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This is a great example of a good use case for 3D printers. The smooth marble run action combined with the interwoven organic forms would be a huge PITA to fabricate with any other method I can think of, even if your just making one.
The song is "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendes
OneZoom.org has a nice common ancestor search feature. Here are the results for albatross and crocodile:
https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Archelosauria=4947372?otthome=...
I remember as a young kid, it was the closest I could find to the Sea Duck from Tail Spin.
I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be:
year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision)
The current date-time, to the second, would be 2023/308/342.65
The days, like the years and second-based units, are 0-indexed.
There are 100 seconds in a hectosecond, and normally 864 hectoseconds in a day.
And to go with it, I'd advocate either a "3-on, 2-off", or "6-on, 4-off" work cycle, depending on the nature of the work, or even just personal preference. This way, today(308) would obviously be on a "weekend" either way.
Water mined from the moon might be much cheaper by the time something like this is built. That being said, a giant sterile swimming pool seems like an odd feature for an interplanetary spacecraft. I'd rather see a well-balanced aquatic habitat, if anything.
I'm wondering if this post was inspired by the recent comic from SMBC:
Paintball.
That PERSEUS-9 is a thing of beauty.
I like this idea. To take it even further, I propose this wire terminate to a sturdy cylindrical plug which can rotate 360 degrees. Furthermore, if the signal were to be analog, it would allow universal compatibility with all other analog sound devices. I think this could be revolutionary.
Many zoos and aquariums conduct scientific research, and may have breeding programs for endangered species.
Concerns of spyware are precisely why those switches exist.
Then you just get modern warfare miniaturized. I guess that could be fun to watch if well presented, but I've been thinking it would be cool to just have a bigger, more rugged battlebox that demands more versatile movement, rather then having everyone just trying to hug the metal floor as closely as possible.
So you don't like seafood?
Isn't it always
I thought this was going to be about the Teensy boards. https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
I blame font designers.
now where do you find those 'under construction' giffies?
I've been using a dongle in my car(an older model with no bluetooth), and it is quickly wearing out my phones usb port. Keeps falling out. The headphone jack was a lot more resilient.
I don't want true immortality, but it would be momentous if we could significantly extend people's active lifespan. Imagine if 100 was the new 50, and 200 was the new 100.
I feel like there's a bit of a paradox here. The more I internalize how easy it is for us to be overconfident in our intelligence, the more confident I feel in my intelligence...