Make a point of carrying a book or ereader with you all the time. If ereader, load it with only books that are NOT related to your studies. Open the book or ereader and read a few pages or even paragraphs whenever you’re on the toilet, waiting for or on a bus, in a waiting room, etc.

My grandfather used to “baby”sit my grandmother when he was in college (pre-Depression) but they didn’t date until years and years later after he became a practicing MD and she had her own job. About 13 years age difference between them so not really untoward, particularly in those days. She was about 21 by the time they got married so she was an adult and her own woman.

Everyone needs a little fiber in their diet …

You certainly chose a worthy Reddit name. You’re conflating things that are obvious balloons, leaving the discussion of spy versus weather versus hobby aside, with pilot reports of UAPs doing extraordinary things. Some of the pilot reports are easily explained, others (including footage captured by said pilots) are still unexplained.

Your original response to me talked about stuff coming in “from above 80,000 feet into the detection-edge of Earth-based radars”. We use radars to track objects in orbit at altitudes up to 1000 km (over 3 million feet since your inability to reason suggests a further inability to do math).

You further talk wildly about breaking the laws of physics. Nothing the first spy balloon we shot down or any of the other subsequent balloons have done breaks any laws of physics.

Control of national airspace is a point of international law. Whether or not the nation in question can do anything about violations of that airspace is a question of their capability versus the violator’s capability. No one questioned the USSR’s right to shoot down Francis Gary Powers’ U2, they simply weren’t able to do it until his flight. The US “controls” the sealanes within its national waters but drug runners violate that control regularly — it’s still the US’s national right to control those sealanes.

So we can add English to the list of subjects you don’t understand, including your own fallacious post. Okay.

The fact that 60,000 feet altitude is well within what’s considered national airspace AND that we have a right to control what’s in our airspace is 100% true. It is well-accepted international law — even the Soviet Union (now Russia) accepts it and uses it.

The “detection edge” of Earth-based radars extends well above 100,000 feet, in fact, well above 100 km altitude. See, we have these things called early warning radars that were built decades ago to do precisely this job albeit with objects that move considerably faster than balloons.

Since when? News reports indicate it was tracked from the moment it lifted off from China.

Stupid article title and even the premise seems like bandwagoning to get clicks. While there is no universally-accepted legal definition of where space begins, the spy balloon is nowhere near any of the proposed boundaries.

There is no dispute about being able control our national airspace at 60,000 feet.

In other words, they need a network willing to pay them to produce shit that people don’t want to watch. Newsflash: commercial distributors who want to stay in business like to produce content that attracts viewers. Prior WB executives proved repeatedly that they didn’t know how to make good profit-motivated decisions.

That could be the Lonely Mountain at the edge of Long Lake …

Had to open Reddit in browser on laptop since the iOS app didn't let me attach pictures but I edited the main post to put a diagram in.

I did that first but none of the results fit this scenario. I'm not trying to put a 2-wire sensor on a 3-wire outlet/fixture -- that's what's in place now. However, capping the red wire in the outlet/fixture has disabled the path lights and gate light and I'm trying to re-enable them, as well as seeing if I can set the path lights up to come on when someone comes out of the gate to head back to the driveway.

So the current sensor doesn’t have a red wire which is why my brother capped it off. I’m assuming replacing the sensor with a 3-wire sensor would re-enable the pathway lights by reconnecting the red wire but they will only light up when this sensor detects someone in the driveway heading to the gate. Is there a way to make the pathway light up when someone at the gate heads for the driveway?

So you want to see her play herself?

Of course they did. This is the same crowd that labels a bill “anti-inflationary” when the provisions of the bill only spur inflation rather than counter it.

As captured in Heinlein’s ‘Rocket Ship Galileo”.

First to the Moon. Gutsiest mission of the Space Age given how little we knew and the state of the equipment at the time.

No more live-action remakes. Period.

Thank YOU for sharing.

Your style reminds me a lot of Mike “Ringo!” Wieringo. Nice work.

Guess what, sunrise and sunset are symmetrical around noon on standard time. Funny how physics and geometry work. Given our modern day living habits, it’s generally healthier to wake up with the sun since you’re going to use artificial lights in the evening anyway. You always have the option to get up and work earlier if you somehow prefer to use lights in the morning.

EDIT: I currently live near 40 deg North latitude. When I lived below 30 deg latitude, work and school hours generally started at 7:30 or 8:00 AM and ended accordingly. Changing the clock because you’re too ignorant to understand seasonal and solar cycles is stupid.

Mmm … no, that’s not how it works and you have no idea what data I have. But here’s a clue — you can actually download the element sets for the last 3 decades and look at the drag experienced at a variety of altitudes. The claim was specifically for 250 miles — 400 km — where we have a LOT of data because we tend to keep a very careful eye on objects at the same altitude as the ISS.

I did read the article but the premise is bullshit and flies in the face of decades of observation for anyone who has tracked satellites.

You can see this every solar max cycle. The atmosphere heats up when the Earth heats up. Drag increases on satellites in LEO because the atmosphere expands when it heats up. We have literally decades of data on this.

True but this one is funny because it’s the exact opposite of what we see every solar max.