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@icedquinn

If it's in LEO, then atmospheric drag requires fuel to maintain orbit. If it's solar system or even interstellar, there are still some molecules out there that will eventually effect velocity.

@eren

Criticizing Mastodon?

As long as they spell the name right!

@peterdrake

I always wear an elastomeric respirator, because: it's more comfortable than a FFP N9 mask; it is more efficient at filtering (N100 or P100); and it is easier to do a seal check on it.

I don't care what it looks like -- any mask looks kind of silly, really. (I'm old enough to remember when they used to laugh at people for wearing a seatbelt in the car, but I wore it anyway.)

>"Hoping good hopes for the new round of boosters..."

We won't know the effectiveness of the bivalent boosters for some time -- they aren't doing any human trials on them before they're released to the general public.

@peterdrake

Can't help you with the sound effects, but 3M makes an elastomeric respirator with a special sound diaphram so it more readily transmits sound wave through the mask.

I've tried placing a mic inside the mask, but it doesn't sound any better than placing it outside of the mask.

@skyblond

Yes, redundant storage is more reliable. You could use a regular hard drive for daily or weekly backup for triple redundancy.

It sounds like will need to backup to multiple different cloud services anyway. Also, ISPs can be unreliable, too.

@skyblond

1T thumb drive; one time charge of < $50 USD. >100MB/s

@inference

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Bingo!

https://qoto.org/@Pat/108914873197254818
https://qoto.org/@Pat/108914874726465887

Key word, "afford".

@xehatug

Prove it.

@mc

As far as I know, “lad” and “lid” are not correct pronunciations of “lead”, at least not in 21st century American English.

Also, I’ve noticed that in British English, sometime the definite article, “the” is sometimes dropped, e.g., “He went to [the] hospital.” I don’t know if this is also the case with the word “lead”.

TTS may refer to:
Places
Taman Tasik Semenyih, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a student town
Toba Tek Singh District, a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan
Toba Tek Singh Tehsil
Toba Tek Singh, Punjab, Pakistan
Schools
Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary
Tanglin Trust School, Singapore
Thomas Telford School, a City Technology College in Telford, Shropshire
Science
Temporary threshold shift, auditory fatigue
Tarsal tunnel syndrome, foot condition
Three-taxon analysis, a method of phylogenetic reconstruction
Time-temperature superposition, in polymer physics
Time translation symmetry, in physics
Transdermal therapeutic system, a drug delivery system
T Tauri star, a class of variable stars
Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, a rare medical condition of blood clotting yet with low platelet counts
Technology
Text-to-speech
Teletypesetter
Transaction Tracking System, in Novell NetWare
Technology Transformation Services, an organizational sub-unit of the U.S. General Services Administration
Other
Audi TTS, a car
Girls' Generation-TTS, subgroup of South Korean musical group Girls' Generation
Tower Transit Singapore, a bus operating company in Singapore
Tanker Transport Services BV, Dutch barge tanker transportation company
Telegraphic transfer, selling rate in Japan
Trader tax status, a form of business in the U.S. for securities trading

(from wikipedia)

@trinsec

Also, I was wrong about the adjective forms. There is another adjective form of lead I didn’t think of – “She is the lead singer.”)

@trinsec @mc

>"The word "lead" has a lot of meaning..."

I have no idea how those words came to appear the way they did in my toot. This is how my brain wrote that toot:
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The word "lead" has a many different meanings, it can be a noun or a verb. By saying "is", it implies that the first "lead" is most likely a noun, then the second would be a noun or an adjective. But the only adjective forms of lead are “leadless” or “leaden”, so that second “lead” in the sentence can’t be an adjective.
>"Why not 'to lead' is 'Pb' (heavy)?"
"To lead" is a different form than just "lead". If you wanted to say that, it would be "To lead is leaden", or "Leading is leaden", or "Leadership is leaden".

@trinsec @mc

@trinsec @mc

For clarification, I don't doubt that
English can sometimes be an ambiguous languge.

@trebach@mstdn.social

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@tanweerdar@mstdn.social

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #technology #sea #navy #war #future #FTW #asylum #big #guns

Retro SciFi of the Week…

American Warships (2012)

If you’re a fan of independent films, I highly recommend this one.

This ten-year-old film is what’s known in the business as a “mockbuster”, a lower budget film with a similar name or theme as a major studio film and released around the same time. The idea is that the major studio will spend a ton of money promoting the big film, and then the low-budget mockbuster film will “draft” off of all that promotion, with audiences wanting to see similar films or sometimes mistaking the low-budget film for the major studio film. In this case, the big film was Battleship (2012).

However, despite having a budget of less than 1% of that major motion picture, this mockbuster, American Warships, was a much better film. Battleship got sunk at the box office (and with critics), while American Warships made money for Asylum (the independent studio that produced American Warships).

As a low budget film, this one lacks the high-quality computer graphics of major studio films at that time, but it makes up for it with great casting, a well-written script, decent thespians, a unique plot, and an overall high-production value (except the CG).

Note: Don’t read any descriptions or watch trailers for this one, most of them contain major spoilers.

(image: fair use low-res movie poster)

@trinsec @mc

The word "lead" has a lot of meaning, it can be a noun or a verb. By saying "is", that implies that the first "lead" is most likely a a noun, then the second would be a noun or a adjective. But the only adjective forms of lead are “leadless” or “leaden”, so that second “lead” in the sentence can’t be an adjective.

>"Why not 'to lead' is 'Pb' (heavy)?"

"To lead" is a different form than just "lead". If you wanted to say that, it would be "To lead is leaden", or "Leading is leaden", or "Leadership is leaden".

This is long CoVID...

If Biden had worn a respirator whenever he was around other people, he would not have gotten infected with the virus and he would not still be sick from it.

#masks #respirators #N95 #covid19 #potus

@ruddyrid

Is that all you got -- parroting other people's memes?

@freemo

@iankenway

Apparently this is a non-interactive account. Absolutely no interaction with other users for over three weeks.

I'll give it a couple of days to prove otherwise...

***Help Forum***

[SOLVED] Why won’t engine #3 cool down properly?

Ans: Just try again on Saturday, and if it messes up again you can just scrub the launch one more time and then spend a bunch of taxpayer money trying to change out the sensor while the thing is already on the launch pad.

(Tip: Next time put in multiple, redundant, cheap (in money and weight) sensors throughout the engine so you’ll know exactly whats going on.)

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-provide-update-on-artemis-i-moon-mission-status

#artemis #moon #nasa #scrub #private #spaceflight

Bowman: “Well HAL, I'm damned if I can find anything wrong with it.”

HAL: “I would recommend that we put the unit back in operation and let it fail.”

HAL: “We can certainly afford to be out of [commission] for the short time it will take to replace it.”

#artemis #scrub