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My '10x' estimate was low, it's closer to 20x for the last 30 years. Current Li-ions have twice the storage density of those early ones. And going from 100 to 200 Wh/kg is a much bigger deal than the previous doubling.

So the bung argument is still "woe is us, no battery improvement research ever reaches the market".

vs Democrats that increase my taxes and I see nothing for it because I work full time therefore get nothing in the way of services.

Democrats reduce crime, Republicans increase the national deficit. What you see for it is that you get to keep what you make because it's not being stolen from you.

Rather debate what is "stupid" I'll just say that anyone can answer that question in perhaps three seconds using Google and the two keywords "Tesla" and "transmission." The first linked result will provide the answer.

Why does the ship sink, though? Is the material stable in its granular form ...

Other people did a good job explaining this, but you can also see this effect in the movie, and chapter 15 of the book, The Martian, during the launch failure of the Iris re-supply probe. (The scene also explained here).

From The Martian, Chapter 15:

At the microscopic level, the protein cubes were solid food particles suspended in thick vegetable oil. The food particles compressed to less than half their original size, but the oil was barely affected at all. This changed the volume ratio of solid to liquid dramatically which in turn made the aggregate act as a liquid. Known as "liquefaction," this process transformed the protein cubes from a steady solid into a flowing liquid.

Stored in a compartment that originally had no leftover space, the now-compresses sludge had room to slosh.

The shimmy also caused an imbalanced load, forcing the sludge toward the edge of the compartment. This shift in weight only aggravated the larger problem and the shimmy grew stronger.

This was part of a cascade failure. The vibrations from the rocket caused the protein cubes to liquefy, which sloshed around, creating an unbalanced load, causing a procession, causing a launch failure.

Moreover, it does appear that presumption of innocence ("innocent until proven guilty") is a part of English law:

https://www.quora.com/In-the-U...

You may believe hate speech is an acceptable form of expression, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's literally defined in the dictionary now

https://www.merriam-webster.co...

People change definitions all the time. For example whole communities have exempted themselves from being racist as described below. This is an obvious double standard but my real question is what if one protected class which allegedly can't be racist says something racist to another protected class? For example if Mexicans complain about blacks is that racist? This is the problem with double standards, they are illogical to begin with so they can't stand up to scrutiny. Citations of rationalizing double standards: https://www.elitedaily.com/lif... https://www.quora.com/Why-do-s...

Right here asshole https://www.quora.com/Is-it-le...

You understand that most of these "stories" have turned out to be true. CNN absolutely does recant when they get something wrong. I would think the main criticism is that they get it wrong a lot. Statically they are still way more accurate and correct than Fox News which is in turn way more accurate than Breitbart.

I'm not sure why you have such an axe against CNN. Trump shouting fake news all the time should be ringing pretty hollow given the number of times he and his cohorts have been caught lying. In that aspect Trump is definitely breaking records and not in a good way.

No news company is perfect which is why you should never limit yourself to one medium. The problem with Fox News is that they don't consider themselves news. Don't need to take my word for it.

Then of course we have a disparity between stations telling the truth.

So I'm hearing that we basically agree that abortion is not for us, we just disagree on how to go about decreasing it. Do you really feel like it's a legal issue? Has that ever worked?

Not trying to Godwin this discussion with this link.

I stumbled across it googling for a Marxist position on abortion. I would have assumed from your username that you supported bodily autonomy.

Gun culture is sick culture.

My father attended grade school in rural Maryland in the 1950's. The boys in his class brought their rifles to school in the morning so that they could hunt squirrels on the walk home from school. That was typical in rural America during that era. Fathers judged when boys were mature enough to handle a gun and taught them gun safety and shooting skills. Hunting and shooting were social and communal. There were very few fatalities from rural grade school shootings in the decade of the 1950's, despite the common practice of allowing students to bring guns to schools. Some schools had shooting clubs. Rural American was safe because it had a healthy gun culture.

Gun culture is about advocating and practicing responsibility and safety. Can you name any mass shooting carried out by an NRA class instructor or a competitive shooter? Are the U.S. Olympic shooting teams "sick?" What about those in the armed forces? Someone is willing to risk his life at war for his country and you describe his affinity for the weapons used to perform his job as "sick?"

