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Perhaps that is what inspired the introduction of the "Penny Postage Stamp" in the UK - as an alternative to getting a message out.

186 years ago. :smile:

You must be exagerating!

... how long would you let it ring? I just read about the Oxford Electric Bell which has been ringing away since 1840. It's has been...

Carbon fiber, 3D printed parts, multiple rotations. Numerous small refinements of the design to get to a 776 mph release. Your castle...

A Physicist, a Mathematician, and a Logician are traveling together by train through Scotland. The Physicist looks out the window...

I did several sanity checks. The biggest problem I had with the Google ChatThing was that it would always find a few ways of...

I gave this problem to Google: How much dB reflection will I get with 1KHz sound passing through a continuous temperature gradient of...

In a recent article from TechCrunch, Security Editor Zack Whittaker describes an interesting software project being tackled by coder...

This is related to the Basel Problem. Starting from there, you can separate the odd and even terms, then note that the even terms are...

The two keys here are "flat base" and that "step change". Typical human hearing is most sensitive in range of 1000 to 5000Hz. That's a...

No: 1) That "configuration file" is generally an entire directory structure. 2) This type of information resides on most consumer...

For the most part, Astronomy finds the time, Physics keeps the time, Politicians decide what to call it, and Software Engineers tell it...

From a thermodynamics point of view, if you want your grades to be in better order, you will need to expend energy. ;) (best of luck)

Here's a privacy implication that should creep everyone out. I would be "good" for peering through windows - or, at least sound proof...