I used to travel constantly on sales calls. Got so sick of Clinton News Network. Then I retired, 9-11 happened, TSA was born, and I vowed never to fly again unless it absolutely could not be helped. Made two trips in the past 25 years — son’s wedding in Hawaii (couldn’t drive it) and uncle’s funeral in Tampa (couldn’t drive it in time). Meanwhile, I’m hearing that CNN in airports is now dead? You’re welcome!
They’d confiscate it at the security check when nobody knew what it was but sitting in the lounge trying codes until you found the right one would be a peaceful way to pass the time waiting…assuming they were using big screens with tuners and not just direct feed monitors…they always find a way to take the fun out of everything 🙁
Unlike a lot of people, I think we should go back to the Moon. To stay.
Why build “space stations” in low Earth orbit when nature supplied us with one a quarter-million miles out, with all the necessary raw materials to build whatever we need right there, on site?
Launching a Mars mission, or any other deep space op, will be a lot easier when assembling the bits in orbit starts with lofting them against only one-sixth standard G. Plus, no atmospheric friction or comm signal attenuation to fool with.
Heinlein had it right. Build the Freeport of the Solar System right there.
You’re right. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and it’s been ignored too long. That book is a great blueprint for how to set it up (technology wise, not politically)
Water has been proven to exist on the moon, that’s a lot of oxygen, plus hydrogen for fuel, and while solar power is useless doen here, up there it would be available in abundance to break the water down into O and H2, as well as other oxygen containing minerals…until the greenies started complaining about ‘destroying the environment’ with solar panel farms…the liebrals of course would want wind farms.
I’m with Unca Walt…
If we don’t lean on these folks, it’ll be back to the same old crap. They have to know we are right at their shoulders, ready to land on ’em if they keep dickin’ around.
And, they’re going to keep dickin’ around. Bitch McConnell is already trying to RINOtage the Senate leadership to thwart any MAGA agenda legislation. Hopefully, our creator will send that dinosaur to a museum to be fed Chinese pablum for his remaining existence.
Bitch hand picked (groomed) South Dakota Senator John Thune as his anointed successor years ago.
November 12, 2024 at 8:40 am
James McEnanly
On my most recent excursions through four airports, Gerald R. Ford (Grand Rapids, MI), La Guardia, Logan, and Detroit Metro, I didn’t even notice any television screens, aside from those used to show which flights were at which gates. Most people had a phone or tablet.
The airport CNN screen has apparently gone the way of the pay phone.
The difference is that I miss pay phones.
In disasters and etc., hardline phones powered by 64V DC still worked even when cell towers were down, as long as the lines were still connected. Never underestimate the usefulness of a comm system that works when SHTF.
I always kept one ‘landline’ phone for just that reason, but the company came by a few years ago and put in a ‘7 day batteyr pack’ then shut down the original lines. First power failure…no phone. Second power failure after replacing the box…no phone. Such is ‘green technology’…it doesn’t use any power if it doesn’t work.
November 12, 2024 at 8:47 pm
MasterDiver
That’s why I keep a landline connected to my house. We have cells for regular use, but I have a old-fashioned plug-in phone ready to go. I Normally keep it unplugged. When we first moved in, i connected it and within 10 minutes we got the first SPAM call.
Zar Belk!
November 12, 2024 at 12:30 pm
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
A Feel Good Story (i.e., bad guys get whacked by the good guys they’re trying to rob) set in Florida (who lives there?), on (drum roll………….) Double D Ranch Trail. ROFLOL!!
Synergy? Coincidence? Definitely fun. Enjoy.
Check out the aerial image on Google maps. Semi remote location, check. Large main house with out buildings, check. Remote residences for long time friends to live in, check. And, its even got water. Swimmin’ holes!! Check mate!!
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I used to travel constantly on sales calls. Got so sick of Clinton News Network. Then I retired, 9-11 happened, TSA was born, and I vowed never to fly again unless it absolutely could not be helped. Made two trips in the past 25 years — son’s wedding in Hawaii (couldn’t drive it) and uncle’s funeral in Tampa (couldn’t drive it in time). Meanwhile, I’m hearing that CNN in airports is now dead? You’re welcome!
I carried my phone and tuned to the FOX website or LUCIANNE.COM. Haven’t watched CNN except under duress for over 20 years.
Zar Belk!
CNN quit paying airports to show their propaganda during the covid debacle and they never returned.
