from: K_Dubb on October 02, 2020, 10:12:41 PM
I believe the proliferation of catapults will go a long way to keeping the peace in our communities.  My neighbor is less likely to complain about blackberry vines growing over the fence from that patch I keep that is really a little too large to pass as a tended garden (though I do enjoy the berries) if he knows I have a small household catapult to answer those jibes he thoughtlessly tosses over the fence at me when I am back there sometimes.  Less lethal than firearms, especially if day-old baked goods are used as missiles.  It is the scalability of the ordnance that makes it extremely flexible, with a snide remark warranting something like a chiffon cake on a low arc to the back slider, while reflections on parentage might only be answerable by your common mail-order fruitcake on a steep trajectory calculated to penetrate the shingles, with a bundt to the belly-band falling somewhere in-between.

For a slogan, I propose "Don't yell; mangonel."

Reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live fake commercial for the "Yard-a-pult".


https://youtu.be/6prPrnXutKY

Poor Tippey.

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Lone Voice was actually being discussed here at the 17:15 mark Somethinbg about LoneVoice having "cracked" Jackstars code.  This was just after Jack had been banned from Bellgab.  Chefist asks if Lone Voice is actually Cassandra Peterson about 45 seconds later.
https://www.ufoship.com/?p=2402

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Here is the first American Extra Vehicular Activity(EVA) as you've never seen it.  16mm film interpolated at 24fps from 6 fps in 4k, here's Gemini-4.


https://youtu.be/yUXyJsbwFtw

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I think it would be interesting to see how many people are "ignoring" other people.  I'm surprised "the ignore function" is even a thing here at Bellgab.com.

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I gotta think that the Commander In Chief of the worlds most powerful military getting a virus that was designed/released from a Chinese Level 4 bio-unit has got to be a major political win for the Chinese biological weapons program.  They now know they can deliver a virus to the President, perhaps next time the virus attached may be even more virulent?  Looks like it took about 10-11 months to reach POTUS.
 
If you take out Trump(POTUS) and Pence(VPOTUS), the new POTUS would be the current Speaker of the House of Representatives, which is held by Nancy Pelosi.
Never before in the history of the United States of America has it ever been more important for the POTUS and VPOTUS to remain isolated from one another. 


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Quote from: Jackstar on October 04, 2020, 12:08:27 PM
I am glad you ignore me.

Jackstar,  your current avatar would be "THE" avatar if one of the shitting gymnasts would have one of their  dumps actually land atop the tank of the toilet.  This would be in true "upper decker" style.

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Quote from: Dr. MD MD on October 04, 2020, 02:28:41 AM
Tis the season.

A LOT of white in that avatar.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on October 04, 2020, 11:08:33 AM
It’s Brando but the movie is The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Awesome.  So that's 1996, Brando would have been 71-72 years of age.  Val Kilmer seemed to be "out of control" during the shooting. Anyone have any Youtube vids on that drama?

Brando's role in "The Island of Dr. Moreau.  "(in which he won a "Worst Supporting Actor" Raspberry)".

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Quote from: Dr. MD MD on October 03, 2020, 06:58:41 AM

Tee hee!

Only at BELLGAB.com!

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Quote from: ItsOver on October 02, 2020, 10:21:05 AM
Whiskey in NYC.  That must not have been cheap.  I assume Chefist wired the money to cover the tab.

Tee-Hee!
If I'm remembering correctly they both made their way up onto the rooftop lounge that they had all to themselves.   Something about the rooftop area not being open, but the waitstaff allowed them to have access for the night.

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