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DnD with the option to switch between 3rd and 1st person views would be amazing. Personally, I'd like an NFL game where you drop your players on the line, draw the routes on the field, and then s…

Maybe I have seen too many court dramas, but a gas station near me painted their bollards this color, and it made me wonder if it might open them up to liability.

Covid & Flu A/B tests are in most drug stores these days and usually run about $5 more than covid only tests.

My rough calcs estimate you would need about 400mg of salt per ml of water to get a 7°C boiling point increase, but the max solubility of salt in 100°C water is 384mg/ml, so you might just get th…

"periodic eggs were placed alternatively in boiling water (Th = 100 °C) for th = 2 min and water at Tc = 30 °C for tc = 2 min, for a total cooking time of 32 minutes, which corresponds to the rep…

Thanks for the summary. Did they factor in any of the recently announced retaliatory tariffs?

I could see it being a great option for getting bulk goods into space. Fuel, water, food, spools of wire or powders for additive manufacturing, structural components, etc. Depends on what is cost ef…

The USGS estimated 1.1×10^17 Newton-Meters of energy, which converts over to ~26Mt TNT. https://web.archive.org/web/20100404013939/http://neic.usgs.... …

A comparable ocean impact would be the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which was about 3x more energetic.

Comparable in energy to a B-53 nuclear bomb, minus the radiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb …

"The Concorde relied on an afterburner to achieve supersonic flight..." "The Concorde used its afterburners ... to get through the transonic region..." Am I missing something, or i…

"The Concorde used its afterburners during take off and to get through the transonic region," https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transonic …

The Concorde relied on an afterburner to achieve supersonic flight, so it burned a ton of fuel. It also could not go supersonic over land because its sonic booms were too loud. This mean that flight…

Tom Scott visited the site to try out their treadmill crane system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9v3m7Slv8 …

I knew a guy that would eat a banana per beer. He would portion the bananas out beforehand, so we could tell he was serious when he showed up to a stag-do with two bunches!

IIRC, the grid fins are not strong enough to support the rocket, and reinforcing them would add too much weight to the vehicle. The plan is to catch the second stage the same way, and the starship in …

LG was pushing their transparent display at CES this year. This seems like the one of the few profitable applications for them. Hopefully they go transparent when they fail.

Are any major fiber routes hollow-core? HFC signals should be ~50% faster than traditional fiber optic cables, and that might be enough to throw off this data.

Reminds me of the case of the 500-mile email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html …

A chest freezer with a temp controller would be quite similar. You might need a fan and simple heat source as well. For about $200 I was able to buy and setup one for beer fermentation.

One of my favorite theoretical energy storage methods is manmade island dams. The idea is to build a circular dyke in the ocean, and then use the encapsulated sea as pumped hydro storage. It would b…

I don't know enough about the players to comment, but: "This work was supported by funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (grant no. NNF21OC0066330) to MNL, and from “SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI F…

Ticketmaster now requires a smartphone for some tickets/venues: "Delivery - Mobile - Free - Your phone's your ticket. Locate your tickets in your account - or in your app. When you go …

Amazon has started pushing their version, which I think is called Luna. I haven't tried it, but if they run an instance out of EU-South-2 in Spain, you might get better results.

I do wonder how google handles edge cases, passengers, busses, etc. I've been in rideshares where the driver is using 4 phones - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/…

https://www.wired.com/story/99-phones-fake-google-maps-traff... …

Shoutout to Scarecrow Video in Seattle as well. Over 150k titles in stock along with device rentals for region locked movies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow_Video …

Reminds me of the RFID tags used to limit refills - https://www.validfill.com/solutions#overview