samcrut
samcrut t1_j96f302 wrote
Reply to comment by BrickUpset889 in Amazing shot of a Blue Jay pestering a Bald Eagle by Smash_Factor
Have you seen that video of the pitcher who throws the fast ball and the batter hits the ball and it's all over so fast the batter looks confused at the pitcher saying "No way. Did you catch that? How did you catch that?" "I don't believe it either, but yeah, see? Ball."
samcrut t1_j96d14h wrote
Reply to comment by Colonel-Ingus69 in Amazing shot of a Blue Jay pestering a Bald Eagle by Smash_Factor
You never knew when it would be there and come for you until you heard the wings and felt a sharp peck on your skull. It wasn't every day, but that bird knew who I was after I plucked it out of the sky and it never gave me anymore trouble. Standard bully rules. Kick the bully's ass and you gain immunity.
samcrut t1_j936cd4 wrote
Had a bluejay that would dive bomb me on the way to my mail at an apartment complex. One sunny day it swooped down and pecked my head, but the sun was behind me and I could see my shadow in front of me. When I saw the bird's shadow start it's next run, I spun around and caught the damn bird in mid air, gave it a shake and then threw it straight up. It recovered and flew off. It never came at me once after that.
In the middle of the move, I remember thinking "HOLY CRAP! It worked!?!"
samcrut t1_itv4msn wrote
Reply to comment by Urbanredneck2 in NASA announces its unidentified aerial phenomena - A 16-people team — including an astronaut, a space-treaty drafter, a boxer, and several astrobiologists — will soon begin its review of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) for NASA research team to examine mysterious sightings. by yourSAS
Doesn't matter what exists if that's not what he was shooting. This was not a UFO or UAP. It was Venus. All of his tapes are going to be of the same thing. If he ever used a different camera, the "ships" would change shape.
samcrut t1_itrqoka wrote
Reply to comment by IndyDude11 in NASA announces its unidentified aerial phenomena - A 16-people team — including an astronaut, a space-treaty drafter, a boxer, and several astrobiologists — will soon begin its review of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) for NASA research team to examine mysterious sightings. by yourSAS
They need to get Brian May on the team so they can clickbait with "Rock God" too.
samcrut t1_itrq5r5 wrote
Reply to NASA announces its unidentified aerial phenomena - A 16-people team — including an astronaut, a space-treaty drafter, a boxer, and several astrobiologists — will soon begin its review of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) for NASA research team to examine mysterious sightings. by yourSAS
Few years back, I was working with a film crew on a road movie that had us shooting from Texas to California. I think it was in Arizona that some rando came up to us at a gas station and asked if we were media. "Well, kinda. I mean, not today, but most of us do work with the media regularly." "You need to watch this." He handed my partner an 8mm video tape. Fortunately, we had a High8 camcorder in the truck that played 8mm tapes, so a few days later when I had some downtime, I assembled the gear and ingested the footage.
The guy was in the backyard with the camera shooting up in the sky at dusk. He zoomed in on something bright in the sky near the horizon. It was triangular and had me scratching my head, mostly because it was a really LONG recording and I was jumping around on the footage and missed the bits that gave it away.
At some point the guy said "They get brighter as the sun goes down and it gets darker. Sometimes the lights' get brighter and dimmer, they twinkle."
That's when I figured it out. When you zoom all the way on cameras like that, the focus goes out and a point light source takes on the shape of the camera iris, in this case, 3 fins in the iris made a triangle. He was aiming at Venus. The "twinkling" ones were when he was pointed at stars.
This dude told us he had hundreds of tapes of similar recordings and couldn't get anybody to take him seriously. I had no way to get back in touch with him to explain what he was seeing since the crew had moved on down the road before I looked at it. He figured once the media saw it, he would be able to reach out to the news when they ran the story. I'm sure he's out there to this day recording the triangle spaceships orbiting our planet.
samcrut t1_itj8gwj wrote
Reply to comment by BaneBlaze in This new farming robot uses lasers to kill 200,000 weeds per hour by GonjaNinja420
It's self driving and unattended. It would be like 56 baby trees sprouts falling in the woods without anybody around to hear it.
samcrut t1_it3rzhv wrote
Reply to The End of Moore’s Law: Silicon computer chips are nearing the limit of their processing capacity. But is this necessarily an issue? Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies by CPHfuturesstudies
Moore's Law has been cancelled more times than Kanye and Trump combined.
samcrut t1_iroli76 wrote
Reply to Top robot companies pledge not to add weapons to their tech to avoid harm risk | Leading robotics firms promise not to add weapons to general use technology and said they would oppose others doing so by SetMau92
They promised not to weaponize their GENERAL PURPOSE ones. That doesn't mean they're not going to put out military robots, police robots, riot control robots, or any other category of robots that would be fully strapped.
