u/MadOblivion

Granted the torch is more of a toy than anything. The 20v Vacuum cleaner though is just awesome. At first i used a regular Dewalt 20v max battery and the suction i would say was below average. Then i used my Dewalt 20v XR battery and that doubled the suction. The XR battery is advertised to produce 50% more power and i believe it.

If i did not have an XR battery i would probably have called this vacuum junk. Some folks don't know they can vastly improve 20v powered tools by buying one of the 150$ batteries. I have two Dewalt XR batteries and they are worth every penny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B65mFXwqJYA

It is not Anti Gravity but it does produce enough propulsion to overcome Earths Gravity and can run indefinitely. "Anti Gravity" never meant free energy. Propellentless propulsion means free energy.

Energy goes in and stays where you put it as a static charge. The design and voltages generate the propulsive effect. This technology would extend Satellite service life by many many years. It would revolutionize the space industry over night if Space companies decided to invest into the technology.

Disclaimer: AI may have been used to create this meme

DO NOT THROW THESE AWAY, these things are straight up gold. Garmin tries to lie to us and say modern maps cant function on it. That just means they no longer want to code it to work for older units.

I rebuilt modern Florida address search for an 18-year-old Garmin nüvi 360

I’ve been working on a pretty ridiculous project: taking a Garmin nüvi 360 from the mid-2000s and seeing how far its old address-search system can be pushed with modern GIS data.

The roads and routing on these old units still work fine with modern Garmin-compatible maps. The real weakness was address search.

My previous Florida image had about 7.67 million searchable addresses, but it was still missing a lot of legitimate addresses. Instead of continuing to patch them one at a time, I rebuilt the entire Florida search database from scratch.

The new master combines data from:

• OpenStreetMap
• Florida statewide official address data
• County GIS and E911 layers
• Parcel/site address datasets
• TIGER road geometry and address ranges
• Additional local-government GIS sources
• Coordinate interpolation and spatial recovery where authoritative points were missing

The hard part wasn’t just collecting addresses. It was figuring out which records were actually legitimate, deduplicating millions of overlapping records, preserving directional street names, recovering coordinates for incomplete records, and keeping garbage data like concatenated house numbers out of the Garmin index.

For the hardest unresolved cases, I ended up using Google Earth as an independent geocoder.

The local GIS data would say an address exists and where it should roughly be. Google Earth would geocode the original address independently. If Google landed near the authoritative county/E911 location, it became strong confirmation.

One Google Earth validation campaign checked 19,065 county/E911 candidates and 18,839 passed.

That process also uncovered something interesting: after a few thousand bulk geocodes, Google Earth suddenly started returning 0,0 coordinates and its normal search stopped connecting. Switching to a VPN immediately restored it, so it looked very much like temporary IP/session throttling. I ended up building batch-management scripts to track missing IDs, 0,0 failures, duplicate results, and incomplete runs so bad batches couldn’t silently contaminate the database.

Even after Google validation, I didn’t just dump everything into the map.

A final locality and deduplication pass found that 5,549 apparently new records were actually already present once missing city/ZIP information was recovered. Another 22 collapsed into duplicates. Only 5,737 truly new addresses survived that last stage.

The final Florida master now contains:

11,213,312 searchable address identities

Compared with the previous 7,669,207-address map, that is:

+3,544,105 addresses
about 46% more search coverage

The final database also passed these checks:

• 0 missing house numbers
• 0 missing streets
• 0 records missing both city and ZIP
• 0 invalid coordinates
• 0 duplicate search keys

Then came the fun part: making 11.2 million addresses work on a Garmin from 2006.

Each address was converted into a tiny synthetic Garmin-search road structure. The generated overlay contained:

11,213,312 address nodes
22,426,624 road-stub nodes
33,639,936 total OSM nodes
11,213,312 synthetic search ways

That was split into 225 Garmin IMG search tiles using splitter and compiled with mkgmap.

Those 225 search tiles were then combined with the same 93 proven Florida routing tiles from the older build.

Final map:

318 numbered Garmin maps
949,993,472-byte gmapsupp.img
about 0.885 GiB

So despite increasing searchable address coverage by about 46%, the final image is still under 1 GB.

I also automated the final binary audit with GMapTool. The completed image passed with:

• 93/93 routing maps present
• 225/225 new search maps present
• routing NOD data preserved
• no NOD data accidentally added to the search tiles
• global Garmin MDR/IDX search index present
• SRT sort table present
• no old search layers accidentally carried forward
• full sequential file read passed
• checksum verification passed

One subtle issue that mattered a lot was preserving directional road names. A route with a north/south/east/west designation cannot just be normalized down to the bare route number, or Garmin address search can return the wrong road or fail entirely.

