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There is a single planetary light in the sky right now (not the moon). I know your supposed to need a telescope, but go look now, 7:33 Austin time.
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Game Week Thread Game week 2024, week 7 Georgia @ Texas
PTINS replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Georgia can’t beat Texas, only Texas can beat Texas. Yesterday was the perfect game in some ways, we knocked OU’s dick in the dirt and won convincingly, while leaving room for improvement almost everywhere. Everybody knows they let their teammates down at times and will work hard this week towards correcting that. I had 2 issues w/ the play calling. Really, only 1. The fade on 4th down was a low percentage pass that didn’t work. I didn’t know Bond was hurt until last night. Ewers and Bond on a timing play is better than Ewers and Wingo. Sark gets a pass. After watching OU for 50 years, those MF’s, good or bad, can always run. They always have team speed. Calling running plays w/ the RB running parallel to the line of scrimmage, 5 yards behind the line doesn’t work against OU. Starting 2nd & 13 is not the best way to make a living. I get that showing something early to set them up later is a consideration, but I recall 3 plays you could see it developing, slowly, and resulted in negative yards. Kudos to Sark & PK for recruiting speed all over the field. Not many teams look faster than OU, but Tre, Wingo and Bolden clearly were. Me likely. -
Yet another story of an under rated guy playing behind a star, continuing to put in the work, DEVELOPING, and delivering at the highest level when he gets his chance. Gunnar get a new job working on Sundays. Mr. photographer, you have one job.
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And just like that Silas Bolden is memorialized among the greats in the history of Texas-OU. He makes a key block on the edge to create the gap for Tre, follows the play, and uses his speed to recover a fumble and score a TD. Silas capped a play that had two 180 degree emotional swings in 2 seconds. Great day for that young man!!!
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Official Coach Sark Thread of Dominance—haters back off
PTINS replied to SimkinsMan's topic in Football
Texas has scoreboard on all of the Blue Bloods of College Football. The average score is 33-18 Texas.- 2734 replies
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I wore my Stone's '75 t-shirt yesterday. (Yes, Hofheinz Pavillon, U of H campus) Today, one of my Springsteen shirts. Trying to decide who picked up the check, I offered, "..well, the less I do the more money I make." The blank stares I got back... I picked up the check. Does that count as talent or swagger or both? Maybe. Who the fuck where's a Styx shirt?
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Game Week Thread Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
PTINS replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
The game film that Chase Daniel broke down, he noted the QB (QE?) making his pre-snap reads, bending over to hear the helmet coms, looking again, motion, snap, read & execute. I think having the eye in the sky comms helps the QB confirm which guy he needs to read, and make a decision based on what he does. Knowing Bond and/or a RB/TE has a 75+% chance of one-on-one pre-snap is a great position to be in. Whatever the DC is whispering to the defense is secondary to the guy holding the ball. Texas going to have a good day Saturday. -
Game Week Thread Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
PTINS replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Watched this last night. 100% must see. Jeremy Hills, Rod Babers, Fozzy Whitaker, Derrick Johnson, Alex Okafor. (I saw Jeremy & Fozzy play in HS, as Texas commits). Key is handling emotional swings. What makes this game unique? Jeremy Hills at the 8:30 mark, "Standing in the tunnel together, see guys you played with and against, in high school and in youth football. "I know you... you're not like that ...I've been knowing you since we were 10 ... l know your mom ... it's personal..." Key is handling emotional swings. -
Just an observation... A corollary to dirty side/clean side of the storm; Tampa and the west coast of Florida faces west, Biloxi-Lake Charles-Houston faces south. If you rotate the map ~ 90 °. you get this. From this perspective, even with Milton making landfall towards Sarasota, it seems like the counter-clockwise rotation is still going to push a lot of water into Tampa Bay, especially with the way Tampa Bay makes a hook (true north, towards the left of the rotated picture). Water is smart, it will find the lowest elevation. I know, ... like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic, ... Florida is gonna get smacked.
