Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Life is too short to worry too much about degree symbols, but I wouldn't want to offend anyone, so maybe I should just say - it is very mild for December.


Or, in accordance with Don's student notes (in perfectly-proper-degree-less-Kelvin )

It is 280 K now


Anyone else want to try their temperature using the Kelvin scale today ?
(Ideal for winter - the big numbers make you feel much warmer :laughing

So I have the left overs from a crazy science project at work. It is called a cold head. It uses a helium refrigeration compressor, a 3phase additional chiller, and a decent sized dewar. In it's "stock" state, it was made to produce liquid nitrogen at a balmy temp a bit less than 77K. But we "Hot rodded" it (or should I say cold rodded) with some additional cooling capacity and it got down low enough to liquid oxygen, then we it got even colder to freeze the oxygen below 54.3 K. They told me frozen oxygen is pretty dangerous stuff so they backed off and the project kind of dwindled. I saw one solicitation for an 18 wheeler sized unit that could produce jet fuel from thin air...I guess with scads of electricity??? I don't know if anyone at our facility proposed a solution for that or not....

Some of youz guyz Kelvins are getting down there.

Kyle, Giddings is reporting ZERO visibility. it must be very foggy there this morning, be careful.

Yes, not quite pea soup, but a few places were about 100' (32 m) visibility. Made for a slower trek on my 68 mile commute.

Don, glad you got your mother to come visit and showed her around.

 

[Jim Nelson]

I'm going to rile you up a bit.
The last 13 years before I retired and for several years before that I performed calibrations for a Pharmaceutical company.
I was amazed at the millions of dollars and years of time to get a new drug approved by the FDA.
Several clinical trials lasting years each, phase 1, phase 2 then finally phase 3 then submittals and a few more years.
Tons of documentation to be submitted in both technical pharmaceutical terms and also government linguistics and
bureaucratic nonsense.
On top of that hundreds of ideas don't get to trials, thousands are dropped after stage 1 or 2, many at stage 3 and then
more are rejected by our FDA or other countries equivalent.
So the few successful ones are supporting all the failed one and the ones under development.
Are some of the charges high yes, but what is the alternative.
Or should we stop all of the new advances?

I'm pretty well aware of the problems getting new medical devices and drugs to market as one of our neighbors is a consultant who specializes in guiding the manufacturers through the govt. rat holes and he tells some real tales about it.I still believe that much of it is very over priced and that is mainly because the big boys can afford to buy politicians and we the people can't. Enough of that,I don't want to get off track and have this banned to the f.p. forum. I will not accept a gout drug that costs nearly $40,000 per month and really think the cost should be disclosed up front, regardless of who is paying for it.

 

[Looking4new]

"I gotta go to the butchers today and the PO, that is all"-----LFN

Looking, you probably shouldn't use 'butchers' and 'PO' (parole office) in the same sentence! :laughing:

I will laugh right along with you. The PO is Post Office and my picture has NEVER been on the wall there.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 38F this morning, fog, very limited visibility, calm wind. fog lifted about 9AM, light wind all day, partly cloudy till after subset then increasing cloudiness, high temp 62F. pulled all the batteries from the boat, using my old 8 amp charger on them, 1 is fully charged, the second should be close, and the third just went on the charger. Bike ride, then trip to town for comprehensive grocery shopping and dinner.
RNG you had a productive day.
Kyle sounds like a cool project
Jay is it going to cool off in TX (North of Dallas) or stay the same?
Prayers for all.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-12-19, 0315

7 degrees right now...high about 32....

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Just a soggy 50F here. yuck.

 

[Buppies]

29 chilly degrees high of 52 later today getting ready for another big rain Thursday we’ve already set the record for the most rainfall in a year and now more

Polar Vortex will split sending us cold weather but not until mid January or so. Not sure if it has staying power for 6 weeks of cold for the country or just a hard shot one and done. The pacific jet is strong so it will be who wins out in the end

Tractor goes in for a few ad ones soon air ride seat front hydrolyics on fel fix one of the spools on the back end that is leaking and complete service

Prayers for all

 

[Looking4new]

21 and going to a high of 37F. Wind SE 7 mph. 40% chance of flurries.
Although it isn't warm enough to get naked and sunbathe yet, it is getting there. Only another 80° or so to go.

Energy conversation is the topic for me today.

Have a good day all

 

[daugen]

Good morning. And a thank you once again to Irv for starting all this.

26 climbing to low 50s, partly cloudy day
helper coming this afternoon, we will work on the last of the leaves together.
Ground is still pretty wet, and more rain coming tomorrow night.
I bet we set some kind of record this year for cumulative rainfall.
Wilmington just South of me apparently has.

Found out that my goddaughter's husband, an airline pilot for SouthWest, has an internet business selling worm farms.
I will likely get one of their small kits and try it out, sure is marvelous stuff for the garden.
I'll start another thread on this when it comes in, not sure you all want to look at worm poop. And more worm poop.
Apparently there are a few options for worm selection so going to see if they have some heat tolerant ones that like sandy soil.
Also a variety of choices for what to add to soil including veggie scraps. Time to learn about worms.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 24° with mostly clear skies this morning. Heading to 41° with partly cloudy skies. Yesterday was a nice day. But never got a chance to get anything done. Girls Day turned out to be a take me here and there and just enjoy each other. Some good stories from my 90 year old Aunt. From when she was a 13 years and I was a newborn baby. Thanks to my Aunt I had a very good babysitter.

Took me awhile to read all the post from yesterday.

Enough said about Medicare. Except cost of prescription is out of control. As I have said before my wife takes a drug that is $12K per month. A ridiculous amount for 2 pills a day the size of a baby aspirin. The good parts is it works. Now if they could develop a cure for ALS and other illnesses that have no cure at this time.

Drew, worms may not do well in sandy soil. But they love to help reduce a pile of compost to dirt.

Good Morning All.