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Nik_2213 replied to the thread Why does a fan cool you in a sealed room if it adds heat?.Perhaps check out 'Wet Bulb' vs 'Dry Bulb' temperatures in addition to 'Wind Chill' ? FWIW, during thankfully rare UK heat-waves that... -
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I feel like I should maybe be more constructive with my comments. Do you need the apocalypse to be caused by the tides? I understand... -
Nik_2213 replied to the thread Modelling the voltage measured across a dc motor.IMHO, there is a further issue: Is this a 'brushed' DC motor ?? Such are notoriously 'Noisy' tech. Been a while since I did hobby... -
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Look, with some rounding of the numbers, at 200 km/s the body is covering 0.1 AU in a day. So to trigger an earthquake a day before... -
Nik_2213 replied to the thread Reality Check: Rogue Planet Flyby Scenarios and Survival Feasibility.FWIW, there is a wandering inter-stellar population of genuine 'Rogue Planets'. IIRC, some were probably tossed 'wild & wide' when... -
Nik_2213 replied to the thread Reality Check: Rogue Planet Flyby Scenarios and Survival Feasibility.Wiki, YMMV, has... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars This includes prior and pending passes... -
Nik_2213 replied to the thread Plausible Physics for a biblical Ark.Um, this *is* the tamper-trapped 'Covenant' Ark, with historical provenance, rather than the 'Noachian' absurdity ? The latter... -
Nik_2213 replied to the thread Plausible Physics for a biblical Ark.If the 'Baghdad Battery' was used for electrolytic acceleration of acid-leaching, comparable to the Incas' acidic Andes streams, rather... -
Nik_2213 replied to the thread Molds in Front Loading Washing Machine.I suspect it correlates with majority of cycles now being cool 'eco-washes'.. IIRC, everything except 'fragile' used to run on a 'hot'... -
Nik_2213 replied to the thread Molds in Front Loading Washing Machine.I had an extended battle with black mould both in and behind our front-loader's detergent / softener tray. Unfortunately, a family...