Nailed down the House…all right it’s a trifecta now it’s time to go to work!
IMO, it is the actual last chance…
The collapse of the MSM would be one of DJT’s absolutely greatest achievements.
Good start with MSNBC and all its blabberers losing MORE THAN HALF its viewers in the few days after the election,,,they cannot sustain!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-hemorrhaging-viewers-since-election-day-sheds-more-than-half-of-primetime-audience
There were time when I wished I had a Universal Remote to change channels.
They’d confiscate it at the security check when nobody knew what it was but sitting in the lounge trying codes until you found the right one would be a peaceful way to pass the time waiting…assuming they were using big screens with tuners and not just direct feed monitors…they always find a way to take the fun out of everything 🙁
Unlike a lot of people, I think we should go back to the Moon. To stay.
Why build “space stations” in low Earth orbit when nature supplied us with one a quarter-million miles out, with all the necessary raw materials to build whatever we need right there, on site?
Launching a Mars mission, or any other deep space op, will be a lot easier when assembling the bits in orbit starts with lofting them against only one-sixth standard G. Plus, no atmospheric friction or comm signal attenuation to fool with.
Heinlein had it right. Build the Freeport of the Solar System right there.
It’s time to make some dreams come true.
clear ether
eon
I agree!
Pulling back after getting there was/is ridiculous.
Letting those resources just sit there is criminal.
You’re right. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and it’s been ignored too long. That book is a great blueprint for how to set it up (technology wise, not politically)
The problem with the moon is that pesky “no atmosphere” thing. I wouldn’t plan on staying long in someplace I had to take my own air.
Water has been proven to exist on the moon, that’s a lot of oxygen, plus hydrogen for fuel, and while solar power is useless doen here, up there it would be available in abundance to break the water down into O and H2, as well as other oxygen containing minerals…until the greenies started complaining about ‘destroying the environment’ with solar panel farms…the liebrals of course would want wind farms.
China won’t just let them sit there…
I’m with Unca Walt…
If we don’t lean on these folks, it’ll be back to the same old crap. They have to know we are right at their shoulders, ready to land on ’em if they keep dickin’ around.
And, they’re going to keep dickin’ around. Bitch McConnell is already trying to RINOtage the Senate leadership to thwart any MAGA agenda legislation. Hopefully, our creator will send that dinosaur to a museum to be fed Chinese pablum for his remaining existence.
Thought he had announced he was going to retire?
Bitch hand picked (groomed) South Dakota Senator John Thune as his anointed successor years ago.
On my most recent excursions through four airports, Gerald R. Ford (Grand Rapids, MI), La Guardia, Logan, and Detroit Metro, I didn’t even notice any television screens, aside from those used to show which flights were at which gates. Most people had a phone or tablet.
The airport CNN screen has apparently gone the way of the pay phone.
The difference is that I miss pay phones.
In disasters and etc., hardline phones powered by 64V DC still worked even when cell towers were down, as long as the lines were still connected. Never underestimate the usefulness of a comm system that works when SHTF.
And always carry a roll of quarters. 😉
clear ether
eon
I always kept one ‘landline’ phone for just that reason, but the company came by a few years ago and put in a ‘7 day batteyr pack’ then shut down the original lines. First power failure…no phone. Second power failure after replacing the box…no phone. Such is ‘green technology’…it doesn’t use any power if it doesn’t work.
That’s why I keep a landline connected to my house. We have cells for regular use, but I have a old-fashioned plug-in phone ready to go. I Normally keep it unplugged. When we first moved in, i connected it and within 10 minutes we got the first SPAM call.
Zar Belk!
CM,
This should interest you.
RUSKIN, Fla. (WFLA)
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=163095
A Feel Good Story (i.e., bad guys get whacked by the good guys they’re trying to rob) set in Florida (who lives there?), on (drum roll………….) Double D Ranch Trail. ROFLOL!!
Synergy? Coincidence? Definitely fun. Enjoy.
“Who lives there?”
Well I do. Some others here too.
But not Chris. Not anymore.
The Double D Ranch? There has GOT to be a connection!
Check out the aerial image on Google maps. Semi remote location, check. Large main house with out buildings, check. Remote residences for long time friends to live in, check. And, its even got water. Swimmin’ holes!! Check mate!!
This one?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/bKijSqxxZaYvBbMt8
Dammit.
And that’s an airstrip, too, unless my eyes are failing me.