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1711.
by metalman 2y ago
diferent sources put humans as second only to cattle, for a single animal species, so I was wrong, but I did mean single species of animal. As to getting down/up voted, I am useing it as an anylitical tool to understand what facets of
1712.
by metalman 2y ago
Ever try and grab...and hold onto, a salmon that is trying to swim upstream? I have, and there was nothing I could do to hold it, with both arms in a bear hug, thrash, thrash, THRASH, gone.... big bad critters that are already ignoring all
1713.
by metalman 2y ago
ummmm, hmmmmmmm, It's high time we realised that we are the largest single niche, and animal biomass, that possibly, has ever existed, and it is a law of biology, that each niche will be filled. This means that any peicemeal approach
1714.
by metalman 2y ago
not an astro anything, but the easy question is how does the sun switch off it's light output so suddenly as to cause a perfect garavitational collapse presumably it has to be a large metal rich star and exist without too much local ga
1715.
by metalman 2y ago
I have thought about this a lot from the perspective of cheapness, and think that simply having giant teathered robot crawlers pump ocean sediment back up into the top layers of the water collum and inject any missing nutrients into the nat
1716.
by metalman 2y ago
the thing with all of that obvious engineering detail, is that it is old, very old, and liquid fueled heat engines have very little room for improvement, while, electricity storage mediums, have vast potential for improvement. Solid state
1717.
by metalman 2y ago
Nice to see an enthusiast/engineering site that is putting cutting egde design ideas into the public domain. Grew up with boat builders on the south shore of Nova Scotia, and knew and learned from some of the last people to build and
1718.
by metalman 2y ago
lithium is most definitly profitable in thousands of applications including boats, and light aircraft, now. The intercontinental heavy aircraft, and marine segment is not there yet, but there is a lot of progress bieng made every day, and
1719.
by metalman 2y ago
I am now waiting for news that someone has bio hacked a cockroach or a fruitfly to play doom, if not autonomously then for the full cold shivers, they are now robotisising insects, which could then be accesed through an interface to play do
1720.
by metalman 2y ago
I think it is a mistake not to cut the top off the egg and just look inside as ancient egg shell has no value after it drys out and the visual information may be unique,so off with its top, and then take samples of the "liquid" an
1721.
by metalman 2y ago
iron, CO², sulfur, water, and related compounds, sounds like there was water with a low ph, which would leach out all sorts of elements from the rocks and "soil" of mars the implication bieng that there was a varity of "soups
1722.
by metalman 2y ago
"the sea is no joke" trvth I was blessed with "over" sized lungs, and like swimming underwater, and hiking in mountains, so have enjoyed bieng able to do those things with minimal effort. When living in a city, I swam
1723.
by metalman 2y ago
little kids,(feeling safe and secure) will try and grab your guitar out of your hands,they KNOW they can do this, and just go for it, guitars bigger than they are, or watch a little, out somewhere, smitten by a street mucician, dont want to
1724.
by metalman 2y ago
It is quite evident that a great deal of artificialy generated content is of no value , and is getting put up with no human review or editing, as it lacks any internal or external coherance, just automated verbal aphasia as a wrapper for th
1725.
by metalman 2y ago
open your mouth, wider, wider, good, now say ahhhhhhgg, good, close you right eye, yes yes, loook to the left, good, now close the left eye, good yes look to the right, fine, well, not so fine but not so bad....,you seem to be suffering fro
1726.
by metalman 2y ago
Here is a bit of refrigeration trivia gathered from my own interest in the subject and a penchant for collecting and reading old engineering books, so from the early days of shipping food , in refrigerated cargo ships, determining the ideal
1727.
by metalman 2y ago
smart move, to shut down internal dissent, on.something the rest of the industry is moving towards as fast as possible, up.to including flying robo taxis bieng given the green light in China. Given that tesla, and the varios x group have v
1728.
by metalman 2y ago
only know to be produced.....is a whoa bessy phrase,?¿ as in 70 years ago an undergraduate figured out that dimethyl sulfide was produced by living organisms and he asked his professor what else made it, and got shrug and "nothing else
1729.
by metalman 2y ago
no idea what the specific microbe to be found in fish and tufu, is called....though if you are the adventurous type, then I suggest filling a "foipop" freadom of information something some thing something with the Canadian feds. A
1730.
by metalman 2y ago
hmmm?m it's moronic to go along with any notion of genius as bieng any single thing, that is present or not. it is fairly reasonable to suggest that most of the lesser sheep are threatened and resentfull of anybody who offers real, im
1731.
by metalman 2y ago
Canadian here, serious foodie.,..so..,in one of my many many random food related discusions/visits/inquiry/investigations...I got talking with the owner of a local maker of tofu, and how they grew the business from a kitchen
1732.
by metalman 2y ago
the future of the internet is greater personal power and autonomy.....everyone will get there own personal web space, to write, create, sell, buy, and comunicate, they own it, it's "free" one to one comunication will be prote
1733.
by metalman 2y ago
it is better to eat "bad" food, than nothing at all, is an ancient piece of advice, so to see it reflected in a study is not surprising survival=pragmatism in a simplified equation that it is autonomic or instinctive is again ,not
1734.
by metalman 2y ago
the integration of the SST's is years out, anything right now is test phase, and work at bringing awareness to the grid operators, who by the way are all conversant with the peculiaritys of working with steam, ie: a conservative bunch
1735.
by metalman 2y ago
Cleese on a talk show with Taylor Swift is evidence of how efortless it is for him to totaly take over a situation, poke horrible fun at someone, without giving cause for offence, charm the hell out of woman 25% his age ,while talking about
1736.
by metalman 2y ago
ok, your a borg now:), should we call you 1 of 1 ?, or is resistance futile?
1737.
by metalman 2y ago
everything with a mass over 1kg+- in the air, is carrying a "gps" and something that is transmitting its location, and all air traffic world wide is(theoreticaly) assigned a flight path for each trip,witha specific flight level, i
1738.
by metalman 2y ago
the way this is stated is troubling in that it proposes an aysimetric idea of "close friend" which is just one more version of hiarchical structure in human society, rather than something based on seeing things from the same persp
1739.
by metalman 2y ago
actual support would be long lines of volunteers at the military recruiting office, right instead of the reality, where the standard for enlistment are bieng lowered, while the percentage of people failing to pass the standards, is riseing.
1740.
by metalman 2y ago
Funny, but wrong, as "faith healing" is likely exploiting a facet of the placebo effect, which stubornly continues to be significant. And it is widely recognised that in cases where there is no(medical) hope at all, the action of

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