Study the biographies of those who commit mass shootings. They are not part of gun culture, but usually loners with histories of anti-social behavior.

Where do members of gun culture congregate? At shooting ranges. If gun culture is sick, then where are the mass shootings at ranges??

It's actually a rather common thought by many, so much so it's even asked about on Quora and is brought up more than once.

It's actually a rather common thought by many, so much so it's even asked about on Quora and is brought up more than once.

You mean this Stefan Molyneux?

Can one "plead the fifth" in Australia?

Yes, for the highly inexperienced to "I don't think about it, or try to know my car" everyday driver production abs is better. But for anyone who actually knows how to drive, cheap abs systems suck and reduce performance. There have even been safety recalls for the worse ones. Don't take my word, here is someone who actually knows how to drive

Why did the Gestapo use uniforms if they were a secret police?

The Nazi Gestapo were a “secret police” not in that their existence was a secret but in that they only reported to and took orders from party leadership. Their “work,” which was mostly persecuting Jews and political opponents of the Nazi regime, was not subject to limitations or review by courts. They were basically above the law.

I find it absurd that Match pretty much owns all online dating now. I realize that it can be hard to say no to a lot of money, but if you created something cool and want to stay in control of it, why sell?

I didn't realize this, but - apparently Match's parent IAC has owned Tinder since day one.

https://www.quora.com/How-much...

"Doesn't work if the material is too hot. Once the oxygen comes back, if the fuel source is still hot enough it just bursts back into flames. It's not like an oil/gas rig when the material is coming out in an unignited stream, and then hitting the burning part to ignite. In those cases the explosion breaks the stream and when it succeeds there's nothing left hot enough to reignite it. Part of the reason why have to remove some of the parts before they attempt it or the hot metal will just start the fire back up."

This is a potential problem regardless of how the fire is fought. In regards to this problem specifically when bombs are used, other fire fighting techniques would almost definitely be used after the bomb. Having fire fighters come through to take care of a smoldering area is far safer, easier, and more cost effective then having them come in to take on a full blown blaze. The bomb could also be dropped on a remote area far sooner than fire fighters might be able to reach it.

"Now here's the other part of this mess. Using real munitions is VERY expensive. If you add smart bombs to the mix, you've multiplied the price by many times! Sure the warhead is expensive, but the guidance unit is so much more expensive! As in you can buy a new Tesla for the price of one of those guidance units."

Guidance systems wouldn't be necessary for devices like these. Dumb bombs would have all the necessary accuracy for a job like this, especially given that they are being dropped at the what is essentially the leisure of the pilot rather than in a combat scenario with the dozens of potential hazards that would have.

Dumb bombs are fairly cheap as well, as are basic guidance systems for them https://www.quora.com/How-much... . We're talking tens of thousands of dollars at most for the ones the military uses, some quite a lot cheaper.

"Then there's all that talk about a combustible case for the warhead. Hey, great idea! Except there aren't any, and that would be an expensive thing to build. Did you know that STEEL case of a warhead serves the purpose of confining the explosive so it can build up a higher pressure so it's a high order explosion instead of a low order explosion?"

And yet we manage to use explosives in all sorts of contexts where they do not have steel shells around them. Sure, the shell helps in building the explosion but it is absolutely not necessary in creating even a big explosion. Something cheap that disintegrates would work fine here as long as it holds together until the explosion.

Please folks, let's get back to reality. First, it is completely legal in the United States to build your own firearms ( https://www.quora.com/Is-is-tr... )-- anyone with access to basic machinery tools can do it -- think Zip Guns created by prisoners for the ease of creation. Second, plastic 3D gun are terrible.I would rather have a 1700s musket instead. The 3D printed guns have more in common with ancient firearms than modern firearms. It is cheaper and simpler to buy a fully built AR-15 than it is to "print" your own firearm from files downloaded off the internet. And if you really want to make your own M16 based pistol, Google will provide you detailed plans from their own servers: https://patents.google.com/pat.... You provide the tools and skill, Google will provide the detailed schematics. Will Facebook now block Google?

Yeah but this is nothing but bullshit. Reality, they have just created another black hole for tax dollars, with a major percentage being syphoned off as profit. China and Russia are developing a joint space program to commercialise space and the US, a bullshit program to grab as much cash as possible.

