Wouldn't it be nasty if the outside were hydrophobic and the inside hydrophylic - your sweat would be yanked into the material and violently ejected from the other side! You'd look like your own Vegas water fountain show as you ran along.
It didn't say it was Babyback Rib grease proof, just waterproof. There are an awful lot of tasty stain-producing things out there that aren't water-based.
Have you ever eaten sardines in mustard sauce, or better yet, John West Kippers in Sunflower oil? As I say, "If you ain't got sauce all up in your eyebrows, you ain't doing it right."
Reminds me of Ernst Stavro Blofeld's quote: "The satellite is at present over... Kansas. Well, if we destroy Kansas the world may not hear about it for years."
I drove 1300+ miles in Scotland, and found that the drivers there were very competent and courteous, even on Prince's Street in downtown Edinburgh. I didn't see any real aggression, just people driving with a purpose. No idiots stopping in the roundabouts, everyone knew the rules, and there weren't any problems. As a US driver, I studied the rules and actually too a sample online driver's test for Scotland (and passed, FYI) before going over there. _I_ didn't want to be the idiot on the roads.
I don't know if the crystals are large enough, but most DIY stores carry carborundum grinding media. You can get some pretty good-sized chunks on a rotary sanding pad. Plus, there are mineral and radio shops online.
Interesting difference between the US and UK: while I was puttering around Scotland, I noticed that all electronic equipment had a real off switch - not just a mamby pamby standby switch. I like the idea of being able to turn stuff off for real, not just into 'save 10%' standby mode.
The first instance I can remember of something not being 'off' when off was a TV back in the 70's (?) that was marketed as being 'instant on'. It must've kept all the filaments hot (or at least warm) all the time. Ouch!
I'd love to see the feds swoop in and seize all the RIAA's 'base'. If they can do it to you and me without a conviction, why can't they swoop on the RIAA right now?
...a ring of 4.8x10^8 copper dipole antennas [in the shape of] 1.78cm long and... 17.8um diameter needles was placed in orbit...
They were supposed to de-orbit in 3 years from launch (in 1966) - guess what? They're _still_ re-entering! I suspect that Stevenson and the military told the rest of the world what they wanted to hear. 480 million needles! Sheesh!
... that the air you breathe or the water you drink or the food you eat hasn't already been through at least one set of lungs or digestive tract? The Last Breath of Caesar" calculation shows that every breath each of us takes likely contains 1 molecule of Caesar's Last Breath.
Similarly, every glass of water you drink has an average of 3.6x10^12 or 3.6 million million molecules of Titanic Water (water from the iceberg that sunk the Titanic).
From that link:
The same kind of concentration also applies to a glass of 12 year old malt Scotch whisky because the water came from the same ecosystem. It is a sobering thought that ice cubes floating in whisky contain molecules which were once part of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, but it's a fact. If you wanted to have ice that didn't contain any "Titanic Water", you could achieve this by the curious irony of using ice from a modern iceberg! Any ice in icebergs now, for example from Greenland, has formed from snow which fell thousands of years ago. So, if you had a glass of old malt whisky with ice from an iceberg, the ice would contain no molecules from the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, whereas the whisky would do!
Their disclaimer is funny, too: "Special disclaimer: We do not advocate or condone the use of ICE in whisky, and it is merely used here for illustrative purposes. We also do not condone the sinking of ships, and acknowledge that the iceberg was not entirely to blame for the sinking of the Titanic."
There aren't that many glaciers in their territory. 8-)
Radioactive heating (particularly alpha-induced heating) is very effective. This fascinating article states:
"Among all gamma-free alpha-only emitters with t1/2 > 106 sec, the highest volumetric power density is available using Gd148 (gadolinium) which a-decays directly to Sm144 (samarium), a stable rare-earth isotope. A solid sphere of pure Gd148 (~7900 kg/m3) of radius r = 95 microns surrounded by a 5-micron thick platinum shield (total device radius R = 100 microns) and a thin polished silver coating of emissivity er = 0.02 suspended in vacuo would initially maintain a constant temperature T2 (far from a surface held at T1 = 310 K) of 600 K."
That's pretty darned hot for such a tiny bead. Note that it only generates 17 uW of thermal power.
I've long thought that alloys containing Gd148 would make excellent additions to cold-weather emergency gear. A small ceramic puck containing a small amount of Gd148 (which is a pure alpha emitter, is itself not toxic, and decays into a stable isotope of Samarium) would generate enough heat to keep a lost hiker alive, or keep someone alive in a life raft in frigid waters.
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Your processor can't deflect temperatures of _that_ magnitude!
