What’s the saying? Something about chimpanzees with assault rifles? Talk about rebels without a.clue! And I was definitely wrong about geek boy. Clearly he’s in it up to his eyeballs. I still wonder how the conspiracy got hold of/managed to divert a dozen AIs. Unless Imogen makes those as well as the synth skin.
If The Horned Ones didn’t know about the Catians and the Wolf Empire before, they have no excuse now.
Can I hear a big (but weak signal), “Oops. Mea Culpa” from the Horned Ones?
If there was ever a captain that deserves to stretch and look smug, then Cpt Chardis is the one.
(butt Cpt don’t forget about those two wayward missiles)
People like the horned folk NEVER/b> “mea culpa”. Their kind do not screw up. Privately they might well mutter an ” Oh shit!” or three but aloud, at least in my experience, they are constitutionally incapable of admitting that they screwed up. I suspect that the horned folk achieved local dominance fairly easily had have never bothered to upgrade since. Their lack of redundant systems tells me that. If they ever had their own version of engineer Murphy (a real person, BTW) he never got to promulgate his eponymous maxim. I find it entirely believable that other civilized species are not as warlike as we homo saps. Hell! Few species on earth are as prone to conflict as we are. Even most other races are less warlike than Caucasians. Look at our bloody history.
Back to the horned folk’s tech. We in the west are accustomed not only to change but accelerating change. That was not always the norm. A peasant in the 10th century lived a lifestyle little changed from the bronze age. Metallurgy and tactics aside, up until the advent of gunpowder warfare was pretty much unchanged from the bronze age. Now I envision the horned folk as having stabilized their technology centuries (millennia?) ago. I also expect that the core worlds (assuming multiple species) have a mercantile system and worked out some form of détente to keep things profitable. Peaceful societies tend to be static. Evolution is merely survival by adapting to and overcoming change. Absent existential threat evolution does not occur. As I wrote earlier, for the core worlds the empire is not merely an unknown, it is an UNKNOWN/b> unknown. They had likely heard something about the empire but had not considered them to be any threat. The supposedly wisest man ever wrote “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Bloodhound, Wolfhound, Invictous and Mastiff. “IMS” = “Imperial Merchant Ship”?
Excuse me, Catman, but shouldn’t it be “Invictus”? I’m thinking of William Ernest Henly’s immortal poem of that title. Always loved the last stanza
“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
I love that poem too.
Dunno about Invictus, I wonder if she’s the command ship. Given these names, my current theory is that Bloodhound is heavy in sensory equipment, meant to locate targets, Wolfhound is a harrier, built for speed, but capable of keeping an enemy occupied until the rest of the fleet catches up, and Mastiff is the power hitter.
OT: Question for our former Army and Uncle Sam’s Misbehaving Children. I’ve been reading a series about a new.world war. In it all the NCOs are addressed by their formal rank – i.e. “staff sergeant”, “gunnery sergeant” etc. Now I was an NCO in the AF for just over 8 of my 10 years and we never addressed one another by any title but “sergeant”. Enlisted to enlisted we general!y just called one another our first name or just our last name. Except in formal occasions – some sort of recognition during “Commander’s Call” (Hey! I received a couple of attaboys in my time! 😉 ) – I do not recall ever being addressed as anything but “sergeant” or possibly “sergeant Mullins. Are the other services more formal than we were? I usually addressed an E-9 ( Chief Mastersergeant) as “Chief” but otherwise it was just “sergeant”. Are the other services different?
as uncle sugars misbehaving child,, pretty much the same.. tho we went with more nicknames.. titles were for orders,, IE: Stew could you go look at 06. vs lance corporal Stueing go fix 06 now.!
and yes,, sarg, = sergeant ,. staf, = ssgt,. guns, = gunnery sgt,. mass, = master gunnery sgt,. an for our E-9 was smage, = sgt major,.. (to his face,, was always sgt major..)
also for about week after you was promoted,,
Bill,
Just between us Army NCOs…….to a Chair Farce wing walker.
One to one, “Sarge”, or “Sergeant” (regardless of NCO rank), “Private”, or “Sir” (again, regardless of rank) works.
In a group setting with more than one NCO or officer, addressing by rank is more specific; “Sergeant” (E5), “Staff Sergeant (E6), (etc); “Lieutenant” (O1), etc.
In formal or command settings, “Sergeant Jones”, “Captain Kowalski”.
Proper methods of addressing each other is learned by instruction and OJT.
As a young Private, one is allowed a certain leeway in errors, but is quickly instructed by his superiors (everyone is his superior). Pushups (“Beat your face against the floor and don’t stop until I’M tired”) is (or used to be) a favorite method of instruction.