Seriously a space force, flying what, powered by what, going where. Space, or more accurately Earth orbits are all to easy to shut down from human access, simply fling as much shrapnel as you can into those orbits and it stays up there for decades or until it hits something to generate more shrapnel.

Why bother fighting from space, with the current level of technology, it is entirely bullshit, all you have to do is shut down access to space, too easy. Two part liquid fuelled rocket, the fuel tanks segmented titanium reinforced plastics, simply remote control to guide it to the correct altitude. Mix the remaining fuel and detonate, scattering millions of titanium fragments into all potential earth orbits and they keep going round and round and round, until they hit something. Voilà no idiot mud monkeys have access to space for decades to come.

The reality of space war, not science fiction, the reality, the more you win, the more you lose, every target blow up in space, puts more shrapnel into orbit and it wont take very long at all until you basically start shooting yourself down. People really have no idea how fast that shrapnel is, no atmosphere to resist initial acceleration or cause deceleration https://www.quora.com/How-fast..., so orbiting in the opposite direction means an impact at 56,000 Kmh, do you understand that space war means the end of safe human use of space for centuries, obviously those fucking morons don't.

How about dominating subterranean war. You know, build big enough bombs so you can trigger seismic cascades, a whole series of major earth quakes and volcanoes, you win by rendering the planet uninhabitable by humans.

That CPU percentage of the BOM cost is just a raw guess, and not even a sophisticated one.

It was actually based on some (dated) numbers I found from a quick Google search. We can either both guess or produce something from the experts. If you have something more accurate I'd love to see it (really, no sarcasm).

If the CPU goes from $185 to $20 (perfectly possible), then that $165 difference should be reflected in the MSRP as about $495 (at a 3 X markup over raw materials cost). That gives us about a $500 MacBook (non Pro) or MacBook Air.

No, that's not how that works. Even if true, you can only maybe use that as a proxy to estimate the total retail cost to produce the device including marketing, support, etc. The bill of materials is only one component that makes up the total MSRP of a device, many of which cannot be reduced because the CPU was less expensive.

If you have better numbers than the ones I've linked, again, would love to look at them.

The phrase "as important as" has never be spotted in a document at a reading level above sophomoric.

True story: if 2 g of beta cells in your pancreas die, without extreme intervention, you die too. Gram for gram, the most important cells in your entire body? (Everything is better with the Betteridge treatment.)

Quora: Which element is the most important for human survival?

Hint: if you're reading Quora, you're doing it wrong.

1.8: Essential Elements for Life

Selenium is a good bet here, punching way above its weight class: just 2 mg in the body is considered essential for life. Good lord, that makes selenium a THOUSAND TIMES more important than beta cells.

So that's my haul from 5 minutes of pinhead masturbation. Was it as good for you, too?

Lets see.
Here is a map of just Tesla Super Chargers. I see load in Texas.
Here is a map of all commercial electric chargers Keep in mind with EVs, most of your electricity comes from your own home since few trips are more than 100 miles.
Here is a graph of Tesla registrations by state, about a year ago. Since over 5% are in Texas, that would mean at least 20K cars are Tesla just in Texas.

The real issue is that you are noticing what you want to see.

evidence that in fact what he said didn't happen actually did. This _is_ called a "lie" and some people prefer not to be lied to.

It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I had some sick twitter burns i was going to unleash against Musk about the whole submarine thing (i might have even got a Like or two!) but unfortunately i stopped to do some research before posting them and discovered that the story isn't nearly as one-sided as the media (both social and non) likes to portray it.

https://www.quora.com/Whats-th...

Long story (somewhat) shorter, other people were asking Musk to help and he initially said that the Thai government had things under control. Eventually he relented and worked on some designs and a prototype in consultation with experts in Thailand, who thought it might be useful in the current situation if it took longer to get the kids out than expected with their original plan, and if not might be useful in future rescue situations.

