Moontanman

Pemmican? I've seen proposals for doing this and the g forces and the friction would be "difficult" to engineer a solution to these problems from the surface of the Earth. Maybe not impossible but once you compare it to a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere it makes the problem look insurmountable... of course you could use it to turn mixed vegetables into chunky salsa. I may have overstated this a bit, in my mind i was thinking of the spin launch vehicle, https://www.spinlaunch.com/ not an electromagnetic launch but the g forces would be very similar and the friction equally enormous.

IMHO the main problem of using rail guns to send objects to space would be the enormous friction with the earth's atmosphere. Any object so accelerated would become white hot and evaporate much like a meteor does when it enters the Earth's atmosphere. Then you would have to include engines to allow the object or package to maneuver to the space station. This would be much easier to do if you were launching package from an airless body like the moon.

Check this out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azW33jxaHPs

Is it? How can you tell?

I got a flash of the little critter in the ZZ Top video TV Dinners reaching up and closing the box when they open it!

Thanks, wiring is a trip, I've done a little bit of it when doing my own home improvements too. I found an interview of one of the scientists, Stockholm U. astronomer Villarroel, who wrote the paper you referred to in a recent post about 1952 Palomar photographic plates. If you want to see it let me know.

Ok, this is a sighting from 1957, this observation occurred during a training flight of an electronic warfare aircraft over the USA. This report is from a speech from Dr James E. McDonald Professor of Atmospheric Sciences University of Arizona Tucson. I would provide some quotes but for some reason it wont let me copy/paste this article. The aircraft was followed by the UFO over a couple hundred miles or so and the full extent of the electronic warfare equipment was brought to bear on the UFO as it followed the US Air Force YB47 jet. There were nine men on board the aircraft. http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald_fsr_16_3_2_70.pdf This is about as well documented as they come and yes I understand this falls short of the rigor required by science and is illustrative of why IMHO we will never be able to get scientifically rigorous data from this subject unless it is real and they let us have that info. There is a reasonably accurate video that describes this case if you prefer watching a video to reading a pdf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJdhQaqmFaY This who Dr. James E. McDonald was.

Just a guess but cut them down in the fall seems to be logical. A few years ago, during a hurricane, a tree was blown down in my yard. I cut it down below the soil level but in a few weeks the entire yard erupted in several dozen young trees of that species (an elm of some sort), very fast growing, they were up tp a meter tall in just a month or so. I had to cut them down several times before they stopped popping up.

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It is kind of odd!

OIC, we are looking for a way to make killing a helpless person palatable to the general population? To me it's a lot like trying to make a shit sandwich tasty enough to sell at a fast food place. Killing another human being is always bad... sometimes it's just better than the alternative. I come down solidly on the side of if you're going to do it do it fast and get it over with. Dragging it out, no matter the motivation, will always result in a worse outcome for the person to be killed. What should really be in question is do we kill people, once we get past that obstacle all we can do is make it as quick and practical as possible. Can you imagine the man who was suffocated via nitrogen gas telling us how grateful he is we didn't just inject him with a hot shot of fentanyl but allowed him to suffocate in agony so we could feel good about it? Now that is funny!

Revenge? I thought we were talking about punishment? Maybe my moral character is flawed but we are talking about killing another human being for punishment right?

Why bother? Just give them a hot shot of fentanyl, why bother cutting their throat?

Exactly... while killing someone is repulsive to me, I think if you are going to do it you kill them as fast and as surely as possible. Nothing is faster or more sure than a double tap to the back of the head. I still have to ask what is the point of this "soft" killing, if I was being killed I'd struggle to the end, bite, scratch, twist, turn, spit and be as obnoxious as possible as i faded away. Why on Earth are we trying to gently kill someone? I agree and I would sow considerable doubt on the very idea of calmly/gently killing someone. I could see the value in doing it quickly, and if you want it to be a deterrent, publically even but gently... painlessly? Seems a bit oxymoronic doesn't it?

My specialty! Not fats, just sweets, for some reason unsweetened tea is awful to me but sweet coffee is awful as well! I like iced coffee and iced tea but only coffee unsweetened! My own personal diet for type 2 diabetes includes fats, protein, and fiber but excludes as much carbs as possible. No seed oils, the only vegetable oils I use are olive and coconut oils. I mostly cook with lard and or beef tallow and all my blood parameters have gone back to nominal! My doc is amazed and I feel much better after losing 50 lbs! YES! I actually tried Earl Grey Tea due to Captain Picard! I loved the taste, I even preferred it in iced tea! Iced sweet tea is the house wine of the south! I do miss it, along with bread, pasta, potatoes, and rice...😭

I've tried this with coffee but never tea... I prefer my Earl Grey hot with a pinch of butter and a teaspoon of honey!

What does a giant sandwich have to do with the bigbang? Actually the sandwich was the first return from google and the pions that mesotron originally referred to are down the list quite a bit but even then I can't find any references to anything having to do with the bigbang.

Sounds like they just need to buy a 22 short revolver, double tap to the back of the head Mafia style is quick, easy, cheap, and as painless as dying could be.

I'm not sure I understand the why of this, is the quickness of death, lack of pain, or the cost most important?

I misquoted you, sorry about that, the objects were not in Earth orbit but as you say still interesting.