Straight Line of the Day: How Can We Recycle All The Sustainable Energy Waste?

A Follow-Up on a Sour Not-So-Green Clean Up in Sweetwater
Hot Air | 07/09/2026 | Beege Welborn

By 2050, the estimated total boundary area required for 1.5 million wind turbines is expected to reach 3.1 to 4.6 million square kilometers – the combined size of India and Argentina.

The obvious question regarding this transition—with its towering turbine skeletons, virtually indestructible composite blades, and billions of solar panels—is this: Just where will all this metal, silicon and concrete be buried?

Probably throw in a few battery-powered everythings, as well. 


 

Welcome to IMAO! Common-Sense Site Visitor Advisories

Visitors to IMAO should purchase insurance and examine the policy rather than assuming every emergency is covered. Useful protections may include emergency medical treatment, medical evacuation, trip interruption, weather disruption, and assistance after theft.

Visitors should still establish prices before accepting transportation, tours, merchandise, or other services.

The State Department specifically recommends that visitors to IMAO not open their doors unless they know who is outside.

Visitors should avoid counting cash publicly.

Visitors should obtain drinks directly from bartenders or servers and avoid accepting open beverages from strangers.

Anyone who begins feeling unexpectedly disoriented or physically ill should alert a trusted companion or venue employee immediately and seek medical assistance.

Americans who do not own firearms should pay particular attention to IMAO’s weapons laws.

Family members at home should receive a copy of the website visit itinerary, including log-in details, any links followed, and planned comment postings.  Visitors should carry only the cash and cards they expect to use that day.

 


 

Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results for 7/8/2026 : New Matches for 7/15/2026

 

 

    So, who you pulling for? England or Argentina?    

 

 

Results from 7/8/2026

 

Carole Bouquet No Preference (14) Tina Hudson
112 3 90

 

(9) Tanya Roberts No Preference Lynn-Holly Johnson
141 3 57

 

New Matches for 7/15/2026

  Match 1  

(5) Ana de Armas (Paloma) vs Grace Jones (May Day)

 

Contestant Record Total Scores
(5) Ana de Armas 7 – 1 – 0 1073 – 12 – 516
Ana Celia de Armas Caso (born 30 April 1988) is a Cuban-Spanish actress. She portrayed the Bond Girl Paloma in No Time to Die. An agent of the CIA, James Bond, meets Paloma at the El Nido Bar after agreeing to Felix Leiter‘s request to go there in order to retrieve the scientist Valdo Obruchev, who has been captured by SPECTRE from a MI6 laboratory. To Bond’s bemusement, Paloma tells him that she has had only three weeks of training, though she nevertheless seems confident in her skills. She works together with Bond to infiltrate the party which is being held in the bar, though it turns out to secretly be a trap to capture and kill Bond. Bond ends up in a spotlight and sprayed with nanobots created from Project Heracles, though it ultimately transpires that Obruchev reprogrammed the nanobots to kill members of SPECTRE instead. In the ensuing chaos, Bond and Paloma manage to capture Obruchev, evading Nomi, an MI6 agent who had been sent with the same objective.

Ana de Armas

 

VS

 

 

 

Contestant Record Total Scores
Grace Jones 0 – 8 – 0 118 – 25 – 1707

 

May Day

Actress: Grace Jones
Nationality: Jamaican
Bond Movie: A View To a Kill (1985)

Synopsis:

May Day was the girlfriend of Max Zorin, and also worked for him as an assassin.May Day killed Bond’s chauffeur, and tried to kill Bond on several occasions. Much later in the film, May Day realized that she had been double crossed by Zorin, who had left her to die in an explosion that would cause a flood in silicon valley. May Day joined teams with Bond to remove the bomb, and in doing so, met her death.

Grace Jones

 

Who do you prefer?
21 votes · 21 answers
    Match 2    

Monica Bellucci (Lucia Sciarra) vs Mary Stovin (Kimberley Jones)

 

Contestant Record Total Scores
Monica Bellucci 3 – 5 – 0 724 – 27 – 904
Lucia Sciarra
Born Monica Anna Maria Bellucci 30 September 1964 (age 60) Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Occupations Actressfashion model
Instructed by his former superior MJames Bond is assigned to trace notorious assassin Marco Sciarra, kill him, and attend his funeral, knowing his womanizing ways will get him the answers he needs there rather from the assassin himself. Bond travels to Mexico and successfully kills Sciarra, failing his plan of targeting a stadium for a terrorist attack.

Monica Belluci

 

VS

 

 

Contestant Record Total Scores
Mary Stovin 2 – 6 – 0 826 – 22 – 849

 

Kimberly Jones

Actress: Mary Stövin
Nationality: Swedish
Bond Movie: A View To a Kill (1985)

Synopsis:

Kimberley Jones was an MI6 agent who assisted Bond in Siberia, on a mission to recover a lost microchip from assassinated agent 003. Bond snowboarded down a mountain to avoid a helicopter and a gang of hitmen skiers. When he got to the bottom, Kimberley was waiting in a boat disguised as an iceberg. Bond pulled out some beluga caviar, a bottle of Vodka and the microchip, mentioning that it would be five days until they reached Alaska.

Mary Stovin

Who do you prefer?
22 votes · 22 answers

 


 


 

Babesleaga Group AN : Week 3 : Markie Post vs Heather Thomas

Good night.