Once he got started on the project he was certainly public about discussing it, whether that was meant as a PR stunt or being open with the people who asked him if he could help is open to debate, but in either case he certainly caught a lot of flak for it. Finally some guy who had experience exploring those caves and used that experience to help the rescuers, but is not a search and rescue professional himself, criticized the "submarine" pretty harshly, and Musk blew up in a disproportionate response.

they never should have let them anywhere near to linux is it too late for a restraining order before it becoms linux with a windows flavoured desktop SOLD for €150 a copy ? https://www.quora.com/Why-do-n...

No, that cannot be found in the Constitution.

Wrong again. Here is what a lawyer says about striking down unconstitutional laws at any court level. Here is an example of unconstitutional abortion laws being struck down. So this person can appeal at the level of court he finds himself in, there is no new standard required. Unconstitutional means UNCONSTITUTIONAL i.e. that law is un-enforcable as it is illegal with respect to the principles upon which the nation was founded..

Selective enforcement to keep bad law is common with gun laws. Oh, and defending one's rights with a pen means nothing if there isn't a gun to back it up. Kind of like speaking softly but carrying a big stick.

You should try reading the part where I say whilst I support the right for people to carry arms, I'm pointing out the way you go about it makes out as if you think it is the first resort instead of the last. You should try reading and writing to politicians before you consider shooting up the place. Freedom of speech and association is another right I support and think is important. If you didn't have that you wouldn't be able to defend any other right, including gun rights.

Spider-Man didn’t kill Steve, he just failed to save his life. His neck snapped when SM tried to catch him, but he’d have died when he hit the ground if he hadn’t tried. Which means that the Osborn was still the one responsible for his death.





















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I doubt the shorters are that worried. Tesla stock has a market cap close to GM's right now. GM produces more than 8,000 cars per day . So there's still a huge chasm between Tesla's valuation and reality.

The threat of excess reliance on DNA evidence, remains the same, it can always be obtained from you and then planted where ever they want it, https://www.quora.com/How-many.... You leak DNA where ever you go, that is what they are relying on to prosecute you but you loose it where ever you go and they want to prosecute your for that. Drop a hair on the actual criminal and they drop it at the scene of the crime, you are fucked. The criminal collects it before hand and leaves it too obscure the crime trail. Use a hooker to collect an undeniable sample. Yeah over reliance on DNA is extremely dangerous to the enemies of a corrupt state. You can be any where they want you to be, well, at least your DNA can.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I...

I did pay some attention in CCD

Clearly not enough, given how you've completely misunderstood the meaning and implications of that passage, but instead twisted it to imply that it means exactly the opposite...

Korean Apple

Pyrus pyrifolia? Most people call them Korean Pears. Yes, they have a shape and texture more like an apple, but... Pyrus, not Malus. And the taste is more pearlike.

Yes, from what I remember from university, the biggest cause of failing and dropping out was not lack of ability to pass beginning college courses but rather lack of discipline in getting up early and going to classes instead of partying and skipping classes once on your own and away from mommy and daddy.

Have you ever checked out the test score differences between owls and larks when both are forced into the "discipline" of waking up early? It's about a full letter grade to the disadvantage of the owls, when the test is taken early in the day (the effect lessons as the day continues, because the owls do finally stop yawning in mid-afternoon).

Owl performance recovers in full when allowed to sleep until their natural wake time. Check out Why We Sleep (2017) by Matthew P. Walker. It's the most authoritative general account of sleep presently available.

In most high schools (those which have stuck with traditional start times), because of age-related changes in circadian rhythm, almost all the students are owls, but some are more owls than others, and their grades all suffer (but the owl owls suffer more than the lark owls).

But sure, make rise time your go-to proxy for having the right stuff.

Why did they use ceramic pillows in Ancient China and as recently as the Ming Dynasty? — August 2017

Ancient Chinese didn't cut their hair after their teenage years. They were too lazy to clean their hair, so they always managed their hair once and didn't touch it again for a few days. A hard pillow would have helped them to keep the shape of the hair. And the long hair would have helped them to sleep comfortable as well.

This is the same Congress that wasn't allowed to read the Obamacare bill before they passed it...

FTFY

VS, .NetCore, and c# are all available for Linux.

The largest consumer of fuel in the USA is the US Air Force. The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy. The third largest air force in the world is the US Marine Corps.

Not that this has any bearing on the validity of your argument, but you seem to have forgotten Army.

