@jaybate-1.0 I was wondering recently about the petroshoe connection in div 1 football. I see a ton of UnderArmor being worn by teams. And, I have heard that UnderArmor is moving up in the ranks.
Its interesting even though I have minimal interest in football as a sport.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 THAT is going to be an epic game! Im sure everyones calendars are circled,highlighted, exclamated and double booked for that one!! Im sure the media will hype it big time as a revenge game for KU and also Skal vs Diallo.
@jaybate-1.0 nice try dude, maybe next year
@JayHawkFanToo We are talking about Kentucky players because I want to know why in the EFF the media fools are writing articles that basically say SKal is cleared and Diallo wont be. UK is a better team than KU without Diallo. Not exact words but thats how I took them.
And we are talking about this because I am growing impatient!! #FreeCheickshowingatAFH
PS. I hate it when I misspell words
Im wondering, why does every article I read seemingly breeze over the fact that Skal hasnt been cleared yet either but make it a point to say Diallo has not been cleared?
Has Skal been cleared discreetly?
Why hasnt Diallo been cleared yet?
I still think he will be but I am becoming impatient and irritated to see that every sports writer is already acting like Skal is a forgone conclusion and Cheick is on a ledge somewhere.
@jaybate-1.0 hehe
@VailHawk Awesome!!!
@jaybate-1.0 KU football wasn't exactly winning rings when Weis took over either. I really dont care about football, pro or college, but one could say that Mangino gutted the team just as easily I think. He didnt leave much for his successor, whose name escapes me now, to work with either.
@jaybate-1.0 Yeah, I have read briefly about CERN. That stuff is fascinating to me! I say over my head but what I really mean is I have no formal education in quantum physics. But, I think that I can understand its principles if it is explained in terms I can relate to. What you said for example, that makes sense to me. It sounds like quantum entanglement proves, on a quantum level, that particles can be affected by one another at great distances.
Is there a limit to those distances?
It sounds like similarity of the energy level or frequency of those particles is tied together some how to make them move in tandem, kind of like how twins know what the other is thinking or feeling even being miles apart.
@Texas-Hawk-10 Another good example, Thanks guys.
@HighEliteMajor Ahhhh ok. That makes more sense to me. Thanks for specifying the specifics of contract negotiations ;)
@jaybate-1.0 Quantum Entanglement? Thats Stephen Hawking type stuff. Waaaaay above my head.
@nuleafjhawk Sad but true. KU Basketball is a once in a life time job, a destination job. Bluest of the blue blood programs. KU Football? Tragically the opposite. Im not a football fan but I would like to see KU Football climb the ranks. Easier said than done.
@jaybate-1.0 Oh yah, that makes sense. a thumb drive today can store terabytes on it.
@jaybate-1.0 said:
How do we know if Cheick will be eligible?
Self and Hunter are the miner's canaries.
If Self were smiling and stroking Big Mik, then Cheick would be a lost cause.
If Self were treating Big Mik like last season, the waiter would have brought the Cheick.
Good one :laughing:
Do we know where said waiter is? Have we seen any evidence of Self revealing his cards so to speak?
@HighEliteMajor Yah, I understand. A contract is a contract. But I just have a hard time understanding why contracts are written the way they are. If you are a terrible coach with terrible social skills that incur infractions against the team and the university why should you get paid a penny more when you get the boot? Why should you get rewarded for such a failure?
Now, conversely if you are a great coach and a great person and role model for the students and university and you take a job else where or retire on good terms with that university then I have no problem with that person getting the remaining income due to them in the contract.
@Statmachine Nice!! We need him cleared. I was hoping for an all go signal by now.
@jaybate-1.0 Thanks for the same thing, for sure.
I was unaware that China and Russia were teaming up. I guess that makes sense though.
Japan and France too. But, they are allies to the US. Whats ours is theirs right? Shared info, shared intelligence amongst each countries intel acronyms. I would assume that they would be with us in defending anything off planet.
Man, if it costs 13 Billion dollars to build the latest and greatest Ford class aircraft carrier, would the R&D on space weapons technology be more or less costly?
@truehawk93 It is outrageous! Anyone else gets fired, they get nothing. Even the President, if he gets impeached and tossed from office does he get his remaining years salary? Dont think so. Its completely mental.
@nuleafjhawk Dodgeball!!! That movie is hilarious.
@jayhawkeyes Oh! Hey, I did not know that.
@Texas-Hawk-10 We need to drop k-state and add 4 other good schools with an intelligent, non inbred fan base.
