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Pilot Zone / Re: Fly in the car
« on: September 14, 2022, 05:16:10 PM »I was thinking if this happened in 1958.
I remember that scene! Loved that movie, better than the remake.
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I remember that scene! Loved that movie, better than the remake.
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Pilot Zone / Re: Fly in the car
« on: September 14, 2022, 02:43:54 PM »
I object to the phrase “sucked out of the car”.
The fly voluntarily flies through the window.
Let the direction of car travel be along axis x. Assume no wind outside. Assume no turbulent boundary layer, but a sharp instantaneous change of airspeed from zero inside the car along the x axis to 60 mph relative to the car. Assume the fly crosses that threshold along the y axis, perpendicular to the airflow. I don’t know how fly wings work so assume they work like airplane wings, needing forward angle of attack. It doesn’t matter what speed he is flying along the y axis, although that may affect his final resting spot.
Therefore:
A. There is no forward movement to use as “excess thrust”. The forward movement is relative to the ground and the fly knows nothing of the ground. He only interacts with the air. His “forward movement” is along the y axis. All he knows is he encountered a sudden wind sheer 90 degrees to his direction of travel.
B. Pretty much. The sudden crosswind likely flips him all around and he falls to the ground (now involving the z axis) somewhat near where he left the car, but farther along the x axis, because his forward movement (in the x direction) does becomes relevant with respect to the ground at that point. But not too far because as soon as he leaves the car the force moving him along the x axis ends and his inertia is quickly met with air and ground friction. The trajectory of his trip to the ground within the x-z plane and maybe a little in the y direction can be calculated with a formula involving coefficients of friction, gravity, the mass of the fly, and the speeds of the air and his initial exit, but I’m too lazy to work that up for you.
C. Flies have legs?
The fly voluntarily flies through the window.
Let the direction of car travel be along axis x. Assume no wind outside. Assume no turbulent boundary layer, but a sharp instantaneous change of airspeed from zero inside the car along the x axis to 60 mph relative to the car. Assume the fly crosses that threshold along the y axis, perpendicular to the airflow. I don’t know how fly wings work so assume they work like airplane wings, needing forward angle of attack. It doesn’t matter what speed he is flying along the y axis, although that may affect his final resting spot.
Therefore:
A. There is no forward movement to use as “excess thrust”. The forward movement is relative to the ground and the fly knows nothing of the ground. He only interacts with the air. His “forward movement” is along the y axis. All he knows is he encountered a sudden wind sheer 90 degrees to his direction of travel.
B. Pretty much. The sudden crosswind likely flips him all around and he falls to the ground (now involving the z axis) somewhat near where he left the car, but farther along the x axis, because his forward movement (in the x direction) does becomes relevant with respect to the ground at that point. But not too far because as soon as he leaves the car the force moving him along the x axis ends and his inertia is quickly met with air and ground friction. The trajectory of his trip to the ground within the x-z plane and maybe a little in the y direction can be calculated with a formula involving coefficients of friction, gravity, the mass of the fly, and the speeds of the air and his initial exit, but I’m too lazy to work that up for you.
C. Flies have legs?
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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 14, 2022, 01:07:36 PM »
Rand Paul for prez.
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Spin Zone / Re: Other Than to Criminalize Free Elections…
« on: September 14, 2022, 01:00:45 PM »I agree. I think it will not come from outside, but from within. The FBI and their handlers will continue to do outrageous searches and seizures "for the good of the country because of insurrection and to fight domestic terrorism" until some nutcase finally has enough and starts shooting. And then antifa and the white blm will pillage and burn like they did all through last summer, except they will be holding Trump flags. We will be locked down for our own good, since the elections cannot be protected from (imagined) violence. There's not enough time for a war or a new pandemic. Plenty of time for nutcases to be prodded into action and the action escalated by democrat operatives.
Just like Germany in 1939 Poland.
Yes something like this. Maybe they’ll “fail” to stop the train strikes at the same time and add food shortages to peoples’ stress upping the violence.
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Spin Zone / Re: Other Than to Criminalize Free Elections…
« on: September 14, 2022, 12:27:36 PM »
The last paragraph tells it all. The FBI is totally compromised - weaponized against one party and protecting the other.
https://babylonbee.com/news/mike-lindell-still-holding-out-against-fbi-inside-mypillow-fort
https://babylonbee.com/news/mike-lindell-still-holding-out-against-fbi-inside-mypillow-fort
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ST. PAUL, MN — Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, had his cell phone seized by the FBI this week. The FBI is pursuing subpoenas on additional data and documents from the "My Pillow Guy," but has been unable to breach his MyPillow fort thus far.
