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    How does iron oxide accelerate cyanoacrylate glue curing?

    I was perusing superglue accelerants like bi carb and graphic or a mix of the two, and other additives, and it appears that a mix of bi carb and graphite works the best. However I eventually came across a single vid that used iron oxide made from burning steel wool, as the additive and it...
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    I The initial density of an object and its compression into a black hole

    You do not have to complicate matters by having the two spheres be iron and wood, one can be a solid ball of iron and the other can be a larger ball of iron foam.
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    I Moon phase ruins my Stargazing!

    It's kind of your own fault because the moon wouldn't be there if you weren't looking.
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    I have solved the world's most famous paradox: who shaves the barber

    It was Eric Barber from t'other village, they shave each other, obviously they don't trust anyone else because cutthroat razors.
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    Insights A Lesson In Teaching Physics: You Can’t Give It Away

    Or even better, "you can build a man a fire and he's warm for the night; but if you set a man on fire he is warm for life".
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    How many ppm of O2 does H2O2 add to water?

    Okie dokie that is some decent ball park figures to work with, it is indeed a small quantity. thanks.
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    How many ppm of O2 does H2O2 add to water?

    I'm starting with a litre of distilled water with a dissolved oxygen content of zero ppm, and I wish to raise the ppm of the dissolved O2 to 10ppm or 10mg/L using a 6% solution of H2O2. That is 10 extra molecules of oxygen in a litre! I've had no luck looking for through web based conversion...
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    OK what did the woman say when a steam roller ran over her cat.
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    This is not a joke, but it's pretty lame so it goes here... I was just mulling over that a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold, but an ounce of gold is heavier than an ounce of feathers.
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    B Electrons & Photons: Are They Tiny Gaseous Planets?

    @nescient, sometimes you just have to sit back and marvel at the awe and majesty of it all!
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    B Strapped to a quadcopter in zero gravity

    I was wondering... imagine a large enclosed space sealed off in intergalactic space, filled with air at normal sea level pressure. I was further wondering with regard to a quadcopter's symmetrical x and y-axis and the fact of the thrust vector always being normal to the plane of the props, that...
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    Fearing AI: Possibility of Sentient Self-Autonomous Robots

    Some sobering thoughts about what artificial intelligence isn't, in this well written piece for The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/google-palm-ai-artificial-consciousness/661329/ The fantasy of sentience through artificial intelligence is not just wrong; it’s...
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    Fearing AI: Possibility of Sentient Self-Autonomous Robots

    Even without context this bothers me. Remind me to add it to our upcoming definition thread, as if.
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    Fearing AI: Possibility of Sentient Self-Autonomous Robots

    What happened was that I was first trying to establish the similar yet completely different* qualities of humans, and then somehow get to an endpoint that, as far as fearing goes, we have no more to fear from AI than we do from bonobos that can play memory games on a computer screen, which...
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    Fearing AI: Possibility of Sentient Self-Autonomous Robots

    I'm in the Deep North hinterland, and unless you're still living in the era of Bluey and Curly I fear you are misleading our American friends. I don't think The Reverend Monsignor Geoff Baron, the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, would have used 'flaming'. Although he probably wish...
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