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  1. I owe y'all for the off topic pics. By bad, Olga is from xxxxxx, in the sanskrit pants. Ella (RIP), is from Ukraine, in the blue. Master class w/ Doug Swenson. Ella's core is the only core from Ukraine that should be exposed. Ella & J helping me with my stiff ... back. Master class w/ Brian Kest. Going away luncheon. My yoga friends are my best friends. The manager kept bringing me drinks. #1 all time, any where, in all my born days. Peak yoga for me, age 54, 2010. Trail Ridge Road, Mountain National Park, Colorado, elevation 12,000+ ft, above the tree line. I was the only tree standing during a lightning snow storm. Had this part of the Park to myself. This is my Karma. Namaste, and Slava Ukraini!
  2. Well, today was like a punch in the gut. After not being here for most of the past few days, I did my speed read last night/this morning to get halfway caught up. Thinking the Russia implosion (the word of the week) was in progress, I fired off my reunion post. Apologies. I should have read a few more pages. So, does Lukashenko come back to Belarus, or does Pringles bring his army with him and rule, or what?
  3. They became my favorite people last year, but only because of my own ignorance. The clues were there, I just didn't bother to connect the dots. Chernobyl, and how so many Ukrainians were screwed at every level by the Soviet Union. Seeing the Antonov 225 (Mryia), along with the Ukraine Blue SU-27 escorts at OKC in 1990. Sevastopol being so prominent in every Clancy-ish military/spy novel I read. Olga, my yoga teacher from Ukraine. Crimea; (i) just cause I like the way it sounds, (ii) when i learned Moscow was 400 miles north of North Dakota (no wonder they're always pissed off), and (iii) 2014, I was so pissed that all the US did was hold our breath until we turned blue. The way the Ukraine people represent, in every way, in every situation, over and over. Dmytro Kuleba: Ukraine has one crucial factor on its side: "Historically, Ukraine was unfairly under-appreciated, and I regret it took a bloodshed and a devastating war for the world to realize how cool we are. And we will always be cool. But it just took you too much time to realize that." They became my favorite people last year, but only because of my own ignorance. The clues were there, I just didn't bother to connect the dots. Chernobyl, and how so many Ukrainians were screwed at every level by the Soviet Union. Seeing the Antonov 225 (Mryia), along with the Ukraine Blue SU-27 escorts at OKC in 1990. Sevastopol being so prominent in every Clancy-ish military/spy novel I read. Olga, my yoga teacher from Ukraine. Crimea; (i) just cause I like the way it sounds, (ii) when i learned Moscow was 400 miles north of North Dakota (no wonder they're always pissed off), and (iii) 2014, I was so pissed that all the US did was hold our breath until we turned blue. The way the Ukraine people represent, in every way, in every situation, over and over. Dmytro Kuleba: Ukraine has one crucial factor on its side: "Historically, Ukraine was unfairly under-appreciated, and I regret it took a bloodshed and a devastating war for the world to realize how cool we are. And we will always be cool. But it just took you too much time to realize that."
  4. I'm calling this on myself ... Came in last night, 20+ pages behind here, and haven't looked at Titan since Friday night. This year, I took the steering wheel on our Family Reunion, a celebration of a Land Grant family from the Crown of Spain in the 1750's. Yesterday, the 2023 Edition, 300+ relatives, 20 briskets & 150 lbs of Elgin Sausage. Nailed it, with the guidance and effort of a lot of people. Happy for my 93 year old mother, and her siblings and cousins. Proud of our long history of Service & Family. For me, Volodymyr Zelensky has surpassed Winston Churchill as my favorite human in history; for the way he led us, not just the US us, but the entire free world us, by standing up to aggression and fighting, against the odds. He is by no means the first, but damn if his 'nads don't get bigger every time you see him. Agree 100%. This board know's it. The world will realize it in the months ands years to come. The ripples will reach far and wide, and for a long time. Gotta give Ol' Joe President Biden a ton of credit. He showed his Leadership of the Free World by herding a bunch of misguided cats (Dem's & Rep's) and got them to agree to turn the ship in the right direction. Starting with simply sharing information with everybody, allowing each of them to make their own judgements about right and wrong. Who woulda thunk that being open and honest might work? “Thank you for coming,” - Zelensky “More importantly, how are the children?” - Biden The humanity of Joe Biden, resonates with every decent man, woman & child in the world. Witnessing the compilation of karma and Darwinism and Fuck Around & Find Out displayed by Russia and Titan, and the Surly catalyst of unharnessing the collective knowledge, understanding, insight and humor of the many contributors, is the most rewarding and enjoyable reading of my not so young life. Well done. TLDR My Grandmother's family, one of 8 families at the reunion. Mom w/ the long white hair in the middle.
