Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_7FaWnlhS4

Thunderf00t has been doing God's work lately:
 
 
 
 
 
All three videos are good, but the last is the best.  It is a brief glimpse of horrifying clarity into the minds of science fetishists.
 
A science fetishist is someone who has come to believe (correctly, as it turns out) that the systematic approach towards understanding the universe (often called "science") is the best, and it will be the means by which all the clean, shiny and beautiful people of the future will lord it over the sticky, sickly, filthy peasant scum of the future.  Having further reasoned (again, correctly) that they wish to be in the former, rather than the latter camp, science fetishists have decided that they will do anything to get on top of the most important trends of the future.  They'll upvote shit on Facebook.  They'll make viral videos on Youtube.  They'll evangelize.  They'll worship new gods and heroes.  They'll throw money at visionaries.  They will do anything short of actually making any effort to understand science.
 
Just because Elon Musk is throwing money at something does not make it a good idea.  Elon Musk is rich, and you are poor.  Rich people have the luxury of throwing money at dumb ideas and not starving.  Again, this is because they are rich.  Every once in a while one of these dumb ideas turns out to be a fantastically profitable idea masquerading as a dumb idea, and the rich person makes their money back plus something.  If the breaks are right this is sustainable, and thus it has turned into something of a sport for rich people, who call it venture capitalism.  They like it even more than polo, camel racing or even competitive spitting on poor people because, in addition to being fun, it helps them feel smart and responsible.  Feeling smart and responsible is a critical part of building up a rich person's confidence, which they need in order to establish social superiority over their most fearsome adversaries; other rich people.  I'm sorry; did you think I was going to say poor people?  No; rich people are not worried about poor people.  Poor people like you don't matter.
 
But you have to understand that venture capitalism is strictly a rich people sport.  Speculation and investment of any sort is a rich people sport; you need the enormous thermal mass provided by enormous piles of money in order to stay on the good side of the law of large numbers.  Oh yeah, sure, in theory a bunch of poor people could pool together their meager, filthy peasant money into some sort of serf penny pile and appoint a known expert to manage and diversify it for them and pay them pro rata.  In some far off time and place with different pass-through taxation laws, different real economic growth and different trade commission regulations this probably could theoretically even have worked.  Obviously, it would have worked even better for rich people, because everything works better for rich people because God loves them more.  That's why they're rich.
 
Or maybe you believe that rich people are that way because they know certain spells and incantations, or that they're all actually lizard people who have saved money on groceries by being ectothermic and have compounded those savings over centuries, or that they're all really devil worshippers who have exchanged their souls for worldly prosperity.  Whatever; it doesn't matter.  The bottom line is that superficially copying the habits of rich people will not make unwashed poor people such as yourself rich.  If you want to become rich, you have two options.  If think that you don't want to become rich you need to stop lying to yourself and realize that you really do want to become rich.  Option one is to be lucky.  I can offer no useful advice on that.  Option two is to work hard and actually understand how in the fuck the world works, and then try to manipulate it into diverting some of its delicious, glorious money to you.  On that I have little advice, save that throwing your money at obvious science fetishist bullshit is not going to help.

This is a thread about camping. Camping is the act of purposely leaving the house and wifi connection in order to sleep on the ground, sometimes in the cold. You may choose to consume less than appetizing food and be at the mercy of nature during this time.
 
This thread can be used for discussion of items one would take during such a time.
 
I did such an event with my girlfriend this weekend. I drove up some rather ungroomed roads to Crystal Mountain, west of Fort Collins.  Here is the proof.
 

 

 
 

 

BAM!  DONE!
 

 
The Remington 53, essentially a 51 scaled up to .45.  Julian Hatcher had nothing but good to say about it.

A basic CSTR set up looks like the following.
 

 
 
Now, I thought you were proposing using a CSTR in the production of lipids via microalgae. My idea for lipid production would either be a CSTR or a batch reactor. I would have to crunch numbers and figure out the specific rate laws governing each for the particular microorganism I would use. Plus feed to the microorganism is important. 
 
As far as light, it would be needed for the photosynthesis. That's why I am more inclined to used a semi-batch reactor design (kind of a mix between batch and CSTR) with light-emitting rods moving into the reactor to continue the reaction and subsequent growth of the microorganisms. 
I believe Semi-batch design would allow for the addition of extra feedstock. A water jacket would be needed to keep temperature constant, and after a given growth period the reactor would be drained and the cells cracked for the lipids. 
 
The lipids in this case are fatty acids that can be turned into biodiesel via the following reaction. (A general reaction in this case)
 

Not directed at me, but anyway.
 
We go through cycles of loading up on high-density foods and saying 'fuck it' and bringing stuff that's nice to eat.
 
For simplicity, you can't go too far wrong with couscous and a pack of tuna. For something nice to eat (for lunch) I generally bring a bunch of wheatsworth crackers, cheese wedges and a tiny bottle of sweet chilli sauce. As South Africans, we of course worship upon the altar of biltong and droewors. I also freaking love bully beef for some reason so I always find an excuse to pack some - even though it only comes in tins.
 