Petercat – With all due respect, I have a couple problems with this vid (I received it from another friend too.)
I have a problem with the seriously questionable methodology demonstrated herein !
Too many blanks: – No initial test, not just a claim/ No initial sample to validate the equipment if functioning as stated.
Additionally, one cannot visualize tube placement under the mask – in the mouth or outside of it.
IMHO Nursing opinion – it matters significantly.
The issue – tube inside the mask – entrained air is mixed with exhaled air.
– tube in the mouth – total exhaled air would have less oxygen that ambient air.
I would expect oxygen differences.
I cannot trust a claim without proper validating checks.
In nursing – equipment must be evaluated to standard before using – even with BP cuffs.
I am open to other’s assessments.
Regarding addressing another service member –
Army Career: I retired as LTC/O-5 ten years in grade (I declined O-6 x 3 . . . (just not a political animal enough for O-6) )
Officers are to be addressed as Sir, by Rank/grade
NCOs addressed by rank/grade and last name.
EMs, the same.
Relationship preferences per agreement . . . E.G. . SGT Jones: “Please call me Jim”. OK, Jim, you may call me Captain.
FYI – Chaplains of all grades (O-1 to O-8 – none above 2-stars) are addressed as Chaplain, formally with last name – so that was me 1977-1999.
Not sure about doctors and lawyers – I avoided both unless forced . . . 😀
His methodology may be suspect, but his point is correct. Other tests have
shown a drop in blood oxygen levels while wearing a mask.
There are just too many negatives associated with wearing a mask, their universal
use by everyone is not a positive.
Ned, the bottom line with masks is that there is zero – I say again ZERO – scientific evidence of benefit from them and a growing mountain of evidence of harm. Unfortunately from everything I can see masks are part of the culture now and will be for the foreseeable future.
Ned, you’re a nurse. When did we go from only doing something medically when it was demonstrably both safe AND effective to doing it unless there is an overwhelming mound of evidence it causes harm?
Bill –
Nursing use of masks were to protect the open wounds of patients from nursing-spit, primarily – and the nurse from airborne contaminants while in the patient’s isolation room, with concomitant gloves, gown and cap.
If one really needed protection from airborne disease agents – a battery powered, filtered, hose-fed positive pressure, sealed face mask was in order.
Either that or the old standby M-17A1 Protective mask, or equivalent . . . 😀
I noticed several photos of nurses with significant contact dermatitis from extended mask wear as well.
My take in the beginning was that when the medical became the malignantly political – When Comrade Fauci was elevated to Czar-hood –
information and misinformation – propelled by fear and rumor with pseudo-reporting . . . the shift from smarts to ridiculous had happened.
The comorbidity issue – IMO – reduced respiratory effectiveness increased the problems to the point of lethality in those significantly already compromised.
Unfortunately, each of those deaths increased the media’s hysteria – exacerbating ad infinitum.
I have seen no other mask-reports – except the one I live with –
e.g. it is too hot in the mask for me to breathe comfortably – perhaps explaining my feelings of claustrophobia as well.
I would welcome other citations of unsafety.
The intelligent “battle” against a virus that, even with MSM reportage – was 98.7% survivable, the cause was converted to asininity by political pressure .
IMHO – a drop in Oxygen sat numbers would make the combination of that respiration virus and any significant comorbidities, just that much more problematic.
I tried to tell people that HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy (think treatment for the Bends – and evidence is mounting for efficacy for TBI and PTSD as well)
which oxygen is dissolved in the plasma – already works for CO poisoning if used soon enough.
would be so much better an intervention than ventilators. However – the shortage of those is crippling – could have saved some though.
I either got blank stares – or was told to ‘bugger off’.
I will not bore with the problems nurses on the floor have of ventilator use, cleansing and maintenance . . . one scary personal reference:
Well OK, suctioning deoxygenates the patient to a critical level nearly immediately. SS/DD.
The Press seems delighted to clump nearly any symptomologies as “proof of the virus’ lethality . . .
I have seen some real beauties – “Dandruff ” wtf – again, politics in action.
Also – the T-shirt masking movement had nothing to do with antiviral epidemiology – It was/is, as my used to say, “Mind-fucking”.
It was the quickest way to get the masking syndrome foisted upon the general public.
Whip people into a panic state and will do nearly anything to comply.
People then said, tacitly – my mind is made up – do not bother me with facts – much of which has been suppressed anyway . . .
Additionally – the cardiomyopathy issue – Would that there were an easy test which would detect for the younger-than-me-set, the potential for.
And folks could take precautions then.