  5. The ideal gas law ... is the equation of state of a hypothetical ideal gas. I know, ... no math. PV=nRT, where P, V & T, the variables, are the Pressure, Volume and Temperature respectively, and the "n" and "R" are constants, (PV=T); So, if the volume is fixed, for any increase in pressure there will be a proportional increase in temperature. Basically, if the pressure increases from atmospheric pressure (14.7 #/in2) to ~ 6,000 #/in2, there is a 400+ fold increase in pressure, which results in a proportional increase in temperature, the "heat of compression." Spoiler. Don't read any more. Eyeballing the pictures, the volume of air in the capsule would compress from the actual internal space to a volume a little bigger than a 5 gallon bucket. Envision a syringe the size of the capsule being instantaneously injected into a 5 gallon bucket, and in the process momentarily jumping to ~ 4,000 ° F (???), ... or, don't.
  6. "CAPCOM - GOLD - Ah, yeah, Jim. Could you check your CO2 gauge for us? JIM LOVELL - Yeah, Houston. We were just looking at that. Our CO2 measurement has jumped four notches in the last hour. FRED HAISE - That can't be right. I went over those numbers three times. CAPCOM - GOLD - Jim, that sounds about right. We were expecting that. JIM LOVELL - Well, that's very comforting to know, Houston. What do we do about it? CAPCOM - GOLD - Jim, we're working on a procedure down here for you... Do you copy? FRED HAISE - Oh, Christ. JIM LOVELL - All right, Houston. We're standing by for those procedures. FRED HAISE - Christ, I know why my numbers are wrong. I only figured it for two people. JACK SWIGERT - Maybe I should just hold my breath." Seems like I read that the 96 hours was for 4 people. There are 5 lucky winners today.
  7. Nothing but red flags for me... Did they bring extra AAA batteries for the controller? The pressure at a 13,000 ft water depth is ~ 5,800 PSI (pounds per square inch); Not unlike an F150 pickup balanced on your big toe. A pressure hull made from 2 dissimilar materials, carbon-fiber and titanium, that expands/contracts w/ pressure & temperature changes, at different rates, and that are mechanically joined together by a third material. Why the Titan wasn't safety classed? Marlene Lenthang The missing submersible Titan wasn’t classed by an independent group that sets safety standards, as most chartered vessels are. OceanGate said in a blog post in February 2019 that Titan wasn’t classed because its technology was so new and their innovation “falls outside of the existing industry paradigm.” It said there’d be a “multi-year approval cycle due to a lack of pre-existing standards.” Classing usually checks if vessels meet standards in buoyancy, number of life rafts and hull materials, the blog post said. OceanGate said that while classing has a safety value, it is “not sufficient to ensure safety.” On other words, "... we're going to do something that's never been done before, so it doesn't have to meet any kind of existing safety standards ..."
  8. Don't mean to preach to the choir... but I think they're already there.
  9. Hondo, I "responded" to your post, but my comments were not directed at you. Apologies. I read about 5 pages of comments before yours, and with my alcohol induced wisdom, let it fly ... So, a 60+ year old man kicks you in the ass, and you go to jail for doing something about it? The more I think about it, the more I like it. Ok, sorry. Still, someone ragging on DC & EK? They didn't make an error or a bad decision that led to a "hit", they never saw the ball. They're kids playing a game. EK has 40+ career infield hits and has patrolled CF as well as anybody, and DC had as complete a year as any player I've seen in almost 50 years. It clearly was not our destiny to win. Nuff said? I agree you need hitting, timely hitting. But Pitching & Defense still rule. Quinn Matthews made a good hitting Texas team look really bad. LBJ made Miami look bad. A pitcher can get in a groove and control a game like nobody else. Some aspects of the game change. Aaron Judge puts up big numbers, but Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman put trophies in the case. Knowing the Stanford pitcher hadn't pitched much this year, I expected our guys to take some pitches. Nope, went up their swinging. I'm sure Gus was cussing from his grave. I did notice, going into the conference tournaments, only 2 SEC team had winning records on the road, with 4 in the Big 12, including Texas. The SEC will be fun. Brutal, but a lot of good athlete's showing their stuff.
