Random Posts (An alternate to side discussions)

[Ben]

Public service reminder!

Read at your own risk!

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The situation that is developing between N Korea and the US could be devastating. I have heard and read reports indicating that N Korea has up to 60 atomic weapons. The missile delivery systems may now be possible to deliver them as far as the US.

It only takes about 4 nukes deployed as EMP weapons to take out most of the electronics in use today and destroy the electrical grid.

The US has moved to a "just in time delivery" system for food delivered to grocery stores. The old-time "back-room" simply does not exist. If the electronics that tell what needs to go where when, and controls the operation of the vehicles and machinery that moves that food are damaged, the "World As We Know It" could change very fast and without warning.

There is no harm in having some food stock-piled along with water for you and your family.

While I invite one and all to think and research what it takes to survive post-TEOTWAWKI, at the very least please consider the minimums and be ready "just in case".

And if a major event takes place, let me say now that it was very nice coming to know many of you and I thank you for your presence here in this group of unique talent. May our maker smile on you and care for you!

Thank you!

Ben

[Blokk]

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@Ben wrote:

Public service reminder!

Read at your own risk!

Spoiler

The situation that is developing between N Korea and the US could be devastating. I have heard and read reports indicating that N Korea has up to 60 atomic weapons. The missile delivery systems may now be possible to deliver them as far as the US.

It only takes about 4 nukes deployed as EMP weapons to take out most of the electronics in use today and destroy the electrical grid.

The US has moved to a "just in time delivery" system for food delivered to grocery stores. The old-time "back-room" simply does not exist. If the electronics that tell what needs to go where when, and controls the operation of the vehicles and machinery that moves that food are damaged, the "World As We Know It" could change very fast and without warning.

There is no harm in having some food stock-piled along with water for you and your family.

While I invite one and all to think and research what it takes to survive post-TEOTWAWKI, at the very least please consider the minimums and be ready "just in case".

And if a major event takes place, let me say now that it was very nice coming to know many of you and I thank you for your presence here in this group of unique talent. May our maker smile on you and care for you!

Thank you!

Ben

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If that happens, i hope this week 🙂 Right now i am in Finland, i love this country 🙂 Very close to nature, and very self sustainable. I could live on fish for the whole year 🙂

[Hooovahh]

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@jcarmody wrote:

GerdW: "Hi details,"

Technical_details: "Hi Gred,"

GerdW: "Hi Dteails,"

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Alternate-for-nested-case-structure/m-p/3673575#M1032580

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Nice catch.  Typically people misspell my avatar and I usually just let it slide.  Also I have a search filter setup so that I get an email whenever someone on the forums mentions my avatar, but of course I needed to add the common misspellings of it for it to be effective.

[Ben]

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@Blokk wrote:

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If that happens, i hope this week 🙂 Right now i am in Finland, i love this country 🙂 Very close to nature, and very self sustainable. I could live on fish for the whole year 🙂

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"Do you want fries with fish?"

Trivia Time!

I heard of a nuke disaster expert say that the biggest surprise that people will be faced with after a nuke attack is how many people survived!

Spoiler

If I have my numbers right, a 10 megaton bomb in the center of Los Angeles would only kill about 100K people. The "fire ball" would be about 200 meters across and it would be about 7000 degrees. Not sure if that was Degrees F, C, or K but at that level, does it make much difference?

Ben

[JÞB]

Kelvin never graduated.  So, there are no degrees in that scale.  

At 7k the @273 K difference between the Celcius scale is negligible.  I doubt that I could report the difference between K and Ferinheight after direct exposure by personal experience or direct sensor reading.

[Ben]

I was finishing off the weeding of the raspberry patch when I was startled by motion in the corner of my view.

I have steel cages around most of the garden boxes so they do not disturb me. But if quietly pulling weeds and out of nowhere a flash of fur, it caught me off-guard.

Ben

[crossrulz]

I'm sure many got a better picture, but here is what we saw in Cincinnati using my hole in a cardboard box.

[elset191]

I got some terrible pictures through my eclipse glasses that I'm not going to even bother sharing. Luckily there are people who know what they're doing on twitter to get some amazing images.

Image of #Eclipse2017, made from 7 frames, shows @Space_Station, as it transits the Sun near Banner, WY. Flickr: https://t.co/PQFAbVSR32 pic.twitter.com/k0Lwc3i1as

— NASA (@NASA) August 21, 2017

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PHOTO: TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017 from Green River Lake, WY. I truly think I had the most beautiful spot in the whole path. More photos soon. pic.twitter.com/jLDBMHJJU4

— Ben Cooper (@LaunchPhoto) August 21, 2017

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Beautiful time lapse of today's eclipse by my former undergraduate researcher Luis Gonzalez now of @SDSU pic.twitter.com/oHJwX85H5F

— Brian Keating (@DrBrianKeating) August 21, 2017

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[Ben]

My better-half was shocked and disappointed when I told her that I had supplied all of the eclipse glasses that were used to view the vent at my place of work. She figured that a place infested with engineers and scientists would mean everyone would have their own. If it was not for the quick pin-hole viewer put together at the last minute, and the glasses she had purchase for me, it would have been  case of " the cobbler's children go barefoot."

Ben

[Ben]

I was fetching some mortar last night that I had stashed to repoint some of the brick work in my Hobbit hole and took this picture since it is unique. I wanted a root cellar since I do not have room for all of the spuds I was growing and besides, I also wanted a Faraday cage ... just in case. I have some more stone work to do to finish it off but my better-half likes it.

Ben