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Quote from: Stellar on January 27, 2020, 09:52:23 PM
If you are a numb nuts for brains than this supersedes your symmetry and you might hit a wall!  This is a tell all physicists ponder the Universe.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1BNcSBApOU

Back when MTV actually played............music videos!    Oy Vey!


peace
Hog

Quote from: albrecht on January 30, 2020, 11:10:36 PM

I assume you aren't mentioned car's cooling system or tranny temp but outside air. Roughly 114F. Ouch! That is hot. Hopefully, as they say in Phoenix, "it is a dry heat." On the good side you can cook stuff on sidewalks, don't need to heat your pool, if dry can use swampcooler n save on A/C bills, or invest in ice and cold beer sales.

Albrecht, your "tranny" friend has a fever. All humans should run at 98.6ºF. Cool him/her off STAT! j/k

Trans fluid usually runs between 170º-225º Engine coolant temperatures of 220ºF are common. 114ºF isn't yet up to normal operating temperature for either fluid.

114ºF for an ambient air temperature, is brutal.    There is something to be said for the "dry heat" saying however.  Up here, we get 40ºC + but with high humidity that doesn't allow your sweat to evaporate.
Phoenix has a record high of 122ºF/50ºC with 31.6% average humidity during the same month.
London Canada has a record 106ºF/41.1ºC with average humidity of 59.1% for the same month.

Humidity doesn't affect things like hot car interiors that will burn you.  Places like Arizona will always higher straight temperatures. Humidity affects any living organism that relies on evaporative cooling. sweating/panting.

Hogs don't sweat, so they must be protected from heat in the Summer.  I remember misting down the sows with water when it got really hot out. 

peace
Hog

Quote from: timpate on October 22, 2017, 07:57:54 PM
Shame Shame Mr.V. We need to do a fucking show soon. Let me know if you are up for one?

Hey Tim.
In the off chance that you see this, I found the episodes that you and MV did quite entertaining.
Sept 20, 2010
https://www.ufoship.com/?p=458

Nov 10, 2011
https://www.ufoship.com/?p=644


It'd be great to hear about what you have been up to.  You have an interesting life story and yourself and MV/Lee interacted well together.  It'd be cool to hear some of your older stuff as well.


BTW  there's a Gabcast Saturday Feb 1st at midnight Easter 9pm Pacific.

Stream and Chatroom here.
https://www.bellgab.com/index.php?action=shoutbox;popup


Call in.  573-837-4948    Take care dude!

peace
Hog

That was cool.   the "quiet" one.

peace
Hog

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 30, 2020, 07:28:18 PM
Can't bother with Harvard Boy at this time.  Now we got inbound Wuhan Death raids:
https://twitter.com/wildgooseLIVE/status/1223032620482732034

Plus dudes trying to plug epidemiological models into a spreadsheet.



I've never followed one of these kind of things closely before.  Jesus.  Is it always like this?

Time to call up the Reserves?

peace
Hog

Quote from: DynamoHum on January 31, 2020, 06:56:14 AM
Taxes still unpaid, a new kitten to provide for, Pahrumpatawny Heather will see if she casts a shadow next week and then do a 6 week stint to pay her taxes plus a bit more then go back into her dark hole of comfortable dank sadness. I do think the law of diminishing returns will start to figure in this latest grift.

Emphasis mine.

Clever girl, very clever.

Quote from: ItsOver on January 22, 2020, 07:38:31 AM
Interesting.  Thats means she'll be planning for it in March.  April, if she gets really ambitious.

Say "February," Jorch.

Date Registered:June 02, 2012, 12:54:07 AM
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Johnny?  It's been 8 years and your first post back is filled with this tripe?

"Who are you losers........................try a better site like intoinfinity!"

peace
Hog

Quote from: Stellar on January 30, 2020, 01:02:39 AM
I'll will Co-Host this Saturday Night February 1, 2020 9pm Pacific Standard.  Get your Questions ready Peeps for the Gabcast.

https://www.bellgab.com/index.php?topic=12903.msg1374436#msg1374436

Hi Stellar, pleasure to make your acquaintance.

On your Bellgab.com user profile the following is present:
"Personal Text:Please interview me BellGab"

Well, Sir/Ma'am, you are co-hosting the Gabcast tom. night.  What exactly do you wish to be asked about?

