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  1. bisco

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    i find that indoor mosquitos don't tend to bite for some reason. i killed one in the bathroom the other day. insects seem to be living longer into winter than previously
     
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    Dood you are about 2 days behind on news. Not so bad I guess. About 1500 dogs have been cloned on behalf of dead-dog owners who wanted that animal again, and payed the money. I am not particularly interested that Tom Brady is one among them.
     
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    This niche market suffers no institutional opposition. In a few years it will triple (ish) because many rich people wish their dead dogs were not. Say why readers should care, or stand aside.

    Human Enterprise juggernaut is wide and deep. We have already enough topics to attend to.
     
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    Maybe only boy mosquitos come into your house?
     
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    Unlikely. Male mosquitoes stay at water bodies to boink (oh sorry, fertilize) females that have gone further to collect blood.
     
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    Could be males. They have fuzzy antenna.

    Could be plenty of useable water bodies nearby.
     
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    when i'm outdoors, i'm a mosquito magnet. indoors, they are more like flies, buzzing around the windows.
    i'm sure they bite from time to time, but it's not a constant attack, like outdoors
     
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    you're just jealous, and now we have drake me. take that, rams!
     
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    I prefer Aluminum and Steel electrical loads. Do they make concrete electrically or still fissile fuels?

    Bob Wilson
     
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    AI is growing, i wouldn't down[lay its effects on the grid, along with data centers, crypto mining, and who knows what else
     
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    "Do they make concrete electrically" It is an option, but I do not know market fraction

    or still fissile fuels? Typos are going nuclear.

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    Growth scenarios of AI were examined in the publication cited above. But insofar thaat nobody else probably read either, you probably won't get called out,


    ... ooops
     
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    i have thick skin :)

    in other news, another local turbine failed:
    69424587
     
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    Didn't Shakespeare say... "to be fissile or not to be fissile, that is the question"?
     
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    Wind turbine blade detachment is an uncommon failure mode I think. What I usually see in a field of spinners is a few to 30% of them not spinning. Don't know if the gearboxes fail, or what.

    If I were involved in that industry, I would attend to failure modes and realized service lives.

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    OMG I almost typed that as 'service lies' which would have evaded OTTO correct.
     
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