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Gadget madness. Too elaborate to summarize. Is it hyperLEGO?

An extremely massive and unwieldy weapon. I knew about the WWI railroad artillery but for WWII Deutschland outdid itself. To bear the weight the railroad line had to have two parallel tracks for a total of four rails. Then two more rails at the firing site for the crane used to assemble the...

Exponents are about multiplication, and 1 is the multiplicative identity. If exponents represented repeated addition the zeroeth power would be 0, the additive identity.

It's coming whether we like it or not. They're doing a pretty good job already so it might not make that much difference. It's possible that such techniques were more effective in ancient and mediaeval times, just more labor intensive. Most people will believe whatever they believe everyone...

Here it is playing rock guitar. Much better than a keyboard with a pitch wheel.

Half steps left to right, fourths top to bottom like a guitar is the default but this may be any interval you like, fifths, octaves.... $1700 for a full sized one with a default five octave range. That's as much range as most electric keyboards, since the two extra octaves in a full seven...

Another source could be errors in measurement. More reactants than measured or misweighed the product. When I say percent yield I mean weight of the desired product divided by the weight of the reactants times 100%. This should always be less than or equal to 100% and can be quite low. But...

So with a clock, the more dimensions you have the more perpendicular you would tend to be to that clock. Now instead consider standing on a planet looking at the sun. The more dimensions you have the less perpendicular the the sun tends to be to the surface, that is, the lower in the sky it is...

I suspect that Nek! stands for neko[cat].

Original guitar solo on The Trooper. Cover by Sakura Yoshida. I prefer the cover. The double guitar style of Iron Maiden has also been adopted by today's Nihon. Heavy metal music is not popular there though. The bands play this sort of thing in tiny clubs. There are no chairs so that...

For a progressive rock thing you can't beat KOIAI. To me the star is the keyboard player, though uncredited and on stage they play along with a recording. The recording engineering excels as well -- it just plain sounds great, a big advantage. Drummer Kanade Sato suddenly has developed a...

Guitarist Rie aka Suzaku with violinist Jill. How can someone have so much ability with such meager success? It happens. Maybe it's because usually she has been scanty with clothing. Nihon really doesn't like that, though maybe that's changing. I don't know how Jill chose that name but...

If poster can't be bothered to offer a summary then I can't be bothered to watch the vid.

Yes it would. Home clocks on a wall would be 2D no matter how many dimensions you've got.

It is little known that honey bees are not native to the Americas. It was difficult to introduce them as they tended to perish while crossing the ocean. Here in Bali the honey bees are much smaller, more like moths, and are stingless. Their honey is too meager to be harvested commercially...