Gabcast Feb 1st/2020, the first Gabcast of this decade! 
midnight-east, 11pm-central, 10pm mountain, 9pm Pacific, 8pm Alaska and 7pm Hawaii
*************************************************************************

It's going to be a late one.  I just picked up a gram of "Shatter" made with "Premium mixed bud" "1 gram" for $20.


Apparently it's approx. 80% THC, or about 4 times the THC percentage of the highest THC percentage premium bud. I'm going to try it out tomorrow

"Liberace has fired up the stream, the start of the Gabcast is imminent."
"T minus 20 seconds and counting."
"Lee's microphone processor is coming on-line. Power supply is nominal."
"The limes have been sliced, and their taste has been approved."***
"T-minus 10 seconds until cast."
"The stream is stable, mix-minus is enabled."
"3-2-1 and GABCAST, yes we have a Gabcast."
"The UFOShip has cleared the tower on its way to an international crowd of Gabcast listeners."
"Sit down shut up, you are about to leave Earth and all you know and enter the world of The Gabcast, a show about the site Bellgab.com and whatever our fearless head Castronaut "Liberace" deems is appropriate to talk about.

The United States has recognized the dangers lurking in the nothingness that surrounds Earth. Instead of relying solely on Bellgab for protection, the US military has just opened up a new branch of the US Air Force called the US Space Force.  Bellgab.com and The Gabcast will be leveraging the power of its cadre of "castronauts" and will continue on in their mission without hesitation.

Tune in to Saturday nights show for more details. There may be discussion about how YOU can help the cause and become a member of the Castronaut Corps.  Until then...

peace
Hog

*** Just a short note about some of the staff by one of the 2 small children which are the official lime tasters Lee keeps on staff." (this is a very demanding job, during an episode of "The Gabcast" one of the official lime tasters did her duty and tasted a freshly sliced lime, seconds later she was forced to "go to ground." Due to her sacrifice, which allowed Lee to consume his "Jose Cuervo Tradicional Tequila Plata" which enabled him to squeeze out a record Gabcast sortie of 5 hours 11 minutes. Young Ms. Vanderhooven, thank you for your service."

These are the uniforms that we got sent to Afghanistan in.(attachment at bottom) Really hides you well in, regions that are arid(NOT!).

They were still working on the CADPAT-ARID REGIONS type of camo during during initial deployment.


These are what we eventually were issued.  The green is CAnadian Disruptive PaTtern(CADPAT).  In addition to the camouflaging aspects of light within the visual range, there was an IR UV blocking component as well.
Temperate Woodland on the left  CADPAT-Arid Regions on right


I was manning a vehicle mounted TOW(Tube launched Optically tracked Wire guided) missile.  Basically an anti-armour missile that requires the shooter to stay behind the launcher and actually "steer" the missile into the target using a 2 handed "controller"(in the following pic, the guys hands are on the "controller/triggers".




Anyway, we did a comparison between the old standard olive drab uniforms and the new CADPAT_Arid Regions uniforms, and let's just say, that while having IR reduction may appear great when the powers at be are selecting equipment, at the operational level it's just a uniform.  On an Infra-Red scope, you still stick out like a sore thumb.  My first experience with any sort of military level IR imaging, it was totally dark out, no Moon, approx. 1 km away, there was a guy that had gotten out of his bed and was walking around in his boxers to take a pee.  He decided to pee next to a tree.  When he stepped away, I could see the "warmth" he left on the tree and a big patch of "heat" on the ground.

Paladin: Too long, were you able to read it? I included pics for you.

peace
Hog

Quote from: albrecht on January 30, 2020, 03:48:01 PM
https://nypost.com/2020/01/30/homero-gomez-gonzalez-prominent-butterfly-activist-in-mexico-found-dead-in-a-well/

That's bullshit.  I really hope that the guy had a coronary and simply fell into the well via gravity alone.(rather than a homicidal push)

Greed, it seems to kill everything that is good.

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Hog

Our Provincial minimum wage went up to CAN$14.00/hr from a previous CAN$11.60.  When I started working, min wage was $4.80.