According to a Quora post based on data pulled from a Wikipedia page (I know, I know), Air Force comes in first with 5005 airframes, but Army comes in second with 4193 airframes. I'm actually surprised to see this, as I was under the impression that Army actually had more than anyone else. Indeed, as one of the other Quora posts indicates: "The standard answer about the U.S. Army is that it has more aircraft than the Air Force and more boats than the Navy."

I think it's both competition and image protection. We're talking about something as subjective as audio quality after all.

Just like Apple doesn't want their image tarnished by having their logo stamped on some half-baked $50 phones, Dolby doesn't want their logo stamped on a cheap DVD player or Receiver that is incapable of producing audio to their quality. When it comes to sound (or video) presentation, you're really only as good as your weakest link. Dolby's only real way to control their image is to make sure the weakest link is under their control.

It is a crappy business move to shove out competitors in a "Dolby-certified" setup. But there are other sound standards out there, like Audyssey (which Onkyo, Denon and a few other receivers support), a quick google search shows Dolby considers some others too. Dolby just wants their own sandbox - the are hanging on that name. The market will handle the rest.

Pentane is used for lava targets. Heptane and Septane are already spoken for. Enneatane don't fire nobody's rocket, not nobody, not nohow. Hentriacontadictakitane is available.

This "most sophisticated software" question is from the same doofus who also asked / answered:

How is murdering people considered fun in video games? What happened to all those innocent games such as Frogger, Qbert, and Donkey Kong?

Apparently he doesn't understand games are an escape from reality and has to be told what fun is. Games are fun because we don't have to worry about real-life consequences and can do things that we normally could never do in physical reality, dumbass.

e.g. Frag my buddies, drive an expensive sports car, slay dragons, virtual fishing, etc.

Maybe he should go play DnD to actually learn the answer.

Genocide in video games isn't (solely) the problem when you want to take a break from the stress of day-to-day responsibility. It becomes a problem when you do that to the exclusion of all your other responsibilities.

If you don't like violence in games there are enough good puzzle games like The Witness, Pythagorea, Top 10 Geometric Puzzles for iOS (2016), etc.

Pedantic much?

So you think Static / Dynamic Libraries magically don't count?

The question specifically said piece of software/code -- there was NO disclaimer that stipulated "Library code doesn't count"; the only one tacking on additional qualifiers is you.

Note the OP is John Byrd -- the same doofus who asked:

How is murdering people considered fun in video games? What happened to all those innocent games such as Frogger, Qbert, and Donkey Kong?

So, they should use tanks to move planes around? Interesting...

They don't use treads because tread systems cost more than hard rubber tires. Tugs don't need armor.

You especially wouldn't use an Abrams because it uses a turbine engine. The Abrams has four times the horsepower output and twice the torque of a tug. It costs too much to maintain and consumes too much fuel to do that kind of work. (There is a vehicle based on the Abrams MBT which is used for tank recovery, but that's a fairly different job.)

Behind? As far as power goes, we've sent humans to space, and yet 100 years of internal combustion engine development hasn't been able to create instant torque response that an EV can deliver every time. Performance numbers certainly aren't lacking for the maker of "ludicrous" mode either.

Range is dictated by battery tech, and you're getting a hell of a lot more out of rechargeable batteries today than you were 20 years ago. My first cell phone had an hour of talk time. Another decade of battery development will likely create EV solutions with a 1,500-mile range, which at that point the metric is pointless, because human passengers would never want to sit in a car that long.

Battery tech has improved in regards to fixing the battery memory problem and faster recharge times but has little to do with how long your cell phone lasts. Most major battery improvements over the last 10 years are due to three factors: Shrinking electronics has allowed for larger capacity batteries, electronics have become much more energy efficient (i.e. lower power displays), and power management improvements.

As far as I can tell, the accepted wisdom is that battery capacity increases at 5% to 8% per year. In 10 years a 300 mile Tesla would be able to go about 500 miles. That being said, there is a ton of research being done on using capacitors and on developing the next battery chemistry that will supplant what we have today. So, it's quite possible that a breakthrough will happen and provide a range of 1500 miles. However, in my opinion, the current pace of battery technology does not support this with existing battery technology.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Lots of data about submariners and CO2 - where typical levels are 4000 PPM or higher. Not a problem if it's "only" 2500 PPM.

