WTF.
A guy who made his billions by selling stuff is… selling stuff. Just… ridiculous stuff. This doesn’t really seem to be the actions of someone who thinks he’s destined to retake the White House.
And so Adam Savage goes to the Royal Society In England and gets to look at not only a first edition of Newton’s “Principia,” but the actual *manuscript.* And both he and the archivist handle them with their bare hands.
Shudder.
There are books that *I* own that I hesitate to actually touch without cotton archival gloves. But the Principia? Dude, I wouldn’t touch that unless I was fully sealed. I’d be deathly afraid of not just touching it, not just sneezing on it, but simply *breathing* on it.
An impressive fire with an impressive explosion at a shopping mall in Moscow. I’m sure Ukrainians are just jam-packed with sympathy.
It seems to be either arson or lax building standards. Or both, I imagine.
A visualization of how high a human could jump on other worlds, due to the differences in local gravity. Not included is the difficulty in jumping while wearing a space suit…
And similar:
If you want to get your soul crushed, try to display a classical talent before an audience composed of modern high school kids. “Disrespect” won’t begin to cover it.
So prepare to be surprised as this kid manages to get an auditorium of his classmates to fall into utter silence as he plays the theme from “Interstellar” on the piano. It’s not perfect, but damn it’s good.
… of just what constitutes this garbage. What fraction is paper? How much plastic? And how much is just sticks and weeds, stuff not normally considered “garbage” in the ecosystem?
In any event, this mechanism seems to be working quite well. I wonder if it could be made actually productive, though, rather than just harm-reducing: instead of shipping the garbage off to be landfilled somewhere, run it directly into an incinerator. Use the heat and the water to spin a turbine; use the turbine to drive a generator. Use the generator to power not only the mechanism, but feed excess power – if any – into the grid.
This “experiment” seems like all kinds of fun. It also seems like the sort of thing that would attract the attention of the ATF. Or the DoD.
I gotta admit I like the method of production of the nozzle. Adopting that process for a more advanced rocket might be a chore… a refractory metal nozzle made this way would be great, but I have doubts that it’d be possible.
Looks like the Ukrainians are taking the war home to Russian military forces, this time hitting Engels Air Force Base and potentially destroying two TU 95 “Bear” bombers. Unknown as yet *how* the Ukrainians pulled this off.
I remain unconvinced that hitting Mother Russia is necessarily the wisest course for Ukraine; it could will be used to feed the Russian propaganda machine, to say that Ukraine actually is a threat. On the other hand, taking out Russian military assets like strategic bombers costs Russia *real* money. So long as the Ukrainians strictly stick to military targets, this is potentially a good thing for them. Now the Russians will have to redeploy their air defense systems.
How boomers ruined society: he’s not wrong.
Rap music is, by and large, talent-free, devoid of artistic or cultural value. So how the hell Kanye West got to be a billionaire, I’ve no Earthly idea. But being a billionaire with years of fandom behind him, every time he does or says *anything* the news media makes a big deal of it. And so lately he has been losing his mind, going off on weird anti-Semetic rants. This has culminated with being interviewed by noted crazy person Alex Jones and, from the looks of it, *Jones* comes off looking like the sane one. Just Some Guy has about the best response to the thing: mockery.
I don’t know why people are acting like this is something new. They seem to forget his “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” conspiracizing nearly 20 years ago.