What brief message would you send yourself 5 years ago?

[freebeard]

https://www.quirkbooks.com/sites/def...s%20sharks.jpg

[Piotrsko]

Oh frickin includes sharks. Now I understand

[rmay635703]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

How about 100 to even 300 + ft for the new ones? 20 years ago, the 1mw Zond turbines were 747 wing spans and what kind of saw has a 20ft by 10ft throat, cuts composite, steel, and whatever filler they use nowadays? ?

How do they make them?

We have access stuff that will cut big where I work,
waterjet with no bottom shrouding is generally the easiest and most dangerous for on site.

Composites aren’t that difficult to cut, just slow and potentially costly, I’ve even seen that you can split composites in certain directions like a log splitter

The trouble is that commercial interest don’t want to just cut the material they want to shred it into small wood chip or smaller pieces to recycle which would be extraordinarily energy intensive and expensive

[Piotrsko]

Haven't been involved for 20 years, but back then they were made like a Rutan moldless aircraft.

I can't imagine a mold for building them today, but they could

[rmay635703]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

Haven't been involved for 20 years, but back then they were made like a Rutan moldless aircraft.

I can't imagine a mold for building them today, but they could

Yeah they are just “airplane wings” and get tossed at 80% strength

There have already been a couple “artistic” uses of segments of the windmills for bicycle lean tos and solar panel mounts but normally they just use the center body segments

If we could send them to Mexico they would find uses for them.

[Piotrsko]

Never said they were useless, just that the newer stuff isn't flat, smooth and lump free like they look on tv and a huge PITA to seal. Somebody built a roof from a 7x7 series airplane.

Mexico had some that ought to be scrap by now but I suspect they figured out how to delay obsolescence

[rmay635703]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

Never said they were useless, just that the newer stuff isn't flat, smooth and lump free like they look on tv and a huge PITA to seal. Somebody built a roof from a 7x7 series airplane.

Mexico had some that ought to be scrap by now but I suspect they figured out how to delay obsolescence

If you don’t care about “catastrophic failure “ like the Aricebo dish collapse you just let the run until they break.

Given they are built for hurricanes there is little reason not to run these things in non-human accessible areas until failure

Might get an extra 20 years out of one if high winds don’t catch it wrong, possibly longer but the drivetrain needs maintenance and repair occasionally so it would be a liability any time a maintenance crew goes in

And of coarse the human explorer dumbasses will probably get crushed by one at some point as well

[redpoint5]

I took a puddle jumper to a couple islands in Nicaragua, and the plane was from something like 1950. After looking at the flight hours, I had calculated the plane would need to have flown for 8 hrs a day, every day, to accrue that many hours. Talk about ROI.

[Piotrsko]

Aircraft generally are required to be disassembled and fixed every so often, so moving parts aren't that old. Spars and skins don't normally fail. 30,000 hrs isn't uncommon.

You can yaw a turbine 90 degrees to the wind which derates the loading significantly and takes a couple of minutes and there's a huge blade brake for maintenance

The lightning strikes taking out a blade was survivable for the tower, not so much for the transmission or hub. The after fire wasn't survivable however. My wife jokes about thunderstorms and wind farms: "Pick me, pick me, pick me!"

[Xist]

Hey OP, sorry to necro, but this spawned a relevant discussion to #1, not necessarily to #2-#39, though:


It's a different premise--unless you are 11--instead of going back 5 years you would go back to when you were 6, which brings up my first question of time travel:

Do you Quantum-Leap yourself or is this more like "Back to the Future?"

If you Quantum-Leap yourself you would only be able to bring your memories. If I go back 5-6 years I could [hopefully] memorize [and remember] those trades I specified in #1, but two things:

Why wait until I am 37 to save the world with $100B?

Originally Posted by redpoint5

While I wouldn't refuse a boatload of cash, I'd rather come by it from producing something of value instead of from everyone else being poorer to make me rich.

I take care of things because I try to be responsible, not because I want money, but you can do good things with money.

There would be a huge difference between going back to 1985 when I was six and to 2016 when I was already technically middle-aged, but the fun part is that the weirdos were going back further:

Originally Posted by GNiko

Does the red pill take me back in time to when I was 6 or just turn me into a 6-year old? I'd make a mint on Microsoft and Apple alone.

Originally Posted by MrKnowItAll1903

Dell computer was the biggest gainer in the 1990-2000 decade.

Originally Posted by abion47

IBM for the 80s, Dell for the 90s, Google/Apple/Amazon for the 00s, Bitcoin/Facebook/TenCent for the 10s. Set for 20 lives.

Originally Posted by DiamondDogLedTasso

Also don't forget about shorting Enron & WorldCom, and shorting the 2008 crash, specifically Lehman Bros

Do you have any idea how much information this is, ignoring what I figured out for the last 5 years?

IBM had a low of $5.13 in 1980 and high of $12.02 in 1986. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/c...-price-history

"Circuit City’s shares, which trade on the New York Stock Exchange, increased more than 8,100% during the 1980s, from an adjusted-for-splits
price of 26 cents a share at the beginning of the decade to $21.75 on Friday." http://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...-73-story.html

Dell went from $5.50 in 1990 to $51 in 2000--but stocks split so much that 1 stock became 96: https://www.1stock1.com/1stock1_172.htm

Apple had a low of 20¢ in 2003 and high of $9.92 in 2010. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/c...-price-history

I did the math, but it is meaningless. If you have a billion in Dell stock and you try to sell all of it when it peaks you won't have a billion.

You may not be able to buy a billion of Apple stock, at least not for the same price, and what is the point, anyway?