The South China Morning Post claims that China's new ground-effect "wingship" has just completed 30 sea trials. According to the state-run media company, the new vehicle could be used to airdrop supplies on islands and beaches and conduct quick search and rescue missions.
The "wingship," which seems to be an example of a ground-effect vehicle or wing-in-ground-effect craft, combines an air-cushioned vehicle and an aircraft that glides close to the ground. From the images in the article, it has a propeller engine that allows it to travel over the water's surface, and its wings allow it to fly and support itself in the air.
A ground effect vehicle (GEV) uses the "ground effect," which is the decrease in aerodynamic drag that an object experiences when it approaches a surface to achieve lift and boost efficiency. This air cushion between the surface and the object reduces drag and enables the object to gain lift at lower speeds.
One famous example of this kind of vehicle was the Soviet-era ekranoplan which could travel only a few meters above the water's surface and had a massive, 70-meter-long wing. The vehicle, built for military applications such as moving people and equipment over water, could move at speeds up to 400 km/h.
According to a report from Science and Technology Daily on Monday, the new Chinese vehicle can travel for six hours continuously at speeds of up to 150 mph (240 kph). The vehicle reportedly has a total takeoff weight of 4.5 tonnes and a passenger capacity of up to 12. READ MORE...
"The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass every day..." is an East TN expression that I have grown to like as it applies to so many Liberals of which I have become aware in the Washington, DC area of this country... representing us in Congress or in the WHITE HOUSE.
The sad thing is that our votes put them there... and, I cannot imagine that there are that many Democrats who really believe in a weak military, illegal immigration, unregulated crime and violence in our major cities, and the WOKENESS that seems to be flowing through our society like the BLACK PLAGUE... Pun intended.
We are on the verge of change and most old people need to frigging get out of the way and let change happen, even if we older people perceive that this change is NOT FOR THE BETTER.
Our Democratic Republic was nothing more than an experiment that NO OTHER country had ever tried before. We grew incredibly strong, incredibly fast and tried to control the world because we believed our way of life was the best for everybody.
WE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE WRONG...
Some people want to be controlled by a dictator
Some people want to be controlled by a communist country
Some people want to be controlled by Arabs who believe in SHARIA LAW
Some people want to be controlled by an inherently corrupt government
Some people just do not want the responsibility of having FREEDOMS as they have no self discipline
Some people want to keep their childish mentalities
Some people enjoy living without anything but their spiritual faith and guidance
Net worth is not always an accurate measurement of WEALTH or being WEALTHY. Financial Liquidity is a measure of WEALTH. If you have a liquidity of $5 million or more, then you are WEALTHY and governments will leave you alone once they realize you have hidden your money away from them. If you try to arrest them, the odds are they will be informed will enough time to leave the country.
Stupid dictators have tried to control the wealthy and all of them have failed miserably.
There are more people than you realize that have a liquidity of $5 million or more living in the USA... These people believe in liberal governments as long as they don't try to take their money.
Most of you middle class workers made these people millionaires because of the things that you buy like:
computers
tablets
cell phone
cinema tickets
automobiles
tickets to concerts
tickets to professional sports
alcohol and tobacco
ILLEGAL DRUGS
clothes and shoes
cosmetics
NOTE: did you know the first black female millionaire in the USA sold cosmetics door to door...
A vast majority of Americans want to be kept in a cage like a Labrador Retriever who appears to want as much freedom as it can get, when it reality, it comfortable with the security of a cage. They only have freedom because we gave it to them... they are not good at handling their freedom.
People remain in the lower classes financially, even though they bitch about it, because they feel comfortable there. They have no desire to think for themselves or take responsibility for their actions or lack of actions.
Death is the great equilizer... We all die, regardless of how much money we have or how much control we have or how big our cage is. Death always has the last word.
The notion of parallel universes leapt out of the pages of fiction into scientific journals in the 1990s. Many scientists claim that mega-millions of other universes, each with its own laws of physics, lie out there, beyond our visual horizon. They are collectively known as the multiverse.
The trouble is that no possible astronomical observations can ever see those other universes. The arguments are indirect at best. And even if the multiverse exists, it leaves the deep mysteries of nature unexplained.
In the past decade an extraordinary claim has captivated cosmologists: that the expanding universe we see around us is not the only one; that billions of other universes are out there, too. There is not one universe—there is a multiverse.
In Scientific American articles and books such as Brian Greene’s latest, The Hidden Reality, leading scientists have spoken of a super-Copernican revolution. In this view, not only is our planet one among many, but even our entire universe is insignificant on the cosmic scale of things. It is just one of countless universes, each doing its own thing.
