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Re:Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:44PM (#49664291)
Can Cherenkov radiation carry information? If it can does this mean information can travel faster than light? Question from a physics newbie
Re:Who's the Smartest Corvid? on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:04PM (#48484529)
A large pebble the size of a small pebble
Actually I had some good luck with hiring people that have the minimum marks and huge amount of outside adjacent skills. One example is someone who was running a manufacturing operation on second shift and completing an engineering degree at the same time.
I thought it was to have one less child
Re:Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug on Saturday August 02, 2025 @05:24PM (#44771654)
Rucking will get you your cardio
How many bananas?
Think of it as similar to hi compression automobile engine (race car) being more efficient vs a low compression engine (tractor engine). Not exactly correct but a way of starting to think about it
Re:Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti on Monday November 25, 2024 @06:03PM (#42241010)
Thanks for afternoon laugh!
Re:Why Oriental hornets can't get drunk on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:44PM (#41976086)
Re:Epigenetic age oscillates during the day on Friday April 19, 2024 @07:28PM (#40093011)
How are you taking your temperature? Infrared sensor on the forehead? Infrared only measures surface temperatures and can give false readings of temperature based on how the body "radiator" system is working.
I worked on this drive. It's a 3.5 drive. A long time ago. Time for my daily nap and Centrum shot.
I once got to visit a jewelry manufacturing site where to get in and out you had to go through an MRI to ensure you didn't pick any gold or platinum dust on the tour. There were pallets of gold lying on the floor worth about 200 million. We got a chance to try to pick up a bar of gold about the size of a large loaf of bread and our tour guide said, "if you can pick that up and walk it to the front door, we'll let you have it". Turns out it weighed about 200 lbs and I could not get enough of grip to move it let alone pick it up. Fun visit.
Base material for GoreTex is PTFE is implantable so probably pretty safe.
The acceleration record is probably the manhole cover launched via nuclear explosion. Accelerated to 125,000 mph in a millisecond. https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-object-robert-brownl...
Also known as playing double tennis against the people across the net along playing against the person besides you. Insane philosophy.
Time only exists because of the change in entropy. Interesting summary https://blog.12min.com/the-order-of-time-pdf-summary/
Re:NASA’s new shortcut to fusion power on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:21PM (#30508468)
How does one extract power if it barely warms up? Does it generate electricity directly?
Re:Ask HN: Where does gas mileage go? on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:00PM (#29796983)
My guess is the 460 has direct injection fuel system which allows for higher compression from charge cooling so more efficiency (~8%?).
Why not use nuclear for decarbonizing the atmosphere and for production of liquid hydrocarbons for industrial uses when the wind is blowing and sun is shining and when the renewable are not available use nuclear for base loads?
Re:Unmanned submarine earmarked for Irish Sea freight crossings on Friday September 17, 2021 @06:56PM (#28571820)
One of the reasons to use quantum gyroscopes is that will be accurate to within 1m or so after a day long underwater traverse of 1000 km or more. Communication while fully under still sucks though.
Another interesting area of need is pole dancing chalk
Re:Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:45PM (#27160046)
Ferrofluid is was used in disk drive motors to seal bearing grease from wandering out so it has reasonable life span of greater than 5 years from my experience
Re:Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:13PM (#24945772)
Some women voted 100 years ago. Not all women. As an example US born Japanese Americans got to vote in 1952
Same here. I tell friends climbing is a bit like random yoga with a bunch of problem solving thrown it. Plus it literally self selects for people who you would put your life into their hands.
Learning the art of influence/story telling is a super power. It doesn't even have to be better as it could just be more confidence in that it is good enough.
I knew a bunch of Indy car drivers and they could visualize a road course lap in their head down to 0.3 repeatably.
Read Influence by Cialdini. Take an improv class. Find some mentors with skills orthogonal to you. Learn to be fine with being uncomfortable as you learn and get feedback.
Re:Why the CIA Doesn't Spy on the UAE on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:29PM (#20801156)
I am just a cook. Just a lowly lowly cook.
We use to race here in CO (which gets hot but not as hot as Texas admittedly) by dipping our Nomex suits in ice water and racing with ice bags in the suit that leaked so two cooling mechanisms in action. Works for 45 mins. It was great to get out with a completely dry suit after a race. Nothing like cool balls during the race.

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