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symbolipoint said:
Interesting article and maybe scary. One thing bothering me about the article is, the direction to "sign-in" to find which dental flosses have that stuff.
The PFAS chemistry could be tightly bound to the fibre so when we put it in the bin, we are good to go.
I will check and feed back. There is a PFAS thread already so it will be brief.
 
Another reason that a pint of beer is the perfect size.
 
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Orodruin said:
Normal people and units *sigh*
The other one I remember reading about was an energy company advert claiming to sell energy in kilowatts per hour, which is just poor.
Frabjous said:
Another reason that a pint of beer is the perfect size.
"Half a litre just don't satisfy."
 
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Ibix said:
The other one I remember reading about was an energy company advert claiming to sell energy in kilowatts per hour, which is just poor.

Hmm. That would be units of "rate of change of power." (Power, already being a rate unit, specifically "rate of change of energy.")

Also, torque shares the same fundamental units (i.e. dimensions) as energy, so it could also be used as units of rate of change of rate of change of torque (although calling such units "killowatts per hour" would be just weird).

I'm trying to wrap my head around that and think of some situation where those units might be useful.
 
BillTre said:

I've seen things like this before. They use it to get on and off of flatbed trucks.
 
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Post #6044 by @Hornbein
That is absolutely crazy but it has its own complicated logic.

That video reminds me of reading about the origin of the athletics Pole Vault, for which reaching a height was not the goal but reaching horizontal distance, like to get across a stream or a ditch, was the goal.
 
symbolipoint said:
Post #6044 by @Hornbein
That is absolutely crazy but it has its own complicated logic.

That video reminds me of reading about the origin of the athletics Pole Vault, for which reaching a height was not the goal but reaching horizontal distance, like to get across a stream or a ditch, was the goal.
That is an amazing video to watch. It wouldn't have worked if the water channel was slightly wider or the axles of the excavator were slightly closer together.
 
Hornbein said:
I've seen things like this before. They use it to get on and off of flatbed trucks.
Maybe the truck's ramps aren't strong enough.
 
TIL about this fun little video Mark Knopfler made about the Coyote from the Road Runner cartoons:

 
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BillTre said:
TIL about this fun little video Mark Knopfler made about the Coyote from the Road Runner cartoons:


4:48, the dawning realisation on his face and then his claw just feeling around... I always feel so sorry for the coyote, but I can't stop laughing.
 
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T.I.L. A little bit about BepiColumbo, https://www.esa.int/Science_Explora...est_images_yet_highlight_fourth_Mercury_flyby

One of the Mercury flyby images.

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TIL that "havok" was in Old English a command to cease fighting and begin looting and pillaging.
 
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BillTre said:
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I can read that. I however failed to get past the first sentence of my niece's PhD in political geography.
 
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