JoeSchmuckatelli

See: shaped charge

Nuke, I'll solve NFUN's riddle for you using math's and logic. Marines get this stuff, watch: There is exactly one way that adding a third point of data won't totally mess up @K^2's two-point prediction. Literally every other possible point would make his ' two points and a ruler' derived prediction some degree less accurate. Since there is an infinite number of other possibilities for where to place the third point - and we cannot split infinity, we will use the SWAG principle and insert a sufficiently large number for infinity and do the math. I'm going with a gagillion. If you add a gagillion, plus the one possible point that makes K^2s big brain prediction possible, you get a gagillion and one. Divide that by 2 and you get the average - half a gagillion (give or take). Thus, the average deviation from the preceeding two points when placing the third point should be half a gagillion off the line of the other two. Since that's the case, logic tells you that if the third point lines up with the first two it can only mean one thing: @K^2 is clearly manipulating the data and cannot be trusted.

Fine, make things complicated - why don't you?!?

Question about potential energy and solar charging. Apologies if this sounds a stoopid question to the educated... But is there a potential energy or balance limit to a portable solar charger's ability to supply power to a phone battery? I'm in the second full day of no power and finally got to play with the 28w backpack solar charger I bought a year ago. The charger does great until I get to about 50% and then it begins to struggle. I know that there are issues about the angle of the sun and etc involved... I'm not asking about solar efficiency.... But the question is more about 'pressure' (as the analog for the correct technical term). I. E. Is the battery reaching an equalibrium point with the charger such that once it hits 50% there is enough charge in the battery to resist further charging?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818122002466 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11035897.2022.2086290 Trees in Scandinavia are kind of interesting. At one time, birch and oak forests were present (early Holocene, 1.5 - 2 deg. Celsius higher than present) Apples during Roman warm / Medieval warm likely - but during the 500s(LAIA)? Probably imported by the Rus via river trade through central Europe. Potatoes? Aside from Chocolat, probably the best part of the Columbian exchange! (Especially fried in tallow with plenty of salt added!)

Design by Apple? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252819161?sortBy=best Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery!

Whelp - soon I won't be able to pretend I can't hear my wife asking me to take out the trash or walk the dog... https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-ai-headphones-wearer-person-crowd.html Thanks, AI.

Grin - I know: your video did a great job of explaining. Besides, everyone knows the only way to communicate with Arrakis is via spicetrance. Putting massive radio telescopes at L4&L5 is just a pet hope of mine.

It's aliiiive!

Kinda my point. Space Race was part of the Cold War... And then once the prestige goals had been met, and there wasn't any immediately obvious profit motive - everything slowed dramatically. Sure we kept putting up spy sats and some science - but it took a commercial reason for 'Space' to be viable. Internet, phones, television and navigation and other communication technologies became (and still are) the primary drivers. Until recently - those firms were too small to be able to do anything but ask for rides from the government(s). The Bezos / Musk / other private launch competition is changing things - we are seeing the market in action and possibly the most innovative time in 'Space' since the 60s. I just hope people not only keep making money from 'Space' but that we keep inventing new ways to make even more money and the process snowballs

... But, yeah, I have long wondered why we don't have radio telescopes at L4&L5, a Mars relay, etc. Possible Starship missions?

AFAIK we only have 2 craft in deep space.

Participation trophy mindset. Probably because the politicians are so stupid that handing them a lollipop entitlement to their district is about as far as they think. This is why market driven scenarios work better (well, actually, war driven scenarios also work) to drive innovation and efficiency.

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/small-business/why-is-tesla-giving-away-all-of-its-patents/#:~:text=Electric car company Tesla has,our technology%2C" reports Wired. Which is why you give away patents to everyone when you choose to work in the place that requires you to give them your patent so they can give the information to a local, recently formed totally not government funded independent competitor.

Well... I just learned something about medieval history. Probably can't teach it at my school, even though I do talk about some of the crazy shtuff the Normans got up to back then.