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Game Week Thread Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
PTINS replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Mack didn't want to play freshman, without knowing or caring this game is littered with freshmen making big plays. A lot/most risky plays and gambles seem to work for whoever tries them. Some spectacular failures, yes, but being ballsy is rewarded. Wingo & Simmons gonna feast. -
Game Week Thread Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
PTINS replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
I watched this last night, well worth the time. Film breakdown of 4 RPO plays, and the QB pre-snap reads. To be clear, last year after the Alabama game, they opened the show with, "We are stupid, stupid, idiots..." This video, without saying the obvious, they know the Texas offense is scary good. Sark's play design... maybe the best in CFB, the Texas RPO is the triple option. If they can't stop this, game over. To stop this, their LB and DB will have to make one-on-one tackles is space, and Teddy was ragging on their LB's. Bond is fast, fast, fast. Marvel at the WR blocking. Think Jake Majors is great. Lost weight, moving quicker; acknowledged how much his injury hurt Texas last year. "If we don't do this ... and this ... and this,...it could be a long day Saturday." -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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Game Week Thread Game week thread, Week 6, Red River Shootout
PTINS replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
My first was 1974, same as Earl's. The OU '74 & '75 teams were among the best ever. Nobody saw them, as OU was on probation, so no TV. I saw Earl Campbell's '77 & Billy Sim's '78 back-to-back Heisman Trophy games. My disdain for Kirk Bohls dates to 1977. He led me and everyone in Texas to believe that Notre Dame didn't have a chance against undefeated Texas in the Cotton Bowl. As I sat in my 3rd row seat, eye level with the players, I thought, these guys are big. I later realized they had 3 All Americans on defense, Ross Browner (DE), Bob Golic (LB), and Luther Bradley (DB). Also a junior QB, Hannah Montana or something like that. The boomerang effect is the Kirk you know and love. On to better things. I'm taking my son's to their first OU game. One of my favorites, Earl standing tall, with 2 All Americans laying in a pile at his feet. Hook 'em! -
Puh-lease! Stop!!! Sounds like the average SEC honk. "Whatever I see for the first time in my life is the greatest, biggest, fastest, longest, hardest, prettiest, bestest, worstest, thing ever!" Category 5 already means GET THE FUCK OUT!!! Not to shit on Milton, but here is the last photo. My mantra for 40 years, "The Trend is your friend." The "Forecasted path" shown? "I'm not seeing it. I don't get it." Here is a photo of Hurricane Allen in 1980, with 200+ mph winds. The Yucatan Peninsula is 600+ miles to the Texas Coast. We are all very fortunate it made landfall ~ 100 miles south of Brownsville. Except for those in Mexico. Not a big mystery where the eye was. I remember a few Darwin candidates in Austin wanting to drive to the coast so they could see a hurricane.
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Everything in New Orleans between Lake Pontchartrain through the French Quarter and to the bank of the Mississippi River, is basically at sea level. The River itself is ~70 river miles from the Gulf, and ~20-50 feet above sea level. When you stand on a ship in the river and look over the dike, you are looking down into the City of New Orleans, at sea level, 20+ feet below the river level. When the 10+ foot Katrina storm surge filled Lake Pontchartrain ~ 10 feet above sea level, it was well above the city elevation, some of the dikes failed, and water poured into the low lying areas in and around New Orleans. Houston will flood along the bays and bayous and lower elevations, but nothing like New Orleans. The flooding from Harvey's rainfall was different than any hurricane related storm surge.
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"Current track spares Tampa from the storm surge." I don't think so. Tampa may not get hit head on, but a hurricane 200 miles in diameter cuts a swath ~ 200 miles in diameter, and pushes a huge layer of water well beyond that. That is a storm surge 1,000's of square miles in area spread across the Florida's west coast, up to 15 feet high, but gradually tapering to a few feet, hundreds of miles away. Milton will push water into the bay well before the eye makes landfall. This pic shows a 150 mile path across Florida, generally along the forecast track of Milton. Milton has moved ~ 250 miles in the past 24 hours, roughly 10 miles/hour. The entire area across Florida is forecast to have hurricane force winds at the same time, for an extended period. Below is the elevation profile of that path. The fact that the 2 peaks represent 2 highways tells you everything you need to know about Milton and Florida, that Milton will go through and across Florida "like shit through a goose." What's it going to look like when it gets to the Atlantic? Helene hit Valdosta, GA with 90+ mph winds 70 miles from the coast, and Augusta with 69 mph wind gusts 250 miles inland, crossing a 350' elevation. Odd are we will have Milton 2.0 on the east coast.