  10. I am on Surly daily, but not so much this board. What a fucking beating!!! More pussies here than 6th street in the 80's!!! One thing that hasn't changed; pitching & defense are the recipe for CWS success. I've been listening and watching Texas Baseball since the pre Disch-Falk days, and pitching depth has always been the keys to Texas' success. The last few CWS Champions, Vanderbilt, Miss St And Ole Miss had stellar pitching performances that earned them the titles. Yeah, Chicks dig the long ball, put pitching rules the day. Texas had the best staff in baseball last year, until we lost Tanner Witt, but it was not to be. We knew this was a rebuilding year, coming off of back to back CWS teams. Still. we were a once in forever play from going back to the CWS, again; that's a helluva accomplishment given the expectations and how the season started. I was thinking about Stanford's home field advantage before the game. Playing in Northern California, at twilight, having to play the end of the game in cold weather. Much different than the Texas heat. The shitty lights and the distance from the plate to the backstop. All came into play last night. Texas got within a whisker of winning, even though we did so many little things not quite right in the process. I was pumped yesterday. Texas v. Stanford, the way is used to be, 2 time zones away from the SEC crap. A chance to go fuck up some smart kids. I replaced by Ukraine Flag with my Texas Flag, put on my Texas-Omaha tee shirt, got my beer and big ass bowl of buttered popcorn, and cussed the TV for 3 hours with occasional moments of Yes!!! What a gut punch! This one hurt, because it was so sudden, and literally out of left right field. Dylan Campbell had a season for the ages, a 5 tool player, personified. Game tying RBI and the defensive play of the series in the same inning. Anybody ragging on him, even a bit, should be taken out back, and kicked hard, right in the fucking ass. I'll be happy to take the first kick. Or, ... Pierce has some shit to clean up, no doubt. No more rebuilding years, go hit the portal, hard. (How did we not get Skenes?) Don't get swept by a conference team, an unranked team, ... especially OU ... at home. The conference tournament should have been a non-event for Texas to set our staff for the regionals. The oh-for hurt. Those two things probably cost us a home regional. Playing at Miami and at Stanford is a tough draw. We almost got there. Do better next year, play at home, and make us proud, damn it.
  11. In the absence of factual information, I'll make some up use my idle time wisely. My GoogleEarth map, showing main railroads in Occupied Ukraine The NE-SW line from Volnovakha-Polohy-Tokmak-Melitopol is the critical supply line to Crimea, and basically everything Southwest of Donetsk. Controlling any portion of the line isolates Crimea by rail, and cuts off any Russian troops to the west from supplies by rail. Same map, zoomed in, showing the main roads & highways, depicting how those smaller towns are choke points of road & rail traffic across Russian occupied Ukraine. Interesting thought on the movement of Russian troops from the flooded Dnieper River. Were they moved far enough east to provide meaningful support or will they be cut off and isolated by advancing Ukraine troops? Pretty much all cultivated farmland from there to the coast, "...I'm ten years burning down the road...Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go."
  12. Appears she likes Pearl Necklaces.
  13. Sorry, but not sorry. Every man, woman & child on God's green earth needs to see that picture; it's a clear cut referendum on life. Which side are you on? There is no neutral. You don't get to say "I didn't know" anymore. The fact you opened this thread obligates you to share it with others.
  14. SL, thanks for the thought provoking response. D-Day 2.0 started last night, and I don't want to derail the thread. I am only responding to make it easier to find this tangent later. Perhaps Crown & Anchor is a better forum? My two cent; the US was founded on the principles of Liberty and Freedom (said another way, we ran away from structure and rules until the Pacific Ocean stopped us). We are an infant that adopted a role as protector on December 7, 1941. Everybody else has been fighting over the same shit ... since forever. Two fundamental principles constantly at work, and at conflict; Evolution ... adapt or die ... the strong survive... Slave Ukraini!, and Entropy... the inevitable, natural decay into disorder...Russian warship, go fuck yourself!!! My new desktop says it all ... Good v. Evil, the protector v. the oppressor, Right v. Wrong.
  15. The line at the car wash? Them boys look ready for a stroll across the plains. Pasted from one of the threads. More Kool-Aid, please.
  16. "It Can't Be Bargained With. It Can't Be Reasoned With... And It Absolutely Will Not Stop, Ever... Until You Are Dead!" Sydney, you nailed it, buddy.
  17. SL, I agree with your comments, except this part. I don't really disagree with your point, just the words used to characterize it. Germany & Japan were forced to abandon their imperialist, expansionist aspirations, and funneled that energy inward. Give me some rope here. When you combine ... Recognizing the obvious, that the US Industrial capacity & efficiency won WWII. Worldwide transition from a depression/war economy to the boom from all the babies G&J each peg the meter on work ethic, probably to a fault Industrial capacity far in excess of domestic needs and consumption Minuscule Government spending on Defense, or Korea or Viet Nam or the Cold War Increased Government spending on infrastructure Minimal Corporate expenses associated with a punitive driven legal system Acceptance of more Democratic & Capitalistic ideals The result is an entity that works harder to make a better products at cheaper costs, to the detriment of anyone else, ... two efficient, high functioning economies with export driven growth strategies. Ironically, one thing hasn't changed; they are still dependent on reasonably priced energy imports to make it all work.
  18. Kakhovka Reservoir is ~ 60% of the capacity of Lake Mead, or 13x the capacity of Lake Travis. Kakhovka Reservoir surface area is ~ 832 Sq Miles, ~ 3.4x that of Lake Mead, or 28x the surface area of Lake Travis.
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