nomadpete

The geran 4 drone is powered by a Chinese model aeroplane motor. Can you imagine a model aeroplane with these specs? How would RAAus cope with me flying in one of these? Discard the explosive payload and fit a windscreen & seat! "Militarnyi had already published 850 km range, a 350–500 km/h speed band and 450 kg weight on 3 May 2026;

I confess. My remark about US chips in Geran drones was cherry picking. A quich web search told me that Russian drones contain materials from many countries, including USA.

The USofA has been abrogating its responsibility for a long time. The trump administration has just taken it out of the shadows.

Not sure it's what trumpy did, or Elon, or Kegbreath. But in Ukraine, starlink recently suddenly stopped working for any receiver travelling faster than 100mph. It is used for anti missile/drone intercepts. The Ukranians sent a Starlink device travelling at speed from Ukraine, into Europe and back. The starlink worked perfectly once it crossed out of Ukraine. It stopped as soon as it came back. Military Starlink is controlled by USA. So USA is actively preventing Ukraine from defending its own territory. Also, investigating a fallen Russian Geran drone has found US semiconductors in its computer pcb. USA is now working for Putin.

Oh, I thought that if she wasn't dimwitted, the only alternative would be dim ethically. As Nev pointed out, donold primarily selects minions based on blind loyalty. And maybe lip size. Is that a metaphor for blind lip service?

And not their intellect - at least not that of his preferred (mostly blond) choices. That leads some to believe that blonds are not intellectually gifted. Obviously not always true but convenient to the christofashist view that females are lesser than males.

Sure. That one aspect raises another energy requirement of non ground vehicles. Land vehicles can stop without expending energy. Air vehicles require extra energy to stop or turn. So apart from a very great amount of energy to levitate, even more energy is needed to stop and to turn. Historically, this energy requirement has hampered every previous attempt at flying (even our aeroplanes). Has Mr musk found a new great lightweight energy source? If not, the magical levitating car is just a PR exercise, probably aimed at raising money.

On the money there. No practical use in real world transporting humans around. No mention of the vast amount of energy required for VTOL. No mention of what powers the thrustors which seemed to have blue flames, and I call BS on his claim that it uses compressed air - where is that stored? No mention of range regardless of its power source. Claimed to weigh 300kg - well that ain't a battery EV. And I can't see compressed air propolsion giving all that power. Finally no chance it will go into production - unless he is just trying to prove Darwin's Theory. The average DkHd would remove themself from the gene pool with one of these.

The latest Blond Barbie in the tRump administration has continued the trend of giving blonds a bad name.

Is that a useful vehicle, or just another vanity wankmobile?

There is a record spend on advertising for these midterms. Saturation advertising with that sort of money will swing the average mugs. Always does.

I can see A.I. being very useful for direct logic applications such as coding programmes. These are easily proven by test running the code. BUT Ignore AI 'summaries' like the ones google gives you. They are frequently wrong. In fact, the AI's have (for now) now been telling us they routinely make up things. Of course they call it cute things like 'hallucinating'. But the fact is, you simply can not assume the information that AI gives you is correct. Google: The tendency to hedge or create a false balance is actually a cousin of hallucination. When my system is caught between a guiderail to be "neutral" and a prompt about a controversial topic, it will likely "hallucinate" a sense of validity for an unsupported side just to satisfy its formatting goal of appearing balanced and polite.

Can you tell the difference?

Trump is telling the country to vote like his name is on the ballot. If this results in a slap in his face, we can expect crazy tantrums to result. He has a record of vicious revenge when things don't go his way.

The Dems don't seem to promote any meaningful platform. The most they are offering is 'Vote for us to make things like they used to be'. Are they forgetting that the Trump led Republican administration got elected because the public don't want the previous style of corruption and warmongering? Sure it isn't draining the swamp. But will a Dem win be enough to bring about a shift away from billionaire controlled government?

My goodness! The wear must be crazy. Side thrusts everywhere!

I'm still saving up for a EV. But I put a self imposed deadline on myself. Only put 6 months rego on the old faithful Mitzi Outlander. With 350,000k on the clock she is getting a bit tired. At last oil change I gave her some 15w 50 oil which quietened the engine rattle down a lot.

Cynic! Yes there are lots of similar crazies out there. And the fact that such examples are so easy to find, means that there are also statistically significant multitudes of slightly less laughable examples as well. Still indicates all is lost. I will match your cynicism and dig a pit of utter distain beneath it.

It looks like USofA is beyond any hope of recovery..... I listen to online music from there and the add breaks have warnings about lead paint damaging 'your child's development'. They musta used way too much lead paint. proof? :-

Oh, I misunderstood. I thought you were suggesting that an all powerful, universe creating god would be able to appear in any form - easily in the form of nessie. (he would if he has a sense of humour)

You didn't. I was acknowledging that such projects are like other art forms - it's not done for profit.

Although it is Tazmania, the sun came out. Nice pleasant day. Bike hasn't run since last summer - no reason to ride for pleasure when it's raining for 3 months. Great to be alive riding our winding roads! Got home to find that old faithful had contracted Jerry's disease. I noticed the instrument lights were pulsing at idle. A quick check showed battery voltage only 12.8v after a big run. Should be 14v. Another check showed onr phase from the alternator at 0v. and the regulator running hot. Ordering a new stator and regulator. A bit of a dampener.

Well, since you asked, god, allah, jehova, yaweh, elihomin, adoahi, El Shaddai, Abbah, (etc, all these come from the bible) can be any form she (or it) wishes. Wot with being an all knowing, all powerful entity, an all. Hope this clears it up for you.

Will, go for it. It doesn't matter what a project is worth in dollar$. Just do it.

Oh, the good ole daze of $12 rooms. Iremrmber it well. Back then every country pub had a couple of old diggers (ptsd for sure) permanently bolted to the bar. The poor bastids were (still are) forgotten by the populace. Even after decades, the vets still suffered.