Sorry for the apparent over-answer . . . It is kind of a “soapbox issue” for me.
I tried to clean up typos – – .
BTW – a few months ago I did a little research into virus sizes and best mask filtration abilities.
What I found was:
A. The Covid symptomatology virus, SARS-CoV-2 diameter was nominally 200 nm.
B. The best masks, N-95 are advertised to filter 0.3 microns – and, if I understand correctly, that equal 300 nm.
Airborne virus particles, liberated from exhaled respirations will not be filtered out by any of these masks . . .
I expect if one had exhalation substances on ones mask contaminated with the SARS virus, the person’s inhalations could liberate virus particle from the fluid.
I also expect the reciprocal to be true – exhalations of an infected person would carry thru the mask as well.
C. Much less the T-shirt face coverings, even of the tighter-weave quilting fabric – and the plastic face shield devices I have seen are a bad joke.
D. The normal “medical” face masks in general use don’t come anyway close, nor are they the close fit as required by the N-95 masks.
Entrained air around the mask would not be filtered at all – much less for those whos noses are not even inside the mask ! ! !
Additionally – since the SARS virus is considered to be spread primarily by airborne means, the 6-foot social distancing is ridiculous,
because the virus itself can go six or sixty feet – it floats in the air.
Reckon the “Social Distancing” was to reduce the spitting-distance . . . . .
So – we are back to the politics of fear and population control.
Vaccine efficacy? – I really have no clue due to conflicting claims and political mumbo-jumbo.
Even my primary care MD would not give me a definitive answer regarding vaccine efficacy.
This latest thing about reduced oxygen levels in these masks –
I recall from my hospice nursing days that chronic Oxygen saturation (SaO2/SpO2) numbers at and below 88% makes one eligible for hospice admission. . . .
Do the mask put folks in that category? I do not know since that video is all I have seen. He just showed it “alarming”.
Too bad the video guy did not compare his machine readings to a pulse oximetry test.
What’s the saying? Something about chimpanzees with assault rifles? Talk about rebels without a.clue! And I was definitely wrong about geek boy. Clearly he’s in it up to his eyeballs. I still wonder how the conspiracy got hold of/managed to divert a dozen AIs. Unless Imogen makes those as well as the synth skin.
“…..you drove them insane.”
That right there deserves a double throat punch to Dr Smith and the same to Glasses. One throat punch for each of the AI.
If The Horned Ones didn’t know about the Catians and the Wolf Empire before, they have no excuse now.
Can I hear a big (but weak signal), “Oops. Mea Culpa” from the Horned Ones?
If there was ever a captain that deserves to stretch and look smug, then Cpt Chardis is the one.
(butt Cpt don’t forget about those two wayward missiles)
People like the horned folk NEVER/b> “mea culpa”. Their kind do not screw up. Privately they might well mutter an ” Oh shit!” or three but aloud, at least in my experience, they are constitutionally incapable of admitting that they screwed up. I suspect that the horned folk achieved local dominance fairly easily had have never bothered to upgrade since. Their lack of redundant systems tells me that. If they ever had their own version of engineer Murphy (a real person, BTW) he never got to promulgate his eponymous maxim. I find it entirely believable that other civilized species are not as warlike as we homo saps. Hell! Few species on earth are as prone to conflict as we are. Even most other races are less warlike than Caucasians. Look at our bloody history.
Back to the horned folk’s tech. We in the west are accustomed not only to change but accelerating change. That was not always the norm. A peasant in the 10th century lived a lifestyle little changed from the bronze age. Metallurgy and tactics aside, up until the advent of gunpowder warfare was pretty much unchanged from the bronze age. Now I envision the horned folk as having stabilized their technology centuries (millennia?) ago. I also expect that the core worlds (assuming multiple species) have a mercantile system and worked out some form of détente to keep things profitable. Peaceful societies tend to be static. Evolution is merely survival by adapting to and overcoming change. Absent existential threat evolution does not occur. As I wrote earlier, for the core worlds the empire is not merely an unknown, it is an UNKNOWN/b> unknown. They had likely heard something about the empire but had not considered them to be any threat. The supposedly wisest man ever wrote “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Hmmm… An appropriate punishment? Five weeks in Sensory Deprivation to each count?
The Horned Ones are about to be gored, unless they buy a clue…
Bloodhound, Wolfhound, Invictous and Mastiff. “IMS” = “Imperial Merchant Ship”?
Excuse me, Catman, but shouldn’t it be “Invictus”? I’m thinking of William Ernest Henly’s immortal poem of that title. Always loved the last stanza
“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
I love that poem too.