I splurged a few weeks ago and visited the local "Raunchy Rons" for a double Big Mac and a large fry, just the 2 items.  The total was CAN$13.40.

peace
Hog

Orbiter Vehicle OV-099 Challenger lifted off for the Space Transportation System(STS) mission 51L, STS-51L, the 2nd shuttle mission of 1986, STS-61-C Columbia had launched on Jan 12/1986 from Launch Complex 39A(LC39-A) and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The night before the Jan 28/1986 launch, Challenger sitting out at Launch Complex 39-B(the first launch from the "B" launch pad, all previous shuttle launches were from LC39-"A") had been exposed to temperatures as low as 18ºF.  The launch time was delayed from early morning to 11:38am eastern to allow temps. to increase in the morning sun. At 11:38am eastern the local ambient air temps. were 36ºF, it was estimated that the area surrounding the Solid Rocker Booster(SRB) aft field joints, which contain the 2 o-rings, was approx. 28ºF at launch.

The previous coldest temperature at launch was 54 °F (12 °C).

Following this failure, the SRB joints were reworked and the field joints all received heaters that were run the whole night before launch and turned off approx 4 minutes before shuttle launches.  In addition to the SRB joint heaters, each SRB joint received an extra O-ring. 2 on one side of the joint, 1 on the other.

Here's Boisjoly showing us the old 2 O-ring joint


and here's the new 3 joint SRB field joint.  They are using the same 3 O-ring joint n the new longer 5 segment SRB as the booster for the new Space LAunch System rocket and Orion space vehicle.



"We will never forget them, not the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God," President Ronald Reagan

34 years ago today, the Challenger crew Michael Smith(Commander), Dick Scobee(Pilot), Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe attempted to "slip the surly bonds of earth,"  but it was not to be.

"To the stars, through hardships" RIP
Hog

Quote from: Hog on January 27, 2020, 11:59:04 AM
Did someone mention having a line on some "snuff" films?

#Asking for a friend

peace
Hog

PS  I'm LaserDisc friendly.

peace
Hog

Did someone mention having a line on some "snuff" films?

#Asking for a friend

peace
Hog

Quote from: ItsOver on January 26, 2020, 12:07:59 PM
I'd shy away from any redshirt versions.

The last words of the 5th person of all the "away teams" that teleport from Enterprise to a planets surface.

"look Captain, over here! AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

peace
Hog

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 26, 2020, 09:50:15 PM
Mongolia shuts the border down:

C'mon people!  You all can bicker back and forth about whether or not you should "joke" about epidemic/pandemics, but you'll never get me to believe that a group of 20 bikers who plant their motorcycles kickstands in a green field, and not-a-one of them falls over.  Having a bike fall over when you are the only guy around is NO joking matter.  Someone is about to get their ass kicked. It's either YOU or the guy wearing the black leather jacket with the word "PROBATIONARY" on its back.
The last thing that "Chains"(the leader of "The Brotherhood") told the probate was to go outside and watch the bikes. The good PROBATE goes outside and watches the bikes and being the highly trained "bad ass" that he is, falls asleep against a wall of bar.  He is awoken by the sound of a Harley Davidson coming  to a rest after falling to the ground.

What occurs next?
a) non-biker gets his ass kicked by bikers
b) biker picks up and examines the bike, no damage, non-biker is told to "beat it" which he does expeditiously.
c) biker examines bike, no damage, tells non-biker to "beat it", non-biker is seen speeding away, biker gets his ass kicked by other bikers for not "protecting the bikes"
d) biker kills non-biker, biker advances from "PROBATE" to "FULL PATCH MEMBER", the biker is "beaten in" by other bikers..
e) biker tells non-biker to beat it, but first, the biker gets the non-bikers wallet and takes a picture of the non-bikers license and says "You MIGHT you know who we are, but we KNOW who you are, you understand?"
f)  BELLGAB.com, obviously.

See you in Valhalla, Brother!


GFBD  (God Forgives the Brotherhood Doesn't)
Hog

There are people that get high on the mix of drugs Art was prescribed.  It's kinda sorta like mixing codeine cough syrup with Thorazine(promethazine) and then drinking it.  They call it "Lean" "Purple Drank".

Wiki
"Combining a muscle relaxant like carisoprodol with opioids and benzodiazepines is referred to as "The Holy Trinity" as it has been reported to increase the power of the "high".

