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I guess my title was a long shot. I literally wanted to see any other drummer play that song cause its the one song I simply can't comprehend how its possible to play. But I have to guess that for drummers its probably pretty routine stuff... thats why they're drummers! and Im not. @W2DR - I don't know why I thought you were going to post something more recent like Neil Peart or evn John Bonham. But the big band sound - yes, very cool. Im not sure what this qualifies as but I love it:

I want MSFS to have much more realistic looking and behaving weather/skies.

Well, that was something! I enjoyed seeing the steam locomotives puffing smoke as they would do. My dad bought me a Lionel kit when I was young. It had what I remember to a 4 6 2 with a coal tender and several cars and a small oval track. I loved that thing. That guys setup must have thousands and thousands of dollars of train parts alone. Made me tired just watching but the end was worth it.

I can't wrap my head around this drummers ability to play what appears two different time signatures at the same time. Its Crack The Sky doing a song called 'Ice"

yeah. I heard that and had to go listen to 'SongBird' real quick.

I meant locally, Noel.

Is this about the guy they just rescued off the coast of louisianna? he fell off a cruise ship one night? Thats amazing that they were able to find him.

I tend to think that people pay for others because it makes themselves feel good. Its quite common here apparently. People pay for others food in fast food drive lanes or at sit down restaurants. I hope people help those who cant get everything they need with EBT cards (foodstamps). In Dallas you weren't allowed to buy toilet paper or soap. I saw a mother told she couldnt buy baby formula. I found it embarrasing to be on foodtsamps myself. I think thats what they wanted me to fel.

I would suggest getting an inexpensive laptop for around $300 with Windows already installed. You could also go for an Android laptop for even less I think. either way you would have internet access. And I don't know what you pay for Dish but you might check into one of those Fire TV devices and a subscription to YoutubeTV. Amazon is always having sales on the devices and YouTube is about $70 per month. Glad to hear you and the house are OK...and flightsim computer! I got myself an XBoxS just to make sure I could fly.

In a trailer I once lived in there were little jumping spiders. They were hyperactive little things - about 1/4 inch in diameter -- if you got too close to them they would jump on you. At the time I slept on a small mattress on the floor and on the wall, near the ceiling, above the bed, was a flourescent blacklight fixture that they used to sell for people like me. One night I was having a dream -- but I didn't know it was a dream because it was me laying in my bed and I was watching this small black spot above me where the wall met the ceiling. It was obviously a small bug but I wasn't sure if it was one of those spiders or not. It seemed to move too slowly but it was round like they were. I kept watching as it slowly moved very small amounts basically in the same spot. Suddenly as I watched the spot started to grow and it grew much faster and it grew huge and then fell on top of me. In my dream I screamed and put out my arms to try and stop it. and then I became concious -- and I was doing a push up off of my bed and the blacklight had just fallen where my head just was. How could I have seen that as I was laying on my stomach...asleep.

What about airports on hills that overlook a lot of scenery? or what about an airport in a valley surrounded by mountains covered in scenery? Dynamic LOD sounds great but the only way to properly implement it that I can think of would involve line of sight calculations which may or may not slow everything down.

Well I've told my ghost story before several times... I feel like everyone knows it already but the whole reason I ever shared it was in the hopes that it would get some people to acknowledge our 'science' has very limited eyesight and doesnt even want to look for things that are very much certainly there (where? ). My story is from when I was a teenager and we were in the habit of going to this old church. It was supposed to be haunted but we had never seen anything until this one night. We were walking up from one corner of the property and I see this odd purplish mist unfurl itself (really dont know how to describe what I saw) from behind a tombstone and it became an erect black translucent figure that was like a shadow you'd see on the ground under a full moon. I saw it rise up and float across the ground and pause for a second and then head towards a large tree on the property and thats when Derrick, on the far right, said "Did you see that?" and my friend Eddy between me and Derrick to my right, said something to the effect of " you mean a shadow that came up from there and floated over there?" pointing to the top of the hill and then Derrick said something to the effect of "yeah, and then it floated towards that tree"... and all this time this is what I was seeing but I hadn't said a word. Derrick took off running toward the thing and Eddy followed and I reluctantly followed. The thing went past the tree a bit and then went and tried to hide where an old outhouse used to be. I think one of our other friends may have been the one to tear that outhouse down -- not sure. And it really looked like it was trying to hide. It was clearly trying to get away from Derrick and Eddy. It realized it couldnt hide in the outhouse when Derrick and Eddy changed there trajectory so as to follow the thing and it went from there up to the edge of the old church where it just vanished. I get the feeling that we may already be part of wherever it is that 'ghosts' are. I think we are ghosts with physical substance and its the ghost part that has the connections to one another and/or knowledge that we couldn't/shouldn't have. I read not too long ago about a science experiment involving a medium conducting a seance and the use of a geiger counter which picked up unusual radiation in a spot that the medium claimed was a spirit. Who knows how much we don't know? not I. I think most people 'rest' and thats why the world isn't teeming with ghosts but some are either lost or just don't want to move on and those are what we would call 'ghosts'.

yes, Chock, pretty strange. When my grandmother died, ... after my grandmother died but not long after, both my mom and dad claimed to have encountered a 'ghost' that they just knew was her. They were both very comforted. Theres a lot more to this life than meets the eye.

