Moontanman

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Seems to have a Libertarian perspective. 

Thank you! This is the one i was talking about! 

A "Red planet" Marxist Earth encountering capitalist squid people from an alternate timeline - this could be awful, or awfully amusing.  The squids are capitalists, so I guess they prefer to squirt black ink?  😏

I belonged to an astronomy club in my teens - it is hard to overstate the giggle factor of that poor, erm, gas giant.  With the American pronunciation, anyway.  (I know some English speakers call it "YUR-uh-nuss," which neatly defuses all the fun that "yur-AY-nus" provides)

Not only on the less reputable sites. "... frogs ... massive leap ..." : Scientists regrow frogs’ amputated limbs in massive leap for regenerative medicine | Euronews

Glad to see you back, and with your sense of humour in good shape.

It's a massive comeback.  

Yes, the garden can certainly wait for you to be healthy enough to do it.

Take care of yourself moon.

Good to hear you're up and running Moontanman. Don't smoke all the weed at once.

Most expensive cartoon ever made.
James Cameron needs to go back to making movies that entertain, like Terminator 2 or Aliens.

The cgi was great and hints at some wild possibilities, the John Varley trilogy, IMHO a great story but until now impossible to make, would lend itself to this type of cgi quite well. Sci-fi in general would benefit with this technology. But this movie was... not much more than a retelling of Moby Dick and not really well done either.

The first movie was sweet but just a retelling of Pocahontas, the CGI and the idea of what an alien planet might look like was great but some of the portrayal of the aliens was "sweet" instead of realistic.

The shifting of the necklaces of the females to hide their "almost" breasts was sweet in the beginning but became distracting and comical as the movie went on.

The females either should have not had "almost" breasts or they should have shared the modern taboo of not exposing them, would bra tops have been such a problem for cgi? The constant "accidental" covering of the breasts became silly at best as the movie went on. In the second movie it became annoying as hell and just made it more difficult to suspend disbelief of the sci-fi setting of the movie. 

I thought the idea of a world wide AI controlling the ecosystem was kind of unique and made it interesting but the willy nilly method of the AI intervening seemed contrived to me at best. 

Let's talk about the over the top evil of the humans and the unobtainium of both movies, the first one was difficult to swallow but not impossible to conceive of. It was easy to assume the "people" of earth stumbled across such a thing and it's value in their technology was enough to justify mining and shipping it to earth. 

But the stuff obtained from the alien whales? They arrive ten years later and within a year they find an immortality serum in the brains of "alien whales" and have a complex system of obtaining it already set up?  This just beggars the imagination to think they discovered it that quickly.

Did they set about the slaughter of native animals immediately when they arrived the second time looking for something of value to justify star travel? The method used to obtain this substance would have required a technological base already in place when they landed. No justification for this was even hinted at.

The Red Planet by Heinlein would have been a much better story and a good way to display the CGI tech. 

In fact the entire operation seemed to indicate they already knew about the immortality serum before they arrived, screw the unobtainium that allowed for the tech that got them to the planet, lets kill something and see if we can find an immortality serum. 

I think the whale theme was meant to be a tear jerker for little kids but it detracted from the story line and made suspension of disbelief even more difficult. I write better than that or at least more subtilly. The entire story was about as subtle as a slap in the face with a dead fish.

Such a wonderful possibility wasted, let us hope this technology can be applied to better movies in the future.  

Hope it gets better soon Moon. Hang in there!

Hope you're well soon, and can start posting regularly again.
We haven't had any threads about extra-terrestrial visitors in a while 🙂 .

It's so hard to focus when you're in pain. My heart goes out to you, my friend, and I hope the pain fades as you continue to get better.

Congratulations, Moontangrampa.
( If it's a boy, will his name be Rocky ? )

Congrats Moon! New fishing buddy coming up.

I do appreciate all the kind thoughts, I am so excited I can't sand it. I miss my children being little and now I get another chance to help raise a baby! It's just... wonderful! 

I used to breed dwarf crayfish commercially, in the time these self cloning crayfish have resulted in many dozens of crayfish I would have been lucky to get a dozen having started out with just two. 

I have a couple of "proprietary" methods of insuring crayfish breed out of season, every 28 days to be specific. But these self cloning females breed continuously with no need to trick them into season.  No need for males either and none appear in the clone's broods.

My self cloning crayfish have resulted in such a numerous population i am using them as fish food. The down side is that some escape and start eating my plants.  

