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totm dec 2019 Russian Launch and Mission Thread
kerbiloid replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
The current team (S. Prokopyev, D. Petelin, F. Rubio) has updated the table of records. 355 days in space non-stop. https://www.interfax.ru/russia/920234 -
totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
kerbiloid replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
Do you actually wish to know the true answer? P.S. 1692, Salem. The whole town did. -
As they need a blimp to deliver a bulldozer, is this a diamond mine to produce several tons per month?
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Omitting "of" after numerals, like "hundred of pages" is cheating.
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As it was told before, when you are talking to a cat or a dog, and it bends the head to the side, this doesn't mean a confusion. This means that the beast has already estimated the position angle of the sound source with the stereopair of ears, and now has rotated it by 90° to define the elevation angle. When it then looks and listens attentively, it is processing the accuracy optimisation routine. When it licks its nose after that, it doesn't feels something tasty, it initializes the smell sensor to feel the air motion and odors, to apply the wind correction and to ensure that nobody is hunting the hunter from back (like when you press the liquid nitrogen button on a Stinger to cool the missile IR head, just with tongue and nose.). Then the beast is ready to jump precisely into your sounding face, but at the very last moment it gives itself a command "Cease attack! It's a drill!", and returns back to the observation. *** When a cat is licking your hand, then biting it, then licking again, this doesn't mean that it's roleplaying a nurse with a syringe and fleese. This means that the feline tongue is covered by horny tips, which are actually little sharp teeth. (The real teeth are themselves mineralized taste buds, and so are the buds on the cat's tongue, or buds on the whole shark skin.) If it's a small mouse, rather than a piece of meat, the cat just scratches off its muscular fibers with the tongue. The predators get the energy from the proteins, which are very energetically hard to digest, while the herbivorous and omnivorous can consume carbohydrates (cellulose by cows and their bacteria, fructose and starch by apes and theirs). So, the predators prefer if possible to hide their prey for several days, and let the autolysis process make it partially dissolved. The kitty is just checking, are you a mouse, or rotten enough to be digested more easily, then tries to gnaw a piece of you off. Then the disappointed pet falls into recursion. It just applies it nutrition algorithm both to gather and consume fleas and fat pollution from the companion skin, and to consume the prey. Who are you - it figures out in process. That's why it is randomly switching between love and hate in a second. *** Also, that's why cutie kitties sleep twenty hours daily, and a well-fed pride of lions walks away from the partially eaten prey instead of staying there, and scaring away the scavengers. The proteins don't give them enough glycogen as a fast energy reserve. They get literally discharged after eating, and crawl away to a safe place in the "Low battery!" state. Then it takes several hours to recharge. That's also why does the kitty like to sleep close to you, or on you. It's relying on you as on a companion, believing that other predators will avoid coming close to the big and scary you, while it's recharging the cellular batteries. Then it wakes up, yawns, and tastes you with tongue to check, whether you are a host or a breakfast. *** But are you morally better than the kitty, from the height of your sapient intellect? What are you doing to an object of your sympathy? You kiss it. I.e. you attach your mouth opening to the object and make vacuum to suck it into. This has nothing to do with social behavior, feromones, or so, because you can kiss a letter, a new wrench, a piece of stone. This is an instictive digestive activity of a worm-level creature, which is aware of the only kind of sympathy: "Wow! It's edible!" Though, as the worms belong to the opposite branch of the invertebrates, while our ancestors are starfishes and sea urchins, the kiss has come to us from the polyps, which suck the water to filter out edible organisms in it. Is it unexpected then, that a traditional place for romantic dates is a restorant, and a session of collective eating? No. It came from the polyp colonies. They gather together around the food source and share it with relatives, you do so in the same way. They suck in the food, but not suck in a friendly polyp, you do the same. That's how the coral reefs grow.
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Pasta alla carbonara. Spaghetti, burnt into carbon.
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Banned for needing a waiter.
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In our school garden we had a trench and a tank in front of it. The tank was 2d and made of bended water pipe. The 140 mm of the Swedish wooden tank would just fly through it without causing any damage. Clash of Titans.
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Banned for being a rudder Waiter
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Banned all to have a walk to the kitchen.
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Yes. It will be on your head, if you keep asking stupid questions. Waiter! Which university have you graduated from?
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To awake Cthulhu.
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The server is temporarily unavailable. Pleas, try again later. Backup Hill
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Eating Milky Way as a chocolate is cheating.
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Night solar panel drones? 24 hour operation?!
kerbiloid replied to Arugela's topic in Science & Spaceflight
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo So, the color name is getting obsolete, too. Of course, you are aware that the Cf was publicly considered inappropriate for usage in nukes due to its high radioactivity, which would make a californium bullet get red hot and melt down. So, it's named exactly after that song. (Though, I'm not sure what is Chili doing with that.) P.S. Btw, interesting, how will the Columbus story now sound? "Columbus was erroneously thinking that he had reached Bharat, so he called the local people Indians."
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Now I see, it was a documentary...
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Yesterday I was googling V-1 et.al. and realized that it's not just an cheap, expendable, vulnerable semi-plane semi-missile. Letting alone its foreign clones (US, SU, Japan), it's a whole Kerbal set of parts for crewed pulsed-jet planes. https://bunkermuseumantwerpen.be/en/re4/ https://www.silverhawkauthor.com/post/german-luftwaffe-warplanes-1939-1945-fieseler-fi-103-v-1-fzg-76-fi-103r-reichenberg-re-i-ii-iii-iv-v-survivors