Wouldn't it be nasty if the outside were hydrophobic and the inside hydrophylic - your sweat would be yanked into the material and violently ejected from the other side! You'd look like your own Vegas water fountain show as you ran along.
It didn't say it was Babyback Rib grease proof, just waterproof. There are an awful lot of tasty stain-producing things out there that aren't water-based.
Have you ever eaten sardines in mustard sauce, or better yet, John West Kippers in Sunflower oil? As I say, "If you ain't got sauce all up in your eyebrows, you ain't doing it right."
They line them with concrete spikes and riffraff...
Is that what they do with petty criminals these days? Soylent erosion control is People!
Oh, you meant "riprap".
See my sig - you're in violation!
London doubles over in agony after massive impact to the groin.
Reminds me of Ernst Stavro Blofeld's quote: "The satellite is at present over... Kansas. Well, if we destroy Kansas the world may not hear about it for years."
I drove 1300+ miles in Scotland, and found that the drivers there were very competent and courteous, even on Prince's Street in downtown Edinburgh. I didn't see any real aggression, just people driving with a purpose. No idiots stopping in the roundabouts, everyone knew the rules, and there weren't any problems. As a US driver, I studied the rules and actually too a sample online driver's test for Scotland (and passed, FYI) before going over there. _I_ didn't want to be the idiot on the roads.
Should be called the Pocket Akbar, because, when it doubt, it's probably a trap.
And my tongue can't repel radar of _that_ magnitude!
...in Virginia? Radar detectors are illegal here, so can the police now seize your iPhone because it can be used to avoid a ticket?
I don't know if the crystals are large enough, but most DIY stores carry carborundum grinding media. You can get some pretty good-sized chunks on a rotary sanding pad. Plus, there are mineral and radio shops online.
So does the 'off' switch...
Interesting difference between the US and UK: while I was puttering around Scotland, I noticed that all electronic equipment had a real off switch - not just a mamby pamby standby switch. I like the idea of being able to turn stuff off for real, not just into 'save 10%' standby mode.
The first instance I can remember of something not being 'off' when off was a TV back in the 70's (?) that was marketed as being 'instant on'. It must've kept all the filaments hot (or at least warm) all the time. Ouch!
Exactly!
I'd love to see the feds swoop in and seize all the RIAA's 'base'. If they can do it to you and me without a conviction, why can't they swoop on the RIAA right now?
E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (pc)^2
Political Correctness has found it's way into Physics now, I guess.
I've always wondered how long I'd burn if you stuck a wick in me and lit it.
Wasn't he the pitcher in "Bull Durham" that hooked up with Susan Sarandon?
Oh wait, that was Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh; nevermind!
Yeah, well the manufacturers of that shirt might sue you if your picture is taken wearing 'their' shirt. It happens with cars.
How about the 'Project Westford' needles?
They were supposed to de-orbit in 3 years from launch (in 1966) - guess what? They're _still_ re-entering! I suspect that Stevenson and the military told the rest of the world what they wanted to hear. 480 million needles! Sheesh!
You might as well sell your sole to Richard Stall..erm Satan!!
Or for that matter, What would Satan or Stallman do with his flatfish?
Really old "Digital Photography"
Digital, as in done with a finger. That's a joke... I say, that's a joke, son. Get it?
Sniff, sniff. I officially feel old.
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b. ordering Cuban to disgorge...
Why do I get the image of a snake orally ejecting a rat carcass when I read that?
If that's a fill-in-the-blank, I claim:
nature has been doing this for a long__effin'___ time
... that the air you breathe or the water you drink or the food you eat hasn't already been through at least one set of lungs or digestive tract? The Last Breath of Caesar" calculation shows that every breath each of us takes likely contains 1 molecule of Caesar's Last Breath.
Similarly, every glass of water you drink has an average of 3.6x10^12 or 3.6 million million molecules of Titanic Water (water from the iceberg that sunk the Titanic).
From that link:
Their disclaimer is funny, too: "Special disclaimer: We do not advocate or condone the use of ICE in whisky, and it is merely used here for illustrative purposes. We also do not condone the sinking of ships, and acknowledge that the iceberg was not entirely to blame for the sinking of the Titanic."
There aren't that many glaciers in their territory. 8-)
Radioactive heating (particularly alpha-induced heating) is very effective. This fascinating article states:
That's pretty darned hot for such a tiny bead. Note that it only generates 17 uW of thermal power.
I've long thought that alloys containing Gd148 would make excellent additions to cold-weather emergency gear. A small ceramic puck containing a small amount of Gd148 (which is a pure alpha emitter, is itself not toxic, and decays into a stable isotope of Samarium) would generate enough heat to keep a lost hiker alive, or keep someone alive in a life raft in frigid waters.