The end result is basically a modern statewide Florida address database transplanted into a legacy Garmin search format, while keeping the old routing engine and road map intact.

What started as “why are so many addresses missing from this Garmin?” turned into a project involving GIS data engineering, SQLite, spatial indexing, address normalization, TIGER interpolation, county GIS harvesting, geocoding validation, large-scale deduplication, Garmin map compilation, and binary-level validation.

And somehow the nüvi 360 is still perfectly happy with it. Powered by AI/Python

The final stage i am working on is making a permanent automated updater that uses the same update path i took but completely automates the process. Detects if the current map needs an update and updates automatically.

This unit came with lifetime map updates that Garmin stopped honoring. Considering the only thing wrong with these units are just lack of map updates. This standalone updater should prove extremely useful.

Also i was able to prove that storage IS NOT the limiting factor when updating maps for these units. I could double the map size and the unit would still read that map and function normally.

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Personally the image strikes me as something photographed in the vacuum of space. It explains the soft illumination from below and from the side. Floors don't light from below.

This was the image in a full-page Amoco Performance Products advertisement placed in aerospace publications May 29 1989, including Aviation Week & Space Technology and apparently NASA Tech Briefs. The accompanying side advertised THORNEL advanced carbon-fiber composites for aircraft, spacecraft, radiators, heat sinks and low-observable technology.

Its headline was: “Technology so advanced it will help answer some big questions.” page 46 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20110004241/downloads/20110004241.pdf

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Amoco representatives were reported to have said that the photographed figure was a ten-inch physical model or bust, professionally lit, not a drawing.

However, I cannot find a solid original record naming the sculptor, photographer or advertising agency. That missing production history helped fuel speculation, especially after Bill Cooper drew attention to the image. Bill Cooper claimed to track down the photographer and obtained the negatives on which you could see hairs on the neck. Bill said the photographer refused to describe what he photographed.

This object appears in what looks like black streaks while Apollo 11 orbits the moon

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Original Source<Now a dead link>: https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap11fj/videoindex.html

<working link> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhlcRMyKYM

Timestamp 0:37

Tasty smooth sativa with kush aftertaste, this nug was about 3 grams.

This object appears in a video frame during the 1984 Dale Gardner EVA (STS-51-A)

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John Stoll currently a Supervisor for NASA and JSC Multimedia and Communications at NASA and Rothe Development, Inc. https://rocketreach.co/john-stoll-email_2569898

Uploaded the digital transfers here https://archive.org/details/BestOfSTS-51A16mmTransfers

This object appears in a video frame during the 1984 Dale Gardner EVA (STS-51-A)

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Source

John Stoll currently a Supervisor for NASA and JSC Multimedia and Communications at NASA and Rothe Development, Inc. https://rocketreach.co/john-stoll-email_2569898

Uploaded the digital transfers here https://archive.org/details/BestOfSTS-51A16mmTransfers

This object appears in a video frame during the 1984 Dale Gardner EVA (STS-51-A)

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Source

John Stoll currently a Supervisor for NASA and JSC Multimedia and Communications at NASA and Rothe Development, Inc. https://rocketreach.co/john-stoll-email_2569898

Uploaded the digital transfers here https://archive.org/details/BestOfSTS-51A16mmTransfers

This object appears in a video frame during the 1984 Dale Gardner EVA (STS-51-A)

Recent talk of NASA tracking plasma based craft and have known about them for years.

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John Stoll currently a Supervisor for NASA and JSC Multimedia and Communications at NASA and Rothe Development, Inc. https://rocketreach.co/john-stoll-email_2569898

Uploaded the digital transfers here https://archive.org/details/BestOfSTS-51A16mmTransfers

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDPnJnBSVog

I have also come across NASA film that appears to show an unusual technology riding on what appears to be a wormhole. It is not like a Star trek wormhole, The wormhole spirals space into a point projected a short distance from the craft but it allows the craft to move at an incredibly speed.

Source image: https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo/comments/1v4v1vi/probably_nothing/

This object appears in a video frame during the 1984 Dale Gardner EVA (STS-51-A)

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Source

John Stoll currently a Supervisor for NASA and JSC Multimedia and Communications at NASA and Rothe Development, Inc. https://rocketreach.co/john-stoll-email_2569898 Uploaded the digital transfers here https://archive.org/details/BestOfSTS-51A16mmTransfers

This object appears in a video frame during the 1984 Dale Gardner EVA (STS-51-A)

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