TGIFfunnies 10/18/24 EDITION: Cars
CARS:
They Taunt us, Disappoint us, Steer us and Help us.
They Please us, Tempt us, miss them when not around.
They House us, Service us and Exhaust us when down.
We Built them, Changed them
And remember the First Ones.
They Taunt us, Disappoint us, Steer us and Help us.
They Please us, Tempt us, miss them when not around.
They House us, Service us and Exhaust us when down.
We Built them, Changed them
And remember the First Ones.
I'm deciding on what engine to drop in my '99 Miata. Leaning toward a Honda 3.2l V6.
I had 2 but I upgraded the 12A after about 60k miles to the 13B.
That one was hit from behind (and the 13B sold) at about 55k.
So my personal experience is that (in the 80's-90's) they were
quite durable for 60k, but other reports say that's when often
problems appear.
The Honda J engines can be good for 3x as long and many
more mechanics can work on them if/when needed. That
means that the car will probably bring more when it's eventually
up for sale, too.
I prefer a naturally aspirated engine, too, and the J produces
ample power without turbo/supercharging. The Wankel won't.
Finally, there is a shop that does the J engine to Miata swaps
not far from here.
I was tempted by the Jensen Healy and then the first Saab Turbos, the little Mercedes came out that year too.
I ultimately decided on none of them and instead opened my first Car Stereo Store . . . kept me from getting into trouble, Did an install in a Mazda RX7 and thought it was quite quick . . . been driving Ford Trucks since those days.
HYDROCARBONS FOREVER!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUbGk...
Only note as before, EVs still save fuel, even if charged with conventional power. They are roughly twice as efficient as normal cars.
I'm getting an EV next. We have a bunch of cars, so I don't need to worry about range (and I could just rent one). Our town has it's own utility. Our prices are the lowest in the state, and they changed the billing to be even lower, but 5x higher from 4-8pm. If I charge outside those times, I can drive for the price of tires.
Rented a Kia EV6 to visit FL for my mom's 90th birthday party. Thing went ~280 miles, and still had 20%. Hotel had a charger. Easy-peasy. Fast, smooth, quiet.
But I have some other things I need to do first.
Anyway, I like the obliquity of the ecliptic as a possible cause, and that could be combined with sunspots themselves. The fact that cooling and warming of the earth is cyclic could be related to the ecliptic, as the earth's declination is periodic as well.
Right now our sun and entire solar system is traveling through the galactic current sheet, Electromagnetic dust that originates from the center of the galaxy and travels out. We encounter that field every 6/12K years when we move above and below the galactic plain.
If you live or travel anywhere near Colorado, Ben, (suspicious 0bservers) has just built a ranch/ conference center that we can visit. He is beginning to have conferences again with other scientist speaking from time to time.
Wish I could get away and go there. I was one of the many people that funded the Mobile Observatory. I did it in the name of my book instead of Olduglycarl.
Must be a guy thing.
8 Man pretending he has to have his arm twisted to go camping in that condo on wheels.
The 1960 Ranchero was a falcon not a full size Ford, I often thought I'd make a ranchero out of a 1961 Ford Starliner (my first hot rod) I'd call it: Stranger (Star Ranger)
I know you got the: "Was His" meme, (I should have added: Divorce American Style)
I know you got the "Fred Flintstone" Mobiles as might have been the first cars.
They weren't slapstick happy but little jabs . . . can't let marginal memes go, try to find a clever way to use them and that's exactly what I did this week. The half ass poem speaks to each meme in order.
Laughing, you're right, guys like mechanical things they can mess with.
Someday I'll do something for the girls . . .
Not to mention, not sure I was messaging the REAL Elon, I am currently being followed by 6 Elons!!!
I just had a Tesla cars only guy follow me . . . Laughing, and I made fun of one of Tesla/Elon's cars and this guy followed me.
The Tesla EV's may be a mistake on Musk's part. GE once researched a sonar washing machine; the engineers said that thing did everything but clean clothes, and all the while vibrating its fool self to pieces!
I personally believe the EV has to use more energy from electricity generated by gas powered utility plants than the gasoline used by regular old 'cars'. You know, 'fossil fuels'.
In the next ten years we will probably loose our grid. We might be able to keep it going if we have someone like Trump at the helm and prepare for that inevitability.
