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And if you have no choice, send it as a .jpg, and throw some other quirk like writing it backwards or Letter +1 or something.

8kV? That is a lot of power down that little pin. I expect that the amperage would not be that high? It occurs to me that the socket...

If the aliens are peaceful, maybe they use ordinary gunpowder bullets because they were good enough. They didn't want to bother...

There are a number of bayonet connectors, used for RF coax. There's a 'C' version of the popular threaded type 'N'. C is a bayonet...

Salmon Salad.

One-o, for short. Like the one in short.

When I was a little kid. I don't even remember the movie, but I think it bored me, so I went exploring around the lot and behind the...

I could have sworn that I saw somewhere an electrical connector that works like a key. You stick it in, but electrical contact doesn't...

Reality is bad.

Beginning mile 2 of my 4 mile morning run yesterday. Calm wind and comfortable at -7 deg F. The next 10 miles down this road are all...

That sounds like a personal theory to me...

True. Living in a cave in Antarctica would be far safer and more comfortable than living on a generation ship.

A few months on the Mayflower, as bad as that was, hardly compares to generations in a dark void if society is rich enough to build all...

Carl Sagan's Cosmos shows this guy as basically making life, back in the late 1970s. "These nucleic acids can even make identical copies...