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moneytide1
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"when the rising mercury concentrates sugars" Mercury is not capitalized here, which makes a huge difference. In assuming astrological Mercury, not somehow the element?
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An oat milk factory would be importing bulk quantities of oats and flavoring agents like cinnamon, vanilla, maple syrup (which maybe be processed by expensive factories). I would just be going out and buying these things separately and toss
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Perhaps less safe and unconventional, but the "superman" position is not listed in the article: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iz7ZMALaCY
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Is currency stability correlated with sustained international investment? Belt and Road Initiative implies construction (labor/resource deployment) to solidify economic connections between regions/hemispheres where there are vario
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Some comments here suggest donation, which implies that groups of users could utilize what you are not using. But I am used to rationing 250 MB (Verizon plan from 2015) - and there is so much information that can be obtained with this amou
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Someone at work today was talking about their mother having an ulcer in her liver due to excessive pain killer use. I once slipped on a damp metal roof while installing rural internet. That flap of skin between your index finger and thumb?
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The Nikola Badger, a New Fuel-Cell Pickup, Starts Preorders June 29
(caranddriver.com)
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Here's an excerpt from an article: “It is an open secret,” he said, “that secret services of imperialist powers and foreign anti-Soviet centers actively join extremist nationalistic actions. Later on, they start playing the part of ope
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In Total War: Rome II, you can commission the training of "spy" agents with multiple abilities that can be exercised against opposing faction cities. One of these abilities is "incite unrest". Across several turns, this
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Formatting error, last paragraph: To produce thrust - what if it was a half sphere somehow? Propellant implies ejection of something, and a fusion reaction ball is magnetically interactive, with no radioactive material byproduct? What if a
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Thanks for the link. It is a much more thorough explanation. How fast is the fuel used up within the field? Would there be a way to inject the actively fusing reaction with a steady fuel input rate for long term generation (neutron bombardm
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I remember reading recently that a Nobel Prize was won a few years ago for work with chirped pulse laser amplification using titanium sapphire lasers that can apparently achieve nano or microsecond energy pulses in the terawatt range. A pot
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I have only read a few short articles about it, but after it is compressed to a certain point, can it remain in the metallic state after the vise/laser is removed?
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Geoengineering cooling concepts to counter heating due to emissions is one thing, but even when we commercialize fusion and it becomes extremely cheap to purchase huge amounts of emission-less electricity for high heat and pressure of indus
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Metallic hydrogen is thought to be possible using the diamond stamping method mentioned in the article.
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I liked hearing George Lucas say that he wanted all the craft to look beaten up and used instead of shiny and new (long time ago far, far away) so as to focus on the human experience instead of the tech itself.
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Not disappointing - the more things that go wrong during the extensive series of tests developed and cataloged over the past several decades, the more we can correct and cement into permanence. I'm looking forward to SN747 (the number
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Haha thank you for this. I was cracking up at so many things - 1500 HP per wheel as told to the inspector LOL. 500 mph on any kind of road. Over the top in so many ways, love it. The signature sound it made when it was imposing in a scene r
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And the master Plan was to irradiate all the gold in Ft. Knox so it would be out-of-play for the duration of the half-life.
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This reminds me of the Speed Racer movie where one of the competitors in the race drove a land train made of pure gold. Not sure what the plot was but they were the villan trying to hide the gold. Speed Racer had to use his steering-wheel-r
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Haven't touched the game in weeks. But today at my factory I finally had a conversation I've been waiting to have for years ("Lagrangian point 1 will be where we build the space port")
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This is somewhat unrelated, but when I see "penny" I now think of zinc. After 1982, American pennies were minted as >95% zinc. I normally perform brick and mortar store purchases with plastic, but during the recent furlough I
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I have this dilemma, where I am reluctant to pursue creating this "virtual" experience on SE. Years ago I spent a few months familiarizing myself with the engine and the programmable block limitations. It took me dozens of hours
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Replies are locked after one fortnight? I'm keeping this one alive because it is directly above the "Space Engineers" comment.
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"... If a student wants to study at Princeton, he doesn’t really need to apply or pay tuition. He can simply show up and start taking classes. As a professor, I assure you that we make near-zero effort to stop unofficial education; ind
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Found this in an article a couple years ago: "...we err in presuming convenience is always good, for it has a complex relationship with other ideals that we hold dear. Though understood and promoted as an instrument of liberation, conv
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This is exactly how my sleep schedule has evolved as well. And last night I just happened to have one of these vivid dreams described by the article. Then I wake up and see the NatGeo article posted. Coincidence? No, I think everyone that p
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While I agree with you that some folk may become obsessed with controlling people (inefficiently) as a method to inflate their own ego (freak) - I err on the side of "dang" in this scenario where you have rejected the request (not
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Permanent Record
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I suspect modern politicians are far-removed from their predecessors, in that these historical figure heads performed other roles in society and as a result of their effectiveness they were elected [by the citizens they had already benefite
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