What are you doing (ingame) now?

[IcebergDX]

Farming precious gems in Maiki with my tradeconda. 320 tons of gems =19 mil at Pons Dock (about 22 ly away.) FREE MONEY!!!!!!!! Just be careful, they are illegal cargo, with a hell of a high fine.

[Hrdina]

I think you captured the one angle it almost looks crab-like.

Yeah, that's why I chose to post that picture out of all the ones I took. That was a little surprising since I don't think I was between the nebula and Sol. Why would it look like a crab from another angle?

[tinnitus]

Been hauling Cargo/Data in Aditi System, Pew-1901 and Smjl Central, good run nothing like Ceos/Sothis but half the Jumps and Credits, only one Pirate dropped me out of SC an Elite FAS. Many comms chatter from Pirates but that is all it is. When will the Turret Reset thing get fixed? Turned the Clipper into a Fuel Tank and jumping to Systems I have not been to before.

[Darr Valen]

Got back into my Explorer.. missing my Corvette already. Scanning along the way to Bava. Gotta figure out what I've missed the past 7 months.

[*Al*]

My first planet landing (although it might not really count) at Elvira's.

Intense

[Loriath]

Psychologically, I will try driving around on an Ice World Tonight to see if it makes me feel cooler. Heat here is killing me. I am a Polar Bear and anything over 25c is hard for me. When we get to over 30, I might as well be dead. I am hoping the cold of the world will make me feel better.

[*Al*]

While I am here even though I don't have the required materials for an upgrade I think I will try a drive.

Cooler in London this morning, Mac overheated yesterday.

Stay cool and profit

[Darr Valen]

Psychologically, I will try driving around on an Ice World Tonight to see if it makes me feel cooler. Heat here is killing me. I am a Polar Bear and anything over 25c is hard for me. When we get to over 30, I might as well be dead. I am hoping the cold of the world will make me feel better.

It's been low 40º's here, even worse with the heat index factored in.. so I understand playing cold games, thinking cold thoughts.

Stay frosty!


I've been scanning between Bava and Maia all night. Enough to get into the top half of the users. Going to try my hand at barnacle hunting, as I've yet to ever see one, and I heard they're out there somewhere in Pleiades.. I could be mistaken.

[thebs]

I'm getting very close to Azrael now, the closest I've ever been ...
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Thanx for the info! I've never been to Azrael yet ... but this will probably be the reason. I'm already in Imperial space for the CG, and only 50ly from Azrael now.

Looking forward to getting my Class 6A FSD to Level 5. I'm thinking I'm just going to jump directly to Level 5 FSD, and skip Level 4, especially with my Level 3 being so good already (+22%). Just need to sell some exploration data to unlock level 5 as I'm still only about 60% of the way to Level 4 right now. I'll do so after the current CG is over.

I also obtained Level 3 with Todd the Blaster, although my Class 4 Gimballed Canon only got a 7% increase for nearly a 1.5 degree spread! My 2nd roll was even worse, so I just stuck with the first.

I'm back to grinding with trades, needing another 30Mcr to "upgrade" to a "lighter" Class 7A Power Plant, from the current 8C I have (both are 30MW output). Trying to average 1.2-1.3Mcr per roundtrip, with a single jump. Again, it's within 50ly from Azrael. Hope to see you guys around!

[thebs]

Psychologically, I will try driving around on an Ice World Tonight to see if it makes me feel cooler. Heat here is killing me. I am a Polar Bear and anything over 25c is hard for me. When we get to over 30, I might as well be dead. I am hoping the cold of the world will make me feel better.

It's been low 40º's here, even worse with the heat index factored in.. so I understand playing cold games, thinking cold thoughts.

We virtually never break 40ºC here in Orlando. But I'd rather be in 50ºC in Las Vegas, than 40ºC in Orlando, with the sheer, constantly, 100% humidity.

Florida has been breaking records over the past year on precipitation. Of course, this also meant ...

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... the US Army Corps of Engineers stupidly let that "Big Sugar Coated" crap out of Okeechobee to prevent overflow, and the result was what exactly every Environmental Engineer in Florida predicted would happen. Not that today's "south Florida" should even exist, mind you, but the state -- despite what you hear in the US national media, let alone international, is tired of "the Feds" going against our wishes here, and causing issues.

I.e., the University of South Florida was partitioned in 1923 -- in Tampa -- for a reason. At the time, developed Florida was no further south than the line from Daytona through Orlando to Tampa, with some sparsely populated portions south on the coast, like Melbourne, at a maximum. Nothing was ever supposed to exist south of there ... from Lauderdale to Miami ... until the US Army Corps of Engineers filled it in under the "Wetland Reclaimation Acts." This is still something that everyone wants to reverse ... sans the developers who cannot sell enough land down there for big dollars.

If you don't believe me, visit "Highland County" in Florida sometime after any rain. Yeah, it's named much like Greenland, despite being within 100km of Orlando and Disney World. I love it when people ask if I'm concerned that half of Florida might be underwater in 100 years. I'm like, "Didn't you know ... it was 100 years ago ... before the US Army Corps of Engineers filled it in?"

Watching the US national, and even international media, talk about the toxic algae bloom is just a joke. I mean ... no one should be living down there, period. Worse yet, those freshwater wells are getting more and more drained by the year, and the recharge from Lake Okeechobee is something I'd never wish on my worst enemy. The water table is virtually right below any housing's foundation, and even we don't have basements even farther north in Florida for a reason.

Which is why they should never let the US Army Corps of Engineers release that stuff. Flood Okeechobee, that's what happens, that what always happens. If you're stupid enough to live near it, and aren't a sugar cane farmer, get out. Many are (finally). It's always been a virtual swamp, and the Lake is literally not anything like any other Lake in the US (even pre-cane industry).

I live in Seminole County for a reason, 15m (50') above sea level (still with no basement), and am looking at cheap land in Alachua County, for retirement.

And yes, I'm an American that prefers Celsius, and everyone is taught it as the US became officially metric in '75 (but the US media fails to use it). The 0 (freezing) - 10 (cool) - 20 (perfect) - 30 (warm) - 40 (hot, or scorching humid) - 50 (scorching dry heat) ... makes far more sense to me. Of course I majored in EE, and everything is metric, while US civil and mechanical have a lot of existing standards and history that cannot be thrown away (like SAE). Although even the SAE and all land records are dual-annotated since the '80s.

But at least the US Customary system has been based on Metric since the middle of the 19th Century, always to the same significant digits as Metric itself (first 5, then 7 and finally 9 by the first half of the 20th century).

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The US broke from the UK and adopted the French standards on measurement, which became ISO, seeing the value of making all Imperial measurements based on a base 10 system, hence when NIST came about and the US officially went off the UK Imperial system. Everything was redefined based on Metric, perfectly to with 3 significant digits if possible, or approximated to 5 (later 7 and then 9) when not, to the same precision as Metric's own definitions (per the NIST's requirements).

That's why the US hasn't had any issues with its military equipment in NATO, unlike anything British pre-SEPECAT Jaguar (circa '70s). Which is why one shouldn't say much about the US Customary system if you're from the UK ... even if most Americans are ignorant of the history, especially those that don't use metric, because they are still trolls of the US media who is the most mathematically ignorant, and scientific and engineering void, industry in the US.