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why did we start with main+tail rotor helicopters? Nowadays 4-rotor quadcopters appeared and have taken over The quadcopter advantage is in it's mechanical simplicity, but having f…

That's why I repurpose or discard all of my old socks every time I Invest in a new set. I do this about every two years. I rotate them for uniform wear. I've successfully eliminate…

This is a great example of a good use case for 3D printers. The smooth marble run action combined with the interwoven organic forms would be a huge PITA to fabricate with any other…

The song is "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendes

OneZoom.org has a nice common ancestor search feature. Here are the results for albatross and crocodile: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Archelosauria=4947372?otthome=...

I remember as a young kid, it was the closest I could find to the Sea Duck from Tail Spin.

I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be: year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision) The current date-ti…

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Water mined from the moon might be much cheaper by the time something like this is built. That being said, a giant sterile swimming pool seems like an odd feature for an interplane…

I'm wondering if this post was inspired by the recent comic from SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/clusivity

Paintball.

That PERSEUS-9 is a thing of beauty.

I like this idea. To take it even further, I propose this wire terminate to a sturdy cylindrical plug which can rotate 360 degrees. Furthermore, if the signal were to be analog, it…

Many zoos and aquariums conduct scientific research, and may have breeding programs for endangered species.

Concerns of spyware are precisely why those switches exist.

Then you just get modern warfare miniaturized. I guess that could be fun to watch if well presented, but I've been thinking it would be cool to just have a bigger, more rugged batt…

So you don't like seafood?

Isn't it always

I thought this was going to be about the Teensy boards. https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

I blame font designers.

now where do you find those 'under construction' giffies? here: http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/

I've been using a dongle in my car(an older model with no bluetooth), and it is quickly wearing out my phones usb port. Keeps falling out. The headphone jack was a lot more resilie…