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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: September 22, 2016, 1:27 pm
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[center]World’s Biggest Ship Lift Opens in China[/center]
September 21, 2016 by Mike Schuler
Photo of the ship lift at the Three Gorges Dam in China is the
world’s largest (at article link).
Officials in China have began testing the world’s largest ship
lift at the massive Three Gorges Dam in Central China.
The shiplift can lift vessels up to 3,000 tons across a vertical
distance of 113 meters from the reservoir to the river below.
The ship chamber itself has a pool of water 120-meters long by
18-meters wide and 3.5-meters deep. The lift was built to
accommodate mostly small and medium-sized vessels, as larger
ships use the dam’s adjacent five-tiered lock system to navigate
the waterway. In addition to boosting capacity, the new lift is
also expected to reduce transit time for most vessels from
several hours to under one hour.
Trials of the lift began last Sunday after more than a decade of
planning and construction. Check out this video below:
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Spanning the Yangtze River, the Three Gorges Dam is the world’s
largest hydropower project. Although the dam has been in
commission since 2003, the power station opened in 2012 and in
2014 it set a new world record by producing 98.8 TWh of power.
Of course the world’s largest hydro-power dam is not without its
share of controversy. While it is marveled by some for its
amazing feat of engineering, the dam is notoriously debated both
in China and overseas over issues related to its location and
development, the displacement of people, and the ecological and
environmental impacts that it has had on the area.
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: September 23, 2016, 12:40 pm
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[center]Big WHOOPS![/center]
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: October 3, 2016, 5:20 pm
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[center]A search engine that respects your privacy! [img
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(long read) 8)
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Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
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John Paul Titlow 02.20.14 9:35 AM
In 2008, launching a search engine seemed like a crazy idea.
Here's how Gabriel Weinberg proved the critics wrong. ;D
SNIPPET:
When Gabriel Weinberg launched a search engine in 2008, plenty
of people thought he was insane. How could DuckDuckGo, a tiny,
Philadelphia-based startup, go up against Google? One way, he
wagered, was by respecting user privacy. Six years later, we're
living in the post-Snowden era, and the idea doesn't seem so
crazy.
In fact, DuckDuckGo is exploding.
Looking at a chart of DuckDuckGo's daily search queries, the
milestones are obvious. A $3 million investment from Union
Square Ventures in 2011. Just prior to that, a San Francisco
billboard campaign. Inclusion in Time's 50 Best Websites of
2011. Each of these things moved the traffic needle for
DuckDuckGo, but none of them came close to sparking anything
like the massive spike in queries the company saw last July.
That's when Edward Snowden first revealed the NSA's extensive
digital surveillance program to the world. The little blue line
on the chart hasn't stopped climbing north since.
"Every year, we've grown 200-500%," Weinberg says. "The numbers
keep getting bigger." As of early February, DuckDuckGo was
seeing more than 4 million search queries per day. One year ago,
that number had just barely broken 1 million.
Surprisingly, the sudden success didn't send the site crashing
down. Nor did it change the company's stripped-down, razor-sharp
focus. Here's how one small company is slowly, surely beating
its way into the most monopolized category in technology.
Three Ideas In One: Where DuckDuckGo Came From
Weinberg didn't originally set out to build a search engine.
After shuttering one failed startup and selling another to
Classmates.com for $10 million in 2006, the MIT grad found
himself exploring several new ideas. Across multiple projects,
he focused on structured data, Quora-style Q&A, and
programmatically combating spam.
"I started all of these projects independently and none of them
really took off," Weinberg says. "Then I realized, maybe if I
put them all together, there might be an interesting search
experience there."
The result was DuckDuckGo, a search engine offering direct
answers to people's queries, rather than merely delivering a
list of links. Below these so-called "Instant Answers," the site
still displays traditional, link-by-link search results
syndicated from third parties like Bing and Yandex but,
crucially, they're filtered and reorganized to reduce spam.
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DuckDuckGo
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: October 5, 2016, 6:23 pm
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[center]Amazing Bridge Span Positioning Machine! :o
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: October 12, 2016, 1:49 pm
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[center]Up to 80,000 Trout Escape After Cargo Ship Crashes Into
Fish Farm in Denmark[/center]
October 11, 2016 by Reuters
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[center]The vessel involved in the incident is reported to be
the MV Karmel, a Maltese-flagged general cargo ship. Photo:
MarineTraffic.com/Aart van Bezooijen[/center]
ReutersCOPENHAGEN, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Danish anglers could be in
for the fishing trip of their lives in a few days’ time, after a
ship crashed into a fish farm and caused up to 80,000 rainbow
trout to escape into the open sea.
The cargo vessel, sailing from the Russian enclave of
Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea to Kolding in Denmark, collided
with the fish farm between the Danish islands Funen and Jutland
on Tuesday, aquafarming firm Snaptun Fisk told Reuters.
