Hydrogen embrittles metals. There are some alloys that can mitigate the embrittlement but it's easier to use helium.
The great thing is that you can then use the heat from the resulting hydrogen-air explosion to heat-treat the metal and return it to serviceable condition!
The reason they get respect is because they do science. They may not be the most accurate and exacting scientists,and they often make mistakes. But they still do science. The have a question, they make a hypothesis, they test the hypothesis, they analyze what happened and make conclusions, and they put the results up for peer review. And more than once they've gone back and revisited something because the result of that peer review was "you did it wrong."
So they do science, and they make it fun, and for a lot of the things they test they don't need the kind of accuracy that "real" scientist do for "real" science. In fact i'd argue that they're at least as accurate as an average kid's science project for school, and are you going to argue that we shouldn't reach kids science in school because clearly they're not able to maintain appropriate levels of accuracy?
Calling Mythbusters science is like calling a Red Ryder Wagon a race car. Kind of following the scientific method and selling it on TV is an insufficient condition to qualify as peer-reviewed scientific work.
And if you think that the show is science, I sincerely hope that you (1) do not have an advanced degree in science or (2) do not live and perform science in the same country as me.
The longest for me is 5 hours but this is ridiculous. The only people that would be able to apply are people who are unemployed. As someone who has interviewed people for programming jobs, it really doesn't take more than 2 hours to figure out if someone is a good fit.
You can fake it for two hours, but it is a lot harder to put on a show for 5 days.
That's like saying a butcher is best positioned to evaluate how much meat someone needs to throw a successful barbeque.
Which they are.
I'm sure what you're saying is, "But uh there's a butcher conspiracy and they'll all say AS MUCH MEAT AS POSSIBLE because that'll make them rich!"
Except that - and I thought this is what you free markedroids always argue when you say that All Regulation Is Evil - it's in no butcher's interest to lie about how much meat someone needs, as then they'll stop being trusted and no-one will listen to them any more.
That's why a smart butcher would only suggest 20% more meat than he thinks that you actually need. You know, just so you don't run out. And he'd try to upsell you on the "quality" meat so that you could impress your friends.
If you blindly trust someone who is making a profit off you, you are a moron, regardless of the specifics. And yes, professional politicians are making a profit off of your tax dollars and votes.
Scarred fingerprints set off even more alarm bells than normal ones. Plus the scar pattern is often uniquely identifiable. Better to be safe and chop the whole finger off.
Why can't you just re-scar them every year or so? Or burn them with an iron that has a fingerprint impression?
In short, if he was prepared for this result as a part of a larger protest, then I get it. If he just wanted to get from one place to another, he's a moron.
He must have been trying to get out of going to that funeral!
If you're generous and assume that people can shift their focus in 5ms, you'll still be increasing stopping length by just over 4 ft at 60 mph. That's more than enough to shove your front end up someones bumper.
Realistically, let's assume that these distracted drivers take their eyes off the road for a mere 3 seconds. That's an additional 88 ft at 60mph before their action occurs.
Your quantitative example is wrong by an order of magnitude on the first calculation and a factor of three on the second: 60 mph = 5280*60 ft/h = 5280/60 ft/s = 88 ft/s
In 0.005 sec = 5 ms, you would travel 0.44 ft = 5.3 inches.
In 3 seconds, you would travel 264 ft.
(I'll skip the snarky distracted math jokes.)
Keep in mind that this discussion will be moot soon, when all cars will autodetect the imminent collision, decrease velocity or brake, and alert the driver. (My wife's does this now.)
Yes, the surgery is needed. If swallowed the magnetic balls stick together through the intestine walls, cutting off circulation and eventually punching holes in the intestines through which the intestinal contents leak into the abdomen. That's just a little fatal without surgery.
But why do you need to waste money on a surgeon?
Can't you just put the kid in an MRI and rip the magnets out?
Most people would consider the radius of the Sun to end where the mass of burning fusion ends, which is fairly constant except for solar flares... though I do get your point.
If you did that, the solar radius would be 25-30% of the accepted definition!
I fail to see how destroying competition by undercutting local shops is a good thing for the local economy in the long term. By the time you figure out what is going on, they will own the market, and the small shops will be long gone. You will have no option but to deal with a single merchant. Good luck with that. Be smart. Help the small guys, even if they are a bit more expensive. That will keep things in relative check.
If Amazon jacks up their prices, won't it become profitable to restart the small businesses again? What would prevent that?
With algorithmic pricing, the Amazon marketplace is just operating as an automated dutch auction. It's how markets should behave: raw supply and demand, with no collusion or other market distortions propping up prices.
