Mountain West Microbrew: Chit chat and irrelevancy - Page 106

ToysNoiz · #**2101** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 5:01 AM**

6 hours...

RyanD · #**2102** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 5:02 PM**

And it has passed! At 7:07pm MST New Horizon phones home and downlinks photos at a whopping 2 kb/s! That's actually quite impressive for the distance!

via Nasa Instagram

bunt_q · #**2103** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 5:07 PM**

That's one sexy microplanet. Pluto Party Thursday!

Cirrus · #**2104** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 5:22 PM**

I admit, it doesn't look like I thought it would. I expected this:

RyanD · #**2105** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 5:24 PM**

Can't wait for Pluto party!!!! It has a heart and a...

Hellish looking back side. I love it!

TakeFive · #**2106** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 6:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by The Dirt

So f*cking epic:
https://vimeo.com/131079807

Yep. Thanks for the link.

seventwenty · #**2107** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 6:32 PM**

Let's drink to Pluto!

s.p.hansen · #**2108** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 6:39 PM**

Time is a flat circle.

bunt_q · #**2109** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

I admit, it doesn't look like I thought it would. I expected this:

Triton?

RyanD · #**2110** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 6:49 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by bunt_q

Triton?

Yep! So what's next on the list after New Horizons? Juno?

seventwenty · #**2111** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 6:50 PM**

Indeed bunt. We cannot drink to Triton.

bunt_q · #**2112** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 7:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyanD

Yep! So what's next on the list after New Horizons? Juno?

I want to drop a boat/submarine on Titan, personally.

Quote:

Originally Posted by seventwenty

Indeed bunt. We cannot drink to Triton.

Bunt needs no excuse to drink.

RyanD · #**2113** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 7:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

I want to drop a boat/submarine on Titan, personally.

Bunt needs no excuse to drink.

I want to fly on Titan. I guess because of the pressure / composition, it's theorized humans can strap on wings and fly on the thing.

So you drop the boat, and I'll fly off a cliff to meet you to have a nice, super cold Colorado brew on Kraken Mare.

bunt_q · #**2114** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 7:15 PM**

Query what would happen if a human took a big gulp of liquid methane IPA?

RyanD · #**2115** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 7:21 PM**

This is just too great:

Brainpathology · #**2116** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 8:06 PM**

What causes a slow blissful death? Morphine I guess?

seventwenty · #**2117** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 6:06 AM**

So.... there's another trade coming if Bridich just downgraded at short, right? Or the Rockies are buying arms in the offseason? Because if neither, the Tulo for Reyes trade was dumb.

TakeFive · #**2118** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 6:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by seventwenty

So.... there's another trade coming if Bridrich just downgraded at short, right? Or the Rockies are buying arms in the offseason? Because if neither, the Tulo for Reyes trade was dumb.

The day has finally arrived by Bryan Kilpatrick
Like it or not it is as much a salary dump (as they say in the NBA) as anything.

Quote:

Tulowitzki finishes his Rockies career a .299/.372/.514 hitter with 188 home runs in parts of 10 seasons. He is owed $98 million through 2020. The Blue Jays will take on the entirety of that, per CBS Sports' Jon Heyman.

TakeFive · #**2119** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 6:47 AM**

Now that we're here...

Electricity capacity additions, in gigawatts Source: BNEF Bloomberg

"The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever"
June 23, 2015 by Tom Randall - Bloomberg

Quote:

The renewable-energy boom is here. Trillions of dollars will be invested over the next 25 years, driving some of the most profound changes yet in how humans get their electricity. That's according to a new forecast by Bloomberg New Energy Finance that plots out global power markets to 2040.

An easy to read look at renewables and fossil fuel projections.

seventwenty · #**2120** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 4:00 PM**

Can you convert those electricty numbers into DeLoreans?