Wow! I was stationed at the National Training Center (bordering death valley) for 5 years and though I was always in awe of the way the sky looked at nights out there, it looked even more amazing with night vision (light amplification PVS-7B typically) goggles on. Halle-Boppe comet was super bright.

But I had no idea it could look so amazing. Thanks for this!

Yeah, and its a long enough time that you can't build an animation out of it, unlike this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpWROGf5bPk

I've been through a few dashboard cameras (Texas sun in a black car w/black interior kills em) and most do get you the ability to record at lower FPS. Security cameras I know do, but my current dashboard cam I've had a couple years and don't remember if it does :(

I *LOVE* time lapsed stuff, in every way. The dozen cameras in my house all take a picture every minute, and then ad midnight make a movie out of it, EVERY DAY. Its AMAZING.

I saw an animated nebula once, and it looked really cool, even if just a few frames.

I'd LOVE to see the JWT focus on some nebula or something dynamic out there in the cosmos and get like a pic a day for a month or something, or maybe a pic a year for a decade, I dunno. I just bet the end results are spectacular.

Sounds like they missed all vital organs (naked gun joke?) so she is going to be ok, was released a day later.

Probably an accident, but since it appears it was a felon who did it, back to jail he'll go.

Hell, why would I keep the wife around if robots do the cleaning and cooking???

(KIDDING!!! I actually do most of the cooking, so why would my wife keep ME around???)

PLEASE tell me it landed on Greg Abbott!

Otherwise, its a really big state, and probably landed somewhere really unimportant.

Correlation <> Causation

Presidents have very little to do with the success of a country. That lies in congress, the senate, business, pandemics, etc, etc, etc.

Though he did suck in every way, and did massive damage, it wasn't just him.

People voting me down, which is funny.

I went outside, back yard. I have maybe 10' to my pool. Once I left the cover of my house, solid ice, smooth as glass, all the way to the water. I had to follow the small area without ice along the side of my house to get any traction at all.

I then went out the front, where I have a large driveway for my 2+1 car garages. Its flat in the immediate area, again, solid ice, you can kick a small piece of ice across 30' of driveway with almost no effort. Take any step more than a few inches, you fall. I was able to get to the grass, which has a sheet of ice on the top but I could punch through. Walked down to my mailbox to see how the road was. Some slush in the gutter, but again, solid ice, everywhere. If not for the grass, I would have 0 chance of making it down my minor slope into the road, and 0 chance making it back up. I'm 100% positive that I could get my car out, and into the road, about 60% sure I wouldn't go into the neighbors fence, and 0% sure I could get it back up into the driveway.

Here is a pic:
https://pasteboard.co/tiXcslc2oLDq.png

None of that you see is snow, its all ice. Solid on the hard areas, a sheet across the grass. Up to about 1" thick on flat areas where it accumulated.

HOWEVER, I do have a remote controlled Zubr Hovercraft, and it is about to go have some fun.

Even if it was clear here, I literally can't go outside.

Everything is just sheet ice. If I took ONE step outside, I'd slide right into my pool, which is 37, and I couldn't get out of it because of the ice. I'd freeze to death. But maybe, just maybe, I could look up and see this?

Naah, I'll wait for some astronomer in Hawaii to take me some pics. Not risking it.

Wish all American justice was so right.

Meanwhile, a man that tried to overthrow our government and got people killed is running free and profiting. This guy who sex trafficked a young lady must not have been rich.

I was 6'2" an 115 lbs pounds when I signed up for the USMC, got a waiver, met a bunch of marines and backed out and joined the Army instead. Got to basic, couldn't do 1 push-up, ran/walked my 2 miles in like 19 minutes. Finished basic, could do 80 push-ups, ran my 2 miles in 12 minutes. Still the exact same weight.

Went to Germany, spent my first 6 months deployed, then 4 months eating Burger King every day. I hit 175 easily.

Now I'm like 235, and so broken I can't do anything to burn it off. Got a pool that even in Dallas I can only swim in a couple months of the year without a $500+ gas heating bill.

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Point is, eat really bad you can put on weight.

Join the army and blow your knees, back, and shoulder, and you can keep it on.

I dunno, shingles. We all get new roofs around here all the time. My area, which I've been in like 2 years, I don't recall seeing any hail, yet I've seen half a dozen new roofs go on these homes. None of these homes are over 10 years old.

My old neighborhood I lived there 7 years, got 3 new roofs. We had a localized hailstorm once, hail the size of baseballs, lasted like 5 minutes, after the sun came out and all the ice immediately fogged our neighborhood. Only like 20-30 houses affected.

Each time I got a new roof at my old place, I upgraded it, so it *should* have been more durable than the builder grade crap they give you. The next new roof I should have had enough to only pay a couple thousand to get solar shingles.

We even have mountains of shingles here because we replace so many roofs:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/commentary/2020/02/14/heres-how-shingle-mountain-was-born-and-why-dallas-wont-pay-to-destroy-the-70000-ton-monster/

We had a tornado pass by about 100' from the house last time, roof did pretty well and I only needed a few replacements (roof was only a few weeks old when it hit). I was in the middle of Dallas then, now I'm in the boonies, in a much newer/nicer house, with a MUCH steeper roof. Not sure if that'll make a difference or not.

Sorry, I live in Texas, and have looked at solar multiple times. It isn't economically worth it.

First, I was paying like $0.12/KwH, and I do know in other states power can be 2-3x that, making these numbers wrong.

Second, I would need to *COAT* my house with solar to be "off grid" even during the sunniest parts of the day. Like 60 panels to power all my servers and stuff.

Third, my new house has a REALLY steep roof, and though I know we can still put solar on them, it also means it isn't hidden AT ALL, and is pretty ugly (a few houses around have some).

Fourth, in Texas, many power companies do not pay you for surplus power. They will give you a credit you can use later, and if you generate more than you use, oh well, they keep it.

Fifth. This REALLY surprised me. If you have solar, and its 100 degrees and sunny, and your power goes out, so does your solar. The only way you can have power is if you also buy a battery, which is tens of thousands of dollars, and only last a few years.

Sixth. Much like a pool, when you sell your house with solar you won't get back what you paid for it, and nobody in their right mind is going to take on your solar lease.

Seventh. The breakeven point was no less than 15 years, without a battery, and though solar still works up to 30 years in some cases, maybe longer, that is still one hell of a commitment to stay where you are. Yes, I'm taking into account the pathetic "tax credit".

Eighth. Hail. We get it a lot, and get a new roof ever few years typically. If the roof gets damaged, the is no guarantee that your insurance will pay to remove the panels, fix the roof, then replace the panels.

Ninth. The solar companies know all this, and show you charts were power goes up every year (mine went up ONCE, this year, in the past 12). They show you max power generation without taking into account cloudy days and non-optimum solar placement. They show how much you are lowering your bill, without showing you how the payment actually increases your energy costs for 10+ years until you break even.

Basically, it just isn't worth it. Even if the costs were halved, it would still take many years to break even.

I have yet to see a $1/month investment in solar see a $1/month lowering of an electric bill.

If I had money to burn, sure, solar is awesome, but I'm not throwing away money on a worse solution. Sure, better on the environment (though I have my doubts overall due to production/mining of the components), but I don't make enough to make monetary sacrifices in the tens of thousands of dollars to make the world better in a way so small as to not even be noticed.

I dunno, rather have this one:
https://youtu.be/w7gWMgN1NGM?t=452

Ugh, correlation <> causation.

Just because you walk more, doesn't mean it makes you healthy, you may just walk more because you are more healthy.