 

Markie Post vs Heather Thomas

 

Markie Post (2-0-0 Pts. 122 Avg. 61.00)

  • Week 1 Defeated Morgan Fairchild 63-36
  • Week 2 Defeated Goldie Hawn 59-33

 

VS

 

Heather Thomas (2-0-0 Pts. 108 Avg. 54.00)

  • Week 1 Defeated Teri Garr 47-29
  • Week 2 Defeated Kelly Preston 61-25

 

Who do you prefer?
81 votes · 81 answers

 


 

Babesleaga Group AN : Week 3 : Kelly Preston vs Geena Davis

Good evening.

 

Kelly Preston vs Geena Davis

 

Kelly Preston (0-2-0 Pts. 67 Avg. 33.50)

  • Week 1 Lost to Sela Ward 42-49
  • Week 2 Lost to Heather Thomas 25-61

 

VS

 

Geena Davis (0-2-0 Pts. 83 Avg. 41.50)

  • Week 1 Lost to Goldie Hawn 43-46
  • Week 2 Lost to Sela Ward 40-53

 

Who do you prefer?
73 votes · 73 answers

 


 

Babesleaga Group AN : Week 3 : Sela Ward vs Teri Garr

Good afternoon.

 

Sela Ward vs Teri Garr

 

Sela Ward (2-0-0 Pts. 102 Avg. 51.00)

  • Week 1 Defeated Kelly Preston 49-42
  • Week 2 Defeated Geena Davis 53-40

 

VS

 

Teri Garr (1-1-0 Pts. 77 Avg. 38.50)

  • Week 1 Lost to Heather Thomas 29-47
  • Week 2 Defeated Morgan Fairchild 48-47

 

Who do you prefer?
82 votes · 82 answers

 

 


 


 

Babesleaga Group AN : Week 3 : Morgan Fairchild vs Goldie Hawn

Good morning.

 

Morgan Fairchild vs Goldie Hawn

 

Morgan Fairchild (0-2-0 Pts. 83 Avg. 41.50)

  • Week 1 Lost to Markie Post 36-63
  • Week 2 Lost to Teri Garr 47-48

 

VS

 

Goldie Hawn (1-1-0 Pts. 79 Avg. 39.50)

  • Week 1 Defeated Geena Davis 46-43
  • Week 2 Lost to Markie Post 33-59

 

Who do you prefer?
79 votes · 79 answers

 


 

Babesleaga Group AN : Week 2 : Results and Standings

Week 2 is in the books and we move on to week 3. Still anyone’s group but things are starting to shake out.

 

Results

 

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Who do you prefer?
86 votes · 86 answers

 

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Who do you prefer?
93 votes · 93 answers

 

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Who do you prefer?
95 votes · 95 answers

 

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Who do you prefer?
92 votes · 92 answers

 

Standings

 

Contestant Record Points Average Points Against Average Score
Markie Post 2 – 0 – 0 122 61.00 69 61.00 – 34.50
Heather Thomas 2 – 0 – 0 108 54.00 53 54.00 – 26.50
Sela Ward 2 – 0 – 0 102 51.00 82 51.00 – 41.00
Goldie Hawn 1 – 1 – 0 79 39.50 102 39.50 – 51.00
Teri Garr 1 – 1 – 0 77 38.50 94 38.50 – 47.00
Morgan Fairchild 0 – 2 – 0 83 41.50 111 41.50 – 55.50
Geena Davis 0 – 2 – 0 83 41.50 99 41.50 – 49.50
Kelly Preston 0 – 2 – 0 67 33.50 110 33.50 – 55.00

 

Week 3

 

 

  • 10:00 am Morgan Fairchild vs Teri Garr
  • 2:00 pm Sela Ward vs Teri Garr
  • 6:00 pm Kelly Preston vs Geena Davis
  • 8:00 pm Markie Post vs Heather Thomas

 


 


 

Cartoons and Memes : Saturday Night Special

 

 

“Mr. Walrus we have a problem!”

“What’s wrong?”

“The Intern’s wing had a fire, all of our clothes were lost!”

“How does that classify as a problem?”

 

Winner

 

9.

 

This week

 

 

1.

 

2.

 

3.

 

4.

 

5.

 

6.

 

7.

 

8.

 

9.

 

10.

 

Which one is funniest?
93 votes · 93 answers

 

 


 

Straight Line of the Day: What Can We Do With a Strange New Quantum State?

Physicists create a strange new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea
ScienceDaily | June 29, 2026 | University of Innsbruck

Researchers have shown that ultracold atoms can be driven into a strange new quantum state called a fractional Fermi sea, where particles organize themselves in unexpected ways. The discovery points to a new phase of matter that goes beyond established quantum theories and could expand the possibilities of quantum simulation…

The newly created state displays several unusual characteristics. Mathematical correlations between particles reveal pronounced ripples, known as Friedel oscillations, along with distinctive decay behavior across all levels of repulsive interactions.

Perhaps most importantly, the state exhibits properties that differ from those expected for Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids, which have long served as the standard description of one-dimensional quantum matter.


 

Friday Night Open Thread: A.I.

A pretty good quote about A.I.:

It has no loves. It does not know courage, shame, mercy, sin, or worship. It can regurgitate “writing” about these things, but it cannot live them. It can compose a prayer without praying and a sermon without fear of God. It can say “I understand,” but, in truth, there is no “I” and no understanding.

— Chronicles | 6/26/26 | Benjamin Osborne, “What Would C.S. Lewis Have Thought of AI?”

 

Come to think of it, kind of reminiscent of a similar scene in Good Will Hunting.  Or Terminator.  So maybe A.I. is a sort of a blend of the two.  (With a little Eyes Wide Shut thrown in for good measure.)