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this makes him look incompetent he should know the cost of taking "extra fuel" and why we don't do that on a whim

Your periodic reminder that Loeb's Galileo Project involves putting him in charge of a billion-dollar budget and giving him the authority to commandeer any or all of the world's telescopes on a whim if he thinks something alien might be passing by.

Probably. But we know that certain personality traits make people more susceptible, too.

It doesn't matter, the correct amount is the correct amount. If the guy had put that in, he wouldn't have had to take any out afterwards. The fact that the "fill up to the hole" rule of thumb no longer works when you tilt the thing is basic...

Agreed. I guess when I saw your post, I was transported back to late February of last year. My 12 year old work truck was acting up, and while we managed to fix it (new turbocharger and variable fin controller), it was a fair bit of work only to...

I've been enjoying sublimating my frustrations into art, when I should be working on making armor. I wanna do a karaoke song to "fluffy clouds" by The Orb, called "Gold Battleships": "Big gold battleships".. "Corinthian columns".."24kt gold...

A good demonstration of the effect. However, in some ways you don't even need to reproduce it to detect the problem, that nonsense is being spouted: you can't claim something is simultaniously "raw" and "enhanced" (from just a few posts back) -...

Very interesting. The "movie" part was still obviously slop, and no, you didn't sneak the resheathing of the katana past me, that had me facepalming, but the "making of" part of that was quite well done. After some of the usual tells he owned up...

Over the last few days the algorithm thinks I want to see police officers either being mean to children or rescuing kittens or old people because a dog did the "Timmy's down the well" thing and led them to where the rescue was needed. AI (at the...

The assistant is extremely useful. You can say things like "set the location to London and change the time zone to UTC and set the time to last night at 10 PM" and all the manual setup... done!

Indeed. I'd argue he's well aware of what he's triggering, that's the intent. Besides the hustling, the political maneuvering, the grifting, the search for clicks, views and relevance, at the core is a group of people that seem to hold a...

One example of an "unexplainable" report by an officer is https://www.metabunk.org/threads/newsnation-benfield-police-officer-robert-klein-fairfield-county-ct-2022-orb-ufo.13792/ . It turned out that the officer likely saw an aircraft (and we...

Did you know there is actually a website of spurious correlations? https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations?page=4

Your periodic reminder that Loeb's Galileo Project involves putting him in charge of a billion-dollar budget and giving him the authority to commandeer any or all of the world's telescopes on a whim if he thinks something alien might be passing by.

Agreed. I guess when I saw your post, I was transported back to late February of last year. My 12 year old work truck was acting up, and while we managed to fix it (new turbocharger and variable fin controller), it was a fair bit of work only to...