Arts prescriptions
opioids- hydrocodone and oxycodone(Vicodin)(Percocet/OxyContin)
benzodiazepines- diazepam(Valium-long half-life)
muscle relaxant-carisoprodol (Soma)

In a 72 year old man.  He would have been on very similar meds for many decades, perhaps even stronger meds at various points of his life.  Point being, Art was not new to these types of medications. 
He was hospitalized mid 2016 for one week for pneumonia. Medication reviews are mandatory as part of an admission.  If some quack doctor had Art on some weird drug cocktail, it would have come to light at that point. Issues with liver function would have also been addressed. He died 20 months later.

Art does mention being on morphine during his stay in the following post
Reply #98088 on: August 15, 2016, 05:02:00 PM »

Quote from: Art Bell on August 15, 2016, 03:02:00 PM
Hello everybody, just a quick update on me. I have had a rough patch. I spent five days at the Hospital in Las Vegas with a really bad case of pneumonia which left me so damn weak I could not put on my own socks, Dr said it was a close call and I agree. It has now been a Month since my last meds and I have been trying to excersise every day to get stronger, it seems to be working, I am slowly getting stronger. I have had pneumonia before but nothing like this, it hit fast and really hard.

I remember the Dr asked what Insurance I had and I replied crappy Gov't Insurance to which he said ok, I will try and find a crappy Surgeon who will accept your crappy Insurance! Other then that it is amazing how much I don't remember about that Week, could be do to the Morpine. My Wife spent every minute with me with no break, she is the best Woman any Man could ever hope for as a Wife.

I still miss being able to do a show and will do some when I can, I guess that passion will never leave me till I make the final transition. Anyway that's about it for now.

Art

COPD symptoms are horrible, feels like you are drowning.  Art died in his sleep, in the same manner in which I hope all of us can go.

https://youtu.be/ehh89UrZtZU

peace
Hog

Hey Lee,

Have you talked to your old buddy Tim Pate lately?  I was just curious how he was doing.


Speaking of "Pates"  I once contacted Bellgab.com s own Pate, via Bellgab.com s PM system, thinking that he was "Tim Pate".  He was NOT "Tim Pate" but simply "Pate".

The episodes of Radio Trainwreck with Tim Pate were quite good,
Sept 20, 2010
https://www.ufoship.com/?p=458

Nov 10, 2011
https://www.ufoship.com/?p=644



as was the October 30, 2016 Gabcast with your childhood friend, Matthew who works in the death industry.
https://www.ufoship.com/?p=2769



plus Art Bell, his son, Rollye James, George Noory aka Bellgab's "johnny". MV has done some EXCELLENT work.  Lee, next time you see him, be sure thank him for his efforts.  I value his efforts.

The Evelyn cry episode of the "Radio Trainwreck" from March 20, 2017
https://www.ufoship.com/?p=2807

Evelyn's pronunciation of the word "man" and Lee's of the word "woman" is amusing.  Polarized is one word, another might be "immovable opposite opinion."
The episode was highly entertaining as a listener, though I'm sure it was grating/draining to the hosts.



peace
Hog

Quote from: AZZERAE on January 22, 2020, 10:47:19 AM
Serious question.

Obviously because the British Pound Sterling does high weight low rep training whereas the American Dollar shows up at the gym, but does nothing but talk and take creeper pics of people asses.

peace
Hog

Have I told my SARS stories?