Dunno about Invictus, I wonder if she’s the command ship. Given these names, my current theory is that Bloodhound is heavy in sensory equipment, meant to locate targets, Wolfhound is a harrier, built for speed, but capable of keeping an enemy occupied until the rest of the fleet catches up, and Mastiff is the power hitter.
You are correct. Kelsie explains the procedure:
http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-440/
OT: Question for our former Army and Uncle Sam’s Misbehaving Children. I’ve been reading a series about a new.world war. In it all the NCOs are addressed by their formal rank – i.e. “staff sergeant”, “gunnery sergeant” etc. Now I was an NCO in the AF for just over 8 of my 10 years and we never addressed one another by any title but “sergeant”. Enlisted to enlisted we general!y just called one another our first name or just our last name. Except in formal occasions – some sort of recognition during “Commander’s Call” (Hey! I received a couple of attaboys in my time! 😉 ) – I do not recall ever being addressed as anything but “sergeant” or possibly “sergeant Mullins. Are the other services more formal than we were? I usually addressed an E-9 ( Chief Mastersergeant) as “Chief” but otherwise it was just “sergeant”. Are the other services different?
as uncle sugars misbehaving child,, pretty much the same.. tho we went with more nicknames.. titles were for orders,, IE: Stew could you go look at 06. vs lance corporal Stueing go fix 06 now.!
and yes,, sarg, = sergeant ,. staf, = ssgt,. guns, = gunnery sgt,. mass, = master gunnery sgt,. an for our E-9 was smage, = sgt major,.. (to his face,, was always sgt major..)
also for about week after you was promoted,,
Bill,
Just between us Army NCOs…….to a Chair Farce wing walker.
One to one, “Sarge”, or “Sergeant” (regardless of NCO rank), “Private”, or “Sir” (again, regardless of rank) works.
In a group setting with more than one NCO or officer, addressing by rank is more specific; “Sergeant” (E5), “Staff Sergeant (E6), (etc); “Lieutenant” (O1), etc.
In formal or command settings, “Sergeant Jones”, “Captain Kowalski”.
Proper methods of addressing each other is learned by instruction and OJT.
As a young Private, one is allowed a certain leeway in errors, but is quickly instructed by his superiors (everyone is his superior). Pushups (“Beat your face against the floor and don’t stop until I’M tired”) is (or used to be) a favorite method of instruction.
On masking:
https://twitter.com/dunn_d06210856/status/1467097496337985542
I thought people wearing a mask driving alone on the interstate was stupid, now I
know that they’re oxygen deprived and dangerous to everyone else.
Petercat – With all due respect, I have a couple problems with this vid (I received it from another friend too.)
I have a problem with the seriously questionable methodology demonstrated herein !
Too many blanks: – No initial test, not just a claim/ No initial sample to validate the equipment if functioning as stated.
Additionally, one cannot visualize tube placement under the mask – in the mouth or outside of it.
IMHO Nursing opinion – it matters significantly.
The issue – tube inside the mask – entrained air is mixed with exhaled air.
– tube in the mouth – total exhaled air would have less oxygen that ambient air.
I would expect oxygen differences.
I cannot trust a claim without proper validating checks.
In nursing – equipment must be evaluated to standard before using – even with BP cuffs.
I am open to other’s assessments.
Regarding addressing another service member –
Army Career: I retired as LTC/O-5 ten years in grade (I declined O-6 x 3 . . . (just not a political animal enough for O-6) )
Officers are to be addressed as Sir, by Rank/grade
NCOs addressed by rank/grade and last name.
EMs, the same.
Relationship preferences per agreement . . . E.G. . SGT Jones: “Please call me Jim”. OK, Jim, you may call me Captain.
FYI – Chaplains of all grades (O-1 to O-8 – none above 2-stars) are addressed as Chaplain, formally with last name – so that was me 1977-1999.
Not sure about doctors and lawyers – I avoided both unless forced . . . 😀
His methodology may be suspect, but his point is correct. Other tests have
shown a drop in blood oxygen levels while wearing a mask.
There are just too many negatives associated with wearing a mask, their universal
use by everyone is not a positive.
i wear the ‘mask’ for my lung condition,, when it gets too cold..
but yes,, after about minutes of wearing i get a headache..
Ned, the bottom line with masks is that there is zero – I say again ZERO – scientific evidence of benefit from them and a growing mountain of evidence of harm. Unfortunately from everything I can see masks are part of the culture now and will be for the foreseeable future.
Ned, you’re a nurse. When did we go from only doing something medically when it was demonstrably both safe AND effective to doing it unless there is an overwhelming mound of evidence it causes harm?
