@hellraiser711@teslaenergy Powerwall is more about the item that fill your own system while your solar panels aren't producing energy. It's about freedom from the system, not just about a failsafe ;)
Hey all! Neon Dust 2 is out today! Cyberpunk progression, fast action, loveable characters -- what more could you want? @RobbMoreiraVO@podium_ent@MP_Visual
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is guarded twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year.
It has been guarded, without interruption, since 1937.
In September of 2003, Hurricane Isabel reached Washington. The National Park Service, out of concern, gave the sentinels of the Old Guard permission to stand down for the storm.
They did not stand down.
The sergeant of the guard on duty that night refused the permission, calmly, and without further comment. He would later say, in an interview, only that permission was not the same as an order, and that in the absence of an order, the walk continues.
The walk continues.
Twenty-one steps. Turn. Face the tomb. Twenty-one seconds. Turn. Face the other way. Twenty-one seconds. Twenty-one steps.
The rain came sideways.
A tree fell in the cemetery a hundred yards to the east.
The wind lifted a portion of the roof from a nearby maintenance shed.
The sentinel did not break stride.
He walked. He turned. He walked.
At 3 a.m. the wind reached seventy miles per hour, and a sentinel weighing 175 pounds in soaked wool, carrying a rifle, and wearing sunglasses in the dark because the manual requires them, walked twenty-one steps, turned, and walked twenty-one steps back.
Nobody was watching him.
Nobody could have watched him. The cemetery had been closed. The public had been evacuated. The only witness was the storm.
He walked for six hours.
He was relieved at 6:12 a.m.
The tomb had not been left, at any point during the storm, uncovered.
There is no medal for this.
There is no ribbon. There is no citation. There is no commendation in his file.
The Old Guard does not require one.
The walk is the point.
The walk was the walk before there was a country to record it, and the walk will be the walk after everyone who remembers this night is gone.
Somewhere in America, at this moment, in whatever weather, a sentinel is walking twenty-one steps beside a marble slab, facing an unknown man whose name he does not know, for an oath he took to a country that will never see him take it.
That is what the promise looks like when nobody is watching.
Hey all! Not sure anyone really looks for book news on X, these days, but what the heck? I've got another book out, and I thought I'd share. Here's the awesome cover art provided by a human @AethonBooks :)
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@PlayJunkster I found a small bug: Issue 6 – A Fridge Too Far
If the tentacle boss is knocked/pulled out of its enclosure and then killed by the constructed robot outside the intended arena, the post-boss reward trail of 15 COGs does not spawn.
@PlayJunkster Issue 6 – A Fridge Too Far
Result: level completion remains at 285/300 COGs.
Replaying the level and killing the boss inside its enclosure correctly spawns the 15 COG trail and allows 300/300 completion.
Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.
It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.
The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.
By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.
NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.
The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.
Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.
We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.
That's what engineering for the long term looks like.
Imagina você assistindo a Copa, aí a câmera vai pra torcida e quem aparece?
É claro que a IA pode ser usada de mil maneiras erradas, mas dessa vez acertaram demais
Isso aqui chega a doer de ver... saudades do Silvio e de outros tantos
E assim o Brasil perderá mais duas pessoas de bem - E COM DINHEIRO - para os USA. Milhões já se foram.
Segurança pública é a única pauta que importa neste país, largado nas mãos do narcotráfico - quem patrocina crimes como o do vídeo para financiamento.