Shields are weak and Solar disturbances play a bigger and bigger disruptive force. It won't take an X100 flair to do it like the Carrington event did.
Carrington Event? Is that from Beck's Overton Window?
Like I have been saying the past 10 years: It's a cycle cilly!
Guess I could ask Copilot, if he's even alert at this time of night!
Both poles have left their respective polar regions a while back.
My '69 GTX 440 was metallic blue, but it still would give Greta heartburn and a hissy fit, LOL! Nice RV - I'll take 2, LOL!
Thanks for making my day, OUC!
Just thought, should of added the phrase "Divorce American Style" under the "Was His" Meme
Now I'm off to do an oil change and brake job ...
see, really old dogs can learn new tricks . . . laughing.
As for CME's, seem very interesting to me. Carrington wrote two things he observed that have me speculating that it could be something external, and not internally generated. He said that it seemed to him that the two brilliant lights were elevated above the surface of the sun, and then he stated his observations of how quickly the phenomenon dissipated. This is from his paper:
"I thereupon noted down the time by the chronometer, and seeing the outburst to be very rapidly on the increase, and being somewhat flurried by the surprise, I hastily ran to call some one to witness the exhibition with me, and on returning within 60 seconds, was mortified find that it was already much changed and enfeebled. Very shortly afterwards the last trace was gone,
and although I maintained a strict watch for nearly an hour, no recurrence took place."
I don't know what the average duration of most CME's are, but surely more than a few seconds.
I'll check out the Maunders.
We've been adversely affected more and more from weak CMEs.
You will learn the most from Ben Davidson of Suspicious 0bservers (Observers with a 0) He puts out text books.
But, carl, there is no 'immediate electrical connection between earth and sun". Even light takes about 8 minutes to get from the sun to earth, and the velocity of light is the limiting velocity of the universe.
The "Instantly" refers to the affect of the coupling but the electromagnetic link is consistent.
"magnetic disruptions began instantly".
Carl, I'm not sure this guy is legitimate. He is vague and doesn't really use scientific language but seems to just put words together without explaining the concepts.
He needs to define in just what way a magnetic orientation is meant, and how is it oriented or what that means, and how this causes magnetic disruptions, and what type of disruption they are.
Now, I know some of it, I've been listening and reading it for a long time but to speak to others, one must uses plain language . . . and there is nothing wrong in that.
He is accepted in the scientific community, a few assholes but most are cool people.
I only use specific language if I have to or talking to a professional, in fact, I don't even like that anymore. Once I understand something then I can describe it simply to others, get everyone on board and excited.
Now that I am old ugly and occasionally forgetful, understanding something is just keeping me interested and alive.
For one thing, he SELLS so many things!
Did you know that he was a research lawyer but he loved watching a learning about the sun so much he quit in order to do this full time.
He writes text books and research papers, his wife writes the kids books and they sell T shirts etc for the business.
No one understands the sun like Ben Davidson. It's his life long passion.
There are tons of informative videos on his page, 10/12 years of work, not to mention reviving Cyclical Catastrophe Science, the kind that was told, . . . if ya want to study natural cycles, you won't find funding.
A documentary is in the works that will show us, globally what to expect and were to survive.
Also I noticed his youtube videos seem to be on a Shirley McClain channel. I'm not real enamored of Shirley and her 'channeling', if you know what I mean!!
So about 16 or 17 hours later, and copilot brought up information showing that that is about twice the average speed of the velocity of the sun's plasma, from sun to earth.
We can see this event about every 12K years going back 72K years. Every culture tells a strikingly similar story.
Those that survive will have to start all over again.
Don't know how old you are but I don't think I'll make it past the next 10 years, all but three in my family passed in their 50s, I'm 72. . . so if I go first, I'll let you know.
If there is anything I have observed from you is, that you don't speak off the cuff for no reason at all.
So if the human species had to start over, I wondered if I could choose who I wanted to be around.
I've hassled over this for a while and have come to some unsatisfying concussions (you read that correctly). : we have the right to sequester but not the right to vanquish; unless, of course, our lives are being endangered.
Kinda sucks but it's to our advantage not to compromise our best selves.
Anyway, I plan to fully exterminate from the minds of men the malignity and malevolency of any sort or type of Marxist or Leftist thought. Not by 'vanquishing' but by teaching.
(Sometimes I'm not so sure it's working.)
(I tried posting this on RT, but it's being moderated or something.)