

Planes, Trains and T110s
#41661 Posted Oct 22 2019 - 22:23
#41662 Posted Oct 22 2019 - 22:40
The new space race?
This could all be vaporware for public consumption but someone will make this concept work eventually; particularly since the hypersonic revolution is upon us.
#41663 Posted Oct 22 2019 - 22:43
Tjtod, on Oct 22 2019 - 16:23, said:
I've read the first book in that series and though it's not my preferred flavor of fantasy I'll get back to it eventually. My reading agenda for next year includes getting up to date with the collected works of N.K. Jemisin and the "Expanse" series. For a change I'm going to privilege fiction over non-fiction.
#41664 Posted Oct 22 2019 - 23:52
Shrike58, on Oct 22 2019 - 22:43, said:
I've read the first book in that series and though it's not my preferred flavor of fantasy I'll get back to it eventually. My reading agenda for next year includes getting up to date with the collected works of N.K. Jemisin and the "Expanse" series. For a change I'm going to privilege fiction over non-fiction.
The first book was hard for me to get into because the magic system was so different. As the Ideals settled with me the series just got better and better.
#41665 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 01:24
Shrike58, on Oct 22 2019 - 15:16, said:
The chronic refusal of most right-of-center parties in the aggregate to take environmental matters seriously (I'd be happy to hear an exception) seems to be hard-wired right now.
Where the Conservatives won (in Canada) are mostly the provinces most tied to oil money. But it would actually be interesting to see a map of not each riding and which party won it, but like... a heat map for each party, showing the % of the vote they got in each riding. Some wins were very close.
The way things played out in Ontario was surely affected by the unpopularity of Doug Ford's Conservative provincial government.
#41666 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 01:25
#41667 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 02:31
FrozenKemp, on Oct 22 2019 - 19:25, said:
Sanderson is all about magic systems.
https://coppermind.net/wiki/Sanderson%27s_Laws_of_Magic
https://brandonsanderson.com/sandersons-first-law/
https://brandonsanderson.com/sandersons-second-law/
https://brandonsanderson.com/sandersons-third-law-of-magic/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_magic_systems
#41668 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 03:50
Exactly. It's not entirely my thing, but I have read something like 6 books by him.
I'm just about done reading Tales of a Waterboy by Mike Scott which is a music-focused memoir by one of my favorite musicians. It was pretty neat learning some of the behind-the-scenes related to various albums and the tangled journey of his musical career (up until about 2000).
After that I will probably get back to reading a book about the Fairey Swordfish WW2 biplane, aka "the stringbag".
#41670 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 10:52
#41672 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 15:10
Flimsy Lindsey flippy floppy
Also, way to say the quiet part out loud:
"The big thing for me is the oil fields," Graham said Sunday. "President Trump is thinking outside the box. I was so impressed with his thinking about the oil."
Graham hoped the arrangement "could generate revenue to pay for our commitment in Syria."
#41673 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 15:51
godofdun, on Oct 23 2019 - 09:10, said:
Flimsy Lindsey flippy floppy
Also, way to say the quiet part out loud:
"The big thing for me is the oil fields," Graham said Sunday. "President Trump is thinking outside the box. I was so impressed with his thinking about the oil."
Graham hoped the arrangement "could generate revenue to pay for our commitment in Syria."
Lindsey Graham... if history remembers you at all, it will not do so fondly. Speaking of which, I saw a meme yesterday which said "If Trump thinks Pelosi is saying mean things about him... he's really not going to like the history books."
#41674 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 16:44
KilljoyCutter, on Oct 23 2019 - 09:51, said:
Lindsey Graham... if history remembers you at all, it will not do so fondly. Speaking of which, I saw a meme yesterday which said "If Trump thinks Pelosi is saying mean things about him... he's really not going to like the history books."
Maybe the Radical left history books whose authors hate America, sure. But the History textbooks for children that are approved by the Texas state Board of Education will teach that he was the best President since Ronald Regan and that he would have made America Great Again if it weren't for those meddling Democrats and their dog.
Edit: on the subject of dogs, I wonder how many dogs would mysteriously end up dead if the current POTUS declared that dogs were Un-American beasts that only democrats could love. We all know he hates dogs, so it's certainly within the realm of possibility that he suddenly declare them vermin.
Edited by Mermaid_Witch, Oct 23 2019 - 16:49.
#41675 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 17:06
#41676 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 17:33
Mermaid_Witch, on Oct 23 2019 - 09:06, said:
I don't think I've seen sanctions lifted so fast, wonder if Erdogan has something on him. Gee, I wonder how people would react to one of the D candidates at a rally publicly calling for country X to hack into some servers and find out.
#41677 Posted Oct 23 2019 - 17:39
godofdun, on Oct 23 2019 - 11:33, said:
I don't think I've seen sanctions lifted so fast, wonder if Erdogan has something on him. Gee, I wonder how people would react to one of the D candidates at a rally publicly calling for country X to hack into some servers and find out.
He has the two "Trump" hotels, and Trump's desire to do more business in Turkey, hanging over Trump.
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