Fun fact from the Tech, Bugs & Rock'n'Roll podcast: the first transatlantic cable was burned out by an idiot boss who demanded the voltage be turned up for some reason. It took 8 years to replace.
At the beginning of those 8 years Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer. At the end of those 8 years Abraham Lincoln was dead. The whole Civil War played out without transatlantic telegraphy, even though it had already been invented.
(From ~53mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3a0MxPZio8
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Any #Fusion360 experts out there who can give me some advice on what seems like a simple thing but also seems to be impossible? (Basically changing the radius of a compound curve "fillet", but without the design history.)
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If you're in Scotland expect an emergency alert on your mobile in the next few minutes. Storm warning for tomorrow.
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Signed up to a bass tutorial thing - first thing I look at which would be useful to me (etudes) is a paid extra. Bit annoying. But then I open up the available tabs, and there's an awesome version of the Ghostbusters theme at exactly my level...so we'll persevere...
And it seems like a nice community for a few pounds a month, let's give it a go. First time I've paid to be taught bass (I owe you a few drinks, @gahlord), be interesting to see how much benefit I get.
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The astounding thing about this for me is how the dogs seem to have developed a really good sense of proprioception about where their wheels are, so they can avoid stuff, like humans driving vehicles.
https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/113872604548028168
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There's lots of science fiction stories about a single molecule being able to "infect" other matter. Ice-nine, grey goop stories, Borg/Cyberman nanoparticles, Strange matter etc...
But this is real, and scary. A particular crystalisation of an HIV drug was able to "infect" labs and production plants, making the drug useless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PccOwGEbtQU
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"38% hydrochloric acid" (~12.4M) as you buy it, is a pretty rough estimate. And it needs a fume cupboard and goggles etc to handle, so once a year or so I make a few litres of roughly 4M, then I can use that to make the 2M, 1M, 0.1M etc that we use daily.
As long as know the actual "4M" concentration (e.g. 4.17M) I can do accurate dilutions, so I check with a titration when I make it.
Did my annual batch today. 4.00M
Sheer fluke.
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@Theorem_Poem Is there an equivalent to a "Sunday roast" in your bit of the world? Not a big celebratory meal, but something a little more extravagant than the usual dinner, for a group, maybe once a week or three?
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Remember that (hopefully satirical) Victorian era cartoon of a piano which played by the hammers coming down on the tails of different sized cats?
I'm not entirely convinced that doing it to music students with a piano controlled paintball gun battery is much better...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIxf2gTg_k
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Question on a school science technician forum today that seems to produce a reasonable consensus - and I tried it on my 6th years and they basically agreed:
What colour are biology, chemistry and physics? Either gut reaction or full on synaesthesia?
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OK, finally, some common sense from Google. Now, if you could also stop using AI for my searches about hazardous chemicals, radioactives, laser safety, and give me a nice big "do not let AI interact with anything I do" button, that'd be lovely.
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Great question from a younger student today: "...but if oxygen is needed for something to burn, and there's no oxygen in space, how does the Sun burn?"
Taking a couple of things they know, an observation, and going "hang on a minute...", nice.
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Portmahomack today - cold and very still.
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Just realised JWST data can't skew it, it's all in IR, this (I assume) is entirely created from visible wavelengths.
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Just a hint of a light pillar at sunset tonight.
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But of the suggested names, I still prefer Michael Howard's "Skyvory".
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"Cosmic Latte", the average colour of galaxies. Although this is from 2003, the JWST data may well have skewed it. #FFF8E7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte
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The big problem in modern physics, badly stated in terms of playing bass, is how to play fretless with the notes accurate to exactly a round number of Hz. Not 261.01, not 260.99, but 261.00 EXACTLY. And the same for any other note. On a fretless.
(Long story short, quantum mechanics requires steps at times, relativity requires a smoothly changing spacetime, the mathematical systems don't mesh yet.)
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Geoff and E, at the printer. Their adjustable spanners wide.
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Spent an hour getting a fellow technician up to speed on the fundamentals of 3D printing today. I normally work as a lone tech in a bigger team, so being able to talk in "my language" was lovely. Just stuff like:
"...and you tighten the nozzle..."
"...brass into steel?"
"Yeah..."
"So decent fit socket and easy?"
"Totally."
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