Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
@freemo Making the steel for the blades needs some care, mainly so that the makers can use it OK. Odd to think they were part of a 100 ton pot of liquid in their past.
@Frances_Coppola You can fit a d into the space for a g though. Like I did just then.
@Frances_Coppola You might end up with M0>M4 and that's not allowed anyway cos you can't fit a bid doll inside a smaller one.
Dr Keith Walker
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Latest Coppola Comment post debunks the money multiplier myth, yet again. I really shouldn't be still having to do this 15 years after Lehman. But some people who should know better seem intent on resurrecting it.
https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/the-money-multiplier-myth-refuses
@sciencebase Anates insania is better for 'Madness of Ducks' than my original shite effort.
@sciencebase Surely 300th deserves a commemorative song.
@sciencebase Anatidae madness? (It's suppose to mean 'ducks' but it a bit shit).
Dr Keith Walker
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Here is a question.
If the impeachment process had worked properly against Trump, would all (or some) of these indictments have still happened?
@sciencebase It doesn't quite work if it were never there and I was thinking about its larva for the cover art anyway.
@sciencebase Sid Lobster Moth. Absent from the trap again, like Barret was.
@sciencebase I thought you might nick summat from Wish You Were Here for the Lobster Moth ;-)
@sciencebase Lobster moth?
Dr Keith Walker
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Dr Keith Walker
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A reminder, in case you missed it ... I'm starting a newsletter!
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Dr Keith Walker
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[EDIT] FLIP is saved!
https://newatlas.com/marine/flipping-flip-ship-saved/
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Well it had to happen eventually. #Scripps is retiring FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform). This is an amazing piece of engineering (and soooo weird on the inside - everything pivots, so walls become floors). The #ship to be towed out to a location, and it would literally flip, sinking most of the ship directly down to give a *very stable platform for #oceanography research. Launched in 1962.
@freemo And the impatient "Come on, ffs" that went with it every time.
@Frances_Coppola The Venn diagram of rude/aggressive and MMTs is different from what I thought!
@Frances_Coppola Wasn't M Thatcher one of those, amongst other things?
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