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Good thread, and I don't want to derail it. TLDR, or if you read it, a simple like or a fuck you will suffice. My wife came home from work last night and said a co-worker stormed out of work, with a parting comment of "I'm going to kill myself." Fuck!!! My biggest dilemma was what time can I leave for Dallas Friday? There is so much shit in the world, in no particular order; our polarized political leadership, Ukraine, Israel and their neighbors, etc., a constant barrage of extreme weather events and the hardships they bring, corporate greed run amuck, social upheavals, daily mass shootings, and so many personal things that make so many feel that life is not worth living. Please, for yourself, and family & friends, slowly push away from the table, find a quiet place and take a few deep breaths. Life is short and precious, and much better when enjoyed. I generally agree. But with no grandkids on the horizon, I bought some really nice guitars. I don't play, just listen and watch. One good thing about having all the shit around is it helps me remember all the things about all the shit. It is also evidence of a lifetime of experiences. I had been working in SLC leading up to Rita and cut my trip short to fly home to Katy. My colleagues said don't go there, you saw what Katrina did. I had to get home first, to the wife and kids, before I did anything else. Katrina & Rita, similar situations, but different. Similar w/ a massive hurricanes barreling down on a large coastal city. Different? Don't ever equate Louisiana w/ Texas or Houston (Katy) w/ New Orleans. New Orleans is below sea level, like a bathtub surrounded by water, and people choose to live there. 'Nuff said? In SE Texas, it made sense for people in low lying area's and proximate to the water to leave. More than half our neighborhood, and a lot of Houston, evacuated. Why? Our neighbors, because they wanted to, and had a place to go. For a lot of people, they evacuated because they had to and were just trying to get to a safer place. For many, the evacuation was a bigger disaster than the hurricane, as it brought the trauma right smack into their personal lives. When I got to Houston, the streets were empty and the airport was closed. We were one of the last incoming flights, everybody was gone from the airport but a skeleton crew and the national guard, w/ weapons. All the gas stations along the way were already out of gas. I was an O&G executive, and could not get gas from the energy capital and largest refining complex in the world. WTF? I drove to the west side, but didn't have enough diesel to make it home. A wrecker driver kindly told of a station that had some. I had to ask a family that had evacuated, w/ young kids in a car packed to the gills, to move their car so I could get some diesel to feed by F-250 and go home to take care of my family, in a safe, dry place. It was very surreal, for many reasons, the contrast in lives and livelyhoods, a realization of where I came from and where I was. The reality that so many normal people, when put in an uncomfortable or stressful situation, will make poor decisions (not yoga practitoneers). Troph, your "40 year" comment hit a nerve (my lasts semester at UT). My family continued a cycle that has existed since Columbus and the explorers. The 1st generation struggled for survival and a simple existence, giving the 2nd generation a chance to learn a trade, a carpenter, a teacher, a doctor, etc, so the 3rd generation has freedom of choice, to be an artist, a musician, a thinker, a poet, and the cycle repeats. I'm the second generation, both parents raised on the farm, moved to the city. I gave plasma every week my last semester, because $10/wk was meaningful, "Do I buy gas or eat?", and I got orange juice and cookies. In one generation, we went from middle lower class to middle upper class, lived in Oklahoma 3 different times (both kids born in there, on Texas soil), Louisiana and Colorado (Yes!!!). Now, I'm retired in the Hill Country, posting on message boards, making bank, and getting ready for OU. And collectively, we, My Generation of Boomers, are the reason for the worlds ills. Sorry, but I think I paid my dues and have a hard time accepting that elevating and providing for my family the best way I know how was a bad thing. I don't think it is so much what we are doing is so bad, but the reality that there are so, so many people doing it, and the cumulative affect to provide for all that is not sustainable.
