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by mdturnerphys 4y ago
Since others have brought up religion already, I'll mention that your thoughts here are very similar to a passage in the Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 2:11-12 ( https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bo
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by mdturnerphys 4y ago
This and the wire is able to conduct the heat away faster than it is deposited into it. With some very thin phosphor bronze wires I have seen damage.
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by mdturnerphys 4y ago
Here's the one I've used: https://www.laserwiresolutions.com/product/mercury-4/
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by mdturnerphys 4y ago
And if you have a lot of wires to strip, get a compound automatic wire stripper or a laser wire stripper.
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On a Piece of Chalk (1868)(aleph0.clarku.edu)
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by mdturnerphys 4y ago
I think this is the correct link, but the article is from 2021: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...
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by mdturnerphys 4y ago
"Seeing this minaret, medieval Europeans mistook it for the biblical Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9), and, as such, it lent its form to medieval and Renaissance representations of the tower, as in the famous “Tower of Babel” by Bruegel (1
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by mdturnerphys 4y ago
There was a talk on this back in 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
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by mdturnerphys 4y ago
Actually, the first automated in-car navigation systems used mechanical couplings to a wheel to determine progress along a set route: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/01/turn-by-turntables-how-...
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by mdturnerphys 4y ago
Flight tracking: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GKA264/history/20220420/...
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Parachute demo at Nats Park causes brief Capitol evacuation(seattletimes.com)
2 points by mdturnerphys 4y ago|0 comments
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Wind dispersal of battery-free wireless devices(nature.com)
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
The bill doesn't appear to have an effective date: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623...
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
More info here: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-tha... Important note: "Senator Marco Rubio said after input from airlines and broadcasters that supporters agreed that the change woul
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
Watching the events in Ukraine unfold recently reminded me of his cynical "War is Kind": Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep.
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
Submarines have been using gravity gradiometers for navigation for decades. Tom Clancy revealed what was then classified information about these in The Hunt for Red October . They can serve as passive collision avoidance systems or let t
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
Sweden planted 300,000 oak trees on a particular island in the 1830s, after the Napoleonic wars, to provide lumber for future naval ships. It takes the trees about 150 years to reach a suitable size, so they were well obsolete for their in
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Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial(kuow.org)
1 points by mdturnerphys 5y ago|0 comments
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
Ring laser gyros are fairly well known, but there's another way you can make a gyro with no mechanically spinning parts using the right combination of magnets. This paper describes an experimental apparatus that incidentally serves as
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
Oh, wow, that brings back some nostalgia. There's a picture of this in one of Richard Scarry's non-Busytown books that I had as a child.
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
Thanks! I wonder how I haven't heard of this before. Edit: Just saw that the Brawley is off-road only. It doesn't meet DOT standards. That would probably explain why I haven't heard of it.
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
I got to see NASA's Super Guppy land and unload a T-38 (I think) at Ellington Field 15 years ago while prepping for a flight on the Vomit Comet. It's pretty absurd to see a plane come out of a plane.
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
With The Martian , a later "classroom edition" was published with the profanity removed. Maybe he just wanted to avoid making a second edition this time.
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
There's a nice Nature episode on beavers and their interaction with people and the environment. It's titled "Leave it to Beavers" and you can find it in various places online. Two of my kids had a 2nd-3rd grade teacher
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
For those interested in the development of the English language, I highly recommend this podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
I recently got back into the Euclidia geometric puzzle app [0]. You start with compass and straightedge tools and build up the techniques to exactly construct the solution to various challenges with the minimal set of operations. [0] http
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
The For Whom the Bell Tolls quote is a striking way to start the introduction. It makes the point of their inquiry much more obvious than the formal scientific language that follows. I'd love to see more of this ("real-world&q
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
> in Thai, Thai basil leaves aren't even called basil In Thai there are completely separate words for different types of basil. There's no word that just means basil, so holy basil and other varieties aren't called basil
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by mdturnerphys 5y ago
Ha, I posted this two days ago [0]. I knew it was front-page material :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28848009
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IBM Computing Cheese Cutter (restoration) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by mdturnerphys 5y ago|0 comments

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