Back in 2003 I was in Toronto attending podiatry school when SARS hit.  I was having some bouts of PSVT(Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia) medical speak for 1)unknown cause 2)area of the heart ABOVE the ventricles 3)fast beating heart(approx 230 bpm).  I would awake in the AM with my ticker was flailing about in my chest, it was alarming.  I would get dressed take the elevator down to ground, and walk across the street to one of 8 hospitals located in downtown Toronto, the Emergency Department was literally less than 200 feet from my front door. 
I'd present with my healthcard(the key to all that free healthcare) and the triage nurse slipped on the pulse oximetry to one of my fingers and it showed good O2 saturation of (97% is good esp. for a smoker-non smokers are usually 99-100% as they don't have the carbon monoxide from partial combustion of cigs competing for those binding sites of my hemoglobin. Carbon Monoxide or CO has a higher affinity for hemoglobin than oxygen or O2 does.
The nurse says OK take a seat so I stand up and turn and begin to walk to the waiting room when I hear Mr S-alphabet-hog could you please follow me.  I was in a trauma room within minutes of walking into Emerge.  IV's started a few round of Adenosine, a drug that is given in 6 or 12 milligram doses via IV rapid push.  There's a nurse with the adenosine syring screwed into an IV port, another nurse with the IV bag in her hands and another nurse with a big assed what looked like a large 60 milliliter feeding syringe loaded with saline(literal size of a turkey baster).  Adenosine has a half life of 6 seconds, so if they inject 100 milligrams of this drug into you, in 6 seconds 1/2 of that 100mg or 50mg has been metabolized, in another 6 seconds there would 25mg left and then 12.5mg ad infinitum.  Because of that quick half life, they have to get the drug to the necessary receptors BEFORE it is metabolized.  On teh count of three, the nurse squeeze the IV bag of saline, begin injecting that horseload of saline WHILE nurse 3 is injecting the drug. Seconds later a "crushing" feeling occurred in my chest and the nurse were coaching me along "You're doing fine, it's OK, keep breathing."  Then all was fine again.  My heart is still racing away at around 230 bpm.  Doctor says, ok reset for a max dose of 12 mg adenosine.  The whole idea of adenosine is to momentarily stop the contractions of the heart, then when teh adenosine quickly wears off, the normal autorhythmicity of the heart would take over and resume its beating, hopefully back at Normal Sinus Rhythm or a normal heart beat/rate.
So we went for the 12 mg shot and it worked, as I heard the bu beep, bu beap, bu beep: which is an artificial, representation of your heart beat that is emitted via speakers from the telemetry equipment so that everyone in teh room can hear what your heart is doing, well that sound stopped and the  crushing sensation was magnified,  then after a few seconds instead of getting multiple "bu-beeps" per second, the sound returned to a much slower "bu-beep" "bu-beep" and the screen said Normal Sinus Rhythm. I was fixed, at least for the time being.

In one college semester I was in the Emergency Department 13 times, each time for 3-4 hours.  I always had Gross Anatomy and Physiology from 8-11:30 most mornings of the week.   Not an ideal situation for a student.

There are electrical "pathways" in the human heart, these wires that line the inside surface of your heart conduct electric impulses are different rates of speed, well I was born with a few extra wires(congenital abnormality).  So they had to book me into their Catheter Laboratory for surgery.  This is where they injected my groin with local anesthetic, the using a scalpel they cut around a blood vessel for access, then they feed these 4-5 wires from the groin up into the heart.  This was all viewable by me via a screen hooked up to a fluoroscopic scanner. I could see the wires as they advanced through the blood vessels through my abdomen, ahead of the advancing wires, I could see the bifurcations where one vessel woudl split into two vessels, well whenever the surgeon would push the wires up into these bifurcations, most times the wires just dont slip through, he had to push and it would hit these y's and wouldn't advance any further, well I could feel that small collision between the wires and my blood vessels.  He would then pull back slightly, twist the wires and then advance them.  Eventually I could see these wires in different areas of my heart all moving around with the movements of my heart.
Surgeon said, "OK, now we're going to do start the Electro Physiological Study(EPS) so that we can identify the extra pathways so that we know exactly which ones to burn away.
Then he placed his hand on a dial and turned it.  My heart rate went from idle(about 70bpm) up to 180bpm in half a second. Then everyone left the room and my heart was sped up and slowed down for the next few minutes.
Surgeon came back and said that he was going to start the actual ablation procedure now. He adjusted one of the wires in my heart and warned me that this might be painful.  I heard a click under the table, it was the surgeon hitting his foot pedal to turn on the microwaves that were burning away my extra heart wires.
As soon as I heard the click from the foot pedal, I felt something in my heart as he held the pedal down the sensation went from discomfort to pain, then I heard the release click from the foot pedal and the pain decreased right away.  I really wanted to rub my chest or something, but I wasnt allowed to move.  The whole point of this is to use Radio Frequency or RF energy to create scar tissue on these extra heart conductive pathways as scar tissue doesnt conduct nerve signals.

I was monitored for bleeding for a couple hours, then I was released to go home.  Well it ended up that I needed this procedure done again, he was conservative, just a tad too conservative. No problem, I'm scheduled and a few months later I have the exact same procedure at the exact same hospital.

