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  1. I’ve been watching this HBO series, and I must say, I’m hooked. I feel woefully ignorant of the events that transpired during this tragedy, and I feel horrible that I chuckled at the occasional joke about this event when I was younger. Not only is this series an outstanding testament to the courage and selflessness of so many brave souls, it is an outstanding primer on the technical knowledge of the RBMK reactor. There some honest-to-god heroes showcased in this series who quite possibly saved the world - literally. Well worth your time.
    7 points
  2. The China Syndrome, released 12 days before Three Mile Island accident shows the fragility of Nuclear Power and humans who work with it, but electrical energy is the cornerstone of economic development. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is another well-documented accident. World energy consumption shows Coal and Oil, together, supply 60+% of total energy, while Nuclear is about 4%. Chain reactions are very hard to control, and this is one of toughest to control, despite technological leaps in the last 40+ years. Safe Nuclear and Renewables would be very nice in the next 10+ years.
    3 points
  3. Yup - me too. Clever ploy by HBO ..... start a really good series a few weeks before GOT is over for the season (or over for good). Keeps people subscribed that might otherwise cancel ..... at least for a little while longer.
    2 points
  4. Piper at the gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd!
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  5. And the debate continues! https://www.redsharknews.com/audio/item/2368-the-sound-of-vinyl-is-just-an-effect-here-s-the-proof
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  6. Grand Funk Railroad Some Kind Of Wonderful
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  7. Three Mile Island was much worse than the government revealed at the time! I know people who were part of the evaluation team on site after accident! That happened right before my wedding in 1979, a year later in 1980 I was near the missile silo in Arkansas that blew up! As we drove by we could see the nuclear warhead being hoisted by a crane! Fun times! NOT!
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  9. Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze (LIVE Atlanta)
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  11. Original version of Chitlins con Carne from Kenny Burrell's 1963 album Midnight Blue (another LP recorded and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder). Features Burrell on guitar, Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Major Holley on bass, Bill English on drums and Ray Barretto on conga.
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  12. George Thorogood & The Destroyers Bad To The Bone
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  13. @DaddyJT "Can you share the impedance of the volume pot? Remote volume is a deal-breaker for me, and curious of the possibility of modding it..." × Hi.... We use the ALPs 20K although we have also used a 100K with good results as well, although the 100K is a bit more sensitive at the bottom end and the 20K seems a bit more linear...no difference in sound though...only in the volume settings for the unit. We already have a remote kit that can easily be added to the unit and quite possibly our next model will include it, but the power transformer I had custom built for this unit already has extra taps at 6v, 9v and 12v for adding any options that might be needed. The remote we found has power on and off, mute and volume. It already has the motorized ALPs pot on it and it fits perfectly into our face plate. It requires 5 volts to run it and the 6 volt tap from our transformer will work perfectly since the remote board already has a 7805 5 volt regulator built in. The only thing that needs to be changed aside from the volume control is the main power switch that we have. It needs to be changed to a momentary switch instead of a latching switch. Fortunately we planned ahead on this and the switch we use is already available in both latching and momentary. Change that out and add the remote kit and one power relay which is controlled by the remote board (the relay costs less than $10) and there you have it. Easy squeezy. I'd estimate several hours to do the complete changeover.
    1 point
  14. Much more to the vinyl than just the sound. It's a nostalgic derivative of one of the greatest explosion in music history. It's the art work on the covers, to the pop, click, and hiss, that to a young teenager experiencing the music explosion of the era that made no difference in the experience to not only the music but the culture that came with it. The hippie movement, Woodstock et all. Something that todays teen's never experienced . Of course as we grew older the more critique we have become in music, and the reproduction thereof; but to me the vinyl era encompassed and shaped our disposition more than anything I can think of.
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  15. Ironic that the CD medium which can finally handle music's dynamic range is treated as if it has no value by recording everything hot. I'm sticking with LPs or FLAC.
    1 point
  16. While not exactly a joke, I'm sure many of you, at least, will find humour in this. One of my "precious" fur-kids has taken to doing this for attention: I apparently, now, have to pay a toll, to use my own bathroom, sigh! And yes, she usually does it when time is of the essence.
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