I was under the impression that.... To create transparent aluminium, more power than is used by an entire city had to be focused into a dot with a diameter of less than one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair, and then could only maintain the transparent state for 40 femtoseconds. (wikipedia)
it's well documented that staying active in the workforce is good for the brain, at least when compared to the sedentary tv-filled days of most retirees.
todays 70-year-olds are smarter.... because most of them can't afford to retire.
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Imagine... a radio system that is capable of receiving and transmitting on one of several frequencies. And switching between frequencies on command.
What a wonder future that would be!
The only legitimate use of the chisel is to infringe on intellectual property!
That is why, even today, Canada levies a 10 cent "piracy tax" on stone plates.
Spend a year working in the K-12 world, and you'll feel the same way the teachers do.
s/out on the street/wood chipper/
UoP isn't a state school. It is a for-profit company. The name throws a lot of people.
No joke. Wake me up when it tells me when I'll get hooked up in the first place.
...we shouldn't blame the people who actually TOOK the owls.
I guess the "full scale military attack" doesn't include a couple privates beating the shit out of some nerds until they get the access code?
You know...when ever there's a news story about a portable music device they automatically refer to the Apple iPod, which is irritating as hell.
The same thing happens with tablets now.
It's nice that they still drag Apple into a conversation like this...but it's still bullshit.
Quit saying Apple, ipod, ipad, etc unless it is a story actually about just them.
The power of explosives isn't in the energy released, it is in the speed with which it is released.
Imagine if your campfire log burned at 34000 FPS. It would be close to Composition C4.
My gas station bans for hammering!
Thanks for the mIRC memories. (:
...is that 162 years later we take digital pictures that don't have the resolution to allow visible-light microscopy-level zooming.
I was joking. But only partially so.
You've never listened to NPR during membership drive season?
Still, sounds better to NPR browbeating.
"Listening without membership makes you worse than Hitler." --Terry Gross
To be fair, they are more accurately called transparent ceramics.
well, actually we DO own that debt.
i was kind of thinking that since, you know, WE payed NASA to invent stuff.. the public already owned it.
Did they just say "transparent aluminum"?
I was under the impression that .... To create transparent aluminium, more power than is used by an entire city had to be focused into a dot with a diameter of less than one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair, and then could only maintain the transparent state for 40 femtoseconds. (wikipedia)
trunking?
Have you ever been inside a nursing home? Or in most retiree's living rooms?
A couple hours a day of some task CAN be beneficial compared to the tedium of most retirees lives.
it's well documented that staying active in the workforce is good for the brain, at least when compared to the sedentary tv-filled days of most retirees.
todays 70-year-olds are smarter.... because most of them can't afford to retire.
Thankfully, in my preparation for the ACTUAL zombie apocalypse, I have accumulated enough 5.56mm to handle quite a few urban ones.
too bad he had to level a hilltop and clear away some forest to build his stupid house.
recycling?
greenwash fail.
Like helium.
crystal.
I get it, but your chosen analogy was too awesome.
see also: mad props.