The trout, weighing about 3 kg (6.6 lb) each, had been due to be
slaughtered this week and were worth up to 10 million Danish
crowns ($1.5 million), said Tim Petersen, co-owner and director
at Snaptun Fisk.
“We will seek compensation from the shipowners,”
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he told Reuters.
The incident could damage the sea habitat, said Danish Technical
University Aqua researcher Jon Svendsen. The escapees are likely
to disturb the eggs and young of wild sea trout.
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The rainbow trout, unused to life in the open sea, should only
survive a few months.
“All sports fishermen should get out there with their gear and
start fishing,” Soren Knabe, director of fishing association
Vandpleje Fyn, told local broadcaster TV2/Fyn.
The trout will begin to bite after four to five days as they
adjust to life in open waters, said Ulrik Jeppesen, a local
angler, recalling similar previous incidents.
“I see this as a bit of a tragedy (for the environment), to be
honest,” he said. “But I will probably make a trip or two out
there.” (Reporting by Annabella Pultz Nielsen and Jacob
Gronholt-Pedersen; editing by Andrew Roche)
(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2016.
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Agelbert NOTE: Is rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) a
freshwater or saltwater fish? ???
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[center]Oncorhynchus mykiss[/center]
Rainbow trout usually mature at age 3 to 5 and grow to about 6
to 16 inches long, .... born in rivers but later venture out to
the ocean and adapt to the salt water.
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: October 30, 2016, 3:31 pm
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[center]Another Earthquake Shakes Italy :o :o :([/center]
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L'Aquila Mayor Massimo Cialente, left, talks on the phone
while surveying damage after the earthquake rattled the town on
Oct. 30, 2016. Alberto Orsini, epa
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: December 17, 2016, 4:48 pm
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[center]El Faro Container Ship sank October 1, 2015 in a
hurricane.[/center]
[center]El Faro, Top 10 Failures Of The NTSB Investigation –
gLive E21[/center]
December 16, 2016 by gCaptain
Agelbert NOTE: For full background info on the following video,
see the post after the video. The full transcript shows that
massive waves were striking the El Faro over an hour before it
sank. Beyond some talk about "seas near Alaska", the crew never
estimates the size of those waves.
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[center]Cargo ship severely listing as El Faro did shortly
before sinking in a hurricane.[/center]
A wave that hit the ship causing a list of over 38 degrees is
mentioned as a historical occurrence but at no time does the
crew, or the NTSB that heard the full transcript, (except with
"uhhhh" and "are you okay?" and "do you want a chair? - to the
helmsman") directly mention wave height as a clear and present
danger.
Admittedly, it was dark until the last hour or so, so they had
no way of visual measurement. But as experienced mariners, they
should have intuited wave height from the pounding.
When the ship was hulled, obviously it was caused by a powerful
wave.
I do not understand why the NTSB doesn't not want to talk about
wage height and damage unless they were told NOT to mention it
because of the link between climate change and increasingly
dangerous destructive waves. In the following video, the fact
that the fuel is stored inside a double hull is pointed at as a
major fault in the ship design. The containers are stored two
hulls away from the sea. BUT, the fuel is only ONE hull from the
sea.
SO, if the outer hull is pierced, the fuel gets contaminated and
you lose power. This is a potential death sentence in rough
seas. This happened to the El Faro.
But anyone reading/listening to the transcript of the last few
hours will note the massive hits they (low frequency sounds
recorded and helmsman difficulties) got BEFORE they lost power.
In fact, the ship was hulled BEFORE it lost power. So the wave
height should be considered as the primary cause of the eventual
sinking instead of the admittedly faulty design of storing fuel
in between hulls (a stupidity born of crude oil tanker design
documented by an MIT graduated expert in a book he wrote -
mentioned in the video).
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[center]NTSB Releases El Faro VDR Bridge Audio Transcript; Opens
Investigation Docket[/center]
December 13, 2016 by gCaptain
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Agelbert NOTE: EVERYTHING said on the bridge during the last
several harrowing hours is posted. The crew did all they could,
but the storm was too strong.
Climate Change will make the oceans more and more hostile to
shipping as the years go by. Yes, giant waves making shipping
difficult to impossible have been predicted by Climate
Scientists to increase, in frequency, size and duration, as a
Climate Change consequence of Global Warming.
Here's my three part article that contains a lot of info on
shipping that you may be interested in reading, as well as the
references to recent, peer reviewed scientific studies
predicting giant waves:
Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
Wave Activity: Three Part Article
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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
Wave Activity: PART TWO
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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean
Wave Activity: PART THREE
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: December 21, 2016, 12:50 pm
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[center]A "Deregulated" Regulus Cruise Missile "sending a
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[center]What’s the Fastest Way to Deliver Mail?[/center]
Domestic U.S. Air Mail was formally established as a class of
service by the United States Post Office on 15 May 1918, when
bags of mail were flown between Washington, Philadelphia, and
New York.
