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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 oper…

I thought it was to have one less child

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 t…

Thanks for afternoon laugh!

In Vino Veritas! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vino_veritas

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 "…

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 pa…

https://dermnetnz.org/topics/polytetrafluoroethylene-implant

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-ro…

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/

How does one extract power if it barely warms up? Does it generate electricity directly?

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 renewabl…

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 st…

Another interesting area of need is pole dancing chalk

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

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 t…

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.