u/schnibitz

So at the end of season six and particularly before the beginning of season seven, there was a fair amount of hype related to the satellite that apparently had been launched to survey Skinwalker Ranch. To my knowledge, this was never addressed in a single episode of season seven. Not once. I would love to be wrong about that though, so if you could point me to something that I missed I’d be grateful.

Then, what do they do at the end of season seven? On the season finale they go back to the idea of satellites. Acknowledged it’s a different satellite, but it’s yet another satellite. Whereas last year they hyped a similar concept, and did basically nothing about it.

That stated, if they do actually follow through this time, I’m gonna be very excited about the results, however, knowing the nature of the bubble and the anomalies associated with it, I suspect that there isn’t any amount of telemetry they can collect about what’s underneath, Skinwalker Ranch that they can accurately rely upon.

The one thing I was thinking the other day, was that if they just hired a team of people that had shovels pickaxes and other archaeological equipment, and just started a slow dig, they would be so much further along now than they have been by doing these pointless drill and scan routines.

And STILL, nobody has addressed the conductivity or resistance issue regarding the ceramics. 

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Man, just wanted to log in to change my billing settings . . . so that I can be sure the agents would keep running while I was away. SMH

>!Why is it that when they sent the drone up to get a closer look at the object tailing the helicopter, they didn't adjust the camera to look upwards to see the actual object?!<

>!In the FLIR footage, you could CLEARLY see a blue feature hovering over the mesa to the right side of the screen. What was that, and (unless I missed an explanation somewhere) why were we left to speculate as to what it was?!<

>!When there was a heat source to the left of the drone on the thermal, why did no one direct the drone to investigate that heat source? Why did they keep trying to center the dang drone over the triangle, when the original goal was very different?!<

>!I actually liked how Thomas was portrayed as a bit of a coordinator in this episode but I'm skittish about the items above. Maybe I missed something that was explained in the episode. I also haven't watched beyond the gates either yet.!<

I don't remember models asking questions when prompted about things before. Previously, a model would usually respond with something like "if it is this case then x, and if it is that case then y" type of thing.

It still does this, but I've started to see the model display more forms of curiosity recently, and I really like it.

It prevents me from having to scan through the reply to determine if I need to read something or not thus saving me time, and effort.

I like this new direction OpenAI, keep it up!

Hey Skinwalker Ranch Team, There has been a lot of innovation in the past few years to make it possible first somebody even a hobbyist, To set up passive radar to monitor the skies around them. It works by sensing FM echoes that show up after FM radio signals bounce off of objects in the sky.

Crucially, these systems are far less expensive. And even more importantly, their refresh rates are near instantaneous in the realm of 10-100 miliseconds. Whereas a Doppler on wheels or DOW, would do a sweep something like every 5 to 10 seconds, and therefore the screen would refresh every 5 to 10 seconds or so, passive radar takes independent radar measurements every few milliseconds. This would make it much easier to detect not only objects that are moving erratically fast, but it would show with higher resolution what their flight pattern actually is.

During their investigation of Homestead two (season seven episode 17), they flew a drone over Homestead three because they were looking for a source of light that showed up on Eric’s side. When they did that, though, the drone noticed that inside Homestead three, there was a heat source that was dramatically warmer than anything else around there.

Since Thomas and Caleb were over there investigating, why not have them go into Homestead three and visually inspected for a heat source. Instead, they just went back to Homestead 2 and performed more experiments. It makes no sense. I mean, they may have investigated it in the moment and just didn’t show it on camera, but if that’s the case, and you’re not gonna show it on screen, then at least say something during the episode to let us know that it was investigating there was nothing in there. Just a short blurb.

I really feel like Prometheus needs to do a better job of cutting down on the drama, and improving on the quality of their production. Don’t they just have somebody that sits there and accompanies them while they cut these episodes together, to consult with them about how this comes across to the viewers? I feel like too many of these little things slip past. Another example, I’ve been harping now since last year, why did they not test the ceramics for superconductivity? Maybe they did! But we can only speculate because exactly 0 people on the show have discussed that very thing. It leaves the viewer in a lurch. 

So I've just finished S4 E1 of DS9, where Worf joins the crew. I've watched all the way up to that point. I may be the only one, but the way that episode went, I wish we would see more of in Star Trek. I still want the adventure, but I really prefer it to be against the backdrop of some sort of extended conflict. That "Year of Hell" episode of Voyager was another example of what I'm talking about.

I know that Trek is meant to be hopeful and utopian and that the sort of Trek I'm personally craving would need to reconcile itself somehow, likely in incompatible ways with what I'm suggesting, but I personally believe it is worth a try. There was still even enough room in the episode for a bit of character dev.

Maybe the rest of DS9 is like that, I don't know. I've tried to steer away from reading about what happens next, but DS9 From S3 E26 onward gave me what I've been craving for a while. A Star Trek where cooler heads don't always prevail, where paranoia is the rule, not the outlier and where the only thing certain is flux.

Also, why does the whole sr. staff leave the station when they do a Defiant run? That would seem to leave the station with a power vacuum that the show hasn't yet addressed very well.

I absolutely love that their first Test included no instruments. They didn't say that it was for this reason, but it sets up a bit of a control. They don't talk about it, but I would hope that they do this kind of thing all the time. It's just nice to see it once in a while, even if nothing weird happens.

They didn't test the ceramics for superconductivity yet. It doesn't even seem to be on their radar. How difficult would it be to just simply test the conductivity of the ceramics? If it's really low, obviously skip it. If not, Do further testing! if it shows superconducting adjacent properties, Why would they skip out on this step?

I think all I need to do is re-install it, but what a PITA. They can't even get their update process right.

So Onenote continues to get less and less useful. Now, not only does it take sometimes as long as a minute just to load a tab, for mind running reason, Would I select a bunch of multi line text, And then click to do button, The expectation is that it would put to do check boxes next to each item that I've selected because I've selected multi line items. Instead what does Onenote do? He puts a check box on the top item only. And there doesn't seem to be any simple to make it do what I wanted to do. If I highlight one of those other lines in the multiline text only, and then click the to do button so that it would assign it just to that one line manually, it still only puts it on the stupid top line. And it's been like this for months. I can't be the only one that finds this infernal thing useless.

Microsoft Fix your sewage.