In 1959, the U.S. Navy took postal delivery to the next level by
packing a Regulus I cruise missile with mail aboard the
submarine USS Barbero, docked at Norfolk, Virginia, and
launching it to the naval air station in Mayport, Florida.
The missile, containing 3,000 letters symbolically addressed to
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and other government officials,
made the 100-mile (161 km) trip in 22 minutes. Although "rocket
mail" never caught on as a practical method of postal delivery,
the experiment succeeded as a not-so-subtle way to show off the
U.S. military’s state-of-the-art missile guidance system during
the Cold War.
The first and only missile mail:
•The storage space used for the mail was originally designed to
hold the missile’s nuclear warhead. The Regulus was capable of
sending mass destruction to a target 600 miles (966 km) away.
•U.S. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield was ecstatic,
saying, “Before man reaches the Moon, mail will be delivered
within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India
or Australia by guided missiles.” It was, however, the only time
a missile has carried mail in the United States.
•Some of the Regulus I letters have found their way into private
collections in the years since, and have sold for $100 USD or
more.
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Agelbert SNARK: The Trump [s]kleptocratic[/s] Administration,
after studying the Eisenhower Administration ;D, has figured
out a way to keep the "defense" contractors in bidness without
having to bomb brown people. ;)
FEDEX, the winner of the contract, has shown no interest in
painting their corporate logo on the Deregulated Regulus
because, according to a corporate cost/benefit analysis
spokesman, "The things go too fast to be seen well".
Of course, FEDEX will be given appropriate "subsidies", like the
other Brave and Loyal National Security Servants, the Fossil
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After all, the "job creators"
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must preserve all the
"jobs" that are "created" with OUR tax dollars.
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: January 9, 2017, 4:15 pm
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[center]Now if I can just stay clear of those cows, this should
work out all right. :D[/center]
[center]How Newsworthy Were the Wright Brothers’
First Flights? ???[/center]
It may surprise you to learn that news of the first-ever powered
airplane flight was not covered by the mainstream press.
It was actually a beekeeper named A.I. Root
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who first wrote
about Orville and Wilbur Wright’s early flights in the pages of
his obscure journal[font=times new roman] Gleanings in Bee
Culture[/font]. Although Root didn’t witness the first flight at
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in December 1903, he was on hand in
September 1904 when the brothers took a plane up and circled
around, returning to their starting place.
The Wright brothers had obtained permission to use a local cow
pasture known as Huffman Prairie, a few miles outside Dayton,
Ohio. The owner did not charge them, but he did ask that the
Wrights make sure his livestock were not harmed. Root witnessed
several other flights at Huffman Prairie and reported the
successes in his beekeeping journal.
The first family of fearless flying:
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•The Wrights built a hangar at Huffman Prairie and began
experimenting with their second airplane. They started to use a
catapult device to assist with takeoff in lighter winds.
•The Wrights added weight to the front of their 1904 Flyer to
shift the center of gravity forward and increase stability. They
also moved the elevator farther ahead of the wings, which made
the plane easier to fly.
•It took 49 flights for the Wrights to equal their Kitty Hawk
flight time. The first circular flight lasted 1 minute, 36
seconds and covered 4,080 feet (1.2 km).
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Agelbert NOTE: Cows do not take kindly to being buzzed by
airplanes. Back in 1966, the flight school I was attending at
Opa Locka airport in Florida received numerous complaints from
ranchers north of us (what was designated as the "practice area"
for student pilots) between North Miami and Ft. Lauderdale
(mostly open land at that time). The cows were being buzzed and
having abortions. I never buzzed any cows or people. But there
are stupid, empathy deficit disordered people in every
profession, I guess. The only time you were supposed to be below
600 feet (the lowest altitude for ground reference maneuvers
like turns about a point, pylon eights and S turns above a road)
was when you were simulating an emergency landing (you got to
about a 100 feet and then applied power when the instructor was
satisfied that you would survive the forced landing and possibly
not damage the aircraft).
I never went anywhere near a cow or a person. I saw cows and
people and was perfectly aware of where they were at so I assume
some idiots thought is was "fun" to buzz them. So it goes. There
are way too many Homo SAPS among Homo Sapiens. [img
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: February 24, 2017, 7:11 pm
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[center]Watch: Stricken ‘Tide Carrier’ Rockin’ and Rollin’ Off
Norway :o[/center]
February 23, 2017 by Mike Schuler
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Some new video posted by Norway’s Hovedredningssentralen
(spelling?) shows just how hairy the situation was yesterday for
the stricken Tide Carrier off Norway. As we reported, the
263-meter barge carrier was dragging anchor dangerously close to
shore just south of Bergen while dealing with some heavy
weather. During the day helicopters evacuated all non-essential
personnel and dropped […]
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