The word “multiverse” has different meanings. Astronomers are able to see out to a distance of about 42 billion light-years, our cosmic visual horizon. We have no reason to suspect the universe stops there. Beyond it could be many—even infinitely many—domains much like the one we see.
Each has a different initial distribution of matter, but the same laws of physics operate in all. Nearly all cosmologists today (including me) accept this type of multiverse, which Max Tegmark calls “level 1.” Yet some go further. They suggest completely different kinds of universes, with different physics, different histories, maybe different numbers of spatial dimensions.
Most will be sterile, although some will be teeming with life. A chief proponent of this “level 2” multiverse is Alexander Vilenkin, who paints a dramatic picture of an infinite set of universes with an infinite number of galaxies, an infinite number of planets and an infinite number of people with your name who are reading this article.
Similar claims have been made since antiquity by many cultures. What is new is the assertion that the multiverse is a scientific theory, with all that implies about being mathematically rigorous and experimentally testable. I am skeptical about this claim.
I do not believe the existence of those other universes has been proved—or ever could be. Proponents of the multiverse, as well as greatly enlarging our conception of physical reality, are implicitly redefining what is meant by “science.” READ MORE...
I was never in a high paying job, but I always made more than I needed, even when I worked for $2 and $10/hour. Remember, when I was working for $2/hour, gasoline was on $0.18/gallon and hamburgers were $0.15 each, and cigarettes were $0.25/pack. Rent was between $75 to $125/month or 1-2 days pay for a 1-bedroom apartment.
For the 45 years that I worked, I always brought my lunch except for once or twice a month. This saved me $25 to $50 each week... or $1,250 to $2,500 each year. Over a 40 year career that is $50,000 to $100,000.... JUST FOR LUNCH...
Can you imagine what you would save, if you gave up cigarettes, alcohol, buying new clothes each year to stay in fashion, or a new car every 3-5 years?
Speaking of cars... I don't buy new cars. I buy cars that are a year old that have been leased with low mileage. I typically save thousands of dollars. My 2015 Venza was a leased car that I drove to Ohio to purchase that only had 5,000 on the odometer. It was a fully loaded Venza on top of that with a moon roof. I saved over $10,000 and paid cash for the car so there would be no debt.
Over 7 years later, I only have 80,000 on the odometer. This car was purchased the year I retired, so I don't drive that much anymore. A perfect investment. I plan to keep it another 5 years or until I turn 80 years old... I will pay cash for my next car as well.
Thirty-five (35) years ago, I quit smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and buying things that I really did not need. Can you imagine the amount of savings I have acquired over these last 35 years in addition to not buying lunch at work?
When I moved over to TN from NC in 1990 and met my second wife in 1993 and married her in 1998, we went somewhere every weekend until we both retired in 2015. When we retired, we went on a week's vacation every month just because we could and we still were able to save money.
HOW DID WE DO THIS?
We drove instead of buying airline tickets
We used Delta frequent flyer points
We did not stay in the best hotels
We did not eat in the best restaurants
We book our time between weekends when the rates were cheaper
NOTE: we have an American Express Delta credit card that we charge everything we can on from mortagage payments to utilities to tires, clothes, food, etc. Each dollar gives us 1 point. We still have 300,000 of unused Delta frequent flyer points to use someday. We pay the credit card off before any interest is charged.
For the last 30 years, my second wife and I have lived a frugal lifestyle while not giving up anything that we wanted to do. We are living no different financially than when we were both working, earning collectively almost $100,000 each year.
We have enough money saved to pay our bills for the next 30 years knowing that we will be blessed if we live another 20.
Some of the tendrils of the cosmic web as visualized by the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies
and their Environments (EAGLE) Project. (Image credit: EAGLE Project)
Light produced just 380,000 years after the Big Bang was warped by the universe's dark matter exactly the way Einstein predicted it would be.
Astronomers have made the most detailed map ever of mysterious dark matter using the universe’s very first light, and the "groundbreaking" image has possibly proved Einstein right yet again.
The new image, made using 14 billion-year-old light from the turbulent aftermath of the Big Bang, shows the enormous matter tendrils that formed not long after the universe exploded into being. It turns out the shapes of these tendrils are remarkably similar to those predicted using Einstein's theory of general relativity.
The new result contradicts previous dark matter maps that suggested the cosmic web — the gigantic network of crisscrossing celestial superhighways paved with hydrogen gas and dark matter that spans the universe — is less clumpy than Einstein's theory predicted. The astronomers presented their findings April 11 at the Future Science with CMB x LSS conference at Japan's Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics. READ MORE...
Some of you can only learn, if you have an teacher, instructor, or professor SPOON FEED you what you need to know... and yet, you will need to be teaching yourself something for the rest of your life simply because technology changes our society and lifestyles.