I once had a Saeng motorcycle windshield made of polycarbonate, great stuff but generally too easily scratched for aquarium use. Lexan will break, I hit a car broadside and the windshield shattered like thousands of tiny plastic sparkles, still remember it clearly to this day watching the windshield turn inside out and exploding...   Acrylic is commonly used in aquariums now days due to it's light weight and resistance to breaking compared to glass. 

It appears to be about $400/metre here for 500mm diameter... expensive. How about finding translucent tubing, like thick polypropylene, and cut/fit acrylic windows into them? More work but maybe less cost.

The design really wouldn't allow that, using plastic barrels would be easier and much cheaper. It may be the direction i go to demonstrate the water flow patterns..  

I am.

Me too.

Yup.  

Works fine here. http://blogs.scienceforums.net/

Not for me, it says network not secure, my battery is dying. Maybe it ill let me on tomorrow. 

All I get is a 502 error

Can anyone suggest how I can get past this 502 error when trying to log into the sfn blog? I need access to my stories.

I fixed it, I have no idea why it did that but I had to reset this lap top completely to get back into the sfn blog. 

Genady... you would be wrong... still probably not ET but I don't think Human AI is part of this. 

Yes, been following it closely.  

Excellent article and interview here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJKwglRgwDM

https://public.substack.com/p/us-has-12-or-more-alien-space-craft

Critical mass is building...

Hope it was just too much bourbon and not a stroke.
Get to the hospital immediately, even 24 hrs later they'll be able to tell you ( or set your mind at ease ) whether you had a mini stroke or not.

Just trying to say something positive.  It is possible to pray and trust in medical professionals.  They're not always mutually exclusive.

A few months ago they operated on my spine which went great and I’m good as new (tissue from L5/S1 verterbra was pushing against my spinal cord paralising my left leg and foot) I was lying on the table, there were 5 or six doctors and assistants getting things ready for my procedure. I jokingly said to one of the young assistants who was getting the tools ready, that if I watch those shiny tools for a bit longer they wont need to use anesthesia on me. She replied that „now all you got left is prayer” To keep it short - they needed to use more anesthesia on me after that

Cars are expensive to fix, I did a little hillbilly engineering on it and wired it shut for now. I'll take prayers in the light of how they are ment. I had a doctor actually abuse me this last time, he insisted on cutting my face with no anesthesia. I sprained my biceps trying to hold on the the bed rails, I bent one of them. They left an 8" long piece of 1/4 inch tubing in my face by accident but refused to believe i was in pain. The damn titanium plate broke and had to be replaced, they took a piece of bone from my hip to replace the bone that had to be removed. The two and half years of this was a bitch... I know, complain complain...  

Make sure to pick up an extra gown. Breezy backsides are a real treat during a hot summer. Speedy recovery, Moon.

It took longer that I figured but I am back. 

Take it easy on yourself. Glad to have you back.

Did you break a rotor ?

Naw, but it did drag the motor down to the point of cutting the engine off. Now off to the parts yard to buy a used door for my car, I love motor vehicles... 

Very sorry, Moony.
He lives on in your memories.

I'm so sory Moon, my sincere condolences.

My deepest sympathies to all who will miss this gentleman.

Pizza for breakfast, dinner and supper and grilled cheese sandwiches in between

Actually I baked a turkey, turkey bones everywhere! 

I hope everything is well with you and Nancy. 

I am so sorry to hear that. Please take time for yourself and know that folks are there for you.

Sorry to hear that Moontanman.

I can only imagine what you're going through, and have gone through, but I do know time can help, even if it is one day at a time.

May she rest in peace.

Moon, my dear friend, my heart aches for your loss. You will be in my thoughts in these coming days, stay strong and keep well knowing so many care for you and share in their hearts your grief.

Congrats Moontanman! I hope everything is going well. 

She is doing a little better than the doc thought she would after the second break but slow and steady is what i want to see. I think the last fall was because she wasn't taking care but she is now!

Good to hear! Two years after my mom had her knee replaced I complimented her doc on such a good job. He said no thats on her, she listened. Seven years and that knee is still working fine. I hope Nancy will do fine. Sounds like she has plenty of attention. 

Can I get a link to your blog?

Sure, I just posted a story, it needs some editing as usual.

http://blogs.scienceforums.net/moontanman/2018/02/26/winston-and-the-pickup-truck/