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With Finland, I think it's more related to their cultural past. In their national epic, the Kalevala, there is a lot of mention of words/names having power. Wizards were able to do great feats just by knowing and using the right words. Names also tended to reflect something about the person...

In addition, traditionally, children are not named at birth but a few weeks later.

Addendum: For "you" "we" "they" "he", "she", "it" you replace the "en" as follows: You(singular): et You(plural/formal): ette we : emme they: eivat he/she: ei it: ei ( properly, Hän( he/she) or se(it) precedes the ei, however in everyday speech, unless it is not clear by context, se is used...

TIL that there are at least 10 ways of saying "I can't" in Finnish: 1. En osaa - due to lack of knowledge or skill. Such as, I can't drive because I never learned how 2. En saa - due to lack of permission or not being allowed to. I can't drive because my license was revoked. 3 En ehdi - due to...

Pulsars "pulse" because their magnetic poles and rotational axis don't align. The radiation emitted from the magnetic poles is constant. We only receive it when if the rotation of the pulsar causes the beam to periodically sweep past us. It's like seeing a lighthouse produce flashes even...

Consider this: Instead of just that light clock, you have second standard Light clock next to it, with the mirrors spaced apart such that the back and forth trip is the same length as the square light clock path. These clocks are fixed relative to each other. Anyone at rest with respect to them...

As an aside. This use of cases and the rules that apply to them tends to make the use of compound words common in Finnish So for instance, instead of Dinner table, it is Ruokapöytä ( literally foodtable). This allows you to use one case ending on one word rather than on two or more separate...

General feature of the language. Finnish makes little use of prepositions like to, from, by, or in. And instead adds case endings to the word. Example, ssa means in, so talo = house, and talossa = in the house. Thus, you have Koira = (the) dog , Koiraa = (a) dog, koirassa =in a/the dog...

TIL a new(old) Finnish joke: An English man and a Swedish man were talking. English: A dog. Swedish: What? English: The dog. English: Two dogs. Swedish: Okay. We have: En hund, hunden, Två hundar, hundarna. German: Wait, I want to try it too! English: No, go away. Swedish: No one invited you...

Sunbeams over the ocean (Oregon Coast)

I had my own darkroom set up when I was younger. I even got ambitious and did color processing. Getting the color balance right, and having to do everything in total darkness was a challenge.

Tried to make a model electric motor from instructions given in a book. Hooked it up to the 6 volt lantern battery it was supposed to run on, gave it a few test spins and nothing. Assumed it wasn't getting enough juice, so dug out an old electric cord, wired it up and plugged it in. gave it a...

Once, while on a training flight with my instructor, we suspected that we had lost a magneto, but after landing, we checked everything out, and couldn't find an issue. The instructor reported it to the airport mechanic so they could give it the once over to make sure.

The advantage to the magneto system with aircraft is that you can lose your entire electric system and the engine will keep going. Aircraft also use 2 magnetos, so if one fails, you can still keep the plane aloft in order to limp to an available airport.

It works like this: As we look across the universe, we see recession speeds increasing with distance. This alone, only tells us that the universe is expanding. To work out how it expanded over time, we look at exactly how that recession speed changes with distance. If for example, if the...