"We are besieging Mr. Lindell, but we had not accounted for the patented interlocking foam filling being so difficult to penetrate," said Special agent Bob Janzen to reporters outside the MyPillow guy's fort on Wednesday. "This fortress of mattress toppers, Giza Dreams™ bed sheets, and pillows have formed an impenetrable barrier we have been unable to breach."
So far Lindell has held off the armed agents with one-time FREE gift popup ads, followed by a round of invitations to join the MyPillow mailing list. Sources say Mr. Lindell is pacing inside the fort wearing night vision goggles and preparing his arsenal for a MyPillow fight. "He's even wearing armor made from a MyPillow bathrobe over MyPillow formal pajamas and MyPillow slippers, all textured for maximum comfort," said Janzen. "This won't be easy."
Critics have contended that Mr. Lindell may risk being indicted for bribery if he offers a MyPillow to the agents, but even Mr. Lindell's harshest critics have not been able to disprove his claim that MyPillow products are "the most comfortable you will ever own."
At publishing time, Merrick Garland was forced to tie another string around his finger to remind him to investigate the Biden family's corrupt dealings with Chinese companies, as he had again forgotten.
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Spin Zone / Re: Other Than to Criminalize Free Elections…
« on: September 14, 2022, 12:21:35 PM »When regimes get desperate, they get even crazier.
Be ready. We are less than 60 days from the mid terms. We will be inundated with fake news, fake polls and threats. We will see more FBI raids against republicans and possibly a few perp walks and jailing.
Be on alert for false flags as well. The regime needs something big in order to lock down the country and force mail in voting. Don't be surprised for a war to break out.
Probably what I fear most is another lockdown and mass mail voting. If that happens AGAIN, negating the real election result, AGAIN, then stick a fork in us, we are done.
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Spin Zone / Re: Other Than to Criminalize Free Elections…
« on: September 14, 2022, 10:56:13 AM »I’m at a loss as to what this KGB shit is trying to accomplish. Coupled with Biden’s satanic speech, do the democrats think they will change the minds of conservatives, make us shrink into anonymity, shut up, and comply? Is that their end game?
If so, it is the greatest political mistake ever made. You don’t poke the bear. We may be lesser in numbers, and that could be our downfall. But fuck - I do NOT want Trump to run in 2024, for the reasons I’ve stated, but if he does, I would support him kicking their ass all over the field.
Desperation. They have nothing else besides the KGB shit, because the Democrats lack any insight. They exist in a bubble of utopian delusions so they cannot gain legitimate power by any positive results that would have people vote for them. They have to push propaganda because their policies fail because they're not aligned with reality. So they deny failure, project fault on the other party, or simply censor. They have to use force or bribery to implement their visions because the market does not want them.
This is all classic communist stuff. We are still technically ruled by the Constitution though, not a dictatorship, and fortunately Trump appointed a lot of judges. If we take back the House and a miracle happens the Senate too, if there are sufficient MAGA Republicans that don't bale out, these other two branches might push back enough to expose the left as the cause of most of the economic disaster and bring even more voters on board. The trend is still in that direction (away from the left and toward populism). If the legacy GOP doesn't manage to fuck it up.
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Spin Zone / Re: Other Than to Criminalize Free Elections…
« on: September 14, 2022, 08:34:22 AM »
Hang on. Let’s see what happens with the midterms and 2024. Don’t start shooting yet. It’s what the left wants: an excuse to put the boot on our necks, literally.
They’re losing the heart of the people and running scared right now. They’re absolutely terrified of a Trump 2024 run because they know it can happen. It’s possible they won’t pull off another election steal. In the meantime I support pushing for a constitutional convention of states.
Our biggest problem right now isn’t the left, it’s the Republicans. They have the power to reverse all this and they are continually screwing it up. They allowed themselves to overreact to the left’s abortion overreach, and they are talking too much about Trump, and not focusing enough on the issues that will win elections (it’s the economy stupid).
The Trump raid (and the others) are not going to hold any more water than the Jan 6 insurrection floor show, which is going nowhere, because there was no insurrection. It’s all pathetic attempts to divert attention away from the economy and the rest of Biden’s horrific failures. They are trying to hold up MAGA as a cardboard Satan in hopes the voters will forget the high prices in the grocery stores and gas pumps, floods of illegals, threats of WW3, etc.
It might not work.
They’re losing the heart of the people and running scared right now. They’re absolutely terrified of a Trump 2024 run because they know it can happen. It’s possible they won’t pull off another election steal. In the meantime I support pushing for a constitutional convention of states.
