Recap of Part 1

FVC means "field-vectored craft," i.e., UFO(s).

We learned in Part 1:

• While landed on the ground, even smaller FVC are massive, i.e., have considerable mass around 30 tons (27,000 kgs).
• FVC are about as dense as a submarine and several times denser than aircraft, having around 96 percent the density of water.
• FVC are hard, solid, physical objects similar to metal.
• We have observed FVC at velocities of 5,000 to 9,000 mph (8,000 to 14,500 kph), with straight line and angular accelerations in the region of 100 times the acceleration of gravity. Although the accelerations are large for the size of the craft, human technology from the 1950s packaged electronics into smaller projectiles capable of withstanding 7,000 to 9,000 gs.
• The reason some craft appear as orbs of different colors is because the craft's propulsion system creates ionized and excited air molecules, namely a "plasma." Larger craft that use the most energy have a blue or ultraviolet plasma, while smaller craft that use less energy appear as red, orange, yellow, or green. The luminosity of a craft will increase as it puts out more power for high acceleration maneouvers. The plasma surrounding a craft often obscures an observer's ability to see the craft itself behind the plasma.
• The observed accelerations and velocities can be achieved with a high thrust-to-mass ratio. There is no need to presume FVC use exotic technology to reduce the mass of the craft while in flight. In general, all of the observables can be explained by established physics without resorting to speculative hypotheses. Finally, acceleration is not instantaneous but rather takes a non-zero amount of time, although the craft's swiftness may appear instantaneous to the naked eye.

Section IV: Radiation from FVC in the X-ray or Gamma Range

Date: January 30, 1973

Location: Lexington, Alabama

Witnesses: Bill Rogers, APRO Field investigator, and two other unnamed individuals.

Description: Rogers went to Lexington to investigate reports of FVC in the area, which began a month prior on December 27, 1972. Rogers, along with two other members of the investigation team, observed a yellowish-orange-white light moving slowly above tree-top level.

>After about a minute, the object moved up about 40 feet, and they could see that it had a shape between a sphere and an egg (ellipsoidal). It then descended

Because sometimes it's interesting to read about another's journey...

This weekend, I realized that I had reached two interesting milestones: I wrote my 365th consecutive sample of Spanish writing over at r/WriteStreakES and finished my 100th "real" book in Spanish (I don't count certain children's books). Edit: The tally is 16,039 pages.

I remember writing a reflection about finishing my 50th book in Spanish and how I sensed that it would take another 50 before I reached another tier of comfort. So, how did that prediction hold up? What's it like reading your 100th book in your target language?

There was another brilliant post that visually demonstrated certain comprehension levels of text. Below, I'll give what I feel are representative samples from the last two books I read. The bolded words are new, and the italicized expressions are either new or what I considered noteworthy, although the words aren't new (i.e., I made an Anki card).

Sin noticias de Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza, pub. 1990, 148 pages, pp. 72-73:

>16.00 Tendido en la cama y con la vista clavada en el techo, del que cuelgan varias arañas grandes como melones, pienso en mi vecina. Por más que me devano los sesos (que no tengo), no doy con la forma idónea de abordarla. Llamar a su puerta e invitarla a cenar no me parece prudente ni oportuno. Tal vez la invitación debería ir precedida de un obsequio. En ningún caso debo enviarle dinero, pero, si a pesar de todo decidiera enviárselo, mejor en billetes de banco que en monedas. Las joyas presuponen una relación más formal. Un perfume es un regalo delicado, pero muy personal; se corre el riesgo de no acertar el gusto de la persona a la que se desea obsequiar. Laxantes, emulsivos, apósitos, vermicidas, antirreumáticos y demás productos farmacéuticos, excluidos. Es muy probable que le gusten las flores y los animales domésticos. Podría enviarle una rosa y dos docenas de dobermans.
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>17.20 Me asalta el temor de que mi vecina tome cualquier regalo procedente de mí como un atrevimiento. Intento exterminar las arañas con Cucal.

Reflections: This is what I would classify as popular fiction, although I suppose the genre is technically science fiction. Wordcounter.net gives me 176 words (without the times). Three of the words are completely new, giving a roughly 98% lexical coverage: "apósito" means a "dressing" for a wound, "vermicida" means "vermicide," which I had actually forgotten in

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Honestly, I think the current trilogy's music is a bit underrated. Don't get me wrong, Jesper Kyd's soundtracks are brilliant but I find the current games to have some brilliant tracks. For example, the music in Isle of Sgail. Extremely foreboding and dripping with atmosphere. Or the beautiful tango music in Mendoza.

So, I'm intrigued what other people think about this. Do you think that the current games have a great soundtrack? If so which level do you think has the best music?

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

Nothing, he was gladiator.

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.