@jaybate-1.0 Dude, thats mind blowing stuff. But I do realize that the precursor to science fact is science fiction.
With Nasa taking a back seat to this new age of space exploration, it seems like the progression of means of transporting our billions of terabytes of space in cloud drives off planet will grow unfettered by government/political restrictions. Private multi billionaires (Private Oligarchies) working with their own resources may not have that government oversight committee to slow down that process. The weapons of that new age, presumably developed by the US military may not have many restrictions either except to work within current technological boundaries. Lasers, Rail guns, sonic pulse devices are all weapons that could be planted on Mars or the moon for a first line of defense. I realize sound isnt possible in space but surely wave lengths of some kind could be weaponized out in deep space. To my knowledge, the only country coming close to exploring the sheer distance that the US is capable of going is the Russians. Am I a child of the Cold War era or what?
Anyways, I had to read your second post twice. EMP's detonated in any major city would surely knock out our communication trade routes. But would it be a permanent knock out to the pre industrial era? It would have to be a very large EMP. Cyber warfare is definitely ramping up. The Chinese have attacked us a few times already. You are right in that we need to move our servers off planet to maintain superiority and keep those trade routes online.
How far ahead of our potential enemies are we in terms of space distance explored? We have to be light years ahead in terms of distance explored. We have already sent unmanned space craft past Jupiter and Saturn. Billion dollars says there was a covert OP to plant the beginning stages of back up cloud storage out there somewhere. But do we have the technology to protect said storage from severely harsh environments of those planets? Liquid nitrogen, massive electrical storms 5 times the size of earth, etc? I guess we do have knowledge of potential super earth type planets that could be potential storage spaces. It will have to be a driverless realm until we can master the art of cryogenic storage units like in the movie Aliens.
And speaking of Aliens, I agree with your Post Script. All this moving off planet of unthinkable amounts of storage space and information on those devices will surely attract other life forms like a drop of blood in a million gallons of water does to a shark. Its mathematically impossible that there is nothing else out there. I love thinking about that stuff!!
There is a book by a favorite author of mine. Douglas Preston, who wrote "Impact" great book about a similar topic.
What better way to keep our minds busy with until basketball season starts? ;)
@jaybate-1.0 Holy cow dude! Now I need to read your other book on here. I just got home from work
@jaybate-1.0 So the wars of the future will no longer be fought on the open seas but in space? Why invest all this money into building the best, most technologically advanced aircraft carrier on the planet? No more air to air combat either? Why then are we making F-22's and F-35's? We also just released the latest upgrade to our destroyers. The class of ship escapes me at present.
I can see the necessity to protect information, especially sensitive high classified info that has national security implications.
Dont we still need to have raw offensive power capable of basically blowing anything in its way out of the water?
Which of our current enemies even holds the slightest threat to us in space? The Russians, the Chinese. the Islamic State? North Korea? If I had to pick one, it would be Russia and it seems to me that the Cold War could reoccur, or maybe it has never fully stopped. Just now in recent times the tensions between the Ruskies and the US have been escalated.
Of course, all of this is my opinion based on my very limited world knowledge base.
Oh yes, can you define your acronym CBW for me?
Actually I think I just answered my own question. Chemical Biological Warfare. Is that right?
@drgnslayr @jaybate-1.0 @VailHawk I think the B.I.A. needs to get involved in this case. With the advent of the DPT vaccine by big pharma and subsequent distribution of said vaccine, the appropriate information about the benefits and risks need to be spread in an east coast biasly nature.
@jaybate-1.0 Didnt he say it was over 10,000?
Oh ya... that. :point_up:
@jaybate-1.0 Im gonna have to digest this one for a bit. Quite heady that.
One question does stick out to me though. Aircraft carriers in space? Im sure thats not in the literal sense unless the starship enterprise warps in from the future. So, that would have to be either some sort of dual military/privately funded space station that we are unaware of, that would be capable of deploying defenses from outer space and low earth orbits, and have a ton of server space to carry information around the planet. Is that what you had in mind?
Trade routes in space... Thats an interesting concept. Gives the star wars program of the Reagan era some new life perhaps?
Since Nasa retired their space shuttle fleet, who else is left for this country to provide the US with a military presence off this planet?
I am really excited to learn about the defense and information capabilities of the Ford Class Carriers.
@jaybate-1.0 Apparently. I didnt think I would get burned for being tongue and Cheick... :laughing:
@nuleafjhawk Here is another positive. KU football will absolutely have the best record in the Big 12...at losing consecutive games. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
@JhawkAlum Awww man, you'll have to ask someone else that question. I have no idea
@ParisHawk But I did say so! About 5 hours before you asked me to confess to saying that in jest. Sorry for the confusion. I was totally kidding.
