Harold Asmis @hasmis@social.cleverlibre.org

Norad does a fine job tracking Santa -- Sometime around 1979, our rock mechanics graduate students visited the Norad facilities to look at the rock. Norad is located deep underground at an undisclosed location somewhere in Canada. :)
The great thing was that they were terrified of replacing their tube computers, with something using transistors. There were two computers, each taking up the space of a huge room. Everyday, the technicians would switch and over-volt one. Tubes that blew out would be replaced. The remaining tubes would last a whole day. The replacement standing in the wings was the size of a washing machine.

#weather Good Morning Toronto -- Merry Christmas. Today we wake up to a marginal white Christmas. Should be 2cm on the ground, but we're at 1.9. The radar shows that any second now, we'll top the requirement. :)

@lxo OMG, good thing you didn't read that other thing I said. Merry Christmas.

@szescstopni Where again? Snowmobile time.

Just starting running Linux on an old Pixel Slate. It is held together with a lot of glue.

@freemo Keep up the faith!

The joke that fell flat put me off again. I can't fight against the influencers with physics. It's death.. Good-bye, I'm back to my blog.

Epilogue - Sadly, the schnook died a homeless pauper, begging for coins from BMW's. The root cause was demonstrated to the influencers by the Great Feynman who dipped an o-ring into his Scotch on the Rocks. They raised their eyebrows and immediately flipped to the 'Stupidity Defense'. "Why did we not know about this?" He died shortly after, being smashed by a selfie death off a cliff. :(

@cirriustech At these temperatures, there are so many more booby traps.

#physics NASA Groupthink video

https://youtu.be/8mCKhj6oU60

We all had to see this as nuclear engineers. It's a lesson buried in 'unlearned' history. In summary, all 'scientists' just assumed things, that they knew nothing about. This is true 'scientific consensus'. The poor schnook physics guy was crucified for not laying his body on the shuttle launch rails. That is why I don't recommend physics for anybody. Leads to early death. :)

@Jon6705 Right now, fridges are twice the normal price, like cars.

#weather #physics Power fails at only -44C. This is good physics - copper shrinks in the cold. However, I think they have been deluded by the past warm cycle. They should read Jack London.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/power-restored-dawson-city-outage-1.6696508

#weather Driver door frozen shut. Quite the contortion to start the car from the passenger seat.

@tonic I would love for her to come over here (the place with no name). She could cover the whole 'Mastodon is not Mastodon' debate.

#weather #physics The physics of Toronto weather is that it is 'moderated' by the Great Lakes. Thus, we are 'tropical' with a wind chill of -26C. Those of you without lakes might be a tad colder. :) Using 'evil physics' Toronto will hit -30C this year, once the lakes freeze up. This is pipe-freezing weather. :(

@tonic I also find that my home-made (in Canada) cannabis oil is good for physics.

@tonic No, but was never the hypothesis of the carbon thermal blanket. Also the hypothesis of the 'ocean heat systems shutting down' gives the same effect, and
can be measured. Less ocean plume activity gives rise to more extreme weather. So, I am not 'contesting' in a debate format, because I suck at that, I am merely presenting the physics alternative. I totally believe in climate change. When I flip into 'evil physics mode', I come up with things consistent with physics.

I have recommended that nobody pursues physics. It's unsettling and always has you contesting the group-think. It makes you take anti-depressants. :( DO NOT DO IT!

#physics NASA doubles down. They are still going with the 'long term trend' which is like saying Bitcoin is still rising. However, they could never say 'it's sinking' because that would hit their popularity. I've always found that if an institution 'can't' say anything, they won't. :)