Because everyone automatically undercutting their competitors by a few cents over and over until everyone is selling at cost and all but a couple players eventually have to shut down because they can't afford to run a profitless business forever, whereupon the few remaining players can finally raise prices... isn't effectively collusion or a market distortion.
It's not collusion or a market distortion, it's Walmart!!!
Do you mean the environmentalists who promote clean air but smoke cigarettes?
I'm not a smoker, but cigarettes are carbon neutral. The tobacco plants pull the CO2 from the atmosphere, and what's used for producing filters and packaging is more than offset by the majority of the plants not being burnt at all.
Brewing a cup of white tea (or whatever is in these days) probably pollutes the atmosphere more than packs of cigarettes.
Well heck! By your definition, burning hydrocarbons like gasoline must be carbon neutral too! Organic materials pull CO2 from the atmosphere, die, are buried underground and converted to hydrocarbons. Then we dig them up and burn them. We're just releasing the CO2 that they pulled from the atmosphere, right?
no but the government isn't some other body. it is based on a simple idea that we all need certain things that we can't or shouldn't pay for individually. (say fire department). we each pitch in and that makes everybody's life better.
That's actually called Socialism... and that is not the concept that the US was originally formed after.
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Hydrogen embrittles metals. There are some alloys that can mitigate the embrittlement but it's easier to use helium.
The great thing is that you can then use the heat from the resulting hydrogen-air explosion to heat-treat the metal and return it to serviceable condition!
The reason they get respect is because they do science. They may not be the most accurate and exacting scientists,and they often make mistakes. But they still do science. The have a question, they make a hypothesis, they test the hypothesis, they analyze what happened and make conclusions, and they put the results up for peer review. And more than once they've gone back and revisited something because the result of that peer review was "you did it wrong."
So they do science, and they make it fun, and for a lot of the things they test they don't need the kind of accuracy that "real" scientist do for "real" science. In fact i'd argue that they're at least as accurate as an average kid's science project for school, and are you going to argue that we shouldn't reach kids science in school because clearly they're not able to maintain appropriate levels of accuracy?
Calling Mythbusters science is like calling a Red Ryder Wagon a race car. Kind of following the scientific method and selling it on TV is an insufficient condition to qualify as peer-reviewed scientific work.
And if you think that the show is science, I sincerely hope that you (1) do not have an advanced degree in science or (2) do not live and perform science in the same country as me.
You need a union. It's the only way to fix this kind of thing.
Unions create their own set of problems.
You need to find a new job. Now. Stop reading /. and start looking. Or go back to school during your time off of work.
The longest for me is 5 hours but this is ridiculous. The only people that would be able to apply are people who are unemployed. As someone who has interviewed people for programming jobs, it really doesn't take more than 2 hours to figure out if someone is a good fit.
You can fake it for two hours, but it is a lot harder to put on a show for 5 days.
That's like saying a butcher is best positioned to evaluate how much meat someone needs to throw a successful barbeque.
Which they are.
I'm sure what you're saying is, "But uh there's a butcher conspiracy and they'll all say AS MUCH MEAT AS POSSIBLE because that'll make them rich!"
Except that - and I thought this is what you free markedroids always argue when you say that All Regulation Is Evil - it's in no butcher's interest to lie about how much meat someone needs, as then they'll stop being trusted and no-one will listen to them any more.
That's why a smart butcher would only suggest 20% more meat than he thinks that you actually need. You know, just so you don't run out. And he'd try to upsell you on the "quality" meat so that you could impress your friends.
If you blindly trust someone who is making a profit off you, you are a moron, regardless of the specifics. And yes, professional politicians are making a profit off of your tax dollars and votes.
Is it really a good idea to put computers and hydrocarbons that closely together?
What if there's a fire?
It works really well if you keep the oxygen out of the system or if the oil vapor pressure is low enough that it doesn't create a flammable headspace.
Nope.
Scarred fingerprints set off even more alarm bells than normal ones. Plus the scar pattern is often uniquely identifiable. Better to be safe and chop the whole finger off.
Why can't you just re-scar them every year or so? Or burn them with an iron that has a fingerprint impression?
Hmmmmmmmmmm?
The lens is tuned to a single wavelength of light and was demonstrated with a laser.
It's not apochromatic and not instantly useful to most lensing applications.
The authors say that it could potentially be, in the future. But that often means "give us more funding."
You don't need to inspect them.
Just X-ray every package removed from the embassy with a lethal dose of radiation.
