Recent content by Nik_2213

I sorta remember an analogous discussion about Martian time. That descended into near-farce as the embattled protagonists entirely over-looked the obvious... Do you live on / near a coast with non-trivial tides ? Then you may have a 'Tide Clock', A 'standard' clock variously re-tuned to...

The sad history of N-Rays was told to us at Uni as an object lesson... Just after the the discovery of X-Rays, a French scientist thought he'd found an analogous phenomenon, which he named as 'N-Rays. They could be refracted, diffracted etc. Truly, fun stuff !! However, Reproducibility proved...

IIRC, our school's cloud-chamber had an optional magnetic field via a pair of coils. Trails from the 'source' spiralled one way for electrons, other way for their anti-kin. And, if you were quick, measurement of curl's diameter allowed a useful estimate of energy etc... Our school had a...

My father, a keen gardener, would routinely bag his chain-smoking office colleagues' many cigarette butts, leach those with methylated spirits and dilute the filtered brew to spray our humble apple trees: One big 'bearer', two 'skinnies' for cross pollination. Apparently it was something he'd...

IIRC, Alcubierre found a loophole that moving matter at or FTL was impossible --By our math !!-- but moving a bubble of space with mass inside was not prohibited. Hard, very hard, energetically unreasonable at our development level. Much, much too hard. Bit like powered 'Heavier than air'...

May I suggest looking at 'bolster-type' pregnancy 'pillows' ? A rolled blanket may work as a 'test bed', such that you can throw an elbow and knee over the resilient roll...

Uh, does the 'small print' include something 'sharp' or 'spicy' ? Also, you may have an 'idiosyncratic sensitivity'. My wife could not tolerate a tangy brand of 'ginger biscuits'. This was odd as I found they had no more 'bite' than a mild peppermint tooth-paste, Happens I cannot tolerate...

IIRC, ST:NG touched on 'Transporter' issues by 'cloning' Riker. Seems, on an away-mission prior to Enterprise, he'd been both 'beamed out' from a hostile environment and left behind. But, he'd endured, per 'The Martian'. The years of very different experiences between made the two significantly...

Upside of 'Analog' is you may see needle twitch. No substitute for well-handled 'scope, but often a ''Huh ??' Analogue or digital, you must be aware of wave-form, ripple etc etc and how instrumentation responds.. Sadly, this is a big problem with wannabe 'Over Unity' inventors: They embrace...

Came late to thread: Your 'constant' situation changes as soon as the compressor starts up. The dynamics are very different... Another factor is what will your worst-case source / sink temperatures be ? IIRC, some heat-pumps struggle in the cold --per 'Kitchen' vs 'Garage' freezers-- and...

Clarke's Three Laws caution: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past...

It is a 'long shot' but, IIRC, the classic way to cleanse kerosene or diesel sabotaged by addition of sugar or corn syrup --Which, dissolved in trace water content, fouled valves, injectors etc-- was to add a generous portion of water, shake very well and allow to stand. With luck, some of the...

IMHO, you have two (2) input routes. One is direct to the meter movement, whatever that is 'behind the label'. The second is for the voltage-dropping / smoothing / protection etc to let that movement and range work in application. I suspect your twiddling of the mounting screws has torqued the...

IMHO, micro-plastics are the least of your worries. Do you routinely sanitise bottle and nozzle ? Did you rinse your bottle, nozzle etc before filling ? Did you store the filled bottle in the dark ?? How may times do you slurp from a filled bottle ?? Is there any date-label / instrumentation...

IIRC, before 'series' derivations, the polygon route to Pi was based on 'regular' shape. Akin to the way, perhaps, that a slightly wonky wheel would wear down to 'even'... FWIW, wasn't there a delightful 'Golden Age' SciFi tale, where an alien culture's religious taboo on full circles --So...