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Porous Aluminum eh? Wonder how well it stands up to gallium, or acetylene, or MAP gas, or a grind wheel instead of a cutoff wheel.
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They just use a Ramset gun. Thieves are generally quite smart. The dumb ones tend to end up in prison, or worse.
I’ve watched a bunch of lockpickinglawyer videos and there are locks he cannot pick at all, and locks which take a hell of a lot of punishment from a Ramset gun. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that you could build a bike lock which would effectively deter thieves. After all, it doesn’t have to be indestructible, it just has to convince the thief that your bike is not worth the time and risk of attracting at…
> The freefall of grapefruit from 10 m does not damage the pulp[1] because pomelo peel consists of vascular bundles and an open-pored cellular structure with the struts made of parenchymatic cells. I have a Marsh grapefruit tree, fruiting now (southern hemisphere) as it happens, and I note that it produces particularly pithy progeny. (Ignoring for the moment that Pomelo is one of the parents of the modern grapefruit.…
While researching a reply, I uncovered USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1413: "Thermal Properties and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Marsh Grapefruit". Please enjoy: https://hortscans.ces.ncsu.edu/uploads/t/h/thermal__51bf44b0...
It's not clear why this matters from the paper, in that it sounds like (but not spelled out) that they are perhaps trying to refrigerate fruit for transport, where the transport itself is not actively refrigerated, merely insulated, so the reduction to target temperature has to occur before shipping. However this was published in 1970, and I'd assume in that part of the world refrigerated shipping and (large) storage was not uncommon?
Aside #1 - undamaged grapefruit will happily store at room temperature for 6 weeks or more, and be the tastier for it.
Aside #2 - received wisdom is that grapefruit, and perhaps most citrus, benefit from one or more frosts to 'sweeten up', though I have never understood the mechanisms for this claim, or how high-water fruit does not burst its vesicles and then deteriorate rapidly.
TFA and this paper you cited may speak to the latter (the fruit content does not freeze overnight as the thermal inertia is so high), and might partially debunk the former.
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They just use a Ramset gun. Thieves are generally quite smart. The dumb ones tend to end up in prison, or worse.
I’ve watched a bunch of lockpickinglawyer videos and there are locks he cannot pick at all, and locks which take a hell of a lot of punishment from a Ramset gun. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that you could build a bike lock which would effectively deter thieves. After all, it doesn’t have to be indestructible, it just has to convince the thief that your bike is not worth the time and risk of attracting at…
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What does literary ability have to do with anything else a person has done? Would Macbeth or Pride and Prejudice have been worse books if they were written by Hitler for example?
(good heavens, the implications - ultra right wing skinheads suddenly willing to reading Pride and Prejudice...)
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While researching a reply, I uncovered USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1413: "Thermal Properties and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Marsh Grapefruit". Please enjoy: https://hortscans.ces.ncsu.edu/uploads/t/h/thermal__51bf44b0...
Goodness, that is interesting. It's not clear why this matters from the paper, in that it sounds like (but not spelled out) that they are perhaps trying to refrigerate fruit for transport, where the transport itself is not actively refrigerated, merely insulated, so the reduction to target temperature has to occur before shipping. However this was published in 1970, and I'd assume in that part of the world refrigerat…