samcrut t1_irbtete wrote
Reply to comment by Southern-Exercise in Attack of the pizza-making robots by Gari_305
That only works when you ignore the actual profit margins on a pizza. $20 for around $1-4 worth of ingredients. Your boss needs to shut his pie hole too! ADD ALL THE CHEESE!
samcrut t1_irbst0u wrote
Reply to comment by Southern-Exercise in Attack of the pizza-making robots by Gari_305
There was a batch of them after they went square where something was different in the crust dough that made it taste, like, "Holy crap! THat's GOOD!" Like somebody sprinkled some ketamine in the dough or something. It wasn't really flavor, but something else. Like a mood booster was in it. Or maybe I had a small stroke while eating that particular pizza, but damn it was good. All 3 that I bought that time were like that, and then it was over. Now they're back to normal $1 pizza quality.
samcrut t1_ir7fgpu wrote
Reply to comment by mnamilt in Attack of the pizza-making robots by Gari_305
Also, they're not made one at a time. They're cranked out en masse. The reason Totino's went to square pizzas is they can feed dough into the machine and extrude a long crust banner, like a never-ending sheet of bread. That passes under the tomato sauce machine, then cheese, then other toppings and then they just cut the ribbon into squares with a single press. It's more like assembly line manufacturing than cooking.
samcrut t1_ir7epcj wrote
Reply to comment by Afrophish85 in Immune reactions to severe Covid may trigger brain problems, study finds | Research suggests immune response may be cause of delirium and brain fog in Covid patients by Hrmbee
What claim? Conservative regions got higher case numbers due to resistance to lockdowns, masking, social distancing, and vaccine hesitancy. That survey absolutely exists for you to find. Long covid causes mental health issues in many people. That's the article you're replying about.
samcrut t1_ir6w1jb wrote
Reply to comment by dylsekctic in Immune reactions to severe Covid may trigger brain problems, study finds | Research suggests immune response may be cause of delirium and brain fog in Covid patients by Hrmbee
So did I, and then my nephew's wife got killed in a car crash and went to the funeral. Little bro rode with me in the back seat of the car to go there. That tickle in his throat wasn't allergies. Jackass infected me. Fortunately, mom (82) lucked out and it didn't take root in her. Fortunately it was mild, but I can't tell if the crazies dancing in my head are from the virus or just being cooped up and leaning into an agoraphobic lifestyle.
samcrut t1_ir6u2em wrote
Reply to Immune reactions to severe Covid may trigger brain problems, study finds | Research suggests immune response may be cause of delirium and brain fog in Covid patients by Hrmbee
This is something that low grade terrifies me. The GOP spread the anti-vax propaganda and so the conservatives got more covid than dems, and the long haul symptoms mess with your brain, so a large % of those right-wingers are sporting a crazy booster making them more angry and prone to violence.
samcrut t1_ir6mlt2 wrote
Reply to Attack of the pizza-making robots by Gari_305
I'm picturing an EV robot pizza van with a propane oven. You can roll out to where the action is and crank out pizzas that just slide the box out of a slot. Order online and QR scan to get your order. Maybe even delivery. Pizza assembled and cooked en route. My first thought was kinda like the old Fotomat booths. Just place your order online and drive up to the booth to pick up your pizza. Redbox of carb-loading.
samcrut t1_ir6lg5d wrote
Reply to comment by Billzinga in Attack of the pizza-making robots by Gari_305
That's a stupid maintenance contract issue. They got duped into a service contract with Dave and Dave can only be in one place at a time.
I'm only half kidding. It's not quite that simple, but the real story is just as stupid and not that far off of this.
samcrut t1_ir6l1an wrote
Reply to comment by mnamilt in Attack of the pizza-making robots by Gari_305
Frozen pizza assembly lines make all the same pizzas. Different machines make cheese pizzas than supreme pizzas. The trick is custom builds. Half pepperoni and half veggie, or whatever.
samcrut t1_ir6ji9x wrote
Reply to Attack of the pizza-making robots by Gari_305
"Cheese is 'the most expensive ingredient on the pizza' as well as 'the most overtopped,' with workers typically slapping on 40% too much — wasting money and glopping up the pies, Wood said."
Wood can just shut his damn pie hole. There's no such thing as too much cheese!
samcrut t1_jdj9l0q wrote
Reply to Main water valve is working in off position but not in on position by zombie-jaw
I take it this is a lever valve.
Remove screw. Pull off handle. Rotate handle. Place back on. Replace screw.