Bill –
Nursing use of masks were to protect the open wounds of patients from nursing-spit, primarily – and the nurse from airborne contaminants while in the patient’s isolation room, with concomitant gloves, gown and cap.
If one really needed protection from airborne disease agents – a battery powered, filtered, hose-fed positive pressure, sealed face mask was in order.
Either that or the old standby M-17A1 Protective mask, or equivalent . . . 😀
I noticed several photos of nurses with significant contact dermatitis from extended mask wear as well.
My take in the beginning was that when the medical became the malignantly political – When Comrade Fauci was elevated to Czar-hood –
information and misinformation – propelled by fear and rumor with pseudo-reporting . . . the shift from smarts to ridiculous had happened.
The comorbidity issue – IMO – reduced respiratory effectiveness increased the problems to the point of lethality in those significantly already compromised.
Unfortunately, each of those deaths increased the media’s hysteria – exacerbating ad infinitum.
I have seen no other mask-reports – except the one I live with –
e.g. it is too hot in the mask for me to breathe comfortably – perhaps explaining my feelings of claustrophobia as well.
I would welcome other citations of unsafety.
The intelligent “battle” against a virus that, even with MSM reportage – was 98.7% survivable, the cause was converted to asininity by political pressure .
IMHO – a drop in Oxygen sat numbers would make the combination of that respiration virus and any significant comorbidities, just that much more problematic.
I tried to tell people that HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy (think treatment for the Bends – and evidence is mounting for efficacy for TBI and PTSD as well)
which oxygen is dissolved in the plasma – already works for CO poisoning if used soon enough.
would be so much better an intervention than ventilators. However – the shortage of those is crippling – could have saved some though.
I either got blank stares – or was told to ‘bugger off’.
I will not bore with the problems nurses on the floor have of ventilator use, cleansing and maintenance . . . one scary personal reference:
Well OK, suctioning deoxygenates the patient to a critical level nearly immediately. SS/DD.
The Press seems delighted to clump nearly any symptomologies as “proof of the virus’ lethality . . .
I have seen some real beauties – “Dandruff ” wtf – again, politics in action.
Also – the T-shirt masking movement had nothing to do with antiviral epidemiology – It was/is, as my used to say, “Mind-fucking”.
It was the quickest way to get the masking syndrome foisted upon the general public.
Whip people into a panic state and will do nearly anything to comply.
People then said, tacitly – my mind is made up – do not bother me with facts – much of which has been suppressed anyway . . .
Additionally – the cardiomyopathy issue – Would that there were an easy test which would detect for the younger-than-me-set, the potential for.
And folks could take precautions then.
Sorry for the apparent over-answer . . . It is kind of a “soapbox issue” for me.
I tried to clean up typos – – .
BTW – a few months ago I did a little research into virus sizes and best mask filtration abilities.
What I found was:
A. The Covid symptomatology virus, SARS-CoV-2 diameter was nominally 200 nm.
B. The best masks, N-95 are advertised to filter 0.3 microns – and, if I understand correctly, that equal 300 nm.
Airborne virus particles, liberated from exhaled respirations will not be filtered out by any of these masks . . .
I expect if one had exhalation substances on ones mask contaminated with the SARS virus, the person’s inhalations could liberate virus particle from the fluid.
I also expect the reciprocal to be true – exhalations of an infected person would carry thru the mask as well.
C. Much less the T-shirt face coverings, even of the tighter-weave quilting fabric – and the plastic face shield devices I have seen are a bad joke.
D. The normal “medical” face masks in general use don’t come anyway close, nor are they the close fit as required by the N-95 masks.
Entrained air around the mask would not be filtered at all – much less for those whos noses are not even inside the mask ! ! !
Additionally – since the SARS virus is considered to be spread primarily by airborne means, the 6-foot social distancing is ridiculous,
because the virus itself can go six or sixty feet – it floats in the air.
Reckon the “Social Distancing” was to reduce the spitting-distance . . . . .
So – we are back to the politics of fear and population control.
Vaccine efficacy? – I really have no clue due to conflicting claims and political mumbo-jumbo.
Even my primary care MD would not give me a definitive answer regarding vaccine efficacy.
This latest thing about reduced oxygen levels in these masks –
I recall from my hospice nursing days that chronic Oxygen saturation (SaO2/SpO2) numbers at and below 88% makes one eligible for hospice admission. . . .
Do the mask put folks in that category? I do not know since that video is all I have seen. He just showed it “alarming”.
Too bad the video guy did not compare his machine readings to a pulse oximetry test.
He slipped a dozen classified AIs past Imperial Security? Hate to say it, but the Empire may have to dragoon him into DOING Security.