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
PTINS replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
Our uneven performance against Mississippi State was still good enough to win by 3 TD's. Those same performances this week ended up with a lot of upsets. It was hard to tell if A&M is good or Missouri is that bad. A&M played good, but they didn't magically get bigger or stronger or faster. Mizzou was butt ugly, couldn't run or pass, which plays to A&M strengths. Ha! Ha! For the SEC being a line of scrimmage league, there was a lot of mediocre line play yesterday. I like violent and fast. -
As always, consider the source. A nuke is always going to have the highest installed cost per kw of generation capacity. That is not anywhere close to the same thing as the cost per kw-hr, the actual cost of the produced power. But "$10,000 per kw" sure makes a good headline when your paying $0.10/kw-hr. Yes, directional drilling has made a lot of things better, including minimizing the impact of buried utilities. A collaboration of No-Nukes entities generated a report aligned with their interest? Who woulda thunk? The China Syndrome movie was released 2 weeks before the 3 Mile Island accident happened. After that, the City of Austin tried to back out of their ownership in the South Texas Nuclear Project. They literally couldn't give it away. Similar issues with the sunk cost with nothing to off set it. Austin Energy is an owner of the plant that has generated ~ 20,000 Giga-watts-hours pf power every year since 2001. The reaction to 3 Mile Island necessitated a review of all Nuclear Projects, with good reason. However, that review included adding huge costs to plants under construction, including some changes that were way beyond reason, but still required. To be clear, I took Nuclear Engineering classes and toured Comanche Peak and TVA facilities. Then, the 3MI accident happened. My interest in Nukes ... zero. My job offers ... from every entity looking for nuclear engineers. The NRC called me at home. I swore I would never work for an O&G company and never live in Houston. I wanted to build solar houses on Lake Travis. My job offers ... zero. Maybe computers? No one told me IBM was "Big Blue." I wore a khaki suite to me interview. Then, the Iranian revolution exploded. "No Nukes", and oil prices quadrupled. Demand for engineers peaked. 250+ companies recruited Texas for Engineers. Some of those that came at the end of the semester couldn't get anybody to interview. Best time in history to be an engineering graduate. $in City (Hou$ton), here I come. Of all the complaints consumers in Texas have with their electric power providers, the cost of electricity barely moves the needle.
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From the videos, this looks like more of a fire at the storage of a refinery rather than just a remote oil depot. One can only hope. The geolocation provided is within a mile of the 260,000 Bbl/day Lukoil Perm refinery, ~ 975 miles from Kharkiv. That refinery is ~ 3 square miles in size, or 1,900 acres. The round tanks (Horton spheres) are usually located where the products are produced (refineries or gas processing plants, high volume/footprint ratio) and not just stored (depots/terminals). You've heard me reference finding the guys (dead guys) camera when these Natural Gas Liquid tanks rupture. Those plumes on the top of the tanks are indicative of a relief valve venting vapors from the top of the tank due to the pressure increase from the surrounding fires. At some point, the vapors cannot vent fast enough to relieve the rising pressure, and ...big bada boom. If the fireman is close enough to get water on the fire, he is way to close. The sphere on the left engulfed in flames? Run, Forest, Run!!! The long, cylindrical pressure vessels (not shown here) rupture into 3 pieces, hence the nickname, "bullets". Not sure what is left when the spheres rupture, other than the camera. Found this on the internet. This is a simulation; no idea on the size of the tank or the product in it. On the plot, LEL = Lower Explosion Limit (minimum fuel/air ratio for combustion). Red cloud, fuel/air ratio is too high for combustion. Orange = incomplete combustion. Yellow = huge fuel air bomb.
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In talks with the Israeli government, the White House was expected to point to the relatively light damage caused by the Iranian missile attack on Tuesday and urge Israeli restraint, the U.S. official said. These pleas were expected to have little impact, the official added. This wasn't proxies crossing the border on motorcycles with machine guns. A simple way of looking at this is, "What should the Israeli response be if none of the incoming Iranian missiles were shot down and all of them hit their targets in Tel Aviv?" That is what Israel's response should be. Anything other than civilian targets is fair game. FAFO
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He is not leaving until he has started 25 college starts behind him. That is the same thing Oliver Lick told his son Andrew. Don't go unless you are ready to give up the social life for film sessions and studying the play book. Arch will not go against the advice of the people that have been behind him all his life. Arch will step into an extremely rare situation, following Quinn & Sark, and leading a well oiled Texas Football machine on and off the field. That situation will only improve over the next few years. He is positioned to be the Poster Child of Texas Football. Why rush to get away from it. I wouldn't know about this, but I always thought Arch coming to Texas got the elder Manning's into some choice Texas Real Estate development opportunities in Texas.
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