Our biggest problem right now isn’t the left, it’s the Republicans. They have the power to reverse all this and they are continually screwing it up. They allowed themselves to overreact to the left’s abortion overreach, and they are talking too much about Trump, and not focusing enough on the issues that will win elections (it’s the economy stupid).
The Trump raid (and the others) are not going to hold any more water than the Jan 6 insurrection floor show, which is going nowhere, because there was no insurrection. It’s all pathetic attempts to divert attention away from the economy and the rest of Biden’s horrific failures. They are trying to hold up MAGA as a cardboard Satan in hopes the voters will forget the high prices in the grocery stores and gas pumps, floods of illegals, threats of WW3, etc.
It might not work.
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Spin Zone / Re: Supply chain problems
« on: September 14, 2022, 08:15:46 AM »Did you grow up in WV or PA? Nice story.
Neither. I grew up in VA, IA and NC. My mom was from Johnstown and we only visited her family in PA. When she reached adulthood she told them, “F*** this sh**, I’m outta here!” (I’m paraphrasing. She never cussed.) And she moved to Washington DC and got a job with the Feds.
Later she met my dad who was a university professor and from lines of working professionals and landowning farmers. Maybe that explains why I so easily see both sides of things. The working poor, and the educated, privileged middle class. Don’t so much sympathize with the ruling rich though.
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Spin Zone / Re: Market Still Headed North
« on: September 14, 2022, 05:57:52 AM »short article, eh?
Very short. (I’m sure Biden himself is doing nothing whatsoever.) His Presidential Emergency Board was convened at the request of other parties, certainly wasn’t his administration’s initiative, and all it did was suggest a wage increase somewhere between what the unions wanted and what the railroads are willing to pay which amounts to doing nothing at all because, duh, that’s the point of negotiations, which were already underway - to come up with a middle ground compromise.
All it accomplished was to fix a point Congress can use later to force the contract, and allow the Biden administration and its whore media to tell the public it is doing something. It’s actually doing nothing other than wag its finger at everyone saying “Don’t y’all fuck up the economy (even more) right before the midterms!”
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Spin Zone / Re: Other Than to Criminalize Free Elections…
« on: September 14, 2022, 05:46:42 AM »
So they really HAVE declared all MAGA Republicans enemies of the state, and they’re acting accordingly. Once again Biden fucked up by letting the truth slip out. (Remember when he said the Democrats have put together the biggest election fraud scheme ever?)
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Spin Zone / Re: Supply chain problems
« on: September 14, 2022, 05:43:00 AM »When I have my bedroom windows open at night, I usually get woken every morning around 3-4 when the trains start rolling through. The tracks are about a mile from me, with a couple of crossings close by. I've heard nothing the past few nights.
When I was a kid we’d visit Johnstown PA, back then producing steel, iron, and coal. My relatives were steel workers and coal miners. Their little houses were right up the hill from a big rail yard. Trains would be going all day and all night. In the summer we’d sleep with the windows open (no air conditioning in northern Appalachia in the 60s) and the clattering of the trains lulled us to sleep and kept us asleep all night. When I went back to visit as an adult the steel mills were gone and the trains had pared down to only once in a while. I missed the constant all night trains.
Edit: I misspelled “pare”.
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Spin Zone / Re: Marriage advice from the Babylon Bee
« on: September 13, 2022, 08:00:58 PM »
That led me to this, which is probably literally true.
https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-concerned-that-if-maga-doesnt-conduct-a-terrorist-attack-soon-theyll-have-to-fake-one
https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-concerned-that-if-maga-doesnt-conduct-a-terrorist-attack-soon-theyll-have-to-fake-one
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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 13, 2022, 07:53:23 PM »Well it’s Anthony, so you never know…. Lol
He’s a ladies man to a fault, so it’s gotta be the knife.
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Spin Zone / Re: Supply chain problems
« on: September 13, 2022, 07:51:39 PM »
All the railroads are cutting back services now in expectation of a strike. Some have stopped unit train shipments (100 to 115 cars). These carry bulk foods, coal, ethanol, and many other unnecessary luxuries.
Norfolk Southern will close gates to all intermodal traffic noon Wednesday Sept. 14. That would be the containers that are taken off trains and put on trucks to bring you all your stuffs. Most of other carriers have stopped all hazmat shipping and curtailed other services. Canadian Pacific says they’re not changing anything in Canada because it’s not their problem, but they’ll embargo anything coming into the U.S.
Norfolk Southern will close gates to all intermodal traffic noon Wednesday Sept. 14. That would be the containers that are taken off trains and put on trucks to bring you all your stuffs. Most of other carriers have stopped all hazmat shipping and curtailed other services. Canadian Pacific says they’re not changing anything in Canada because it’s not their problem, but they’ll embargo anything coming into the U.S.