Ezra, glad I met cha.

I am having a nice Columbia Valley Cabernet 2023 while laffing my ass off at the news of Cash Patel and the mumblings of the mad dictator about the war!

Almost as good as 2021.

Enjoy!

Like we’re back in frozen December, cozy warm, looking forward to ease-filled holidays…

Enjoy!…

tiny bit of moisture. Fingers crossed that the mountans got a lot more.

I’ve moved on to a Lounge Lizard (how appropriate!). Rum, amaretto, and cola.

I look forward to this all week: resting, watching TV, pleasantly buzzed, no work tomorrow…

In terms of saving the world, do you think if we deflected the planet killing asteroid coming at earth by hitting it with something that would stick to it, instead of blowing it up with explosives, that might work without turning it into dangerous and still planet killing pieces still coming at us? I mean, don't you think there ought to be something we can make sticky in a vacuum, right? How hard can it be?

Just wondering. Friday buzz of the herbal variety Love your drink descriptions!

it shouldn’t be too hard to soft-land a rocket booster on the meteor, engines-out, and do a course-correction burn to move it off the collision path.

Blowing it up would just increase the amount of potential debris colliding with the Earth.

Enjoy your herbal buzz. One of the best kinds, since no hangover.

Just not accessible to those subject to regular urine drug tests…

You did say anything! It always cracks me up when I see that. Much appreciation for the humorous responses.

I hope one day soon it's not a prohibited substance. Been there, hated it. Have a wonderful evening!

The high temperature reached by the explosion (100s of millions K usually cited) will volatilize anything, including refractories, and an explosion near the surface will eject a great deal of mass, including rock, dust, vapor, and plasma, all serving as reaction mass for a very short-lived rocket engine. I don't know what calculations have shown the optimum depth to be, but it may be a substantial fraction of the diameter. You don't want to waste the energy of the explosion on high-velocity shrapnel so much as create as much hot, compressed, low-molecular-weight gas as possible for that temperature -- the most effective reaction mass has the lowest momentum per particle, with individual atoms (in practice, molecules) being optimum. The hot exhaust may continue to escape to the surface for some time after the individual explosion, suggesting even a tunnel between the bomb and surface, which only needs to last long enough to enable most of the gas to escape.

Comets, made of mostly volatile materials, should be particularly effectively deflected, but also in greater danger of falling apart.

PS: An explosion directed out of the ecliptic plane should move a comet or asteroid into a more out-of-plane orbit, with fewer opportunites for close approaches. This may represent the most beneficial change for the least amount of energy.

PPS: IIRC, this is how the inkjet printer was discovered. An engineer accidentally touched a hot soldering iron to a syringe containing liquid, and the increase in pressure caused it to shoot out a few droplets of liquid.

My idea, well if you ever watched Nickelodeon on tv, I imagined hitting it with slime, going umpteen thousands of mph, to change it's trajectory. Then it would stick instead of breaking the asteroid into pieces, and no kinetic energy would lost. Save the world with space gak! It doesn't have to be neon green.

It’s a love-bite…

In recognition of the fact that Washington is a free-pour state. The better you tip, the better your repórt with the bartender, the stronger your drink will be.

This was asked many years ago, but never really answered.

It’s all about the beta-carotene. And density. The fact that I’m crunching my way through a snack pack of baby carrots at this moment may have influenced my opinion.

I should maybe dig out my Laphroaig so I have a better excuse for falling into such a random discussion.

A reporter asked him that ? but Rat F*** King Jr refused to answer.

Since we’re drinking, now’s the time for reckless speculation.

Let us drink to forget…

It deformed his brain.

1 1/2 ounces light rum.
1 1/2 ounces Dubonnet blanc vermouth.
3 dashes orange bitters.
Combine, shake vigorously and poured into a chilled glass.

From Wolf Frankula who is finishing a pint of triple IPA.

Btw that is a British cocktail. I never saw it when I was in Johannesburg.

I’ll have to get a bottle.

I miss a nice cocktail. I never drank a lot, but I'm 69 now and the last drink I had, I just felt like shit the next day. Not really hungover, just crappy. Oh well, just empty calories I don't need.

It's lively in here tonight.

Scorpion cocktail, huh? Coincidentally, I just dropped a song title in that thread by the Scorpions (Stone in my Shoe).

Have a delightful time, all!

I’m a big fan of The Scorpions. I was in Germany when the Wall came down and the reunification happened. Their song “Winds Of Change” was on the charts at the time.

It was such an amazing time; feeling like the world was becoming more peaceful, and maybe we could solve the world‘s problems without war.

That was before the Gulf War, of course. But at least the world drew together in an effective military coalition in order to win the war.

I felt the same after Barack Obama won the election in 2008; that the world was finally changing for the better.

I no longer have such hopes. The Lounge is a nice retreat from all that.

at Stuttgart? Bavaria? Wiesbaden?

2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division.

I was in Delta Co. 1/69th Armored.

looks familiar?

My regimental crest.

how the motto wound up being French?

But as a guess, I’d say it dates back to joint operations with the French during World War I.