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by delibes 6y ago
6400 [edit: kills] - http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Elite_Rating This isn't new knowledge. I remember reading about that goal and the number 6400 in a magazine, probably BBC Micro User. Right on Commander!
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by delibes 6y ago
I'm guessing cow towel = kowtow. But... Perhaps you do treat your cows nice n stuff?
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by delibes 6y ago
Even though I've seen that before, it never properly registered with me that Boron and Beryllium are made by a separate process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_spallation
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by delibes 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street
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by delibes 6y ago
There's also this which might be based on the same data: https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/parks-green...
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by delibes 6y ago
Perhaps co-incidentally, today (24th April) is the day of remembrance for the Armenian Genocide
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by delibes 7y ago
> However, if you install an application from an untrusted source, attackers can take advantage of that. Attackers can also take advantage of the bug if they pair it with vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser to render content. So, you h
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by delibes 7y ago
How about a pool in a rotating orbital space station? Just keep swimming forwards and slightly uphill :) Just don't lose the fake G or you could be the first person to drown in space.
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by delibes 7y ago
I think levels of impurities and surface treatment of the metal may cause variation in whether something is considered suitable or not? For example, from [0] (which is declassified from 1974!) : "Titanium can react violently with stron
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by delibes 7y ago
Yep. I wonder similar about the 13" MBP 2015 that I have, which has a swollen case. Not covered in last year's 13" recall, but looks like the same problem. The London Apple store disagree :(
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by delibes 7y ago
LOL, ran it in private window. We have a single outward facing office IP address, and a few tabs were for things like bras and lingerie, so I'm now waiting to see if it affected others on the office network!
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by delibes 7y ago
Not sure I agree. Just my anecdotal data of course, but I don't remember seeing an Apple II in UK schools in the 80s, but definitely BBC Micro/Master and a few Archimedes later. This was in 2-3 North West state schools, so there m
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by delibes 7y ago
Congratulations! Your comment reminded me that 50% of my current team do not have a STEM degree. I decided to create a short survey to try to collect some data: https://delibes.typeform.com/to/Uix5hM It's probably
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by delibes 7y ago
It's not a chemical catalyst, but the idea of muon-catalysed cold fusion has been around since the late 50s. I think I first read about it as a child in the appendix of Arthur C Clarke's "2061" novel. https://
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by delibes 7y ago
Bigger also means they can put more sensors onboard (though you can do quite a bit with Estes). But even the Shuttle SRBs used parachute recovery, although without popping the nose cone. Biggest difference I can think of is that the SRBs ha
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by delibes 7y ago
I think somewhere in this sci.space archive of rocketry usenet wonders is a quote along the lines of "Rocket science is just extreme plumbing". Cryogenics with powerful oxidizers is hard! https://yarchive.net/space
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by delibes 8y ago
Hug of death - archive link: http://archive.is/rQqtB
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by delibes 8y ago
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee :( I do get your point, and it's amazing it worked as well as it did. Space is tough, and things are likely to go wrong, just as they still do with civil aviation.
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by delibes 8y ago
The space plane ideas for using a Sabre engine are fairly early stage designs, since the whole engine isn't even a working prototype yet. Of the various designs I've seen via wikipeda, Reaction Engines PR, and on-line forums, it s
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by delibes 8y ago
I don't know enough quantum physics. Is this a qubit equivalent of reversing the mixture of dyes in viscous liquids? https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/...
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by delibes 8y ago
More anecdotal cross-cultural fun stuff... I have some Lebanese friends and noticed that their children seem to start eating labneh (somewhere between thick yoghurt and soft cheese) very early. Also the Armenian word for cheese is 'pan
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by delibes 8y ago
Part-Armenian. My relatives told a story that when their grand-parents went to the USA, they soaked some cotton fabric such as handkerchiefs in yoghurt, let it dry, and then just packed it in with other clothes. On arrival they then rehydra
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by delibes 8y ago
I haven't read it, but enjoyed The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park. Perhaps I have no taste. What's so bad about his writing?
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by delibes 8y ago
By Grabthar's hammer, what a savings!
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by delibes 8y ago
Looks like we have a new modern interpretation for 'boosting' https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Boosting%20C...
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by delibes 8y ago
What I find odd about this is having to push the output rod and check where it ends up. I'm not sure how this would work in a clocked/latched system, or whether that's even possible? Does it need a reset at the end of a cycle
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by delibes 8y ago
But the BBC reported earlier this year that somebody is cheating and making CFC-11 - banned by the Montreal Protocol. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44138984
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by delibes 8y ago
An interesting proposed solution. It seems unlikely to work for all. Somehow reminds me of this: https://principiadiscordia.com/book/45.php
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by delibes 8y ago
If you're not British, you might not get that 'red' here is associated with the Labour party who are left wing. Blue is the colour associated with our Conservative party (right). Right now, with Brexit and leadership fights a
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by delibes 8y ago
Somewhat inspired by the Japanese robots bouncing around on the Hayabusa2 mission ... I think it'd be nice to be able to 'push off' against the debris satellite, to both decelerate it whilst also gaining orbital velocity for

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