TSA apparently has learned the same lesson, somehow. Score one for personal liberty.
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Mere coincidence that we're in an extended solar minimum and just concluded the third coldest October on record?
Somehow, I doubt it.
It was also the wettest October on record out of 115 years.
According to the NOAA Midwest Regional Climate Center in Champaign, Illinois, more than half of the long-term stations in the Midwest had one of their five wettest Octobers on record, with one out of five observing its wettest. Combined with the cold, this delayed crop planting and stunted crop maturity. Corn development was as much as four weeks behind in places, and the soybean harvest was well behind schedule throughout the region.Hmm, what was it that guy said? Oh yes: when sunspot counts go down, the price of grain goes up because crop yields go down. I remember.
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Socialized medicine for thee, but not for me. Business as usual in the halls of government: the last damn thing the politicians want is for them and theirs to actually be subject to the shitty health care they're planning for the rest of us.
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I'm beginning to think that carbon nanotubes are the 21st century version of the laser. Is there anything they can't do?
I read an article in Trains magazine last month about researchers using lasers to check rail for defects: the lasers are used to transmit ultrasonic impulses to the rail and to detect the results. I mean, WTF, using light to transmit sound mechanically? Is there anything you can't do with a laser? I doubt the guys who invented the laser realized what they'd come up with. It's turned out to be an extremely versatile technology.
...and the more we fiddle with carbon nanotubes, the more useful and versatile they appear.
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Missorah.com: "All socialist roads lead to the same destination."
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It looks like I can get away with replacing just the failed lifter; which means a little later today I'm going to go order one.
Then we'll see if I'm right, or if I need help.
