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by bkev 2y ago
fireproofing was a priority (Note: the SS America and SS United States shared the same designer - William Francis Gibbs). Not sure about the SS America, but at least on the SS United States, what wasn’t metal was heavily asbestos - which
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by bkev 4y ago
A violist I knew had a viola from the 1500’s that was originally a viola da gamba that had been cut down a couple hundred years ago (somewhat; was still pretty large for a viola). Had purfling hearts on the bouts. Beautiful instrument.
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by bkev 4y ago
Tesla allows you to send an address from the Maps app to your car (via the share menu). It’s one of my favorite features. I have no idea why other manufacturers wouldn’t replicate that experience.
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by bkev 5y ago
Try Turo. There tend to be quite a few Teslas there. https://turo.com/
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by bkev 5y ago
There were actually aircraft designed by the US to match the Tu-160 At the risk of “arguing with someone on the internet”, I think you may have your chronology backwards, since it seems the Tu-160 was designed to match the US aircraft you
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by bkev 6y ago
Reminds me of the S.S. Normandie https://boats.drivemag.com/features/the-golden-era-of-transa...
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by bkev 7y ago
A conventional helicopter might not need to drive the tail rotor mechanically in this manner for much longer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJUgmeSYox4
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by bkev 8y ago
In many ways I like TablePlus, but at least on MySQL, I'm not fond that it single-quotes all data types in the "Copy Rows As > SQL Import Statement", including decimals and integers. I don't want to introduce potentia
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by bkev 8y ago
Imagine you tried to subject your computer to extreme physical conditions - every combination of humidity, heat, cold, pressure, submergence in liquid, dropped, bent, etc, for 18 hours a day for years. How long do you think it would last? N
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by bkev 8y ago
So, a friend of mine who’s a pharmacologist explained that one to me. When drug test subjects take medication, they’re expected to note any side-effects they suffer from, and that often includes what they’re taking the drug to fix in the fi
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by bkev 10y ago
...how do you keep a book from being interpreted You pose an interesting question - one you'd think a god would be able to answer, especially if that god supposedly created us. In fact, if he can't answer it, I would question wh
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by bkev 12y ago
On an iOS device, enable Settings>Messages>"Send as SMS" to have it automatically fall over to SMS when iMessage isn't sending properly.
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by bkev 13y ago
Reminds me of the carbon fiber loom Toyota came up with for making the Lexus LFA. http://youtu.be/AScfESzQzIQ
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by bkev 13y ago
I believe it will be important in the architectural and 3D design fields, particularly when interacting with lay people. In the architecture industry, for example, the most common refrain I hear is that clients, who might be spending hundre
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by bkev 15y ago
Very cool museum; they have some incredible stuff. However, the "Blackbird" you mention isn't actually an SR-71, it's an M-21 - a variant of one of the CIA's A-12's (the SR-71's predecessor). http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/lockheed