olofscience
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There are faster tests than PCR, but better? That would be great to have, but right now PCR is the gold standard to compare against. billeisele's view is the standard "I'm alright Jack, I don't know anyone who's been hospitalized or died from coronavirus, so it must be a big hoax and all these restrictions should stop". Try telling that to the face of someone who lost a relative from covid, billeisele. See if you don't get punched in the face.
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Geez, what do you know about the PCR test? Have you even used a PCR machine before? It's the most sensitive test we have for viral RNA, however it has also been demonstrated COUNTLESS times that asymptomatic people who test positive are very capable of transmitting the virus, as was found in New Zealand recently. The rest of the article is just conspiracy theorist rubbish.
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Small propellers will have high drag losses for regen, so actually electric helicopter ops for skydiving will actually be more optimized - electric helicopter climbs to altitude, then does autorotation descent which will (hopefully) recover a significant amount of the energy used to climb (minus the skydivers' gravitational potential energy and drag losses of course). Well *theoretically*, in an aircraft that climbs to altitude then descends to the same point (no one jumps out), the net gravitational potential energy change is zero, so you should be able to get 100% of the energy of the climb back, minus drag and engine losses. Unfortunately those losses will be pretty high.
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Now Exxon is having to deny that they've done something illegal because of Trump thinking out loud in a rally: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1318282942762934272
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He'd be surrounded by brown people though. Wonder how that would work out...
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Another record federal deficit adds $3.1T to the debt
olofscience replied to kallend's topic in Speakers Corner
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What, you mean downplaying it, lying about it, ignoring it, blaming others isn't the way to a landslide re-election? Quick, someone tell Trump!
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/rudy-giuliani-russian-intelligence-misinformation-operation-trump/index.html You're living up to expectations, that's for sure
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Trick question - Trump NEVER owns any failure. It's always someone else's fault. I know you were addressing Phil1111 but I'll take you up on that - not the retraction because I haven't said anything, but I'll applaud if the stimulus passes. T as in turtlespeed?
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You're avoiding answering my question. So you're saying: Hiding facts about Covid-19 because people can't decide for themselves and will panic: OK Retweeting nutjob conspiracy theories because people can decide for themselves if it's true: OK You're being very contradictory. Can people decide for themselves, or not?
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Well, Trump didn't give the country that choice back in Feb/March when he knew covid-19 was more serious than the flu, now when it's a crazy conspiracy theory it's OK to leave it to the people to decide?
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I really hope you're not implying that the theory of evolution and the current scientific questions about dark matter are just conspiracies. Anyway, the Q nutcases have pretty much zero hard evidence. Like that pizzeria basement which was used for child trafficking.
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The first Tesla, the Roadster, was a converted Lotus. Elon Musk knew the value of having an electric design from scratch rather than a conversion - so while I think conversions would be how the transition happens, the REAL gains will be from a new design. The Model S to the original Roadster. NASA's X-47 Maxwell actually explores what's needed for new designs while using very cheap LFP cells rather than lithium-ion, so it's expected that they can achieve more than 50% reduction in required energy by reducing structural weight and using distributed propulsion. EDIT: LFP cells also have a higher discharge rate than lithium-ion, but a lower energy density. Elon and Tesla are already seriously trying to make them work for the Model 3 (it would increase their profit margins massively). LFP cells also happen to have twice the lifespan of lithium-ion in terms of cycles so it's even better for a jump plane with lots of cycles.
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If the batteries themselves really could take shear stress, my first question is, "how much?" and this holds the potential to reduce the weight of the wing structure, since you'll be able to reduce or even remove the wing ribs completely. If you reduce the weight, you increase payload/range. This will have to be a new-design electric for certification though. Wings usually need stiffening against shear stress (caused by bending) because they contain materials with zero shear stiffness.
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You REALLY don't know how journalism works (or rather, should work) No, I expect them to allow other journalists, fact checkers, and experts to confirm the story, like how a Fox News journalist confirmed the Atlantic's story about Trump calling dead soldiers "suckers" and "losers". Posts like Turtle's are actually banned on Facebook and Twitter. That dz.com allowed him to post it is already quite lenient.
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Do you have any other actual sources than nypost which posted the initial unverified story anyway? And no, please not the Daily Mail.
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Well a link would be helpful, I couldn't find any.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/hunter-biden-ukraine.html You must be panicking now to miss something like this.
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One - I don't pray Two - I'm not even American, I am just watching with amusement as Trump's chances deteriorate. Three - this shows how little respect you have for actual journalism. They have to verify sources, anonymise them if necessary, and do a lot of work that can be cross-checked and verified. There are those that don't do it, but usually they are fired and go to work for the Daily Mail to make shit up. Four - it's actually getting painfully obvious that it's you who's getting worked up with this. I don't give a shit, I'll let people verify it or not before drawing any conclusions. You, on the other hand, are neck deep in it. Because you WANT to believe, desperately.
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Again, the burden of proof is on the accuser. It's not guilty until proven innocent - the so-called "evidence" needs to be verified independently, and it hasn't so far. So I don't have to prove or defend anything. But you're really committed to this, it's cute must be mourning the demise of the "unmasking" scandal...
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It wouldn't be a first. So you're an expert journalist/IT expert now? Tell us more about email forensics and how it was verified to be true from multiple verified sources edit: that Facebook and Twitter's independent fact checkers couldn't verify, that the campaign denied, but to you is overwhelming
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But but but...it's the NEW biggest political scandal in HISTORY! After this previous biggest scandal in history: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=933124643889385
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Right wing repeater is right on time Were your posts kicked off Facebook or Twitter? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/facebook-twitter-biden-trump-election-2020-b1041272.html
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They survived, but for at least one case the second infection was more severe than the first: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30764-7/fulltext
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Well, that was before I did my calculations. I told you, math is not intuitive. My intuition is like yours so I said that at the time. But when I actually did calculations a few days ago it turned out that number was pretty small. I didn't believe it at first (and thought my logarithms were getting rusty) so I checked it several times. Anyway - for my original assertion that you fell for Trump's BS, since I don't really have time to search your post history I'll concede and retract that statement. I must have mistaken you for Turtlespeed as you usually take his side. Now he's one to fall for pretty much everything.