This time though, SARS was well established and had killed people in Canada.  My Mom spent the night at a downtown Toronto hotel. Because of SARS and because her stay was related to a medical stay, she ended up getting a $300 hotel room for $80 IIRC.  People were afraid to stay in Toronto and the night I spent in hospital before my 2nd surgery was teh same night that the Rolling Stones were headlining a concert just outside Toronto to raise money for Toronto.  The concert was called Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto, but everyone called in SARS stock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Canadian_Rocks_for_Toronto


While I was staying in the exact same wing of the same hospital, things were much different.  ALL staff were wearing their Personal Protective Equipement(PPE) masks gloves etc.  And at the far end of the hallway, there was a room that had its outter and inner doors sealed in a fashion that made them akin to an airlock.  There was duct tape and transparent plastic sheeting all around this one room. Staff entering and exitting this room were in full PPE gloves, masks, eyewear, hoods, suppied airpacks, they literally looked like hazmat suits because that's exactly what they were.  Obviously a SARS patient or suspected SARS patient in that room.

I had a huge private room, with free TV/cable, private rooms and TV are usually extra cost, but they were NOT in this case.  I had a beautiful view of the Provincial Parliament buildings.
In the morning I went down for my procedure.  I'm wheeled into the Cath Lab once again, after being transferred from the gurney to the operating table. A nurse takes my gown and pulls it up exposing Hog's hog to the world.  She then began to slop this cold liquid onto my groin area using a set of forceps with a big piece of gauze in their jaws. She dipped the gauze into a kidney basin filled with this pinkish disinfectant. She slathered this pink sauce in a big circle on my body, about a foot and a half radius, using my penor as the center of this bullseye.  Yes, the sauce was cold, but this cold discomfort was replaced by an intense BURNING of my scrotum.  It's difficult to describe the pain using words. Just imagine shaving your scrotum, then tea-bagging your family jewels into a saucer of rubbing alcohol.
I said "Wow, that's a different experience than a couple months ago."  The nurse comments, "Yes, ever since SARS, all of our cleaning, sterilization and infection control protocols have changed. You have just experienced our new surgical prep protocol.  It's a little more aggressive."

After being released, I was told to report to my local Health Unit, which I did.  The nurses their told me to take my temperature every hour and to call them back if my temperature had risen at all.  Apparently fever is one of the signs of SARS, in fact, there was some sort of thermal technology used in airports to screen people en masses as they depart planes.  I think they are thermal cameras and anyone that "appears" to be hot and flushed are pulled aside for investigation.

In Canada we had 251 infections, 44 deaths with an 18% fatality rate.
In China there were 5,328 infections, 349 deaths   with 19 infected people dying due to causes other than SARS    SARS in China had a death rate of 6.6%.

Because of some nurses being killed, the College of Nurses of Ontario instituted the Mask Fit Testing protocol.  Every nursing student, as part of their clinical training, is required to have themselves fitted for a specific surgical mask.  Once your mask size is known, your workplace, at no cost to you, must have available an N95 mask in your specific size.  The N95 mask is specifically designed to trap certain micro-organisms instead of simple dust/dirt etc. 
These idiots running around with sawdust masks on their faces should really substitute, those masks for cellophane as it's much more effective in preventing death by coronavirus. Virae are dependent on their host being alive.

So when I went back to nursing school in 2010, I was required to have the mask fit testing done.  If it wasn't done, I couldn't take part in the Clinical portion of nursing school, therefore I couldn't be a nurse.  I think that almost all healthcare professionals in Ontario are required to have Mask Fit Testing done.

Mask Fit Testing-this is exactly what Mask Fit Testing entails.

https://youtu.be/xl4qX6qEYXU?t=5


"In late 2017, Chinese scientists traced the virus through the intermediary of civets to cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in Yunnan province."

Lee, I realize that you said that you were a bigger guy, but jeez, looks like you are slipping into a diabetic coma in that pic.  Slow down on the "soda" my friend.

peace
Hog

Dates of members last visits at Bellgab.com

Heather Wade-March 29/2016
B-Dubb-Today
Onan- November 15/2016
Eddie Dean-April 15/2018
Jazmunda-April 15/2016

Coincidence? I think not.

peace
Hog

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 16, 2020, 07:34:20 PM
Jesus Hog - cool yes but the little old ladies on the Quantas bound for  Adelaide might get a tad worked up with that squirting out of an Airbus.