I don't know how they justify that and I don't know if they pay you for your generated power. As I said before, I've contacted no one about getting more serious with a solar install. I only know that some places are more favorable for solar than others. In some places they encourage solar with rebates and such and in others they discourage solar by allowing penalties.(personal solar). But I'm glad you found that video. There are a number of companies selling 'solar generators' and many of them are using less safe lithium polymer batteries and they provide less capacity for much more money than what a person can build on their own.

I would buy the first four on your list (and probably others) but I'd love to have KPTK the most. KMTN and something in the Philly area like others have said. I'm also up for more Florida airports like Naples, Punta Gorda, venice... is there a Page Field in there?

I'm not sure you're correct about that. Just two days ago I watched a video by a guy in the UK demonstrating an Eco-Worthy kit that he bought and whether he could power his small office with it. To my surprise he could... don't know what the long term situation is though as it was more of a "guy gets paid to sell stuff" kind of review imo. I think you'll notice that none of the people building their own stuff are grid tied. Mine is a portable generator for the most part. If someone here in the US wanted to do major electrical work that involved the grid, it would have to be inspected and some of it, I am sure, would be required to be done by an electrician. I just dont know if a solar installer would allow a homeowner to build/maintain their own battery bank.

It appears to me that the number of EVs that have solar panels built into them is increasing. These vehicles take advantage of the fact that most people only drive a limited distance each day. The vehicle in the video Martin posted earlier (like the Aptera and others) can go long periods without charging from the grid for most people because they recharge from the sun each day to cover the distance travelled. Very little grid tie at all.

@psolk Do you know if New Jersey residents are allowed to construct and use their own battery banks? My two batteries cost about $1700 total. Together they provide at least 4800Wh of capacity. They are LiFePo4 with a 5 year warranty and are expected to last 10 years. When I looked at the Tesla firewall, it seemed a bit expensive for the capacity. There are other brands available as well that beat Tesla the last time I checked. Building your own seems cheapest.

I lost my HBO subscription so I can't watch it yet. But -- How many GOT members does it have? Is the mother of dragons played by the same lady? (forget her name at the moment)

In Alabama, where both dave2013 and I live, grid tie gets complicated. Alabama Power, the states largest utility, is allowed to charge people who choose to have panels and be grid tied (I make the assumption that they don't charge unless you are grid tied), they are allowed to charge $5.42 per kiloWatt of installed capacity so for a 17KW system that would be $92.14 per month. thats $1,106 each year just in fees. Batteries are supposed to bear(sic?) the brunt of large loads because they can. Even my two batteries (24V 200Ah, each 100Amp continuous for 1 hour) could supply 4800W continuously for 1 hour. The combined costs of the two batteries was about $1700. Solar capacity varies all over the place. Batteries regulate the capacity and loads should be adjusted for your comfort. Like if theres three cans of generic black and white spaghetti in the basement and it has to last a week, you make it last. I've been trying to figure out if I could make part of the house solar/battery powered with the big A/C kept on the grid. My coop charges me $50 a month just for existing and I havent even begun to find out if anything I may want to do is possible (legally)(financially)

I'm sorry, Martin. I know that's not true. I was just putting two arguments against EV's that I've heard and put them side by side figuring it would make some people stop and think what a couple of oxymoronic comments those are. "No one can afford them" and yet "so many will buy them that the grid will collapse". Facts like what you state about past electrical usage escape many. Here in The US , corruption is rampant and yet people still believe what they are told by those who make money from the status quo. Its why I included the part about oil prices reaching their peak in 2008 -- but yet gas prices were lower. and then we could talk profit margins... The truth is out there 🙂

they're too expensive - no one can afford one... the grid will fail because everyone will buy one overnight. seriously... did you know that oil prices were much higher 15 years ago than at any recent point in time?

batteries are what allow you to get away with fewer solar panels. No average house needs or could use 17kW ever second of the day. A lot of that energy would be wasted if you're not feeding it back to the grid and around here they actually charge you for trying to be grid tied. The battery is a regulator. You just need to be thoughtful about your actual needs versus wants. Each of my two batteries can deliver 100Amps for one hour. over 200 Amps for 6 seconds I think it is. They are in parallel for 200 Amps if needed. A large bank could easily provide an average houses needs. Really what matters is your peak wattage needs and your peak kWh needs and how much sun you get.

Well...since you don't mind (and are definitely smart and patient): Is space expanding? yes or no If (yes): Is our galaxy getting bigger? (aka is all literal space getting 'bigger'?) and also; if galaxies are moving away from us at faster and faster rates, wouldn't it be likely that galaxies we used to be able to see, we now can't? and as a crazy question (yeah...) - how do we know that space is what is changing and not time? maybe time = 0 at the Bing Bang and the frame keeps expanding (like maybe we're falling into a giant black hole or something 🤐)

I forgot you had solar. Thats pretty cool that it helps so much in the summer. Does it have battery backup or does it use micro-inverters? or something else? I'm really having fun with my experiemntal power backup system. Its just a couple batteries I bought online plus a few solar panels, an inverter and a charge controller. it seems to work for its purpose but I am really tempted to try something bigger and more permanent.