Electric cars aren't just vehicles. They're big batteries

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  4 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

“To get more Americans in electric vehicles, we all need to realize they can do much more than just get us around.”

Here's an example of looking at the forest and ignoring the trees.  The adoption of electric vehicles is very dependent upon battery technology.  And consumers are well aware of the limitations and problems associated with batteries through direct experience. We need to acknowledge that...

How a handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity's technological revolution

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

“Then, as now, one person could literally change the course of history, with nothing more than an idea.”

What sets humans apart from other creates is not what humans do.  Imagination and ideas sets humans apart from other creatures.  

Medieval warhorses no bigger than modern-day ponies, study finds

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  10 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 years ago

“Contrary to mythical depictions of the iconic steeds as towering beasts, most in England were less than 14.2 hands high”

Shades of Monty Python with knights on tiny horses.

When the Delta variant dominated, vaccination and prior infection protected against Covid-19, but vaccination was safest, study finds

Via: Nerm_L  •  The Deplorables  •  2 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 years ago

“When the Delta variant was dominant in the United States, both vaccination and prior infection helped protect against Covid-19, but vaccination was...”

Now we know.  The CDC vaccination data isn't telling the whole story.  Now that infections, reinfections, breakthrough infections, or whatever label is applied have dramatically increased to levels not yet seen during the pandemic, after mass vaccination efforts, it's obviously time for fresh...

USS Nevada: US Navy ballistic missile submarine makes rare appearance in Guam

Via: Nerm_L  •  The Deplorables  •  21 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  2 years ago

“One of the most powerful weapons in the US Navy's arsenal made a rare port call in Guam over the weekend, sending a message to allies and foes amid...”

Joe Biden has resorted to nuclear diplomacy in the best traditions of the Cold War.  Someone needs to remind Biden that this is 2022 and not 1962. Joe Biden has definitely demonstrated that he ain't Trump.  Joe Biden is actually more dangerous.

Chuck Schumer's Georgia voting 'tall tale' shows desperation to avoid primary challenge from AOC: WSJ

Via: Nerm_L  •  The Deplorables  •  5 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  2 years ago

“Wall Street Journal: 'It’d be nice to think Mr. Schumer is merely uninformed, but he’s too smart not to know all this'”

Chuck Schumer should be more concerned about the 'threat to democracy' in his home state of New York rather than worrying about Georgia.  New York's voting laws are more restrictive than those of Georgia, it appears.   If Schumer wants to be the Senator representing Georgia then he should move...

Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR?

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  12 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

“Business leaders like JP Morgan and Irenee du Pont were accused by a retired major general of plotting to install a fascist dictator”

Joe Biden is definitely not another Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  And the all too obvious conflict of interest by the press raises doubts over the veracity of purported lessons from history.  So, it's wise to view journalist's opinion with a healthy amount of skepticism.  The press tends to...

A Look At Qantas' Flying Boat Origins

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  6 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  2 years ago

“Qantas operated flying boats for around ten years from the late 1930s. The airline first operated a fleet of Empire flying boats and later on...”

A bit of interesting history.  Commercial aviation as we know it today got its start during the 1930s in the midst of the Great Depression.  Today's efforts to introduce electric powered aircraft into the commercial travel market is confronting some of the same issues experienced in the 1930s...

How Congress made you a federal criminal

Via: Nerm_L  •  The Deplorables  •  4 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 years ago

“The problem is so serious that prominent attorney Harvey Silverglate estimated that every American unknowingly commits three felonies a day.”

President 'I feel your pain' was really pretty good at spreading that pain around.  Of course, these facts are far, far too inconvenient for the Big Government dear leader currently napping in the Oval Office.  We'll have died and been resurrected more than three times before this news is seen...

Sending Life to the Stars: Scientists Contemplate Launching Tiny Lifeforms Into Interstellar Space

Via: Nerm_L  •  The Deplorables  •  9 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

“Research on this little animal has led to Nobel prizes to six researchers thus far”

Hey, here's an idea.  Let's screw up the entire universe.  What could possibly go wrong?   The article begins in a typical manner with a sci fi tease about relativistic interstellar propulsion.  Have we observed any macro scale object traveling at relativistic speeds?  If we haven't observed it...