Now, heat? Never mentioned in this thread until now, but consider elephants, rhinos, and other large land mammals (giraffes, etc) who survive daily at 30+ deg C temperatures. Maybe they move their habitat a few hundred miles North or South, but exist - they definitely can.

Late last year a guy named Matthew Harris posted some salary data on Quora comparing the most expensive cities to hire a Python developer in the US and Canada. It costs more to hire a python dev in Madison WI (#5 on the U.S. list) than it does in Ottawa (#1 on the Canadian list) by a wide margin ($95k vs $78.5k). So it seems like the message to Canada is, "Pay up or shut up". In the meantime, I have some great colleagues from up North that I get to work with. https://www.quora.com/How-diff...

Personally I'm a fan of a Lex Talionis type solution, where for every piece of Spam (unsolicted commercial email) sent, the sender must recieve (eat) one 'piece' of Spam (spiced ham). In one sitting. I'm happy for piece to be set at 1g. Small time offenders should survive that. And be suitable chastened.

No. One bite per spam, which means at least 2.5g.

... so all suggestions are welcome!

Well OK then. Let's really try thinking outside-the-box. Start studying medicine with a long-term plan on getting a job in Pediatric ICU or Pediatric cardiac OR.

• 4 years undergrad (unless you've already done it)
• 4 years Medical school
• 3 years Pediatric Residency
• 3 years Anesthesiology Residency
• 3 years Pediatric ICU Fellowship
• 1 year Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship
• 1 year Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Fellowship

Roughly 19 years schooling, residency and fellowship.

That means you'll be about 75 by the time you're ready to start work. You might have racked up some enormous education bills to pay off. Just guessing that'll take 10 years to pay off. Then you can start saving for retirement. Another 30 years ought to do the trick. Assuming that Parkinson's or Alzheimer's hasn't set in by then, you can probably look forward to settling into a nice relaxing retirement at 105. Tee time's 5am. Be there!

Did I go for a worst-case scenario? Obviously. Just to make a point age can be a relevant factor.

What?

We're using one button mice? (because we're too stupid to for a second button?)

Jobs stole the GUI (for the Lisa) from the same place Gates did (Xerox). Face facts.

Modern GUIs have evolved and come from no single place. MacOS prior to X was architecturally very much inferior to all versions of NT, even 3.51 just blew it away. It was in a league with Amiga's OS.

Are we STILL flogging the "One Button Mouse" and "Apple ripped-off Xerox" memes? REALLY?

For the (HOPEFULLY!) Last Time EVAR:

1. One button mice are provably easier for NOVICES to understand, especially back in 1980, when the Lisa was under Development, and almost NO ONE had ever seen a computer Mouse of ANY kind! Internally at Apple at that time, Jef Raskin wanted a FIVE button mouse; but usability studies conducted with NORMAL PEOPLE (not "Computer Priests") consistently showed that they had trouble with the concept of multi-button mice. So ONE it was... However, MacOS has actually had intrinsic support (and responds to) multi-button mice since at least (Classic) MacOS 8.0 was released in 1997. Sorry, I can't find a reference right now, but I know it was 8.0 or 8.1. And before that, Macs supported (and still do) Ctrl-Click.

2. Apple paid Xerox 150 Million dollars in Stock Options for the Xerox Stuff. Gates, OTOH, simply COPIED the MacOS. He didn't bother going to Xerox and doing it "right". But whaddya expect from a guy whole basically STOLE the Code that became MS-DOS from Tim Patterson (NOT Gary Kildall) for a measly $50k. However, Tim Patterson had actually simply PLAGIARIZED Gary Kildall's CP/M, anyway...

https://www.quora.com/Whats-th...

3. And I agree that NT, which itself was half stolen from DEC's VMS, was superior in many ways to classic Mac OS; but it was also INferior in many ways, too.

This is just the beginning.. Watch for 128K

Consider this about dinosaurs: We find almost no evidence of any single dinosaur. Bits and pieces here or that is about what we expect. When someone finds a nearly complete skeleton (just sixty percent missing!) this is a major find.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-... There are complete dinosaurs in fossil records, some with feathers, some you can still discern their colours.