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[Blarg]

We shop at that Albertsons but I think the last ticket I bought was closer to the house. 

[Tank]

1 hour ago, gotbeer said:

With the money, he will get the Spitfire running. 

 

 

For a full week.

i had no idea you were such an optomist.

[PattyD22]

2 hours ago, Blarg said:

We shop at that Albertsons but I think the last ticket I bought was closer to the house. 

The wife and I used to eat at Casa Del Rey all the time.  Loved that place.

[Redondo]

Connecticut police officer forms strong bond with baby girl he saved five years ago: 'We're family'

 

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/connecticut-officer-forms-bond-baby-girl-saved-five-years-ago-family

[gotbeer]

Easter Sunday heist in Southern California nets thieves $30M: report

[T.G.]

6 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Easter Sunday heist in Southern California nets thieves $30M: report

Funny... Ippei hasn't been seen or heard from since the news about his gambling deal broke...

Hmm.

[Redondo]

 

 

Tornado takes out part of bar minutes after patrons run for cover

[Redondo]

A "HELP" sign made from palm tree leaves saved three sailors stranded on a tiny Pacific atoll for more than a week, after the U.S. Coast Guard spotted it from the sky. The three men were found Tuesday evening on the minute Pikelot Atoll, which is part of the Federated States of Micronesia

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/micronesia-sailors-rescued-making-help-sign-palm-tree-leaves-rcna147327

[gotbeer]

Woman probably regained consciousness, and found out what kind of ambulance bill she was going to get.

Video shows woman jump from ambulance on busy Los Angeles freeway

[Redondo]

 

How this new invisibility tech can literally make you disappear

[Redondo]

 

 

Heroic bystanders rescue driver from car engulfed in raging flames

[gotbeer]

'Male' hippo in Japan zoo found to be female after 7 years

 

[Tank]

trans hippo.

[JAHV76]

Hangry hippo

[gotbeer]

@cals Time to book your next vacation.

ROARING SEX LIONS GET BUSY ON TOP OF SAFARI TRUCK ... Tourists Take It All In

[Redondo]

Repurposed Boeing 737 transforms into private jet villa soaring in luxury
The ultimate unusual sky-high retreat in Bali replaces pilots with hot tub

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/repurposed-boeing-737-transforms-into-a-private-jet-villa-soaring-in-luxury

[Blarg]

It's going to be awesome when gale winds lift that off the ground and send it down the cliff. 

[gotbeer]

America's Booziest and Driest Counties

Poor Nate.

[Blarg]

Fucking Cannucks.

https://twistedsifter.com/2020/10/canada-signs-in-wrong-place-for-japan-ww2-surrender/

[Blarg]

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/quaise-geothermal-energy-drilling-gyrotron/

Many energy companies and governments are eyeing geothermal energy — produced by extracting hot water and steam in underground reservoirs heated by Earth's core to generate power — as a way to bolster intermittent energy from solar and wind power. 

Quaise Energy's gyrotron drills may offer a solution to the problem with their ability to vaporize rock using "high-power, linear-beam vacuum tubes to generate millimeter-length electromagnetic waves," as the magazine reported.

Based on Woskov's decades of research, he estimated it would take just over 25 days to create the world's deepest hole.

As the magazine explained, the company plans to market its technology to industrial companies first. The long-term goal is to use the gyrotrons to power geothermal plants or repurposed coal and natural gas plants. This would provide the electric grid with 25-50 megawatts of power from each well.

[gotbeer]

4 hours ago, Blarg said:

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/quaise-geothermal-energy-drilling-gyrotron/

Many energy companies and governments are eyeing geothermal energy — produced by extracting hot water and steam in underground reservoirs heated by Earth's core to generate power — as a way to bolster intermittent energy from solar and wind power. 

Quaise Energy's gyrotron drills may offer a solution to the problem with their ability to vaporize rock using "high-power, linear-beam vacuum tubes to generate millimeter-length electromagnetic waves," as the magazine reported.

Based on Woskov's decades of research, he estimated it would take just over 25 days to create the world's deepest hole.

As the magazine explained, the company plans to market its technology to industrial companies first. The long-term goal is to use the gyrotrons to power geothermal plants or repurposed coal and natural gas plants. This would provide the electric grid with 25-50 megawatts of power from each well.

I remember when they were talking about geothermal energy in Murrieta with their hot springs. Nothing that I know came of it, so it's probably one of those theoretical boondoggles.

[Blarg]

Could be a huge boondoggle considering all of the engineering difficulties in controlling the direction the superheated steam could travel without a 25 mile long sleeve. 

[Tank]

they won't go forward with it until they can figure out a way to excessively tax us on it.

[Redondo]

A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.

The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five meters (16 feet).

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/python-swallows-woman-whole-indonesia/

[Redondo]

A newly opened Buc-ee’s is living up to the saying that everything’s bigger in Texas.

The new travel center, which officially opened for business on Monday, sprawls over 75,000 square feet in Luling and is equipped with 120 gas pumps.

Its size makes it the largest constructed by the popular travel center chain. Prior to the Luling location’s launch, that title belonged to a 74,000-square-foot Buc-ee’s in Tennessee

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/buc-ees-opens-largest-store-spanning-75000-square-feet-120-gas-pumps