I have asthma

I did not know cold things triggered coughing.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Trippy !


Source

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

That was cool, but creepy.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Team locates nearly all US solar panels in a billion images with machine learning

Summary:
Researchers have identified the GPS locations and sizes of almost all US solar power installations from a billion images. Using the data, which is public, they identified factors that promote the use of solar energy and those that discourage it.

Proof that Computers / machine learning is "smarter than the average bear"...
I could just imagine Yogi Bear using a small drone and "AI" to locate all the picnic baskets in Jellystone park :)

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Solar Panels, the associated metal frames, glass covers, mountings, etc are quite heavy. A neighbor up the block from me installed solar panels to the southern and western roofs of his house last summer. It required additional "strengthening" of the roof and riser joists to meet minimum code on a 15 yr-old home which was done same time as the panels were installed.

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That would not happen in California. We have been required to install "Solar Ready" roofs and wires since about 2002. In 2020 all new home in California will have solar electric power designed to meet the house average consumption. (Crunchers your power needs will not likely be included in "Average").

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In case you haven't noticed we're back.

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In case you haven't noticed we're back.

that's just an ugly vicious rumor

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A before and after video of pictures of drought affected areas in Australia.

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Grant
Darwin NT

A before and after video of pictures of drought affected areas in Australia.

It's certainly been an unusual "Green Drought" here ATM (it's never happened here since 1984 and the top pub burnt down that year).

Just enough rain is falling here to keep the grass growing, but nothing to help the soil's moisture content which is very poor.

Cheers.

Now if this was the other way around...
Woman with Rare Condition Couldn’t Hear Male Voices

A woman in China suddenly developed an unusual condition that made her unable to hear male voices. And while that might seem enviable to some, the hearing loss could carry serious medical repercussions.

The woman, who is identified only by the surname Chen, visited a hospital after waking up one morning and being unable to hear her boyfriend's voice...

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We Build Walls Too
#EasilyAmused

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

Looking at the current caption picture and it got me looking and I found this.

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Now that's a neat pic Admiral Gloval.

I agree. Very cool.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

You don't see that every day.
Goalie scores from 70-metre free kick.

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Grant
Darwin NT

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

As you may, or may not, know. One of my favourite pastimes is computer gaming.

I have been playing on and off for around 30 years.

My latest game comes from the "Fallout" franchise. Fallout games are set in a alternate timeline that diverged from ours around 1947, when the Fallout universe didn't discover transistors. However went to to become the world that was portrayed in 50's Sci-Fi stories, robots, power armour fusion power etc.

If you want to know more go here.

Fallout World

However all was not well in this timeline and on October the 23rd 2077 China attacked the USA with nuclear weapons.

The game centres on survivors of "The Great War" and the struggle for survival. Most of the protagonists were the lucky few who survived in underground "vaults" run by a crooked company called "Vault Tech".

The latest episode is called Fallout 76 and is an online game (not my favourite way to play). You play as one of the 500 vault dwellers in Vault 76 who on the 23rd of October 2102 leave the safety of the vault to go and "Rebuild America".

Note: The post apocalyptic world is full of people and things, mostly things that will certainly try and interfere with any rebuilding. :-)

Vault 76 is in Vest Virginia, which as you may be aware is where the Greenbank Telescope resides in our universe :-)

So I was interested to see if the Fallout world had it's counterpart. It is a large game map and it take a while but recently I was on the eastern side of the map and saw this.





It is called "The National Isolated Array", in the fallout world but is obviously Greenbank

Early morning shot.



Interesting that the game designers would go to the trouble to include that.

Oh and this is my character resplendent in his "Excavator Power Armor".

What price Vanity :-)

So much for growing old gracefully. :-)

Thanks to Weekly World News and the KGB now we know why aliens have big heads.

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020