I'd bet they would(laugh).  Just imagine the flames you could get from the Airbus.  No afterburners/reheat/augmentation to get the fuel lit though.

And what's with the crying kids? Childrens reactions are 95% guided by the adults reaction is situations.  If the adults get all worked up, guess what?  the kids will get agitated as well.

Run the kids under a shower and remove them to fresh air, they'll be fine.

I remember bending over and holding my head over a paint tray as my Mother poured gasoline from a Jerry can over my head while my grandfather "agitated" my hair with his hands.  Mom was in a good mood that day and she didnt even threaten to "Flick her Bic."
Anyhoo the paint was removed from my hair and some 35 years later, ABSOLUTELY ZERO side effects have been noted.  Well other than my Bellgab addiction.

peace
Hog

The Aussie's light the fuel as they dump it overboard.  Less toxic lol.  Cool looking demo.


https://youtu.be/IGAT_j8hP2M?t=654

peace
Hog

17 years ago today STS-107 Columbia launched on her 39º orbital inclination.  A piece of foam liberated from the External Tank and hit the wing leading edge with a closing speed of  approx. 525mph.  Imagery showed a "poof" as the wing hit the foam.  Everyone imagined throwing a Styrofoam cooler out of a car and having it disintegrate on the car behind it. The Reinforced Carbon-Carbon(RCC) that withstood the hottest of entry temps was thought to be VERY resistant to actual physical contacts, when in fact it was a far physically weaker material.

Later testing with actual flight RCC and foam targets fired at the specified velocities actually punched a hole through the "supposedly armour like" RCC panels.  RCC is a highly specialized component costing many millions of dollars.  It's only used on the leading edges of the wings and on the nose cap of the orbiter vehicle.

The vehicle/crew was doomed the moment this damage occurred.  It's easy to look back with the aid of hindsight, but damn an Atlantis Columbia  rescue mission would have made the Apollo 13 rescue look like childs play.  It would have been a gleaming  success for NASA and the United States as a whole.  Someone was too worried about "the next mission" rather than concentrating the one that has possibly been damaged that's on orbit at THIS moment.  There were people attempting to use classified imagery assets to attempt an imagery opportunity of Columbia's wing, but as soon as Linda Hamm(STS-107 Mission Management Team MMT-Head) heard of this, she put an end to all further requests for outside agency help for imagery of Columbia whilst on orbit. Columbia fired her Orbital Maneuvering Engines to come home on Feb 1, 2003 and during entry heating, 3000º+ gasses entered the inside of Columbias wing and began to consume from within. Control was lost and vehicle breakup occurred shortly after.  Blunt force trauma was the primary cause of death.

This video shows the incident AND the subsequent testing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgQ3ekcvyRA

Notice that the ISS orbits on a different orbit at 51.6º while Columbia was at 39º .  Using the ISS as a "lifeboat" was impossible.

I was living in downtown Toronto going to school at the time.  I remember seeing the bright streaks across the TV screen.

Condolences to the USA, India and Israel. 
Rear (L-R): David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, Ilan Ramon(Israel);
Front (L-R): Rick Husband(Commander), Kalpana Chawla(USA/india), William McCool(Pilot)

Per aspera ad astra
Hog

Quote from: Liberace! on August 02, 2015, 04:41:07 PM
I haven't emailed Keith because I don't want to pile on. I'm sure he's getting a lot of complaints about it.

As far as hosting the GabCast...
As the producer of Art's show, I don't think you should host any longer. A special appearance from time to time is good, but it wouldn't allow us to have objective, frank, and natural conversations if the producer of Art's show is right there hosting with us. Your approach to participating in the show would inevitably be changed, too. Wouldn't be good for the show, as there would be awkward moments where we don't talk about this or that or where you simply can't participate in the conversation at all.

All of that said, I'm glad you were on the show and happy for the opportunities it opened up for you. Hopefully there are no hard feelings over this, but I think you'd agree with my thoughts on the matter.

"Chink!" 

I'm literally squealing as I read this.  To have heard Lee describe this exact message on a Gabcast, and now to read the "hardcopy" is some pretty cool shit for this Bellgab fan. 

Heather was now "acast" from the "Gabcast". oink....oink...oink.

