And if any younger people are reading, you can get a hostel for 20-50 per night. My daughter started working at mcdonalds at 16 and saved up to spend 6 weeks in Europe right after she graduated high school (2024). She bought the plane ticket a year in advance but once she was there she probably only spent $2500.

As we get older we need a nicer hotel, a pet walker/housesitter, time off work, money to pay bills ahead of time, etc. I wish I knew that was possible when I was young.

Carbon-14 dating only works back to about 50,000 years, most fossils are older than that and they use radiometric dating.

(Not a scientist, I’m sure my wording will make experts cringe, but I think my gist is good)

Fossils are basically rocks that form around hard things like bones. They look at radioactive elements in the rock and figure out how much has decayed and they know when the rock was formed.

Uranium lead dating is one of the most used methods. In it, they look at zircon crystals and measure the amount of uranium and lead. Uranium decays into lead, so that tells them how long the decay has been happening.

That always seemed sketchy to me, how do they know it didn’t just have a bunch of lead in it to start with? Then I learned something…

When zircon forms, lead can’t bind with it and it gets pushed out of the zircon. Uranium doesn’t get pushed out, so there are small pockets of uranium in fresh zircon and no lead. A million years later, we just look at how much lead and uranium there is and get a very good idea at when it was formed.

That’s worded poorly. I guess literally it translates as the “study of time” but physicists study the concept of time, and nobody would say they’re doing horology. If you read on it explains it’s the study of the measurement of time in general but horology has specifically come to refer to mechanical timekeeping devices. Watch and clockmakers are horologists, watch collectors may say they’re “into horology.”

It is like horoscope in that “horo” refers to time. Horoscopes are the “study” of the time of a person’s birth and how that affects their life or whatever.

There are things called stovetop fans that look like just a metal base with a fan attached to it, but they have a Peltier module or Stirling engine hidden inside. They use heat from the stove to turn the fan and blow warm air around the room. Should be able to make something using that trick that sticks down into a pot and stirs things. The thickness of the stuff being stirred will be the issue.

Agree 100%. My first printer was a cheap Kobra 2. I had a lot of problems with it and I’m not sure if it’s because of the printer or because I was changing settings without knowing what I was doing.

At any rate, I wanted something better and didn’t want anycubic, but Kobra 3 with AMS was only $299 at the time so I got one. It worked great. I started on some large printing projects and ended up getting a second one for $299 to spread the workload around.

I have about 600 hours on both and they’ve both been great. I have a Snapmaker U1 but I’m going to keep using the Kobra 3s for basic prints as long as they last.

He has a career as a master woodworker ahead of him

Watches I suppose, although I wouldn’t want to be called a watch collector because I have zero interest in most of the watches that most watch collectors consider must-have

It’s a comedy show from the 80s called “Sledge Hammer!”

FYI, that whole show is available on archive.org

It’s been a few years but I don’t remember it being too hard to set up. I did it on slackware, compiling everything from source, so anybody should be able to do it on a distro with dependency resolution.

They provided a zip file that is updated every so often (hourly?) and contains data for your specific region. I just used that. It does have an option that people can use their own data, but I think it’s because most NWS offices run this model in addition to the national models they get from upstream. No normal person has enough input data to be useful.

I haven’t done it in a few years but I used to run my own weather model. If fed the correct data and given time to crunch the numbers, several times a day you can create your own weather forecast that is probably (hopefully) similar to the freely available forecasts from the weather service, TV, radio and apps.

https://www.mmm.ucar.edu/models/wrf

It’s fact that breaking up your outline works, just Google “science deer camouflage.”

It’s common sense that if you dress like a tree, you’ll look like a tree to a deer no matter how they see trees. If they see trees as yellow triangles and you dress like a tree, you’d look like a yellow triangle to a deer. The only other thing is they see UV better, so don’t use UV reflective cloth or you’d look like a strange glowing yellow rectangle.

It still breaks up the hunter’s pattern and is still an advantage to look like sticks and leaves even if deer see sticks and leaves differently than we do.

Did his sons just visit Fort Knox?

He drove the goddamn presidential motorcade through the reflecting pool

https://people.com/trumps-motorcade-drives-over-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-amid-efforts-to-make-dc-beautiful-again-11970042

Update: I found a family of them. The first one was behind the building I work at on one side. I was on the other side today and found these.

Not an answer but you might be interested in looking up “parachute landing fall,” a method parachutists use to distribute the force of hard landings throughout their body. I guarantee every stunt person knows the PLF and the stair fall is probably somewhat related to it.

I’ve noticed they definitely have a method for rolling down hills in movies, they always do it like this Princess Bride clip. Nothing but their arms and back and knees touch the ground.

https://youtu.be/88svMqo3ZEk

We couldn’t afford that. We had to put our DVDs on our finger and spin them backwards

I think most people who aren’t good with knots tie knots that don’t hold and people who can tie a decent knot can untie them too.

Really, you can untie any knot, it just depends on how good and patient you are.

One problem with Christian morals is that God was immoral in the Bible. He told the Hebrews to attack people and commit genocide. He told them to kill every man woman and child. He specified that infants and sucklings were to be killed. When David sinned, he punished him by killing his son and having ten of his wives raped in public, he sends bears to attack children, he almost makes Ezekiel eat bread cooked with human shit, but is persuaded to allow cow shit instead.

So you read “You shall not kill” and think that’s a pretty good moral, but then you read God saying he is going to kill everybody and have pregnant women ripped open and their babies dashed against rocks. There’s not many ways to reconcile that except to say he’s God, he can do whatever he wants.

That opens up the idea that, if you’re doing what god wants, you can probably get away with a lot of shit too. If you steal from this elderly person, you’ll put the money to good use, so god would want that. If you lie and cheat, well, you’re on mission from God and you gotta break eggs to make an omelette.

Morals are flexible to God, so if you get your morals from God they’re flexible for you too. And if not, it’s ok, you just get forgiven anyway.