Van Rijn
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Heh, Avogadro’s number as an address. If you could find miniature roadrunner and coyote figurines, one on each side of a track would be appropriate.

Yes, I *think* in this idea the fourth spatial dimension is supposed to be a stand-in for the conventional time dimension, is somehow supposed to...

Amusing item: I was cooking dinner and while sitting down a bit while something cooked, looked at a news site video on my tablet. I set it down...

There might be a local place (we have a good number of asian specialty markets around town) but it would probably take some looking, and that isn’t...

Well, in my case regarding coffee, it makes sense since I *really* don’t like typical coffee and would have liked to have known about the difference...

Even better: My landline goes out in a power outage. I could get a battery backup unit for the cable modem but if I need to I’ll use the cell phone....

There are many things that can act as a clock, and how we see them is observer dependent. For instance, how long a particle takes to decay, if you...

That’s interesting - not the anti-Vegemite disgrace bit, but how many recent immigrants are there. Most of my ancestors came over in the mid to late...

The texture annoys me too (it reminds me of honey, drips everywhere, and is even harder to clean up given the color). I just didn’t think of...

I listened, and that certainly is not obvious to me. I heard claims of things they couldn’t identify. I don’t know how you can go from that to a...

I saw some images of that. Some of it should be going over Northern California but it’s sunny here and fairly warm (65F) for this time of year. It...

Hello, StacyKarina, welcome to the board. This is a rarely used part of the board, you would probably do better by posting an intro in the new...

Looks like SpaceX had a booboo - when stacking some DOD/Darpa test satellites (they are small satellites meant to test technologies for future...

Yes, and that’s great for scientific research and testing technologies, but not so great for economic mining. It costs reaction mass (they are...

I thought the car was a great idea. They needed a test mass, this advertised his car company in a unique way and showed off their space suit, it got...

The initial report didn’t go into details, but from a local newspaper quoting the governor: Positivity rates are better. I can’t see how it...

I’m not entirely unfamiliar. I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I had serious anxiety and insomnia while taking care of my mother when she had worsening...

This is odd, but good news (sort of) locally: The stay at home order for my “Greater Sacramento” region (which is a fair sized chunk of California...

Of course, it depends on your views and how you look at issues, but as I mentioned elsewhere I’ve been really liking a number of the stories...

Or perhaps it makes little difference in the taste if it has spoiled. It might even taste better. I bought Marmite and Vegemite once out of...

I’ve rather liked a number of news items in recent days. I’ve laughed a number of times, one time I laughed so hard I had tears. It’s a real change...

You might want to request a mod temporarily close the thread by reporting your post. Normally you have 30 days and once that’s over, you aren’t...

I would recommend making really sure, and thinking about whether you want them on the property. Especially if they want to tear it up for...

I’m not sure if it works the same in Canada, but in the US by default the property owner owns mining rights and can say when someone like this can...

Hah! That really made me laugh, though I haven’t seen the commercial. My first thought was that it was a joke, but then I wondered if it was...

And from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html (scrolling down the page) I notice they don’t say...

Great to hear you are doing better! What I heard (from a news interview of a doctor talking about this scenario) is that you probably should...

Does the evaporative cooler work well for you there? We had it one place, when I was a kid in Albuquerque, NM, and it usually wasn’t too bad (though...

Correction - Monday is the 11th.