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Hog

2019 2nd hottest year since  temps recorded.


https://youtu.be/10H2ILuXjO8

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We also learn a new word "longitivity" while Falkie2013 explains why he told his "providers" to donate no less than $5 as any less gets taken up by fees.

2:43
"And frankly after 9 years, going in, this is 9 years now I've been doing this other people get superchat,  other people get giftcards, other people get kiddie gifts, I get very little of that, and I think I should. I'm NOT asking for it so don't complain "I'm asking for donations "(in crybaby voice)
I'm saying I think I think I, for the longetivity and for spending a huge amount of money every month to feed as many as 9 feral cats, not counting my 3."

Whew thanks for setting us straight Falkie, otherwise I would have mistaken you for "asking for donations".

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Hog

Quote from: Taaroa on January 12, 2020, 06:06:04 AM
Seems it's been sent by the big brewery in Melbourne (but it reads like they still charged for it) that makes Fosters and other big brands like VB:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/victoria-bushfires-australian-navy-comes-to-the-rescue-of-the-pub-with-almost-no-beer

Not a great selection, but VB is an icon. Before you ask - Fosters isn't drunk often in Australia, and that's likely why it wasn't included.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA1h9h7-_Z4

The last Foster lager I had was from a keg (7-1/2 cases equivalent to 173 341mL, bottles to the case). In my circle of friends, whenever someone would get a new job that was a step up for that person, from the first paycheque MUST be bought a large sized keg for "the group."  Back then a keg could be had for $160-$180. A full keg weighs 160 pounds, when empty just 30.1 pounds. 130 pounds of beer.
For that keg we even rented the tap and carbon dioxide pressurant system.  We set it up in a huge vat of ice water and let it sit for a day.  It gave beautiful pours without a huge amount of foam like usual.

The Fosters Lager marketing up here had the tag line "FOSTER's.......Australian for beer."

I'm all for keeping "the troops happy" with a few cold ones after a very long day.  It's things like that help to keep morale high.

Over the weekend 3,000 Australian military reservists join the front lines of the battle after being activated. This will be in addition to the 2000 regular troops already deployed.

Did you hear what I said?  Australia has called up the reserves.

Five Eyes.
Hog

Quote from: albrecht on January 12, 2020, 12:34:21 PM
During our latest hurricane/flood the big, global conglomerate sent out cans of water. Digging out muck, tearing out walls, rehabing the first floor and I'm greeted with canned WATER. Like Budlight isn't close enough to water for them to just send over pallets of that? It probably cost them $ to make water on the production line than just send over some more appreciated water-like beverage. Best to all in Australia....I blame environmentalists, immigrants, and the Chinese for the fires btw, but regardless of cause, horrible.

LOL about the Budlight being close enough to water, agree, agree!

For the big 2016 Fort McMurray fires here in Canada IIRC it was Labatt's that sent canned water for aid relief.

Ah yes, found some pics  "Instead of beer, Labatt Breweries is shipping 200,000 cans of water to assist those affected by a wildfire that continues to burn out of control in northern Alberta.
The company said it has an additional 130,000 cans of water ready to ship later this week, if needed."




What's a labeling redesign worth?

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Hog

Just a cool pic of a low flying YF-12A.  The version of the A-12 that carried 3 AIM-47 missiles.  3 were built, but the program was cancelled and McNamara in an effort to ensure the program wouldnt come back, ordered the tooling destroyed as well.
Notice the nose without chines so the AN/ASG-18 Fire Control System could work.  As a consequence of deleting the chines on teh nose Lockheed felt that to maintain directional stability, that a ventral fin be fitted under each engine nacelle and a 3rd much larger ventral fin that folded down once the landing gear was raised.

Apparently the YF-12a at 75,000 feet hit a drone at 500 feet with an AIM-47 Falcon missile.  The missile just didnt come close enough for a proximity kill, the Falcon actually scored a kinetic hit on the drone aircraft.  Look down, shoot down was still in its infancy in these days.
Some of this stuff, like the AWG-9, went on to be used in the F-14 Tomcat after its short usage in the F-111B.



and here folded


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Quote from: Stupid Robbings on January 10, 2020, 07:12:36 PM
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/01/10/australian-navy-delivers-800-gallons-of-emergency-beer-to-bushfire-hit-town/

It's Navy beer though.  All the saltpeter that they load into Navy beer, no thanks.  They are probably using that swill as fire retardant.

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