Most schools are NON PROFITS, but even so, they are allowed to generate as much money as they can as long as they do not pay their board members a salary.
Conseuently, more and more schools are being managed by those Presidents who have some sort of a business background or experience.
One of the best ways to increase revenue and reduce costs is to remove the actual school buildings and put all the classes ONLINE. Schools still have to hire professors for the classes and course designers and graphics specialists but it is still cheaper than a building, dorms, and a cafeteria.
COVID taught many educational administrators that buildings were no longer necessary and while that is a bitter pill to swallow, once it is mixed with the waters of profits, it becomes much easier.
ONLINE learning is filled with opportunities for students to cheat or get someone else to take the class for them. There is no way of telling if a student has an open textbook during the exam or not. There is no way of telling if that student is actually doing the work or not.
Online classes are labor intensive with lots of reading and writing but does nothing to prove that knowledge has been transfered.
Group projects are difficult to monitor to ensure everyone is working. Meeting are difficult as students can be from all over the world, therefore meeting times will not be convenient to all.
I would not be surprised to hear in the next 3-5 years, that there will be no need for college at all. Students find their own way to teach themselves a subject or many subjects... Then, they must show up in person to take an online compentency test in order to acquire their degree.
This is the process for IT certifications and it works exceptionally well.
This same process could be used for:
Doctors
Surgeons
Lawyers
Dentists
CPAs
Engineers
Pilots
Teachers
Isn't it also interesting to note that these are the same jobs that will be replaced by AI/ROBOTS?
It was a blockbuster 2022 for artificial intelligence. The technology made waves from Google’s DeepMindpredicting the structure of almost every known protein in the human body to successful launches of OpenAI’s generative A.I. assistant tools DALL-E and ChatGPT.
The sector now looks to be on a fast track toward revolutionizing our economy and everyday lives, but many experts remain concerned that changes are happening too fast, with potentially disastrous implications for the world.
Many experts in A.I. and computer science say the technology is likely a watershed moment for human society. But 36% don’t mean that as a positive, warning that decisions made by A.I. could lead to “nuclear-level catastrophe,” according to researchers surveyed in an annual report on the technology by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered A.I., published earlier this month.
Almost three quarters of researchers in natural language processing—the branch of computer science concerned with developing A.I.—say the technology might soon spark “revolutionary societal change,” according to the report.
And while an overwhelming majority of researchers say the future net impact of A.I. and natural language processing will be positive, concerns remain that the technology could soon develop potentially dangerous capabilities, while A.I.’s traditional gatekeepers are no longer as powerful as they once were.
“As the technical barrier to entry for creating and deploying generative A.I. systems has lowered dramatically, the ethical issues around A.I. have become more apparent to the general public. Startups and large companies find themselves in a race to deploy and release generative models, and the technology is no longer controlled by a small group of actors,” the report said. READ MORE...
Now that we have ALL reached the same conclusions that there are TWO SETS OF LAWS and/or STANDARDS...
One for the Haves and one for the Have Nots
...and...
One for the Liberals and one for the Conservatives
It is time to make a change, if we are going to SAVE this wonderful country of ours... this change is necessary so that we are all on the same page and there is no more controversy or needless arguing... it is just causing too much stress and anxiety in our society and it MUST STOP.
I PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING SOLUTION(S)...
First - do away with all our borders, if you can get here, then you are automatically a citizen of the USA
Second - Let's legalize all illegal drugs and place a high tax on those drugs regulated by our government
Third - Let's do away with all law enforcement except in the case of murder... as killing someone is really not nice. If the people want someone from the store and they don't hae the money, why not just let them steal it? It will solve lots of problems.
Fourth - No one should ever be charged with a crime again as it takes too much time and expends too many resources that can be used in other places.
Fifth - Let's give each and every black person 16 years of age and older, $10,000,000 (Tax Free) simply because they are black and their ancestors suffered the consequences of white arrogance.
Sixth - If blacks still want to work, let's give them hiring priority over WHITES until the black population equals the population of the whites.
Seventh - The Congress should pass a law that there can never be another WHITE person allowed to generate enough wealth as to become a BILLIONAIRE.
Eighth - All education is FREE both public and private
Nineth - We should do away with all branches of the military except for the coast guard who will be patrolling our coastline for boating accidents.
Tenth - Let's do away with all competitions both amateur and professional because no one likes to lose.
Eleventh - Let's do away with all private property. All property, including government lands, are now public and Americans can live on any land they want as long as they don't take land away from someone else.
Twelfth - Whites can no longer have the majority in any local, state, or federal office. Whites can no longer have more than 20% of the available political seats, even if a vacancy cannot be filled. This holds true for medical care as well. If you are white, you are a liability for the USA.
Some of the tendrils of the cosmic web as visualized by the Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies 