In short, if he was prepared for this result as a part of a larger protest, then I get it. If he just wanted to get from one place to another, he's a moron.
He must have been trying to get out of going to that funeral!
If you're generous and assume that people can shift their focus in 5ms, you'll still be increasing stopping length by just over 4 ft at 60 mph. That's more than enough to shove your front end up someones bumper.
Realistically, let's assume that these distracted drivers take their eyes off the road for a mere 3 seconds. That's an additional 88 ft at 60mph before their action occurs.
Your quantitative example is wrong by an order of magnitude on the first calculation and a factor of three on the second:
60 mph = 5280*60 ft/h = 5280/60 ft/s = 88 ft/s
In 0.005 sec = 5 ms, you would travel 0.44 ft = 5.3 inches.
In 3 seconds, you would travel 264 ft.
(I'll skip the snarky distracted math jokes.)
Keep in mind that this discussion will be moot soon, when all cars will autodetect the imminent collision, decrease velocity or brake, and alert the driver. (My wife's does this now.)
Yes, the surgery is needed. If swallowed the magnetic balls stick together through the intestine walls, cutting off circulation and eventually punching holes in the intestines through which the intestinal contents leak into the abdomen. That's just a little fatal without surgery.
But why do you need to waste money on a surgeon?
Can't you just put the kid in an MRI and rip the magnets out?
Since most men find lesbians fascinating, I am sure he was ecstatic about it.
Apparently a Texan geology student.
He probably hasn't even noticed that it is hard to read. The twitter generation doesn't bother to read their post anymore.
There is actually a traditional french solution to this problem : Burn down McDonalds.
Oh! I thought that it would be more appropriate to cut off their heads!
Most people would consider the radius of the Sun to end where the mass of burning fusion ends, which is fairly constant except for solar flares... though I do get your point.
If you did that, the solar radius would be 25-30% of the accepted definition!
Wouldn't Jupiter need to be a star? Short of us igniting it, I think that is going to be a problem.
You could consider it a brown dwarf, if you could get the IAU to lower the minimum brown dwarf classification mass.
I just want to add something that might be escaping some people.
It's not "escaping" us. TFA doesn't give any information on relative efficiencies... or why the CASE plant would be profitable.
I fail to see how destroying competition by undercutting local shops is a good thing for the local economy in the long term. By the time you figure out what is going on, they will own the market, and the small shops will be long gone. You will have no option but to deal with a single merchant. Good luck with that. Be smart. Help the small guys, even if they are a bit more expensive. That will keep things in relative check.
If Amazon jacks up their prices, won't it become profitable to restart the small businesses again? What would prevent that?
With algorithmic pricing, the Amazon marketplace is just operating as an automated dutch auction. It's how markets should behave: raw supply and demand, with no collusion or other market distortions propping up prices.
Because everyone automatically undercutting their competitors by a few cents over and over until everyone is selling at cost and all but a couple players eventually have to shut down because they can't afford to run a profitless business forever, whereupon the few remaining players can finally raise prices ... isn't effectively collusion or a market distortion.
It's not collusion or a market distortion, it's Walmart!!!
Do you mean the environmentalists who promote clean air but smoke cigarettes?
I'm not a smoker, but cigarettes are carbon neutral. The tobacco plants pull the CO2 from the atmosphere, and what's used for producing filters and packaging is more than offset by the majority of the plants not being burnt at all.
Brewing a cup of white tea (or whatever is in these days) probably pollutes the atmosphere more than packs of cigarettes.
Well heck! By your definition, burning hydrocarbons like gasoline must be carbon neutral too! Organic materials pull CO2 from the atmosphere, die, are buried underground and converted to hydrocarbons. Then we dig them up and burn them. We're just releasing the CO2 that they pulled from the atmosphere, right?
no but the government isn't some other body. it is based on a simple idea that we all need certain things that we can't or shouldn't pay for individually. (say fire department). we each pitch in and that makes everybody's life better.
That's actually called Socialism... and that is not the concept that the US was originally formed after.
And as a fellow Indian, let me correct you a bit....
Everyone's a racist. It's just human nature, not some deep rooted evil as it is made out to be by politically correct people.
Is that what you tell yourself to sleep at night?
Bigotry is a choice. We are not born racist, but many people are conditioned to be so from birth.
I hope this goes better than that whole Blackwater/Halliburton thing went down in Iraq.
You can't forget this Win95 Sucks parody song:
Win95 Sucks Song on YouTube
I always thought that it was the best parody song ever. In fact, I still have it in my playlists and love listening to it. Brings back the memories!