Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
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A very good point!
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The internet runs on it! Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.skipshot12 wrote: »
What's FUD?
mmmmmmmm...If anyone gets a chance to see some of the UHVDC Substations do it, they look like something out of the movie Forbidden Planet.
UHVDC
UHVDC
I am thinking the future of DC is local: PVs, batteries, and inverters.
I am (we are), however, still resisting batteries here.
DSC_0431 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
We did chicken out on installing a tracker system in 2024 and opted to re-do the original system on the roof (the one on the main roof). I couldn't quite rationalize the cost... but we came really close.
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In the 70's I worked for a guy that had a purple AMC Pacer. I drove it sometimes. It really was a good running little bubble. He never had any problems with it. He traded it in for a Datsun pickup.Post edited by aprazer402 on
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“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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from those fun-loving engineers @ ASR...

This nicely illustrates the symmetry principle of physics. It's not a universal physical law, but symmetry is pretty widespread in the universe.
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So... the 1910 duck story I posted in the "doing it wrong" thread got me to thinking about canards (where storytelling, ducks, and French all intersect)... which, of course*, led me to the XB-70 Valkyrie.
... and I learned something I didn't know until today! Whoda thunk it?**
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarplanePorn/comments/10ioghs/did_you_know_that_the_north_american_xb70/
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* of course
** Who, indeed? Virtually all of the educators saddled with me would exclaim, sooner or later: There' no teachin' that boy!
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(seen at ASR, of all places
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When cars actually had style.
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skipshot12 wrote: »When cars actually had style.
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I guess, depending on one's sensibilities, I could also put this in the You're Doing it Wrong thread... but I think it's kinda cool... so I am putting it here.

BLACK PICKUP TRUCK by J.Paul, on Flickr -
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Get to the Chopin!
Hasta la vista, Beethoven.
It is not a Wagner!
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Holy Midrange Batman!George / NJ
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