For a different (but still pretty good) option I make Lembas by grinding up muesli I like the taste of and using it as flour to make hardtack. You throw in a bit of honey, use a bit less salt (replacing half of what you do use with low-sodium salt) and you have a pretty energy-dense food that tastes good and lasts forever.

I mainly do hiking - either from a camp or of the multi-day sort.
 
The last few years I've done a lot of passes in the Drakensburg, mainly Mweni area.
 
Anyway, have some photos and a cool website:
 
http://www.vertical-endeavour.com/
 
From an a few years back (Mweni-Rockeries):
 

 

 

This is a thread about camping. Camping is the act of purposely leaving the house and wifi connection in order to sleep on the ground, sometimes in the cold. You may choose to consume less than appetizing food and be at the mercy of nature during this time.
 
This thread can be used for discussion of items one would take during such a time.
 
I did such an event with my girlfriend this weekend. I drove up some rather ungroomed roads to Crystal Mountain, west of Fort Collins.  Here is the proof.
 

 

 
 

 

This is a thread about camping. Camping is the act of purposely leaving the house and wifi connection in order to sleep on the ground, sometimes in the cold. You may choose to consume less than appetizing food and be at the mercy of nature during this time.
 
This thread can be used for discussion of items one would take during such a time.
 
I did such an event with my girlfriend this weekend. I drove up some rather ungroomed roads to Crystal Mountain, west of Fort Collins.  Here is the proof.
 

 

 
 

 

This is a thread about camping. Camping is the act of purposely leaving the house and wifi connection in order to sleep on the ground, sometimes in the cold. You may choose to consume less than appetizing food and be at the mercy of nature during this time.
 
This thread can be used for discussion of items one would take during such a time.
 
I did such an event with my girlfriend this weekend. I drove up some rather ungroomed roads to Crystal Mountain, west of Fort Collins.  Here is the proof.
 

 

 
 

 

This is a thread about camping. Camping is the act of purposely leaving the house and wifi connection in order to sleep on the ground, sometimes in the cold. You may choose to consume less than appetizing food and be at the mercy of nature during this time.
 
This thread can be used for discussion of items one would take during such a time.
 
I did such an event with my girlfriend this weekend. I drove up some rather ungroomed roads to Crystal Mountain, west of Fort Collins.  Here is the proof.
 

 

 
 

 

This is a thread about camping. Camping is the act of purposely leaving the house and wifi connection in order to sleep on the ground, sometimes in the cold. You may choose to consume less than appetizing food and be at the mercy of nature during this time.
 
This thread can be used for discussion of items one would take during such a time.
 
I did such an event with my girlfriend this weekend. I drove up some rather ungroomed roads to Crystal Mountain, west of Fort Collins.  Here is the proof.
 

 

 
 

 

ISIL fighters getting killed by the Peshmerga by assaulting a fixed position with a wide, long-range field of fire, improvised jihadmobiles, frying buddies with RPG backblast.  This video has it all:
 

This is a thread about camping. Camping is the act of purposely leaving the house and wifi connection in order to sleep on the ground, sometimes in the cold. You may choose to consume less than appetizing food and be at the mercy of nature during this time.
 
This thread can be used for discussion of items one would take during such a time.
 
I did such an event with my girlfriend this weekend. I drove up some rather ungroomed roads to Crystal Mountain, west of Fort Collins.  Here is the proof.
 

 

 
 

 

I got probably a dozen emails about that one telling me I'm wrong... somehow. The amount of people denying math and simple physics is hilarious.
My favorite is a dude that emailed me saying my comparisons using 9mm is unfair, and I should have compared the rifle to .45acp instead.

Harvard engineers have started using bacterial strains to produce isopropanol via cyanobacteria photosynthesis. 
 
http://hms.harvard.edu/news/bionic-leaf
 
It's interesting. I'm a big fan of going the bio diesel route with cyanobacteria. 

Harvard engineers have started using bacterial strains to produce isopropanol via cyanobacteria photosynthesis. 
 
http://hms.harvard.edu/news/bionic-leaf
 
It's interesting. I'm a big fan of going the bio diesel route with cyanobacteria. 

Hesse's handiwork was seen today.
 

For reference, Kiwi was using weapons grade fuel. So even a reactor using weapons grade fuel and deliberately exploded won't detonate like an atom bomb. Ralph Nader lied to you.

Harvard engineers have started using bacterial strains to produce isopropanol via cyanobacteria photosynthesis. 
 
http://hms.harvard.edu/news/bionic-leaf
 
It's interesting. I'm a big fan of going the bio diesel route with cyanobacteria. 

I'm amazed you think that, I thought some paleontologists would be up there studying your gun collection at this point.

Nothing like that, I think you're just a terminal contrarian and terribly sloppy with your wording.

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What makes it even better is that Blizzard has some method of determining that someone was hacking previously even if they buy another copy of the game. People have reinstalled their OS, reformatted hard drives, and still got insta-banned after trying to play the game on a fresh key after having previously been banned. The salt is palpable. 

I appreciate people who do things like number 1 on the second video though