JoeSchmuckatelli

I started buying 'pro' level stuff back when I was making a living as a carpenter / builder. It is sooo worth the money to get a good tool. As in buy one tool for $600 or two for $400 in any given decade of use (cost/value) or saved time and money by just getting the job done right the first time (craftsmanship /labor & materials) vs fiddling with a cheap tool. Any way you slice it, pro tools are worth the vig. If there was a 'pro' push mower with attachments that could handle my 'cover the grass in 2 feet of leaves' yard, believe you me... I'd buy it! ... I did some research - and discovered the source of the problem. My yard is too small.* Time for me to convince the wife we need to buy a farm, so I can have a barn that I can fill with pro tools and do everything I'm doing now with bigger and better TOOLS!!! *(We live in the burbs and the yard is just shy of the size I can justify moving up from a push mower)

Can I have them? I never can find a pen when I need one. ...one that works, that is!

They already do. All the 'fingers' can move a little bit for fine control Having the wing stretched by fingers gives bats a high morphing ability, i.e. the ability to change the shape of the wing (Figure 1H). The fingers can spread and bend to different degrees, changing the wing area by stretching the membrane or controlling the camber of the wing and as a consequence the lift coefficient of the wing https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215004157 Also - Watch how the actual bat's phalanges move compared to the robot

Got a 'frinstance'?

Basic rules: no 'flying cars' or 'anti-matter drives' or 'Mr. Fusion'. Entries must be: 1. Tech we have now 2. A solvable problem that hasn't been solved satisfactorily. I'll start. Why don't we have a good, affordable attachment to a regular lawnmower that shreds and mulches leaves? (I know there are dedicated leaf machines - I just want to be able to hang the thing on my existing lawnmower and use it for the two months I have to both mow and deal with leaves)

They're trying to keep 'hype' on simmer. After the most recent 'delayed again, better luck next year' video most of us put hype on the back burner or turned it off completely.

They do - for fine control. Unless you mean https://www.google.com/search?q=vampire+flip+off&oq=vampire+flip+off&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l2j33i299l2.7344j1j4&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=o1k-uz0few3a8M

La Nina conditions expected. https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2022-10-la-nia-winters.amp Southern Pacific cooler than models predict. (West Pacific and Indian warmer than expected)

Fairly common https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62558767.amp ... The games we play

My children have been snarking on the event of the day.

Going by the rotation of Kerbin...

They can be quite concerning when not expected; especially when in a place or time when things might seem fraught! I live in Tornado-Country; we get the sirens tested every Tuesday at Noon. If I hear it during a storm, we know what's up, head down to the basement and turn on the TV. If I hear it in the middle of the week - I inevitably look at my watch, just to be sure - then go about my business. Imagine my consternation a few years ago (around the time of the Hawaii false-alarm) my local siren started going off in the middle of the night, and never stopped (clear skies). After a long while we learned that local flooding had set off the alarm and crews could not get to the siren to turn it off! Still, at the time there were 'possible alternative explanations' that included hostile action - and my intrepid son was all concerned. So be glad you got a warning that it was a 'Technical Test'!

That's interesting - so it's more than just an accent? Words and phrases are different? Also - you say 'same characters' is Cantonese written differently than Mandarin, too? Also - why is it easier for a Cantonese speaker to understand Mandarin than the other way around - or both unintelligible to each other? (goes to 'more than an accent' thing.) Finally IIRC, you're from the south: I presume you can understand both? Heh - so many questions!

Is it more difficult for them to understand one another than for a Texan to understand a Bawstin guy?

You are hitting on a point that is very salient. The late 90s and the recent 'teens' are informative. Absent an external threat America turned inward. Naval gazing. We got really into the culture wars. 9/11 shook us out for a while - but once Iraq was won and Bin Laden went down, we stopped caring again. It became more fun to debate who got to use what bathroom. It became cheaper and easier to buy rockets from Russia - justified to the hawks as a Non-proliferation measure and so long as everything stayed cheap and easy we were happy with the ride. Cheap and easy. Cheap and easy. That is the song we sing as we sink. It takes real leadership to place eyes on a far horizon and get people to strive for that. True leaders are historically in short supply. Far easier to get them to run a given way if they're scared of something else. Otherwise? Milling about and whining seems to be the norm. If the folks in your story can stay focused on an external threat - they can hold it together and do great things... But the minute they succeed? They're primed for self destruction. Arguably, the worst thing for humans is success. Progress is bad. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human-race (grin! Enjoy!)

I think you are overlooking the cool-wow feature of Shuttle. Since Jules Verne, space flight always had a bullet or rocket shape to people's minds - inescapably tied to the weapons that spawned them. Such things are the exclusive tools of governments and militaries. But then came Shuttle - which looked like a plane. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/45-years-ago-space-shuttle-enterprise-makes-its-public-debut Hugely approachable and not immediately reminiscent of a weapons platform - it was something for civilian science. And the people loved it. "In contrast to the lukewarm support the public showed for the efforts to land Americans on the Moon, as shown in Fig. 5, the public has consistently agreed that the Space Shuttle is a good investment" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964603000390

So - this is true within the solar system as well. The highly elliptical orbit of the comet tails that give us the Perseid or Orionids or Leonids are in Solar orbits as is the Earth.. And yet every year we pass through a region of in falling dust that turns on the light show. (Which is what I assumed would be repeated on the Galactic scale - but after googling:) I know that most stars have circular-ish orbits around the Galactic center - but that doesn't mean that all things are moving in a stately dance with one another. "most, of the stars near the Sun are in the Galactic disc population and have roughly circular orbits, confined close to the plane of the Galaxy. About 1% of nearby stars are part of the old halo population which have a wide dispersion of eccentricities and orbital inclinations " It's the 1% that could be mucking stuff up!

Exactly - and then, if maintained at 1 atm the property value is off the chart! Especially for Bond villains with Elon Musk Robot Butlers!

Gorgeous. Looking forward to seeing something that does not say Pre Alpha.

I looked into this a long time ago - as long as the hotel or habit is maintained at 1 atmosphere, I think you will be fine. But it just seems easier to build a pier or fake island They don't have the 'cool - wow' of the undersea hotels, but it is a lot cheaper

They really should just Kerbal that up, throw a booster with Clamp-o-Tron SR and enough juice to balance out the whole thing... and

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I've read that theory several times before. It's a very interesting one. I'm guessing that since it takes 230 Mya for our sun to orbit the Galactic center... With 'my' theory we ducked a bullet during the last ~60 Mya... And given the time it would be impossible to predict what star dumped the Dino killer on us

400 heartbeats per minute was the theory of this film Tried to find the exact quote - but it's not in the trailer. MF explains that it's pumping adrenalin to give Wesley greater abilities than most people enjoy On this... I'd have liked it better if the filmmaker had used round bullets. We all know about the curve ball - so maybe snapping his arm around in a supersonic arc could have curved a ball, but unlikely to curve the cylindrical bullet