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Warpedcow
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 21, 2009 Post Count: 148 Status: Offline |
I was at the Grand AM and NASCAR road race this weekend at "Road America" in Elkhart Lake Wisconsin and witnessed this amazing crash. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCKsZlm9Cw The Camaro ended up here over the catch fence. http://yfrog.com/gyi59beoj Thank god there were no spectators standing there. In-car camera of the Camaro that flipped http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kT6moE8yNQ Gunter Schaldach who flipped over the fence walked away but the guy he rear-ended, Joe Foster, was cut out and air lifted to a Milwaukee hospital. Wow, that was quite a mess! I've been to a number of SCCA races at Road America, but none of the PRO stuff (though I've wanted to, just too busy). I've also done track days at Road America so I know the track very well. They usually don't place spectators right past tire walls for this reason. Canada corner is an exception, though the spectators are quite a bit high above the track there too. The in-car video/telemetry makes it obvious he had a massive brake failure of some sort, hardly bled off any speed before the collision. Those cars should be entering turn one at about 85-95MPH normally I guess, and he was over 130MPH at impact.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7701 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It took almost 5 years, but I finally got the Beta badge. At this rate it will take me 130 years to make emerald and 260 years to make sapphire
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Sgt. Joe
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I came back at the right time. BETA's! What a rocky road getting back crunching. While sending my board to a friend to see if he could fix it, decided to buy a open box board. Didn't work. Wouldn't boot. It didn't have the updated bios to use my 6 core I bought. RMA'd it. While figuring out what to get, found out win7 OEM is pretty much married to the motherboard it's initially installed on. Could call Microsoft in hoping they give me another code. Guess the motherboard that didn't work was a blessing in disguise.
----------------------------------------Meanwhile, my buddy I mailed the motherboard to let me know he couldn't get it to work. I will be sending that to super micro to get the board fixed. Couldn't wait weeks to crunch again so ordered the same board. Whola, I'm a crunching with my hex as of about an hour ago. When I get my other board fixed, decided to keep it and run my dual quad westmere's. Was planning on selling those chips to get another hex until I had a close call with cancer. Tests came back mostly negative but a few test cells tested abnormal. Talk about little sleep waiting on the results. Anyway, plan on stepping up crunching for cures. Glad to be back in the game. Hope everyone stayed safe on this last batch of storms.
Crunching for humanity since 2007!
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7701 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I came back at the right time. BETA's! What a rocky road getting back crunching. While sending my board to a friend to see if he could fix it, decided to buy a open box board. Didn't work. Wouldn't boot. It didn't have the updated bios to use my 6 core I bought. RMA'd it. While figuring out what to get, found out win7 OEM is pretty much married to the motherboard it's initially installed on. Could call Microsoft in hoping they give me another code. Guess the motherboard that didn't work was a blessing in disguise. Meanwhile, my buddy I mailed the motherboard to let me know he couldn't get it to work. I will be sending that to super micro to get the board fixed. Couldn't wait weeks to crunch again so ordered the same board. Whola, I'm a crunching with my hex as of about an hour ago. When I get my other board fixed, decided to keep it and run my dual quad westmere's. Was planning on selling those chips to get another hex until I had a close call with cancer. Tests came back mostly negative but a few test cells tested abnormal. Talk about little sleep waiting on the results. Anyway, plan on stepping up crunching for cures. Glad to be back in the game. Hope everyone stayed safe on this last batch of storms. Glad you're back. That is mostly good news. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It took almost 5 years, but I finally got the Beta badge. At this rate it will take me 130 years to make emerald and 260 years to make sapphire Cheers I'm at 1:111:05:12:47 for my beta badge. I still have a ways to go to get blue. Hopefully I can get a few hundred more cpu hours yet this weekend with all the beta units I have queued up.  Did 400+ hours today.  |
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ultimaThule
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 825 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello fellows
---------------------------------------- Tropic back here, +26'C (+79'F) already on morning, so something hot on midday... New turn is that UV -levels has also shot out of the roof. Normal protection level here is 3, now there has been 7 or higher for some times... This is something I'm not worried about, do not need to spend time on outside. Apropoo, I have read one study where local scientist modeled this scenario to see how local floora would react if ozone layer would be wiped a way. They expose local conifers to huge load of UV -radiation and notice that threes start to produce more antioxidants. In this case to be more precise, flavanoids. So local conifers has very good antidote system for these kind of changes. Deciduous on another hand has obstacles they cannot handle. Birch's leafs has start to turn yellow, and not that kind of yellow that is familiar on autumn. This is more like lack of color, something when you fade green away, something very much like if you leave newspaper so sun can hit it couple of years.. I think deciduous are kind of aqua here, I guess it is only matter of how much leaves they can loose and still survive.  |
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mclaver
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Dec 19, 2005 Post Count: 566 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It took almost 5 years, but I finally got the Beta badge. At this rate it will take me 130 years to make emerald and 260 years to make sapphire Cheers After 5 1/2 Years I just got an Emerald Beta badge! Maybe it will only take me 6 more years to reach the Holy Grail of Saphire..... Although I have a few more computers then you in my Home Data Center! :)    |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7701 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hello fellows Tropic back here, +26'C (+79'F) already on morning, so something hot on midday... New turn is that UV -levels has also shot out of the roof. Normal protection level here is 3, now there has been 7 or higher for some times... This is something I'm not worried about, do not need to spend time on outside. Apropoo, I have read one study where local scientist modeled this scenario to see how local floora would react if ozone layer would be wiped a way. They expose local conifers to huge load of UV -radiation and notice that threes start to produce more antioxidants. In this case to be more precise, flavanoids. So local conifers has very good antidote system for these kind of changes. Deciduous on another hand has obstacles they cannot handle. Birch's leafs has start to turn yellow, and not that kind of yellow that is familiar on autumn. This is more like lack of color, something when you fade green away, something very much like if you leave newspaper so sun can hit it couple of years.. I think deciduous are kind of aqua here, I guess it is only matter of how much leaves they can loose and still survive. The last two days were definitely tropical here - 95F+ (36C+). But we had a big storm move through last night. It dropped from 95F to 65F(18.3C) in less than 30 minutes. 60 mph(96kph) winds too. I lost a couple of large limbs from a few trees. I was lucky because just a half mile to the north of me people lost whole trees. 1.8 inches(4.6 cm) of rain. I will be spending my morning cleaning up the debris. At least it is cooler now, but still very humid. I think the deciduous trees can lose their leaves a couple of times before it kills them. When the army worms come through they eat all the leaves, but the trees seem to recover if it does not happen too often. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It took almost 5 years, but I finally got the Beta badge. At this rate it will take me 130 years to make emerald and 260 years to make sapphire Cheers I'm at 1:111:05:12:47 for my beta badge. I still have a ways to go to get blue. Hopefully I can get a few hundred more cpu hours yet this weekend with all the beta units I have queued up. Did 400+ hours today. I got 5 pages of beta work units pending validation. Cool! Speaking of cool, what a change in temp from yesterday. It was 97 degrees  for a high and like Sgt.Joe said, it dropped to 72 in minutes! Now that's air conditioning.  |
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I read that even Duluth got above 90 degrees yesterday -- for the first time in 1785 days!
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