Terry Heatlie

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• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  When might one expect hexadecions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedenion...
• Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
  Thorondor (King of the eagles) was stated to have a wingspan of 30 fathoms somewhere in the Silmarillion. He was probably the largest ever in that particular fictional universe, given the overall theme of "everything gets worse over time"....
• Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
  In the USA, osteopaths take nearly the same education and experience to qualify as MDs. Granted it comes with some amount of "special content" but it's generally agreed (by qualified medical professionals) that DO is equivalent to MD. I was...
• Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
  One of my "neighbors" had a CB Radio connected to an illegal Ham Radio power amplifier With my pedantic hat on, it was most likely a perfectly legal ham radio power amplifier being used illegally on a service that...
• Commented on Dead plots
  I also have an SSN from the block noted as "Not Issued". I'm a naturalized citizen, so I kinda assumed that was why....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Terry Heatle You're new here, are you not? Oh, far from it, although I rarely post. I just failed my saving roll against trolling this time. I won't let it happen again (until it does)....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Sorry to be so boring. I do have some formal training, but doubtless that's inferior to whatever alien n-dimensional source you have....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Re: scaling (see what I did there? :D ) Be fair, if you want your model airplane / light aircraft to fly in treacle it might be applicable....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  but I do wonder how many languages would accept that construction these days??? C does....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  A bug only has a single lever. You push it one way, you get continuous contact, which is for making dashes but you time it by hand/brain. Push it the other way you get a stream of dots as long...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  You probably need to multiply by 18-ish to convert. https://www.mdapp.co/blood-sugar-conversion-calculator-71/...
• Commented on I ain't dead
  We had an ICL mainframe with a DAP at my first job. Later, ICL sold us a DAP that could plug into a Sun workstation. It was pretty amazing. Of course later some smart-ass visiting scholar rewrote the thing we...
• Commented on I ain't dead
  We shouldn't rule out the possibility of preserving a small nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy at the bottom of some of our deeper mine shafts....
• Commented on Update to Public Appearances in a time of pandemic
  I would imagine the overlap between any kind of vegans and folks who drink raw milk should be zero......
• Commented on COVID-19
  Why is it that I should carry something so that someone who's TERRIFIED of speaking to another human being can text me, and expect instant answers, at all times of the day and night? No reason if you don't want...
• Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
  I live on the other side of the world and Yellowstone is famous as one of the most hyper regulated airspaces in the world. Are you sure you're not thinking of Yosemite? I flew a hang glider at Yosemite...
• Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
  What I remember John Oliver saying is that it is illegal to use footage of parliament for comedy purposes in the UK. So every time he has a segment which features such footage, he claims that the UK edit has...
• Commented on Report on Seat 14C
  As celebrated in song: Pretty young policemen in leather and jeans / showing their leg through a split in the seams / leering at people, leading them on / then running them in when they start to respond...