@nuleafjhawk Its a shame that KU football is so tragically awful. I mean, its almost laughable how bad they are. Poor KU football. Maybe they should liquidate that team and train them all how to play rugby instead.
@Crimsonorblue22 I was totally kidding ;) I mean, well he did ask someone to tell him Cheick had been cleared. I was just obliging @ParisHawk
@ParisHawk Cheick has been cleared to play.
@JayHawkFanToo I am aware that the F-14 has been retired from service. And, yes I saw Top Gun, in theater. I was just making a point of quality over quantity.
@jaybate-1.0 I also think Jay Wright is an idiot much like "Dubya" And, you do have a point. Why does the BHOF even have a selection process? Lets just let every single coach in who has x amount of years in, regardless of defining characteristics and stats
@jaybate-1.0 WORD
I read this and immediately thought of you @jaybate-1.0 , given your penchant for posting basketball philosophy tied into US Naval history. Which, by the way, fascinates me since I am ex Navy.
I thought this article was very interesting because of the different view points involved about how big and how strong the US Navy needs to be in today's seemingly ever unstable world. China and Korea on our west and ISIS & Al queda on our east, ish.
I find it amusing to read politicians, who have never probably even sat foot on any military ship of any kind or even served one day in the military, spew out uneducated opinions like they know what they are talking about.
I am more inclined to respect the opinions of the top military brass on this subject because oddly enough, I agree with their logic. It is odd because my mind is not groomed to live in the military lifestyle. I push back against forceful, follow orders & dont think type of leadership. But its ok now because I can still appreciate the need to keep our US Navy at the top. We may not have the sheer numbers on anyone anymore, like we did at the end of WWII but the strength of our current Navy and its continued efforts to produce and out class and out technologize ( my word ) every other potential threat are what counts here.
Its quality not quantity! I would much rather have 4 Ford class aircraft carriers than 200 more FFG's or smaller amphibs. We put two Ford class Carriers on both coasts and rotate deployments to keep everyone fresh and our systems upgraded. There's really not much an opposing force of any kind could do against that kind of power.
I know we don't have that many yet. I believe the article says we have one coming out of dry dock early next year and then second one that just started its keel. I expect at some point the Navy would like to replace all of its Nimitz class Carriers with Ford class, if that is economically feasible. We have 10 of said class, which again in the article, is more than the whole world does. Quality not quantity!
Another example, I would rather have less number of F-22's and F-35's than twice that number of F-14's and A-10s. Of course air superiority is not as familiar to me of a subject.
@JayHawkFanToo Oh man, I cant wait for that to happen!!!
@JhawkAlum I think his title is something like Assistant director of student athlete development...
@drgnslayr Yeah, I saw that and thought, well what do yah know? There's some place that dislikes the Squid more than KU fans do."
@wrwlumpy Yeah, Im not going to be there. Things just didnt pan out for me. Sucks too cuz Im only a few hours away. But, I'll get there for sure when Bill Self and Paul Pierce get inducted.
@Statmachine Like '08. None of those guys were super hyped or anything yet put them all together and they blew away nearly every team they played, locked them down, went at them like a hungry wolf pack. This years team has that same exact potential.
@Texas-Hawk-10 Offensively? Yeah, OU can hang with the best. But their defense last season wasnt nearly up to Final Four par. With basically the same team back, that may or may not improve. Sub par defense = early out. I guess it remains to be seen though.
I am sure Iowa St will be good this year too. The big question there is can Coach Prohm do what Hoiberg did last season? Im not so sure about that.
@jaybate-1.0 Good question. One that I bet only Coach Self knows the answer too. No doubt Hunter can play!
If I had to guess, maybe Hunter was dealing with an unspecified injury of sorts. One that let him continue to practice on but not be in game shape for. Either that or Coach Self just did not trust him enough to put him out there. I think he earned it this summer.
@HighEliteMajor I agree 100%. If on the off chance Diallo doesnt get cleared in time, Coach Self absolutely HAS to recognize that Hunt is our best big next to Perry. Big Hunt has a game in him, he proved that during the WUGs.
I also think Bragg will give us some big minutes and big hustle plays. Kid played with a broken nose the whole time this summer!
@ParisHawk F*&^ YAH!! Rock Cheick Jayhawk!
@blackmild33 Maybe Aaron will decide to stick around and maybe Coach Self will help convince him.