Previous thread can be found here.

A question the Venus terraforming program must solve.

How to accelerate the planet's rotation so it has a proper day-night cycle, and how to reduce the crushing concentrations of carbon-dioxide and toxic gasses.

And here I'm wondering, why not kill two birds with one stone? Teratons of gas will make for excellent remass - you just need engines big enough to accelerate it to escape velocity.

Proper angling of the thrust from these world engines could be used to accelerate the rotation of the planet.

These things will be utterly Babylonian in scale - requiring terajoules of energy for decades at a time.

It might even be possible to move Venus to co-orbit with Earth. Okay, so that arrangement will result in a collision if a few million years but by then humanity will be long-gone, and in the short term the benefits in venusian habitability will be worth it. And sure, if we can move it, we can stabilise it.

Thoughts?

In Gunnerkrigg Court's current storyline, three four characters are visiting the Norns ... not the OMG! Norns, but still.  Today they discover that each person sees the Norns as three ages of herself (I'm not willing to speculate what a male would see).  The reaction-shot is a delight.

Thoughts and prayers
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53684033

Since Windows 10 Pro doesn't (appear to) come with any sample media, I'm putting together a selection of files for testing newly-installed software with. If the files are Puiblic Domain, then I can leave them on the computer with the software... which would make a difference if I'm building a computer for somebody else.

There are plenty of Public Domain videos at the Internet Archive, and it's possible to search for them and not get any CC licensed files in the results.

There's plenty of Public Domain audio at the Virtual Gramophone - they're all PD, so no worries on what comes up in a search.

Images... Sure, there are PD images at Wikimedia Commons, but there's no way to search for only PD images. So, here's a challenge: Find me some PD images on Commons, and share the page URLs (not the images themselves) in this thread. EDIT: Oh, and no NSFW images, please.

For example:

• Tamgaly main petroglyph.jpg
  
• Challenger II Basra 2008.jpg
  
• Rothenburg BW 4.JPG
  
• Apollo 15 flag, rover, LM, Irwin.jpg
  
• Great Wall of China July 2006.JPG
  
• Antonietta Brandeis - Il Ponte di Rialto.jpg
  
• Great Wave off Kanagawa2.jpg
  

Let's inaugurate this new thread with a teaser clip released at the Rooster Teeth Comic-Con panel:

According to this article, it looks like there's a double standard dress code for doctors - not while working, but while on their own time, pursuing hobbies or on vacations.

And the double standard isn't being applied by patients.

Why doctors and med students are posting bikini pics online

Quote:But Safai said the problem is that the male co-authors got to decide what is and isn't appropriate.

Old thread

I guess there are a lot of reports of Republican political staffers being forced to not wear masks at work so they could set an example to show the country how to reopen properly.  Probably have a good article to link to tomorrow, but reporters are getting lots of emails from Congressional staffers.

I do understand it a little bit -- why would a Republican want their staff to display their allegiance to Democrats by wearing masks?  And of course, it's just following the example of the president who is a huge narcissist, so that makes sense too.  The part that doesn't make sense is why the party hasn't cut ties to Trump to save their own skins.

(first scene)

“Ah!  Welcome back, Ensign.  Your timing is amazingly good,” Muck greeted Diamond Forces nominal FNG as he entered.  “Get over here.”  Muck looked in the bags and nodded.  “Better than what I feared, Kid.  Lets get the ice and the beer in there.”

“Hey, isn’t that?”

“A 20mm ammo can?  Yes.  Best all around storage container I’ve ever found for everything but Vacuum.”  Muck puttered about adding milk and butter to a pot on the mobile burner that was plugged into a big box that was, in turn, plugged into the big black vehicle called FRED.  He then added a couple of scoops of yellow powder from a storage container, then turned back and inspected the beer.

“Huh.  Not Canoe Beer[1] .  I’m impressed, Kid.”

“Credit to my Da.  He’s a brewer.  Learned a thing or two from him before I decided I wanted to be a Pilot.”

Muck nodded at that, then poured the contents of the first pot into the second and started stirring vigerously.  “So, Ensign.  Made up your mind yet?

“About?”

“What to call you out of the cockpit.  Diamond 3 is… unwieldy.”

“Actually, I think I’m good with Dick.  It may have started as being mean…”

“But you’re going to show everyone not all Dicks are… ahem… Male members?”

“Exactly, Sir.”

“Muck.  Let’s save the sir-ing for her Honor the Mayor and the Commodore. Come on, Dick.  Time to eat.”

“OI!  Kisaki! Doc!  CHOW!!!” Muck bellowed as he carried the larger of the two cooking vessels to the improvised table while Ensign ‘Dick’ Davis carried ammo can with the beer.  Gamlin and Chiba were just sitting down as Muck returned with the other pot and serving utensils.  Gamlin eyed the contents of the Wok with some suspicion, though.

“What do you call this?”

“Hash, Boss.”

“A dish of Nor Am heritage via Irish and English Immigrants, Sir,” Dick added.  “Not something you’d find outside of a specialty place with the way Asian cooking has spread since the Rain of Fire.”

“Personally, I credit the way Lynn Minmai caught the hearts of everyone.  Knowing she grew up over the White Dragon restaurant kinda captured their stomachs as well.”

Gamlin looked unconvinced, but started eating.  “Not bad, but I normally think of this cut as grilled over open flame.”

Muck just grimaced and pointed at the fire suppression system in the ceiling of the bay, drawing knowing nods from Dick and Gamlin, but a very confused look from Dr. Chiba.

“There is context here I am not getting,” Chiba admitted.

Muck reached over and smacked the choking Ensign on the back before answering.  “Because you’re a medico and an egghead Doc.  We’re in a maintenance bay right off a main hanger space.  A whole lot of flammable things around you don’t want to have combust.”

“The sort of stuff that can make even a colony core like this one go BOOM,” Gamlin agreed.

“There is a video they show at the end of the Damage Control unit for us flight officers.  It may be labeled a fire suppression system but its more like a flood on demand just waiting to happen,” Dick chimed in, having caught his breath.  “Something brought into the Spacy from the US Navy when we consolidated.  Fire and Aircraft liquids equals really bad news.”

Muck nodded sagely.  “There is a sea story about such a thing that was probably lost in the Rain of fire.”

“Then how is it you know it?”

“Told ya you’d get read in on this over Dinner.  Well, its Dinner.  Gamlin and Chiba already know this.  So, consider what your about to hear take poison before reading stuff Kid.  So, it is like this…”

* * * * * * * * *

“If my Plane Captain told me something like that, I’d be convinced he was pulling my leg, Muck.”

Gamlin Coughed a couple of times before taking a swig of his last beer.  “Welcome to my life, D-3”

Muck simply sat back and shrugged.  “And yet, No Shit, here I am.”

No, more like for the rest of us.  

Fred is a member here, best known for the stories that started with UY: The senior Year.

in those stories, and especially their follow ons, HMCS Haida features prominently.  To better understand why Fred chose this ship, well...

Her Wiki Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Haida
a Song written about her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5yyGGYqjHo
and she has even appeared in an episode of Naval Legends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEfg-nMnMxI