Ed Gaito

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Ed Gaito

Ed Gaito

@egaito

Mostly here for news and following politics, Starting to sharing my animal rescue efforts. Dogs, Kitties, Donkey's, Mules and more. Blue check will be back...

Katılım Nisan 2009
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Ed Gaito
Ed Gaito@egaito·
@dogwoodblooms I spent my early years up north and called them tractor trailers. I spent high school and college here and took up 19-wheeler. I never got "semi" truck. Half a truck? Are there 36-wheelers out there somewhere?
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Ed Gaito
Ed Gaito@egaito·
@StephenKing With all of the money you've made, can you not afford mental health treatment?
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
🚨#BREAKING: After a FULL WEEK of not releasing ANY description of the woman who ST*BBED A PREGNANT WOMAN in the parking lot of a grocery store in Charlotte NC... ...a photo has FINALLY been released of the female attacker Why do you think they held onto this for a FULL WEEK?!
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Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol

🚨#BREAKING: The woman who ST*BBED A PREGNANT WOMAN with STEAK KNIFE in Charlotte NC... ...HAS STILL NOT YET BEEN CAUGHT AND IS ON THE LOOSE!!!! The pregnant woman was simply getting her toddler out of a carseat when the attacker, who she had NEVER met, stopped her car, got out, screamed and cursed at her, and then attacked her with a knife. The pregnant woman then fought the attacker BY HERSELF before the woman fled in her car... and thankfully the baby she is carrying is unharmed. This utter madness in Charlotte HAS GOT TO END!!!!

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Ed Gaito
Ed Gaito@egaito·
@theSiliconSiren You should have tried 110 through an acoustic coupler on a Vic, or 300 through an Apple IIe.
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Silicon Siren
Silicon Siren@theSiliconSiren·
Ah, just like being back on dial-up... worth it 🤣
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Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺
Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺@MbarkCherguia·
Country star Miranda Lambert's outfit is causing a stir. What do you think, classy or trashy?
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Ed Gaito
Ed Gaito@egaito·
Amazing.
Anish Moonka@AnishA_Moonka

Those wheels you’re looking at are 0.75 millimeters thick. That’s half the thickness of a US dime. Each one was carved from a single block of aluminum, and NASA sent six of them to Mars knowing they’d eventually shred. Curiosity was built for a 2-year mission. It landed in August 2012, and by December that year NASA had already extended the mission indefinitely. Thirteen years and 35.5 kilometers later, the rover is still going, but the wheels started cracking just 14 months in. The damage came faster than anyone at JPL predicted. Sharp embedded rocks were punching straight through the skin between the treads. So NASA assembled a Wheel Wear Tiger Team (a crisis problem-solving tradition that goes back to Apollo 13) and got to work. In 2017, they uploaded a traction control algorithm from Earth that adjusts each wheel’s speed in real time based on the terrain, reducing force on the front wheels by 20%. They rerouted the rover to softer ground and started driving backward when possible, because pulling wheels over rocks produces less force than pushing them into rocks. The wildest part: if enough treads snap off, Curiosity is designed to find a sharp rock on Mars and use it to deliberately rip out the damaged inner section of its own wheel. JPL tested this on a replica rover and found Curiosity can keep driving on just the outer third. They predict this won’t be needed until around 2034. Every 1,000 meters, the rover pulls over and uses the camera on its robotic arm to photograph its own wheels so engineers on Earth can count every crack. Each wheel also has tiny holes that spell “JPL” in Morse code, which Curiosity uses to measure distance by photographing its own tracks in the dirt. These photos directly changed the next rover. When NASA built Perseverance, engineers 3D-printed about 70 different tread designs before landing on 48 curved treads instead of Curiosity’s 24, with thicker skin. They tested the new wheels over 60 kilometers and got zero damage by Curiosity’s original failure definition. “A boring graph with no data on it,” as one JPL engineer put it. A $2.5 billion machine doing self-surgery with rocks on another planet because the mission outlasted its design by 6x.

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Ed Gaito
Ed Gaito@egaito·
@tropicalupdate As a kid, I had a recurring dream that the towers "woke up", tore the lines taking out the power and attacked the city. Street lights joined the fight. I have no idea where those dreams came from.
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Mike's Weather Page
Mike's Weather Page@tropicalupdate·
This is what I see on my morning walks when I stare at the transmission towers here in Oldsmar. As a kid I would do the same from Mom and Dad's backseat every road trip. Extra spooky with some fog.
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Ed Gaito
Ed Gaito@egaito·
I wonder how many have attended climate protests.
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Silicon Siren
Silicon Siren@theSiliconSiren·
Before Discord, Slack, and even modern forums… there was IRC! It was truly the Wild West of online chat and early internet culture. What are some of your favorite IRC tales? I have a more in-depth video all about IRC coming soon. Stay tuned, it’s going to be a good one 😁
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Ed Gaito@egaito·
@BadgedPatriot I don't drain it, rather hook a hose up, run it outside and let the water pressure help push the sediment out.
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👮‍♂️The Badged Patriot👮‍♂️
A plumber just told me you are supposed to drain your water heater once a year to get the junk at the bottom out to extend the life of the heater. Does anybody actually do that?😳
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