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The Everyday Astronaut guy from YouTube was just on Lex Fridman's podcast and he said that the Kessler Syndrome would make the low earth orbit altitudes unusable for 5-10 years but it would eventually clear out but GPS and geosynchronous satellites wouldn't be affected.

Maybe, but 95% of people are dead or gone now. The more specialized something is, the less likely that someone who knows about it will still be around, and those CNC mills last for 30 years but the tools don't, or coolant/lubricant. Most of them run on 3 phase power too so you don't just plug...

Sure but what if it won't work without an o-ring? Where are you going to get a new one? And it's not a standard one you can go find at the Pep Boys, it's a special order from some company in China that doesn't exist anymore and you don't even have any way of knowing that. It's definitely...

I think his point is that having a "working understanding" of stuff isn't good enough anymore. It's not that you're stupid, it's that things have gotten so complex that everyone is a specialist. Back in the 50's if you were a good mechanic you could work on any vehicle, and make it work with...

Alternative doctors have been pumping stuff up people's asses for decades. Sometimes they even give you some bentonite pills beforehand which makes a bunch of crazy looking shit come out so you feel extra good about the "cleanse".

To be fair, since they are so close to the dam, it's possible that there are a few people in the colony who used to work at the power plant which would up the chances.

Takes you back to the good old days when HBO put naked women in the opening credits of their shows.

All right you talked me into it. I'm rewatching S1.

Vaginas are not as complicated as hydroelectric plants. You just jam a rag in there.

If the generator was directly powering the residential line that fed the town then the transformers would already be there. I doubt that's the case though. The power plant probably feeds a transmission line and there's a substation that steps it down to 30kv or whatever is on a residential...

It doesn't stop turning though. It keeps turning but the metal parts that are rubbing together wear each other into shavings at a much higher rate.

Mechanical parts that aren't lubricated don't just stop. They destroy themselves. You can test this by draining the oil out of your car's engine and then running it until it stops.

Parts wear out on all machines. I just googled an article about how Iceland's hydropower is the envy of the world with its 99% uptime but 99% still means it's down for 3 days a year on average and that's with all the proper maintenance being done.

I might buy that it was shut down and they powered it back up again but not that it ran continuously for all that time. Not being manned 24/7 (but presumably electronically monitored) is a far cry from no one has set foot in there for 20 years.

No machine in history has ever run continuously for 20 years with no maintenance. I don't care what it is.

He's a freak of nature. As good as he was on the field, nothing ever blew my mind as much as this.... Dude is 290 and jumps flat footed onto a five foot tall box.

The explanation for the electricity was that somehow the hydroelectric plant is still working after being abandoned for 20 years and the power lines are still intact? That's even less likely than a communist utopia.

He's the brother of one of the leaders of the commune. Hardly a complete stranger. With regard to the autistic analysis of whether they exceeded some magic number where you go from being a commune to some other kind of society well, this is a fictional story so you don't need to panic about...

That diva cup thing is probably a pretty precious commodity since the maxipad industry shut down 20 years ago. I wonder what they're using for toilet paper.

Interesting email from Starlink today.... Apparently they're trying to discourage people in more densely populated areas from using their service.

It's pretty amazing what it costs for options. I have a bare-bones F-350 coming from the factory next month that only has functional options (differential lock, skid plates, etc.) and it's $65k. Your buddy is spending $35k on leather seats and some chrome and a few electronic gadgets.

You can also just have a regular cup of coffee with a poached egg on the side. Next thing they'll be putting bacon and toast in there too.

Don't go to home depot. If they do have anything it will be ridiculously overpriced. Go to a real metal shop/welding supply place. They will have what you want and it won't be that expensive. You do need to clean it well because it will be coated with oil to keep it from rusting. After...

From the looks of it the thing flies itself. No steering wheel, levers, or pedals of any kind inside.

That's pretty cool. I can't really imagine that people aren't going to get chopped up in those propellers though, and I imagine if they stop for any reason in flight you just fall like a rock.

The reason the fungus couldn't infect humans was that the body temp was too high for it. Because of climate change, the fungus was forced to evolve to tolerate higher temperatures, which also allowed it to survive in human bodies. I don't think it was ever said that it "needed" the warmer...

If Mahomes has a weakness it's definitely his interview skills. He always sounds like kind of a dickhead.

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My last used car I went to literally like 20 dealerships and used car lots. I had pretty specific requirements based on research I had done with regard to price, mileage, and features. Dealer shopping was a complete waste of time. They didn't have what I wanted but wasted hours trying to...

Trying to time the market is usually a fool's game. And if you do figure out how to do it, you should be making billions on wall street, not trying to get a good deal on a used car.

Yeah you can use a lighter on the shrink wrap.

Don't discourage him. He buys this shit so we don't have to.

That has to be pretty high on the list of undignified ways to die. My sister in law was once attacked by a normal sized rooster and it spurred her hard enough to give her a bruise through her insulated coveralls so I can imagine that a 15 lb chicken could get a lucky spur and hit an artery.

Somebody really needs to start the offseason thread.

Everything the man says is bullshit, or at least so much of it is there's no reason searching through to find what's not.

Wow I wonder how that's going to go. The guy is a hell of a football player but comes across as a total meathead in interviews.

Season 4 starring Jodie Foster and some butch looking black lady comes out sometime this year allegedly.

https://www.outkick.com/yellowstone-season-five-filming-return-possibly-delayed/ Sounds like things are really going south. I haven't watched S5 but Beth has always been a ridiculous character and if they feel the need to keep ramping her up every season she's going to be skinning people...